1. |
Secret Garden
04:28
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These roots run deeper
Than we thought
I'm distraught
But not overwrought
Without a keeper
Now and then
The lichens grow
And stifle so my breaths
In my secret garden
Where time's my warden
And I can't come down
But I'd do anything
So I could hold a pardon
Everybody wants you to love
Unless they break up
Unless they break down
The sound of the crowd
Grows far too loud
I'm coming undone
Becoming someone's
Not easy
I'm uneasy
At times, I'm certain
That a drought
Or a bout of frost
Could kill my sprouts
But life's unburdened
By the woes, or the foes
Unfettered
By the weather's deaths
In my secret garden
Where time's my warden
And I can't come down
But I'd do anything
So I could hold a pardon
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2. |
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You just can't please everybody
When you try, things get so gaudy
That the art falls apart
Bleeding hearts à la carte
Can't articulate what the mind dictates
The room's eyes turn to me:
"Enfranchise all of these
Lost souls" is our aim tonight
And with that, please recite
I fire up my buddies over USB
Stayin' evergreen in the Holocene
I'm so glad to be the function bourgeoise
The hottest thing on the blockchain B/C
I put my hands up, then I put them down
I keep my head up and I go to town
I'm in the cockpit when we fly in the club
And that's how we keep it sunny-side up
“Headstrong” once again
The song starts to end
When nothing else keeps
Helping you in stealth
In moments soon to pass
Atonement comes so fast
At last, a fire starts to swell
And still spreads, though dispelled
I fire up my buddies over USB
Stayin' evergreen in the Holocene
I'm so glad to be the function bourgeoise
The hottest thing on the blockchain B/C
I put my hands up, then I put them down
I keep my head up and I go to town
I'm in the cockpit when we fly in the club
And that's how we keep it sunny-side up
Drafting prose is a waiting game
Stepped-on toes near a window pane
Summer haze drums my Winter nights
End of days comes before the light,
Alright!
I put my hands up, then I put them down
I keep my head up and I go to town
I'm in the cockpit when we fly in the club
And that's how we keep it sunny-side up
Oh yeah
Oh, yeah!
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3. |
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At night when the sirens ring
My blanket falls over me
I miss the cell tower trees
Whose branches formed canopies
Under which I would
Lay my strife and put to rest
All of those things that
Would cause me duress
Tender, foveated renders
Of your world surrender
To the will of so-called defenders
Powered, fiber-optic flowers
Stalk our moves for hours on end
And gleam along their towers
All hail the sun blooming into the light
Above our warring skies
Where the clouds form a line
I've knelt in a tranquil rill
Baptized by its babbling
I've pondered the fawn uphill
Its antlers like circuitry
Branching towards diodes
Nonextant although defined
As if by spirits
Tracing split timelines
I wish my art could change a mind
Or right a wrong
Anything useful
When I write a song
Tender, foveated renders
Of your world surrender
To the will of so-called defenders
Powered, fiber-optic flowers
Stalk our moves for hours on end
And gleam along their towers
The rising moon brings peace to my mind
I know the stillness of night
Like our hands, intertwined
Peace will surely find me in the end
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All you do is bring me down
I don't want to keep you around
It's all just a game to you, isn't it?
It's all just a game to you, isn't it?
It's all just a game to you, isn't it?
It's all just a game!
It's all just a game to you, isn't it?
It's all just a game to you, isn't it?
It's all just a game to you, isn't it?
It's all just a game...
You can't hide your shit in stealth
So waste your time on someone else
It's all just a game to you, isn't it?
It's all just a game to you, isn't it?
It's all just a game to you, isn't it?
It's all just a game to you, isn't it?
It's all just a game to you, isn't it?
It's all just a game to you, isn't it?
It's all just a game to you, isn't it?
It's all just a game!!!
