1. |
Intro
02:50
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Open ears, open eyes
Open hearts, open minds
Open up your tape deck
Tape heads unaligned
Come on gather round
Come pick up the sounds
Of the ghosts comin' up from the undergound
Can you hear them now?
Can you hear the words
Hit record
That do offend all sensibilities
Here we make amends with our
Mortality, malaties,
Sexuality and all of these
That kept us hidden
In dark realms forbidden
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2. |
Trappist
03:57
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The flesh is torn, then I'm left wanting more
What's left before
The feelings change but I go on
And on anon
What have you done?
Life in the sun
Stuck in a phase that
Leaves me with none
Then, what's more?
The rift is swift in its short shrift, then I'm over
I won't turn myself to nothing
And shame what I believe
Nor burn myself or something
That traps me
Are you trapped?
Have I cracked?
Am I trapped?
Am I rigged to explode?
How about I just snap
And don't get what I'm owed?
A mirror breaks, its vision doesn't take
Mistakes
A silver hall surrounding all
Encasing me in haunting thralls
I won't turn myself to nothing
And shame what I believe
Nor burn myself or something
That traps me
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3. |
Cotton Candy
04:03
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Something in me, beastly
Keeps me from waiting
So soft and sweetly
When I'm with you I feel
So light and airy
Like cotton candy
When I've won
Everyone here will
Pay for the things that they've done
And the times that they've run
Away from everything else
Alone will I will heal
All their welts
And I'm here
Where I endear
All I hear
And I see
I believe
That I'm over
And I'm done
Here I'm none
Uh-huh
I am nobody's man
As a matter of fact and phrase
This whole thing began
When the lights hit the stage
I'm sure they'll understand
As a matter of trust and faith
A flash in the pan
A bitter, damning wraith
Something in me, beastly
Keeps me from waiting
So soft and sweetly
When I'm with you I feel
So light and airy
Like cotton candy
Where I go
Everyone knows I'm there in the flesh
My whole world is refreshed
Allegro
I know these
Songs come undone
Like some gatling gun
When I freeze
When you're gone
The days drag on
I'm withdrawn
In the red
And I'm read
Like a novel
Rote stead
In my head
For you
I am nobody's man
As a matter of fact and phrase
This whole thing began
When the lights hit the stage
I'm sure they'll understand
As a matter of trust and faith
A flash in the pan
A bitter, damning wraith
Something in me, beastly
Keeps me from waiting
So soft and sweetly
When I'm with you I feel
So light and airy
Like cotton candy
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4. |
Oddity
04:32
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At night I see them coming
Spectres I bring
Feelings of fractured sorrow
Internal woes
I'd never let it happen
I'm sorry that I did
I hoped I'd hear him laughing
I'm sorry that I did
When moonlight hinders foresight
It's plain as day to see
I'm sorry that I'm downright
Down tight rhodes
Enthrones an oddity
At night I feel them breathing
The light's plaything
I feel my person necrose
External throes
I'd never let it happen
I'm sorry that I did
I hoped I'd hear him laughing
I'm sorry that I did
When moonlight hinders foresight
It's plain as day to see
I'm sorry that I'm downright
Down tight rhodes
Enthrones an oddity
I'd never let it happen
I'm sorry that I did
I hoped I'd hear him laughing
I'm sorry that I did
When moonlight hinders foresight
It's plain as day to see
I'm sorry that I'm downright
Down tight rhodes
Enthrones an oddity
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Wanting comes and goes
Though mostly I'm here waiting
For some hope to come
To find my flawed will
Ones and O's I can't enclose
The ones I love most
Keep a prying eye
Stand watching from their timelines
So close, yet so far
Creeping eyes that freeze my time
You're a tulpa
You're my tulpa
I don't get the things you do
So I blame them all on you
Standing with me
Without one thing to be
I make a form for you
In my head and out of view
You're a tulpa
You're my tulpa
I want so much to love
What you are above
The thoughts I keep inside
Of you I try to hide
Thrashing in my mind
To make their way outside
You're a tulpa
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It's all fine
I've arrived
To choruses that
Chant up at the sky
We're here, we're queer, get used to it
We're here right now and we won't submit
To call out all you hypocrites
And if you don't stand down, then you'll get these fists
How much I want to stand aside
Is overpowered by empowered regicide
I still feel like I'm going to cry
But all I do is glance in fright and stand aside
I heard voices back then
Right beside my bed
Telling me, telling you
What not to do
I hear voices again
Now inside my head
Telling me, telling you
What not to do
Young big Belle don't do that
Spirit box me up
You won't
Thought you caught me up
You don't
Think you slow my roll
You know you bugging
Front row show going how the snow drop
Frigid with the feelings intuition like a stovetop
Bridge look matchbook
Whip where I'm sitting in
Hand on the wheel
Jaw clenched
Teeth cracking
Again
Splash cold water and gin
Full windows run 90 tint
I can't see out can y'all see in?
I can't see out can y'all see in?
I make my own mirror it's compact
Pocket problems and it's nothing, yeah I top that
Yeah please stop that effort look minimal
Think that whack shit is ever gonna hit the Belly Boo
Next thing coming
Know you won't like it
Fight y'all virus
Big my iris
See y'all biting
Chewing
Choke on it
Y'all still run
That's good
I'm stoked on it
Telling y'all yeah I'm telling y'all yeah I'm telling y'all
Smell y'all yeah I smelled y'all and I'm
[PUKE SOUND]
Back up, back up, I heard enough
I don't like your notes
I aim for the throat
I got
Quips
Y'all best quit
I'm off that shit
I'm out this bitch
I heard voices back then
Right beside my bed
Telling me, telling you
What not to do
I hear voices again
Now inside my head
Telling me, telling you
What not to do
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7. |
Excalibur
04:53
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It wasn't really in my hands
Although I'll be first to concede
I felt it pass
And now I'm running out of
The ways that I would do things
And pull strings
So here I can admit to what I want
And I'm here to haunt
Back what I knew
What I do
Now adieu
Like excalibur, I wait for my sword to be taken away
So I won't know anymore pain, okay?
