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Burning
03:37
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I was looking for the good
In a fire that burned my house down
Was a light that led the way
From my cold and lonely hometown
But now I'm growing up
I see anew by starlight
The monster in the embers
Will not be stopped by night
So I turn to lonely flight
By the light of my bridges burning
I will cast aside my name
There's nothing left to hold me here
In the last kingdom of my shame
And though I hear your chanting
Of 'Die, Die, Die'
I will be your son no more
You don't deserve to have me try
Every word is knives
In the land where empire started
In the graveyard of the future
Where the island's soul departed
And your father told you lies
About where to find your heartbeat
So you play the game of progress
Where there's only win or cheat,
I'll embrace my first defeat
By the light of my bridges burning...
And while the fire's still burning
I will wait beside the flames
To make sure that there's nothing left
Of these old and bloody games
And every twisted empire
That fell in ages past
Proves time's final whisper:
Let all dominion fall to ash
By the light of my bridges burning...
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Mother Love Your Child
02:47
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Once, there was a boy
Who didn't know that he did not exist
Until he ran away
Left a hole in the house he'd never lived in
Mother, love your child
And not the ghost
That you see standing in my shoes
Mother, say my name
Or silence will
Be all you have to grow old with
Once, there was a girl
Searching for an egg to hatch out of
And spinning false cocoons
Wearing masks that could never match your face
Mother...
Knives of courtesy
At throats that cannot breathe to scream
At faces that cannot lie
For hatred of a chosen name
Mother, what am I?
A tree without roots to teach me up from down
And stretching towards the sky
Don't you fear that I'll leave the Earth behind?
Mother...
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The Long Star
03:40
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By the light of distant galaxies that were old when we were born
The long star blinks its first, lonely and forlorn
But starlight is fleeting, those old galaxies will fade
We will have to face the dark with only the light we've made
I try to bury you in others' love because my own feels pale and cold
And the gravity you work on me is too much weight to hold
I stumble against your self-hate, how could anyone hate you?
Wanna fight the things they put in your head but I don't know what to do
I was less alive before today and so what I'm doing here
Is not offering to you my light but returning yours my dear
You're the part of me I could never grasp, slipping your hand in mine
It's when the pieces fuse together that a star can start to shine
I love it when you baffle me, I'm baffled by your love
It's gonna take us years to join the stars above
But stars get a long time to learn how to be
And we make our own light that's all we need to see
For we've gathered the cold gas and dust we need to make a start
So it's time to be a beacon now, love, set your spark in my heart
Now there's an ember in my fireplace where the long star has flown
Where I'd never intended to call your warmth my home
But I tended to it, you tended to me
We both learned more things that we tended to be
For we've tended well that tenderness that's now fully grown
So come bask in its radiance, dear, call my hearth your own
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i have no idea
03:35
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ooooooooooo oo o ooooo oo ooo oooo ooo ooo ooo ooooo
o ooooo ooooooo ooo oooo oooo oooo oo oooo oo oooooo oooo ooooo
and by the time that I woke up enough to pay back your love
my dream had gone the way of everything we spoke of
So now pride is destruction and I have come to destroy
The only way to save yourself is to use me like a toy
And nothing is the answer to the question I don't ask
You tear off my face, but I'm not wearing a mask
I don't know where to mark this on the scorecard in my mind
I'm looking for a better question but this is all I find
And perspective is a sense of the mind and not the heart
I never thought I'd want this much to have my senses torn apart
And by the time that I woke up enough to pay back your love
My dream had gone the way of all the things we spoke of
And you'll never convince me I've enough to give
I am not the one to love with
And if there is an answer it's not the one I say
And you won't ask another day
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I was made for this
Before they unmake what I was
Before they unmake what I was
I was a thing that could be known
I was a thing that could be known
But only without love
But only without love
Was I a thing that could be known
Was I a thing that could be known
Before they unmake what I was?
Before they unmake what I was
I was made for this
In this triangle of stars there will be paint, pain and breathing
If there's fear in your heart that's the first sign that you're not leaving
I'll sing out my defiance as I rend the cage of my spine
And set my feet upon a path that no map could define
I'll be faster than lightning, deadly as a kiss
When I chase you down I will know a hunter's bliss
I will glitter over water with my wings at last unfurled
And someday I'll be big
Enough to hold the world
When I come back there will be blood
And I will know the secret shapes
Of the elder constellations
In the colours I've never seen
In the colours I've never seen
Will be the elder constellations
That will reveal the secret shapes
And when I come back there will be blood
In this triangle of stars a compass transcends the four directions
For a politics of forge and farm much older than elections
Your ideals of hearth and home sweep before our revolution
As we finally become your problem with no solution
I'll be faster than lightning, deadly as a kiss
Your flesh will know the teething of my metamorphosis
I will glitter over water with my flag a silver blur
And someday I'll be big
Enough to hold the world
I'll take everything I can,
And be more than you can bear
As the songs will grind you down
For this burden made to kill
From this burden made to kill
As the songs will grind you down
And be more than you can bear
I'll take everything I can
In this triangle of stars I dream of beating those who shamed me
While a walk with wind and salt begins the long work to untame me
With a dragon in my blood and ink to guide my pen
The ghosts of our burning future will smile on me again
I'll be faster than lightning, deadly as a kiss
I'll take you on the wing with seven jaws that never miss
I will glitter over water, a gleam of sapphire and pearl
And someday I'll be big
Enough to hold the world
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