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Intro
00:52
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These memories, they fade away, but not the vision
If I pull the trigger I can’t try again
Slip into a coma, wake from my death
I just can’t see myself falling like this
Don’t make me get through this (Let me be)
Don’t make me get through to you (No one ever will)
No one can ever remember what I felt tonight
Why should I regret the things which you did?
No time to ever remember, no mind to ever forget her
One day now I’ll spin the clock back, spin until I hit the floor
Wake up in this false endeavor, always make your lie secure
Don’t you ever forget about me, not until the waves cover the shore and I can’t see your face anymore
The words are falling off my fingers, I wish I could write my last goodbye
This cage surrounds me, empower these walls, they hear me, they feel me,
Give me strength to break these walls, and kill the ones who chained me here
Don’t make me get through this
Don’t make me get through to you
No one can ever remember what I felt tonight
I can’t forgive what you put me through
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How did we even end up like this?
We’re never in each other’s line of sight anymore
That’s because we’re back to back right now
I just can’t find a way to win this fight anymore.
We’re dealing with something fragile
And you need to care enough
Once glass shatters, it can’t be replaced
Is this shattered or do you think we’ll be okay?
When everything is broken, and the edges are all sharp
Be careful not to stab yourself in the heart.
How do you even see me like this?
You’re never in your normal state of mind anymore
That’s because you’re looking for something not there
You’re throwing fuel on this fire, keep throwing fuel on this fire.
Why is everything different now when nothing’s changed?
We should know our roles better by now.
I have dreams of this city burning to the ground
If we keep lighting fires this whole world will end.
There must be more to this
This cannot be the end
Turn around and look me in the eye
Then make me feel alive.
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Four Letter Names
05:00
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As I walk along, there’s a strange familiar series of faces in my path
That stretch along the sky like clouds that spell memories of you
They stay that way as we stumble along this road that we call history
Who are we anyway? Where does our story go?
Let’s take a chance on us tonight, it might be all right, it might be love
Let’s forget all our fears and just pretend that we’ll be just fine, come home with me tonight
And if it all goes wrong, we can just blame each other
Destroy the evidence, pretend it never happened
We always knew that this would not be easy
We are both still haunted by shadows from our past
You tell me all the time that you want this to last forever
So then you should stop trying to tear down what we’ve built together
There is light to be found in this darkness
Sometimes you need a little time away from the mirror
To change how you see yourself in your reflection
Let’s take a chance on us tonight, it might be all right, it might be love
Let’s forget all our fears and just pretend that we’ll be just fine, don’t leave me here tonight
Open the floodgates, let reality come crashing in
Open the floodgates, let reality in
Like the biggest of tidal waves, like the biggest tidal wave
Count the letters in your name, are they the same as mine?
Count the letters in your name, will they be the same someday?
Will we outrun the shadows, or will they catch up to us?
Do you want to try? Just say the word
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Rooms (ft. Jared Davis)
04:29
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This air never felt so good upon my breathing
I feel so alive tonight in this skin, I can’t be stopped now
And now I’m 15 minutes away from what we call a disaster
I feel my heart beat down these halls, one too many times
Say the words that you need to say, or this all falls down on you
Memories all fade away, like they used to
So let’s murder this love and cover it up and pretend that we never killed it
Let’s burn down the house where we used to live
There’s no more room for love in these rooms anymore
And our room will burn the fastest
We’ve lost control, put out the flame
This fire that sparked our love it won’t be the same
Rise from the ashes above the ground
You buried my heart beneath the sound.
I’m still searching for an exit, will someone cut me loose
But we never seemed to find a reason to
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Song for Sean
04:20
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You’ve been here since before I remember
You’ve always been in my life
You’ve always been a part of my family
It was too early for you to die
Time goes by so fast, and now I’ll never stop missing you
There’s a crushing pain in my chest when I think about how much you mean
No one will every replace you, it just can’t happen
Life won’t be the same after this, now that you’re gone.
Nothing I say will bring you back, nothing I say will bring you back to us.
Let me wake up from this nightmare, let me wake up, let me wake up
Let me wake up from this nightmare, and bring you back to us.
Nothing in the world will convince me that you’re gone.
Nothing in the world will change why we feel alone.
You were around just yesterday, suddenly you’re not here anymore
After we relive our memories, what should we do?
Rest in peace, rest in peace my friend.
You always said that everything will be okay.
Nothing I say will bring you back.
Everything, everything is wrong now.
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I want the blood from my mouth to land on your doorstep
So you can slip on it
Consequently creating a fountain of only red
That leads to a lake of rotting corpses
On the other side of the lake you’ll find my doorsteps
But what’s the point of them now if we don’t exist, no we don’t exist
We can’t undo what we’ve done to ourselves
This situation involves nobody else
Not another soul in sight
Nobody can see this deep red lake
On the other side of the lake you’ll find my doorsteps
But what’s the point of them now if we don’t exist, no we don’t exist
You used to find me where we don’t exist, on the other side of the lake
You will find all the damage that I’ve done on the other side, where we don’t exist
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Singularity
04:19
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Cells create the structure of the fence that surrounds us
Retrace what I felt and turn it into words that I say
Someone will find the answer if there is one
It’s just a mix of words you cannot hear and a bunch of lines you cannot speak
Sensitivity
Morph the stand that we take for this cause and let her change the way that I feel
There’s no way you could possibly say that
Notoriety
A steady savage that hasn’t been seen
The world never heard you leave your mark
When fantasy becomes everything then everything is real
A fragment for reaching the completion
The pleasure in making advances to the whole
Your problems are forcing through the order
The spiteful motion to repair our broken hearts
Oh… nothing is everything
An impression against making the results your own
The satisfaction in taking advantage of the whole
Your troubles are breaking into the surface
Finish the bad ending so I can start over
Cells create the answer is the impossibility
The future will hold the secrets of the past
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Broken Mirror
05:01
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When you look into a mirror the world you see is a reflection of the world you are in
This reflection should be identical because
What is inside a mirror is not another world, it is only a reflection
The things I see inside should only be the same as everything around me
Why then is not the case?
