Silver Cord

One by one they all fall down
Laid around me
Crumbling down to the ground
Suffocating
Is there anyone around
Can you hear me?
I'm crying out without a sound
So frustrating

I'm needing you
By my side
I've got nowhere left to hide
It's killing me
This damn disease
And can't you see there's a reason why
I'm all alone
I've always been
I'd never known love would pass me by
This isn't fair
And who will care
When I've said my last goodbye

One by one the pictures fade
Faces turn to grey
After all the times gone by
Memories erased
There's no point to question why
No more time to waste
There's no reason to deny
It's all been replaced

I'm needing you
By my side
I've got nowhere left to hide
It's killing me
This damn disease
And can't you see there's a reason why
I'm all alone
I've always been
I'd never known love would pass me by
This isn't fair
And who will care
When I've said my last goodbye

When I've said my last goodbye
When I've said my last goodbye
When I've said my last goodbye
When I've said my last goodbye

I'm needing you
By my side
I've got nowhere left to hide
It's killing me
This damn disease
And can't you see there's a reason why
I'm all alone
I've always been
I'd never known love would pass me by
This isn't fair
And who will care
When I've said my last goodbye

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My Last Goodbye

Why waste my time dispelling illusions
Why spend my time lost in your confusion
I won't let your mind divide and confuse me
I won't let your mind manipulate and use me
Why waste my time dispelling illusions
Why spend my time lost in your confusion
I won't let your mind divide and confuse me
I won't let your mind manipulate and use me

Walk on this path alone
In solitude - gratitude I feel
No negativity to cloud my mind
No pearls to be cast before the swine
Walk on to the light I know
Will lead me home - to where I belong
No anonymity to hide behind
No animosity will infect my mind

Why waste my time dispelling illusions
Why spend my time lost in your confusion
I won't let your mind divide and confuse me
I won't let your mind manipulate and use me
Why waste my time dispelling illusions
Why spend my time lost in your confusion
I won't let your mind divide and confuse me
I won't let your mind manipulate and use me

Leave you all far behind
In solitude - to discover what is real
Not wasting any more of my own time
Not leading you to what you refuse to find
Leave you right where you belong
Lost in the dark - a shackle on your head
No remorse for the willfully ignorant
No remorse - no remorse

Why waste my time dispelling illusions
Why spend my time lost in your confusion
I won't let your mind divide and confuse me
I won't let your mind manipulate and use me
Why waste my time dispelling illusions
Why spend my time lost in your confusion
I won't let your mind divide and confuse me
I won't let your mind manipulate and use me

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Let It Go

When we were sleeping
We couldn't remember
Dampened our temper

When we were sleeping
They found a solution
Without retribution

When we were sleeping
Deployed the agenda
To make us surrender

When we were sleeping
Became the pretenders
Now and forever

Turn a page in the book of time
Center stage in the play of mind
Shine a dim ray of amber light
Into the night, our ever lasting plight
Quell the rage in the modern times
Pacified as we tow the lines
Blind to lies that keep us confined
Out of sight, out of mind

When we were sleeping
We could have been healing
The truth is revealing

When we were sleeping
The voice of reason
Was labeled treason

When we were sleeping
Lost in the dreaming
Silently screaming

When we were sleeping
They had us believing
Our lives had a meaning

Turn a page in the book of time
Center stage in the play of mind
Shine a dim ray of amber light
Into the night, our ever lasting plight
Quell the rage in the modern times
Pacified as we tow the lines
Blind to lies that keep us confined
Out of sight, out of mind

Turn the clock back to a time
When humanity dared to find
The truth hidden among all the lies
Into the night, we shined our golden light
Free from every philosophy
Divisive religious theosophy
A golden age of autonomy
Out of Sight, out of mind

Turn a page in the book of time
Center stage in the play of mind
Shine a dim ray of amber light
Into the night, our ever lasting plight
Quell the rage in the modern times
Pacified as we tow the lines
Blind to lies that keep us confined
Out of sight, out of mind

Out of sight, out of mind
Out of sight, out of mind
Out of sight, out of mind
Out of sight, out of mind
Out of sight, out of mind
Out of sight, out of mind

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When We Were Sleeping

Sitting all alone in a crowded room
I think about the days that I spent with you
I see your smile and I hear your laughter
I feel the moment I've been chasing after
It disappears
Before my eyes
And now I fear
This is goodbye
The time we had
Is over now
The love we shared
Is gone somehow

I hold you in my arms
I feel your heart beat next to mine
This moment won't last long
I know your heart is not like mine
Feels like we're living in different worlds
Feels like we're galaxies apart
I hold you in my arms
But I know
A ghost is all you are

Calling out to the universe
I beg for clarity
But all I ever hear is an echo
Calling back to me
It beckons me
It calls my name
The gravity
It pulls me in
I realize
It's just a game
I'm meant to lose
I'll never win

