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Salt for the Earth
06:10
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Isn't it a shame
All them promises never fulfilled
The dreams left abandoned
Festering inside, growing into dark roots
Tears, sweat, the salt for the earth
The smoke burning lungs and eyes
When fate caught up
The time stood still
But nothing changed
Nothing was spoken out loud
Words were left hanging in the air
Shame that you believed,
That you could someday
Dig yourself out
Tears, sweat, the salt for the earth
The smoke burning lungs and eyes
When fate caught up
The time stood still
But nothing changed
Now that you’ve gone
And cursed your home for ages to come
Wouldn't it be a shame
To stand at the end
Shrouded in bitterness
The end will be still far from here
To stand there little straighter than now...
Yet everything you’ve done
Weighs more than the years
Everything you've done for
The salting of the earth
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2. |
Fluorescent Dream
01:40
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3. |
Shame of Existence
07:41
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Never have I given in
Never surrendered
So easily before
In arms of resentment
Projecting an image of self
Drowned in ambrosia
Lashing out in violence
Finding it was someone else
The endless walks through night
And reocurring dreams
Woven together in mist
And in morning's lament
The bitter chalk of understanding
Souring the friendliest face
Groups of broken people
Again to be thrown aside
Shame of existence
Repeating the same mistake
Forcing want over will
Safe within my solitude
Burning my fears away
With each degree of fever
And glass that is overturned
Late at night I watch through the smoke
How the constellations turn
When cold mists start to gather
I shake my fist at the skies
Shame of existence
Repeating the same mistake
Forcing want over will
How much time still remains
Until the tides turn again?
And the black waves
Reach for my back
Have I reached far or high enough?
But nothing seems to ease the strain
Grasping at the last straw
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4. |
Fate
05:12
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On occasion I’ve been tempted by fate
With nowhere to go, no means to escape
But it’s hard to reach in to your soul
Finding only nothingness
Trying to surrender yourself
To a tailored view of the world
Beginning begets the end
Noble outcome pays for the sacrifice
The road is straight as an arrow
As clean and straight as it is narrow
And may no doubts under the feet
Break your run or bruise the knees
Acts unjust or malicious intent
Pave the way ahead just like they’re meant
And if you stepped astray and fell
Lying there you are sure to find
Unshakable certainty
One must call it fate
To struggle against the truth
That the path is not a one
An easy thing to believe, that you were right all along
For all this toil and sacrifice perhaps there’s a kingdom come
But for all the good and righteous, throughout the ages and domains
Scarred, debased, worn down by time
Never got their price for their...
Unshakable certainty
One must call it fate
To struggle against the truth
That the path is not a one
Did you deserve to live?
Did you deserve to succeed?
Did you deserve the die this way?
Did you deserve to suffer this fate?
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5. |
The Contentment Prison
06:24
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Here is always peace
Here lie the dreams you had
After all the wasted years one has grown content
For keeping themselves in a leash, just getting by
Wounding themselves again and again and again
Satisfied that the scars will uphold the calm
Sometimes I dreamt of the prison
Content to find myself in
I used to walk the line
But now I just dream
After all it can take just a few bad hits
Or just a lifetime of constant and steady abuse
One gets terrified of unpredictable failures
Likely to find his solace in bleak standstill
Sometimes I dreamt of this prison
Content to find myself in
I used to walk the line
But now I just dream
Here is always peace
Here lie the dreams you had
Some day you might go on
But now stay
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6. |
Memory Game
04:56
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Oh, how do you remember those last weeks
It’s been so long I am not sure I can
All I do remember was the months after that
When I was too sick to do nothing else
Broken of heart and filled to the brim
But that’s not how it went...
Oh, I guess I was hurting all along
Caught myself in a painful haze
Doubling on my standards and doubling my drinks
Driving myself to do it myself
Broken of heart and filled to the brim
But that’s not how it went...
I lose myself in this memory game
Trying to shape the past into a different kind of pain
To suit the story as years and I change
I lose the past and myself on the way
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7. |
March Equinox
03:41
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The spring just didn’t start
Winter’s breath lingers on the lips
Where they kissed the skin
Was burned and bruised
But this morning the water started to run
It still runs cold but as if there’s a purpose
To wake up the ever clouded mind
And though the feet were paralyzed
More warmth is ever flowing
Maybe today you start the fight
Against the bitter cold
The one you’ve always known
The pain is everywhere around
And still inside you
But this time may you learn
One or more things about
The fear you’re carrying on
Before you embrace it once again
It’s been warmer for a week
And still your feet haven’t taken to run
And though the clock’s still turning
There’s weeks and weeks to try them
Every step takes you further from the void
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8. |
Time Does Not Heal
05:56
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Unsure how the finish the page
There should be more words
To explain
Maybe the guilt wasn’t justified
May be that all this pain has been for nothing
Nursing the precious wounds
While the time goes on
And the scars are fading
Unsure how to prepare myself
For the emptiness after this closure
Take a look at yourself from the best of times
And still you can't feel any drop of pride
How bitter should you be
That no one remembers
That world has moved on
And after all this time...
Time does not heal
But the distance it draws
The scars unremarkable
After all these years
You now have nothing
To show, to be proud about
Not a thing
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