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Cross & Tattoo
04:32
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We first met at the danger scene,
The speaker fell to the floor in the middle of his scream
I picked it up and we danced so hard
At the old house turned into the bar
I heard you speak, thought your words were strange
You were fine all by yourself next the stage
Eyeshadow matched your hair and I let you know
Chorus
And you stayed out late while we loaded the cars
Took the haymaker walk he said it wasn’t too far
You sat beside me there, but not too close
You were quick and funny
We all laughed for a bit but the bands said bye
I asked if you knew where’d you be sleeping that night
You checked around and said probably your car
I offered my couch, you said I wasn’t sketchy so far
To my home we went, I gave you pillow and sheet
You mentioned cross and tattoo, and asked what it means
I bared a glimpse of my heart, of failure and weakness
Chorus 2
And we stayed up late, maybe 6 am
Just lost in ourselves, and what that meant
You said if that’s all, well then that’s a yes
You came to me close
I’ve seen a thousand pretty faces, as yours sure is
But to hear an echo of your soul, how could I resist
You understood more than the mere words I spoke
Our humbled failures did begin to show
I resisted sleep, I had to hear more
The physical but a glimmer of your aura
Who are you,
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Grasp (Interlude 1.1)
02:15
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Wake up, wake up, I hear the sound
Let me dream for a bit longer
Oh how I miss the bliss of my mother’s kiss
Before I knew about the others
So rarely here I’m allowed to reflect
Innocence is trusted no more
Because we now know what the world does to
Little boys who don’t become the storm
I grasp and reach for anything
That would bring back the comfort of old
But something touched back without remorse
such purpose warm yet so cold
I think I get it now, this strength and power
Gives me what I couldn’t ever be
Such drive, We’ll do what our parents failed to
And what our leaders would not decree
They used to gift me blows, but now their blood with flow
I can lock these thoughts away for good
Now my fears have bite, they can hide in plain sight
None can question me any longer
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Panther
04:52
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Into
Slow down, we’ve lost control
Replace calculation with the mob syndrome
We’ve grown past our shallow roots
We once analyzed now guilt’s assumed
v1
The watchmen have gone too far
Don’t stop until abuses are no more
We observe and mediate
This injustice won’t proliferate
v2
We assess their every move
Trust a surety proven to be abused
Enough’s enough, now they’re going down
Be it guns or words this won’t continue on
Chorus
push me to the corner, the claws come out
witness the caged beast you’ve let out
the flames ignited, our fist’s are raised
you’ll find no stillness in our rage
Bridge
Slow down, we’ve lost control
supplant calculation with the mob syndrome
We’ve grown past our shallow roots
We once analyzed now guilt’s assumed
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Call it arrogance, call it juvenile
I can do now as I please, I’m no longer the child
I’ll taste the things I wanna taste
Nothing can stop me now
Voice of abstinence left out in the red light
I’ve reached deep in this cup, and have yet to find the end
How could I dare to stop, why would I escape this labyrinth
temperance, vacant from my hearts grasp
Medicate to find normal, I can rewrite the past
If I burn the bridges to the ground no one can follow now
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5. |
One of You
04:48
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Intro/Bridge
I’ve got a doubting mind to convince
I’ve got a childhood to forget
I’m Too scared to admit,
that I need to prove (to me) I’m one of you
v1
First steps in, so confident
At least in my mind, that’s what your thinking
Affirm me, that I fit in,
that I belong, just like them
Its high time, to enjoy my right, what I’ve lived forcibly without my whole life
These things I’ve been told I should fight, gonna try the darkness as my light
Moderation, I was forced to use, now I get to choose, can’t look back now I got to move
Too scared to admit, that I need to prove, to me and we I’m one of you
V2
Here comes the guilt,
The old conscience, how many more times
do I have to resist
No longer the boy,
I’ll prove it to you, but moreso myself,
oh God I need to
Call it escape, you can call it my fear, I call it nothing because I choose not to hear
In chemical cocktail, the voice disappears, drunken syndicate’s groupthink so clear
The path out of hell, so long they say, but its taking no time to go the other way
Virigin to this state, hope it shall make, the boy sized holes in this man go away
Chorus
I’ve got an itch on the back of my neck,
but this feeling fixes
oh god I know/hope that it will
hide from all who once knew my name
Oh the crave, so depraved, self converted to prey
Outro
The Sobering sun of the morning tells, the passion of night neither silence nor quells
Deformation of indulgence nailed, a proclamation of guilty expelled
Oscillations, vibrating my soul, prove to me now what I wanted to know
Edging and eding until I indulge, and painting the world now dark as my own
songs of the night are ending so soon, ca tharsis they brought now leaves a vacuum,
conscience once buried will now be exhumed, no comfort to feel in my hedonist tomb
Brief the escape of forbidden taboo, ability warranting zero pursuit
Lingering still every question of youth, I know little more than I’m not one you
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(Instrumental)
The song, of shame to be
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7. |
Meant to Be
04:19
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V1
With The lights all off, the crowds have gone, I stand alone in emptiness
Not a sound thats not my own, save the call of her painted lips
so many times, Her silent voice, has touched my muted ears
But its come, I cannot hide, cant distract as she calls me near
I Venture forth, eyes on the floor, excuses screaming stop
I squint my eyes, and for the first time, begin to see the dark
this canvas of my life, how could it be the one
Each stroke every layer made by me and all I’ve done
Chorus
woahoh,
These colors I don’t wish to leave behind
Who am I, each flaw and all combined
woahoh
Each choice another stroke of color
And Now see
each line of own my design, it never lies
V2
I close my eyes, escape and to hide, I’d rather just not know
The disparity, of what I think, And what I’ve actually become
Told myself what I needed to hear, to get me through the times
after long enough, these things, Are now what I am inside
B
I step back and fall to the floor, I can see these guilty hands
Countless wrongs commited but, I’ve ignored all of them
These Decades hidden so well, but the reckonings begun
What of Little use now, my shield of arrogance
Late Shame fills my heart, desperation enveloping
Grace now my only hope, to gain understanding
I am not just what I’ve done, but this who I am
I see a new world now, humbled and broken
Outro
I keep low the lights, so I can hide in the shadows of my mind,
My time just a getting by, I’ve paid the price, become that which I despise
A Black ring reminds, the eyes, of mine the flaws of humankind
The brush always behind, each line of own my design, it never lies
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9. |
Bead of the Necklace
06:40
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V 1
I’m just another bead on the necklace, stretched a million miles long
Resting on the sho ulders of men, and women so long gone
Mothers, mentors, warriors, patriots, here I feast upon their toil
Freely given no recompense, where is my love for the world
I am so skyward focused, never thought to look down
I thought my meager accomplishments, were all me growing from the ground
But now I’m humbled by this, that I dared to claim
Something I was freely given, as my own and claimed by my name
C
I stand before these giants, and they’ve raised me to the sky
Lifted me up high
Undeserved placed on their, throne of sacrifice
V 2
Each Mother who let their children fail and loved them all the same
Those who pulled up pennies from the dirt, and never once complained
Warriors who killed or gave it all, to grant me this liberty
Countless gifts now given me, oh my God they gave me everything
Post chorus 2/Outro
Who’s life am I, going to change
Who’s feet will be on my shoulders
Who’s roots will I give up my own for
B
Place your foot on my shoulder and, I will raise you up
Just As my forefathers did for me, now Reach for the stars
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