When I look into a mirror I see things that are not there when I turn around
I see pain, suffering, and death in the mirror
What is inside a mirror is not another world, it is only a reflection
The things I see inside are somehow not the same as everything behind me
Now why is this happening?
I no longer think that the world inside the mirror
Is the same as the world I’m in
I will find the truth
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As we bounce off the walls we begin to fall together
Yet we catch one another, cause we’re doing all, we’re doing all we can
Suspended on thoughts of what could happen, yeah
Our lives they are changing, it’s happening, yeah
This sound is what I like
I feel it, I hope you feel it
Yes I hope that you do. I put my trust in you
Cause you know I do, it’s true that’s what I do you know it’s true
So can this craftsmanship bring us something all together?
As we play for one another, cause we’re doing all, we’re doing all we can
Suspended, it’s spinning, in my life, yeah
Inviting this ally, the air it begins to clear
These sounds they all come so easy
I feel it, intriguing
Why so intriguing?
Yes you know I do, I put my trust in you
It’s true, I do
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Stay with me, don’t make me see this war through on my own
Speak to me, don’t leave me in the dark again
We hide alone in our little separate worlds in our souls
To protect them from monsters like you
We turn our backs from what we know is happening
And convince ourselves to justify the things that we’ve done
This war is killing me slowly, and you keep pushing me down
This chaos is clouding our thoughts, but deep down we know Alaro is lost
This land that we all once loved lies in wait of a final judgment
But the people who cared for it will never see it coming
You will never be their God, they can’t see the truth anymore
Don’t you even waste your breath, there’s no saving this
Stay with me, we will fight until we end this war
And I’ll tear this world apart and rebuild it over and over again
Speak to me, I’ll be the God you need me to be
I’ll die for this world if I have to
This war is killing me slowly, and you keep pushing me down
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Seems the ocean means much more to you than I do
Or the smoke that fills your lungs inside his room
Maybe you just aren’t seeing what we all do
But believe me, it ain’t too hard to presume
But your eyes are bluer than the water out there
And I’ve seen the sky’s a dull grey just like mine
Just promise you can at least say that you cared
And I’ll promise to forget this and I’ll be just fine
Just leave everything you knew behind. I’m out of sight, so I must be out of mind
The coast is calling out your name now. Just leave, don’t give me a reason why
After several weeks and hours have gone by, Yeah I know I should be over you somehow
Now you’re like the blackest ocean so deceiving
The tainted water pulling you into its grasp
But I’ve been learning how to keep myself breathing
And soon enough your smile will be part of my past
We’re out too deep and we can’t keep this
We’ve sunk beneath these waves. We’ve sunk, and now we drown
Seems the ocean means much more to you than I do
The coast is calling out your name
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Dreamstate
05:13
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There’s darkness ahead, and it’s easy to get lost
Follow the searchlight, it will guide you through this madness
Move towards the white light and start to think it’s all over
Turn around at the last second and quickly make for the surface
Reality is guilty, the secrets are inside of us. We’re looking for the answers everyday
Insanity is gripping, the shadows are surrounding us, We’re hanging on the edges, Still alive
In the void between life and death you find the truth about yourself
The truth is a terrible crime, but maybe some crimes are necessary
Bring me to the beginning to find the answer
Swallowed by the darkness torment tries to consume me
Is it right to expect a good ending to the story of my strange life?
The abyss tries to pull me deeper, But I will find the strength to move on
I am the body which you found washed ashore
Tired and cold, a look of despair on my face
Will you run and tell the world what you saw?
Or will you push me back to sea and walk away?
I am the sea monster. I break those who venture out to sea unknowingly
Watch out for the monster, he has his eyes set on you.
I am the body which you found washed ashore
Tired and cold, a look of despair on my face
Will you run and tell the world what you saw?
Or will you push me back to sea and walk away?
I’ll be waiting for you at the ending of this nightmare.
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Guardians of the sky, you were made from my depression
To fill the hole that is my heart as an escape from my obsession
My own pretty demon, covered in black that doesn’t belong to your skin
And metal driven through your face that could never be able to replace
The love that you couldn’t let in
You make me sick
I get lost in the gaze I can’t forget, It reminds me so much of the sky
Cover myself in the clouds to keep the blue from getting out
So I can leave you behind
You make me sick
Beautiful demoness, look at how far you’ve fallen
You shed your wings, refuse to sing, and now you’ve messed up everything
Guardians of the sky, that cover the blue in black smoke
Smoke that chokes you, but you inhale just to feel again
You make me sick
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Eric Francis New York
Self-Produced Multi Genre Solo Artist and Audio Engineer from NY.
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