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Everything Ersatz
03:32
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We’ve almost found it
We’ll soon be surrounded
What does this mean?
Don’t tell me what to dream, what do dream.
The waiting has ended,
The fences are mended.
Take all you need.
Don’t ask me where to lead, where to lead.
The anticipation
Must be channeled through creation.
Fear not the time.
It’s all a state of mind, state of mind.
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Pane and Longing
03:42
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I’m always looking out the window down below
Believing someday I might find myself alone
But I know forward thinking sends the thoughts asunder.
So can I keep on pressing on till I am done?
Chorus
Walking in, walking out.
Walking in and out of line.
I feel like I am finding nothing that is new.
I’m boxed inside a structure I cannot escape.
But I will not give in to all the doubts you fed me,
Now I can only hope that you’ll be there when I am.
What am I missing? Something real?
You're just waiting on a moment, waiting on a moment, that is right before your eyes.
Chorus
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Oh, I once had a plan I thought would guide me
Towards the answers to a thousand distant sounds
But it seems that after years and years of searching
I have hardly moved my feet off of the ground.
No, I don’t regret a single chord I’ve altered.
Or a concept that was built just for the ride.
I am moving though there is no rush to get there
Just as long as I’m not swallowed in the tide.
Chorus
Well the time is now!
As we culminate upon the break of dawn.
I won’t stop asking questions
Though I will take suggestions from you.
What’s the point of making empty promises
When the only ones you keep are left alone?
Reflections never motivate your consciousness
To embrace the flying machine you never owned.
Chorus
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4. |
Short of Sleep
04:06
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Never thought I could camouflage behind a word.
Never thought we could go unseen but still be heard.
Not gonna hurt you, not gonna do you harm.
Promise there won’t be cause for false alarm.
Never thought I could plough ahead quite like this.
Never thought he could find you such an accomplice.
Now that I’m waiting for the deal to seal
Guess I can’t tell you just how not to steal.
Chorus
Don’t let him know that you’re on to him.
For someone will find, you’re telling a lie.
Never thought you’d be the family’s blackest sheep
Never thought I would ever find you short of sleep.
Somebody’s waiting, give him what he needs.
Think of your children, all those mouths to feed.
I’m hiding under the brightest light.
I won’t get caught if I do it right.
She wasn’t s’posed to be there that night.
Chorus
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The Harbor
02:22
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There’s nothing left to say
‘Cause I know you’ll remember.
It won’t stand in my way
When we get to December.
Oh harbor, don’t let me down.
I just can’t last another round.
Words can’t describe all the keys to survival.
But neither can you.
No more seconds of guessing or endless confessing
To them or to you.
I’ve done all I can do
‘Cause I’ve got nothing better.
No more looking out for clues.
Every line, every letter.
Oh harbor, don’t let me down.
I just can’t last another round.
I hope I’m not inflating the chance of negating
What fate holds in store.
This didn’t work last time, no one cares ‘bout the last line.
I’ll say nothing more.
Oh harbor, don’t let me down.
I just can’t last another round.
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