You try to keep your composure
I'm only having a laugh
The latest attempt at closure
Failed after 25 drafts

But I can still retain this
I can still collect
You're cashing in on misery
And calling in all your debts

Stop trying to keep your composure
I'm only having a laugh
The latest attempt at closure
Failed after 25 drafts

But I still can still retain this
I can still retain this
I can still retain this

Stop trying to keep your composure
Stop trying to keep your composure
Stop trying to keep your composure
Stop trying to keep your composure

And it comes as no surprise you never let go
And it comes as no surprise you never let go
And it comes as no surprise you never let go
And it comes as no surprise you never let go

During the laceration
All you want to do is cry
But it laughs at realisation
How quickly fresh blood dries

Needs no explanation
It's gonna take a lot of time
Ideas above our station
And over the fog in my mind

When I see I see my signs

And it's the same face
Presenting the same lie
If you keep walking sideways,
If you keep changing your mind

Always the same face
Presenting the same lie
If you keep sideways
If you keep changing your mind

When I see, I see my signs
When I see, I see my signs

Obsolete, your voices are

They say, silence, it sometimes pays
In war, silence, it sometimes pays
They say, silence, it sometimes pays
In war, silence, it sometimes pays

Souls and windows, stops existing
Holes where his eyes used to be
Needle and thread hold together
His love for the dead, all new savior

Saw the seashore, unfamilar
The water and oil, unfamiliar
Success and toil, unfamiliar
Unaccustomed, unfamiliar

I ran a trail of fire
Through the meadow paths
Guided by the river banks
And trees from which
They'll have me hang

Keep running away from the fire
Keep running away from the light
Til it's gone

Are all our summers
At one with the ground?
And everything I loved you for
A trail of fire from the door
That leads me to a hiding place
And locking me inside

How loud this blade of grass
How long til' eventide?
The dark that shroud
Your loving neighbor

He's the one who lit the paper
While the reason's unexpressed
And the sources undetermined
The innocent are voiceless

The voiceless are innocent
Should I cut the middleman?
Just dig a hole and throw me in
Say a prayer to my loving savior
He's the one who lit the paper

From them I strip the title
Extinguished and misuse
And all our engraved memories
Are unsuccessful remedies
I'm sick of papering the cracks
And extinguishing the fire tracks

Though flawed by design
I'm torn from the strife
That did pile at the door
But is feared no more

Though I once wedded her
And her want was to play
As another's arms held
Took her wanting away

Questions on top of questions
Don't think that
It is too late for me

Unsung, untied, unalive

The future hates cast asleep
But the film remains
This aftertaste
All I wanted's that which I gave

Master slave
I learn fast on sinking ships
And I can talk
I place pride on tick and tock
And it's a lonely silence until dawn

Rites of passage open doors
But I'm not frightened
Master slave
Line and sinker, take the bait

Where others float
You and I crash land
Where others float
You and I crash land

Where I see us in far away skies
I could not say where I am lost
The darkness falls upon the day

There's no answer

Run, Tommy, run
Did you get all you want?
Did you drink their world dry
And extinguish all the sunshine?

I didn't say that I felt the same
You just took it as read
As I closed all the blinds
And put you to bed
And read you all the last rites

It serves as a warning to me,
Just like most of these days do
'Cause I just wish that
I could've just left you there
Sitting in your own shit
'Cause I know that you would, me too

See, 'cause I've gone through all this before
And I've bought that skinny tee
With a big, black gaping hole where the heart should be
That says, "Baby, I renounce thee"

Don't you die on me now

A kiss is now a circus show
The big, top tent and neon glow
Through spectacles of rainbow red
You never feel your love till it's dead

Arm's length keep him
Stop and don't endure
No one ever paused
Empty as a hole and ever depleting

What I'm for makes us whole
A bankruptcy of love
Could not swim above
Empty as a hole and ever depleting

I recoil from the blast
And look around me
Neither friend nor foe
Empty as a hole and ever depleting

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That slime looks so good on your face
One for charm, one for disgrace, cunt

In the back of the truck I find the antidote
All the passengers know it's time to jump the boat
Your children will remember everything you say
Never doubt that you're leading them astray

But you're welcome
You're welcome

But he cannot console
'Cause he swallowed it whole

The millions will cry at the cut of his schpiel
Paints his words red and kissed with his seal
He thinks that it's real but he's got it all wrong

You put the fun in dysfunction with a steely shoe
Too long a heaven to stretch on shorter skies of blue
If you could hold your head up and find the sense to say
Only then could laudation come your way

But you're welcome

But I dealt it in spades
Forgot what I had said
Noo

Pronounce me dead longevity I can still find away
Find in pages easy
Polish and make greasy, coins in my hand's palm
Unload on him it's easy, wind up and let go

Saints informed
But I cannot appeal
Against this sentence

I can hold you all together
You won't fall
With the troops that we assembled
And the bond we forged

Though this sketch is getting old now
The cracks don't show

Time won't change a thing when I'm gone
Don't grab the wheel too tightly, my son
Everything you need is done
I would've thought you'd won by now
Oh no, no, oh no, no, no

I have been known to err the method
So don't presume this wisdom
When all that I am is time now
And the cult

Fruition in the detail
So that drives me

Time won't change a thing when I'm gone
Don't grab the wheel too tightly, my son
Everything you need is done
I would've thought you'd won by now
Oh no, no, oh no, no, no

I am not the picture, now I'm
I am not the picture, now I'm
(I'm the frame)

Periscope extends the lens
Veiney hands can't mend
Your broken little babies remains
We all fall to bits just the same

Eyes down for a full house
Yeah, I love you long time
They christened me
Just to give me name
Now I know that I'm to blame

There was no man in his eyes
And no lights to beam home those ships
Can't even extend out his arm
To go and cash in his chips
I wish that I could not so rightly place this

But least I can say that I was there
That I witnessed his demise
But you my lucky son
Because of your size
You would not remember

This has sent your only son
To an early grave
What you thought was an accident
Was deliberate

There was a twitch in his hand
As I offered him mine
But our captain only cared about his crew
But you would not remember, would you?

And when that time does come, my brother
And I should offer you my hand
You'll know just what to do
What not to put me through
You must remember

Come your expiration
Come your sell by date
And there is no companion
It'll be too late

All this misfortune is punishment
He sings of gods that desert him
He falls again but undeterred
He hides from the light