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1. |
Presage
06:18
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A morning just like ones before
But in the air a different feeling you ignore
And it burns in your heart
Who knows how everything unwinds
When all the friends you thought you knew have lost their minds
It could tear you apart
Something spurred the vile parts in each of us here to show
Nothing takes the place of the enemies that we know
Something spurred the vile parts in each of us here to show
Nothing takes the place of the enemies that we know
This deep foundation we advance
Is slipping slowly for the one we gave a chance
Is only a fool
To hope that I'd awake at night
And come to realize nothing shone against the light
Is under his rule
Something spurred the vile parts in each of us to show
Nothing takes the place of the enemies that we know
Something spurred the vile parts in each of us here to show
Nothing takes the place of the enemies that we know
All we believe, ours is the only way
Truth in the words, what we together say
All we believe, ours is the only way
Truth in the words, what we together say
How can our unity distraught
Be dragged behind by those unhindered by a thought
With hope for our friends
And what is said for those who lost
When they're repeating lies to justify the cost
And tell where it ends
Something spurred the vile parts in each of us here to show
Nothing takes the place of the enemies that we know
Something spurred the vile parts in each of us here to show
Nothing takes the place of the enemies that we know
All we believe, ours is the only way
Truth in the words, what we together say
All we believe, ours is the only way
Truth in the words, what we together say
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2. |
Open
06:08
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Found an end to the cycle
And the choices are seeming clear
I can picture the outcome
When the end to it looks so near
There's a path to the future
In whichever degree we stand
But every person is pointing
And you can't find a helping hand
When you won't take away from it all
(Won't take it all)
No you can't take away from it all
(You can't take it all)
When you won't take away from it all
(Won't take it all)
No you can't take away
(You can't take it)
I'm beginning to dread it
Searching only for what is right
Sinking into submission
Going over the lines at night
Never thought what they told you
Could be ever so obsolete
There's no way of preparing
For a fate you may never meet
When you won't take away from it all
(Won't take it all)
No you can't take away from it all
(You can't take it all)
When you won't take away from it all
(Won't take it all)
No you can't take away
(You can't take it)
What opened after all
If you can't see in too clearly
When you closed the door you gave away a piece of you
What opened after all
If you can't see in too clearly
When you closed the door you gave away a piece of you
Don’t look back
Leave the hope for the lucky
I've exhausted my chance of peace
Time to settle for something
Cause the pressure still won't release
Just submit to the cycle
Link yourself to the dying chain
While a world full of people
Just survive to prolong the pain
When you won't take away from it all
(Won't take it all)
No you can't take away from it all
(You can't take it all)
When you won't take away from it all
(Won't take it all)
No you can't take away
(You can't take it)
What opened after all
If you can't see in too clearly
When you closed the door you gave away a piece of you
What opened after all
If you can't see in too clearly
When you closed the door you gave away a piece of you
Don’t look back
Found an end to the cycle
And the choices are seeming clear
I can picture the outcome
When the end to it looks so near
When you won't take away from it all
(Won't take it all)
No you can't take away from it all
(You can't take it all)
When you won't take away from it all
(Won't take it all)
No you can't take away
(You can't take it)
What opened after all
If you can't see in too clearly
When you closed the door you gave away a piece of you
What opened after all
If you can't see in too clearly
When you closed the door you gave away a piece of you
Don’t look back
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3. |
Lines
05:53
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In the days we were all alone
Losing the ones that our memories held so deep
Say it won’t leave us on our own
Missing the lives that the cycle couldn’t keep
With a doubt from the open air
Something appeared right before my eyes again
From a place I would never care
You held the light that I need to be within
Ooh, you point and I’m connected
Ooh, there’s nothing in between
Ooh, to make a new selection
Ooh, this side of what you mean
In the days we were all alone
Losing the ones that our memories held so deep
Say it won’t leave us on our own
Missing the lives that the cycle couldn’t keep
With a doubt from the open air
Something appeared right before my eyes again
From a place I would never care
You held the light that I need to be within
(You lose the lines that put you there on recall
I can’t escape the feeling stays with me at all
You lose the lines that put you there on recall
I can’t escape the feeling stays with me at all)
Ooh, you point and I’m connected
Ooh, there’s nothing in between
Ooh, to make a new selection
Ooh, this side of what you mean
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4. |
Second Home
06:18
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We’re on the way
To distant paradise apart
A lonely second home
Forget the day
And any problems we began
Won't find us on our own
So relieving to see the glow
Of sunlit countrysides below
The golden vision of a sky
To welcome you back
We’re caught within
The spell of nature as it flows
Through all the open air
And no one knows
If all the worries we could find
Were ever really there
There's a song that we start to sing
Once we start feeling anything
For who could have the bitter heart
To tell you it's wrong
Time standing still while we’re
Here and the days turn to
Years in a moment
But still not in touch
We found our way
Through all the mazes that had stood
Between our path to home
And thinking back
There's no belief that either one
Was better off alone
There's a chill in the evening wind
The kind that never seems to end
And winding roads take you away
To places you lost
