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Hunt the Light
05:15
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Your catacomb heart
That weary nest of pain
Footsteps follow in the dark
Whispering your name
The ruins of an empire
Bones rattle on the hill
Where a flame lit in vain
Did shine for the last time
Still we’ll hunt the light
The stars conspire
To lead us away
Let the pillars fall
And the garden burn
The kids have to learn
Our bodies levitate
Float through space
This was never yours
The past is erased
Still we’ll hunt the light
And all of the days
That were stolen away
Only to pass us by
Still we’ll hunt the light
The glass is empty
And your hands are tied
The stars are spies
Singing you to sleep
On a bed of razors
White thighs pull apart
Your voice in my ear
Your voice so sweet
Still we’ll hunt the light
Live in the days
That were stolen away
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Wade through the water
Sift down to the bottom
Some beggar with a pale visage
Forging with the sediment
Never have I met
Another so fearless
Nostalgia is like a poison
And you lick the vile clean
All streams are one
We bleed the same
But I won’t let you
Get the best of me
Embrace the silence
That comes before a riot
You would do well
To remember this
Fall on broken knees
The violence of memory
Because this pain is transient
It ebbs and flows, dies and glows
Half an hour of salvation
Counting shapes in the basement
Just let the music play
On and on and on and on...
But I won’t let you
Get the best of me
Embrace the silence
That comes before a riot
Walls wear the diagrams
That lead to the promised land
What was it that you found there
Cast off into the shadows?
They never spoke a word to you
But somehow it didn’t matter
Watching my letters all wash away
Onto the shores of forbidden islands
I’ve found grace in the weakest hands
And I’ve sewn shut my own eyelids
I’ve seen everything
There is to see in you
But I won’t let you
Get the best of me
Embrace the silence
That comes before a riot
The pin dropped
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3. |
Small Hours
04:31
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Child of night
Salt stream to wound
O’ cancerous thought
The small hours bloom
Put all the knives
Away in the house
Scale the flesh
From the body it left
You came to me
As an apparition
A gloved hand outstretched
An angel no more
Take me away from the light
Separate the vessel from the mind
To the land where men go forgotten forever
And move in silent winds
I held the weight
Of death in your eyes
Withered, afraid
That someday the dawn will be
Returned to me
Take me away from the light
Separate the vessel from the mind
To the land where men go forgotten forever
And move in silent winds
It’s happening again
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4. |
Transatlantic
02:08
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(Instrumental)
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5. |
Young Archers
05:02
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Forgotten seeds will spread
To grow visions in your head
A sea of broken idols
Rose petals and glass
Mirrors that don’t look back
No sun burns bright enough
Time is a thankless friend
He always finds you in the end
To make dust of truth
And faith of old wounds
That just won’t mend
No sun burns bright enough
To lead us back home again
No sun burns bright enough
To scorch your arrows
Clawing at your chest
Failed by phantom limps
Sirens at the door
Forcing their way in
No sun burns bright enough
To lead us back home again
No sun burns bright enough
To scorch your arrows
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6. |
When Men Start Fires
05:15
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Submit to solitude
Hide in your books
Just to live their lies
Their pleasures unfold
As you ponder your own
Fruitless in the moonlight
Now to all that’s untraveled
To the diamonds in the rubble
The grandeur of loneliness
You catalog your accidents
In careful phrases
Pressed between pages
For a love time renounced
Don’t retreat, not just yet
They'll have your head for this
You’re fighting this war on your own
One hundred years unknown
Someday she might see your face
And not turn away
In retrospect each caress
Now feels distant and cold
Our laughter died that season
But the solace one finds
In the words on a matchbox
Says otherwise because envy
Can be frightening
This is what happens
When men start fires
Desperate for answers
And yearning with desire
Get me out of my mind
Get me out of my mind
Don’t retreat, not just yet
They'll have your head for this
(Save your spine)
You’re fighting this war on your own
One hundred years unknown
(Save your spine)
As the radio cries your last rites
And fades into static
Someday she might find your touch
In a stranger’s embrace
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7. |
Labyrinth Dreams
03:55
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Sometimes I wish I knew
Just what became of you
The needle threads through
All the wandering nights
And your chandelier eyes
Lost in the blue
I bit the innocence right off your lips
Vanity will be the death of me
In that hotel room by the shore
We wasted the hours
Because they were there
Our hope is clay
Melting in the rain
So far from home
So young, so alone
Now every night
The same dream finds me
I’m naked on your steps
All the birds are falling
There's two hollow slits
Where your eyes should be
You made me a promise
You said you’d set me free
Our hope is clay
Melting in the rain
So far from home
So young, so alone
The tears fall down your breasts
Like tiny marbles of sorrow
Found at the bottom of every fountain
She says the mask suits me
Oh, but you’re looking too thin
Her mouth on my collarbone
So it ends like it begins
With nothing
Before the blood runs dry
And the order is sent
Cup my face in your hands
Kiss me like you kiss him
I’m just the latest victim
She says the mask suits me
Oh, but you’re looking too thin
Her mouth on my collarbone
So it ends like it begins
With nothing
I’m just the latest victim
I’m just a pawn in the system
I’m just the latest victim
And I’ll emerge from this
More dead than alive
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8. |
Borderlands
06:38
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This must be the place
Everything's new again
The burden of youth
Still haunts your skin
But this cup's poison
Just like all your friends
As her face disappears
In the borderlands
We wanted something more
But we never found it
Cut the arteries and tethers
Forever, forever
Cling to threads of a past life
That disguise isn’t fooling anyone
They hear your cries
They feel your breath
On their necks
Now only fragments remain
Her tongue's in your mouth
Like vines in the spring
Searching for a heart
This must be the place
Everything's new again
The burden of youth
Still haunts your skin
But this cup's poison
Just like all your friends
As her face disappears
In the borderlands
We wanted something more
But we never found it
Cut the arteries and tethers
Forever, forever
There will be no miracles here
The current pulls you in
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9. |
Black Ribbon
03:12
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Wait for the cue
This will all be over soon
We’ll rewrite history
The vultures are circling
Like falling in a dream
A mask for the mind
Left dangling on the rope
Ten thousand eyes below terrified
The distance is killing me
I need the release
Part with your misery
All the pretty ones
Are off sewing their seeds
Trading in their arms
This wicked cavalcade proceeds
While your sleep
Cicadas drone
You dream of death
They sing their woes
And no one knows
The distance is killing me
I need the release
Part with your misery
Gaze up at your vacant heaven
An idle season, a pact now broken
This could be an invitation
Wear your black ribbon
A tempest
A shipwreck
An earthquake!
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10. |
An Elegy
06:46
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Here flowers bloom eternal
And stars plunge into the depths
To bring you back from death
I can’t feel my feet underneath me
As I run into the night
All secrets by my side
I really went and fucked it up this time
White hem in the mist
Summer’s kiss upon the veil
The film comes off the reel
The cards come out
And the house falls down
The cards come out
But you just stand there laughing
I can’t feel my feet underneath me
As I run into the night
All secrets by my side
I really went and fucked it up this time
Sinking into gray
But you were never mine to save
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