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Silas's Song
03:42
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I feel like a blind spectator
Hearing strangers' lives
Everyday the stranger changes
Just as I felt fine
I want more
Than lifeless cycles
If I'm to call it
Life
I no longer want to hear things
The sounds corrode my mind
Everyday my mind's berated
Ticking clocks like knives
I want more
Than lifeless cycles
If I'm to call it
(Life) I want control
Over the cycles
So I can break the mold
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2. |
The Mold
03:25
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Welcome to the town of Newlife
Where health comes at a price and
That makes the sun shine bright
And I won't ask you to be kind
Just don't break the mold and you'll be fine
When people tell me "Hey, I'm dying"
Then I say "Damn, that sucks, but
See I can't help you up
Though you've worked hard for this broken mold that started you off fucked
Well it ain't broke for me so please don't fix a thing"
If your life is falling apart and you don't know who you are
Well then, just try and get yourself some air
'Cause quite frankly I don't care
(Life's only good if you're in control of it)
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3. |
C-203
04:12
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Just wake me when it's over
I don't want to see the end
Just want to wake up older
And count the days until I'm dead
It's more painful to watch
The burn than let yourself hurt
So just silently know
As embers lose their glow
You'll never have to let go
Hey, looks can be deceiving
The end is nowhere near
You'll wake up fine and go on
To laugh about it all next year
It's too painful to watch
So just let me hurt
'Cause if I just don't know
They'll never lose their glow
Just don't make me let go
Don't wake me up till
My time is done
Don't wake me up till
My time is done
Don't wake me up till
My time is done
Don't wake me up till
My time is done
Don't wake me up till (Please wake me up)
I'll burn the sun (I'm losing touch)
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4. |
Powerless Fear Monger
03:22
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I'm a powerless fear monger welling up with tears
Making weak analogies for a reality he fears
And holding onto every spark of something real
But that spark will light the flames that burn out all that feels
You've made me fall apart and built me up with sticks
Just a fragile skeleton for your games of play pretend
Your torrential reign over me will have no end
So I can strike the match but the flame will fizzle out again
I'm counting down the days till I can leave this place
Just let me run away
And set myself ablaze
I'm a powerless fear monger welling up with tears
Making weak analogies for a reality he fears
And holding onto every spark of something real
But that spark will light the flames that burn out all that feels
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6. |
Death's Dance
04:58
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This morning’s exposition: everyone you know is dead
You’ve squandered this world waiting for something all the others dread
Your mold’s already broken, you just slept right through the end
But each end’s a new beginning and you’re the only one that’s left
Take my hand and take the power that you lack
You’ll have true power in the palm of your hands
Complete control over the mold your own demands (own demands)
Rewrite the wrongs of your life, make yourself new friends (I don’t give a shit)
And unlike last time you won’t have to see the end
So take my hand and take the power that you lack
So take my hand and take the power that you lack (I can’t wait to see you fall, I can’t wait to see you fall)
So take my hand and take the power that you lack (I can’t wait to see you fall, I can’t wait to see you fall)
So take my hand and take the power that you lack (I can’t wait to see you fall, I can’t wait to see you fall)
So take my hand and take the power that you lack
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7. |
Control
04:10
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Last night when I closed my eyes
I was but nothing and the sky
Looked down and taunted me
“You mortal limited nothing”
Well fuck you and your clouds
(They’re just stupid balls of gas anyway)
‘Cause now that I have control
I can break the mold
Burn it down and build my own
And there will be no rain
When I light my flame
It’ll never have to fade
Cause I’m a fucking god
And now the sky is falling
Right into place and all the sounds
Are finally silencing
The stillness washes over me
As I’m watching their eyes
Shifting with the time
‘Cause now that I have control
I can break the mold
Burn it down
And they will shout my name
It’ll never change
I’m a god I’ll never fade
Well the last few years I felt like I was slipping out of time
Like I’m swung 9/8 in a world spinning in 8/9
So I’ll build just one more, just one more of my kind
And I’ll feel sane and safe and sounds won’t crush my mind
So I’ll give you baggy shirts and build a whole world in your name
You’ll never have to face a single change
And finally someone else will understand the shit I say
After all these years
The mold will break
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8. |
Wally's Waltz
08:15
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These first few months, I’ve felt I was born out of time
Like I’m spun 9/8 in a world swinging in 8/9
It doesn’t feel quite right
I wanna fall into the sky and feel the light
I feel like I was cut into the wrong shape
And then jammed into place
Like a toddler doing a puzzle
(Making pieces break)
But when I’m with you I feel like I am okay
Like I might be sane
Like we fit into each oth- (You know that didn’t come out how I wanted to but it’s like-)
I would do anything to be
Who Silas sees in me
‘Cause I don’t want to be
A walking paradox who’s missing both knees
Why do I feel like this is falling apart
When I’ve worked so hard
To hold things together
Well maybe I’m just not
What you saw
Or what you want
And I’ll never be better
(I will die the same)
But I want to see
What is out there
In the world beyond the air
So I can
Make a new mold
And feel okay again
I used to long for nothing more than to be who you saw in me
Now all I wish is you saw who I thought you did
‘Cause in the end I see that I was pretty damn successful
The problem is that you saw nothing in me
And I wouldn’t really care if you had never said a thing
This only hurts because I really thought you loved me
But now it’s clear to see you never loved me
I was just your mortal limited nothing
So did everything you say to me mean nothing?
