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Obsolete Sadness

by LZ

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1.
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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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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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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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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Track 1, 2, 4 produced by Spence Mills
Track 3 Produced by Sinima Beats
Track 5, 6 produced by Diamond Style Productions

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released January 15, 2016

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