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Optimist
02:03
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(instrumental)
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Drift
04:47
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Profound or profane
I've yet to decide
the thought of where I am
and where I have been
This is a metaphor
for a life not lived
is it fear of what I don't know?
or what I do that binds me
Choking on the lingering ash
of our western summer air.
A gesture of delicacy
and the promise of an end.
And again I withdraw
and observe from above
Feeding on the atmosphere
With new perspective
And for a moment
I see myself, a reflection
with eyes distant and reticence
A shell of the typic man
An ambient tomb exalted
alone with the water and the woodland
I am of coast and sky
from tide to the high peak
Still I find void.
Deeper under the sun.
We are alone.
We are alone!
Choking on the lingering ash
of our western summer air.
A gesture of delicacy
and the promise of an end.
The taste of blood on my lips replace yours
Drift.
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3. |
Freedom
01:00
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(instrumental)
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West
04:45
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On the coast and land of Cascadia
I told my friends it was time to go
To move on from the pains of now
We will show our own way through
Trade my pen for a brazen shell
And pointed arrow that should tell
The few that claim in charge
The west will be ours
I'll sooner die than let it go
What has become of our land
Tolerance is assumed to a point
But tell me to what extent that is
I take my stand on the North Shores
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5. |
Disinterest
02:49
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The sun fights against a grey sky
meaningless as it were
blackened in intervals
the light filters through the cracks
of my seldom opened shades
and blinds me, as it were
descending on us,
and betraying me
not unlike i've experienced
dissatisfaction is rampant
distrust is given
disinterest is a plague
how cold it is tonight
and it'll soon be over
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6. |
Tragedy
03:17
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(instrumental)
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Forgotten
03:32
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The onset of cold air oft sweeps the warmth
from memory and hope, playing on how I miss you
Dragging my limbs day by day in silence
Never to question if I'm really living at all
Though your dust is underground
You walk with me every new sun
And though you will not see me grow
I would have let you down still
The longer time will pass us by
You've come to me in thought less than I'd like
I love you as much as I ever have
And yet you'll too be buried by time
Without you here I couldn't go on
And I don't want you to leave
my dreams are fraught with your substance
Sometimes I wish I got to know you a little better
It should have been me
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Vulnerable
06:12
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You died cold and alone for no reason
in a senseless act of whatever
over something small and pointless
and now you're gone forever
there's nothing i can do or could do
you're still gone and nothing matters
nothing matters to me anymore
we still don't know why so many years later
and I don't care, why would I?
Nothing can bring you back as much as my
sometimes naive day dreaming wishful mind
can muster up the feelings of how I miss you
I miss you, I miss you, I miss you
Please come back to me in my dreams if nothing else
I just want to say goodbye and I'm sorry
I know I'm not the man you knew I could be
And it kills me that I feel like I've failed
in accomplishing what you weren't allowed
or anything at all or leave my mark
because you're gone and one day I'll find you
maybe sooner than later, I don't know
I'm not afraid of dying but I fear the pain
that you went through even though they lied to me and
told me you were gone in an instant to make us all feel better
I just hope you're at peace now my brother
I wish I told you how much I loved you but I hope you knew
and I hope you still do know
Nothing will change that even though I find myself thinking about you less and less
as the days go by and it's not by design
but I'm tired and struggling to fight on my own
and sometimes I wish it was me instead
because you had so much to offer, and I'm nothing at all
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