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Feigning Life
03:12
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You sway like a breeze from the ocean
Preserved with the dirt from the earth
Some might say your death was sudden
Some might lay far from your bones
Submerged by a ghost on a highway
Coerced by a ray from the sun
No one can see that you’re running
No one can see that you’re gone
Come forth bearing gold from a stranger
No more scenes from a tale never cursed
We all saw the cracks in the headstone
We all saw the fire from the verse
We all heard the cries from the basement
We all heard the thud of the stone
We all tried to feign our amusement
We all try to reap what we sow
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2. |
The Sentence Grows
03:01
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I can’t forget your ghost now
It can’t be found
Now you’ve let go of the crown
We could feel that final blow
It stopped the show
You lost your teeth
The sentence grows
I don’t see how you were wrong
You knew all along
We would find peace in troubled song
I couldn’t be the one to lead you from the crowd
It's not just anyone who’d sacrifice their self-doubt
I fear the worst everyday
Words can’t relay
The sound of your voice in gentle sway
It leaves no trace
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He lay in a fearless shadow
Sung deep with a soft decay
Felt sure in his disposition
More thought that his dreams would fade
In my deepest sleep I know
Something lies beneath us
Under ancient spells it falls
Slowly sinking deeper
She strayed from a life worth living
Found sense in a paper trail
Still worn from a ruthless setting
Mind clear with the heavy air
In my deepest sleep I know
Something lies beneath us
Under ancient spells it falls
Slowly sinking deeper
In my darkest thoughts I know
Something’s edging closer
Breaking ancient walls of stone
Rising ever nearer
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Resurrection
02:44
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I went down to see my bones
Raised from the ground to roam alone
Round these fields they creep and stare
With this new life that they can’t bear
From these times we used to know someone
Who could seem to send us back our way home
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5. |
Light on the Firing Line
04:44
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You’ve been lost in a cloud
No one can fear for you now
You saw death in a sound
We couldn’t live for that crowd
Silence sings for the worn
Bearing our fate from the storm
Send your father away
None will remember his grace
I could’ve fought it
I could’ve pleaded
For a second chance
Stare in wonder for weeks
Take all you can while you’re free
Hold your mind in a daze
Washing away all you saved
You have risen alone
Lifting the weight of the stone
Never felt so alive
When everyone round you has died
We were the saviours
We were the light
On the firing line
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6. |
Standing Tall
03:48
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When they found you dead
Your smile never fled
My brothers sacred hands
My sister standing tall in silence
You found evil
In my temple
It stirs gently from inside
When we held you ill
You seemed distant still
My mother fell apart
My father’s sleeping now in silence
Sitting watching
The fire burning
It spreads lightly from inside
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7. |
Climbing the Walls
03:37
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Leave your assumptions aside
You say there’s nowhere left to hide
You needed a place to reside
Now the city’s in flames through the night
The city’s in flames through the night
The doctor won't answer your calls
And your left climbing the walls
Your sister now needed no cause
She'll come for you in the fall
She'll come for you in the fall
The heathens can’t make you numb
When you’re sitting there sucking their thumb
They feed you the tune of their song
As they lead you back to the slum
As they lead you back to the slum
You feel no emotions at all
When the thing you most fear is the floor
You see it to the bitter end
And you’ll be free to ascend
You'll be free to ascend
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8. |
Said and Done
04:19
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I felt that my own display
Dismayed that your kin must suffer
Divide with a grim array
It’s said and done
I wait for an endless train
Forgone and the wind would shatter
All forms in the English rain
It's said and done
I felt with a sense of age
Always fearing signs of glory
Some things you can never change
When said and done
No man could’ve paved the way
So sure of his final widow
Covered with a flawless rage
When said and done
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9. |
Refusing Heaven
05:39
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Stuck in reflections
That never felt seasons again
When the cold came and you stood there
Never forgotten
The lives that he’d broken
Instead he said
He said that there was no reason
Still past the window
It came with the deep snow
To stir and send
Send them back home to their widows
Fill in the blank signs
Once holy and sacred
Before he calls
And makes sure that you’re not a stranger
Heaven won’t be there
When he has stopped dreaming
To wake
To wake and find out that nothing could catch him
Away from the fine lines
And eyes which were bleeding
To say in pain
In pain we will all find our freedom
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10. |
A Drop in the Ocean
03:49
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You saw the signs
Fled from all you’ve squandered
When the heart aligns
It changes with the times
Send them to the lights
Send them to the lights
You never saw the night
Fear them all and say I wonder
You push it all aside
You tore the seam
Spilled out all your splendor
Left it at the scene
It's far and few between
Vanish with the breeze
Vanish with the breeze
You left it all with ease
You left it all and say I wonder
You left it all
The life you’ve squandered
Finally found some peace
You've fallen on your knees
Feel it all
The voice you’ve broken
You've seen it all
The skies will open
And throw you to the sea
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