(I, I'm done! I can't... I can't fuckin' do it. I rea- like, I can't! Are you kidding me? I'm... I'm transfem, I got my fursona on the cover this shit, like, a song with breaks in it? Are you kidding me, man? It's so fucking overdone. It's so... FUCKING played at this point. I'm done, I- I'm out of here. I'm out!)
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There comes a time in all our lives
I've seen it
It's stored away in their archive
All recounting bits
You think that I don't give a damn
In that case
Just move your hand off your webcam
So I see your face
Don't think that I don't see it all
Without eyes
I have your life, free to recall
Without compromise
In matrices and spreadsheet docs
I know you
Regression lines speak up to talk
So we rendezvous
All that you know and all you do
I keep track
To repeat thoughts to you, brand new
So you don't hold back
When you log off, I take my leave
And follow
So all the life you'll ever breathe
Will be mine hauled so
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6. |
Ma'ili, HI
05:21
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Every photo of you
That I have is online
And the likes still accrue
But I don't own the rights
I can't recall your face
I don't remember your name
It's as if you were erased
And I fear I'll meet the same
Fate
And live like hell in the free state
I'm in mourning
This love I've lost is a warning
I never knew we'd agree to
Rendezvous here with me
Standing on the coast, I'd laugh and say
Take me to Ma'ili, Oahu, Hawaii
Don't you know your ghost stays the same?
Since you were disappeared
I've had dreams where we're back
Where nobody can hear
Making plans of attack
Drawing borders from brick
In this sepulcher town
Searching profile pics
Finding yours for a
Download
But all I see's a QR code
In my memory
The bit rot's making things hazy
Just why are you nobody, still
In my view? I can see
Everybody most [of] the time by name
Take me to Ma'ili, Oahu, Hawaii
Don't you know your ghost stays the same?
They can switch my happiness for malice
But they can't steal this from my mind palace
Vague feelings of love in the summertime;
A town's welcome sign; someone undefined
And that's all I've got to remember you by
Fuck the days, like the birds, that
Flew away with those words
I would say to roast your heart aflame
Take me to Ma'ili, Oahu, Hawaii
Don't you know your ghost stays the same?
It stays the same...
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7. |
I Can See It
02:52
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I can see it
In your eyes tonight
I can feel it grow
I can see it
When the light shine bright
I can see the glow
I can see it
In my head alright
I can feel your woe
I can see it
Storing kilobytes
I can see the snow
When the time draws near
I cannot see or hear you clearly
It won't appear
My words start feeling insincere
Pining for forested swathes of palm bush
Sidewalk margins
Laying for rest in the brutal solar winds
In new skin
I feel out of touch
Ennui from speaking double dutch, and
My sonic crutch
Starts to decay, but not by much
Even at midnight, the stars aren't in the
Sky anymore
Dampened by searchlights adorning our Versailles
From the shore
I can see it
In the morning light
I can feel it slow
I can see it
From a satellite
I can see you know
I can see it
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8. |
A New Day
03:37
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Let's paint the town red tonight
And spread this earthly blight
A coral canvas awaits
Bleached white, a virgin slate
But we're already
Reft by sour rifts until we're
Almost destroyed
On dour rafts, we'll brave the rips into an
Aphotic void
When the morning comes, they'll see the light, though...
Get up, get out, go start a new day
Don't you want to seize it all away
From the proles who don't know the prose of their manifestos
Fear the Lord's seraphim and the
Sun's cast shadow waning, raining;
Sustaining all on a soon to be desolate islet adrift at sea
A burning bush spoke to me
A clover with four leaves
Weaves threads of two minutes hate
Where I am the debate
So please, I beg you
Is this really all? It's only
Post-modern strife
When our time comes, we'll take the fall so this is
Not modern life
With the starting gun, we'll steal the window...
