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Forgotten Door
02:32
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Slip through the forgotten door, find him crying on the floor
Don't lose your memory when you wake up
You were looking at the stars, wondering how far they are
When you fell and you learned about amnesia
You're the strange one who can read my mind
The deranged one who's often so hard to find
Don't let your voice die before you regain your words
They're gonna put you on trial, haven't you heard?
Well I see you've lost your key, but that's okay, you see?
I've got an extra in my pocket
I'll give you five thousand masks, and not one could complete the task
Understand your face isn't easily hidden
You know I'm so unimpressed with the way that you feel
If you've lost your crystal ring, I'm afraid I can't bring it back up
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How Far
03:04
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How far up does the sky go? or is it just a reflection?
How long will the ocean flow?
Only until it stops, only until it stops
Only until it ends, and nothing ever ends
I don't know about you, but I've got everything I need
Everything I need is this
A colorful mirage laid out and I, not knowing what it is, or why, why it's all so new to me
How long will the desert last before it sinks into itself?
How long will the future hurt the past?
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Dandelion
03:57
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I'm glad that you're gone, as grim as it sounds
I'll admit that I was wrong if everything turns around
I've been thinking in my sleep, I've had plenty of dreams sent to me
Not one depicted you, at least that I could see
You're sinking into the abyss
Sometimes life is just a hit or a miss
You are a night terror wrapped up in a dandelion
Your face is the reason that I came and the reason that I have to leave this place
It's the taste of bewilderment, I don't know what you are
You're never near and you're never far
All my life, you've shot it up my veins
You had better put on your hat the next time that it rains
I've let go of your lies, in hopes that I am right this time
I've let go of your lies
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Every night I dream a lucid dream of you walking through the door, taking out some book of poetry and reading it on the floor
We're talking it all over and we're laughing at ourselves because we're sheltered from the future for a while inside this cell
We want to feel young and we want to feel alive, but still we crave sadness and rain falling from the sky
We've made rules just to discard them, still too scared to break the law and though we dream of California we know we'll settle for some flaws
Are we gonna waste our youth crying over people we can't have? thinking about places we can't go? yearning for some missing half? Are we gonna spend our time all alone every night, writing songs we haven't lived and searching for some inner light?
Nobody told me it might end up feeling like hell, nobody told me but I figured it out just as well
After all it was just a lucid dream that pulled me in the zone, and in reality I have the poetry but I'm reading it alone
We're getting too bored and weak to stay alive, but we're much too young and far too scared to die
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Fake Poetry
02:22
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When I scream the sound just bounces back to me
The world is going to be quite small for all eternity
I'll probably never read the letters that you send
All I need is a friend, though even that's not left in the very end
But if you knew that I was losing sleep, then maybe you would talk to me
Maybe then our lives could be a subject for fake poetry, just maybe
Nostalgia sits across from me in a metal chair
We're having conversations about the summer air
"This place is now in ruins" I say and then I sigh
I wish that you would join us but you're so busy trying to get by
If you're laughing at me now, just know that I can't hear you
I just thought you'd like to know
If you're thinking of me now, just know that I've forgotten
I just thought you'd like to know
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It's Still Raining
03:01
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Rows and rows of walls stretch out
Resounding guns spur nature's shout
There's an answer in my mind
But it's burned too deep for me to find
It's still raining where I stand
It's still raining where I stand
It's still raining, still coming down hard in our land
Nobody cares for the dragonfly
Whoever lives has got to die
Shards of rainbows dance around you
Don't ignore what more surrounds you
There's one thing that I've come to know
People come and people go
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Innocent Prisoner
02:31
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You can't keep quiet
There's a riot in your cell, you sit beside it
Freedom is just a word, it's as trapped as a bird
I can hear you, your words resonate through my heart and they ring true
To be honest it's all just a great big lie
I'm not alone but always lonely underneath this stone sky
You're an innocent prisoner, I can see it in your eyes
I guess I can't protect you from a multitude of lies
There is nobody left for you
I wish that I was left for you
In this ghost town, where nothing but nothing is around
I could help you escape into a better place
But I can't reach past these imaginary bars
I can't bring myself to try just that hard
It took me a while to comprehend the truth
You see that I'm an innocent prisoner too
If you have to face your death I'm gonna scream and make it stop
But there is nothing I can do, for I have everything to lose
I'm an innocent prisoner, can't you see it in my eyes?
