Look what we do for a easy life

Just surrender the loot to the wheel of time

We gotta put on our boots and begin the climb

And with the stars aligned

I am ready to dive in the river

Ready to see the full depth of the ocean

Want a little bit more than my quotient

Wanna set something in motion

Living in poetry and in emotion

I wanna be wholesome

I used to have a great big sweet tooth

But one day I think I just bit right through

Got more than I could realistically chew

Wake up to rain hammering on the roof

And the tessellated minutes

With a separated spirit

Weave them together on the rhythm

Yeah, that's a heavenly linen

I hid underwater, breathing through a reed

Waiting to be given just what I need

Bitterness and aniseed

Multiplying me when I'm asleep

Redefining me, I cannot breathe

Everybody gets lost in the weeds

So serious, furious, far out right

Soothsayers get polarised

Little insects trapped in the light

That's a lunar instinct, to capitalise

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I don't know what we were thinking

We bleed without blinking

I fell out the wrong side of bed in the morning

Feel like I'm in mourning

But sunrise is golden when tundra is bleak

And I contradict myself when I but speak

And all of these melodies stolen

Whistling through the holes in me

Sailing right over my peak, so

Take all advice on the cheek

Keep your shield on the wise and the weak

I know you like me where I am

But you're not keeping me in place

If you recognise my pain

Why not speak aloud its name?

Nothing really changed

I just caught you in the act

An acrobat inside those chains

You're hoping I'm the same

But it's been too long, and I'm too lucid

No sugar cube, and no dilution

No fire fluid, I fly through it

Uprooted, no excuses

No knots loose, I got one route

From this tower, under this one roof

Down dive in the deep blue

I might see you if I sweep through

Yeah, I might see you if I sweep through

Yeah

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We sheltered ourselves

When we should've been attacking

We should've rebelled

When they shot them in the back the first time

Or tenth or hundredth time

But with the hunger rumbling for pound signs

We are dead with the coins in our eyes

Picking up anything spilled from the sack

While we squirrel away at the top of the tower

Ducking all flack, 'cause we can

Call off the dogs ripping at their throats, man

How do you feel no shame?

The shit's backwards

Pull it apart from inside

We are actors

From the west coast to white coast

Our hearts are black

But we're trained as acrobats

No distractions, fuck diplomatic

We're generations too late

To stay stuck with the static

Chained skeletons still in the attic

It's way past time to get drastic

So I see you want your ceiling back

Tried the wide open sky

But you can't deal with that

Kinda tiring to rewire what you feel, in fact

And once the seal is cracked

And it gets real abstract

With no-one left to distract

From the emptiness

You'll get envious

Dig deep, and soon

You'll reach weakness

And I keep preaching that sweetness

Sleep, dreaming and speechless

And I bleed, breaching that borderline

Love, I do it all the time

At least these days

Leave the beast unfazed

Just let it go to waste

Our steps retraced

Another brat gets raised

On mediocre praise

When will we mend our ways?

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So I see you wanna conceal your face

From the wide open sky

Deleting every trace

Throwing yourself into the wild

From the warm embrace

Start living out of place

We're gaining ground apace

Double-counting your contributions

Squandering souls

Pathways riven with holes

Burying broken bones and pointless goals

Take a leaf out of my book of spells

No-one else here can fucking tell

Might as well make a home in hell

Either here or a padded cell

Higher up or delightful lows

Iron sights when the fortune rolls

Time to swim up against the shoal

Time to give it back, all you stole

Time to make your reflection whole

How d'you keep your bright eyes so closed?

I'm wired, and wide awake

I won't fold, let's go

Yeah, but we all know that you'll never go

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Yeah

So I see you want your ceiling back

Tried the wide open sky

But you can't deal with that

Kinda tiring to rewire what you feel, in fact

And once the seal is cracked

And it gets real abstract

No-one left to distract

From the emptiness

You'll get envious

Dig deep, and soon

You'll reach weakness

And I keep preaching that sweetness

Sleep, dreaming and speechless

And I bleed, breaching that borderline

Love, I do it all the time

At least these days

Leave the beast unfazed

Just let it go to waste

Our steps retraced

Another brat gets raised

On mediocre praise

When will we mend our ways?

Close your mouth

Don't talk too loud

They won't find out

If you don't allow them to

Stay in line

Don't break formation

In a little time

They'll be forsaken too

Wash your hands of it

That's the plan, baby

Brush up on the boilerplate

That's just how we operate here

Cooperation is fear

These oceans older than years

You're but a drop of oil in these gears

One snap and you'll disappear

We'll make you disappear

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We let them burn

It's of no concern

Only way they might learn

While our court's adjourned

Our tortured contempt is

The order of business

We settle for sickness

And swim in our wealth

Claim cards we were dealt

As signs of our goodness

We lean back in health

With a gun-stolen headdress

That's laced with their blood

Face it, time's up

These glass doors are shut

We're stemming the flood now

Stemming the flood now

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Trust me

I've seen a thousand cycles

They only want to snatch your title

Faded generation

Raised entitled

Better to keep your bitter soul in bridle

Can't you taste the haemoglobin

On the callous fingertips?

Gazing out the palace windows

Counting our zeroes

Loaded down with lying leadership

Lower readership

Is all they care about

History amiss

But we don't see the shit

Breathing in the myth of our supremacy

A suffocating legacy

A jealousy of anything that isn't ours

Ours is a devil power

Lead showers from the white tower

Dead voices buried by the hour

Speak sweet and then we spit sour

Speak sweet and then we spit sour

It crept up on me

And it sat in my chair

Asking me questions

That I can't bear

What if I'm actually

Just too scared?

