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Who Fell
04:30
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Who fell into the light now?
Who failed here? Who failed over and over?
Who’d have had a chance at all?
Maybe there could be no other
Got you coming and going, got no towel to throw in
Got no real way of knowing
Who quelled their angry thought and said nothing?
'Cause what's the use in chiding one who's already suffering?
When your sorrow and hatred and your fear become sacred
Your thin heart will be weighted
It won't always feel bad
You don't need to fear that
You don't need to be sorry
I'm not angry with you
You don't need to fear that
You don't need to be sorry
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Confusion
04:05
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Why do we adhere to our sorrow and suffering?
Why do we appear to reject every other thing?
What do we attain turning in on our solitude?
Why do we disdain learning truth of our longitude?
Why do we adhere to emotional idleness?
Why do we adhere to the notions that stifle us?
Why do we have fear when tomorrow’s another thing?
Why do we adhere to our sorrow and suffering?
Help me on my way
Oh god, don't let me die in confusion
Oh god, give me a moment of certainty
My thoughts were thorns and my thin heart was fluttering
Although I was born with my bread and my buttering
Run out of the woods for my sorrow and suffering
Run out of the woods for my father and mothering
Help me on my way
Oh god, don't let me die in confusion
Oh god, give me a moment of certainty
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You Never Know
04:43
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You never know, til you do
How a comforting thought could be cruel to you
My heart was a cork and the whole world was a poem
Your words in my ears, they will never leave
What is your life worth?
What did we assume?
How safe is your life?
How deep is your love?
You never know
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4. |
Kill Me Again
05:23
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I got comfortable inside misery
Never asking that thought what it did for me
Over time it grew opaque for you
It's why I can't stay with you
Don't you scorn me, fucker, you have it too
Here's your new pattern, my gift to you
Binding me to you
If you can't feel it surrounding you,
Kill me again and this time I die for you
Again and again
If you lose your vision when your pain fades, reverse it
If your best ambitions slip through your days, reverse it
When you fear, you're following thought to nowhere
Again and again, over and over, again and again
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5. |
Weight
03:20
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All the time we're weighed
How much weight can you lift?
How do you get through at all?
Or know your weight at all?
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6. |
Idiohead
07:35
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Strange
It moves without coaxing, grows without days
A purpose is potion, fear is your shade
I circle back on myself in my brain
What do you call life or losing?
What do you want, flight or movement?
The hue of your eyes was blue then
Make up your mind and I can promise you then
You will be alright, Idiohead
Although youth turns to dust in older heads
There's a fault in our minds that wets our beds
Why do they thrash against impermanence?
Every choice that you have is your best friend
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Lanterns
05:53
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You will never be what you attain, or can endure
You are what you love
Dear friends, don’t you cheat yourself
When somebody come unbidden to you to show their self
When they go deeper than you’re at, don’t start freakin’ out
Don’t punish them who say hard things, no
Seek them out
Why do we bore each other with our small shit?
Squint to glimpse our pattern, but still follow it?
If knowing love is water then we’re all thirsty
At what price come peace within your family?
Holding a lantern to your life
Wondering who you were
Why’d you lie to me?
Every pain undescribed, every word unheard
Why’d you lie to me?
If we go with no knowing, will we know where we’re going?
You will never be what you attain, or can endure
You are what you love
If you’re working on blindness, I’m working on seeing
I am you, and like you, I never dream
Knowing love is water and we’re all thirsty
At what price come peace within your family?
You will never be what you attain, or can endure
You are what you love
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Bonfire
04:46
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Oh brother, I see you suffering
See you losing all your lies
Holding tight, keeping your blood inside
Keeping color in your eyes
Oh brother, I know the night is dark
Build your love into a bonfire
Still alive within my teeth at night
Stuck in thin ruts in my mind
Patterned on using our knowledge wrong
You disarmed me when you died
Oh brother, I know the night is dark
Build your love into a bonfire
A fog on all memory
The same youth as the one you had
Show them what you're fighting for
Show them what the fire is for
Show them what's there
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Lanterns (extended)
09:31
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You will never be what you attain, or can endure
You are what you love
Dear friends, don’t you cheat yourself
When somebody come unbidden to you to show their self
When they go deeper than you’re at, don’t start freakin’ out
Don’t punish them who say hard things, no
Seek them out
Why do we bore each other with our small shit?
Squint to glimpse our pattern, but still follow it?
If knowing love is water then we’re all thirsty
At what price come peace within your family?
Holding a lantern to your life
Wondering who you were
Why’d you lie to me?
Every pain undescribed, every word unheard
Why’d you lie to me?
If we go with no knowing, will we know where we’re going?
You will never be what you attain, or can endure
You are what you love
If you’re working on blindness, I’m working on seeing
I am you, and like you, I never dream
Knowing love is water and we’re all thirsty
At what price come peace within your family?
You will never be what you attain, or can endure
You are what you love
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