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Aporia
04:06
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Numb me with sweet mulberry pills
Nest needles in my skin
Unlike you
I’m all for magic
I get tired, don’t you?
I’d rather yield to their hands
Than conjure my own truth
Achilles, can you see its back?
It won’t get closer
It only will be the end of you
Whenever it might seem to have a logic
The tortoise will just laugh at you
Ran twice faster, still got halfway there
Half nowhere
Can your tropes explain this sad affair
Cause I would pay
Name the day, give me the place
And state your currency
Teach me the existential bureaucracy
What comes first - the word or the thought of it?
Clueless of the way to wrap my tongue around it
I fill the void with waste and set on fire
I bet we’re cursed by whoever is in charge of it
This elusive reasoning, the chemistry
The trap has shut, the tortoise dies
And then there was war
And we will never know
How little we’ve been trying
To make sense of
I kiss you goodbye
Tiny breathing human
I’ll see you on the other
Side of the river
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Penelope
03:53
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glowing in the dark
sleeping monster
the sound of your beating heart
the sound of loss
made a wish on every shooting star
lit up the incense
every minute goes off like a spark
then dies out
you know better the worth of promises made by mortals
you know better time has little mercy on those we love
fear is a vulture on the loose
a shadow cast
through stardust
the price of trusting you
is loving the vulture, too
locked between the past
and nonexistence
a home that is built to last
a blissful prison
Penelope, I don’t know where I start
Or how I finish
not a thread I weave into the shroud
comes back out
ain’t it tragic to know we only live through the others
ain’t it tragic how we never get to outsmart our code
I dress your throne in lavender
I cannot wage this war on flesh and bone
on my own
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Aqua
05:11
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As I’m well aware
I may step into this river more than twice
Ever hoping it takes me elsewhere
Try and get your feet wet
Try and get your feet wet
Try and get your feet
Right here next to mine
There’s a footprint I don’t seem to recognize
But I will in time
As I shapeshift
And oxidize
I suppose a younger face would communicate a less ambiguous case
Falling in and out of grace I forget I used to think I’d never change
Are you even there?
Are you watching me ascend the spiral stairs?
Hear the echoed bounce off the walls
Try and make out the words
Try and make out the words
Try and make it out
Who’s got a higher ground?
A tired hound instilling fear into himself
Or what he may become
In just one turn
The final one
Grieve not, son
The best is yet to come
Grieve not, son
Whatever bullshit turns you on
Give me land, sky, and voice
I’ll only laugh
From above it all looks void of us
And that’s not what I’ve asked for
The loom of kingdom come’s not enough
To douse our wrath,
Suck our love out and let die
The sea of us is bigger than all that we’ve cried
Every time I step into the river
I see it flow into the sea
I see the sea
I see
Grieve not, son
We’ll rise and come as one
Grieve not, son
Whatever bullshit turns you on
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Garden of Bones
04:23
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Child, the world is yours to roam
You’ll always be just enough
Child, do please forgive
Us if we wronged you
When we brought you to the light
Maybe you’ll be
A hard place and a rock
A kaleidoscope of our fears
Maybe you’ll be
A burden bittersweet
Feeding off your own agony
Maybe you’ll be
Zero maintenance dream
Now go on
And carry this body that aches
forever uphill
and if earthquakes
come your way
there’s nothing a pill won’t heal
and all your lovers
will be your foes
sieging the garden of bones
one little tease
to disrupt any work I’ve done
towards a peace
after years of sabotage
treating pain like inherent flaw
what I’ve done, what I’ve done
here I am on the floor
feel free to walk all over me
promise you’ll miss me
I’ve got you all right here
With your arms wrapped around me
in the garden of bones
and we’re all forgiven
and we all forgive
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