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If You're Feeling Down
04:27
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I'm in...
love
the first words of a sentence that I've never said
use a thread to tie the parts of a broken heart that never mends
as I've bled I dread the whole process, watch it till it ends
If it ends to begin then when did I lose my innocence?
bend but never break, brake but still collide
I've seen the world spin out of control we all fall inside
then pretend like this is what we meant all along
we all seem to fall then claim this is where we belong
I'm back from the bottom with my heart on my sleeve
while my veins and arteries bleed with no way to impede
I see it rain from me, till it seems to fill up thee entire sea
try to part it, but my heart is, still a critical piece
an illiterate read, I cling to this language of love
freed from the ball and chain all the same living is not enough
would I rather be bound or free, accompanied or all alone
all the thrones and all the hopes of love something i do not know
hook:
broken hearts in the building right now
put your hands in the air if you're feeling down
I can't explain an emotion that I've never felt
can't tell the difference between the ocean and a dry well
I fell so hard that I got scrapes on my hands and knees
start to wonder if my heart is really even a part of me
hard to see when the dark encircles like a pack of wolves
odyssey but I can hear the howl echo through the woods
I can see the glint of the fangs as they come in to gore
some scars never heal, heart all ripped and torn
heart on my sleeve something i shoulda never worn
was this the plan set out for me before i was born?
crying out to God, like can you hear me through this storm
I gave my everything and it felt like nothing, I was never warned
that the cold in me could be used to turn away the warm
now I war in the core, fatalities all I ever score
they say if you die for true love you've been martyred
I never knew true love i'm still back where i started
They keep telling me i'm a victim of jealousy
but wont tell me why the hell no one is jealous of me
I broke from the jail just to be free
but freely express that I can't be me
so what you see isn't what you get
you understand but don't get it
what's the plan? I can't grip it
my fingers missing the conviction,
listen, this is what I'm trying to say
what I write down everyday
laconic, I'm never on display
but I've got to fight got to find a way
my mind is a weight, try to pull it towards the exit
look forward to when my past doesn't seem so misdirected
heard that to love is to let go, but I never let it
heard you say "I love you, say it back",
but i never said it.
(and i regret it)
broken hearts in the building right now
may not know what love is but we gonna find out
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2. |
Please, Don't Run Away
03:47
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Lyrics:
Yeah, can you see the light?
My cities so pretty when the lights start dimming,
wheels start spinning and my head starts swimming,
false hope grinning and my heart stops beating,
lost in this life and I'm still not winning...
please don't run away
please don't run away
Please don't run away
stay right here..
yeah,
you should see me in my room when that bass hits
alone in the gloom of my basement afraid to face it
with raised fist, banging words forming verses to elation
just to erase it and chase it fit my patterns to their patience
mold my life to fit the lameness society never changing
engaging compositions, is this just entertainment?
I am a stranger in every room I enter, I am the oddity
hot commodity for camaraderie, it seems odd to me
that all we see is casualties but we disregard them casually
reach out your hand to me and challenge me to stop panicking
it's happening and capturing my ambition, but your grip is
slippin through my fingers and I'm losing your attention!
it's like your insistent on going, on blowing this mission,
on division, on fraction, still relaxing your clench when
suddenly it's gone and I find myself falling through emptiness,
and I wake up from this dream screaming...
not this again.
Just a hopeless romantic in some nikes and a snapback
on a back path with a backpack, praying that i snap back
to my past plans but I back track to the place that I was back at
still running after my dreams, gasping, I'm asthmatic
I inhale but still fail it feels like I'm in hell
Exhale but still trail, ex out the details
street lights blink by like a life that we despise
there's look in her eye's that she can't disguise
I said without your balance I always fall
hope is like a line, but you dropped my call
all these emotions that i hide might bring me to a halt
it still haunts my dreams at night but it's not your fault
it's mine, every time i memorize these lines but it's false
maybe someday we can dance through heavens halls..
but the way you look at me says there's no chance at all.
