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Am I everything that you thought I’d turn out to be all those times that we spent chasing our own tails? We spent our days in the quiet grasp but we never strayed too far from our friends and from the places that we knew. Do you remember it? Because it feels like ancient history to me. So is life everything that you thought it would always be all those times that we spent planning for something else? All the things we’d hate back then are all the things you grew to be. I like to think we haven’t changed, but that’s just me. Because I had plans to move down south with all the birds and settle down. I was just trying to find the room to breathe and so were you but I hope one day we’ll meet in the middle at least. I kind of miss those little talks we’d have when we’d run away and hide, and if we weren’t back by sunset, we’d still be fine.
...and it felt like an adventure when we were young.
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What is reality anyway?
Why can't I be pixelated?
Traversing mountains in front of me,
Pale shapes in paler landscapes.
I've never been fond of gravity,
What goes up can only come down.
I'm so restricted why can't you see?
I'm a victim of remote control.
And all of your dreams can come true,
In that LCD view.
8 bit, 7 days a week,
No matter how many tasks I complete.
I'm on, I'm off, I'm left, I'm right,
My thumbs are stuck on X and Y.
9 lives, each one on the line,
I'm always losing but it's worth the try.
I'm on, I'm off, I'm left, I'm right,
No sleep tonight.
I am a digital wannabe,
I get all my kicks from TV,
Cause flesh and blood is just boring me,
Still I wait for new technology.
Maybe I like being in control,
Maybe my life's just too dull,
There's nothing out there that's not in here,
I'm a shut-in with no sense at all.
I think I'll stay alone tonight,
I'm anti-social but what more can I do?
8 bit, 7 days a week,
No matter how many tasks I complete.
I'm on, I'm off, I'm left, I'm right,
My thumbs are stuck on X and Y.
9 lives, each one on the line,
I'm always losing but it's worth the try.
I'm on, I'm off, I'm left, I'm right,
No sleep tonight.
So far away from
The pains and pressures of the world.
There's a place where
It's so much easier to cope.
I catch my breath.
It's been too long,
I'm feeling like I'm turning off tonight.
8 bit, 7 days a week,
No matter how many tasks I complete.
I'm on, I'm off, I'm left, I'm right,
My thumbs are stuck on X and Y.
9 lives, each one on the line,
I'm always losing but it's worth the try.
I'm on, I'm off, I'm left, I'm right,
No sleep tonight
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3. |
Same Current - Oceans
03:20
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I started off on a wrong note. Building ships I should’ve known would not float.
I couldn’t see why these “great” things sank, staring right at the holes in the planks.
Hoist the torn scales to the sky. There’s a flaw in my obsessive eye.
It finally dawned on me. Who I am is not who I need to be.
When will I be finished with what may be my life’s greatest work?
I pray to God. I pray that I will be heard.
The Ocean hides everything. I block my ears but still I hear the sirens sing.
Apathy’s run out, I’m at the brink. What will it take to make this vessel sink?
Too many things to be and all at once.
It’s gone from days to years, and years to months.
I think I should ask myself what I’ve done.
I’m going crazy just because I met someone.
Sometimes I catch myself just feeding on misery,
A second hand high does nothing for me.
I'm drowning, In my own mind.
I'm drowning, In myself.
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4. |
The Hotel Year - Vacancy
02:44
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You're so old now. Your bearings are shot. You're a caved in roof. You're falling apart. Your nights are spent lying on the couch hoping to forget...
You can't fix this because its burning down.
You can't fix me because I'm so burnt out.
When that sun crept over those stairs we were lighting fires on our hands. We held the fate of everything we loved in our hands.
The strain in my back has left me here. I keep choking on my fears, on my loose ends. All the strength leaves the ghosts alone.
Oh, we are the same.
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and then the devil said, "when you were broken I took you in. gave you a purpose, a family, a new home." his teeth clenched, his veins swelled. I'm oaken-hearted for a moment but my nerve slips. "we all have someone we try to protect. if that was your boy on the altar, you think a father wants to take that risk?"
so we crept up in the dirt just like a rat or a thief, falling in upon the preacher like a sudden disease. spilling blood and fear and fire with reluctance and ease, we strung him up outside the Blackwood to avoid the police. we fought for my soul.
curse that weakness and desperate men, tempted often and easily. it's a shame you were lost, my son, led astray so easily.
our hands weren't meant for this,
such dark and bitter work.
they're for digging in the earth,
planting seeds,
working with wood,
or fashioning bricks.
mending broken tools,
tending to the sick,
but not this.
it's not God's mercy that keeps my son alive. it ain't your pity that keeps him safe at night. it's my wrath and my fury that keeps him safe from harm.
how can that be wrong?
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I've watched inconsistancies tear our world apart.
I've come here to,describe myself as best as I can.
The plain and simple truth is,
This democracy isnt working.
The rich and famous have the control.
Why can't we all see the iinconsistancies
That lead to our inefficency.
Is this what we, should be working for?
You've got to be kidding me.
They have it all planned out.
Why can't we all see the inconsistancies
That lead to our inefficency?
And one for all.
Being brainwashed is just a charm
That's ok, I kinda like the taste of dirt in my mouth anyways
So cough up what you have been working for
WORKING FOR!
This is were we stand up
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7. |
Billion Ocean - The Liar
04:01
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Running from all the people
She doesn't even know
It started all with a big kind of fake love
I can feel what you're thinking
But I can tell you this
I always wanted to end this mess
It's just to much.
And It's time to let this go
Why can't you see it on your own?
It has made it so much easier
Having this feeling, in my soul
It's tragic but still unknown
I was about to turn back from her cute little thing
I happened to think of the other distraction
Why would I loose her now?