That's my one last hope
Or so I think I know - that's how the story goes
In truth I'm only so-so on the prose
Though I won't be a no-show
Somewhere there is pain
But it's somewhere far away
I don't know how to start saying this, so
I'm fine with a whining crowd sometimes
But I'd lie if I said I wouldn't want to die
It's never really over, though
You know?
I feel like I can't ignore this
And even though it's
Finally about time to move on
I've foregone
Anything to help with this false pain
I can't invoke in vain
Anything, anyone I can call
I've palled
Like excalibur, I wait for my hero to come and break me
Away from this ill life I've won
That's what I want
But it's set in stone - and so I'm on my own
I'm fine living lies to pass through your earphones
So I won't be alone
Somewhere there is pain
But it's somewhere far away
I don't know how to start saying this, so
I'm fine with a whining crowd sometimes
But I'd lie if I said I wouldn't want to die
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8. |
Distance Between Us
04:04
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Echoing
Smoldering
Everything I thought
Was my own
I'm wishing for
Something more
I'm unhappy this way
With you
Signet rings
Angel wings
There, holding a mirror
Of me
Nothing more
Nothing for
Me to keep
In slant rhymes
Be careful you don't pass through
Be gentle in lieu
It's over, then déjà vu
You don't know yet, do you?
I wanna be with you
I wanna be you
'Cause when I say it
Baby, the whole world seems aware
I wanna be with you
I wanna be you
'Cause then it seems that
Distance between us isn't there
Take my hand
Understand
You will not pass me up
In time
I can't escape
The warm embrace
I can't back up
This thoughtcrime
Be careful you don't pass through
Be gentle in lieu
It's over, then déjà vu
You don't know yet, do you?
I wanna be with you
I wanna be you
'Cause when I say it
Baby, the whole world seems aware
I wanna be with you
I wanna be you
'Cause then it seems that
Distance between us isn't there
I wanna be with you
I wanna be you
'Cause when I say it
Baby, the whole world seems aware
I wanna be with you
I wanna be you
'Cause then it seems that
Distance between us isn't there
I wanna be with you
I wanna be you
'Cause when I say it
Baby, the whole world seems aware
I wanna be with you
I wanna be you
'Cause then it seems that
Distance between us isn't there
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9. |
Breathe
04:42
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The rhythm of the world can be
So hard to notice
That hidden beauty makes me feel
So out of focus
I focus on the smaller things
To help me manage myself
And all the things surrounding me twist and turn
Around my vantage
When the morning comes
I won't stand alone
After all is said and done
Disowned
Oh, this I just can't believe
Why can't I leave
From what I can't perceive
Oh
Breathe, breathe in the chemicals
In decimals
Nothing stays ethical
The seasons come and go and I
Keep getting fearful
And with the winds, I wonder why
I'm growing tearful
The patterns start to fall in place
And things grow clearer
The pyrrhic grasp on my embrace
Is drawing nearer
When the evening dawns
I can't lie dethroned
After all is dead and gone
Unknown
Oh, this I just can't believe
Why can't I leave
From what I can't perceive
Oh
Breathe, breathe in the chemicals
In decimals
Nothing stays ethical
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In the night, my spirits terrify
The fear is amplified
Am I only a mab?
Some harlequin
Picking at a scab
When the storm comes to pass, where's my outcry?
When my life is surpassed; reflect in my mind's eye
The only visions I see
Are the ones left to me
By all the screaming in my head
That keeps my lying in my bed
No longer do I keep
The hatred within reach
That used to swell within my chest
And let my passions manifest
Has the time come to pass
Where I've reached an impasse,
And I turn myself towards the light
Knowing I'll never be alright?
When all is said and done
My song's already spun
I'm still the person that I am
That's just too hard to understand
In the night, my spirits terrify
The fear is amplified
Am I only a mab?
Some harlequin
Picking at a scab
When the storm comes to pass, where's my outcry?
When my life is surpassed; reflect in my mind's eye
I'm a tulpa
I'm a tulpa
I'm the tulpa
I'm my tulpa
I don't get the things I do
So I bid myself adieu
I create myself anew
And that's who I am to you
The version of me that's real
Is whichever one I feel
And although that seems ideal
I could never be revealed
I can't imagine myself
Being anybody else
But I'm displayed on a shelf
For the world at large itself
So I never have the chance
To intercept a glance
And so the me that's tranced
Is dead by circumstance
I'm a tulpa
I'm a tulpa
I'm the tulpa
I'm my tulpa
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Fall out of bed
I hold my head
Putting the pieces
Into place instead
I forgot how to cry
I'm left wondering why
Out of everything, why did I
Turn my back and resign?
There angels out of view
You can see them tried and true
If I'm dead, I'd rather stay and haunt you
There are stars up in the sky
And these wings were made to fly
There angels in this world, alive
There angels out of view
You can see them tried and true
If I'm dead, I'd rather stay and haunt you
There are stars up in the sky
And these wings were made to fly
There angels in this world, alive
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12. |
Outro
01:50
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[INSTRUMENTAL]
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