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Intro
01:45
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Love/ war/ death/ hope/ breathe/ forward/ falter/ choke your love/ of war/ is the death/ of our hope/ breathe in/ move forward/ don’t falter/ don’t choke and when the sun comes up/ she wonders if she can crawl through one more day/ she’s down to nothing/ but still they take away/ he said it was for the best as he held her near/ but he was all she had left/ now all she’s got is fear/ scream your pain so god can hear
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Empty Page
02:56
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The daylight/ where has it gone/ Feel the night/ fall so horribly wrong/ a cold cold home/ so quiet it feels like her tomb/ stone heartbeat/ carves a network of scars to map her mistakes/ and mark the distance/ to every single promise that she knows/ he’ll break
the silence falls like snow when he comes home/ and it’s the only truth/ she’ll get from him/ she’s sure/ she thought if she loved harder/ everything would get better/ but after years of fighting/ an endless uphill battle/ the tears on her pillow/ are all that he gives her her heart’s an empty page/ it doesn’t speak of me and I’m a ghost/ but at least that page is clean she fell/ to her knees/ her face was covered/ she was drenched in defeat/ knew it was over/ knew it was gone/ she gathered up the broken pieces and she moved on
and oh/ I was wrong her heart’s an empty page/ it doesn’t speak of me and I’m a ghost/ but at least that page is clean like a morning after thunderstorms/ one day you’ll open your eyes/ the sky won’t be gray/ and I hope you heal/ I hope you heal someday
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Epitaph
02:35
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She told him to aim with his heart/ like that would keep him from danger/ saw children swarming with flies/ and wounded crawling for shelter/ the smell of war is in the air/ and there’s no stopping the vultures/ we could have handled them once/ but we forgot what we stand for
Sprung from his beating chest/ through veins and to his fingertips/ to paper waiting patiently/ for words that filled his heart with fear/ but he would not/ turn back this time/ steadfast he pushed through every line/ watched ink dance through his last goodbye/ and felt this urgent plea fall from his lips
carry me/ when my broken body is numb/ be my dawn/ when these endless nights stretch on
and in her dreams that night/ she saw a phantom with the ocean in his eyes/ the smell of sea foam in his hair/ and so she waited on the shore for him/ for days/ and when she saw his body borne in by the tide/ bobbing gently on the waves/ she felt his promise shatter/ fall in facets/ sparkling like a thousand breakers/ catching and refracting the light from a dying sun
she swam out to him/ laid her head against his chest/ inhaled through gritted teeth/ and cursed the gods with all her breath/ her fury moved them/ they cast her soul into the wind/ where it rose above the waves to be with his/ and where they met/ two birds of white/ sailed out across a sea as deep as any sea I’ve ever known/ and close to twilight/ when the sun meets the horizon/ and the waves beat out a cadence on the sand/ you can hear her/ singing softly/ in a voice as clear as glass
I will carry you
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The art of declaring war
02:04
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I couldn’t look away as you reached into my chest/ tore out my insides/ strung a rope around my neck/ hung there /silent/ a specter in the trees/ a bleeding reminder that nothing is ever as it seems/ deceiver/ I hope that you can never wash the murder from your hands
Watched the sun slip away/ felt the cold of night grow/ heard the wind as it whistled through my blood and stole the warmth from my bones/ from down below I heard a thousand voices breathe/ we’ll always be with you we swear to you we won’t ever leave/ you/ to die/ with no one by your side
He made a promise in hell/ when he turned and saw where all the rest of us fell/ it was a promise made in brimstone/ ashes and flames/ wrists and ankles bound/ in adamantine chains/ he turned his eyes skyward when he saw the heavens shake/ for fear of the revenge that he would take
I want you to sing/ sing with me and know/ that as long as voices rise with your own/ you are not alone/ I’m a dead man/ but I’m not alone
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You are the only pain I know/ You turned these tired eyes to stone/ you carved your name into my bones/ before I finally let you go No one makes me bleed like you do/ but I’m through bleeding for you/ so close its eyes/ and dress its wounds/ lay it to rest/ and seal its tomb/ no doubt in my heart anymore/ I’ve found a cause I can fight for/ days spent longing no more/ I’ve got friends I would die for/ and I will wander no more/ I’ve found a home I can stay for/ and I don’t need you anymore/ I’ve found a love I can live for
All of the things that you’ve done/ will keep your eyes on the floor/ you choose to hide in the dark/ because you’re a marked man/ A broken promise like chains/ will keep you bound to the past/ you’ll never find your way home/ as long as you’re a marked man
everything I’ve ever learned about loving and living and dying and caring and trying/ it was all backwards/ it’s terrifying/ I say I’m a good man/ I’m fucking lying/ and all the things I told myself to make this bitter world make sense/ they were just a defense/ a fragile fortress for my selfishness.
