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Pandemanial
05:57
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Vanessa can you hear me
I know you are soooooo tired
I know you just want to sleep
But There is a place between
this world and another
Between life and death itself
But much like the raging sea,
it kills as many as it carries
My little scorpion in her hole
Trying to dig herself out
As the sand's cascading down
Her feet are giving way to sound
But much like the raging sea,
i kill as many as i carry
This could be the long way round
This could be the wrong way out
This could be the long way down
But I am hollow
...just like you
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2. |
Monsters In Masks
05:47
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Monsters in Masks
This is how, I fall apart
caught between, smoke and flame
In my fear-paralyzed
state, I can do no more than watch
Clawing and gnawing
and tearing me apart
I watch their,
surreal treater
of shadow kings
(Bridge)
I watch the madness
I watch cause I can't look away.
Can I please look away
This is how, I fall apart
caught between, smoke and flame
I watch them draw blood
Monster with masks their knives are drawn
Clawing and gnawing
and tearing me apart
Outro:
Their work with me is done
They grant me this gift of fear
and restless nights
and then they leave me here
I should leave too.
When my legs are my own again 2x
I should just…(2x)
but I don't (3x)
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3. |
Rest Easy
02:35
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As i lay down
In my bed and look up
I stare at the rafters
And wonder if they’ll….hold
Hold my weight up
I can’t help but run
Away from my problems
Will i ever find, any
Peace of my oooown
That i can hold
Close to my heart
And rest easy
And rest easy
And rest easy
With my eyes closed
And sleep
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Headphones on
With tribes and neurosis on
Times of grace on
I can't seem to turn my brain off
Turn in for the night
But still nothing feels right
Wrung out like a towel
With no room left to fight
Carry burden of
Dozens of little toes gone
Planted firmly on
A seat so far from where I long
See the loooonely neon street lights
Waving off and on good bye
The pavement is hungrier tonight
Serve me up on a plate of moon light
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“But aren’t we required to repent to be forgiven?.”
“I know what she said.”
“And you’ve heard every one of her confessions since she was an innocent little girl.
Tell me her first”
“I lied, I cheated, i disobeyed my parents.”
“Ah, the sins of youth. They’re sort of quaint when you take them in context, aren’t they?”
“What would you say that context should be?”
“it's Life. One that goes on like...
week after week, year after year,
collecting disappointment
and resent in waves captured in frames
like snapshots in pages on the ground
Laid in an album.”
“‘I’m sorry’ is a lie we tell ourselves so we can forget our past”
“The spirit is weak when the flesh is willing.”
“No man there, and no woman was more penitent, more honest,
Who shed more tears or so much blood as they count themselves”
“No man there, and no woman was more penitent, more honest,
Who shed more tears or so much blood as they count themselves”
“I have remembered this too much;
so now I can't be sure whether it is
even the event or my memory of it.”
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6. |
Fire On The Path
07:38
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We can’t feel it anymore
It’s been so long since I’ve kissed a sense of satisfaction
Now I fill my days with things that make me feel less like garbage
Nothing is enough, and I’m tired of trying
What even is being happy anymore
Years and years of feeling like human trash
What is it for?
All that i have strength for is giving up, giving in
I can’t help but think it’s all my fault for never learning
Never learning to just be ok
I need some help, cause all I’ve done for years is try and fail
I just want to be ok
I just want to be ok
We are here and I cannot change its worth
The words come out but nothing is being heard
All my “help”s autocorrect to “hello”
You don’t have to leave, but I don’t want to go
Can we sit, and just coexist
I still believe but I still don’t know what I need
I just want to be ok
I just want to be ok
Can you hear me scream this?
I just want to be ok
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7. |
Fata Morgana
04:00
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Such brightness, Such joy
Before I've mastered, my awe
As it occurs, to me
That you are, already dead
You whisper forth, Amid blades
Splinters of ex,-pression
The very pure, serenity
You begin a loving wave goodbye
Beam and board
Rafters and broken hearts
I sit alone (on)
Beam and board
Rafters and broken hearts
I sit all alone
In a hotel room
And scribble, In a book no-one reads
The Crimson letters
Spell a hopeless world
Then Angels will, unmake you
As if you’d nev,-er exist(ed),
Then melt into, light and dust
tomorrow it’ll happen again
Beam and board
Rafters and broken hearts
I sit alone (on)
Beam and board
Rafters and broken hearts
I sit all alone
In a hotel room
And scribble, In a book no-one reads
The Crimson letters
Spell a hopeless world
But I can't hide
Behind these empty words
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8. |
Morning After Spring
05:52
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As we stand here,
The rain is filtered by your purple hair,
It’s crying down across your face,
Attempting to distract from your hazel flame
I can’t help but wonder how I missed it,
Why I never saw it before.
I don’t know what it was you saw,
Cause I’m worth nothing at all,
Aside from the accruing interest in the poor
From your investment in me, I am something
as the ground leaches slowly,
from the air above, your violet hue
I realize, in metaphor and actuality
The dirt has no room to…
rebuke or reprove 3x
I count the eyelets on my shoes
In an attempt to recapture
My breath that you hold ransom
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9. |
Dressed To Kill
04:50
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I know it's hard for you
To understand what I'm going through
But now I sit here to remind myself
You're always dressed to kill
And you feel like you owe it to the world
But you owe it to yourself
And you're, you're not here
And I can't stop pretending
That you're forever mine
And I
I can't dream anymore since you left
I miss you singing me to sleep
I can't wake anymore in your arms
I miss you singing me to sleep
Cheer up my friends I'll say
You're better alone anyways
But you're always on tour
And you're never home
I'm always dressed to kill
And I feel like I owe it to the world
But I owe it to myself
And you're, you're not here
And I can't stop pretending
That you're forever mine
And I
And I can't stop pretending
That you're forever mine
You're better alone anyways
And you're not here, not here
I can't dream anymore since you left
I miss you singing me to sleep
I can't wake anymore in your arms
I miss you singing me to sleep
Cheer up my friends all say
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10. |
outro
02:31
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none
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Cicero is a 90's emo throw back band fed from bands such as Sunny Day Real Estate, Mineral, Dear Ephesus, and “Clarity” era
Jimmy Eat World.
They had a a run from 2006-2008 but have re-formed and are back as a 3 piece with punchy and emotionally intense lyrics and passionate performances. Though there have been several line changes they are back and better than ever.
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