Brendan - Wasted (Black Flag cover)

Brendan - Hybrid Moments (Misfits cover)

I Dont Wanna Hear It (Minor Threat cover)

Torn My Way

tension when i live
tension when i die
tension when i look up to the sky
tension

disaffected and willing to please - tension

is this a joke?
is that a joke?
i think it's gotta be a joke 
because if you were serious
you would be backing out
of everything that we've ever shared
she'd said 'she won't forget the good times we had'
but it's not healthy to keep holding my hand
so i slept beside her one last night
took a picture of her sleeping needed flash cause there was no light
she almost woke up
and she needed her sleep
she needed to go out and live her life without me

is that a joke?

hurry it up
ain't got all day
pick up the
pace of your way

the hurrier i go
the behinder i get
but as long i keep moving
i'll never be upset
slow and steady wins the race
but it's a race with you

The Hurrier I Go

I can't be around people
Because they aren't you
Anyone I'm around
I wish they were you
So I sit here alone
In my room

Even when I'm with others
I still feel alone
I eat when I'm hungry
But I'm never full
I look in the mirror
But it's always empty

When you were with me
I was stronger than myself
Took away my doubts
And evened me out
Now that you've left me
I'll never feel whole

To suffer is human
You reached in my soul
I long for your presence
The palm of your hand
If you asked me the question
I'd bare it again

I Can't Be Around People

The Scribe Stood Upon A Pulpit Of Wood

you reap what you sow
as the Hounds of Tindalos
the mirror world
found within us

you are what you fear
as the crimes set against
the hatred of
the ones unclear

a sower went out to sow
planted seeds to watch them grow
felt that life was mystical
unusual yet beautiful

A Sower Went Out To Sow

same time last year
felt a hole in my chest
a year before that
was close to when we met

and it's almost Halloween
you know what that means?
means i'll remember
one particular Halloween
not any before or after
really matter
like that one
one particular. . . one
Halloween

i fear years will go by
and we'll become older
i'll remember her
but she'll be happier with someone else

and it's almost Halloween
you know what that means?
means i'll remember
one particular Halloween
not any before or after
really matter
like that one
one particular. . . one
Halloween

Its Almost Halloween

Its Almost Halloween II

every day 
i make the same mistake
try to find the words to say
when they really don't exist

every way
i listen to your heart beat
try to find the pattern to
why it is i love you

keep making
the same mistake
keep making 
the same mistake

every day
you make the same mistake
try to see the end of it
when there really isn't one

every way
you listen to me breath
try to find the pattern
to this reality. . .

The Same Mistake

i always knew 
i was meant for something
more than
this life

i always knew
i would reach above
the stars 
at night

i always knew
i was trapped inside
the prison of
my mind

i always knew
i would reach below
and pull up
nothing

I Always Knew

from this distance every face looks like the face you want to see
the shapes they change as the figure closes with your technique
formless at once becomes a form distinct from any others
placed a grain of sand upon the hourglass smashed at your feet
as if that single grain could stand out from the rest
you lose it once and for all and you lay down in defeat. . .
lingering shapes in the distance. . .
suspected to be something they aren't. . .
lingering shapes in the distance. . .
keep my guessing while i proceed. . .

Lingering Shapes In The Distance

EVEN THE SHADOWS ROT - I Dont Exist Just To Validate You

EVEN THE SHADOWS ROT - Theres Plenty More Flesh To Wound

i fell into a lullaby
of sleepless nights
and wakeless days

i fell into a soliloquy
of endless ways
forever change

but under my skin i feel
lays dormant - my sacred being
lingers within it's real
eyes swollen - my hatred seized

under the weight of everything
i've toppled under it's strength
for the end is but beginning
when the sun starts the day

Tarkovsky - Solating

EVEN THE SHADOWS ROT - Lost Carcosa

Mudita - Goldilocks

Like An Alien

GERMANIC ROOTS - Do You Remember?

i told myself
this is the last time 
i hold myself back
for the last time

i hold onto
anything i can

Sadness Prevails - Subtle Mr. Garrick

and you told me there was
nothing i could do
i can't change your mind
it's a fruitless pursuit
and then they lie on their backs
and look up at the sky
try and make sense of what is up
while the clouds drift by

Sadness Prevails - Sentence Fragments

and i 
look into the eyes 
of the one i once loved
and i can tell she's not the same

she's got the same face
and the same name
and assures me that she cares the same

but something still, is different deep down
oh something still, is different somehow

but something still, is different deep down
oh something still, is different somehow

-----
and that's the truth
people change
they might not even realize it themselves
how can they admit it
when they don't know it themselves?


and yet the thing that remains is the sun which rises
it doesn't make it easier, but it's dependable
in a way that i can rely on
unlike every human being on this Earth

took the backseat on the trip out of town
never got my license, i'm kind of lazy like that
but if i had my choice i'd bike everywhere
im not a fan of these gas chuggers everywhere


-----
and that's the truth
people change
they might not even realize it themselves
how can they admit it
when they don't know it themselves?


but before and after i taught myself a lesson
i kept going back to that pit of snakes
in hopes that something would change
but all i got was my face rearranged

Sadness Prevails - Sullen Folly

GERMANIC ROOTS - Batcave Kill Terms - III

you gotta cut deeper
if you wanna get to the bone
you gotta cut deeper
to prove you were from a broken home

and when the flesh gets torn
inside the blood is warm
born(worn) into a feeling
staring at the ceiling

Token Bad Guy - Cut Deeper

Purple Noise - Seeing  Patterns That Aren't There

Germanic Roots - Darkened Sanctuary

Token Bad Guy - Butterflake

Token Bad Guy - Nothing Left

holding onto anything to grab when we fall
gnawing at the questions that we ask the crystal ball

Token Bad Guy - Hot Knife

But I am here chiseling in the work shed 
Trying to make a statue of your head
Because I miss your face most of all
That tower we built did fall

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