When you try, why's it got to hurt so bad?
when you try, why's it got to hurt so bad?
please don't run away, there's so much more to say than i have said
I never said it but i thought it and it's all in my head
I don't know why i'm laying down this isn't even my bed
read somewhere if you're ill prepared for death
then you're as good as dead
but maybe i'm crazy maybe I'm saying words i never meant,
maybe the world isn't spinning maybe time stopped and we get
just another moment and i can convince you about what you forget.
oh what you forget.
but i can't stop the worlds revolving or do all the problem solving,
solving problems never been my greatest calling,
but i'm doing my best
you ignored every word that I ever said!
I haven't rested since you captured me
now it's breaking down and fracturing
all i know is if you run away youll never see the masterpiece
I see you falling and fading now my memory has stranded me
like it was all a fantasy, please, NOT ANOTHER CASUALTY
Don't Run Away
Please.
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Lyrics:
You put my finger on the trigger of an automatic weapon
my feet planted in hell while the branches reach for heaven
absent in the present while my presence searches for relevance
beauty's in the eye of the beholder, and you were elegant
I tell of it as if this all happened so long ago,
memories ricochet off of these piano notes
astonishing how quickly it can all turn to nostalgia
They'll wrap you up in linen before you realize you're in bondage
a pharaohs carcass still decays inside a pyramid
entangled by everything that ever had worth to him
and now here you are, lying right next to me
your face towards my face and I feel like a king
maybe tonight we'll lie together, die together
in the morning if we resurrect, we'll rise together
I treasure what I have now, from my tomb it can't be taken
but if i close my eye's tonight i might never awaken
hook:
Nothing is forever
When you're all alone
Nothing is for real
if you don't know yourself
nothing makes it better
When you're all alone
Nobody by your side on a cold throne
and why rule the world if your all alone
Can't claim to be a King when you don't know yourself
I'm the king over nothing If I rule alone
Nobody by my side on a Cold Throne
and the world is full of beautiful people
but beautiful people can be full of unequaled evil
I seriously doubt the devil ever spends his time on me
I can trick myself well enough without his deceit
she says she prays, but doesn't really believe
I believe but I don't pray, so I don't achieve
any of these goals or high standards that I set out with
I was trapped inside the callous crimes of cowards looking for passions
i've been masking all my inactions by focusing on the distractions
while the ashes of past disasters flashes around me without impacting
You could learn from your mistakes or just continue to make the same
mistakes that you've always made repeat again till you go insane
and I am stuck in that cycle just fighting for survival
If life has trials then I've been tried and tried again, not in denial
i'm not a lover or a fighter, struck with the venom of the viper
and the poison that's within me doesn't subside when I'm beside her
I heard that chivalry died with a knife in its back
alone in my zone with no hope in this glass
born a prince in a land where the sun never sets
like a dragon when I'm packing the scent of smoke on my breath
I thought you made the Impossible possible
I thought you made the illogical logical
I thought this maze was the opposite of an obstacle
but the options show that i lost my soul and i dont know what I lost it for
feel like i've been on this throne for a millennium
sold my soul for any sum to the pretty face of anyone
parading through the darkness on a chariot of haste
and you could be my date in a life full of waste
wait...
