1. |
Trust (Acoustic)
04:34
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If you saw the ghosts I see
When I sleep you’d leave too
Yeah you’d claw your way out
You’d grow fangs
You’d bite, you’d rip
You’d tear your way gone
Been too long
There’s no warmth
Feel no pulse
There’s nothing left for me here
So let me go
Let me go
If you saw
What I’ve seen
You’d know what I mean
If you believe in more
Then baby believe me
More is real, you aint crazy
Don’t sleep on that dream
This can’t go on
I felt it well up
The wrath in my blood
Been a ghost of a friend, brother, son
Watched her go
The only girl that I’ve ever loved
Heard the call, gave it all
Now you’re telling me
I gotta wait here
Yeah there’s nothing left for me here
So let me go
This can’t go on
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I am not adornments
Joined on new walls
I am torn muscle
I am budding bruise
The good pain
While the deeper hurt
Are these truths
I am not a bridge
No I am not
two ends
Not two ends that meet to make one
I am white water
I am awe at all angles
oh, I am not held hands
I’m not making plans
No, I’m not your man
I’m a goddamn conduit
Girl, I’m piss and vinegar
I am white water
I am awe at all angles
Awe at all angles
Courting over dinner
And a bottle of wine
I said “You look real pretty
And your haircut’s nice”
For christ’s sake
This is not living
It's killing time
My body’s in the cage
But I’m in the sky
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3. |
Six of Swords
05:13
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If I defile everything
she touched
Oh sweet Mercy, would that be enough?
Piss on ground left holy
Spit and bile hold me up
This is no way to live
I could cut
But it wouldn't do a goddamn thing
With how Time defiles
All my open cuts
Foe turned Mercy
To swallow you up
Though it may erode me
It'll wash away your memory
In a flood of violent grief
I need but keep my head above
To survive and live free
I've been digging in the same cuts
Sifting through the same blood
Just dying to bleed
I've been hissing with a vile tongue
Blowing out these wild lungs
Just trying to breathe
Made my way fighting high waves
And ever have I endured
Earned my spurs in tides turned
And ever daring True North
Six swords no longer needed
Throw them overboard
Tribute turbulent seas
With eyes on the shore
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First sworn miles
Met with oaths to more yet
Forever named, each step
Introduces the next
And how nothing is
That is not both
Kiss and maim
Reap and sow
This began long before I’d known
I killed what I called home
To make damn clear
That I was worth my words
And that they are something living
Not just scratches on page
Not just promises made
They are the beast that I ride
Number of times
I tried to tell them
Number of times
I saw the fear in their eyes
Number of times
I swore before great sights
The heights I’d climb
Number of times
I washed my hands
Of that evil
Number of times
I’ve said this all before
Old blood in new veins
Its sick if it stays
Where it no longer lives
Oh, how it fights to not die
But it did and so it needs to
Motionless in sky
Emotionless, it hides
And I ain't gonna die like that
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5. |
Through Ash (Acoustic)
05:19
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(The Man speaks)
The burning lumber spits embers
As if to say
Let’s get out of this fucking pit
Pining for the surprise
Of pale giants miles off
The quiet churn of flame
A sound somewhere between
A whisper and a distant roar
I’ve always wanted that warmth
But if that’s the cost
Love, forgive me for saying this
But I’ll pay it
Please don’t ask me to
Because I will
(The Fire speaks)
Feed me your wounds
Feed me your past
And I shall burn this cage
That ye may stand
Leave it all behind
(The Man speaks) I obliged
In the blaze
I found my tears
But The Fire dried
Them up and warmed my heart
In that moment I was my name
The Fire
spoke: I need you my witness
Showed me a joyous ocean
And how I am to lift it
Said “Chin up. Don’t quit, kid”
Then we laughed in rhythm
The going gets tough
Lay my fear in a bed of broken chains
Sing Victory by day
Then night falls
To a bed of knives I crawl
And I let the demons hurt me
But I tell them
Feed me your wounds
Feed me your past
And I shall burn this cage
That we may stand
In the purr and crackling
I heard The Blaze
Speak my name
And It spoke my words
As It said
“Leave it all behind”
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Moon Tooth
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