I hold you in my arms
I feel your heart beat next to mine
This moment won't last long
I know your heart is not like mine
Feels like we're living in different worlds
Feels like we're galaxies apart
I hold you in my arms
But I know
A ghost is all you are
A ghost is all you are
A ghost is all you are

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Ghost

I know it's not the way I feel that will make you move
The only thing that is real was never enough for you
You're dancing on my heart off time to a different groove
And when the music stops there's only one thing left to do
You know it's true

Press rewind
Play it back again and get it right this time
Make up your mind
Treat me like a human being just one time
And I'll be fine
Tell no lies
Sing your song of sorrow as I'm left behind
Look in my eyes
Will you be there tomorrow when the tears have dried
And I'm not fine

No, you won't
You get what you want
Treat me like an object
Will you show me respect?
No, you won't
You'll get what you want
See me as a defect
A circumstance to reject
No, you won't
Get what you want
You've made into a habit
ignoring my love
I know, you won't
Get what you want
You already had it
But it wasn't enough

Immaterial girl
Immaterial girl
Immaterial girl
Immaterial girl

I know it's not the way I feel that will make you move
The only thing that is real was never enough for you
You're dancing on my heart off time to a different groove
And when the music stops there's only one thing left to do
You know it's true

Press rewind
Play it back again and get it right this time
Make up your mind
Treat me like a human being just one time
And I'll be fine
Tell no lies
Sing your song of sorrow as I'm left behind
Look in my eyes
Will you be there tomorrow when the tears have dried
And I'm not fine

No, you won't
You get what you want
Treat me like an object
Will you show me respect?
No, you won't
You'll get what you want
See me as a defect
A circumstance to reject
No, you won't
Get what you want
You've made into a habit
ignoring my love
I know, you won't
Get what you want
You already had it
But it wasn't enough

Immaterial girl
Immaterial girl
Immaterial girl
Immaterial girl

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Immaterial

My mind was racing when it hit me in the heart in my chest
I felt it coming but now I don't think I know what is best
I question everything I thought I knew inside of my self
I find I'm feeling like I'm turning into somebody else
I don't know if I'll ever be
Right where I was before
Into the open door
I stepped inside a dream
More real than what it seemed
Am I asleep again?
Lost in my lonely head
Labyrinth of uncertainty
Liminal eternity

I've been waiting a life time for it to be my time
Will I always be
Waiting a life time for it to be my time

I've been waiting a life time for it to be my time
Will I always be
Waiting a life time for it to be my time

I hear a whisper growing louder in the back of my mind
Calling out from beyond the depths of all that I've left behind
It sounds familiar but I haven't heard it in quite some time
I recognize the voice inside me and I know it is mine
I don't know if I'll ever be
Right where I was before
Into the open door
I stepped inside a dream
More real than what it seemed
Am I asleep again?
Lost in my lonely head
Labyrinth of uncertainty
Liminal eternity

I've been waiting a life time for it to be my time
Will I always be
Waiting a life time for it to be my time

I've been waiting a life time for it to be my time
Will I always be
Waiting a life time for it to be my time

My mind was racing when it hit me in the heart in my chest
I felt it coming but now I don't think I know what is best
I question everything I thought I knew inside of my self
I find I'm feeling like I'm turning into somebody else
I don't know if I'll ever be
Right where I was before
Into the open door
I stepped inside a dream
More real than what it seemed
Am I asleep again?
Lost in my lonely head
Labyrinth of uncertainty
Liminal eternity

I've been waiting a life time for it to be my time
Will I always be
Waiting a life time for it to be my time

I've been waiting a life time for it to be my time
Will I always be
Waiting a life time for it to be my time

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Liminal

Red Light, Eagerness
The cold truth hidden in the innocence
Dark night, bitterness
Cut from the cloth of the agonist
Blue eyes, indifferent
An old soul lost in the dark abyss
Pitch black, emptiness
Swallowed by the deluge of animus

Transcendent, limitless
Born anew with an unyielding vigilance
Wide eyed, confident
Forged in the flame of abandonment
New life, shedding skin
Dead and gone, never to be seen again
Calcified, permanence
A new form shaped by irreverence

Tell me lies, tell me lies
Lull me to sleep with an alibi
Tell me lies, tell me lies
Make me believe this is paradise
Tell me lies, tell me lies
I want to be deceived and desensitized
Tell me lies, tell me lies
I need to be bereaved and anesthetized

I am ready to begin
I am ready to give in
Wonder why I feel this way
No wonder why I feel this way
I am ready for the night
I am ready for the light
Out of hope and alibis
I need you to tell me lies

Tell me lies, tell me lies
Tell me lies, tell me lies
I need you to tell me lies

Detached, weightless
Surrounded by the dark cloak of nothingness
Soft heart, inner bliss
Free from the judgment and abhorrence
Pure love, unconditional
Given to me like a god sent miracle
Patient, compassionate
The pure truth voiced by the infinite

