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The Shape
02:17
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Half hearted hurt never sounded so strong
With an end in sight and farewells said so well
Hanging by a thread never felt so wrong
Never’s never permanent with such a truth left to tell
Forever carries so much weight with excuses so weak
Choke to death on a secret and selling yourself oh so desperate
Sold short by a pathetic retort and all that lies behind your eyes
Corpses would curse if you knew how to hear how we’re losing all that’s left
Simple insincerity at the core of the gesture, last words and a dying breath
Forget all that we’ve fought for when our homes have lost their warmth
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Mx Death
01:25
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When there’s celebration, rejoicing in the streets
That’s where you’re bound to find me
An untouched love and an ungloved touch
An uprising around us and a cure released
So many so over exploring the great indoors
Emerging one year older, expecting so much more
The 11th hour is hanging over head
It's a new dawn but don’t quote me
Doesn’t mean that it’s not true, just because it’s not been said
Make due with what came true in dreams
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Earth Girls
00:57
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We think we're all stars of our own stories
Dance in the spotlight of our borrowed time
Shape all we see through faith and belief
Here only we can cross our own lines
Dare to deviate past being redeemed
In your own time, match it up with mine
Aall in your head, all as it should be
Kill us with kindness, lack of empathy
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Undead Sailor
02:06
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Burst into tears or burst into flames
Either way we self-immolate
We'll get to sleep when they're all dead
The night it all goes dark for them
A self-fulfilling prophecy
Making a killing on your misery
Our nightime's one hell of a drug
Bringing you down as fast as you come up
The value of all you'd throw away
A hole in your heart in the shape of your shame
Live to be seen on the scene
Thrive under fire just to retreat
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The Pledge
02:29
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Take one, leave some for the next
More than just your mess
Money where your mouth is, make a sacrifice
Some selflessness would suffice
Undone by an inner core
A small circle wants only more
No fun, life's become a chore
Only the lonely know the score
Stand your ground or take a knee
Be the sound
Jackboots of law and disease
Get loud
Make yourself all you wish to be
Be their hell
Lose all anyone would want
Break down
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Oxblood
03:11
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Paralysed by staring eyes all focused on you
Wonder if attention's true
Empathise with the other side, do what you will do
Today you are what's new
Hypothesise or generalise what we think's the truth
Cashing in your dues
Victimised and once chastised by high hopes for your youth
Silence save for a simple tune
Keep this to yourself, it's written in our fates
It's the hand that we'll be dealt
Condemned to a new hell, an unexciting end of days
Sick without a soul to tell
Dissent under your breath, we've lived what was onto what's next
For results that have no depth
Long live those long suffering, we won't remember them
They warned of what we're living in
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Alas
01:58
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Too far out of reach, too close to ignore
Everything broke this year
Thinking it's grief that we're all feeling
Sadness on the edge of tears
We're all rolling down too far to fight
Nothing will change this year
Sit and watch the sky between day and night
And elements respected and feared
A promise that was never kept
We were just mislead
Into thinking that we were seeing an end
Or a sign being sent
Everything we hoped wouldn't come to pass
Happened and it brought us here
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Shinkansen
02:50
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Now we have have external forces to blame
Deep in you no guts to speak of
Can't admit you're heartless without shame
All that potential, you couldn't learn to love
Fight your way out of failing, leave by making your own way out
Trade your past away for a new tomorrow living in the now
Understand we're under a dark hand
Another life we would have learned to fight
More to show than lost causes and fuck you songs,
Speak from a living hell born from all that we got wrong
Arms outstretched just flailing, writhing in self doubt
Promised it would be smooth sailing, once you've managed to leave the house
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Autoerotica
01:50
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Bloody flags on body bags if this was more than a war on words
We're just waving plastic swords in the theatre of the absurd
Place your head firmly between your legs and kiss your ass goodbye
There's a test you haven't prepared for when you're done falling from the sky
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Cancel Cult
01:23
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At this point it all just seems
You've gone too far to be redeemed
You'll never work in this here town,
Or live long enough to live this down
Changing tastes, good taste has changed,
all that you work for is doomed
Your wares no longer interest us
should have learned to read the room
An entire horde is waiting in the wings
Keepers at the gate for standards of the community
Don't put on the people, to keep you on the stage
In an empty room, there's an act that hasn't aged
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