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In Dreams, Reborn
06:34
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I saw you last night again
Illusions in deep REM
My mind couldn't cut the cord
For now, in dreams, reborn
Etched in history
However insignificant these words may be
They're all I have
My monument to your memory
Teenage love, heartbreak and all
The distance that followed
Until the road between
Was swallowed by death
Was that always your plan?
...It's like you're just out of reach
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Float
09:14
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I threw away our bonds and plans
Couldn't float - we sunk and crashed
Never knew I’d fall right through here
Spoke the words
Bore the curse
Forever…
Ever-silent and righteous
Dripping from your eyes, avalanche
Mustered enough to break amends
Neither to heal nor cleanse
Focused on a pasture greener
How to heal when death’s our leader?
Stranger nearer
Depleted
Exit seer
Called away from where we lay
I never thought that I wasn't here to stay
Again you curse my name
Again and again and again
Threw away our bonds and plans
Couldn't float - we sunk and crashed
Now every time I look back
Heart attack
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Behind the tapestry
Thin veil
Self serving design
Forever caught in a spiral
Escapism most radical
I'm not the tide against you
(Let go and wash away)
I'm not ready to say sayonara again
Lost once before
Don't make it twice
You’ve told about those scars
Don't make it literal
There's more for you right here
You cut it clean
Erase the scars
The pain won't leave
When I need you
You always change with the seasons
Alight inside when the skies burn red
Fall apart when the forests are dead
When you hear me call
I know you only hear the ringing
Deafening all but the worst
Your mind turned numb
And I’ll never know just how stranded you’ve become
Even though I’m knocking on your door
I want to bring you home tonight
To show you what it means to feel
Alive
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4. |
Last Regret
08:23
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Come cover up
There's crows circling your veins
Only you know
Picking at the remains
You bring the scent of heavy weather
This shower brings a new shade
It's the strain of a forced silence
As I’m screaming beyond the water
Could we dive through that blue?
I partly knew you were so sick
Foolish to think it was passing
Years ago I never would have known
That these words would be about you
Becoming the storm over our heads
Immortalized in the work of those you left
Seems like solitude was a premonition
Of how I’d eventually come to feel forever
And for a while you still lived in my dreams
Taken again by the morning beams
The more lucid I become
The more you truly die
I’ve come to regret what I had penned
Without knowing the way you truly lived
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Inaction and Consequence
07:05
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I left you my secrets
And they followed you to the grave
Adolescent regrets
Led me far away
Could I have changed the outcome?
Did I ever really matter?
Would I matter amongst all those you loved?
Maybe you pushed me out for a reason
But is my inaction at all to blame?
I couldn't even make out the details at the wake
Mourning impeded by language
And a whole world who never truly knew you
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Hindsight
06:08
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I wonder why we didn't see the signs
Should have manifested outside of your head
It should have rained fire
Our skin should have boiled
We all should burn
To know her hurt
Could we have stopped it then?
It takes a lifetime for some
To gain hindsight
Too little
Too late
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7. |
This Broken Ideal
09:56
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In time the hour fades to none
Crippling ourselves, day by day
I’ve seen the worst of you again
Eyes shine where the darkest deed is done
Letting iron trace across
Stop it when you’ve bled the last
Drop of tainted knowledge
Cruel world
Sail beyond the common thought
Where the answer is the question undone
The richest desire…
Truth passes a blind eye
The darkest deeds turn men to gods
In the vision of those left behind
Tears stream black when none answer back
Silence of the gallows hymn
This broken ideal
Of living without question
Acceptance of the common reason
The birth of ignorance
In your self-righteous snear
Fights not our dying mental divinity
I’ve seen the worst of you again…
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8. |
Oasis
04:30
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Hey there babe
I'm diving through
Deep dark blue
Here - come with me, too
Never-ending with you
Our skin saturated
You're pale like ivory
You're pulsating through
Oasis…
I'm all dancing blue willows inside
When November is over and I'm like
“Please don't drown"
You’ll be dancing away in a familiar breeze
I'm all sinking devotion to be found
Swim back down through the deep dark blue
Many will fall but you’ll never drown
It's the only way I know to get out from under here
And when time ran out
Another face cracked a smile
Cracked open
Caved in
And felt the freedom of failure
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Súl ad Astral New Zealand
Súl ad Astral is a musical project comprised of Stephen Fortune and Michael Rumple.
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