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Memories of Flame
03:31
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one look in those coals and I clearly see
you're the embers extinguished of what was once me
you're a fire that roared in a bygone time
completely I'd forgotten that you were once mine
cuz the pain that scars is the one you don't feel
and the train that you wreck is the one you didn't hear
and the love that I lent you will never return
but before mine own eyes those old embers burn
i loved you more than i bargained for
let’s close this door and bury this war
i loved you more than i bargained for
let's bury this war
the candle’s not burning, the wick is too wet
but the memories of flame mean that i can’t forget
was it all an illusion and the house has burned down
the wax melted off the table and into the ground
i loved you more than i bargained for
let’s close this door and bury this war
i loved you more than i bargained for
let's bury this war
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Housefire
03:36
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and you’re never gonna change
if you don’t stop changing like new england wind
and you’re never gonna live
if you don’t live like some elementary school girl shins
you’re still on the playground, but game is played in gold
and cold is creeping deep beneath your jeans
and confidence is like some fray-winged sparrow
Nursing to its wounds up in the beams
baste up your bruises
because you’ll never get this chance to win again
put out your housefire
don’t you know we all will burn down in the end
just don’t make me live long
you’re never gonna take charge
if you by and large impart your parts with caveats and cringe
you’ll always be some back-end laugh stock freak show
if you coat your quotes for double chins
you’re disarming you’re alluring you’re a tyrant
you are mostly painful to behold
let me hold in you in the river in the water won’t you
be the plaster and my mold
you’re a levy you’re a whisper you’re an echo
you are barely visible at all
you’re a turncoat, you’re a loser you’re a liar
but you somehow answer when I call
baste up your bruises
because you’ll never get this chance to win again
put out your housefire
don’t you know we all will burn down in the end
Just don’t make me live long
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A Thousand Tongues
03:33
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it’s a pretty little picture that you paint
but I won’t be the one with the matchstick who will taint
I’ll leave your purity inside the ring
I left my gloves at home this is gonna sting
you came and then you’re gone or were you even real
i’m a sycophantic lover and i will steal
every dripping drop of you that’s in your soul
i’ll suck it up until i become whole
i’ll suck you up until i become whole
it’s peculiar the way we disappear in this maze
but i’d never have found my way if not for the haze
never'd have seen myself if i’d not first gone blind
never'd have known true virtue if you’d been kind
yet you leave me out like some rotten fleshy lie
sooner or later i’m bound to sound a cry
and never before have i lived so close to tear
and it’s precisely because you were there but never here
so i suck you up until i become whole
emanating from your mouth is an oozing mess i could do without
reverberating through your lungs is the desperate gasp of a thousand tongues
percolating on your lips is the sickened hiss of elicit kisses
circling round your feral form is the liar’s stench that keeps you warm
so i suck you up until i become whole
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4. |
Keep Me Warming You
05:21
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in the ashes of your winter
in the melting days of gray
will you consider me as worthy
of the truths that you’ve to say
you appear so graceful
how you grace this lonely world
you inoculate my insides
just a timeless boy and girl
but you see thats just my grievance
and you see thats why I cry
for I must know if I’m worthy
in the courtyard of your mind
own me holding you
hold me owning you
warm me keeping you
keep me warming you
this is really quite the journey
through this wailing storm of sin
oh I'm such a crooked sinner
i can't shake this crooked grin
but I’ll keep you in rotation
and rotate you towards the sun
you are rolling like the ocean
out the barrel of a gun
own me holding you
hold me owning you
warm me keeping you
keep me warming you
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