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Reflections
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I’m so depressed
I don’t wanna live anymore
That spark of hope I found is dead
I’m so depressed
I can’t even catch my breath
Everything keeps slipping away
More and more each day
Everyone I loved and trusted
Ended up being dumb and fuckin’ useless
I’m so depressed
My parents were kind of shit
narcissistic and dismissive
My true feelings were neglected
Now I feel like everything is all my fault
Look at what you made me
Afraid and ashamed
Doppelgänger
Just like pieces of a mirror we’re the same
Just like broken pieces of a mirror we’re not the same
Shattered and broken, things need to change
Self improvement must be obtained
Sharpen the edges, we need to change
Self improvement must be obtained
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Occam's Razor
01:21
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We’re not cut from the same cloth- you’ve got the kind of gait that comes from walking a lifetime of entitlement
Self centered, selfish, subversive…shithead
Pretentious, pompous, pedantic…poser
You’ve made your own bed
And pissed in it too
And shit the sheets and smeared the walls, laid in it and let it stew
Self centered, selfish, subversive shithead
Pretentious, pompous, pedantic poser
I guess I should have known better, but you know better than everyone, ever.
And not to put too fine a point on it: I hope you choke and die on your own vomit.
Nobody in the world knows everything, except for you.
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Yandere
01:27
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she’s staring at me
Won’t take her eyes off me
How dare you, love?
How could you, love?
I know enough to
Know what you’re up to
I want you, love
I’ll have you, love
I warned you, love
I told you, love:
If I can’t have you, then no one can.
You’ll be together
With me forever
Don’t you worry
You’ll be sorry
Don’t you worry
You’ll be-
Is that laughter really coming from the kitchen
Are those footsteps that I’m hearing from the hallway
Is that quiet creaking my door opening
Is she really silhouetted in the doorframe
Am I dreaming?
Is she softly standing at my footboard
Is this really how he went missing?
Is this how I-
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If I was the crime
Then you you were the treason
And clout’s never been a good fucking reason
To say one thing
and do another
We’ve all caught on
Now your designer cover’s out of fashion.
If that was wrong
Then this is ruthless
And no, you’re the one who lacks self awareness.
Of what you say
And all you do,
And I should have known better when I first met you, that you’re so
Vain
Flows through your veins
Into your brain
And You’re Vain
Flows through your veins.
You’re trepanning.
And you’re Vain.
Flows through your veins.
Nothing remains.
So work your way up to the motherfucking top
So work your way up, to what you claim is the top.
I’ll smile when I see your suffering.
You’re suffering now
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Bare Minimum
01:02
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Never say thank you
Just give me more
Unreturned favors
Expecting more
Take everything
Take everything from me
Take all my time
And some money
Take all my love
Give me nothing
Responsibility is the one thing you’ll never take
I will admit that
I have also made mistakes
Responsibility is the one thing you never take
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Old Growth
01:19
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Can you feel it?
in the air
The central axis we blindly pare
We cannot recreate this keystone species that we cannot live without.
Can you hear it?
in the skies
The saddest dirge of their demise
We can’t reestablish and we cannot hear their cries
Silence is endangered
Futile conservation
Silence is endangered
Diminished population
Silence is endangered
immoral ablation
So can you feel it?
in the air
A thousand years felled in a quick nightmare.
Is this how we value life?
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Where is home
Home is where the hate is
Longing for belonging
Yet desperate to leave
Its hard to fix what’s broken
With broken pieces
Stillborn promises
Never given a chance to live
Where is home
Home is where the hate is
Longing for belonging
Yet desperate to leave
Dusty, worn adults
Swarm the earth
Insatiable zombies
Still searching for life
To consume
Or add one to their ranks
Is there a serum or cure
Or do we have to wait
When will we be saved
When will we learn to save ourselves
When will we be saved
When will we learn
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d(e)ad
02:17
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They always say
They can’t respond
They always say
They can’t respond but hear you
But all I hear are the lies
But all I hear are the lies from the doctor’s mouth
But either way I
Said what I had to
On a stump outside of my friend’s house
Wet dirt soaking through
My sweatpants
Satellites carrying
My cracking voice
Almost 3000 miles
Through my brother’s cell phone
To reach you in pennsylvania
I hadn’t seen you in 4 years
Now I never will
I hadn’t seen you in 4 years
And now I never will
Spare a picture from 2009
I don’t even recognize myself
It was your choice to rot
Your choice to die
Your choice to isolate myself
But at least I had
My wish granted
And you heard my music
And you got to hear
Who I really am
And what I am becoming
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and into the
00:39
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Unown
01:48
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Home had died
the only time I ever held her
as she went through that door
I’m dying on the floor
Her ashes
mixed with friends that she never had
and only left who can’t understand
I just can’t understand
It hits hard
when the pendulum sways the other way
and it comes in spades for days and days
Can’t see another way
