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1. |
Ascension
03:40
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Tell me what’s wrong
You’ve been waiting so long
You don’t want to wait anymore
Tell you what’s right
I could take you so high
show you what these wings are made for
It’s time to play
with time and space
unlearn reality
Now to ascend
pretend you ne-
-ver heard of gravity
and JUST LIKE THAT
(just like that, just like that...)
the time has come to be
all that you dreamed
The time has come to be
free
All this talking
nobody is walking
let alone touching the sky
Everything changes
matter rearranges
once you know that humans can fly
It’s time to play
with time and space
unlearn reality
Now to ascend
pretend you ne-
-ver heard of gravity
The time has come to be
all that you dreamed
The time has come to be
free
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2. |
Live From Grandio City
03:50
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Who’d have thought a thought could be a thing?
You can really have it all
You can chase your dreams or watch and wait
As for me, I’m following the call
Now I’m coming to you live from Grandio City
Feeling so alive and looking so pretty
Now watch me as I rise, as I fly, anti-gravitate
Watch me touch the sky, free my soul, disincarcerate
Anything is possible in Grandio City
You can choose the way you live today
(They call you grandiose, they wanna up your dose, the Truth is lost on most)
or let the shadows choose and call it fate
(it's calling, it's calling you)
You’re so free that you can stay in one place
(But you cannot deny, you've seen with your own eyes, the reason you're alive)
or face the truth and have your wings again
(it's calling, it's calling, it's calling you)
Now I’m coming to you live from Grandio City
Feeling so alive and looking so pretty
This is my dream that I'm lucid within
Yeah this is my life to love and to live
Anything is possible in Grandio City
You can really have it all
You can really have it all
You can really have it all
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3. |
Pleroma
03:39
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out of sight
out of mind
out of sight
out of mind
what you see is what you get
if you want it like that
but as for me and mine
we follow the signs
for those with no fear
the path becomes clear
leading us back
to something divine
out of sight
out of mind
out of line
out of time
beauty’s in the eye
God is never far
the word of Genesis
is the sound of the heart
came in the flesh
to show us the way
with us until
the end of the age
we’re not alone
can you say pleroma?
i call it home
i want to go home, yeah
we’re not alone
can you say pleroma?
i call it home
i want to go home
you’re living in the dark
you’re calling it fate
but as for me and mine
heaven awaits
turned dead things alive
with nothing to prove
now we’re in the light
what will we do?
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4. |
Lost
04:49
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the cards told me wait by the river
the psychic said wait in my room
maybe i heard it wrong
or i’m being strung along
made the mistake of believing
that God could be speaking to me
the writing is on the wall
i’ve had a great big fall from
grace
what is my place?
where am i going?
what’s it like to feel like you’re all-knowing?
somebody tell me, please
everyone’s got it all figured out but me
horses aren’t horses, they’re messengers
though sometimes they’re silent like God
making me guess the Truth
(three five one seven eight five three five six nine five)
how is this nothing to you?
(one two five four eight five seven six one three four five)
meaning is made by the masses
i want to mean something too
but i heard they burn people like me
damned if i don’t, damned if i do
god-damned
this is not what i planned
when i said i would follow the signs
i thought i was finding more proof
now nothing is true
and i’m losing faith in this ruse
God works in mysterious ways, of that i am sure
but are God’s motives pure?
i've been searching the world, and dear God
how many worlds are there?
there's a world where i have it all
but that's not where i am
when did it get so dark?
how did i get so far?
from everything that i knew
from you, from you, from You
maybe i’m lost, maybe i’m lost, a lost cause
maybe i’m lost, maybe i’m lost, like a runaway plot
maybe i’m lost, maybe i’m lost but is that the worst thing you can be?
maybe i’m lost, i’m lost, just to see if anybody’s looking for me
maybe i’m lost, maybe i’m lost, maybe i’m lost, maybe…
(you got what you wanted...)
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5. |
Witch
03:54
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i suppose the way the sun sets is my fault
you can blame me for your shortcomings as well
hating me for having power you forgot
is a full-time job and damn, you do it well
works for a spell
until the sleep takes you down once more
i wish you well
finding out you are what you abhor
when you’ve wandered in the darkness for too long
the light can feel like hatred in your eyes
you’re free to close them, free to open up
free to see the truth or free to keep the lie
under a spell
blind until you make the choice to see
i’ll never tell
you what to think or what to believe
because you’re free
just like me
i want to be innocent
i want to be innocent again…
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6. |
Dissolve
02:43
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to the point of no return
we will walk to the edge, hand-in-hand
they said that there’s no turning back
they said this was a fool’s errand
loving somebody like that
like i love you
but i’ve seen the dreams, I
remember your face (yeah)
from some other time and
from some other place
even if
no one else
can see it
i know you can
so let’s dissolve
let's dissolve
"But to be driven by impelling odor headlong upon a mate so gigantic, in such immense and forbidding darkness, and willfully eat a hole in her soft side, to feel the gradually increasing transfusion of her blood through one’s veins, to lose everything that marked one as other than a worm, to become a brainless, senseless thing that was a fish—this is sheer fiction, beyond all belief, unless... we have seen proof of it."