nothing is forever
nothing is for real
nothing makes it better
and nothing ever will
and why rule the world if your all alone
Can't claim to be a King when you don't know yourself
I'm the king over nothing If I rule alone
Nobody by my side on a Cold Throne
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4. |
The Prodigal's Poem
04:34
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Lyrics:
Yeah, 24 hours in a day
Not enough time to grow or change
7 days make up a week
not enough time to gain strength, stay weak
365 in a year
not enough time to get courage to drown fear
started from the bottom now we here
the future is a fear and the bottoms still near
yeah
when it all starts to fall through the cracks
I start to wonder where my hope went, everything is bad
at what point do we become scumbags
middle finger up in the air like forget that
remember as a kid all the dreams that you had
and you gave up on all that just to get in a girls pants
she used to sell lemonade at a stand
now she gives herself for free and you feel like the man
It's like a everyone's got on a mask
and the eye's dont answer the questions we're afraid to ask
like how did it all happen, ..don't answer
pull away like honesty is a cancer
hide it all away like it really doesn't matter
keep being someone else and eventually it'll transfer
but we never notice the pattern
we climb to the top but we on the wrong ladder
and i took step after step with no regard to where they lead
everybody is the same in a different way we need
self obsessed with regrets, interests and greed
water the seeds but forget to rip out the weeds
the coolest venues turned us all into
future dead beat dads, drop outs, loose screws,
dont end up on the news we end up with a noose
tied around our knecks left with no choices to choose
I just want to go back home.
who can help us when we're all alone
I just want to go back home
Who can help us when we're all alone
I just want to go back home
my life's the opposite of what I dreamed
everything i want is nothing i need
who can help us when we're all alone
i just want to feel like i'm not on my own
scars cover my body but i never learned a thing
used to dream of a life that wouldn't cause any pain
I only care for myself now filled with this shame
I never change, this is my life, everything I've gave
transformed like a butterfly, stings like a bumblebee
eventually to go back to nothing is no longer humbling
stumbling through this course, obstacles and swords
stabbing in the back, back track with no remorse
i remember late night with the friends
I wonder where they all went, how it all ends
I did a lot more than burn the bridge
I took the houses and streets, the whole village
it's like my life is pretend
I wake up, go through the motions, then do it all again
I used to want to make amends
now i dont need to forgive, just to forget
I just want to go back home.
who can help us when we're all alone
I just want to go back home
who can help us when we're all alone
I just want to go back home
my life's the opposite of what I dreamed
everything i want is nothing i need
who can help us when we're all alone
i just want to feel like i'm not on my own
it's the final countdown, bout to take off
got no more time for myself, such a lost cause
i'm lost cause there's no one who could hold on
the path wasn't marked out so I must've walked off
I here there's still a chance, I don't know how
i heard rumors of someone who takes the lost makes them found
heard of sea of grace that can pull deep down
and if you dive to the depths you'll discover how to drown
it sounds good, probably not for me
I gave me these chains i could never be free
I could never be me without this encumbrance
this is who i am now, lost and loveless
how could you show me love in abundance?
take my burdens on your shoulders like they are nothin'
i've struggled my whole life with the fact that i'm me
and the fact that you love it, is hard to believe
Lord, I think you may be everything i need
but to let all this other stuff go i can't achieve
you say you'll take it, the weight on your back breaks it
in my fakeness i was your favorite, show me what grace is
you can help us when we're all alone
I think it's time to go back home
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Lyrics:
If I could play you the soundtrack to the last few years
maybe you'd relate to the anguish, and we could vanquish theses fears
and I'm back where I started, started where I finish
blind, def, mute I don't feel with these senses
words that are spoken all broken and senseless
image in the mirror just a token of my nemesis
my nemesis is this, cant pretend I dont know what it is ,
like every light is growing dim like every light has been eclipsed
I can't express this since I'm only aggravated, agitated
sat and waited ever fading ever growing thin
Remember, we used to ride our bikes through swanson park
opposite of gotham when the sun set starts
dark knight in the mask but don't forget who you are
do you ever wonder who beats on the trap set of your heart?
you aren't trapped yet get back up you've made it this far
Don't get lost down here on earth because you mapped out the stars
they told me shoot for the stars never aim for anything lesser
but I aim for something better when they say settle I say never
and the days are just as dark as the nightmares that keep us screaming
it's easier to fade away and just say I'm done with dreaming
and all i ever wanted never added up to what I needed
but i've seen expectations exceeded even when i feel defeated
and that sounds like the soundtrack to the last few years
I ain't shaken, i ain't taken, I awaken to my fate and I conquer these fears
(Verse 2 J.Murph)
it was...
