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Foster the River
03:25
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Travelled from miles away
The current grows day by day
Fuelled by the falling rain
Wild as I am
As I stand
Waiting for the world to change
Like a mountain stream
Hurrying to the sea
The waters are brought to life
Bounded to be free
Running in your veins
The stream is in you
A flood at the other end
The river is you
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Long Way Down
04:18
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It's a long way down
To find a cure for our wounded world
Lying deep inside
The reason for our strange behaviour
It's a puzzling lane
Like a medicated feast for all
There's a fix behind
Every action we should take in time
We're on our way down below
I see dreams are fading
Letting the dark clouds gather closer
Sparrows hiding behind
Earth is dying
Dreams are fading
Dark clouds gather
Sparrows hiding behind
Earth is dying
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Haven
04:06
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Night falls on me
Darkness comforts me
Here
We never close our eyes
We hold the cold inside
And never criticize
There
The summer never dies
They get to sleep tight
No need to compromise
But you make feel alive
Since I'm losing track of time
By drowning into wine
I slowly gasp for air
Just tell me when we should go
I never really cared
About the hours that flow
And you make feel alive
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4. |
Hollow
05:51
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Fading
Beyond the pale
Losing
All hope in Men
As we're lying to ourselves
As we feed anger with pain
As we wait for the world to change
Suddenly life doesn't taste the same
As we walk to the sea
Stand in line
Dive with me
Buried
In shallow graves
Leaders
And modern slaves
Dreams as they fade in the clouds
Demons absolving the crowds
The ones who should be the last to die
And those with all that money cannot buy
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5. |
Life in Serigraph
05:34
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Late at night, he feels alone
Awkward mood, no lights on
Bitterness surrounds the room
He gently asked me to move
Neither sad
Nor undisposed
He made his way up to the phone
He's crying on the radio
Entry door barely locks
Ceiling's low, lighting's dark
Shitty bed, no sheets on
Tablecloth upon the windows
Neither warm and comfortable
Nor safe enough to call it home
He's crying on the radio
First it came rasping at my door
It lasts for a moment then nothing more
After a while the shutters went wild
It seems to last for evermore
As much as I can remember
There it lied inanimate
Then darkness came veiling the skies
And wash away blood off my eyes
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Flat Light
07:28
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Flat light in grey skies
Dead as the life she cried
As I sit here and gaze
At the early morning sunrise
Still I do not know where to go
Life undenied
I see things so bright
Shades of light divide
Day from night
Flat light on hill side
Can't tell earth from skies
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Fragile
06:24
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One last time before it disappears
One last walk into the setting sun
With no one here to tell me right or wrong
Is life itself a reason to be strong?
My desires I relieve
All my life is but a dream within a dream
Promises, broken as they're made
Hollow tears falling down like rain
Hope must be a figment of my imagination
Since our world is nothing but illusion
I know I need to follow my heart
Fragile, I am a prisoner of time
My life is a persuasive illusion
I'm torn between dreams and reason
It only takes one glance to make me feel fragile
How many smiles before I realize I'm torn
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8. |
Behind the Silence
07:59
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I ran the numbers over and over
Still the odds were against me, whatsoever
My dreams are slowly dying
My songs are lost in oblivion
As the world keeps on spinning and turning, sadly
All day, behind the silence
All night, behind the words spinning round and round
Over my head like vultures in the moonlight, dancing
Okay, again I know I'll be alright
I'm like a ghost left here, motionless
Forever lost in the system
Like a spirit waiting
How long yet how many times I tried to take shelter in the arms of isolation?
I won't make it through another day
I won't fight like a wounded prey
I won't deal with tomorrow's mistake
Neither be here when the world breaks
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