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Life's Gleam
01:11
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As I stare at these salvos flying by my eyes, there's a strange sort of comfort in which I can confide. I've come to peace that I might not make it home and my friends will read this last message on my gravestone. I miss you all so much and I hope you're doing well. When you meet me down here, I've got a tale to tell but for now live your life, 'cause it's the only one you've got. Don't let anybody tell you that you're something you're not. You've got more to live for, much more than you think. Don't waste your life away. Don't help your own ship sink. 'Cause in these last moments that I'm writing this down, I know you won't see me, but I'll still be around. I'm realizing now what my life means to me and I saw how bright life can gleam.
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Running
02:39
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I've been running away from myself and putting things long overdue up on a shelf that can't be reached or heard and can't be felt. So nobody around me will see that I'm not well. I'm not really helping me though, by collecting things that need to go. But how can I know what's good for me, when all I want to do is get up and leave? Somebody please help me find me then put an end to this recurring story. Then bury it, throw it under lock and key and keep it there where it can't be set free. If this bottle tips, it's going to break, and pretending I'm alright will be much harder to fake. But by then I will hopefully be awake to a new and much brighter place.
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Lack of Sleep
04:25
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I've been looking for something I can't find. These pointless years of searching have left me blind to all the things in front of me. To all the things my eyes can see. How'd things end up this way? I don't sleep much these days. Left without anything else to say. How'd things end up this way? I've been looking for some kind of redemption. I've been looking for my own intentions. My actions and my current situation attest to my lack of direction.
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Shadows
02:36
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I have trouble defining who I am. Oh, I look into a mirror and I see a different man who bears striking resemblance to someone that I know, but it's time to leave that man behind. My bags are packed and in tow. I hope to become someone better now, I just haven't found the right path to show me how. It's a long road to walk down, much harder to survive. But should I reach the end I can sever all my ties to the shadows of my past that have abandoned me. A new one comes from the east. The souls of my feet are planted firmly in the ground and my eyes are staring at a whole new world now. I've done some things previously that I regret. The past is the past so move forward and forget about the times I wish I hadn't said the things I said. The times where I wish I had taken different actions instead. I can't change what's done and I've come to terms with it. So now I learn from my mistakes and enjoy the life I live. Things are looking up and now it's your turn in line to lick the old wounds and let them go with time. Now the shadows of your past have abandoned you but a new one rises with the moon. The souls of your feet are planted firmly in your shoes and you're walking forward now with great things to be done.
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Goodbyes
02:29
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Take a deep breath 'fore you step on that train 'cause once you are on it, you'll never be the same. Take a deep breath 'cause you're not coming back and you'll have to forget about the shit you didn't pack. You said your goodbyes, things are so different now. I wish there was a way for you to get back somehow 'cause I miss you and need you much more than you'll know. Suddenly you're gone, I have no direction and feel like I've lost all connection to the world around me and the people I love. I hope you're doing well in the clouds up above. Seven years have passed and I've finally let go to all the guilt and the pain I only had a year ago. I'm so sorry for not coming down to visit you in your bed. How could I have known it'd be the last place that you'd rest your head? But had you not departed I would not be the man that I am now, and I hope I'm the kind of person that would make you proud.
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Oceans
02:28
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Your face reminds me of better times. With your expressions just so loving and so kind, and all my worries just float away. When I'm with you I feel oh, so safe. If you ask I'll swim the oceans. My arms will move without a notion. Your face is why my steps are attracted to you. Remember when we were kids and thought that we flew above the clouds? We were there for so long. Now all my time just feels wasted and wrong. I would've swam the oceans but my arms, they can't sustain the motion. Now as I stand in line at those towering gates, I look back down at earth while I wait. Wishing there was something I could do to change my fate, but I know now that it's too late.
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Lately
02:47
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Lately I've been having trouble distinguishing dreams from reality. Lately I've been seeing double, tryin' to figure what you mean to me. Lately I've been writing love songs just to try and pass the time. You are the only one who can understand what's really inside. I don't want another good thing to pass me by. I'm missing that feeling, that feeling of being tied to another person so closely. A person who knows who I really am. I never want to lose that again. Staring down at the floorboards beneath me, thinking of the way you spoke to me. Not understanding anything. People now are so hard to read. The wood underneath me doesn't speak. I am lost now more than when I began. Your words just now, they seemed so weak. No matter, they're committed to the sands.
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I miss when I could first drive and we spent all our summers just living our lives. Things were so different then. We swore we would never grow up and we gave it a good run but sixteen will never come again. Take it all back. Time flies too fast. Then eighteen came and swept me off my feet like the time you came over then kissed me under the tree and we promised we would never leave. High school, it wasn't that great but I'd take it any day over anything today. Anything to get back that warm summer night.
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We'll light this city up like rockets in the sky. We'll turn this place to day from night. When the ashes are falling on our streets, we'll run into the city singing of running around free. Each and every day, we try to find a way. A way to make things better. Each and every night, I stare up at the sky and pray I'll remember. Oh man, it's dangerous what we're doing here. It's dangerous that we're still chasing all our fears. It's so dangerous what we're doing here. It's still dangerous chasing all these fears.
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I've been looking for something I can't find. These pointless years of searching have left me blind to all the things in front of me. To all the things my eyes can see. How'd things end up this way? I don't sleep much these days. Left without anything else to say. How'd things end up this way? I've been looking for some kind of redemption. I've been looking for my own intentions. My actions and my current situation attest to my lack of direction.
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Oceans (original demo)
02:04
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Your face reminds me of better times. With your expressions just so loving and so kind, and all my worries just float away. When I'm with you I feel oh, so safe. If you ask I'll swim the oceans. My arms will move without a notion. Your face is why my steps are attracted to you. Remember when we were kids and thought that we flew above the clouds? We were there for so long. Now all my time just feels wasted and wrong. I would've swam the oceans but my arms, they can't sustain the motion. Now as I stand in line at those towering gates, I look back down at earth while I wait. Wishing there was something I could do to change my fate, but I know now that it's too late.
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Ghosts (original demo)
02:32
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A ghost of you is giving me advice that I don't want to hear. A stream of useless noise, screaming in my ears. I tried to lose you but you persisted through the years. You're just a whisper but you're still my biggest fear. Ten years have passed and that ghost is not in sight. But no, it's not done with me, not quite. It still has one task to do, to tell me how I died. To make me see the past ten years have all just been a lie.
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