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Chimera
02:34
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hoped this chance would arise
for hope to be realised
i had it all figured out as we walked up the spine
until an abrupt realisation sent a shiver down mine
my friend said i looked like i'd seen a kitten die
for there's nothing to hope for anymore
a false start broke my heart
now there's nothing to hope for anymore
oh! the things i know could be counted on one knee
i had a feeling what had not begun was not built to last
and now a future purgatory is dead in the past
the chance of seeing her was slim but it's much less now
hope i'm not sure
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Equal Second
02:34
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the warning sign: disorganised
hands like ice, breath condensing
penalised for mentioning that out loud
i shouldn't be this uneasy
entirely shambolic
ashamed to be part of it let's split now
but three words amuse us
before we finally leave:
"be a professional!"
oh! the hypocrisy!
ulterior motives here
but the twist:
i'm informed of what they are while my heart is torn out
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there's a time and there's a place
there's alignment out in space
there's a slower pace
debase the moment
disown it
do it while it's on your mind
although it always is you'll find
you can't press rewind
or bind yourself to
the old you
if you're not waiting for the perfect time to tell me
you'd be home by now
or if you're waiting for the perfect lie to sell me
sell what your conscience will allow
as you get old you see through yourself
as if i was told to wait for the iron to strike
while it's cold
me, myself and i wait
as if i was told to wait for the iron to strike
the suspense killed me long ago
i'm buried now in i don't know
and i'm buried low
so resenting
and venting
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Deluge
04:01
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not a nightmare (i'm not that far)
it's not quite there (tune my radar)
(i'm on my way)
didn't used to be (i've always been)
it deluges me (rising within)
(anxiety)
i don't let it show
you may never know how i feel when i'm alone
how long can i go
until they overflow, the fears that fester below
if the panic plateaus
just try to stay afloat, and down the river of regrets i will row
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One Person Short
03:04
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the alarm blares
straightens arm hairs
and my calm wears
thin
smoke then all streams
awoken from dreams
focus on leaving
waiting outside one person short
just gone midnight, nobody's sure
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Terror Australis
03:48
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will they and can they learn
they're watching australia burn (i know)
this is the tragic cost
hope, hectares and lives lost
if you are a cynic you're soaking up lies
it's around you
get increasingly frequent and cause our demise
it's bound to
will they and can they care
as cities breath toxic air (and it's)
too dire to be undone
the end's only just begun
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7. |
You Can't Beta Hat
02:16
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run along
morecambe prom
you're gone out of sight
feel sea windbite
i run fartlek
but by accident
had to catch my breath
i play a pedestrian
then pick up a sprint and fool everyone
not my flat
habitat
i'm at the last stretch
not much zeal left
but you hand me
the dash that i need
to scrape sub 30
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Spectrum
03:16
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you approach the indigo where they abide
the emerald, which you don't know can subside,
propelled you outside
and now your eyes have zoned in on a magenta/crimson hue
you've decided what you have to do
you storm in and the excess of violet in the room
horrifically becomes maroon
you were furtively observed on your advance
the yellow obstruction meant they didn't break your trance
they can't turn back time as their heart turns cyan
and grows heavy under the vast navy sky
a tear falls from their eye
you zoned in on a magenta/crimson hue
you knew what you had to do
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Stars Are Starlike
07:14
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to view the universe as it grew
obscured by the new, billions of years flew
to glance through the looking glass
into deep space and deep in the past
in fact so far back that you fail to compute
to visualise in the mind's eye
a celestial body towering light years high
to think about nothingness
and how something (even) came to exist
"well if you insist"
we're all negligible
things that we don't know are dwarfed by the things that we don't know we don't know
for self-awareness that perspective brings, just gaze at the night sky aglow
if you think the sun revolves around your worth
your ego's just fat or ready to give birth
to denial, stop and be mindful
and smile while you accrue mental wealth, yeah
if stardom's the top, be careful up that road
aspiring to be what's likely to implode
just keep in mind- if you shoot for the stars
you might wind up shooting yourself, yeah
fame's fleeting, far from fulfilling
so watch what you chase
if validation's all you're clinging to you'll drown
you're in the shallow end but your feet aren't on the ground
you're small after all, the higher you climb the further you will fall
it can't be helped, yeah
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Dreamland
03:11
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first we're gonna scrap private schools and property
birth above the gap shouldn't be a lottery
millions in the lap of some undeserving seeds
while billions on the map don't have fundamental needs
then we'll abolish borders, be one global society (in a dreamland)
everything for everyone and nothing for ourselves in dreamland
there wouldn't be any more excuses to conquer or wage war on our self
so everyone could lay around with deuces and leave tours of duty on the shelf
poverty would now seem medieval and money could go, nothing on loan
and 'cause it's the root of all the evil we're killing two birds with one stone
there'd be tolerance between all religions and philosophies
just as we achieve it, i wake up and leave it, sadly
now it's not up to me where you live but i would live there gladly
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Ignominy
04:28
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ignominy, lived in denial what is wrong with me
the one who stood and exposed my sickness was my own blood
and it's tarnished my name
please don't let this make you think less of me
look i'm fine! view me with anything but pity
i refuse to drop this, the law's too sacred to abuse!
i digress! he wasn't disbarred although he confessed!
insurance rate doubles based on my mental state
forced to retire, i tried to sue but now i'm too tired
time to go now
you appal me! your disregard for everything i hold dear,
wish you'd disappear
'you've never mattered all that much to me'
i'm turning out all the lights in my house
sat in darkness with no-one left to see
i kick over the flame and the light goes out in me
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Luca Vincent Derby, UK
bad at bios since 1999
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