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stagnant pools
03:46
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wake up you're not as special as they said
wake up it isn't art if it stays in yr head
wake up a clock dead will not change yr time
wake up these stagnant pools will not breed yr new life
give up with all this talk about some supposed grief
shut up nobody cares about the things you don't believe
give up all these songs of failure and fear
shut up and play some chords the people really want to hear
i thought i was god
prayed to myself...turns out i'm not
i thought i'd be so big
but found that height is just a trick
and i know this seems so sad
but deep down i think i'm just mad
that like my fading youth
my dreams have turned and followed suit
and i don't know what to do
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simple view
01:45
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sometimes in my life
the line between what's wrong and what's right bleeds
so i can't see
i just choose every left route
hope it leads me to some sort of truth
or a simple view
is there bad
and is there good?
let's try until it hurts
don't you wanna be somebody's best friend?
love them til the very end
well i can't pretend
i just want to live til i die
and then i'd like a second try
cuz i'm a simple guy
is there bad love?
is there real love?
i'm not sure that this will ever work
i never meant it
i just said it so you'd be a bit more fun
i didn't mean to make you think
that you were someone i could love
it doesn't seem right
and i admit it's not but i've kept my peace of mind
so when you fall for someone next
make sure they're not wasting time
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lady memory
01:41
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ship of theseus
02:43
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mooneater
02:33
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earlier that day we walked in the park
and you told me how you held me in yr heart
i don't want to be there anymore
when we arrived the party had already stopped
so we drank by ourselves and of course we fought
i don't want to do this anymore
later on when i woke from a dream and i said
you would not believe the shit i see inside my head
i don't want to be there anymore
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6. |
minus world
03:48
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peace, be well
jesus comes bringing hell
sing soft prayers
the end is nigh, but we're prepared
if this really is the end
i will welcome death
the world tilts back and i begin to fall
i wonder if i am really here at all
the night goes black, the wind begins to sing
this is the end. say goodbye to everything
please sleep well
no heaven now, no hell
dream dark thoughts
chosen ones that god forgot
if there really is a hell
i believe it's self
the world tilts back and i begin to fall
i wonder if i am really here at all
the night goes black, the wind begins to sing
this is the end. say goodbye to everything
i found a basket floating in the reeds
it smelled of new disease, so i kicked it out to sea
i killed all my friends and i baked them in a pie
i fed it to my wife and i called it chef's delight
oh god got big and i got small
so i thought it best if we didn't talk at all
if life is a game, tell me why would i play?
are there any instructions? and do we ever win?
no
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happy now?
03:47
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do you feel like you're worth something?
tell me how do you find meaning?
what's worse than my self pity?
being bored or just being me?
when i look at a glass
i don't see either half
i just see something with a function and that's what i fucking lack
am i happy now, am i happy now
i'm not so sure could you help me out?
am i happy now, am i happy now
tried to make myself fulfilled
pursuit of god left me hollow still
what's worse than faith's uncertainties?
my need to preach or this doubt motif?
when i look at my life
i don't see black or white
i just see shades of grey and all the cages that i can't escape
am i happy now, am i happy now
i'm not so sure could you help me out?
am i happy now, am i happy now
am i happy now, am i happy now
thought i was now i know i will not figure this out
am i happy now, i'm not so sure...
why does everyone i know feel like their life has no control?
they follow dreams and do their best
and still find themselves so depressed
why does everyone i meet feel like this life is one defeat?
shouldn't there be something more?
why does everyone i know feel like their life is not their own?
they walk straight lines and do their best
and still feel lost in all this mess
why does every song i write have me bitching about my life?
i should really shut up.
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job song
02:42
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Job sat and thought about
the price of sinner's doubt
surely it was not the same for faith
yet here, with most everything gone
a righteous man who'd done no wrong
is simply supposed to cower and pray
like all this shit today had gone his way
Job thought about his life
missed his kids and missed his wife
pondered if his lord was something light
true, it all belonged to god
but damn he took an awful lot
all to make a point about his truth
or all because he had nothing to do
so i choose not to believe in deities that fuck with me
i will not be someone's playing piece
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amen
04:17
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the past sits just behind my eyes
with thoughts of me and the divine
breaking bread inside my room
reading psalms and feeling doomed
sleep turns to deeper shades
as i lay and watch my brain
spin threads of darker thoughts
of what i was and what i've lost
so say that you'd love me most of the night
maybe i'm empty can you make me right
cuz i've just been trying to erase my mind
so baby just hold me until it's my time to finally say
goodbye, hello, or no
i don't think i have ever known
if this is where i end
or if i've yet to begin
ten years of constant change
and once i'm re-arranged
pink and fresh, i scream evolved
yet have i really changed at all?
so say that you'd love me most of the night
maybe i'm heavy can you make me light
cuz i've just been trying to erase my mind
so baby just hold me until it's my time to finally say goodbye
i thought i was a god
lost all my friends, so now i'm not
i thought i could be well
but found i can't escape myself
don't know what's coming next
won't see until i take a step
not sure which way is right
but this simply cannot be my life
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b & the nothingness Chicago, Illinois
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