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Absence
03:43
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Tighten the veil around my eyes until I can see
This vacuum of silence inside me that devours everything
It takes conscious effort not to reach the bitter end
Where I cannot fathom beginning this ever or again
A spiral of Darkness entangles and smothers me
The absence is frightening it’s devoid of all humanity
So, I cling to all I love
In my pursuit of true happiness
There is a house high above,
Lofty ideals and time’s velvet glove
I know if I wait for the light to focus
My paradigm will shift to reveal
Another way to perceive things
And make a change
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Obvious
03:49
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Don’t be so obvious
This soon will end like cars crashing
In the dark as you sleep
Languid and lifeless doll
Dreaming a dream that you are
Every single drop of rain
Eyes of a sailor guided by a scrim of stars
Touch and go meanders the path of a broken heart
Night sky is silent and still as a photograph
Gives me the shivers of walking on broken glass
Time is a jailor when put down in black and white
In-between seconds the days turn to sleepless nights
Long sleeves and sweaters regret is a cache of scars
Arms length beside you arranged in small ornate jars
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Islas Malvinas
02:41
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When the Beagle drops it’s anchor
Darwin collects ancient fossils
There’s dispute of sovereignity
Las Malvinas Argentinas
Paraiso en ruinas
Isla de el mar y de el sol
On first glance upon the island
Darwin comments sort of sighing,
“Quietest place we have ever been.”
Torturados y esclavos
Pobre guachos que usaron
En 1833
Never-mind these ruthless oceans
Whose shores aren’t yours
These shores aren’t yours
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Twain and Voltaire
02:29
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Into the room you stumbled dimly
“I love this song,” and then you kissed me
Tender and sweet or so I remember
When we were young charming and clever
Paperbacks piled up on the dresser
Twain and Voltaire by your parents’ picture
An old black in white in formal attire
Two fresh face kids brighter than diamonds
Curtains were drawn to keep the city
At bay till dawn, until we were ready
All romantics often remember
When they were young, charming, and clever
Has this room gone cold now?
In passing I wonder
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Sisyphus
03:26
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Kill or be killed
All good carnies know the deal
When they’re begging for their meals
Just to keep their bellies filled
Big top is drawing them in
And the midway seems so dim
Sisyphus as a clown
Has his futile routine down
Austere girl in slacks
Made her fortune on her back
Singing jazz or was it blues
Wearing ballerina shoes
Deus ex machina
Giving shameless curtain calls
Grand Guignol center stage
The absurd and the insane
Hearts and circles drag the earth in,
Satellite they turn just like broken records
I’ve got the questions if you’ve got the answers
Do bruised knees bring the faithful enlightenment?
Has rapture called them home?
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Paper Tiger
03:14
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Tide’s been laying low
Beach sand turns to stone
Your eyes fell back to the sea
Ocean’s salty breath you breathe
Every word you’d say
Sacred and profane
Paper tiger catches me
Brings me tumbling to my knees
Below the surface
Cracks split into rifts
Granite smiles and plaster feet
Statues stay as people leave
Clock’s ticking away
Dials are razorblades
Time won’t wait or turn around
I’m the fall and you’re the ground to me
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Eloquent and wise
These truths are told as stories
And I can’t seem to grasp
The meaning of the words and their depth
Preterite defense
Hindsight’s twenty-twenty
When you’re holding your breath
Waiting for these chores to turn into gifts
Forty days and nights
Through strife and self reflection
A martyr ascends
Canonical gospels give us life in his death
Please tell me why you weep
Reposed at your saviors feet
Whose death was not in vein
Who will live and die again
Eminently wise
There’s truth in prose and stories
Though they tend to rely
On mnemonic devices for the words and intent
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Sullen stranger keeps his head down as he moves
Past the headstone’s garden graveyard
Strewn with blooms, gone to soon, summer blooms
Hedonism’s misconception paves the way
“He sure was a handsome devil,”
They will say when they say what they’ll say
Surprise, surprise
You lived, you died
Like day was night
Surprise, surprise
Patron saint of self indulgence finds a way
To bear witness and take poor souls pain away
Just like magic when you open up your eyes
Smoke and mirrors hide the dreary
Face that lies just behind all those lies
Surprise, surprise
You lived your life
Away from light
Surprise, surprise
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9. |
Francis Bacon
05:36
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Holding my breath as you slip in pajamas
I’ll wrap you in bliss and I’ll bury my sadness like bones… like a bone
Don’t tie your ring to a tether of chance
Because chains break away but the strings are attached as you know
All the same, I’d like to try and shout your name
As you come back home, oh so late
And throw your rotten clothes in the street
With all your girlfriends
Mattress is drenched with the bodily fluids
Of the selfish remains of a soul left in ruins,
Alone… all alone
Pale through the window, the faintest of light
It catches your hair turning colorless white like the snow
Such a shame, hold your tongue
Don’t you look away as I dry my face
And hope you’ll stay
Put my heart and soul in these
Random nights in your bed
Shakespeare’s reading tales of Capulets
Held as pretense or misprinted text
Francis Bacon’s missing manuscript
Speaks of young love before modern sin
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10. |
Untitled
04:00
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The Velocity Gospel Miami, Florida
The Velocity Gospel is a Miami based psychedelic rock pop band, consisting of Emmanuel Canete, Roger Houdaille and Arturo Arbelaez.
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