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PORTRAITS [THE CONCEPT OF HOME]
A quiet sadness sets with the sun
As we travel through evening's dusk
The luminous grey seeps into our hearts
Like water in my lungs
It steals my breath
And your words
Wither in the sun
Flower of your love
For now, but not for long
I'll line these walls with dreams
And hope
Whispers in your ear,
Drowned out by the wind in your hair
I don't wanna be here any more
Any more...
For now, but not for long
I'll line these walls with dreams
And hope
And Portraits
Of you, my Concept of Home
A moment's silence for
The times we can't share
But true love waits.
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Don't Be So
02:23
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DON'T BE SO
Could've had it all
Everything they ever told me I should want
Four walls, adorned with fine taste
Love's fake
"Better settle or you'll never get better
Elsewhere's just a myth, don't be so selfish
End this hedonistic deathwish you find yourself in
Time and time again... what the fuck's in your head?"
Warm embrace at the door to my prison cell
Private Hell
But Hell doesn't look like they told me...
Hell doesn't look like what they told me
It sneaks up on you and becomes your way
Brutality's familiar way
Bleak days
Colder than the nights you lie awake
Wondering...
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Selfish
04:12
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SELFISH
Will I make it out of this place?
I can't believe this prison cell used to feel like home
An escape from my mind,
Yeah I built these walls from blood and stone
'Til they consumed me
And I've become the devil I don't know
Feels so familiar, but that don't make it home
No, it don't make it home
No, it don't make it home...
These four walls once kept me warm at night
But the shelter they provide casts shade
And it's crawling down my spine
And now it's time
Yeah, it's time to be selfish
To save my life
My life...
Hell doesn't look like what they told me
It sneaks up on you and becomes your way
Brutality's familiar way
Bleak days
Colder than the nights you lied.
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Care
05:03
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CARE
Wired, and off my head
Every fiber of my being is stretched
So thin
She says, "You're begging for a heart attack"
And I don't even care
No, I don't care
I don't even...
Fuck.
Wired, and off my head
I can feel the strain on my heart starting to tell
Fucked up beyond recognition
This isn't who I thought I'd be
I'm falling apart at the seams
But I thrive on the pain
It's become so familiar
It's ink on the page
Again, and again
She said "I care too much"
I said, "I can't see the point in anything now"
Unconditional love called my bluff
Hypocrite...
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Less
03:34
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LESS
I watched you sink into the chemical low
Over and over
Drained you like blood from a needle
I watched you sink into yourself
More, and more, and more
To become less, again and again...
When did you learn to keep your soul in a vessel?
I watched you sink into yourself, and fade away
My love never faded,
But you were careless with yours
Our hearts once beat as one
But now you only open up to the poison
My love never faded
But you were careless with yours...
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6. |
Ghost In the Corner
05:33
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GHOST IN THE CORNER
Take everything from me
The love I found, my family
And all the beauty of the world
I never got to see
Just justify this feeling
So I can stop feeling guilty
'Cause I know I've got it all
In the palm of my hand
But the hole in my chest
Has got other plans for me
Why do I just keep fucking sinking?
Sinking...
I'm learning to live with your Ghost in the Corner
And I still feel you there
But it's better than the nights you lived inside
The months you claimed my mind
The years I called you mine
And I made a thousand plans
Just to watch them fall apart in my hands
Envisioned the shade to rise up from within
And take over my life, like original sin
Nowhere to run to, nowhere to hide
When you truly believe the ghost lives inside your mind
Yeah, I felt the pain as a reflection of self
So I searched for escape in a vessel
I always blame myself.
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Picture Frames
03:32
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PICTURE FRAMES
I'm hanging dreams and hope on the walls
But the nightmares, they're in my head
Been in there a lot lately
Four years, if I'm honest
Finally found the resolve to find some help
I walked right up to the gates of my private hell
And the view was beautiful
But the gates were closed,
And I can't climb them on my own
Yet somehow all I want is to be alone
I'm locked in a paradox,
But I refuse to die here
Refuse
No, I won't
Rip a hole in existence, and crawl right through
Into the souls left behind
Into their bloodshot eyes
Into their picture frames
No, I won't be their pain.
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Arteries
04:29
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ARTERIES
There is no time
Only you and I
Four walls and a broken hope of home
On my mind from day one
Until the breaking point
Your beauty so cruel and wonderful
If you let me, I'll take it all
Ten grams right to the myocardium
I long to feel
The arteries burst through my chest
I'll be a place to rest your head
And I know I could've been a better man
But I'm so tired of hiding everything that I am...
...could you understand?
Your beauty so cruel and wonderful
If you let me, I'll take it all
Your beauty consumes me
You're all that I can see
And here now, all I feel
Is everything
Take me home.
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Continent
03:30
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CONTINENT
Exposed; the skin that could never tell
The worth of her soul
Hidden beneath, like the blood that flows
Priceless and warm, the embrace I know
Forever I'll trace these arteries
Like the road back home
Fragile forevers in our hands tonight
With a love that punctures this cavernous chest
Through the cold nights that cradle my head
Nothing but time, and a continent
'Til I can hold you again
As broken glass and crystal hearts
Refract the fading light
Everything I am, is yours, my love
My love.
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10. |
Still Life [Goes On]
01:40
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STILL LIFE [GOES ON]
[Instrumental]
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11. |
Love What's Left
04:12
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LOVE WHAT'S LEFT
Bleed out the misery
Don't mind me, I'm just a human being difficult
A walking corpse burdened by thought
No I'm not falling, this is just a return
Return to form
I'll bleed out the misery
'Til you can learn to love what's left of me
A masterpiece of hypocrisy
Yeah, I've got the world at my feet
But it feels like it's on my shoulders
Oh darling, I've been devoured from the inside
So here's a rose for you, for every night that I lied
In your arms,
In my head,
All was calm
But it's gone now
And I know I swore to keep the dark at bay
But I lied to you every day
Yeah I told you "I'm fine" through grinding teeth
And I can't sleep
I can't sleep
But I'm craving something more complete
Craving something more com...
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