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I Am Together
05:37
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I am together
We have each other
Alone is better
Go undiscovered
I am together
I have another
Waiting is better
A machination held together by duct tape a useless soul it makes
Go undercover
An expiration past it's due date where it lies fate a useless soul it takes
Am I together
All the pieces left undone
Won't be filling up stadiums
But hopefully at least the room
But time moves on and no one remembers us
It probably should happen here soon
Incapable of stopping the lava flow
Therefore incapable of stopping the flood
I am together
We have each other
Alone is better
A puppeteering held together by it's string it always makes me dance
Go undiscovered
A federation of my decisions constant conflict I'll leave it all to chance
Agony opens my eyes
For the first time in my life
Hoping we'll make it
You want it
You never knew you wanted
You never knew you want it
I am together
All the pieces in their place
A machination held together by my love a useful soul it makes
An expiration but it's okay where it lies, fate, a useful soul it takes
I am together
A puppeteering held together by it's string I always want to dance
I have another
A federation of my decisions all are unified I'll leave it all to chance
Waiting is better
Safe to say I have no idea where I'm going, what I'm doing
Go undercover
Step by step I'll keep going until I look back at what's behind
Agony opens my eyes
For the first time in my life
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Is a vessel really built to last?
Am I ever gonna see the sun?
If you say it's gonna work that fast?
Is it really gonna get shit done?
And now I work it back
Now I'm gonna have some fun
Walking on the painted tracks
Forty hour set to get undone
Well
Something's lurking in the air and it's alright to be afraid
The possibility of unknowingly carrying the plague
So I won't take the time for you
Got no reason to complain
Don the label, ingénue
But I won't take it any other way
Is a vessel really built to last?
Am I ever gonna see the sun?
If you say it's gonna work that fast?
Is it really gonna get shit done?
And now I work it back
Guess I'm gonna feel the same
Walking on the painted tracks
Forty hour set to get that bank
Well
Everything I've ever wanted has been forced upon my life
Chocolate peanut butter cocktails are a way to waste the time
Okay
There's something in the air
There's something in the air
There's something in the air
(Pestilence)
There's something in the air
(Pestilence)
Is a vessel really built to last?
Am I ever gonna see the sun?
If you say it's gonna work that fast?
Is it really gonna get shit done?
And now I work it back
Now I'm gonna have some fun
Walking on the painted tracks
Forty hour set to get undone
Well
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3. |
Rationale
02:36
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A flash of images
Didn't mean the things that I said
Dismantled innocence
The apparatus is dead
Can't help remembering
Can't help remembering
Can't help remembering
Can't help it
I believe it's said best by The Elephant Man
"People are frightened by what they don't understand"
I'm unfit to be King, to bare the pain of the sort
Just believe me when I say "the night is fucking short, so walk on, girl"
Neatly slain
Non-lethal
A flash of images
The apparatus is dead
Dismantled innocence
Didn't mean the things that I said
Can't help remembering
Can't help remembering
Can't help remembering
Can't help remembering
Oh
What's your rationale
What's your rationale
Whatchu thinkin' baby
Don'tchu know I'm not so crazy
Walk it back
Talk me down
Talking back
Lock it down
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4. |
Echo Unto Thyself
04:02
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5. |
Sakamoto
05:52
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What makes this all I can say?
Oh well
まったく、大事じゃねえ
It's hard to tell
Pointlessly pulled from the fray
Is my moment here?
Hopefully open by May
But likely not this year
It's never coming back
There's no normal we can return to
We had no plan of attack
But read the cracks in the bones, they'll tell us what to do
It's for your parents' health
A valid reason to collapse on yourself
So wear a mask and hide
The awful beast that's bottled up inside you
Karen, can you hear me now
Missouri, can you show me now
I'm waiting here with bated breath
You're wearing out your paper gown
That's how it goes
"I know a better way
I know a place
I know I'll get you there
At my own pace"
Don't stop now
Oh, displacement's killing me, oh no
I know it's taking it slow
There is no "happily ever after"
Heads up till you're giving up
There is no "happily ever after"
Oh, displacement's killing me, oh no
I know it's taking it slow
There is no “happily ever after” now
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Peace Myself
02:52
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7. |
Pulaski Road
04:03
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I waited patiently
I swear to God, if I ever see your face again
It will be too soon
I know enough to know you'll be around before noon
Ignore the handouts
And all the desperate pleas for me to get some help
It's my decision
To search rock bottom for the courage to decide myself
So I'll take Pulaski Road
I waste all my time
It's unfulfilling, but at least it keeps me occupied
It's gotten out of hand
Procrastination tells me it's my only friend
Count down the days
Till the month is over, until I get paid
Finally get some help
It's more effective than the things I used to try myself
So I'll take Pulaski Road
I'm done with this distraction, now I'm going
Where'd you go
Where'd you go
Where'd you go
Where'd you go
So I'll take Pulaski Road
I'm done with this distraction, now I'm going home
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8. |
Kelvin
04:32
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9. |
Glass Arp
04:40
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Hold the phone
It's suddenly
Revealed to me
Vice grip of
Anxiety
Anxiety
Closing up
And ensnaring me
Nothing more to see
Cause I'm afraid of something
I'm afraid I might be standing out
Standing out
It's all misunderstood
It's all miscalculated
Oh the bastard's crawling back into his hole
She does not know her name
It's just in how you say it
Oh the icy isolation, you're ignored
And the glass house shouldn't break
Spell it out
In case I wasn't clear
Maybe I wasn't clear
Say it loud
For the back to hear
