ANECDOCHE

BEND

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Lead by his intent
And incandescent mortar shells
This is how it is
He burns the air and leaves you cold

So bend my will down
When heavy carbons are steady now

When every single part
Testifies in my defence
We’re chasing out the dark
The wolves cry out and I confess

So bend my will down
When heavy carbons are steady
Bend my will

To feel
To feel right
To feel
To feel right

We mourn in shallow doubt
So close my eyes and take me there
The bullet in the round
Still burns the air and leaves you cold

So bend my will down
When heavy carbons are steady
Bend my will

To feel
To feel right
To feel
To feel right

So bend my will down
With heavy carbon

To feel
To feel right
To feel
To feel right

To feel

CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE

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It’s the ever-changing difference

It’s the ether in my bones

There’s an adversary interest

To accelerate a mass dissolve

In the center of the universe

The unrelenting hive

When long forgotten

In the earth

The convalescent overwrite

Will keep you in mind

As the eventide rolls out for you

Keep a pressure on my tongue

There’s an existential offering

That thins the air

And brings you home

In the center of the universe

The unrelenting hive

When long forgotten

In the earth

The convalescent overwrite

Will keep you in mind

So dig deep

Sew your salvation

On the brink

In the center of the universe

The unrelenting hive

When long forgotten

In the earth

The convalescent override

Will keep you in mind

HALF LIGHT

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You’re tilling the stone now
In reverence
I seize and look how you wince
You’re slipping into a dive
We’re catching breath
Receiving glass-eyed as you will

Mind is static
If you could stand in our way
And play us out

They just called to say
You’re only buying
To go without
They just called to sell your borderline
To go without
They didn’t say how everyone who’s buying
Is wringing out the stone

Soaking in anodyne
The river bends
I drift in salt lake, useless
Redeem then vilify
In this golden hell
Receiving half light as you will

Mind is static
If you could stand in our way
And wring it out

They just called to say
You’re only buying
To go without
They just called to sell your borderline
To go without
They didn’t say how everyone who’s buying
Is wringing out the stone

They just called say
You're only buying
They just called to sell your borderline
They didn't say how everyone who's buying
Is wringing out the stone

They just called
They just called
They just called
You're wringing out the stone
Wringing out the stone

STONEFISH

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With tin cans and bottled youth
Walking, decaying
Don't let the solace fool you with
This ration offered
A consolation for your troubles
It's just a future memory lost to me

The fates allowed me to wander
A stonefish
To depths that no one knows
Is it the ground I cling to
That guides me
Or takes me off my course?
You're silent
Speak to me

The dark side of summer's swell
The misguided talents of
A hopeless romantic half his age

And I wake in a violent fever
The lone child in an ever-changing world
Are you a siren, a seeker
To guide me or take me off my course
Your silence speaks to me

I rage inside
Until I'm sickened
Just name your price
And I'll pay it off
Until I'm gone

I dreamt in color
I walked through the valley's gaze
The desert, it lives and dies the same

And it's cause to suffer
The heat searing down my neck
A slow death that you can barely see

And I wake in a violent fever
The lone child in an ever-changing world
Are you a siren, a seeker
To guide me or take me off my course
I want to live beside you
Not face down
Shackled at my feet
When silence speaks to me

EXILE

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Keep faith in the revenant

How alive and how self-aware

To your lowest heights

Keep faith

The inner space

You’re afraid to edify

In the sirens

In the air child

You were born in exile

You’d deny it

In the air strike

You were born a late child

Seamless in the aftermath

How wise and how unprepared

To your lowest height

Seamless

The inner space

You’re afraid to sacrifice

In the sirens

In the air child

You were born in exile

You’d deny it

In the air strike

You were born a late child

Collapse on the grounds of an empire

Fearless in a state of denial

True lies in your martyr station

In the sirens

In the air child

You were born in exile

You’d deny it

In the air strike

You were born a late child

AVALON

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Dark days by the row
Braided sky in monochrome
Feverish mind body aches
But you set out
And you prayed
With unfailing breath

I'm stealing wine
We're faithless wolves
Stealing our way
A feigned desire for Avalon

Climb the rails climb the walls
Careless height to set it off
Meteor strikes by the asp
But you stepped out
And you swayed
With assailing limbs

I'm stealing wine
From faithless wolves
Stealing our way to Avalon
I'm stealing wine
But it's counterfeit
Unchangeable
While we cling
Cling to lead

We're faithless wolves
Terrified
Faithless wolves
With our alibis
Go back and leave them
Or go out and twist the knife in

I'm stealing wine
From faithless wolves
Stealing our way to Avalon
I'm stealing wine
But it's counterfeit
Unchangeable

WITNESS

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I’ll take this cigarette

And I’ll hold it to console my fingers

So in this, such a mess

It consumes me

Your body lays there

I’m just a waste of nails

But I fooled you

When you thought I’d stay there

I’m a witness and a chain to both

But I’m only enough

To wait and see

You tell me

This ain’t right

And I won’t come back

To say goodbye

You tell me

To stand by

Then you go back

Where it’s safe inside

I’m just a waste of nails

But I fooled you

When you thought I’d stay there

I’m a witness and a chain to both

Who thought only a fool

Would wait and see

I know we’re at an end

But I hold on

I hold

You tell me

This ain’t right

And I won’t come back

To say goodbye

You tell me

To stand by

Then you go back

Where it’s safe inside

LOW SEASON

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Willing hands

Prayer of a luddite

He doesn’t hide

What his age has become

The shadows pass

The new moon sings

And the pin-light arcs

Galvanize

The reunited man

Now play to his demands

His eyes recounted

As only mine can

Daylight

The prey of modern age

This changing low season

Head light

Instead of oxygen

This changing low season

It’s no surprise

Weightless, numb

Features divide

The season shown

To be free of myself

In the pale moon’s guild

To be free of mind

And the strident side of me

The reunited man

Now play to his demands

His eyes recounted

As only mine can

Daylight

The prey of modern age

This changing low season

Head light

Instead of oxygen

This changing low season

Daylight

The prey of modern age

This changing low season

Head light

Instead of oxygen

This changing low season

DELIVERANCE

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A sea of memories I can't recall
And now I'm on a leash
A handmade animal
She gives him ketamine and hand-me-downs
If I had no idea
I’d say spit 'em out

And I know

Deliverance
Why lead me along
When permanent isn't like you at all
So come build me up
Then let me out
Come build me up

She says don't go out the open door
Hold my own leash
Stay here on the floor
She leaves amphetamines and alcohol
If I had no idea
I'd say take it all

Deliverance
Why lead me along
When permanent isn't like you at all
So come build me up
Then let me out
Come build me up

She dreams in rags
Sleeps alone in her bed
Wild eyes, tireless
Uneven bones
Like his

Deliverance
Why lead me along
When permanent isn't like you at all
So come build me up
Then let me out
Come build me up
Then let me out
Come build me up