sweat on the skin
inviting you in
taking you down
a whore for the way
you say what you say
with nary a sound
is this a mistake?
it doesn’t add up
how two become one
is that what this is?
is that who we are
when it’s all said and done?
mmm
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7. |
Sister
04:20
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might be what you’re looking for
might just want to look inside
might just have to go to war
if i don’t like what i find
might just have to speak in codes
might just have to hide away
might just have to turn into
everything you hate
sister
my sister
sewn together like
a monster
’til i lost her
’cause i had too many sides
sister
darling sister
are you seeing what i’m seeing
sister
my sister
are you saying what you mean?
all spine full of twists and turns
all smiles, when you kiss it burns
two-faced as they come ’round here
shapeshifting in the dark ’cause she thinks i can’t see her
gloves off and your skin suit too
got ’em ’witched, God if only they knew
not i, ’cause i’m onto you, i’m onto you, i’m onto you, i’m onto you
Goddammit, can’t believe I trusted you
how do you do
that sick thing that you do
where you act like somebody
that i never knew?
how does your story have
so many fooled?
how’d you get them to hate me
without any proof?
lie through your teeth
like it’s nothing to you
slither on from our bond
like a skin you outgrew
how many faces and names do you have?
is this how you survive
when you’re faced with the truth?
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8. |
The Light Is
02:33
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gave you all you want
but you wanted more
you tried to eat my light
so i ate yours
go bitching to your friends
that the girl with the teeth
showed you just who you are
saw the face underneath
your mask
your mask
a light like mine shines right through that
your mask
your mask
a light like mine shines right through that
let the people talk
they’ve got nothing to do
it’s like they’re getting high on
feeling sorry for you
i’m cool with the rumors
because i know the truth
unlike you and yours
i’ve got nothing to prove
the light is not outside you
the light is not outside you
the light is not outside you
the light is not outside you
the light is not outside you
the light is not outside you
the light is not outside you
the light is not outside you
the light is not outside you
the light is not outside you
the light is
you would see if you wanted to
you would have truth if you wanted it
ain't a goddamn thing left to do
but show you who you're dealing with
hunger that knows limitlessness
belly that holds universes
weaponized third eye, chaos kiss
teeth that punish unconsciousness
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9. |
Ugly
04:20
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there’s a sadness in my heart i dare not show
i tried to once, then he said he had to go
the beating of a heart is bloody
as it is to love somebody
all i want is the freedom to be ugly
when you see me
will you stay, will you stay?
or will you walk away?
when you see me
will you stay, will you stay?
or will you walk away?
the truth is beautiful, or so they say
but when i told my story, she ran away
why would people rather see
beauty that’s illusory?
all i want is the freedom to be ugly
when you see me
will you stay, will you stay?
or will you walk away?
when the truth is
in the light, in the light
will you do what’s right?
when my heart is
in your hands, in your hands
will you try to understand?
will you try to understand?
will you try to understand?
i’ve cried oceans into being
through the waters i sing
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10. |
Angel in the Deep
04:29
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how she got here is a blur
she makes the waves, the waves make her
a truth is told in horrifying form
why God made her, who can say
and put the Sun so far away
she has no choice but to become the warmth
an angel in the deep
a plain-sight mystery
her wings alight, her body bright,
she just might be
too obvious to see
countenance so splendrous
wayward eyes can’t handle it
too dull to comprehend the way she glows
riddles wrapped in mysteries
solved by those with eyes to see
so ugly she’s a dare to get to know
a horror to behold
an angel in the deep
a plain-sight mystery
her wings alight, her body bright,
she just might be
too obvious to see
an angel in the deep
a plain-sight mystery
her wings alight, her body bright,
she just might be
too obvious to see
here i am, as i'm meant to be
hold your peace, it's my turn to speak
of the way that i found true love
when i thought i was too far gone
i've been wronged, but i made it right
it was dark, but i made it bright
lighting paths to the way back home
unafraid of the unknown
God is always with her
even when she’s all alone
if heaven is within her, the deep can be home
says the angel to the mirror:
“be not afraid”
this love is yours forever, nothing can separate
you’ll be okay
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11. |
Love in the Void
03:37
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i could give it all for the chance to love you
and all would be renewed manifold
keeper of my heart
lover of my dreams
sing for me
i could spend my life getting lost inside you
and in every moment, i’d be found
guided by your star
i loved you since the start
of eternity
no matter how i break
i know that you will make
me whole again
whatever it may take
created for the sake
of loving you
so take it all
so take it all
so take it all
so take it all
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