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Hush now child
I’m always with you
Wrapped inside
And round the issue
Tucked behind
The bone and tissue
Stand beside
Is what I wish you
Is what I wish you
Is what I wish you
It’s what I wish you would do
Rest now child
The tale,
It is true
Self-subside
My aim is to kiss you
Don’t you find
The more we do collide
The less we mind
The side that runs
And hides out
And we find out
What we find out
Oh what things we find
When we uncover
We discover
What we
Find out
And we find out
And we find out…
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Bully
03:20
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Bow out before the one
Who made you run
Run
Give up the ghost
The host
The choke hold
Before your way is won
Your kingdom done come
Who knows how bold
It will all unfold
Fold...
Oh oh,
Oh oh
Bow down before the one
Whose seam’s come undone
Give up your post
The roast
The joke told
Before your day is done
You done played your own pun
The rock, it rolled
Just as the bell tolled
Told
Told you so
So?
Oh oh,
Oh oh
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Because
04:43
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First the pride
Then the pain
Growing shelter
Growing shame
What’s the wax,
Without the wane?
Why’s the answer always out of range?
All this fire
All this flame
Throwing punches
Throwing blame
Feel the crunch
But never the change
We wonder why things seem to stay the same
When we learn to let it go
Then we earn the space to grow
The more we feel the need to know
The more the complications show
Trouble is as trouble does
The bubble bursts
Just because
But you and I will rise above
We’ll rise, my love
Trouble is as trouble does
The rubble hurts
Just because
Trouble is as trouble does
But you and I
We rise
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Counterfeit
02:36
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Shut it down
That’s the end of it
Call it out
It’s a counterfeit
Had me fooled
When the fraction fit
Gave my whole
To be part of it
Fiction’s fact
Yeah the fight is fixed
Coward’s crutch
Crooked confidence
Who knew lies
When they’re dressed up right
Could charm even the most suspect mind
It’s unkind
Got to trade up the trick
To be more than it
Spotlight
Starbright
That’s the pitch
Make ‘em swoon
Wait, but there’s a hitch!
Shoot the moon
See it fall to shit
To just be, not become
That’s the bitch
The glitch
Don’t scratch the itch
Got to trade up the trick
To be more than it
Yeah it tugs a bit
That counter fit
And we take take take take
Take the hit
Make it don’t fake it
Make it don’t fake it
Take it then break it
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Belly & Heart
03:03
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Oh my
Give it a try
Give it a go
Honey, gimme a smile
Cause who knows
Where it all goes
Where it all lies
On the inside
There’s crime creeping up
Through the center of me
Would you open me up?
Tell me what it is you see
Cause I can’t decide
What’s the matter with me
And the old looking glass been shattered
See?
Do you read me?
Come in please
See, I’m made
Of belly & heart
Not a bad start
But incomplete
I hurt you
Now you hurt me
Rinse and repeat
Call it defeat
There’s crime creeping up
Through the center of me
Would you open me up?
Tell me what it is you see
Cause I can’t decide
What’s the matter with me
And the old canvas been splattered
See?
Do you read me?
Come in please
Do you read me?
Come in please
Do you read me?
Come in please...
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The Count
02:40
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Now is negated
Never’s the vibe
Self-suffocated
Panic prescribed
Holds me under the water
Death says that daughter can’t hide
Fret is my fodder
Best served when eaten alive
I’m separated
Arced and archived
Each foe and failure
Tabbed, ticked, and transcribed
Print and press for the blotter,
“Sheep to the slaughter!”
Am I?
Cold is the cotter
And she’s set to skin me alive
So don’t count on counting
I’m down for the count
A dead head for mounting
Just name the amount
Oh, the dread of doubting
One cannot account
I’m gonna go down shouting,
“Just name the amount!”
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7. |
Wind
05:38
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Sometimes my mouth can’t speak for itself
Sometimes it don’t translate
Sometimes the house has a hold on my health
Sometimes the mute is my mate
Sometimes the sound’s got nothing to say
Sometimes the wind’s a wheeze
Inside my chest, something’s making a mess
Sometimes it gets harder to breathe
Breathe…
Breathe…
Breathe in
Sip in the sound and begin
Breathe out
Deflate the droning
And drown any old doubt
Breathe in
Breathe out
Grieve
And face about
Or go without
And be without
Sometimes my mind just presses rewind
Sometimes the slate won’t clean
Sometimes resigned to a future defined
By two lungs that will run out of steam
Sometimes I swear I’m gasping for air
Sometimes the wind just weighs
Somewhere on the trail of the in and exhale
I somehow have lost my way
Stay…
Stay...