I’m wide awake/ and I can see her/ praying for me to come home/ my eyes are shut/ but I still feel her/ praying for me to come home/ find your way home
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Sing
03:18
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Sing/ for stagnation/ sing/ for the cursed/ sing/ for the words/ sing/ to show them you hurt/ fade with the seasons/ flee from the dawn/ suffer your weakness/ envy the strong/ gorge on shadows/ both fists full of mud/ throat raw with pleading/ eyes shot with blood/ carved hollow by lies/ forsaken and cold/ your dreams turn stale/ as you grow old/ complacent children/ wards of wasted breath/ when you come to your senses/ there won’t be anything left/ they’re waiting/ in windowless rooms/ so sure of a purpose/ but no one’s coming/ not for you
Frail ghost/ arms raised/ against a tempest of meaningless days/ dead eyes/ lose sight/ of the angels that guided your way/ frail ghost/ not me/ watch your colors fade/ watch your world turns gray/ time wrenches/ time tears/ time steals your hope away frail hands call lightning down/ frail tongues let fury sound/ don’t let your life escape/ don’t let your world turn gray/ complacent children/ don’t waste your
breath/ my god won’t you come to your senses/ my god take back what’s left/ tear down windowless rooms/ drown out all their lies/ we will remember our worth/ and open blood shot eyes/ red/ no sleep/ raise glass/ repeat/ tear flesh/ break bone/ drag yourself home/ sing for the cursed
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See
02:36
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I know the words/ I’m wide awake/ I know the answers/ I’ve read them all in my mistakes/ I know these faces/ I’ve mourned them all/ and I’ve died a thousand times/ with no one in my arms
a burnt and callous orb/ sinks below the trees/ doesn’t even blink/ as we all cease to be/ jawbones in the grass/ empty fields like seas/ I wish that I could show you/ I wish that I could make you see/ hope doesn’t spring/ where hope’s not sown/ a team of burning horses/ drags a chariot home
a world of orphaned children/ facing the unknown/ blood pours from their lips/ we watch it flow we sold our hearts away/ we don’t remember ever feeling whole/ we hear the scratches on the records in our broken souls/ around and around/ they drown of the sound/ of everything we clung to hope for/ lost/ void/ empty words/ and we don’t sing anymore/ we don’t/ we won’t see
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Drown
02:03
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This year burned my face like acid/ so I told myself a lie/ part of me is faded and I feel like I’ve been running out of time/ just because I held you/ doesn’t mean that you were ever mine/ I tore the stitches from my mouth and I’m just fine/ I’m just fine/ really I’m fine/ but I’ve become enough like you to see through your lies
wipe the blood from your lips/ your lies/ pull the splinters from your fingertips/ lie/ oh don't they deserve it/ your lie/ oh haven’t they earned it/ oh don’t they deserve to drown (x50)
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Long Day
02:56
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I’m sorry they said/ but this is the end/ pack all your things/ we’ll escort you out/ when you’ve cleared off your desk/ and picked up your paycheck/ we know this must be hard/ we’re sorry/ but this is the end
wet ash/ plastic bags/ when did things get this bad/ you must go on/ you have no choice/ glass bottles hit the ground/ and you drown in that sound/ scream at the walls/ until you’ve lost your voice
I’m sorry she said/ but this has to end/ with tears in her eyes/ she gathered the kids/ took them out to the car/ a suitcase in hand/ you know I still love you/ I’m sorry/ but this has to end
He tracks snow into the house/ then turns around to watch it melt/ walks past a sink of dirty dishes/ puts his keys down on a shelf/ stands in the doorway to the bedroom/ sees the way the winter sunlight falls on her side of the bed and this is hell/ without you here/ this empty house/ ghosts on the stairs/ and don’t I know that this is hell/ without you here
and this is hell/ I’m living here/ these phantom sounds/ an empty kitchen with my coffee getting cold/ I’m living here