Back in the beginning, before the friends did drugs
and the girls verse the world and it all became corrupt
I lit a match and hoped to touch the world and blow it up
break the wrist to take the grip from the devils clutch
don't let them distract you, keep your focus
they'll watch you like a hawk to make sure your eyes never open
we all want to be the hero but we end up as the villain
now the children are all killin so numb to these feelings
listen
we never grew up with the stress of taking bullets to chest
now we misplace our belts like we wear our pants around are necks
trying to relate to why my generation is so depressed
and how our meaningless actions lead to so many regrets
I guess we're just upset that our actions didn't lead to immortality
immortal plans but mortal mans life span is just a battle scene
now we see the person in the mirror to be the enemy
as we break every word of encouragement down to ambiguity
all the thoughts on my mind that they label illicit
i consider a privilege to break out a mental detention
blind, def, mute, now my feelings are senseless
now back where I started, started where I finish
But I won't end it there if you dont end it here
if you take a second just to listen just to lend me your ear
been playing the same soundtrack for the last few years
it's time to conquer this anguish time vanquish these fears
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6. |
Obsolete Sadness
04:13
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Lyrics:
Yeah,
can you see the light?
Yeah,
I can see the light..
Can you imagine,
a life without sadness?
Maybe we're obsolete
is there a point to you or me?
Can you imagine, a life without sadness?
Saved from hell sometime in 1995
With me knees creating craters beside my bedside
My fingers intertwined like I was gripping a lifeline
20 years later I'm still searching to clear my mind
Assured that some words could swerve me from obscure
Punishment, running sprints as life passes in a blur
Been deterred and referred, seduced and insured
People will force their beliefs down your throats and believe their ways pure
If there was a pill that you could take to make your way to heavens porch
They'd probably prescribe another kind and claim it's fate's the same course
We're addicted to the idea that were good enough in our core
All we need is a little more time to heal all of our sores
But we are rotten to the bottom and there isn't any cure
If the world was empty of all evil there wouldn't be a person on the earth
For righteousness I will scour I will seek it I will search
Live every night like when I saw the light in 1995.
maybe we're obsolete
is there a point to you or me?
can you imagine..
a life without sadness?
can you imagine
like john lennon in '71?
I can only imagine
me and my imagination as one,
Mercy Me if i see without the rays of the sun
surely love is the antidote for the evil that has constantly won
is this sadness that has been ripping our hearts down to shreds
just forbearance for the conversion that lies just a head?
she took her head in her hands with a bruise on her eyes
and said if I'm already dead then what is this life
he took a knife from his pocket holding a broken heart locket
and said all parts of my existence are puzzle piece problems
and he wrote on his wrist the only way he knew how to solve them
a list of reasons why the pain was more than a strain he was caught in
and we're all dealing with this hurt, nobody's exempt
why go through hell if there's no heaven, why even exist?
If God is just a facade in the midst of this existence
Then sadness is hopeless there's no other way to spin it.
but he isn't.
Jesus, they probably already skipped this song
Jesus, they might not even have clicked at all
Jesus, why do I ignore you when I fall
Jesus, my life is just an empty vault
Jesus, no combination can open what I lost
Jesus, my worth was lost in my faults
Jesus, I don't know if they know you or pretend to
the worst part of it all is that I pretend too
Jesus, why can't we all see it
Jesus, how can I help them believe in
Jesus, I can see the despair in their eyes
like a window to the soul they cant hide behind
but you offer a hope that I cannot deny
without you there's no life we're just empty inside
I imagined a life with sadness that vanished
and saw joy dry up like water in a famine
you're the only hope for them and youre the only hope for me
the only worth to our sadness is when it's being redeemed
said you're the only hope for them and you're the only hope for me
only you can make it known that we are not obsolete
I am not obsolete
and sadness has no hold on me!
I am not obsolete!
i am being redeemed!
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