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The Gardens
04:25
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When you sleep
You spread your disease to me
In the context of waking
You never even had to speak
You take lead
I follow along a shortened leash
You're enjoying the prospect
Of cornering my needs
Speak up I can't hear you now
We all fake it
Like every memory built by the abuse
I was seething for a truce
But you, you, you, you know the rules
And you plead
You plead like an effervescent dream
You fled from the gardens and now you're left to subtlety
It cuts deep
But it's not like I'm asking for reprieve
The notion relies on a narrative that's festering
Speak up I can't hear you now
We all fake it
Like every memory built by the abuse
I was seething for a truce
But you, you, you, you know the rules
It's just like you said,
It's just like you said.
It's always when you're alone.
And I hope it's the end,
I hope it's the end.
The one that leads you home.
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2. |
Rumination
03:48
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I've been waiting
Inside this dead lung daydream
You've missed me lately
I'm backlit by our old tendencies
But I never know it in the moment
Please just tell me when to stop--
The half-baked sentry,
Maybe I'm coping all wrong.
I'm spastic and frenzied
The haunting fact you knew all along.
Peering in at every moment
Guess I'm leaving what I lost
And all the words
Start to repeat in my head
They won't give me any courage
And I believe in paying all my debts
But this time I might be worthless
It's better in the aftermath,
It was better when you sang the whole night through.
It's better with the contraband
It's better with than subversive truth
But what does it mean to you?
Flashback of a memory
You're telling me to shut my mouth.
But I talk too much lately,
I'm confident I'm getting tuned out
I'm sure you've heard this one before.
And all the words
Start to repeat in my head
They won't give me any courage
And I believe in paying all my debts
But this time I might be worthless
It's better in the aftermath,
It was better when you sang the whole night through.
It's better with the contraband
It's better with than subversive truth
But what does it mean to you?
What does it mean to you?
I know that the feeling has changed.
A lifetime of passing through
A vector of our old ways.
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3. |
Veroa
05:02
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Hollow me out for the ritual.
I've been sleeping in circles,
Lost for the ether again.
And now that the thought is perpetual,
it's like I've swallowed a demon, I'm lost for the feeling inside.
Or did you feel it collapse?
Insisting that this, that this won't last--
And all the time we wasted...
Or was it you who caved in?
Each step just like the patterns in ink for you.
Too steep when you climbed from the valley,
Parted when questions ensued.
And I'd trade intuition to be like you:
So hollow, so broken and empty--
Fixed on the sun for a use.
Or did you feel it collapse?
Insisting that this, that this won't last--
And all the time we wasted...
Or was it you who caved in?
Is this love,
To feel complete?
To sacrifice the in-between.
I'd ask myself
Through crooked speech
The ones who know,
What they received.
What would they say?
And I won't ask for much.
Or did you feel it collapse?
Insisting that this, that this won't last--
And all the time we wasted...
Or was it you who caved in?
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4. |
Filigree
02:56
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You painted a picture
And gritted your teeth
Seeking seclusion
There is nothing underneath
But that lie is a fixture
In solidarity
I'll entertain delusion
To see the in between
Let's complicate risk
Eviscerate the old disease
Now manifested
Within my speech
I know the narrative fits
A story laced in filigree
With cathartic intentions.
Relinquish me
Call me to pasture
Embedded in antiquity
To pacify illusions
In a truth unbinding
From here to ever after
It's your life on repeat
A taunting suggestion
Of what you'll never be
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The first time,
We're fighting with the tides.
A bridged had burned and left us with a lapsing motion.
And your eyes
Still stray from side to side.
For every turn I'm sinking past my body, broken.
My concept of time has passed
And cut me out of calendars,
Into a space where I prefer
A hollow soul,
Vacant and unclaimed,
Who wants to fade away.
We want to fade away.
And each line
Tells of a twisted spine.
Coherent with a sight that puts you into focus.
So I tried to place the blame in spite.
And from the road the lines led to a cross devotion.
You're feeling used.
Siphon my confidence.
I miss it too,
This naive ignorance...
My concept of time has passed
And cut me out of calendars,
Into a space where I prefer
A hollow soul,
Vacant and unclaimed,
Who wants to fade away.
We want to fade away.
I sought absolution under bending waves.
I reeled in the current, it spoke my name.
My concept of time has passed
And cut me out of calendars,
Into a space where I prefer
A hollow soul,
Vacant and unclaimed,
Who wants to fade away.
We want to fade away.
