Autonomous Realities

by Corvid Canine

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1.
Simpletons, My Dear 01:06
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I have nothing to prove to you I'm not impressed with your heteronomous notions It doesn't matter if I am us or them I never cared to be someone I'm not I haven't a taste for being a slave to your wishes This is self expression, not a pissing contest Simpletons, oh simpletons Learn to make your own trail Or, in the least, remove yourself from the path of those who cut their own The only thing objective is its own absence Your mind is dead Living from the brainstem is such a pathetic way to be
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Nocturnal Existential Panic Attack 01:05
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Turn in, turn out all the lights I just need a little sleep It's getting late and I don't want to think About how much I've made a mess of myself Of all the fears I've constructed with my own hands The thinning of my skin to peel away and show The pathetic being below Moonlight reveals a conflicted being Oh sun, don't leave me now Leave me not alone to my doubts and fears Fear of intimacy, fear of love Fear of everything that I've become From shadows painted on bedroom walls To the ghosts of my past screaming in my ears Just let me sleep, just let me rest Leave me in peace in this burning bed
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Autonomous Realities 01:02
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Realities constructed in the minds of desperate people The world doesn't quite suit you, does it? Why not? They never understood They never could No one will love you like I do Create the persona Be who you truly are Or is identity just another lie? Time and space We feel their effects But they are only theory The world only exists the way we perceive it What is real and what is farce? Perhaps the universe in your own mind Is the only one that is true The only world worth living in Is the one real to you
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Lost Among The Lights 01:02
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Communication is dead The words I speak are meaningless In a day and age of information We can afford to be separated Flashing lights abound in colour Here I'll sit and waste the day Squandering the gift of life In front of screens I rot away A made up world I fed myself Now stuck to chords that smother the soul A meaningless addiction A worthless shell, a withered mind I reach for companionship A silent howl for those like me What a sad day, such a thing to be A wild soul holding itself in captivity It's all worthless It's all worthless Everything is noise to fade I can't see it I won't feel it My mind fades to shades of grey I've only done this to myself Cut the chord and disconnect I wish only to breathe the open air again
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Entropy And Order 01:00
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That look in your eyes I don't want to see it An inability to meet expectations I failed you again, haven't I? Every day I live a lie in the hopes that you might love me this white paper mask I held on to is beginning to yellow with age eyeholes unable to show me the panorama a taste of freedom unintentional this will be the end of me a strong wind came as a thief stole away my shelter I'm not the one you thought I was the truth will kill us all in the end
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Shameful Heart 01:00
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I heard your name whispered through the trees I hung my head in lonely shame Why could you not love me? Why could we not be together? I want to be your everything I want to leave these feelings far behind I can never let you know how I feel My head is awash with guilt At night the spirits whisper "Oh, you, who are alone Leave behind these foolish notions If you love someone, set them free." Your name in the starry sky Your face in the water's mirror Please, oh please, won't you leave me be? Your heart was never mine
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Especially Nothing Special 00:31
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To be the most is not always to be the greatest If a man to strives to be the most ordinary Perhaps, indeed he will succeed In so doing, he will remain faceless
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Noise To Fade 01:04
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All this is but noise to fade The fleeting emotions of youth A fist shaking from the cradle Knowing nothing of life Play revolution while you can Find there was nothing you truly fought for Learn there is nothing you died for The world has no time for you to find yourself Self worth is naught but self satisfaction Dare not feel sorry for yourself, Weakling Take your place in the chain gang or starve
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Zealous Arson 00:58
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quench the fires, zealot place the torch in a place to illuminate rather than feed the flames all it can devour The more fervor you show in swinging your lantern The quicker it burns away Onward to newer things, then, I suppose? You will never be satisfied Growing fat as you consume Engrossed in your fashionable sin Soon to find the novelty fading Doff the cloak to don another Never to find the perfect fit Seek contentment Maybe then you will find peace
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Fading Portraits 01:28
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everyone is getting older marching closer to separation i am so young, yet I feel my mortality sliding away and I can't change it gray hairs upon my father's head my mother weeps for days gone by I know one day they both will leave here and I will see them nevermore Everything is changing fading away, my life is fading separate ways, we all must go I haven't the strength to say farewell It wasn't long ago that we were children and time alone the wall between my heart, unready to walk away but the choice was never ours to make
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Reinventing Rusty Mechanics 01:44
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Utter inadequacy to be worth anything I must reinvent myself Separation from the roots Sever my ties to the branches This road is mine and mine alone Rusty razors cut away the former lifelines The pain is temporary I pray the change is not Walking the line between the world of man and wilderness I am not welcome to either Only the strong can ever hope to survive this land Perhaps there never was any hope for me
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Ball And Chain 01:10
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everyone i meet is unhappy the man and his wife the philosopher and his life should i kill myself or have a cup of coffee? Such meaninglessness everyone i care for is unhappy i'm told that love is the highest thing of which to aspire the bride is weeping on her wedding night the martyr tires of his duty everyone i hate is unhappy because they look exactly like me just another ball and chain
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Sensory Exhaustion 00:57
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A sound diminishes into an echo The echo fades across space and time I am not as strong as I once was Long ago. Goodbye sight Break away from the eyes whom you once served Blur the lines that I might see the world for what it is Impression upon static Fare thee well, ears The escape I found from the world Is now sealed away and I am trapped Silence becomes me The memories slip away between my fingers My mind is dulled by rust and water I am worn by life Frayed and unfit to hold the sails
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Kill The Leviathan 01:28
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Expectations Conform or perish Another threat from a higher power Perhaps, it seems I am divided Cut in two By indecision Kill the Leviathan Hands of oppression Denounce the Us and Them Sever the connection For every decapitation Another head grows Another monarch I will never be free In life you can not win So long as you compete We are all bound by our Drive to put the Other down True autonomy can not coexist With companionship We are all slaves Kill the Leviathan Hands of oppression Denounce the us and them And roam in isolation

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Sugary, consonant, candy grind. Ridding myself of a little leftover teenage angst.

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released June 18, 2013

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