I never kept my word/ look what it’s done to you/ look what it’s done to me/ because I couldn’t choose/ what can’t they take from you/ what can’t they take from me I will not accept this as the end you were all I had/ there’s nothing left for me/ when I’m old and alone/ I’ll have myself to blame
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(Short)Sighted
01:22
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makes her way through the wreckage from the night before/ packs a blanket around the drug asleep on the floor/ speaks to him gently in the half light of dawn/ says there’s no such thing as too far gone/ Don’t wake me up/ I can’t face all the things that I’ve done aren’t we fucked/ just to be here at all/ and we don’t trust our luck/ so we’ve learned how to fall/ and when this ends/ then we’ll just start again/ if you have nightmares tonight then just wake up/ open your eyes/ it isn’t real/ everything’s fine
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Bones
03:14
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A pen held in hands paralyzed by/ blue lines running through paper crosswise/ challenging him to find a way to keep his fear at bay/ compose melodies and verse to chase your pain away/ because he’s never known a bond that could transcend time/ survive the cold of death/ and the lash of life/ maybe someday he’ll find something to believe in/ maybe someday he’ll find his way back home
He dreams of battles won/ he dreams of love lost/ he dreams of pressing on no matter what the cost/ he dreams of highways through hills/ tire ¬packed snow/ hands catching lift through a passenger window/ and when all his visions fade and the black of night yields to the gold of day/ he’ll still carry the faces of broken saints/ cracking jokes through half ¬smiles and heartache
Don’t let go of the people you treasure the most/ don’t give up on the things that you bled for/ believe in me I won’t ever lose hope/ keep faith we’ll find something worth fighting for
There are animals/ in all of us/ and their songs/ they ring out/ free and long
We are animals/ every last one of us/ and our anthems they burn like the sky at dawn
Burn like the sky at dawn/ Blaze red and your songs will go on/ I promise you your songs they will go on/ believe in me/ I won’t lose hope/ keep faith/ we’ll find something worth fighting for/ don’t let go/ I’ll be your reason to carry on/ so carry on
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Unmarked
02:52
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I’ve been knocking down the statues you’ve made but/ I’ve been having trouble digging your grave/ it shouldn’t have to be this hard/ it shouldn’t have to feel impossible/ but there’s a sorrow in the sun scorched earth and/ the tired soil that will never give birth/ flowers blossom on the place where you fell but/ nothing else grows I swore I’d hold on tight to this/ this is letting go/ I said I’d always be yours/ this is losing hope Last night I watched a family die/ they shielded their eyes as fire rained from the sky/ this shouldn’t have to be what’s right/ this shouldn’t have to come so natural/
and all the pointless petty choices they give/ create a soul that must be silent to live/ we walk together but we suffer in solitude/ we’re all alone here/ and we’re left with no peace/ no clarity/ this letting go/ just lies/ just misery/ this is losing hope and if daylight never breaks/ and every last one of us should fall/ our restless ghosts will find a place inside these hallowed walls/ with blazing hearts/ and mud ¬streaked hands/ we won’t forget/ we will sing for them we buried our hope in an unmarked grave/ it grew cold as we turned our backs and we walked away.
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WTF
01:16
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What the fuck/ we’ve been wading through bullshit/ there’s nothing real here man/ we’re faking for the fakers
I/ call/ bullshit They just don’t understand/ they just don’t get you man/ we’ll fake it for these fakers I’m so sick of all your bullshit
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Blend Company Seoul, South Korea
Blend Company is a South Korea music Label based in Seoul, South Korea, since Nov. 2014. The company operates a record label, talent agency, media contents production and architecture design. That pursues to communicate and give inspirations with Architects, and Musicians who have different genres. ... more
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