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Tidesphere
02:16
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Gone are the footprints I left behind
Washed away by ebb and flow
I keep asking myself
What significance bares a name
Carved into eroding stone
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Momentum
03:41
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A pendulum
Self-aware
Reflects upon
Its finite heir
I won't linger until I become
The very force that once defined a course upon myself
Determination has yet repressed
My will to stay free, yet not a alone
As long as my motion is changed by impacts
Even best intentions stay on their own
On my own I try to defy the impulse
Without getting a grasp at who's to blame
Every encounter collateral
How can I feel restless
when my patterns stay the same
Will my patterns stay the same
Oh
A countless back and forth
Won't hide my apathy
An alteration of aim
Will never set me free
My time lingers while I'm passing by
With nothing left to amplify
As my momentum fades away
I know my force was never meant to stay
Have I tried my best
Even if stopped
I won't be able to rest
As my momentum fades away
I know my force was never meant to stay
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3. |
Treadmill
04:21
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I have climbed those stairs
And hit my head on the way up
My vision impaired
By crosshairs in mirrors
Covered in rust
Devouring everything
But time
Flies
Gathering around what vultures wouldn't touch
Me
Rotting in the shade
Covered in Frost
Bite
Off my thumb
I won't be showing up
To anything
Faces that lost me
Or faces that I've lost
Bite me
Move on
I won't catch up
At a crawling pace
The rabbit runs
Wary of the tearing sounds
Follow me
To a place you will never leave
Right here
Come with me
To a place that I promise you won't leave
The same
Carve your dreams into my skin
You won't see them fulfilled
A superficial reminder of the trust you've built
Touch my scars to remember their shape
Let me catch your breath
Fill your lungs with my nothingness
There's no pleasure granting you relief
There's no bittersweet secret tangled in those sheets
There's nothing here
It's an uphill battle
Against myself
And the winner
The one who comes out
Will forever
Be forgotten
The lips that taste of peppermint
Are cold, but I can't resist
The taste of everything
I would have otherwise missed
But now I sit in regret
About all the time that I've killed
I am still standing here
I am still standing
Still
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//
01:02
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5. |
Panopticon
03:43
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They are all here
Stacked around the core
Voices in the dark
Cold presence lurking
Behind ancient bars
Kepp my eyes from blinking
Keep myself from thinking
Locked in a stalemate it was never meant to be
I can not remember a time I was truly free
From the burden
Of holding the key
The truth is my purpose lies in their hands
Decades are passing and still they are kept
Nothing waiting for its time ever fades, except
My will hanging by a thread
Maintained by fear
As I dread the fact
That the ties that bind me to this place
Will not ever be cracked
Every breath
Every noise
Raising alarm
Leaving no choice
But to remain
A silent observer
Long overthtown
Yet tied to its reign
While I await an escape that never comes
The riot already took its toll on me
My decision became a condition
Turning my back won't undo the cause
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6. |
ZIMA BLUE
05:28
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And so I awake
Tossed in a storm of collapsing shades
A monolithian constant
On blackened shores
Shaped by the flow
Of a thousand grains
Priviledged only
To witness once more
The cyclic pull of
Their descent
Into the dark
There's no such thing as black or white
I know
To paint a grey future
Also means choosing a third side
To draw the truth
Giving it a shape
Does not mean being right
I regress
You'll keep watching my final strokes
The canvas fills
Just to escape what I've drawn myself into
But I no longer feel home in the worlds I create
Everything centered around you
Everything still out of reach
Every journey ends at the surface
Endless words and nothing to teach
My initial vocation
To ablaze the silence
Just merely twisting
The minds of the sick
A stranded generation
Concious but lifeless
Just barely twitching
When poked with a stick
I look up
To the monochrome simplicity
That grinds my dreams
Into predictable shapes
Into the blue
I will immerse myself
Take me to a binary space
Let's dive in
Head first into the monosphere
Lose your shades
In the colour I left behind
And while you drown in its wealth
I will immerse myself
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7. |
Emerge
04:53
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I won't emerge
My vision fades to black
At once, I know I've been here before
While my conscience holds me back
My body has had enough, my mind screams for more
Watching my joints twist 'til they break
Stepped into the mud others crawl in
To get to the top
I won't be recognized
For what I am or have been
Not all of me will leave this pit
Just enough to be seen
The only way I know is up
Across hundreds of toothless faces wishing me good luck
Towards the sky
Never have I fallen so high
My path won't lead the way
Emerging to a swift breath of bliss and decay
I've never made it this far
Closing pathways with every step
There's no conscience to hold me back
Those piled up hopes cracking under my feet
Are merely my lead
Giving the cause
Making me dream
Making me compete
Wash away what longs for me
I don't want to be remembered
Not anymore
Just seen through other eyes
Not knowing what I went through
Or unwilling to see
The price I paid lies far behind
Still buried in the mud
Trying to escape
Towards the sky
Never have I fallen
Never have I fallen so high
I have emerged
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8. |
Abyss
04:12
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In search for the values your words lost
Long time ago
I was willing to show
How much pressure I could stand
Dragged down by your loving hand
Pull me down
On a sunless sea that we can't understand
My doomed expedition comes to an end
At night I lie awake - staring at the stars
Wondering how much progress I‘ve made
Lured by a gleam from beyond the deep
I face my reflection and take a leap
Your faithful words, your calming tone
Sedate the fear of the unknown
I breathe in
For the last time without any doubt
The surface closes above me as I swirl to the ground
Slowly I descend into the abyss
deep down in search for your promised gold
But as I face the endless nothingness
My hand just longs for gloom, my gaze turns cold
No currents to give motion to my hopes
Volatile perception becomes
A solid reality
Long time ago
I was willing to show
How much pressure I could stand
Pulled by your deceptive hand
You took my will to explore
And in the end it all comes back to me
The gleam
The gloom
My will to fall
Nothing more than a siren's call
I will never emerge - I tried
In the void I failed to decide
To be a part of the sea or a drop in its tide
To be a part of the sea or a drop in its tide
To be a part of the sea or a drop in its tide
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9. |
Static Wave
01:46
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