1. |
It Was Dawn
04:09
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It was dawn when I lost you again
Trying to bring you home
So we can mend
When are you coming home?
I think about you all the time
I’m falling out of flow
Searching for a good distraction
Seeing my body move
But my mind stays where it’s been
When are you coming home?
It was dawn though I could see no lights Why hasn’t time eased the pain from my insides?
And she’s so dear to me
Her heart as far as I can see
It was dawn
Dimmed down through daylight
I need a good distraction
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2. |
Beacon
03:25
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Sketches of good intentions
Underneath layers of lies
Try seeing the bigger picture
When brush strokes lag behind
Not born to shun
Not born to run
A call for help
I wish you well
There was light coming from a beacon Now shadow of doubts flood the streets Don’t tell me what is or isn’t real
Don’t tell me how I should or shouldn’t feel
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3. |
Hive Mind
04:33
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Pulled at the seams, but they expect us at our best At least that’s how the story goes
It’s the hand we’re dealt in a life we never chose They break us down, wear us out
We’re left to try and make it on our own In their eyes this hive mind abides into the fold Born to accept this foundation for our heads
Another fallen walker trampled on
Our big ideas, echoes upon four walls
This was our home
Let’s take it back
We can’t divide and build something that will last
The watchers who wait
While a false savior stakes a claim
These are lives that you’re bargaining with
This was never the deal
Time slips for generations
Colonized without control
Will you question your programming?
Keep your hands on the wheel
Far from outnumbered, we swarm
Rise up from underground
This is not the world that they sold us
Empty promises
A fire burns.
All we want is to be heard.
Let’s fan the flame, shout aloud
And one by one we’ll rage like embers from the sun
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Oakfield
02:47
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This house is empty
and I only have seconds left
The air outside is killing me
and I’m out of time to take it in
I’m out of time to take it in
I’ll miss the summertime
even though I couldn’t sleep at night
I’ll miss the wintertime
even though I couldn’t sleep at night
The hills echo my spotlight
even though I couldn’t breathe at times
The green house on Oakfield Ave
We had our time
We had a blast
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Custom of the Sea
04:24
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Prove, improve your lot or pull the shortest straw
There still comes the worst draw, hear these words, hear these words Beware this fatal flaw
The second in line, it’s driving knives in my back
Golden futures gone, blown out candle lights
Now you’ve taken my, my life, took it away, crossed out my name, What’s left is right?
Threads of rope
Serpentine
Tighter around my neck
Can’t you see?
Cast one aside, custom means right
Cast one aside, one aside
Took it for granted I went out to sea
To know the man I’d be
Shadow on the shore growing loveless and poor
Now I’m up knocking on death’s door
Apathetic climb that leaves nothing more for those I adored
I wish I could do it again
Nurture the seeds
This future now swallowed by a lack of vision
Can’t you see?
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Unanchored
03:10
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Fall in love with why you’re here
Unanchored
Uneasy
Slow down
Heavy rain back in the day, once snow
And I can’t prove my worth
Heavy rain
Unanchored
Uneasy
Slow down
Not good enough
Not good enough
One foot out the door
The other on my neck
Pressing on and on on
It’s the beauty of becoming more than home
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Thunder
02:13
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Just because I’m far away and I lost count of the days
Doesn’t mean I’m not with you
I am with you
If the world is going to turn, it’s about time that I learn That it’s all temporary
Are you with me?
Don’t look down
Lose your senses
Don’t look back
It’s you who’s breathing
Now
Just because I’m far away
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Coming Home
03:47
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Open shutters, showing streets that
Turn to streets that show the way back
Sit back, relax, a story will be told
There’s a place it’s built with two hands
And a house I can’t go back to
When time aligns, arrive, arrive
I still arrive, when time aligns
Will you be there when I come home?
I left without a place to go
And so it goes, and so it goes
I left not knowing where was home
Will you be there if I come home?
Always a surprise to see
Surprised to see another street
I think I left it all behind
I think I’m here, I think I’m blind
Always a surprise to be back home
Closing borders, etched in pavement
Without payment, boundaries crossing
I burned a lot of bridges to get here
It’s a place it’s built with two hands
And a house I can’t forget
Should I be stateside?
Or by the wayside?
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You’ll find your healing when you put away all your distractions
Embrace the dark shadows
Allow yourself to feel through your pain
Home is where you hold me down
Home is where you hold me under
My body moved, but my mind stayed there
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Home free
Still not complete
Likely to be
floating between
Space to sea
In between
Feelin’ like, I’m spiraling, I’m spiraling, I’m spiraling through a maze
What’s left to discover
A challenger may be
In space or the sea
Or floating
In between
So when you go spiraling through a maze
You will be spiraling all day
I visit not nearly enough
And when I do, when I do,
Don’t know what to do, what to do
And when I leave and get away
I feel relief, feel relief
Until I’m missing them, dearly
To come home
Fleeting on repeat
I take it’s forever
Fleeting on repeat
It’s been forever
But never again
Never
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The Vigilance Committee New York
New York’s The Vigilance Committee stands as a message-driven intersection of progressive, punk, and indie
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