Time standing still while we’re
Here and the days turn to
Years in a moment
But still not in touch
How long did you believe you could hide
Everything still is passing by
Outside of the room you move
In silence there's no way to ignore
Leaking through every open door
The truth that you turned away
How long did you believe you could hide
Everything still is passing by
Outside of the room you move
In silence there's no way to ignore
Leaking through every open door
The truth that you turned away
How long did you believe you could hide
Everything still is passing by
Outside of the room you move
In silence there's no way to ignore
Leaking through every open door
The truth that you turned away
We’re caught within
The spell of nature as it flows
Through all the open air
And no one knows
If all the worries we could find
Were ever really there
There's a chill in the evening wind
The kind that never seems to end
And winding roads take you away
To places you lost
Time standing still while we’re
Here and the days turn to
Years in a moment
But still not in touch
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5. |
Blind Hope
06:12
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The comfortable masses are glued onto the screens
To hear a new piece of the puzzle
Cause every mistake here is one you’ve never seen
And every new day is a struggle
But I know the wind can’t change itself or right away
Taking all of my will to abide
Just a few still sitting the seat of trust
Any man left must surely have lied
They tell me there’s nothing that anyone can say
To shed a new light on the meeting
From every dark angle is something they can sway
To spread the false hope they’re repeating
But I know the world can’t hold itself for very long
Waiting in the confusion and shame
The illusion of balance is coming to a halt
And everyone still plays the game
How can you be so incurably blinded
You may as well not be learning
The heads of our friends are shaking in rejection
The wheel of our father’s turning
How can you be so incurably blinded
You may as well not be learning
The heads of our friends are shaking in rejection
The wheel of our father turns it all around
A new bit of motion is coming to the front
The steps that lead into an answer
Believing there’s reason to why they take the time
To carefully cut out the cancer
It’s only a mask of darkness on the face we show
All the rest know it’s not who we are
The growth of a movement is eating at the core
But nobody cares for the scar
How can you be so incurably blinded
You may as well not be learning
The heads of our friends are shaking in rejection
The wheel of our father’s turning
How can you be so incurably blinded
You may as well not be learning
The heads of our friends are shaking in rejection
The wheel of our father turns it all around
No way to know when this insanity will end
When all of it’s so inconsistent
But nothing spells failure like giving up the truth
There’s never the time for persistence
But I know the world can’t hold itself for very long
Waiting in the confusion and shame
The illusion of balance is coming to a halt
And everyone still plays the game
How can you be so incurably blinded
You may as well not be learning
The heads of our friends are shaking in rejection
The wheel of our father’s turning
How can you be so incurably blinded
You may as well not be learning
The heads of our friends are shaking in rejection
The wheel of our father turns it all around
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6. |
City Apart
05:47
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A thousand to one
Meeting together again
The same as it’s been for the years
We all were before
A city was born
In the blink of an eye
A valley transformed into life
A wonder apart
We all come prepared
Waiting to breath in the dust
Alive in the trust of a friend
You know that it's pure
And even aside
You could feel my own heart
In the warmth and the start of a new
Reason to be here
Mass of life is positive
And spreading it onto me
Anger feels impossible
For everything we could be
The world is always closing in
A moment that we could see clear
We reach for the sun
Shedding the fear of the world
A life to unfurl as we please
And share with a friend
The cause that we push
Not to change all the rest
To what we expressed as the way
We’re already there
And you might not see
The path that we thought to take
As something to stake your life
On further your own
But nothing could change
The feeling that lifts me above
And brightens the love that we drown
The rest of our years in
Mass of life is positive
And spreading it onto me
Anger feels impossible
For everything we could be
The world is always closing in
A moment that we could see clear
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7. |
Disparity
04:50
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I don’t believe the lies
That catch us when we fall
Too proud to close your eyes
And never see at all
I don’t sustain the words
That move to undermine
Our only rule of thirds
That kept us from decline
The token rhymes
Are running thin
And keeping out
What I want in
The more I care
The less I work
A message needs perfection
So every time
I try to speak
The words I cough
Are tongue in cheek
And always stuck
Inside your mind
For your unseen reflection
Oh but it’s only happening
From the reference point that we trust what we see
So why should I spend it all
In a spoken stance that you’re sure to not agree
And if all is beyond a turn
Then I’d rather wade in the shallower words
Cause who’d ever give a thought
Where you can’t be sure if you’ll ever be heard
I try to pen
The final deed
While holding in
The noise I need
It doesn’t make
Much sense to me
Which makes it my selection
But don’t hold out
For something strong
The thoughts I like
Are never long
This isn’t what
I thought I’d say
My next might need correction
Oh but it’s only happening
From the reference point that we trust what we see
So why should I spend it all
In a spoken stance that you’re sure to not agree
And if all is beyond a turn
Then I’d rather wade in the shallower words
Cause who’d ever give a thought
Where you can’t be sure if you’ll ever be heard
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8. |
Elegy
03:12
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All we believe
Our is the only way
And the hope we dream
Truth in the words
What we together say
To repeat the theme
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