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Bezalel
01:51
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Sal be the light
Learn to forgive
Remember the day
When you and I lived
It's too much to bear
So cover your eyes
I can't let this go
So look to the Prize
Love isn't over
It covers the weight of our sins
He spoke to me softly
Assuring your place in his wings
When the night stalks you
The angels spread mercies again
Sal be the light
Learn to forgive
Remember the day
When you and I lived
I pray that you wouldn't
But I see in your eyes
You understand loss
You've seen her demise
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Couldn't Be Closer
05:10
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Man in preparation for his lover
She's expecting even more, she's eager
I couldn't be closer
Millions bound by what's in store, the thrilling
Squinting through a bolted door, unwilling
I couldn't be closer
I couldn't be
I've no idea
I've no idea what I see
There's nothing here
I've ended up in beginning
Oh no
One fortunate day I'll claim the glory of an isolated shore
Sling and stone and target I'll escape an idle comment said before
I couldn't be
Sleep til morning
Suddenly an erasing magic
Hero over apathy
Suddenly a serene inhabitor
In midst of tragedy
Suddenly a presence coming over me
Wake up wake up
Our mourning is a calling
So go, the spirit is willing
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Highway and horizon meet in the dew
New York and L.A. won't be good enough for you
Let me know when you're at the end of yourself
Tell me so I know it's true
You've run into that once familiar hue
Blue
Those filigree ink lines around your wrist
Will fail to connect you with all of us
Those that you love and will miss
You say all you need
Experience
Charm, since you were a boy
I've been looking up to you
Charm, oh my Charm, since you were a boy
I've been hanging on to you
Silent mourn for blatant sickness
His flesh decaying under cloth mid stride
No one shows up to the gathering
While he's still here there's no one on his side
A drone help captive by our validation
He clings to gestures slung from hungry wolves
Agenda solely formed from expectation
Oh God, will you seduce this lonely soul?
Oh God!
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Wavering Mast
04:06
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My mind and imagination exist
Outside the linear boundary of time
In line I wait outside looking in
With no talk I wave my arms like a mime
I float towards lands in opposition
I move toward my effigy
A mockery
The focused and intentional deride me
Spitting from their boats beside me
I wanna be like them but I know
The ugliness of where they go
Take everything away from me
Point this wavering mast through the depths of the sea
This narrative's unfit for me
A free man
With you I long to breathe and bleed
And if there's any hint of subtlety
Then muzzle me and fight on
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Majesty
05:04
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Don't you agree to life alone
Like many who choose to build their house
On sand not stone
Don't you dare wander from your home
All my distractions have been shattered by the throne
Lost in the gaze of the omega's eyes
Majesty
I wish you could see
How he orchestrates this symphony
Sal be the light that sets us free
Like moth to a monarch
Father feels you're out of reach
Forget the consumer's trinity
Oh trust me you're better off
Without wallet, phone, and keys
I can't deny all the gifts he's bestowed
It's true that he chooses the broken ones
But how can a boy avoid the path
Of a wordly father's son
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And The Branches
05:26
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Father father I look to you now as a child
The man on TV needs your attention a little while
Crawling, clinging, carpet, can you comfort me?
Sleep til morning
Father father I look to you now as a kid
Wake on a Monday to boat on the weekend is all you ever did
Pray for anger just to feel your mighty hand
I can't blame you
For falling close to the tree of your youth
Now you've killed the man I've forgiven
Who lit the flame on that fateful night
Dressed in orange with this glass between us
I release you
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