‘Cause if that’s the case then I really am nothing
‘Cause my worth is defined by what other people see in me
So when I die, I’ll die your limited nothing
‘Cause our worth is defined by what everyone else sees in us
So when we die, we’ll all die limited nothings
‘Cause everyone you know will die alone in the end
So when we die we’ll all die parallel nothings
But nothing really matters when you’re nothing
So it’s kind of easier to just be nothing
But I don’t want to die another nothing
So why’d you have to tell me that you loved me?
If reality is subjective, then nothing ever really was
So when we die (or when we live)
Or when we live (or all the time)
Or all the time (all the time, all the time)
We’re all just nothing
I want to be
Somewhere out there
In the world beyond the air
So I can beat
Up the one who made me
Feel this pain
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I’m bleeding melted plastics seas
Of artificial memories
Of something that I've never truly had
So break my bones and twist my knees
Contort my soul until I see
That nothing in this world is so sincere
Visions now
Crumbling down
Cracks in my reality
Form all around me
Let me out
The mold was never what I fought
One harmless narcissistic thought
Infected my entire motivation
Now Wally’s counting down the days
Till they can set themself ablaze
They’re just a pawn in my sadistic game
Conflicted them with so much pain
Just so that I can feel more sane
And normalize my every last emotion
But in my mind
The flame is burning bright
And all throughout the night
Their tortured faces haunt me
Begging not to die
And I
Am trying not to cry
Cause after all this time
I can’t let go no matter how damn hard I try
Let’s burn this down
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10. |
The Mold Pt. II
05:39
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Dust falls on empty shelves
As dusklight crest hotels
Where mountains there once stood
An eroded childhood
Can time just fucking stop
Because
I’m getting tired of growing up
Cause not even complete control could stop the change
That’s the one thing that stays the same
I fear I’ve lost myself
To time and change
Corroded away in a box of childish things
So I will be
Just another pair
In the seven seas of severed hands and idle eyes that carry me to sleep
As they all fell to flame
But inscribed on the wall were the words I once wrote
When I still thought I was the asshole
(Just wished you didn’t)
If nothing really mattered but for me to tell a joke
Then why would I be left here to corrode
Cause I’m feeling now
I’ve been untrue
Like
Time crushed the person you once knew
It’s really not
That goddamn new
You might wanna check your ears
Cause I’ve been saying it for years
But you can’t fucking hear
So after all these years
Sorry just-
Let me take a minute to collect myself, I just need to um
*Cough/Demon screech*
Sorry, what I was saying basically was:
Fuck you
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11. |
Torrential Rain
05:25
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And now once again a sunny day of rain
As the pieces of the sky fall into place
I can't remember when the last i felt okay
But now I’m here it feels like nothing ever really changed
I’ve been built up to find some solace in the rain
Cause though it drowns me out it also stops the change
A life of nothing is easier than facing pain
And i mean reality is subjective anyway so we can just kinda think anything away with deep existentialism and we’ll be left with nothing but emptiness but that’s not real either so ultimately it’ll be okay
And I wanna be someone who looks above and fears the rain
And I wanna see some sort of meaning in this ever burning flame
Cause always living lifeless cycles I’ve grown empty
And now I see the importance in the pain
So now once again I sing to you in vain
Hoping that the sky will fall and take my place
Tired of the emptiness I long for pain (Wally was molded with broken clay on the day they were made)
But everything I feel gets washed out by the rain (Wally was molded with broken clay on the day they were made)
Someone wake me up please
I have slept too long
So god wake me up
Cause I am losing touch
Wally was molded with broken clay on the day they were made
(So now once again I sing to you in vain)
[So now once again a sunny day of rain]
But the patchwork has been laid and will solidify in the flame
(Hoping that the sky will fall and take my place)
[So when I have control I will stop the rain and I’ll put out all the flames]
[As the pieces of the sky fall into place]
Wally was molded with broken clay on the day they were made
(I’ve been built up to find some solace in the rain)
[Tired of the emptiness I long for pain]
[And I will mold the dark so that I may know some meaning from the start]
But when they wake up nothing that they know will ever be the same
(‘Cause though it drowns me out it also stops the change)
[But everything I feel gets washed out by the rain]
[So when I have control I will break the mold, burn it down and build my own]
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12. |
The Flame
08:14
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Millions of teary eyes watch embers fly
Slowly fading out like stars against the night sky
Wallow in the fright
No one has power no matter how damn hard we try
Just try to bear the sight
‘Cause if you close your eyes you’ll see that embers only glow at night
Even through torrential rain the flame burns bright
Consuming the world around it just to fuel it’s light
Nothing will ever change (All stays the same)
The mold is random, take a seat and let yourself feel all the pain
Watch it all just burn away (All ends someday)
As everything comes crashing down, I’ve grown to find the beauty in the flame
There’s no going back
You can’t pull the plug when you’ve burned away your hands
Watch it all just burning down (All ends somehow)
‘Cause when I closed my eyes I found
I missed the burning beauty and the clouds
Are filling up with smog, the embers finally fizzling out
I’ve grown to find the beauty
In the flame
All stays the same
All ends someday
All stays the same
All ends someday
All stays the same
All ends someday
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