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Babylon
04:22
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A random note in spite of your smile
Abandoned roads that fade for miles
An empty gesture to pass the time
A cloudy glass resting on a dime
Can you save me? Can you hide me?
A flashing node inside your mind
A broken circuit that leaves you blind
A higher line to change your view
A drifting tide to push you through
Can you save me? Can you hide me?
Can you hear me? Can you find me?
Where do I go to take another turn?
And how do I learn to unlearn?
A distant call to echo on
Another twisted echelon
A color guard, another pawn
A spoken word in Babylon
Can you see me? Can you feel me?
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Overcome
05:15
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Where do we go from here?
How do we change the lines?
What are these colours for?
And how do we change the divine?
Where do we find the time?
How do we know the score?
What does this frame define?
How did we wash ashore?
Unlock every spell
This road is where we fell
When do the angels come?
When do we feed the lions?
How do we stop this hum?
And how do we save the kingdom?
This time is when I fail
When do we begin to overcome?
When do we begin to change the scene?
When do we succeed?
What did you take apart?
What did you turn to dust?
Why did you break my heart?
Why did you betray our trust?
Unlock every spell
This road leads to hell
When do we begin to overcome?
When do we begin to change the scene?
When do we succeed?
Where do I go from here?
How do I change the lines?
What are these colours for?
And how do I change the divine?
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In the Shadows
04:11
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Disappear inside another life
Disguise the truth behind those eyes
Take a turn into a empty dive
And in the end, a broken Under-Shrine for you to ride
See the path for images
Read the Plan for lies
Turn into a firefly
And feel the glow inside of your life
Where do you run to escape the battleground?
And how do you know when your life is underground?
Break away and see what life is like
See the world with open eyes
Take a chance on chaos and survive
To see another shrine for you to hide
Ignore the plans for yesterday
And throw away the lies
Take a chance and live your life today
And maybe try to visualize a life
Where do you run to escape oblivion?
And how to you know when your life is nearly done?
Where do you go to escape what's coming down?
And how do you how to live underground?
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Hidden
05:44
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when the darkness comes and the rain is everywhere
the questions find a way to answer every scare
that follows me into the night and waits behind a corner
to give me another fright
in the howling wind comes another form
of the stinging rain inside another storm
it comes to me to make me more afraid
when the morning comes and the desolation wanes
i save a little prayer for the coming of the day
it changes me into another type
and waits behind a corner to remind me of my life
and in the glow of the changing of the world
i find another hope
go with the flow and save another world
and try to find some hope
it comes to me to make me more aware
it comes to me to take away my fear
it waits behind a corner to change another life
when the darkness comes
and the day begins to fade
I wait behind a corner and try to stay awake
I’ll follow you into the night and try to give you something
to celebrate your life
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Shudder and Glimmer
04:32
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Into the sea and into the Sun
Life is a gamble when you're on the run
What do you see and what do you hear?
Your life is evolving in a new frontier
Into the dark and into the storm
Peer in the window, there's a door inside
Nobody's looking and no one can hide
Is there a secret? Or is there a lie?
What can you do from the other side?
Look in the window and swallow your pride
Shudder and glimmer, hold back the tide
Fade in the mirror before you decide
Are you a pillar or are you a guide?
Are you the Killer? Or did you just die?
Words are not spoken, images go unseen
Life is a mirror, a story between
Into the night and into the sky
Nobody listens and then nobody dies
How does it feel to say goodbye?
Shudder and glimmer, hold back the tide
Fade in the mirror before you decide
Are you a pillar or are you a guide?
Are you the Killer? Or are you the Spy?
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6. |
A Hundred Days
04:58
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The wind blows cold as it covers up everything
It fills the air with ashes on the wing
How can I breathe when I’m running out of breath?
I haven’t seen the Sun in a hundred days
I haven’t had a thing to light my way
And so I wander alone
I haven’t felt the Sun in a hundred days
I haven’t tasted rain even longer than that
I haven’t seen anyone
The night is cold and it lasts for days
The Moon is frozen inside a perpetual haze
How can I see when there isn’t any light?
The wind grows old as it chastens everything
It stirs the dust and it ignores the Spring
How can I live when I’m covered in so much death?
I haven’t seen the Sun in a hundred days
I haven’t had a thing to light my way
And so I wander alone
I haven’t felt the Sun in a hundred days
I haven’t tasted rain even longer than that
I haven’t seen anyone else
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Tempest
05:13
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A game of inches and no time to play
A row of houses that begin to sway
When the wind is calming down
One for talking in and out of your sleep
Two for flinching when you try to keep
The peace between two rational lies
A time for roses, but no time to stay
The Moon exposes tiny cracks in the haze
And maybe more
In between the falling leaves
The years become the stars
Why should I begin to follow?
And why would you try to lead?
The road between the Fall and Chicago
Is littered with fallen trees
In between the falling leaves
The images start to blur
I can see what others see
As the years become the stars
It’s where we are today
A time for roses, but no time to stay
The Moon is frozen in a latter phase
As the wind is calming down
One for walking when you’re still asleep
And two for flinching when you try to keep
The wind from calming down
A games of chance and circumstance
A row of houses that begin to chant
As the wind is calming down
Down, down, down
Down, down, down
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The Most of Everything
05:17
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Where do I go to escape the things I know?
Where do I find the time to breathe?
What can I do to make the most of everything?
What can I do to make believe?
How do I know when my time is up?
How do I know if I should leave?
Why do I think that you could lift me up?
Why do I think that you'll concede?
My glass is empty and I need to go
The sky has darkened and turned to falling snow
How do I know when my time is up?
How do I know? How do I know?
Where do you go to escape the things you know?
Where do you find the time to breathe?
What can you do to make the most of everything?
What can you do to make believe?
How do you know when your time is up?
Why do you think that you can leave?
Why do you think that I should lift you up?
And why do you think that I should leave?
Do you think that I know you?
And what do you think I need?
Are there towers in your life?
Are there walls that make you bleed?
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9. |
Circles (Starry Nights)
05:02
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try to remember when you first came to life
were there accidents and angels, and a dream of starry nights?
where did you find your confidence?
was it early last December when you gave the room a bone?
did you take the final tickets, did you mollify the throne?
when did you find the time to change the lines?
Do I want to roam?
Where do I want to roam?
Do I want to run?
Where should I run?
Should I try to start the world again?
Change everything
Change again
Do I want to stir the embers, do I want to take you there?
Are there circles filling up your life, there are circles everywhere
Now I see the demon in your eyes
try to remember
when it first came to light
was it early late December?
were their dreams of starry nights?
did you fill the growing circles?
did you fill them with your life?
And now I know you
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Strange Talking Animals Springfield Township, New Jersey
Born in raised in Madison, WI. Transplanted to Brooklyn, Jamaica, and finally Springfield. Versed in chamber pop and rock, psychedelic and prog, and expanding musical horizons to experience electronic and ambient musics and experiment with modular and chaotic synthesis.Overfed with science fiction and fantasy and actual science. And stay-at-home dadness. ... more
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