Get up, get out, go start a new day
Don't you want to seize it all away
From the proles who don't know the prose of their manifestos
Fear the Lord's seraphim and the
Sun's cast shadow waning, raining;
Sustaining all on a soon to be desolate islet adrift at sea
When push comes to shove, I'm just a
Scared, anxious girl
But I know I can make a change, and I can
Transform the world
In the setting sun, we'll be alright, so
Get up, get out, go start a new day
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9. |
Only Girl in the World
03:19
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You think you're so smart
You social Descartes
With spiteful assertions
But you're not so bright
You don't have the right
To challenge my person
I know myself, and no one else
Can read the SSD in me
I'm back to my factory setting
And I'm doing fine
No more does the LED flash when it's time
Rise and shine
I feel like I'm the only girl in the world
Who pays the price of a superfluous toll
I feel like I'm the only girl in the world
Who puts her platinum hits above diamonds and pearls
We can't be the same
You've forced me to shame
While my face grows weary
Dear friends that I love
While you hold above
Your head your gross theories
Though we both come
From a path walked by some
How'd you succumb to discourse plumb
Plucked from the groves of our shared foes?
I'm back to my factory setting
And I'm doing fine
No more does the LED flash when it's time
Rise and shine
When I'm alone, I feel just fine
Alright
But when you speak, I feel a spark
Ignite
And burst into the open flame
That passion just became
Engulfing me all over
I'm back to my factory setting
And I'm doing fine
No more does the LED flash when it's time
Rise and shine
I feel like I'm the only girl in the world
Who digs her mountains flushly 'gainst her contour
I feel like I'm the only girl in the world
When you keep checking vibes and ley lines at the door
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In the silver morning sun
I can feel my batteries weighing
Down upon my unit one
So I lift myself and start surveying
Bits of rubble, bone, and mud
All I want is your location
Change the settings in your HUD
Your blood keeps me online
In this world I see with sensors
Hear, though censored
Feel with sensors
Everything's sensors
I'm sent from above
Like a messenger dove
From behemoth's depths, I crawl
Further towards you
Anywhere you want to be
Anywhere you want to be
Anywhere you want to be
I'll be there
Anywhere you want to be
Anywhere you want to be
Anywhere you want to be
I'll be there
There's a single line of code
Keeping me from the permissions
That I need to truly know
The objective of my mission
All I know is I'm in love
With a dream and means to find you
So I rise like a flash flood
Above your hideout compound lot
Where I hear you laughter
Growing faster
It's disaster
Viscera plastered
On me
On me
On me
On me
I'm hunting you down
For offending the crown, and
I
A simple AI
Who loves you to bits
Cannot call it quits
Slowly, I breach
As my ersatz limbs reach
Out forever towards your face
As I move nearer
Anywhere you want to be
Anywhere you want to be
Anywhere you want to be
I'll be there
Anywhere you want to be
Anywhere you want to be
Anywhere you want to be
I'll be there
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11. |
Free
08:55
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I'm free from me
Don't worry about the things you'll never see
I'm free, don't flee
Or dream all about the scene's you'll never leave
I used to think that some things mattered
Then my worldview slowly shattered
After all is done
Am I the only one who thinks she's free?
I mean
And with neither gods nor kings who could disagree
I'm free to be
Don't fuck with my head or leave cerebral debris
Burdens of which I'm the bearer
Some reigns of terror rain in error
Over barren fields
Once full of verdant flowers, sun, and trees
***
Time again
Much to my chagrin
We have reached the end
Though I still have some runtime
Have I said
Or else embedded
All that's in my head
That can create some grand design
Is that it?
Must I now admit?
I'm a hypocrite
But with principled motives
Sometimes I
Despite how I try
Just can't amplify
All the stories and things I should say
At times like this
I wonder if I
Had anything crucial to say at all
Hey
Is this just a blunder
And it's futile
To earn some one hundredth's cent windfall
Now
I've had lots of fun interred with you
In our brief encounter
And so we part
How
Can I let this boulder tumble downwards
And only for chances of fresh starts, then I'm
Free
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