When she's still in the attraction
It's a natural action, way up high
She is a liar, she knows she's insane
She is a liar, she got no one else to blame
She is a liar, her world is crashing doooooown
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I've been hiding things for far too long.
I don't know how to prove you wrong.
You need to know what's going on in my head.
And how I disapprove of the time that you take, to make sure that I'm safe.
You struggle everyday.
The way you live makes no sense.
I don't need your ignorance to find the answers that I need.
So I'll lay in bed, forgetting what you said, and catching up on sleep.
I don't know how to tell you.
I can't just sit by and let your lives go to waste.
Who said I ever had to see what you want me to see?
But I'll lay in bed, forgetting what you said, and catching up on sleep.
I don't know how to tell you.
I've been hiding things for far too long.
I don't know how to prove you wrong.
You need to know what's going on in my head and how I disapprove.
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I once knew this girl
The life and soul of any party
She was a bit of a mystery
But that was okay with me
I still remember that night
I saw you watching her from across the room
You had that look in your eyes
Your most deceptive lie
How was she to know you were gunna break her heart
Manipulating her with words of love
Because she’s standing there looking in the mirror
Wondering why nothings clearer
Why you let her fall so deep
If you had no intentions to catch her
She had it all
The looks and the brains
But you didn’t care at all
You had your fun and then
You got her hooked on those class A’s
Knowing that it would ruin the rest of her days
And you knew she would not escape
Knowing that one day she’d be
standing there looking in the mirror
Wondering why nothings clearer
Why you let her fall so deep
If you had no intentions to catch her
No she all alone
lying in that place she calls home
I know that she’s gone
But I was she was
standing there looking in the mirror
Wondering why nothings clearer
Why you let her fall so deep
If you had no intentions to catch her
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10. |
Cillian King - Letters
03:27
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Walk with me on easy street
I'll take you down to where I keep my letters
Passed the bar with no windows
Through the gap where no one goes , you just might find yourself you know
Beneath the stone of silver shine
I'll show you these letters of mine
Covered in mud
But in these lines, you might find
That you don't think you have time
To find. Find me.
So far I don't know who you really are
But one thing that I do you know is that
You're the one for me
So get on board and set sail north to the distant seas
Where you and I can watch life go by in pefect symmmetry.
So you found that I'm not all
I'm made out to be
But even then the north winds could not
Keep you far from me
So scream out loud and dance around, come dance around with me
For you and I there is no more time
Forever you and I
Beyond the sunset we can go get a new family
From far below the earth where we stand, is just a big window
That shows our lives should we not find, our way to the distant seas
Fiery flames and lands with no names, rule our hearts the same
So grab on tight lets move on tonight, and tread across the turning tide of life.
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All year round we wait
Until we've got time to waste
On another Saturday
At your beck and call
(I'll do anything to make you move)
I couldn't think of anything better at all
What do you expect
When we've got one more chance?
We've got innocence
And we've got out foot in the door
(we want what you want, we just want it more)
I guess time flies when you're feeling this good
What do you want to be
When you grow up?
I wanna do this everyday of my life
I never wanna stop
It's no illusion, what I feel
Stop dreaming
You'll never make it
You've got your life now
So don't waste it
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Lost in the midst of a chase.
I am unable to shake this desire to tear off your fucking face.
Run for your life.
Pray that your feet don't fail you now.
Nowhere to hide.
So say hello to the ground.
Oh, oh no! I need you to move bitch.
Your body's not a corpse...yet.
Let me breathe some life into this situation.
I've got enough for the both of us.
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I was born in a world of my own,
And I think I’ll die alone.
I’ve still got time so what to do,
Can I spend my time with you?
I was born, socially awkward
The boy with bad ears
Who never hears what you have to say
Stumbling and mumbling
All along the way
And when I met you,
I wasn’t that much better
Than I was.
That’s ‘cos
I just think that we could be something
We could sit and talk all day while we’re out on the swings
But that’s only if you want to,
Girl I reckon I’d be happy with you
I know I’m not that good looking
But I’ve heard opposites attracts
I just think that we’d have fun together
And what’s wrong with that?
I know I’m not that good looking
But I’ve heard opposites attracts
I just think that we’d have fun together
And what’s wrong with that?
I just think that we could be something
We could sit and talk all day while we’re out on the swings
But that’s only if you want to,
Girl I reckon I
I just think that we could be something
We could sit and talk all day while we’re out on the swings
But that’s only if you want to,
Girl I reckon I’d be happy with you
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Gutless Wonder - Lyvers
03:00
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Through a veiled sense of security
I'm pushing everyone, and everything, the hell away from me.
The streets you used to walk, the cracks we used to count,
it seems the distance I amount will only seem help.
But I'm wrong
Through your passions, yeah your stubborn stuck up pride,
you're getting caught up in the times, it gets harder to hide.
It all stems from your heart, I could feel that from the start,
but don't forget when it comes down to it, you've lost just who you are.
And that's wrong
well hey, it's been tough today
it takes a lot to say, I don't know anything
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I've been on my own so long
All my thoughts have turned to song
whilst the melody is strong
the sense of hope it gives is wrong
all my words appear to rhyme
but I resist the urge to mime
And every action is a line
But I know now that I've got
time
time
time
Yeah I know that I've got time.
Time forgets you in a flash
headlights never saw the crash
as I gaze upon the ash
I knock back another splash
Soco, amaretto, lime
Cloud my judgement, cloud my mind
all the planets have aligned
and now I'm running out of
time
time
time
Yeah, I'm running out of
navigate me through the stars
shine the light down where you are
sound the siren overseas
say you did it all for me
As I lay in my bed
wishing none of this happened
there's a note left unread
that says nothing else matters
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