What if I don't wake up

From the nightmare?

Never despair

Still time to spare

But they do not care about you

Capital letters crossing the breast

Are you learning your lesson?

Did they get you too?

I'm not making a fool out of you

You just split open too soon

I really have nothing left here to prove

What do I have that's impressive to lose?

So I pressure the wound

Confessing the mood

And undressing the bloom

Get to blessing the crude

Leave it on read

Or I'm losing my cool

Get out of my head

And get back in the pool

Yeah

Get back in the pool

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Setting it off

Setting it off

Looking for adrenaline hush

You never could touch me

Not at all

Pillows are plush

The covers are warm

What's the rush for us?

Must we cut

Through every little storm?

Swim to the centre

Eye of the mental

If you can enter, my love

Break off the handle, yeah

I know I am meant for this

You can keep me with a kiss

You can leave me with a wish

Only taking what I give

Yeah

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Writing a cheque with my skin

Who knows if I'll ever cash that shit in?

But I cannot give in

Shutting your eyes is a sin

And I've been

Taking advice that I don't believe in

We invited them in

Gave them water to drink

And a quarter to think, yeah

Every letter is ink

At the point of a pin

Better breathe in

'Cause the oxygen thin

Lengthen your limbs

Pressure within

You must know that you cannot win

So why do you swim?

Why even dive in?

When you could live

Liminal, pivotal

Living symbol, inimical

Build a pinnacle

Be indivisible, metaphysical

Getting vividly radical

Fuck another hand-to-hand

Needed a hand to hold

Community manifold

Before we grow too old

All of our beats slow

Now we just keep low

And punch in the same code

Yeah, now we just keep low

And punch in the same code

I keep two steps away from it

But I see it beckoning, 'come near'

I'll be there presently

I swear

It's just a temporary fear

We haven't exactly got the time

To sit and extrapolate this line

We've made it a habit

And maybe that's fine

But soon I must decide

If it is do or die

But maybe not tonight

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Okay

Why don't I just blow up my whole life?

There is no better night

Than tonight

When the halogen's bright

And my feet are alight

An horizon here might be in sight

Don't you feel it like I do?

One eye always on the rear view

Would that we could meet again

Brand new

I only want what I gave you

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I keep two steps away from it

But I see it beckoning, 'come near'

I'll be there presently

I swear

It's just a temporary fear

We haven't exactly got the time

To sit and extrapolate this line

We've made it a habit

And maybe that's fine

But soon I must decide

If it is do or die

But maybe not tonight

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Yeah, well

Looks like we came out the other side

Untangled anxiety from the pride

I am not yours

And you never were mine

We had to swim in the shadows to shine

Turn off the faucets

Just one at a time

Line up the sentiments

Until they rhyme

Fragile as filaments

Filled up with light

So eyes up tonight

With the halogen bright

We'll finally see one another

A world to discover, my love

I am frightened

They'll tear us asunder

Prepare for thunder

But I think we maybe just might

Might just survive

Quick change

And I flip names on them

Transform and unzip pain

And I strip to the waist

Try to quit blaming them

Pulling on a brand new face

Wash stains away

And I'm re-weighing

What I'm worth

Feet flailing in dirt

Bursting out of my seams

Losing my limbs in the stream

Heed the beat to my re-rebirth

Set a reminder

Wake up in time

Swimming in the river

Till it turns to wine

Keeping our fingertips intertwined

Little bit of quicksilver

We shine

Creeping in the back door

Fuck that climb

Spin direction

Right round on a dime

Carve a path

You can't wait for a sign

Can't just live your whole life online

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I'm indivisible now

My shadow and I are

Near visible now

And I spent a lifetime

Aligned on one side

Of the glass, looking out

There's no past insurmountable

Stand up, be counted

Stand up, be

Stand up, be counted

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Push out the walls

Spit out your words

Make yourself heard

Make sure it hurts

'Cause we've been running

On empty too long

Engine ticking

But inertia's too strong

Never had to hold a weapon

But I'm old enough

I should have learned my lesson

Careening forward

No question

But when the waves hit

We count blessings

We got so full

That we overflowed

Only chance we had another road

And we never even tried

To break down the code

Never really thinking

'Bout who and what was owed

Till our eyes turned to polygons

We were burning all along

Never righting our wrongs

We had everyone singing the same song

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I'm indivisible now

My shadow and I are

Near visible now

And I spent a lifetime

A lifetime

Aligned on one side

Of the glass, looking out

There's no past insurmountable

Stand up, be counted

Stand up, be

Stand up, be counted

And we are held by each other

Pressing the keystone in the archway

Hazarding guesses

At how much the heart weighs

Making our marks in the sand

Falling to pieces with every plan

Living in rhythms we can't understand

Folding the linen again

And moulding the love with our hands

Blowing the dust off our history books

Blood in my opium, mixed with the soot

We cannot rest until we get it good

Childish carvings get left in the wood

Bereft of him

Steered to the left of him

I learned my lessons

And stood where he stood

Recognise enemies under the hood

And I'll rally them

All together

Feel the rumble underfoot

Feel the rumble underfoot

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I'll share the secret code

When I've cracked it

I'm headed right back home

Where I left it

Telling the same old stories

Sorting inventory

Sanctuary calling

The moment might pass you by

And any moment could be last in line

So say it again if you have the time

Endings are always upon the horizon

Sometimes you choose

When you're ready to find them

Mostly they tap on your shoulder

'You're getting older,' they say

Time to grow out the frame

Only way we can change

There's no avoiding pain

Write down your name in the book

Maybe later you'll look

And be glad

And as for me

And my eloquent shadow

I'm done being scared