And breathe in
Sip in the sound and begin
Breathe out
Deflate the droning
And drown any old doubt
Breathe in
Breathe out
Grieve
And face about
Or go without
And be without
You can’t live without
Can’t live without
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8. |
Somewhere In Between
03:22
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I am not a twist in fate
Nor am I the treasure underneath the weight
And I am not the black inside the blue
Nor am I the rosy color dressed as truth
Somewhere in between is how I do
Somewhere off of me and onto you
I am not a lost to be found
Nor am I the foot that lands on solid ground
And I am not the open road ahead
Nor am I the monster underneath the bed
Somewhere in between is where I tread
Following the path that’s better led
Underneath the breath that’s better said
Will it be a yes or no?
(Uh huh)
Will we find the way to go?
(Aha)
Wonder how the wind will blow
(Ha ha)
Do we ever know?
Do we ever know?
(Oh no)
I am not the dawn of time
Nor will I be waiting at the end of the line
Somewhere in between
I call it mine
Somewhere in between...
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Little Lies
03:19
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Why do we fall apart?
Predict the end
Never the start
Try to see
Light through dark
Impossible
When head beats heart
In a flash
Life comes crashing down
Why do we pick apart
Our souls
Our cells
It’s off the chart
Fallacy
We do impart
What’s possible
If we got smart?
In the past
Time has smacked you around
Shadow cast
The path is yet to be found
Can never gauge your flight
In someone else’s sky
Why question why
From distance so high
Oh, we house it deep inside
The imbalance of pride
Fly to find
Fly to find
Fly to fight
Those little lies
Seek and ye shall find
The lies
They’re sly
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High Diving
04:40
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Imagine yourself
Tip of the top
Distance so high
Your ears would pop
One slip of a step
Is a fast fall from grace
One second you’re golden
Next flat on your face
To dare to look down
The dip of the drop
To rise to renown
Or flip like a flop
Would you fasten yourself?
Just in case?
Come teeter the tightrope
Rally your pride
Straddle that steep slope
Lengthen your stride
Cause time’s of the essence
Click goes the clock
Paralyzed in its presence
You’re ticked by the tock
Are you up for the mission?
In for the ride?
Confounding conditions
But yours to decide
What you stand for
What do you stand for?
Stand up
Stand up
Stand upright
Stand up
Stand up
Stand up right
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Nice Try
02:23
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It’s coming faster now
Not the no
But the know-how
Bright light between the brows
No running past it now
Not the sum
But the somehow
Can’t spell or sell it out
Wide awake
I’m awake
By mistake
It cracked enough to break
Stumbling about it now
Not the tune
But the turnaround
Back is front
And upside,
Down
And it’s humming louder now
Not to go
But to get out
Of the path that fear allows
Get out alive
Nice try
Never you mind
Nice try
Nice try
It’s coming faster now
Not just to know
But to know how
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Say You Believe
04:04
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Wherever we land
Whatever it takes
Whenever the plan
Blows sideways in a hurricane
No chain of command
No foot on the brake
But wherever we stand
Would you say that one thing remains?
When the carbon from the fire
Makes it harder now to breathe
When the jargon from the liars
Got us rolling up our sleeves
In the sickness
Through the sirens
And the stark reality
Amidst blindness
There is kindness
Come on and tell me that you see
Say you believe
Say you believe
Say you believe
Say you believe
When the carbon from the fire
Makes it harder now to breathe
When the jargon from the liars
Got us tossing in our sleep
In the sadness
Through the silence
Of this stark reality
Something timeless
There is kindness
Go on and tell me that you see
Say you believe
Say you believe
Say you believe
Say you believe
Say it to me
Say it to me
Say it to me now
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Tea with Shadows
05:40
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Every voice that haunts you
Every ghost that hovers in the hall
Every choice that taunts you
Invite them in
Let them in
Every voice that mocks you
Every specter wailing through the wall
Every choice that stalks you now
Invite them in
Let them in
The monsters in your head
Invite them to your bed
Divorce the fear you’ve wed
And try some love instead
For doubts, you see
Are sad foes
They know not what the heart knows
Play hostess to the shadows
And let them in
Let them in…
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