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6. |
Jay's Waltz
02:01
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Bit off more than you'd chew
A simplistic feat of impossible truth
And while I admit this is yesterday's news
You're under the surface
Still making me ache like a bruise
But somehow it's not about you
An intimate lie for an intimate truth
And While my demeanor is just an excuse
I'm hiding an anger that tells me there's something prove
Absolutely everything
Has kept me biding patiently
And I know you're right
But you won't tell me a damn thing
Consciously chose apathy
With no love lost for your weaponry
And I guess I'm fine
I'll stay inside this pretense
And it never
And it never lets up
And it never lets up.
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7. |
Deity
03:20
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Bless these straits they've got me tangled in
My problems end where they begin
And I am just another pin cushion for accidents
And crime
It's like I'm wired for self destruct.
Start setting fires,
I'll push my luck.
I saw a ghost
A ghost that looks just like you
With my world in free-fall
I'm losing my composure
And I hope it drains your energy
My hunger is limiting
Any light that shines internally
But I'm a slave to circumstance
And time
It's like I'm wired for self destruct.
Start setting fires...
You'll sate me until you're nothing.
I saw a ghost
A ghost that looks just like you
With my world in free-fall
I'm losing my composure
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8. |
Hospitility
05:29
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Are you really
are you really there?
On the ceiling.
You could be unaware.
You're writing the history,
But the author doesn't care.
The apathy, it feeds me,
The 21, the 7th month
I had the memory of waking dreams
I conjured a remedy, but I didn't learn a thing.
So caught up in the context:
I wonder who can lie best?
And suddenly I'm writing down what you think
A perversion of appetite you couldn't perceive
So fucking happy and mindless
Kiss the concrete
And tell us you were there
In the city...
Maybe we will
Write down the history
But the author doesn't care
The apathy feeds me
The 21, the 7th month.
I had the memory of waking dreams
I conjured a remedy, but I didn't learn a thing.
So caught up in the context:
I wonder who can lie best?
And suddenly I'm writing down what you think
A perversion of appetite you couldn't perceive
So fucking happy and mindless
And what did you expect
The moment when
The moment when we'd intersect in your head?
Well I'm over it
And I'm cutting out your superstition
By the fault of my admission
Said, "It won't take me long."
And when did it connect
In lacking sense
In lacking sense of self-respect in your head.
Well I'm over it
And I'm cutting out your superstition
By the fault of my admission
Said, "It won't take me long."
And what did you expect
The moment when
The moment when we'd intersect in your head?
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9. |
Faster Asleep
03:22
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Captured, ensnared by compromise
A caustic torsion of rolling eyes
Inside the endless gates again
A slighted passion to reinvent
Faster asleep
The cycle repeats
Faster asleep the cycle is meant to win
And you shake
When I answer
Keep me right here
And your name
I can't remember
The exit disappears
And they've grown petulant
Behind my disgust and arrogance
Defied the blight of human sin
Upon a wire to rope you in
Faster asleep
The cycle repeats
Faster asleep the cycle is meant to win
And you shake
When I answer
Keep me right here
And your name
I can't remember
The exit disappears
It's like you're calling out me
You're safer behind the screen
A platform of treachery
Never let go of the novelty
The path is beneath us
No virtue for no trust
The numbers that keep us
Confined to our apathy
Now I'm letting go of the empire's ruins of blood and gold
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10. |
Nothing of the Sort
04:43
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You're not risking anything
Just waiting for the spell to cease
And June, you're like a bloodshot eye
The same as my whole life
And that keeps you near
So watch the fire burn
Against of a palette of white
The distance set between us
Just a gap of space and time
Will I ever learn
If I could swallow my pride
I balanced on an axis as I
Held my head beneath the ice
You're no less than everything
Subverted every crease
But who wanted anything memorable
And I get kicked down every time
Same shit for a higher price
I'm breathing in the decadence
I sank into the earth
I'm bending columns of light
An instance set between us
For a glimpse at our whole lives
How could you notice,
Being buried by time
I'm losing retention
As the thread unwinds
You're no less than everything
Subverted every crease
But who wanted anything memorable
And I get kicked down every time
Same shit for a higher price
I'm breathing in the decadence
Where are we going?
I'm still locked in my vice
We'll call it contention
When The Gardens ignite
So wise yet and unknowing
I think I'd rather die twice
A subversive contradiction
Something gnawing inside.
You're not risking anything
Just waiting for the spell to cease
And June, you're like a bloodshot eye
The same as my whole life
And that keeps you near
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Cassius At Best Marietta, Ohio
CASSIUS AT BEST is a rock band from Parkersburg, WV (Josh Adams, Derrick Taylor, Wes Miller and John Poole).
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