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Tear down the barricade
The one that you’ve built to protect yourself from the fray
Fear feeds the loneliness
Weaving it’s way from your head and out through your chest
You still lean on this lie put on your disguise and bide your time
I will take all this pain left in your wake and keep it safe
Hold on with heavy hands tired heart and carry it through to the end
The dark holds the great unknown
The future is only as bright as what we have sown
Rain falls and oceans rise sweeping away all your woes
Just know I will stand by your side with your hand in mine for all of time
Hold you with heavy hands tired heart and carry you through to the end
The earth spins loud and it’s ours to lose
Like falling down no matter what we choose
But when all of this comes undone in the end nothing and no one will change
I will take all this pain left in your wake and keep it safe
Hold on with heavy hands tired heart and carry on through to the end
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Clutches
03:33
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Once again I am in the dark and you are in the wind
Leaving me to love the lost and lonely nights
Now and then I tell myself to tarry to the bitter end
But sitting still is sure to kill the light inside
And this silver rain is spitting slivers
Cold and sharp like little knives
I would long for shelter if I thought I could survive
After all here we are at the fall
I thought I knew but I didn’t know
Take time to say you said so
Where do all the broken pieces go?
Worst of all I think that more than anything it hurts to fall
Getting up is hard enough alone on your own
And it’s spilling ribbons red around us
Blood and wine for bitter shrines
You and I could spend forever trying to survive
After all here we are at the fall
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West Side Dives
04:53
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I’m out of my mind I’m overwrought and overwhelmed
There’s not enough time to figure out and overcome
Wait right there this can’t be right
Are you telling me that this is real life?
Come and save me from the gravity of reality
They want us all to feel alone
We’ll stick together just to be on the safe side
Take back all the truth we own
If you need us we’ll be out at the west side dives
I can’t believe the things that I see are happening
You can leave if you don’t agree with this bigotry
Wait right there this can’t be right
Are you telling me that this is real life?
Someone save me from everything that’s happening
They want us all to feel alone
We’ll stick together just to be on the safe side
Take back all the truth we own
If you need us we’ll be out at the west side dives
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Collide (Bury My Heart)
04:21
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It’s the way you hang your head
To say you can’t believe this is the end
Before you light this fire
Before you strike the match and watch me burn
Take some time
Wait a little while won’t you?
Before you tear me apart
Take a minute now won’t you?
Before you bury my heart
So say it like you mean
‘Cause I mean it when I say
For all your suffering mercy was never your thing
You leave me black and blue
But you don’t know the truth
That everything you do is killing me
Wait a little while won’t you?
Before you tear me apart
Take a minute now won’t you?
Before you bury my heart
So sharpen up your tongue
Just like a knife that loves the taste of blood
You hunch and hide your face
Still and quiet the way you hunt your prey
Nothing gets away
Wait a little while won’t you?
Before you tear me apart
Take a minute now won’t you?
Before you bury my heart
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Lost to the Flood
04:24
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I know it’s so hard to let go do you feel left alone and lost?
You never wanted this though to be captured tagged and tossed
Those days are over most days you just get through
I’ll keep you closer when the wolves are upon you
I would do anything for you
You said this role was the only one I could have ever played
Truer words have never been spoken from any stage
Now I lay you down to sleep
As it blows the wind it weeps
May the earth lay lightly on your brittle bones
I was the last lone survivor you were sent out to stormy seas
It’s a constant reminder of the ways you would rescue me
You my dear are the only one I could have ever loved
Even had I known it would all be lost to the flood
When we play we play for keeps.
As you sow so you shall reap.
May the earth lay lightly on your bones
Now I lay you down to sleep
As it blows the wind it weeps
May the earth lay lightly on your brittle bones
How many times must we capsize all your dreams cast to the unseen
Nothing’s left of your allies they’re lost to the deep blue green
Wait oh my god there’s a light in the night and a siren’s song
Take hold my hand and we’ll try for the light of the dawn
I would do anything for you
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In Waves
03:22
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Turns out it was me
Turns out that I am the misery
That finds its way into everything
That I’ve ever tried to hold
Take your time and I’ll take mine
And maybe I can somehow find
A way to let it go
All I know is it comes in waves
The dark it comes in over my head
And when it does I come undone
Shine your light and I’ll find mine
And maybe we can somehow find
Our way back to the sun
All I know is it comes in waves
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Foaming at the Mouth
03:47
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Do you ever wish it would all fall down?
All at once with a deafening sound?
It’s pulling teeth to rebuild what’s inside
Here we are again the only place we know we can’t get hurt
What if we were to step outside ourselves tonight?
It makes us back away Everyone is afraid of something It keeps us searching
We can’t get away We’re all left with the same old nothing So we keep on running
It takes your breath away
Take a long hard look in the mirror
Your truer self’s getting clearer
You spit and spite and kick and fight tonight
Here we are again the lonely place we know we cannot hurt
Like caged animals we’re howling for our lives
Everyone is afraid of something
We’re all left with the same old nothing
It takes your breath away
Rivers spilling into oceans
Foaming at the mouth
Now violent waters churning in my mind
Lakes of lovers with no emotions
Foaming at the mouth
Now looking for the one love of their lives
We’re all going thru the motions
Foaming at the mouth
How do we make sense of this thing called life?
Rabid creatures with no emotions
Foaming at the mouth
Now running wild and howling for our lives
We’re all going thru the motions
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Throes
05:06
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You chase it like you want it your deep and dark descent
Sinking fast to the bottom only left with regret
There’s no time to consider the consequences of
Chasing darkness for answers chasing demons for love
And you let this one go farther than you intended
Now all you can do is try and get through
I take your hand and feel you let go
And you run towards disaster like you wanted to feel it
Pain
When you find what you’re after you’re destined to repeat it
Same old same
It’s a dream you say to belong again
But it’s the way we fall down that shapes the way we stand
Face it now you’ve found it feel it strong and still
You don’t want to taste what you came for but if you stay here you will
The throes of this escape you tempt fate everyday
You’ve got your arms outstretched in this way
And you run towards disaster like you wanted to feel it
Pain
When you find what you’re after you’re destined to repeat it
Same old same
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9. |
One on One
04:18
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You don’t have to see it to believe it
When it comes to suffering
Just because you wear yours on your sleeve it doesn’t mean
That some of us don’t hurt more than it seems
So let’s call it like we see it
Around my neck you hang a stone
I think I’ve proven what i do and don’t deserve but
Maybe some of us were meant to be alone
I want to see the sun
If you say run I’ll run
To the ends of the earth and beyond
To meet you one on one
I wouldn’t pretend to understand it
Even though it keeps me up at night
And as I lay here wondering why we are the way we are
I just hope in the end it’ll be alright
Do you think in the end it’ll be alright?
I want to see the sun
If you say run I’ll run
To the ends of the earth and beyond
To see you one on one
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I waited for you to answer
You wanted me to believe
At this altar I sacrifice the things
I never wanted to be
Take the pain away
This isn’t the first time
Take the pain away
When this light burns out
Will we feel the weight of what we’ve lost?
I stayed there looking for reasons
And came out not so naive
You put me up against truth or consequences
And I was caught in between
Take the pain away
It cuts from the inside
Take the pain away
When our time runs out
Will we see ourselves for what we are?
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In the blackest night, alone, overboard and floating at sea. Throes offers not a life raft but a wary catalog of what lies ahead; A map of suffering at the hands of the sea.
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