Tell me lies, tell me lies
Lull me to sleep with an alibi
Tell me lies, tell me lies
Make me believe this is paradise
Tell me lies, tell me lies
I want to be deceived and desensitized
Tell me lies, tell me lies
I need to be bereaved and anesthetized

I am ready to begin
I am ready to give in
Wonder why I feel this way
No wonder why I feel this way
I am ready for the night
I am ready for the light
Out of hope and alibis
I need you to tell me lies

Tell me lies, tell me lies
Tell me lies, tell me lies
I need you to tell me lies

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Tell Me Lies

I watch the Moon fall down on me
I feel the pain welling up that never leaves
I saw my image in a mirror today
I hardly recognized the man staring back at me
I heard a sound in a familiar place
I found myself drifing off into fantasy
I thought I wouldn't ever feel this way
I know I'll never be the same as I used to be
As I used to be
I'll never be the same as I used to be
As I used to be
I'll never be the same as I used to be

And now I watch the night come
I feel the way I feel
And now I know it's all wrong
The way you make me feel
And now I'm feeling undone
From all the pain I feel
And now I know it's all gone
Without you, I know this can't be real


I watch the stars fall down on me
I feel the weight of the grief that never leaves
I saw your image in a picture today
I hardly recognized the girl staring back at me
I heard your voice in a different way
I found myself staring off into empty space
Vivid colors slowly fade to grey
A bird's song fades into a droning haze
A blank stare on my face
I find myself lost inside a reverie
I thought I wouldn't ever feel this way
I know I'll never be the same as I used to be
As I used to be
I'll never be the same as I used to be
As I used to be
I'll never be the same as I used to be

And now I watch the night come
I feel the way I feel
And now I know it's all wrong
The way you make me feel
And now I'm feeling undone
From all the pain I feel
And now I know it's all gone
Without you, I know this can't be real
And now I watch the night come
I feel the way I feel
And now I know it's all wrong
The way you make me feel
And now I'm feeling undone
I feel the pain I feel
And now I know it's all gone
Without you, I know this can't be real

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Without You

A purple sky above me
A ray of light to guide me
I feel it in my soul
I've found the way back home
The golden key was hiding
A secret locked inside me
The clouds part in the skies
The stars dance in my eyes

I peer into the vast abyss
I know that I was made for this
All moments now converging
The timeless truth emerging
It stares right back at me
Endless love, eternally
Waking me up from the dream
Thrust into lucidity

Caught in a tear drop in time
Slowly falling
Running down the face of God
Forever falling
Into the ocean of mind
All disolving
Becoming one again
Remembering who I am

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Exulansis

You see the hurt inside my eyes
You feel the pain from deep inside
The fleeting time it passes by
The clock strikes midnight
No point to lead me on this time
No truth to read between the lines
I know you'll leave me far behind
I know you'll leave me

And now I'm left to question why
But I don't want to
And now you're all that's on my mind
But I don't want to

Leave you in the night in a memory
Watch me suffer
Don't forget me now, I'm all alone
There's no other
Take my heart into your hands now
Hear my offer
Break my heart in two, I'm all alone
There's no other

The light ahead grows dim and I
Feel like giving up this time
Your absence weighing on my mind
My heart strikes midnight
No lesson to be learned this time
No secret left for me to find
I know you've left me far behind
I know you've left me

I know you've left me far behind
I know you've left me


And now I'm left to question why
But I don't want to
And now you're all that's on my mind
But I don't want to

Leave you in the night in a memory
Watch me suffer
Don't forget me now, I'm all alone
There's no other
Take my heart into your hands now
Hear my offer
Break my heart in two, I'm all alone
There's no other

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There's No Other

I had lost my only way
Left alone to front the blame
There you were to speak my name
A siren's call to numb the pain
So I gave myself away
And I gave into your ways
Your soft lips caressed my face
So I gave myself away
No convictions left to chase
No more dignity to claim
Your sweet kiss was all I'd taste
All my pain and greif erased

I'm floating high above the sky
On clouds of lust and lullabies
So high on dopamine tonight
Now I'm in heaven

Now I know it's all a lie
The shame I weather
Your love was never truly mine
Your game was clever
You only used me to derive
A twisted pleasure
And now I'm left without my pride
A harlot's beggar

I feel used and so betrayed
Been abused and thrown away
There you were to speak my name
And I gave into your ways
Why'd I give myself away
Why'd I give into your ways
I knew the past would haunt my days
Why'd I give myself away

Why'd I give myself away
I gave myself away

I'm sinking deep beneath the ground
On clouds of lust I choke and drown
Regret and shame consumes me now
Now where's my heaven

Now I know it's all a lie
The shame I weather
Your love was never truly mine
Your game was clever
You only used me to derive
A twisted pleasure
And now I'm left without my pride
A harlot's beggar

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Harlot

Silver Cord is a solo darkwave project. All songs are written, performed, and produced by Dustin Cox. 

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