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Betrayer
04:53
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Wires connect the body
In series, in parallell
A machine of bone and tissue
With one function. To function
It’s a blood pact
Time-honored and true
An unspoken bond between brothers
A promise needs no proof
But there’s been a coup
Limbs all gone rogue
A subdermal civil war
A wire sabotage.
Written in the code
All the fingers are numb
Compiled firmware
Cells turn on the host
You’re the bone betrayer.
You betrayed the body
You’re the blood brutus
You betrayed our body
Wires all been frayed
with bare copper veins
Soldier joints creak and crack
never to be set right
Circuit boards will melt
Filling lungs with sludge
Oil, blood, rust and smoke
The invisible disease
Multiply multiply
Time is short for us
Multiply Multiply
Settle your affairs
Written in the code
All the fingers are numb
Compiled firmware
Cells turn on their host
You’re the bone betrayer.
You betrayed the body
You’re the blood brutus
You betrayed our body
You betrayed the mirror
Boiled and burnt
Charred
Blood
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2. |
A Break In Time
04:10
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Decided to be me for now
Later I will return to dust
A break in time
Alive amongst a sea
Of darkness
Now I’m a wisp in the nebulas
You’re here
Me too
What are the odds
Of all that could have been
All that could have been
Despite the years where I never wept
I’m left with a chance to see it all
Born from infinite nothing
Destined to burn
Back to sleep
Memories in stardust
Copy and decode
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3. |
Hourglass
05:26
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I’ve wasted a good life
done some ugly things
Never made much, never measured up
Pissed away every second chance I got
Never laid down roots
Was a shitty man
Disappointed my Dad, let my friends down
Before my mom left, she killed my dog
Don’t take it away
I’m not finished yet
Am I too late
Give me one last chance
This is my promise
It’s fragile and thin
A seed in shitty soil, but it wants to live
I’m done gnashing my teeth, indulging regrets
I welcome them all
Don’t take it away
I’m not finished yet
Am I too late
To be a better man
This is mine
For better or worse
Once again I fell in line
This one is mine and it’s good enough
And was left behind
Say yes to the demon
Say yes to it all
I want to be yeasayer
I want to be to infinity
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4. |
Brother Sleep
04:39
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I had the luxury of contemplating more my own death
I fought to savor the droplets of my time
Knowing it’s temporary
It fell upon my mind
Living in arguments with imaginary peers and fantasy
Under the sun I wear a mask of conformity and it serves me so well
I dodge the moon to find a safety so I can get some sleep
My happiness was to look so brightly, brightly toward the future
Now I weep at the thought of tomorrow
There’s no greatness in yesterday
All that has passed
Mining, sifting through ashes of the light
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5. |
Trophy Room
03:40
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Bite down
Bite hard
Before the sunset ends
You’re not
a ghost
of former glory
Victory
leaves a
stale taste in your mouth
Outrun
your shadow
prove you’re still
standing upright
Stand upright
Destroy
the shelves
that hold your trophies
Melt down
your medals
for raw material
Tear apart
your awards
set them on fire
Outrun
your shadow
prove your still
standing upright
stand upright
Burn down the room
We’re not past tense.
Not yet.
There’s only now
Where’d you connect?
Who’s by your side?
Stand
Make something new
Make something real
Make something now
And take the hits
Your time is now
No glory days
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6. |
Corrupted
03:11
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He’d light the fires
Without knowing why
Conspiracies need not hide
They’ll put a number right on your arm
Just when will you defy?
Corrupted straight to the bone
No life inside
Start a war with the facts
Let’s all hide in the cross
Hoodwinked and swindled
Taken for rubes
Prey upon your nostalgia
For a time that doesn’t exist
A gilded age of whiteness
Corrupted straight to the bone
No life inside
Let’s all hide in the cross
Petulant and oh so fragile
A child with a bomb
They’ll line their pockets with your blood
Feasting on your good will
Corrupted straight to the bone
No life inside
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7. |
Patient Ones
05:53
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You can hide all day
Distract, deny, evade
The patient ones wait
Behind your eyes
In the still of the night
You are at their mercy
You can’t outrun yourself
Believe me, I’ve tried
Divide
This bed is torture
Deny
Every vein in my bloodshot eyes
The Lies
My pillows, estranged wives
Tonight
Sleep I don’t recognize
Head down
Closed eyes
The rest is all just lies
Seeping in through the veins
Your collapsed lungs suppress the breath
Drown in sweat as they bend the walls
The phantoms from the Upside Down
Drown
Sleep
Underground
In earth
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Only the Bones Chicago, Illinois
Only The Bones is a Chicago post-Fugazi band with members of Swan King, Snow Burial, and This Computer Kills.
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