I guess you can't protect me from a multitude of lies
There is nobody left for me, I wish that you were left for me
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House of Diamonds
03:34
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I can't go, no I know, I can't go outside
I can only hum a chant of things I'd never dare try
I am on the inside now, face up against the wall
This house of diamonds only has so long until it falls
The field is closed, the gate is locked forever
I'm too afraid to see the sun, maybe I won't ever
This great big world and still I feel I'm locked in a cardboard box
If I was to break down the door, I'd be flooded by the sea
If anyone in here is real, I'm certain it can't be me
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Electric Poison
02:32
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Stuck inside my head, shadows crawling underneath my bed
We're counting off the days but the number won't change
We're gonna have to leave but we're not to blame
Still generating clones of a brainwashed race
Resisting to exist, I can't see my own face
Intoxicated by the depth of surprise, I can see that fearful look in your once happy eyes
Your electric poison is affecting my brain
As hard as I try I just can't stay the same
I haven't quite learned how to win at your game
I can't break free from these chains, I guess I'm going insane
The hallucination that you call your life will never end
There's no way that you can change your mind again
When we march we'll make songs with our chains
And knock out reality until nothing remains
We're too far into the future to look back anymore
I know someone is watching me from just behind that door
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Utopia
03:06
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If I step out, will you pour the words on me, and show me how to run away somehow?
I can't forecast how things will be, but it's all alright, we're doing fine for now
Let's build our own utopia, darling I was hoping you would understand it's all part of the plan
Let's build our own utopia, darling I was hoping you would understand it's all part of the plan
Let's build our own utopia and then watch it burn, I'm hoping you will understand it's all part of the plan
Let's build our own utopia, darling I was hoping you would understand that this is where we stand
Sick streets bruise us and we call them home, we've been taught to accept that that's the way that it goes
I'll severely serenade you as you push away your sleep, but what's the point? nobody really knows
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Safely Insane
04:30
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Shadows of lilies waving in the sun
You can try to hide, but you can't run
I found the chime but I don't hear the wind
Travel through defeat, through the lakes on the bend
Caste walls will crumble and fall
No place I've seen could hold it all
Let the floodgates open your brain
Together we'll be safely insane
Together we'll be safely insane, together we'll stop all of the rain that's been falling lately
Together we'll be safely insane, together we'll ease all of the pain
Haunting is not enough detailed a word to describe what human ears have heard
The crying of souls, the grin of the beast
Deep in the forest on the edge of the east
Out here in the maze, there's no place to sit
Now that I'm lost, I can start to enjoy it
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If You Ever Come Around
03:48
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The earth is a dangerous place, but it seems there's nowhere else to go
The moon is just a fraction of what's causing the ocean to flow
The faraway laughter and glowing ballrooms are starting to crumble to dust
The tunnel we crawled through to hide from the law is slowly beginning to rust
If you ever come around and decide that you wanted to stay after all
I promise I'll be here
I swear that I won't move at all
In a thousand years, will it really matter? our names and the places we died
Even right now it's far too late to reverse all of the teardrops we've cried
But it seems that we are people and it seems that we are real
I guess it's not my fault since you lie and you steal
When the graveyards are empty and they keep us in clouds
People wish they remembered how to speak aloud
Will another version of me search the world through to find the second, inhuman version of you?
If I ever come around and decide that I wanted to stay after all
Will you promise you'll be here?
Will you swear that you won't move at all?
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Unexpectedly
02:38
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Thoughts can be so hard to convey when you're stuck in the rain
I guess it's innocent enough, you were just looking for a laugh
You're still going to be taught you are the greatest darkness you have
Maybe it's true, I guess there's not much we can do
Is it too late to say I'm sorry for breaking your heart in two?
I don't want it to be the end, believe me, because it felt like we were on TV
It's just somebody else sauntered up and snatched my heart unexpectedly
Life is more generous than you think, and fate is kinder than you give him credit for
If I think about you every day this week, could you not turn us into a metaphor? that you spit onto your page with your ballpoint pen and throw into the fire when you discover it's the end of the line
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