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CREMATION
04:11
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Baptized in salt water
Because maybe God likes the taste
I can never feel clean again
Another sunset to chase
Locals ignite
Ask who are we
It’s not vacation
I can’t wait to leave
Burned alive
Hot Florida sun
It’s all been lost
And nothing won
It looks impossible
Ending unforeseen
Turning up the heat
In another fever dream
The sound that speaks
Is another mouth to feed
Locals ignite
I’m doing what I please
It’s all been lost
And nothing won
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writhe and squirm
Dead in some dirt
Get eaten by worms
What have they smeared on the world?
Before the light leaves your eyes
Get off your knees
It’s your time to fight
You must survive
suns shining for everyone else
Everyone else
Cause nothing helps
Nothing helps
What they’ve smeared on the world
smeared on the world
smeared on the world
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All of the things
I did to survive
I’m losing my will
I’m losing the fight
Don’t try to tell me
Don’t try to coerce
All of it’s painful
All of it hurts
Cigarettes put out on my skin
Lived through all of it
Live it again
Don’t try to tell me
Don’t try to coerce
All of it’s painful
All of it hurts
The pills have stopped working
The pills have stopped working
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4. |
IN LIEU OF FLOWERS
05:06
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I can count on one hand
Everyone that I have left
Anxious and overwhelmed
I am bereft
None stole my heart
But there’s still been a theft
Asked not to jump
But I’ve already leapt
This feeling in my heart
Don’t fully understand it
This feeling in my heart
I cant ignore cause it demands it
The noise inside my head
Don’t fully understand it
The noise inside my head
I can’t ignore cause it demands it
Wipe off your smiles
I’m done having fun
Scratching my head
With a loaded gun
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SPECIES INVASIVE
02:36
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I can’t sleep this off
Just to live is so much work
I’m just biding my time
Until I’m under the earth
ringing in my ears
all pursuit all chases
Hunting me down
Like a species invasive
Cut out my tongue
can’t forget what your taste is
My coffin is full
Like a human waste bin
The ringing in my ears
all pursuit and chases
Hunting me down
Why’s this all feel so old
and it never changes
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people, places, all of these things
Destroy all of those who mean to clip your wings
Politicians, the fucking police
All those who’ve become the thieves of peace
(1)
With the guts of the last king
May we strangle the priest
Our lives are all our own
Not rented or leased
All empty promises
all of their lies
abuse of power
comes as no surprise
(1 repeat)
I started with nothing
and still have it all
Those who have robbed us
Up against the wall
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7. |
(sirens approaching)
03:42
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Third time this year
been here before
Emergency services
Bedroom floor
Ive no regret
Inpatient all over again
Excuses all on deck
Tighten the belt on my neck
Where I’m going
You can’t follow
Bitter pill
Hard to swallow
God never left
He was never there
Oxygen mask
Intensive care
Wages of this
Wearing me thin
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8. |
RACHEL HUMPHREYS
05:51
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Highest highs
Lower lows
Unmarked grave
Under tows
Cascading hair
in St. Clare’s
An epidemic
Took her there
West side Highway
Looking gaunt
Potters field
Final haunt
Heavens always ready
And there’s so much to grieve
Now every where’s a cemetery
With no room to breathe
In the narrows of sorrow
I’ll have you know I’m the best
If it feels this good to be damned
Then what’s it like to be blessed?
there’s so much to grieve
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