Yes, the end is near
Settle down
And simply disappear
Become the atmosphere
Cause I'm afraid of something
I'm afraid I might be standing out
Standing out
It's all misunderstood
It's all miscalculated
Oh the bastard's crawling back into his hole
She does not know her name
It's just in how you say it
Oh the icy isolation, you're ignored
And the glass house shouldn't break
Violent awakenings
Something to escape
Hiding the messages
Never gonna say
And I'm afraid of something
I'm afraid I might be standing out
Standing out
I guess we'll see
This house shouldn't break
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Look away, look away from the indecency
Of all this shit, I must admit
It's quite a way to represent this whole year
Could've guessed you're obsessed
Taken seriously
Now you know, now you know
Now you know, well now you know how it feels
And I'm afraid of something
I'm afraid of something I can't hear
So you wait for the day that the courage
Will magically appear
Checked out from the conversation
And said some insensitive things
Look around, and try to read the atmosphere
For once in your goddamn life
Look around at the errant destruction
Look away from the programmed decay
What a way to be forgotten
What a time to be alive
It's all that you know
Find a new habitat
It's all that you know
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11. |
New Hire
02:44
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New hire
Complete tasks and
Don't meet expectations
Keep your station
New hire
Swallow your pride
Follow orders and procedures
Unknown
Late nights, late nights
Lost in the middle cause you're rolling the dice
You're burning daylight, daylight, daylight, daylight
Absent, underutilized
Long for a reason that you can't justify
And so you stay alive, stay alive, stay alive, stay alive
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12. |
Master Plan
03:46
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Oh
There’s a door in front of me
It wants to open up and show me
Oh
There’s a life ahead of me
It wants to open up to tell me
I’m the master of my own plan
No final step on how to land
In the end it’s all the same
A quest for power, that’s pretty lame
Oh
My past keeps haunting me
It wants to open up and show me all the things that I've done wrong
Oh
I daydream all the time
That’s why I never see the sun rise
I’m the master of my own plan
No final step on how to land
In the end it’s all the same
A quest for power, that’s pretty lame
In the end it’s always as they say
I’m the master of my own plan
No final step on how to land
In the end it’s always as they say
In the end it’s all the same
A quest for power, that’s pretty lame
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13. |
Terminale
03:32
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This terminal's descending
Like it or not, take a trip through the fire
Second circle, the ending
Wind never stops for the lust and desire
And I never wanted to end up just settling
And I never wanted to end this experiment
Sometimes the best thing to say is nothing
Something that I likely should have learned
Be careful when you're handling this hot mess
Otherwise you're likely to be burned
Something to run from and something to hunt
Something to waste all of my time on
But I
Wanted to shout and wanted to explode
Wanted a structure to lighten the load
A carousel of falsehoods and truths
All spin around me and sing like a choir
Facts, figures, and follies of youth
There's no overstaying in the briars
And I never wanted to end up just settling
And I never wanted to end this experiment
Something the institution
Doubtfully wants to be
Whether it counts for something
That fact remains up to us to see
Sometimes the best thing to say is nothing
Something that I likely should have learned
Be careful when you're handling this hot mess
Otherwise you're likely to be burned
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14. |
Minnesota
03:29
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It's pulling closer
That time of year
It's unfamiliar
Without you here
Through painted figures
Misunderstood
I've been forgotten
You're gone for good
It's everything I ever wanted it to be
Cotton t-shirts and bedsheets
But something creeps up in my mind just to insist
That there is more to the world than this
All I know
All I see
It don't mean
Much to me
I don't wanna play the part
Play this game
Play the fool
Play the same thing again
An albatross can lead to years of middling
The crowd goes mild
And always on the fringe of mediocrity
The plight of the Wild
All I know
All I see
It don't mean
Much to me
I don't wanna play the fool
Play this game
Say it right/wrong
Say the same thing
Spare a thought
Guess it's true
I don't mean
Much to you
I don't want
To play the same thing again
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15. |
Instajam
04:50
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Another transgression
More uncertainty
Always begs the question
Did I make a mistake
It's time for reflection
Don't like what I see
Don't like my reflection
But I know I can't change
Crack the cans and bottles
It's not compulsion, I convince myself
Find it at the bottom
Spiral out of control
I might have fucked it all up
Took a risk that didn't pay off
Watch the tendrils of light recede to the darkness
Watch it all slip away
No one deserves to have to put up with me
No one deserves to have to put up with me
Take out my headphones
And hear all the sounds
Take one last moment
To listen around
Realize it's wholly unremarkable
Not sentimental
They're just sounds to be forgotten by tomorrow
Won't be amazed by them
Won't be enslaved by them
Won't let the combination of chemicals disguise the fact
It's hard to deny
Rose-hued nostalgia goggles hiding the red flags
No one deserves to have to put up with me
No one deserves to have to put up with me
No one deserves to have to put up with me
I wait, but I won't wait for this again
No one deserves to have to put up with me
I wait, but I won't wait for this again
No one deserves to have to put up with me
I wait, but I won't wait for this again
No one deserves to have to put up with me
I wait, but I won't wait for this again
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Combining pop songwriting with layers of distortion, often melancholic lyrics, and a complete disregard for genre boundaries to provide a uniquely challenging listen, The Birdwatchers are an experimental rock band based out of Columbia and Kansas City, MO ... more
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