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I won’t drink the poison and
Wait for you to die I’ll
Make you swallow every drop
Sing until you choke on it
So unfair
I hate it
Hate it
Why do I live
With your consequence?
So obsessed with size you don’t see
Strangling vines that flower slowly
I don’t want to build a mountain
I just want to see you buried
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“So so rusty”
“No this will never do”
“With all these imperfections
who could ever love you?”
『ゴミ』と言うね
何をしてもいい？
どこに行けばいいな？
No.
Push and shove
To try and mold
小さい花を潰した
One of youにならない
私は私だ
何もないお願い
僕の誠
Never welcome on the canvas
Ugly colours wiped away
Drip onto the barren ground
Paint the dirt the rarest shade
闇に住んでる
光が嫌々
Outsider through and through
Find a place where I belong
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3. |
Hooded Pitohui
01:10
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You may not believe me
But I really do
Think of you
As my friends
Accept I’m someone to hate
A moving target at best
Doubling inward on what
The lot of you can’t stand
Only toxic between your teeth
So keep me out of your jaws
and we can all get along
I don’t like being told who to be
But if you’re playing God
I’ll play Satan gladly
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4. |
Arenaceous Tongues
01:22
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Nothing is more futile than singing
Writing on water
Dreaming in dunelines
Infinitely greater meaning
Than a voice projecting
In the face of time
words mean nothing
Intent, a veneer
Yet ultimately vain
A house on the shore
Prey to sand and sea
Even a foundation
Crumbles fast
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5. |
Starters
00:47
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Everyone forgets their first
And I know because it’s me
Once the comfort sets in
Goodbye, goodbye
Once the fire starts
No one speaks of the match
Only the fuel
Feeding a higher flame
Strike me
Watch me
Ignite into
A lamp to light your way
Toss me
Throw me
Away once you
Find the city
Step one buried
Amidst the thousands followed
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6. |
菊
00:57
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Bucket of solid paint
Erases every mistake
Start over and retrace
I swear everything will be ok
Close your eyes and count to five
Breathe in sunflowers and starlight
Start again
Hand in hand
Praying spring will come for us
In an endless snow
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7. |
Dishonest (Honestly)
01:05
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And it’s the honest truth
I can’t be trusted
Mold the narrative until we reach a happy ending
Fact and fantasy
If I was the author of your story
I would make the world your kingdom
Cuz I’m a liar
Tell you what you wanna hear
Staying true to everybody but me
Liar
Wanna make you smile
Though it’s not the truth
I swear it’s in good faith
Over and over
I’ll bend the truth until it breaks
Take the pieces left behind
And try to build you shelter
Smooth away the edges until the pieces fit
And your new reality will fit you better
Cuz I’m a liar
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8. |
Sugar Glass Disco
01:02
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Sugar glass
Technicolor
Cut myself on jealousy
Disco nights
Neon lights
Want what I can never have
Disco ball
Got a hammer
I could break these very walls
Bloody hands
Pieces fall
But we’re safe if I just watch
Always too scared to join
Crystal umbrella keep me safe
Now there’s two inside this box
While the colours drive me crazy
Guests at the ball
Feast until their hearts’ content
All I can do is watch
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9. |
Happy Happy Birthday
01:00
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I present to you
A box giftwrapped neatly
undo the bow
and find what you deserve
Nothing
Nothing
I offer you nothing
It’s all I have to give
Anymore
I gave it all away
Before
An empty container
The gifts are gone
The empty and unfillable space
You created yourself
I present
To you
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When the shadows
Blocked away the sunlight
Birds learned to see
In the dead of night
墨になる
絵を書ける
やっと安らかに眠った
When the darkness
Drained me of my colours
I became a drop of ink
To outline the places I hurt
Holding in my hands the sin
Like juice from the bitter fruits
Of all of my suffering
Restoring the cracked and bruised
Agency
Hold the sails to this ghost ship
Sailing on a bloody sea
Carrying me for once
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11. |
Antagonistic Smile
01:00
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If I could write your fate
There’s not a pen sharp enough
Nor ink deep
That could accurately
Outline your pain
My friend
Let’s play
Until you are erased
A game
For two
Of sins
And truth
You were never more
Beautiful than
The X across your face
You were never more
Beautiful than
The dirt inside your lungs
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12. |
Bloody Tangle
01:12
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Stitch and pull
Jagged tugs uneven lines
Oh my god
Please stop me now
Thread and needle Colour dripping down my hands
Kind intentions Pave the road to cruelty
I’ve no training in the art of sowing wounds
But these heartstrings are all i have
No no it’s no good, let me try again
Tangled further with bloody wires
Noise and static build off of broken chords
Pieces of a lullaby i sang for you
Stitch and pull and tangle further
Stitch and pull and tangle further
Till we suffocate together
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13. |
Bruised Smiles
01:29
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You can only bruise a smile so many times
Before it fades entirely
A bone can only mend itself so many times
before warping beyond repair
My patience; took for granted
Good will seen as a given
A bird distrustful of hands
Will never change that if struck
I can’t just throw away the years
Even though I wish I could
Nothing will change If I don’t stand
and say no more of this
I’m sorry
No more
I wish I could forget
I’m sorry
No more
You took all that I had
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We spent
All out lives
Feeling old
Until we
Realized
How young we were
Sullied views and
Skewed dreams
We never lived
Looking in
The rearview mirror
Until the
Oncoming lights
Flicker away
Flicker away
And sunlight
Becomes a
Memory
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15. |
Bravado of Silver
01:09
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Years have gone
And colour drained
Like all the fucks
I used to give
Graceful or not
All that’s left
Of myself
I savor
All I can take
Of myself
to the grave
Is myself
Only myself
So who the fuck
Are you?
Only the years could know
The bravado of silver
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16. |
Not My Problem Anymore
00:55
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I missed the part where
You’re my problem
Anymore
Staring down the barrel of
Destitution
Changes your perspective
Just a little bit
Just a little bit
Just a little
fucking
bit
You missed the part where
I’m your concern
it follows
You wouldn’t be mine
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17. |
Challenging Linguistics
00:58
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A language
Unknown
A mystery
It’s so exciting!
Vague words and sentence structure
Grammar comes together strangely
Puzzling for linguists
Many tongues I know but this is different
Homophones and synonyms
Make up your vocabulary
Antonyms and opposites
Exist in equal harmony
I wish I could make
Heads or tails of your behavior
And the words you speak
Tell two tales of your intentions
Do I like you?
Do I hate you?
Are we friends
or are we foes?
Let’s unravel this mystery
And find out what this seed will grow
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18. |
Nascent Bubble Skins
00:53
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Leave behind
What and for whom?
Only scraps of
Dirty tattered paper
Crafts I honed
Unwanted by anyone
So inward they turned
Like evolution in isolation
Thin and nascent bubble skins
holding in the breath of my lungs
Will disappear leaving no sign
I ever was
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When I add up all the numbers
Read the map and chart the stars
Logically
Every sign
Every answer
Points to the grave
It’s not that
You mind a missing colour
It’s the weight of
The unfilled lines
That disturbs you
Not the absence of a fire
But the cold on your hands
Nobody wants to deal with a corpse
If it meant
I finally found peace
You can clean
My messes for once
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20. |
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I cut my finger today
On broken shards you left behind
Even though you’ve disappeared
Like petals in the autumn sky
I found the ghost of all our plans
Buried in a little box
And even though I’ve cried for years
It seems the storm will not subside
When it’s time
Leaves will fall
And something new
Will grow
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