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Cactus
05:11
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The night’s white stars fall downward
The trees sing to me in a familiar hum
These words have meaning, they told me when I was young
But nothing is important as this one
“Wake up,” he said in my dreams
The man I thought was me
The motors’ turning rotations in the distance
The men in the white house fight for this
But I saw God’s light through an old cactus
Learning of the wisdom we all possess
“Wake up,” he said in my dreams
The man I thought was me
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2. |
Soul Skin
05:10
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Time was calling you again
Time to leave your best friend
Time for living the way you were meant
So you don’t have to come home again
I tried to keep you away from yourself
I pushed and pulled until you fell
I tried to hold you away from harm
But I hurt you with my outstretched arms
Traffic lights turn as the spring rain falls
Alone again after so long
Lovin is easy when you’re free
Lovin was hard when you were with me
You were my best friend, you were my soul in a skin
You were my best friend, you were my soul in a skin
Drifting away, but I tried
Left me with my brain, so I fried
You looked me in the face, and you lied
When I was betrayed, part of me died
I let go of your hand while they struck the gear
We pretended love was built on fear
I threw your cigarettes into the pit
The way you looked at me said never quit
Traffic lights turn as the spring rain falls
I’m home again after so long
Lovin is easy when I’m free
Lovin was hard when you were with me
You were my best friend, you were my soul in a skin
You were my best friend, you were my soul in a skin
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3. |
In The Sun
06:38
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Whilst the burn, calm the tide
Prodigious arms, furtive stride
Raise the glass made from stone
Throw the salt in the sun
I see with holes in my head
And my parents’ gods are dead
The eastern board, watch the tide
Ancient lore won’t help us survive
Implosion, stars tell time
Watch the sun go blind
Bring the sea to me
We will release our bodies
Terror seems like an illusion
When we know where we’re going
To love is to give a separate sign
The singular purpose we have in our lives
Look at me in the eyes
The stone will stand longer than I
I’ll return to my bed
When my time is done
Throw the salt, let’s live in the sun
Implosion, stars tell time
Watch the sun go blind
Bring the sea to me
We will release our bodies
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4. |
To Kneel
04:50
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Baseball field and morning doves
Remember when I couldn’t have enough
Childhood isn’t the same
Hunting the threshold without any shame
Remember when I didn’t know you
In the way you wanted me to
I look up at night in the past
Ingesting the stardust, it’s all come to pass
Could I be anybody without you
The watchers are broken and lust is untrue
I’m forming a service out of my control
Without your wisdom, nothing is whole
Now summer is gone, it’s time to move on
But I always feel better with you
The games I used to play with death
Took some time to realize (that) time does not exist
A celestial guide took me through the abyss
And I fell into your lap, why, cause that’s what I did
Could I be anybody without you
The watchers are broken and lust is untrue
I’m forming a service out of my control
Without your wisdom, nothing is whole
Now summer is gone, it’s time to move on
But I always feel better dying in your arms
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5. |
American Psyche
04:01
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Stop attacking my psyche, invaded by your blue light, cruisin down the highway at night
Stop attacking my psyche, I just want to talk with my bros, not about your TV shows
Stop attacking my psyche-delics, they are good for us, the drugs you give us are worse
Stop attacking my psyche, I wanna be human, not just a white male American
Don’t get me wrong it’s like
I appreciate the illusion of my freedom and my rights
We can vote for what we want
But when we cho(o)se ourselves, our freedom is all gone
Stop attacking my psyche, invaded by your blue light, cruisin down the highway at night
Stop attacking my psyche, I just want to talk with my bros, not about your TV shows
Stop attacking my psyche-delics, they are good for us, the drugs you give us are worse
Stop attacking my psyche, I wanna be human, not just a white male American
It’s not political at all
We blame the other side, thinkin it’s their fault
Let’s pull the wool from over our eyes
Who created sides, we could realize
The distraction never ends
And the illusion that we’re apart
I’m on the side of the humans
Let’s never forget that we are one
Stop attacking my psyche, invaded by your blue light, cruisin down the highway at night
Stop attacking my psyche, I just want to talk with my bros, not about your TV shows
Stop attacking my psyche-delics, they are good for us, the drugs you give us are worse
Stop attacking my psyche, I wanna be human, not just a white male American
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6. |
Erebus
04:38
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I tried to grasp the moving stones
A colored desert turned upside down by war
It was turned to dust, and the last of us
Were trying to salvage eternity before machines would rust
I was a scientist, an innovator, I was someone great
Before a fight in a cliffside mansion turned me human with hate
What is it I’m looking for, I said with a clenched fist
In this holy land of technology what I seek must exist
He said Erebus
The savior of human kind
You’re lookin for the fountain of youth
So you can have an endless life
We were drivin through the desert, the people with me had guns
As we pulled up to a station, I was handed one
We came under fire, I took cover behind a compact car
I shot around the bend, but my bullets bounced off of them
The attackers they spotted me, their faces changed at once
They said you’re the one who led us here, why don’t you come with us
She was in the abandoned station, a new glow was in her eyes
Her family was thanking me for their new immortal lives
I said what is it you’re speaking of, and what is it I’ve done
And if you’ve found an endless life, why would you take another one
Erebus
The key to immortality
We’re drinking from the fountain of youth
And we don’t know when the end will be
I said Erebus
The purgatory of Hades
You’re flipping coins in the fountain of youth
And we don’t know what the end could mean
Sent to Erebus, north across the land
I found a hundred soldiers, dead and dying in the sand
I looked at one of them, they were my old friends
They said the weapons of immortals, brought them to their end
Erebus
Supposed savior of humankind
We’ve decided chaos
But chaos is our hereditary right
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7. |
All Too Grey
04:34
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Now I sit, reading of my past, the candle burns my thoughts to ash
Who cares when, I say what I know, an open heart can always close
I was a slave, then I was free, now I’m a slave to what freed me
Funny how, these things will change, this open book reads many ways
Once I thought, it was too much
Once I tried, to feel its touch
We all strive, to be much too sane
The world out here, is all too grey
It tripped me out, looking in, I braced myself for what never hit
Saying truth, that can escape, is offering an empty plate
What is love, and what is hate, I’m sitting at an open gate
I’m staring at, the truth again, its that I love every human
Once I thought, it was too much
Once I tried, to feel its touch
We all strive, to be much too sane
The world out here, is all too grey
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8. |
All of Us
05:00
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The people in our lives are all of us
Friends, family, and strangers
Playing out characters in all the pages
It’s all of us
All of us
I kept up on the news at one point
The paper trail led nowhere
So we rolled up a joint
Foreign fighters and dignitaries
Communists, oligarchs, humanitarians
It’s all of us
All of us
My pen touches the paper
But my fingers roll one up
I don’t need to write when my mind’s focused on love
My body’s decomposing and my lineage is gone
I’ll look to my neighbors across the world
To carry it on
It’s all of us
All of us
The villain was written in the pages we rolled
Into the story where the underworld and the heavens are told
But the villain and the hero are the same
They’re laughin and tumblin in the grass
For ten thousand years and they will again, cause it’s
All of Us
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