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It’s imminent the collapse of his surroundings
To break the cold with detached expectancy
Before I wade into the lonely fire
I must reject my gilded infancy
I never learned to curb these visions of love
You threw them away, I never wanted them
That’s my soul accelerating into silence
This distancing hurts, the vision begins to fade
The doubts devalue all the ceremony
They coil against and encircle all my dreams
To be so concerned by a shapeless enemy
Is to condemn oneself of all that felt so good
Silence condenses the emotions
The reduction is so easier to read
But what does he feel? Why is a smile forming?
He’s ceaseless in his devotion to you
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Permanent
05:07
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The sadness has begun
She’s paralyzed and numb
Confusion turns to stasis
The depression seems so changeless
She let these symptoms breed
To dispirit what she needs
The offering is painless
There’s nothing left to feel with
She’s proceeding with her cause
Slighting all her thoughts
Feeling such dismay
She colors in the gray
The aridity of fate
Will disintegrate
In this emotive dryness
She breathes the air that’s timeless
To embrace such fevered warmth
In rejecting what is cold
She polarized her wants
And in between she’s lost
Hear her final drone
Now she’s all alone
The sadness it surrounds me
It pulls me in quite closely
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Anomie
04:39
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Brother, I ask will you save me?
I enjoy the heat from the flame
I never had intimations
That envisioned me in this way
Withdrawn I signal my conscience
To diminish what I destroyed
So take this emotion are you willing
To throw this remnant away?
This moment caught up with me
Forgive my taste for suspicions
But you never think what you say
Words are letters
From another one’s thoughts
Yet enough to cause my dismay
So my mind’s been crippled by living
It’s a building on the brink of decay
Remnants are loved
When the building’s torn down
But my feelings don’t mean much today
This moment caught up with me
My state’s in anomie
A lonely voice transmits my choice
The enemy surrounds you
When you create and then destroy
The anger it’s a part of you
A part of you inside of you
Brother, it’s a part of you
Looking straight inside of you
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The Predicant
04:29
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A direct descent from living
The pulse is sent away
Activity is fading
I wanted you to stay
Psychic renovations
Induce a dormant stage
A wishing to portray
A boy removed from pain
Listen to the predicant
Stating his decree
Disbelieving such an incident
Is endemic to me
Psychic renovations
Tempering my fate
A union of one another
Or are you one of the other?
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Words Are Fading
04:01
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Nothing is worth saying
A disease befitting me
A fleeing dissipation
A waste of dignity
It’s a part of my conscience
It’s something I can’t destroy
All I hear is droning
An echoed fading boy
These words they did not reach you
It’s a feeling you’ve yet to see
A returning back to nothing
And embrace grief quietly
These doubts are thrown upon you
My spirit begins to fade
Impermanently faithful
To maintain what’s killing me
The dissonance is piercing
My mind and my soul is frayed
It’s your disassociation
No form no hope for me
No form no hope for me
No form no hope for me
No form no hope for me
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Uncertain Of Fire
05:27
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The center of all this droning
Silently shapes her mourn
You listlessly gave
Your heart away
To quell your final thoughts
Ephemeral and gone
Our love will burn
With the sun
Burning the sun
It shrouds our love
The watch in my hand
It curtains our time
Turn your head over closely
The movement is dimmed
See the sun through your fingers
Feel the warmth on your hand
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A Cold Removal
05:55
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My insides wane in fear
The tenor of my soul is frayed
Can I awake form this inconstant fate
Or will my savior come too late?
Or will my savior come too late?
When I devalued all below you
The sky in heaven shined
This incisive feeling shapes my being
Am I now closer to living?
Am I now closer to living?
The visions you keep no more
I can’t see the one I adore
And when you refrain from feeling
It plagues my destiny I’m sure
This is my life without you
My spirit dries up before you
As I kept my wound from healing
Caressing the bosom of truth
I invoke my thoughts to reason
And enshrine this detached mind
It’s a cold removal inside my window
Is all the closeness gone now?
Is all the closeness gone now?
Is all the closeness gone now?
The visions you keep no more
I can’t see the one I adore
And when you refrain from feeling
It plagues my destiny I’m sure
This is my life without you
My spirit dries up before you
As I kept my wound from healing
Caressing the bosom of truth
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'M.L.'
08:00
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The angels you shape in your head
You fear when they reach for your hand
This immortal impulse wanes
To your faithful devotion to pain
You pale to the whiteness of dawn
But innocence fades and it’s gone
The moment the angels plead
You drift your soul into sleep
What do they ask from you?
What do they ask from you?
What do they ask you to do?
Look at the shame that’s inside
And breathe from your heart to my hand
Disseminate all your dismay
In denial, contemplate
Detachment sometimes it serves
Reality lessens and blurs
A fitting end for me
I’m reduced infinitely
What do they ask from you?
What do they ask from you?
What did they take from you?
Contemptuous glances and stares
This illustrious hoax is my prayer
For the disdain you’ve shown to me
I’ll trust you eternally
The sedation is shaping slowly
But it’s a lie
He wants to touch you
He wants to cry
To never feel the sorrow
Or sense the shame
You’ll never know him
Or feel this way
Did I see you start to listen
For the noise?
Instinctive vigilance
Please save this boy
And now his mouth moves slowly
He’s flushed with tears
They’ve formed a sinuous pattern
Through these years
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Remnant Three
Obscure, yet brilliant post-punk trio whose songs are beautiful, haunting relics of an iconic musical scene. Recording on a Fostex 8-track reel-to-reel decades ago with a meticulous focus on atmosphere, Remnant Three stands tall amongst post-punk and Factory Records luminaries. ... more
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