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Approaching Winter
02:42
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Past a fold of water
the rains of March are waning
a cold wave moving
with ice along the grassfields
I miss the graying weather
Not every season brings it
Degrees falling lower in due time
a warm duvet
and frozen hands
the vapor when you breathe
the safety in an embrace
a warm duvet (a warm duvet)
and frozen hands (and frozen hands)
the vapor (the vapor)
when you breathe (when you breathe)
the safety (the safety)
in an embrace (in an embrace)
all inching closer in a gelid veil
a warm duvet (a warm duvet)
and frozen hands (and frozen hands)
the vapor (the vapor)
when you breathe (when you breathe)
the safety (the safety)
in an embrace (in an embrace)
it might snow this year (it might snow this year)
one of few things I expect (few things)
one of few things I expect (it might snow this year)
one of few things I expect (few things)
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2. |
Unempathy
03:06
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Most of my problems
lie outside me
Not many inside
might be for the best
It's hard to sympathize
with absent weaknesses
fragilities and struggles
I likely never felt
And those I surely did
have been long dead
A blessed curse
Unempathy
Thus I am distant
for I stand (mentally)
where few also stand
with no change in sight
Aloof, ignored
in true irrelevance
in a waltz of one
in self-courtship
Past pains I felt by now
have been long dead
A blessed curse
Unempathy
(Any) questions begged for (questions begged for)
(All the) desperate doubts (desperate doubts)
(Nothing) ever, ever
(seems to) resonate (resonate)
Past pains I felt by now
have been long dead
A blessed curse
Unempathy
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3. |
Stress Dies Last
03:18
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It's so easy to forget
the last second I felt free
the last night I rested
instants before turbulence
(going on and on)
but that's what it takes to stay barely sane
to look onward and move on
(on and on and on)
I've repaid my blood ties
but I'll continue on the edge
unless the knot's undone
I'll still be here by then
and if again freedom fails me
a zealous drone I shall remain
though it's so easy to forget
the last second I felt free
the last night I rested
instants before turbulence
(going on and on)
but that's what it takes to stay barely sane
to look onward and move on (and move on)
(on and on and on)
as conclusion trots closer
excitement is my enemy
as the ending looms over us
patience is my remedy
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4. |
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Lie beside me a while
Come long for a somewhere
Without obfuscated clouds
Where time beats tardily
Where paths are built to be walked
Bikes yearn to be pedaled
Gables under a starlit heaven
Lie beside...
rows of livelihoods and stories
bushes, trees, and flowers abound
a perfume of dinner at dusk
to us, a vespertine reminder
an unfamiliar home
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5. |
The Day Finds You
02:39
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You don't ever meet your steps now
every move comes in a random stride
Anxious doubts set your brain alight
Not a force you'd know to stop
What have you done?
What was that for?
You never know
What have you done?
With what in mind?
The day finds you
wretched and aimless
The day finds you senseless
Giving back what the world offered
You've been a fool, not out of fault,
don't mind (don't mind)
If out of spite, at least be brighter
Take a while to analyze
What have you done?
What was that for?
You never know
What have you done?
With what in mind?
The day finds you
wretched and aimless
The day finds you senseless
No-one cares to call you back now
But at least there's never time for goodbyes
(goodbyes)
No-one seems to love you back now
You've been simply set aside
to be found wretched and aimless
It'll find you, it'll find you
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6. |
What Was Not
03:01
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We weren't hiding
just standing by the walls
Our silent months were
nothing to be proud of
Your morning perfume
a faded dream
I laid my coarse hands
on your waist's cold, soft skin
With how we changed
could we still be here?
I've considered closure
yet I don't know whose door I knock on
Your drunken message
for every new year
in unknown numbers
in slurring love tongues
Stumbling paragraphs
your weeping face
your tears of courage
your tears of pain
Is it all on me?
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7. |
Friends and the Evening
03:36
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We'll feel okay not too far from here
Like shifting colors bereft of harmony
Our blank canvas in darkened shades
the lightning (is mirrored)
is mirrored on the ground
Silence should meet us well
Strangers so often speak
all day, as if to tell
their words are worthless
No need for words when we have the rain
Why bother speaking if it's all the same
For how long, friends, will a river steer
your life force, daily chores, and night outs?
Take your stands
Silence should meet us well
Strangers so often speak
all day, as if to tell
their words are worthless (worthless)
Silence should meet us well (meet us well)
Strangers so often speak (often speak)
all day, as if to tell (to tell)
their words are worthless
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8. |
Quietude
03:21
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As there's no point I'll
lock my words within
I've learned before
My voice is poison
A quiet throat, a serene mind
So excuse me for being so cynical
a rotten side, this safety mine
that I could never hide
A quiet throat, and ever since
I know no-one new
and no-one knows me
The things I do with quietude
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Some folk are not remembered,
and leave as quickly as they came
barely a bump between now and yesterday
no doubt good people
that no-one seems to mind
We're see-through
and the sun shines through us
We're ordinary
and the stars prevail when we arrive
Yeah, we're a detail
perhaps it's best to admit
You're not the only one
it's not the end of the world
Sing like a mutter in the wind
a whisper unheard of
we're alike, we're kitchen wallpaper
we're road signs, we're living footnotes
and it's somehow fine
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10. |
In Reverse
02:48
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See, I won't stay forever
don't grow used to my shoulder
I'm assiduous, not eternal
My leave pries from the corner
By then you should be strong
I'll spread wings and live on
'cause see, I won't stay forever
nor the comfort of my shoulder
You should prepare to let go
Relearn your crafts of old
You never try anymore
Regain your own safety
You never try
and you don't know why
You should prepare to let go
Relearn your crafts of old
You never try anymore
Regain your own safety
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11. |
Years Wasted
03:32
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Stuck to each other by mere formality
Staying close for no reason other
than to not end up apart
than to not end up alone
so much you gained from me
lessons learned, vices lost
yet I can't pin down where I evolved
what you brought that made me see
still a long way to grow
and you just won't be there
so far from being whom I must be
it seems I learned that out of circumstance
and it hurt me deep to stay
and it hurts me deep to say
so much you gained from me
lessons learned, vices lost
yet I can't pin down where I evolved
what you brought that made me see
still a long way to grow
and you just won't be there
Guess all those years were wasted
and you were neither lock nor key
just a vista along the highway (highway)
so much you gained from me
lessons learned, vices lost
yet I can't pin down where I evolved
what you brought that made me see
still a long way to grow
and you just won't be there
Guess all those years were wasted
and you were neither lock nor key
just a vista along the highway (highway)
after which there's nothing left to see
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Well, so what if years were wasted?
Could we have made them any better?
Any aftermath would've been best
only avoidance could keep us intact
we met blossoming at our skins
and lacking in our minds — typical
I was awkward and you were cold
that should've been it, it sure had
if only we had waited
till the fad bled itself dry
if only we had waited
instead of breaking the ice
if only we had waited
since we weren't meant together
if only we had waited
since we weren't meant together
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