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Wild Geese
01:48
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What blocks of flight path of wild geese
What stops currents from moving across the sea
Walls will crumble that we can see
They only slow progress
They only impede
They can erect walls but the sands of time will show
Every grain of sand will help to erode
Nothing blocks the clouds
The rain will still seep in
Bring new life to wildflowers
Bring new life to start again
I want peace
I want harmony
I want to live in a land
I want to share in a land
That’s free
Like wild geese
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2. |
Lie And Wait
03:00
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I wear the skin of my enemies
I wear the hearts of the ones I love
You lie in shadows
You lie in fear
I regret that you had to die so I am here
But life is strange in that way
I think about it every day
You watched me for months
I would catch glimpse in the woods
You sent me signs and messages
If we could have only shared words
I realize what happened now
It took years of pain
Years of torment wondering why
Why me
Why then
So now I lie and wait
Waiting for the pain to dissipate
Waiting for some sort of healing
Looking back
Looking forward
Looking for a reason
Now I know
Now I can forgive
I can forget
I can move on
I thought you ruined me
But this taught me so much
The knowledge I gained outweighs the pain
I’ve learned to control it everyday
I wont thank you
For all you put me through
Every night I lay awake
For every hardship I’ve endured
I have no more hate for you
No more fear inside
We are all just trying to get somewhere
You were just afraid and running blind
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3. |
Waking Nightmare
02:16
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Shake me
Shake me harder
I just can’t believe my eyes
Waking up to this is unbelievable
Do you see what I see
Do I no longer seem crazy
Sometimes I still feel this is a dream
I wake up every day hoping things have changed
Only for a quick realization that they’ve only gotten worse day by day
Day by day
A waking nightmare
That gets worse every day
If we’re not searching how do we find a way
Where does this path lead
What’s the destination
I’d be lying if I said I had the answers
Wake up
Wake from this
Waking nightmare
Shake this
Shake away this
Waking nightmare
Break this cycle
Of waking nightmares
We must change this
Change this waking nightmare
Time to wake up
Shake me harder
I just can’t believe my eyes
Waking up to this is unbelievable
Do you see what I see
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4. |
Phoenix
02:06
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Phoenix
They rise up for you to beat them down again and again
When will it end
They rebuild their homes just for you to bulldoze them
Terrorize their lives until they have to abandon
Everything they have
Abandon the only home they’ve ever known
You enforce your will with brutality
Makes me sick to see all the pain you bring
Burn their homes and take their land
Push them out and for you to conquer it
Send your thugs to kill men women and kids
Cut off aid and send air strikes in
You cause pain
You create misery
Suffocating conditions
This is a tactic
This is a plan
These are all choices
And you’re still making them
If you hear the cries of mourning
How can you not want to do something
I’ve never looked at the world the same
After listing to a fathers pain
Dragging his daughters bodies out from their bombed out house
It came with out warning
It came without provocation
If oppression doesn’t make you sick
Then you’re no friend of mine
Fuel and friction become flames
From the ashes a phoenix will rise
The youth are strong
They will rebuild the land
Where they belong
From the ashes a phoenix will rise
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5. |
Empty Tomes
03:13
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Reach for more
More than empty words
More than lines on a page
I don’t care about what you say
If you lack integrity
Melody and harmonies
Can surely sound nice
But they don’t reach inside
They don’t grab my heart
Don’t grab my mind
But they don’t reach inside
They don’t grab my heart
Don’t grab my mind
So much is thrown at us
So much could be thrown right in the trash
If it’s not real why waste time
If it’s not what you feel
Why waste time
Without a meaning or message
It’s just shallow pools drained dry
If you don’t care if you never give a fuck
Are you just a shallow pool drained dry
I want more
Than rock and roll
I want more
Than empty tomes
I want more to life
I don’t want lies
Melody and harmonies
Can surely sound nice
But they don’t reach inside
They don’t grab my heart
Don’t grab my mind
But they don’t reach inside
They don’t grab my heart
Don’t grab my mind
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6. |
Levitate
02:22
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Wait just long enough for the smoke to clear
Have some peace have some quiet
Watch black clouds coming back again
Just when you think we’re safe when you could breathe again
Finally when your eyes don’t burn
It ignites
Watch the rocks crumble
Watch the hills tumble
Plant your feet firmly as it all breaks apart
Just when you thought you were standing on solid ground
If it’s not one thing it’s another
Catch your breath before you go back under
Catch a glimpse of light before it goes dark again
Just as you stop falling the ground breaks away
Feel at ease for just a moment
Enjoy that time and space
The light at the end of the tunnel as is closes in
What stops you from falling
Down to the bottom
In my dreams I levitate
In my dreams I live
I know I’ll never sit in silence
I know I’ll never rest without pain
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7. |
Weightless
02:20
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There’s no appeal to heaven
There’s no one that can make me whole
There’s no entity that can lift this burden
Looks like I'm on my own
I wish I could raise my hands up to the sky and just say fuck you god but I know that’s just dream and I come back to reality
I’ll lift myself up with every ounce of strength I’ve got
I’ll move as fast as my shattered body will let me go
To the moon and not feel the weight of useless flesh bones
Holding me together and slowly ripping me apart
I can’t wait
For the day
I know I’ll never come
But I keep waiting
Anticipating
I’ll keep dreaming
I’ll keep believing
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8. |
Absolution
02:48
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Search for places
Untouched by man
Untainted
Unmarked
Search for places
Leave no traces
Leave it pure
Pristine
Like they were intended to be
Search for places
I want to swim
I want to jump
I want to drink water
So clean so clear you can see the bottom
Breath air so clean so clear
You can see everything
You can see past the horizon
I want night skies
Where you are blinded by the stars
Not city lights, smog, and pollution
We are guilty
We don’t deserve
Absolution
We don’t deserve absolution
We’ve made barren deserts
From taking more than we need
We live on unstable ground
We’re on unstable ground
When will it all run out
When will everything be owned
Every drop of fresh water bottled
The sea a dead sea
The land a wasteland
Displace the lives
Of the ones that call it home
The ones that hold it dear
For our conveniences
For all the little things
Little things that mean nothing
Little things that all get thrown away
Execution by extraction
Expression of perceived excellence
What’s left for them to tame
Why are we forced to play their game
Why must we play their game
We are still playing this game
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