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Feral Child
04:48
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Can't you see the feral child
that's trapped within my eyes
and can't get out?
And can't you take a subtle hint
and crawl into a shallow hole and die?
Blooming blackness
Grows within me
I sought out perfect solitude
and there you were
to leech upon my heart
And though I know
you cannot help it
hatred goes unmitigated
I can't help you
I'm too fucked up
The cold trickle I'm trailing behind me
The black bloodline it runs in my family
I'll make my escape on golden highways
The ones distant and desperately calling me
I have ceased to bear witness
give my time
or feign an interest
So go and scream into the void
to slake your need
for my affections
Blooming blackness
Grows within me
The cold trickle I'm trailing behind me
The black bloodline it runs in my family
I'll make my escape on golden highways
The ones distant and desperately calling me
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Sunken & Blue
04:22
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There's an ailing heart inherent in everything you do
The flagging way you drag through days
Your eyes sunken & blue
Laid to waste is every winter, spring, summer & fall
Until you're only a pale shadow
Stained against the wall
I will separate the chaff from grain
Sweep away the years of pain
Heed the wind that breathes my name
Swim the tides of blood inside my veins
Gentle strums like distant bombs
Resounding in your soul
The ripple that becomes a wave
And pulls you in its fold
I see scabs of rust on water towers
Smell the ozone, April showers
Feel the day drain empty hours
Ride the swell of noise inside my head
I will separate the chaff from grain
Sweep away the years of pain
Heed the wind that breathes my name
Swim the tides of blood inside my veins
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Paper Boat
04:05
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I'm going to the city harbor
To let the trash wash over me
And make friends with sludge-covered birds
Who are bound to ground by weighted wings
It's sad...
And go sailing through the sewer
In a little paper boat
'Til the bloodstream of the city
Carries me back home
You walk around so cheerless
Inside a dense, oneiric mist
Of miserable distraction
You weave your way on through the crowd
You look a wreck and seem distressed
The burden of breath in your chest
Just wears you out, it weighs you down
You'll sigh yourself to sleep tonight somehow
And go sailing through the sewer
In a little paper boat
'Til the bloodstream of the city
Carries you back home
Your heart is full of bitter prayers
For one who simply would not care
To see you with your bruises bare
In a naked display of despair
Back to the swamp from whence you came
You're a rabid man who knows no shame
You gave yourself to her in vain
Your vagrant heart will never find its way
Back home...
You go sailing through the sewer
In a little paper boat
'Til the bloodstream of the city
Carries you back home
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Iron eyes, cold lead heart
Go to bed, the hour is late
And fall into a dreamless sleep
Feel the same when you wake
And heaven heal your faithless heart
You can only see the beauty
When you place yourself apart
All you need is a brand new start
Heaven heal, heaven heal your empty heart
Have I reached the limit of your grace?
For I am lost
And have you drawn some predetermined line
That I have crossed?
I'm sorry that you got me so used up
Believe me, there was once a time
When I still believed in love
If what I offer you is not enough
Heaven heal, heaven heal
Heaven mend your broken heart
And heaven heal your faithless heart
You can only see the beauty
When you place yourself apart
All you need is a brand new start
Heaven heal, heaven heal
Heaven heal your empty heart
Heaven heal, heaven heal
Heaven heal your faithless heart
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Like Dogs
04:27
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Riding down 395
See the steam from the city rise
All of your pearls
Before the swine again
And through the day I chased a fleeting muse
And every day I am a floating bruise
Just to wind up
In a crowded room again
And this city never gave me nothing at all
The pure of heart just die in gutters like dogs
All of the empty pageantry
The silk flowers of the philistines
Elevated to divinity on high
When all I wanted was to see something
A dull glimmer of humanity
But everybody's trying to make the scene tonight
And this city never gave me nothing at all
The pure of heart just die in gutters like dogs
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Rise
04:19
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I can transcend hell
Watch me as I rise
See the image flutter
Opening my eyes
I had lost my way
Now I'm coming back
Ran into the fog
I went on the lam
Steeped in mortal sin
Had all I could stand
Ate the blackest fruit
Rotting on the vine
Where the light of day
Would never ever shine
See your Simple Heart
Full of Love & Grace
Vision of a life
I cannot embrace
I'm a bad investment
You should know by now
Cannot shake my death wish
Throw me in the ground
Hear my ugly words
Stripped of metaphor
Raped of their beauty
Naked, unadorned
Shackled to a shadow
Body leaking light
Bleeding into darkness
Bid the world goodnight
I'll rise
I can transcend hell
Watch me as I rise
See the image flutter
Closing both my eyes
I have found my way
Never coming back
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Column Of Ash
04:44
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I'm sorry, love
I am a hollow column of ash
Burned from inside out
And crumbling to the ground
If you don't like what's wrong
Then why the hell do you ask?
I'm trying so hard just to be kind
But you drag me to your light
Like the moon pulls the tide
But I'm a stagnant ocean
And I won't go where you lead
I feel your paroxysms
Right before you sleep
And in a moment
I'll be totally alone
And in the folds of blackness
My fevered mind will creep
I've tried so hard to find a home
But you drag me to your light
Like the moon pulls the tide
But I'm a stagnant ocean
And I can't go where you lead
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Ryan Gibson Sykesville, Maryland
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