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Exquisite corpses hang transfixed under fading amber rays
And parish flies with famine eyes find they've nothing left to say
Your father rode to Ragnarok with bloody hands in bleak repose
No glory crowns his hallowed brow as the jaws of Heaven close
Chimera kings, laid bare before eviscerated thrones
Seize predatory vacancies in the marrow of your bones
Distilled in silver cruciform with broken alabaster tongues
They bind the silent witness and drain conviction from their lungs
In this mutilated testament
Blunt trauma breaks the instrument
And all I want to know
Is where we go from here
To filter out the dissonance
Make sense of shattered innocence
All I want to know
Is where we go
A skeletal inheritance, profane and polished acid white
Dances out of reach, ahead of me inside my dreams tonight
No prize for Eden's bastard children, all that remains to do is try
To find the meaning in the misdirect and the light where shadows lie
In this mutilated testament
Blunt trauma breaks the instrument
And all I want to know
Is where we go from here
To filter out the dissonance
Make sense of shattered innocence
All I want to know
Is where we go
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Superhero
05:20
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I am not a superhero
I only play one on TV
To lend the world some inspiration
And sell it back its self-esteem
I'll give you something to grow up with
Until you look behind the scenes
And find the secrets of my power
Are tin and polyethylene
I am not a superhero
I'm not the man up on the screen
Carving clear lines through crooked questions
With lightning fists and laser beams
I hide my fear with fog and mirrors
They make it easy to believe
But I wonder, when this costume's gone
Will you still look up to me
I am not a superhero
Though I can't say I never tried
To be the one who held the world for you
And wiped away the tears you cried
And if the act has lost its magic
And if I'm not all that you dreamed
I hope you won't forget my best attempts
And everything they used to mean
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Promised Land
04:35
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What to do with this unrelenting feeling of urgency
What to say when the crack of a gun splits the night
Waking you up from sweet dreams to a fear that's festering
To the slow march of madness, to the call to take flight
Pack your bags, turn the lights off, we won't be back any time soon
In darkness we take the way travelled by few
Slowly the rain falls and leaves the road ahead of us glistening
But far brighter is the hope of a new life for you
So follow me for one more mile
I'll sing for you and wear a smile
Tell you stories under starlight of the promised land
And as we walk I'll always hold your little hand
Don't look back and don't slow down
As we pass through every godforsaken town
We'll make it to a place where you can grow in peace
Away from blood that runs in broken city streets
I'll lie awake to watch over you keeping a steady eye
I'll go without when the rations are running low
I'll be prepared if there's danger out on the horizon
Believe me when I say that you'll be the last one to know
I'll carry you on my shoulders if your feet can take no more
When the night is too cold, I'll build us a fire
All that it takes is your face to bring courage and strength to me
When my will and my body are beginning to tire
So follow me for one more mile
I'll sing for you and wear a smile
Tell you stories under starlight of the promised land
And as we walk I'll always hold your little hand
Don't look back and don't slow down
As we pass through every godforsaken town
We'll make it to a place where you can grow in peace
Away from blood that runs in broken city streets
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Here I am, Goddamn
Unnamed, unclaimed and indistinguished
Shifted, sifted with the tide
My heart is gone, my hope extinguished
They say that water has no memory
No form, no final resting place
And I'm the unforgiving truth
Abandoned, long forgotten and far from grace
All I was has been erased
All I was has been erased
I feel no love, I have no face
All I was has been erased
Here I am, Goddamn
Pale foam that rides the crest of errant waves
And though I've tried to trade a hundred lives for mine
It seems I can't be saved
All I was has been erased
All I was has been erased
Someone come on down and take my place
All I was has been erased
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Stars Apart
08:57
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We sold our insecurities
And took a chance to dance on borrowed time
Embracing the absurdity
Convinced that we'd pull off the perfect crime
And you can blame it on a difference of design
Or the weight of words that can't be left behind
Lovely though the story goes
It's harder on the heart than in the mind
I'd love to see your face
But you're out among the stars, gone without a trace
My miracle misplaced
There's a void I've come to know, vast as outer space
A change of sound and scenery
Another year to swallow my regrets
To dream of when you needed me
Pretending that I wish I could forget
The way it felt when the pieces seemed to fit
The words we carved in stone, the fires that we lit
Funny how I think about you now
More than I think I can admit
I'd love to see your face
But you're out among the stars, gone without a trace
My miracle misplaced
There's a void I've come to know, vast as outer space
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Vigil
03:30
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The house where you live
Is high on a hill
And when the black clouds gather 'round
As they sometimes will
The time-worn path between your door and mine
Becomes so dark and difficult to find
But you're on my mind
I imagine you there
All the terror and tension
Coming down, down, down
In a flood of the unknown and unmentioned
You brace against a wind that screams and sighs
And count the hours 'till the storm subsides
And I can only sympathize
If I could stop the rain
If I could set you free
I'd do everything I can
I'd like to think you'd do the same for me
So keeping vigil 'till color cracks the shrouded sky
I'll light a lamp and keep a watchful eye
I'm standing by
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Shelter me
Shield my eyes
So I can't see
The falling skies
I guess it's time
To reassess our lives
To make our peace
And bury our beloved paradigm
The best that we can do is laugh
And take care of each other
Take care of each other
Until the unthinkable has passed
Take care of each other
Take care of each other
Brace yourselves
The tower's coming down
The spell
Is breaking now
Uncertainty
Eclipses and engulfs
All that we once believed
To be as sure as sunrise
Time will tell
The best that we can do is laugh
And take care of each other
Take care of each other
Until the unthinkable has passed
Take care of each other
Take care of each other
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Synthy, cinematic prog-punk from Atlanta
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