I hope I see you again in the unknown
I hope I see you in the unknown
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Such confusion
Making choices
Can’t decide
With inside voices
Don’t want the doctor’s
Steep in voices
Just kiss the kid goodbye
They feed us lies
The fetus dies
Mommy cries
Souls demise
Sent back to
the waiting room
Maybe find
Another womb
This isn’t up to you
You shouldn’t care what others do
When the beat starts, doesn’t count
If I’m wrong, then you’re wrong too
Stay where you are
Don’t be a fool
Living this life
Just isn’t cool
I destroy you
Put life in you
We destroy it
It destroys us
I destroy you
Put life in you
We destroy it
It destroys us
I destroy you
You destroy me we destroy it
It destroys me
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We want everything
To stay the same
Once we get it
The way we like
We become complacent
And begin to let it fade
As we fail to upkeep
And put new energy in
Dust collects, cracks form
And will suffice
Sometimes that’s okay
You begin to fade
Everything changes
Life becomes weak when you least expect it
Everything changes
Everything changes
And what you knew is gone
And those lives lived live as memory
Until they fade too
And are one day lost
As happy as you are
But it will never last
If you are in your peak
Then you should plan for when it’s passed
Take advantage, and love every moment
Tragedy and heartbreak always lurks
Hold on tight to what you hold dear
Overcoming attachment
Never works
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Artificial tough guys
In authentic leathers
I can grab a brush
And color you by numbers
You want to be your idols
Wish you were you heroes
Your shit is more recycled than a carbon footprint zero
Fuck you
We’ll never be like you
Fuck you
You’ll never be like us
You claim to be inclusive
But you’re fucking not
Only to the people
Who wear studs and docks
You don’t love the music
You just love the clout
Won’t give us a single chance
Ignore and block us out
Fuck you
We’ll never be like you
Fuck you
You’ll never be like us
Music needs to evolve
And so should your mindset
You shouldn’t be
Able to be your heroes
And they shouldn’t be
Able to be you
Music needs to evolve
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Fly into the light
Such beauty
Such magnificence
Fly into the light
Blissful innocence
Blinded by the light
Masquerade deviance
Blinded by the light
Lured into a fated ends
Spirit of the spider
No good intention
Doing what’s natural
Building a web
Luring with lies
Each passing statement
Speaking the truth
Speaking falsehoods
sounding true
Death throes of the trapped
Awaiting their doom
Resonate the lies
Which keep you there
Deafening cacophony
Incarnated fear
Desperate plaything
Eventual morsel
You stood no chance
It was your destiny to die
Another’s
Destiny to thrive
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It’s fucking embarrassing
to have to say
“The scene back home
has nothing to say
but negative shit talk (community or clique?)
about other bands (community or clique?)
can’t see past the view (community or clique?)
Inside their own ass” (we know what you are)
But on the bright side, their name won’t reach your ears
Inside the bubble, content with their fears
Fingers caress the algorithm
This city’s a chasm, a cataclysm
So we’ll leave you alone, so you can be cool
Still acting like you’re in fucking high school
It’s fucking embarrassing but hit us up for any other shows you’re booking! :)
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One Sided Die
02:09
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I don’t feel like you ever cared about me
All I felt was the overwhelming apathy
So many entries have been journaled documenting
Pleas for attention on pages drenched with tears
Years have past but I kept waiting
On a few occasions even tried talking
Effort promised, nothing shown,
In this loveless relationship
That I have outgrown
It’s really all my fault
For all of the time I wasted on you
Foolishly waiting
Seen the best in you, but it’s just not true
Everything could be so much different
If only you came, when I needed you
2 hours sobbing on the floor
My sweet baby boy was a lifeless corpse
Your actions or lack thereof
They speak louder than words that were not said
Yet I am the evil one
I am evil
Cruel villain that saved your cat
I’m the villain
Monster that tried to improve our lives
I’m the monster
And how you hope that I fucking die
You really want me dead?
You want me to die
You really want me dead
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Patriarch
02:22
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I just want to be dad
But the cancer’s moving faster than I can
It takes time to figure it out
But time is one of the things which I lack
It isn’t for a lack of trying
Just a lack of familial nurturing
They did the best they could
It’s a miracle that I turned out this good
Alcoholics and abusive trash
Darker secrets lay hidden in the stash
They are nothing but where I got my names
Never needed them to make my own fame
The most good they’ve ever done
Was to hurt me and be fodder for these songs
Call me the patriarch
I think it’s time for a brand new start
I am planting a new family tree
With no other roots or branches before me
I am the patriarch
You heard it here this is a brand new start
Reinvention of the family name
Writing all the rules to my own game
I am the patriarch
I hope it doesn’t end before it starts
I am the patriarch
Am the patriarch
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I know I know I know when my time’s up
I won’t I won’t I won’t be thinking of you
Regret regret regret is just a deep dive
And you’re just you’re just you’re just a waste of time
The realization that maybe I don’t want to die
Is the most terrifying thought I’ve had in my life
And all of these people that I know
Or I guess knew
Start falling off the ride
Until there’s no one left alive you knew
Except yourself
Except yourself
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