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Death Star
04:40
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We had plans to destroy the Death Star
I didn’t realize that you knew
Riddled inside out with blatant weakness
Bureaucratic failure only a Vogon could do
Your thoughts were seared
Like on a cast iron skillet
Where you've gone, I can't follow
But what you've seen speaks through you:
“From where we've come, much is broken
Where we bleed life grows anew
I don't grieve for what we've chosen
I don't lie when stabbed with truth
Freedom comes for us at sunrise
Breaking lives that writhed untrue
As the dawning heat surprises me
I lie awake with you”
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2. |
Frog Song
05:26
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Frogs can breathe beneath the mold
If only our dreams were not so cold
Give me something to hold when
All that we have built has fallen
Into pieces of dust and wind
Breaking dawn will find our breast
We all die and find our rest
Give me something to hold when
A fire burns between the thoughts we left for them
I’d kill to see a life that hadn’t been
I can see where we’ve gone
To places long forgotten
Though they come back, when we ask them
I found where we laid them
Underneath our misperceptions
Gravitate to familiar faces
Give me time to levitate our Sun
Around this flame I’d long forgotten
Give me something to hold when
All that we have built has fallen
Into pieces of dust and wind
Give me something to hold when
A fire burns between the thoughts we left for them
I’d kill to see a life that hadn’t been
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3. |
Rabbit
05:11
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Rabbit, run
Run a little faster
You must get away from the sun
I don’t know
I don’t know what he’s after
But he will see you dead before he’s done
We’ve come on
Wings of stone
You will not sleep alone
Take my hand
In friendship and love
Brace yourself for what’s to come
Rabbit stand
Don’t twitch a muscle
You will be gone before you know
The pain will grow
If you try and struggle
Or graciously your mind will slip below
Cause we’ve come on
Wings so cold
You will not sleep alone
Because your thoughts electrocute your brain
But there is no such thing as pain
Take my hand
In friendship and love
Brace yourself for what’s to come
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Grant my mind sight from closed eyes
I see a vibrance born before time was known
The dreams, they truly are alive
I can’t falter now
The obstacle is me
I’m the only thing I’ve ever seen
The machine elves, are watching me
As we go down in red, blue, gold
My brothers and I
we brace ourselves
Under cover of colored lights
Under cover of colored lights
Under cover of colored lights
We’ll infiltrate their mind
And live our lives backwards
To find the origin of time
When morning comes inside my open window
I awake to find you inside my arms
But soon an empty space has moved onto my pillow
Reminding me that you are gone
You are gone
You are gone
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5. |
Freedom
06:00
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I can’t see where we’re going
Though we’ve grown through where we’ve gone
Guided by unknown fate
Bracing my hand to draw
We’ve grown old
I’ve seen how we fold
Under pressure, to do as we’re told
Following you, as I have to
Or so I tell myself
Freedom, brings me
Freedom, in me
Freedom I breathe
Freedom I need
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6. |
Hollow Spheres
06:29
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7. |
Burning Suns
09:30
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Keep me dreaming
Keep me waking
Keep me hoping
Keep me broken
Remember this before you come
The heart is made from burning suns
Remember this before you come
The heart is made from burning suns
Palms cut with life lines
Psalms sung like lullabies
When the moon brings the waves in
Make friends with the ravens
Remember this before you come
The flesh is made from burning suns
Remember this before you come
The flesh is made from burning suns
Remember this before you come
All this is made from burning suns
Remember this before you come
All this is made from burning suns
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Raen the Barbarian Lockhart, Texas
My name is Luke. I'm a theoretical physicist, patent agent, and viking who writes and sings songs on guitar in Lockhart, TX.
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