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Survival Machines
03:56
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It’s quiet out here
Look for the sun, I can’t find it out here
And all that dumb shit that they told us about our manifest destiny
Is gone and forgotten now
And sure, our goals are pure
What good does that do out here? I’m not sure
And looking back now at that comic book future we used to believe in
So foolish in hindsight, I see
We’re only survival machines
Connected like mother and child
Each needing the other to thrive
It’s all or it’s none that survive
Gone in the night, all sense of purpose
A thin veil of lies that just lay on the surface
And I long to unload this cargo of corpses
And own my own life
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Who Are You Now
02:23
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Who are you now, when all your fear is stripped away?
Who are you now?
What do you remember from the day?
What did you surrender to get away?
Hey, are you all right? Are you going to be all right?
You seem to have forgotten how to breathe, or lost the urge for quite a while.
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Oh, You Temporary Thing
03:14
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Oh you temporary thing
departing since the moment you arrived
you know you can't survive this on your own
you solitary thing
now reaching out in hopes that you will find
that another of your kind is reaching too
Some signal in the static peeking through;
there's something out there looking out for you
and hey, you know it might be true
You ordinary thing,
less different than you want to believe
yet terrified to leave your gun at home,
you sedentary thing
now dying only inches from your birth
the master of the earth for all you knew
You looked around and found nothing to do
but never came to blame your point of view
and say, "you know this can't be true"
"There must be more than this
a message that we missed
I just know somehow this can't be all, this can't be all"
Oh no, you broken nameless thing
cast up in ragged pieces on the shore
hoping that there's more than just the one
last quick and painless thing;
that life was just a shadow on a wall
and now you'll turn around and all will be revealed
The color and the shape will make it real
and somehow you will know how you should feel
While that isn't quite the deal,
there's something more than this
a message that you missed
You had to know this can't be all, just can't be all
oh no
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You Did Your Best
04:49
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Will you lose it all because you're afraid to choose?
Will you lose it all because you're afraid to choose?
When the time has come to pick a side,
will you simply refuseand say there's nothing you can do,
when you know that it's not true?
You defined yourself with things that you consume
With your wine, your wealth, your car and your perfume
So when someone bought the same things and that person became you
there was nothing you could do, from that moment you
just had this feeling as though something quite significant was lost
but you can't quite define what it was
And now you rise and fall like an empire every day
as you build your walls just to watch them all decay
Maybe nothing much is gained by it, but somehow that's okay
all that anyone can say is that it had to be that way
when any meaning you might find would be subjective anyway
And hey, you did your best to keep the darkness away
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Wake My Love
03:18
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Brittle fragment of a memory
Still and silent over centuries
Wake, my love, and greet me
Wake, my love, and never
never go again
Do not forsake me
Love, do not forsake me
Awaken to me
Take a breath now
Hesitation is the enemy
Every instant is a victory
Wake, my love, and greet me
Wake, my love, I swear it
I swear it can be
Everything you wanted
Everything forever
Forever's not so long
Forever's not so long
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6. |
This Can't Be Real
04:14
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I know your face
From some other place
But this can’t be real, just can’t be real
Too clean, too bright
To be quite right
This can’t be real, this can’t be real
I know, oh I know
But then I see you now, a perfect point of light
So small and yet so bright
Reaching out to comfort me
Wake up superman
Do what love demands
Seize eternity
I sense you there
In empty air
But this can’t be real, just can’t be real
Too perfectly
What ought to be
This can’t be real, just can’t be real
I know, oh I know
But still I see you now, standing in the light
And everything’s all right
Holding out your hand to me
Stand up superman
Love holds out its hand
Seize eternity
I’m on your side
Take my hand
Seize eternity
I’m on your side
Don’t let go
Seize eternity
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Evergreen
04:31
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Maybe we never made it home
Maybe we swerved across the center line
You know that bridge we crossed that seemed to just go on forever?
Maybe that’s what death was like
But then if you and I are ghosts
We get to spend the afterlife
Two drunken poltergeists that haunt this old decaying empire
Dancing every night
And we’ll be saved like flies in amber
Perfect and pristine
Dancing through each coming winter
Dead but evergreen
Dead but evergreen
The way we think will never change
We’ll never lose the appetite
The years to come won’t find us turning into other people
Wouldn’t that be nice?
And we’ll be saved like flies in amber
Perfect and pristine
Dancing through each coming winter
Dead but evergreen
Dead but evergreen
And when the earth is swallowed by its aging sun
We’ll still float in space unseen
Forever dancing
Never changing
Evergreen
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Sail or Anchor
05:21
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I can't describe
What I see in this light
With my eyes wide open
Almost divine
So real and so right
So loud, unspoken
Falls on me
Soft
Like a frosty morning
And blurs the outline
It's too close to be seen
Like the act of blinking
Hard to define
It's just a thing that you are
Without even thinking
You'll always be
What I need
Be it sail or anchor
I'd gladly fight so hard for this love
But you make it easy
If you can't get by
On your own any more
Then you know that you can
Look to your side
Because you know that I'm there
And you know that you can
Call on me
I'll be what you need
Be it sail or anchor
I'd gladly fight so hard for this love
But you make it easy
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And so we hold tight
to a lone mote of dust in the infinite night
straining ourselves just to cling to the surface
our singular purpose to stay side by side
and what does it mean
that they could have used fear or almost anything
but love is lever they've chosen to move us
to shape and improve us
to keep our lives evergreen?
Does that make us survival machines
connected like mother and child
each needing the other to thrive
it's all or it's none that survive
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Dan Warren Okinawa Prefecture, Japan
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