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"A beautiful light
Soft, embracing with peace
Healing tranquility
Ripped away, violently
Mourning in darkness
A bitter chill cracks my skin
Seeping into me
Slowly shutting me down
Deep within a fire burns
A pure unending rage
It builds and radiates
Forcing out the cold
I give in to this hateful flame
Stoke the embers of spite
Even if it consumes me
Anything over the chill of dark
The storm continues to spill
Burning everything around
Nothing but the xanthous dance
Fills my scorched vision
Soon the entire world is enveloped
Reduced to ash by my rage
And again a once bright light
Dies to usher in the dark"
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Andy's Mints - Crispin
03:35
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"Crispin,
Sorry that it had to come to this
Following instructions on your slip
First I must warn it hurts a bit
Briefly,
State your name and purpose to the lens
Rattle what you can remember then
Then we can get inside your head
Did you make, make it up, make it up?
Did you make, make it up, make everything up?
Did you make, make it up, make it up?
Let’s see what’s inside, what's inside
What's inside your mind
Crispin,
I can see your colors and they’re dull
Sorry for the prodding in your skull
Now let us try and take the hull
Briefly,
Can you take me back before the crash
Sorry that the image will come back,
Let’s tease apart the freak from fact
Did you make, make it up, make it up?
Did you make, make it up, make everything up?
Did you make, make it up, make it up?
Let’s see what’s inside, what's inside
What's inside your mind
Crispin,
Sorry it's a 50-50 split
Following instructions on your slip
First I must warn it hurts a bit"
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Mazeika - Trinket
03:21
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"Lonely bauble on a string
Strange little thing dangling on a soft wire
Rescued from the bin
Perfect in my arms
This trinket catches the light
Lost tidbit, pretty junk, it sits in my throat
Safe from their clubbed paws and wild eyes
They can’t hear me
They won’t know it’s missing
With me always
On me always
Keeping me company in these rotting walls
In the silence between their sentences
In open stretches of untouched dark
In all that empty time
This trinket catches the light
This trinket catches the light
This trinket catches the light
This trinket catches the light
Their steps get faster
Mood builds to a high pitch
Something’s wrong now
Something’s gone now
Big sounds, big words
Bags dumped everywhere
Zipper mouths hang open like cut bodies
Guts all over the floor
No one could’ve, who could’ve, where
I hang from above
Holding the thing by its thread
Pretty in the soft night
Slight shimmer in the corner of their eyes
Panic in their faces
Shock at the sight
This trinket catches the light
Lost tidbit, pretty junk, it sits in my throat
Safe from their clubbed paws and wild eyes
They can’t hear me
They won’t know it’s missing"
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Paz - Sanity
02:49
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"How shall I forget you all
Let you fade into shades
Stalk behind the worried faces
That I've only just begun to hate
If I could drive you fully out
Chase your birdsong from my dreams
Would you blame me if I didn't?
Would you pardon me in apathy?
Oh golden boy
Are you proud of where we've been?
You carry tunes to all the songs I lack
I carry weight you'll never carry back
So I'm doing all the things that they said that I should do
Are we doing better now? Or will we soon?
I'm afraid I'll always miss you
I've painted choirs with your faces
Let them murmur out my fate
Inserted you in photographs
That you were never there to take
I feel you in this space I've made
You resonate and turn
Unfairly though you stay, I should complain
But I feel loved in how it burns
Oh golden boy
Are you proud of where we've been?
You carry tunes to all the songs I lack
I carry weight you'll never carry back
So I'm doing all the things that they said I shouldn't do
Are we doing better now? Or will we soon?
I'm afraid I'll always miss you
I hate and hope that I'll always miss you"
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