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Minutiae
03:35
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Some would dance in their prison yards
Some would kill to have a bleeding heart
So the story goes
Some designed like a fashion plate of lost souls
Once, twice, the third is far too much too handle
Pay a price, only to have it stolen away from you
Fold, waiting for a nightmare’s end
Cold, fire is dying out
Don't you suffer any more than this
Some would swim just to drown you out
Some would speak only to shut your mouth
One an actor who is high and proud
One a mime who wants to scream out loud
Once, thrice, infinite with all your angles
Pay a price, only to have it stolen away from you
Fold, waiting for a nightmare’s end
Cold, fire is dying out
Don't you suffer any more than this
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When the Sun Appears
03:45
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Wounded tongue tastes of salt
Stings like summer rain
On the skin revealed to burn
And branded with the flame
Twisted limbs of rotten trees
Bear the fruit of words
Exposed in darkness
Like the earthworm to the bird
And I want to know
Which way to go
When the sun appears
In a dream awake
Which path to take?
When the sun appears
Morning came fires were out
A storm out of the north
Through a narrow passage
Passing whispers back and forth
Drop the veil when the sirens call
And disturb the dust
From limb to limb
My body turned to rust
And I want to know
Which way to go
When the sun appear
In a dream awake
Which path to take?
When the sun appears
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3. |
Phantom Satellite
03:43
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Without a trace of life,
You always found your place
In an endless circle
You’re in and out of time
Black as night for days
And no one discovers
Passing like a satellite
Above the sky your orbit stays
She whispers in the candlelight
Inside a house where no one stays
Passing like a satellite
The tension comes undone
Unspooling in the haze
In a haze of silence
You’re somewhere in between
A state of saving face
Yet no one sees you
Passing like a satellite
Above the sky your orbit stays
She whispers in the candlelight
Inside a house where no one stays
Passing like a satellite
One day a mountain fell from the sky
Engulfed in firelight
Nothing to do, nothing to try
The truth will see the light
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Headstrong
03:59
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The power to deem, another story unfolds
Tearing the seams to the fabric of old
Static the winds that blows the new reaper
Wake up and scream the truth into your new receiver
Stare with eyes, with a thoughtless soul
Don't make me raise names, fires fit for trial
To find your name escaping righteous gallows
Thrashing boats sink faster in the storms
Simplify if the complex wouldn't be so hollow
Headstrong like your will
Headstrong like you feel
Your headstrong like the wind
Headstrong like medicine
Sterile eyes with a thoughtless soul
Waiting to fight, weltanschauungskrieg me more
And the animal caged, you think, sleeps In silence
Waits for you, waits for time to strike you down
Headstrong like your will
Headstrong like you feel
Your headstrong like the wind
Headstrong like like a sin
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5. |
Stand Down
04:41
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When will the day ever come
When the kings lose their crowns
For what they have done?
When will the silence soon
Silence their their drums?
Should we leave, after all we finally won?
Don't turn away
Watch the beast bleeding out for change
Don't turn away
Watch the beast screaming out in rage
Don’t turn away
Once we hold
All hands calm down
Once it's told
All hands stand down
Some of the fear has signed up to sin
And for what delusions you see as next of your kin
So don't talk! And the woes that you parade in
And you know that the battle begins
Don't turn away
Watch the beast bleeding out for change
Don’t turn away
Watch the beast screaming out in rage
Don’t turn away
Once we hold
All hands calm down
Once it's told
All hands stand down
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6. |
Starless Skies
03:27
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Yesterday I woke from sleep
With a glass half empty next to me
The burning need, the jealousy
Everything's exactly how it should be
Stare into starless skies,
The blackest eyes
Like none I’ve seen before
In this disfigured shape
I can’t escape
From all I’ve seen before
The spinning blades of air police
Carving circles in the air above me
The mindless eye, technology
Is all I need to keep me company
Stare into starless skies,
The blackest eyes
Like none I’ve seen before
In this disfigured shape
I can’t escape
From all I’ve seen before
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7. |
Byzantium
06:26
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Help me to see
How it’s worth it to me
To still try
Cracks in the plan
Like some old rubber band
Something inside me has died
If it was ever alive
All that I see responsibility
What shall I do with this
Crumbled paper in my fist?
Imagination in the fire
Sick with desire
Help me to see
How the sundial debris
Gives me time
Green turns to brown
Turns to dust on the ground
Something inside me has died
If it was ever alive
All that I see responsibility
What shall I do with this
Crumbled paper in my fist?
Imagination in the fire
Sick with desire
Whatever dream is in your head
One day you’re born
The next you’re dead
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8. |
Dead Walking
03:41
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Good God, excuses due to senescence
Sod off, running your mouth again
Don’t think we won’t dish back the fodder
Talk talk, tell me how you burned me again
Tell take marks a bruise, a lie in your hand
Don’t make me convert your only daughter
Think it’s time you know
Cause we know you’ll never change
Send in the walking dead
They’re all starving for your head
Oh no place safe left to run no
You must have lost your mind
To make you think you’re right
As ya walk on and make it up as you go along
Walk walk, fake the talk, shock me again
Balk balk, don’t go hide behind your friends
Stand up and show us what you’re made of
Think it’s time to call you out
Cause your walk will drag the same
Send in the walking dead
They’re all starving for your head
Oh no place safe left to run no
You must have lost your mind
To make you think you’re right
As ya walk on and make it up as you go along
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9. |
Brutal Muse
03:29
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Brutal muse dressed in black
Rattle your sabers and prepare for attack
Once we turn our backs
Brutal muse in red and green
Ready an onslaught like we’ve never seen
The marketing machine presses on
Rows of your towers burning bright
Those who are blinded take delight
Grinding down on the Devil’s pill
Amusing to muses with a hand that's fit to kill
Brutal muse, computer screen
Bloody knives and clever animated memes
Never in your wildest dreams
Brutal muse, the dying child
At water’s edge the suffering unreconciled
Senseless acts reviled but nothing more
Rows of your towers burning bright
Those who are blinded take delight
Grinding down on the Devil’s pill
Amusing to muses with a hand that's fit to kill
All your muses in me . . .
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10. |
The Passenger
04:48
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I read it in a letter today
From someone I barely knew
She said you had drifted away
My wounds are your wounds it's true
Looking for the keys to unlock
Living like a passenger
Turn around, turn around
A passenger
Look around, look around
A passenger
I see you at the top of the stairs
I see you in the bedroom too
Once I had something to feel
Until I left it all with you
Sitting next to you out of view
Living like your passenger
Turn around, turn around
A passenger
Look Around, look around
A passenger
Some days are gone
Some days move fast
And nothing lasts
All things we know
All things we love
All turn to dust
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The Shadow Principle Los Angeles, California
Nohl Takahashi: Vocals
Reza Moosavi: Guitar
Marlin George: Drums
David Tomkins: Bass + Vox
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