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I Just Don't Know
03:03
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Humanity takes its toll
Assigning yet another boring role
Actors in a tragedy
With the same old ending
My colors are faintly fading away
Until I disappear
Dancing circles around the answer
To the question no one dares to ask
I just don't know
Who I'm trying to fool
I just don't know
What I'm trying to prove
As the choir sings their tune
Silence slowly fills the room
No one dares to sing along
When they're always in the wrong
Juliette at the windowsill
Romeo is nowhere to be found
Juliette slowly gets the chills
From her head to the ground
I just don't know
Who I'm trying to fool
I just don't know
What I'm trying to prove
Where art thou Romeo?
I just don't know
Where art thou Romeo?
I just don't know
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2. |
Falling Through
03:07
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Your patience wears thin like the rope that you walk, always in a state of losing control
And all that you see is a lost circumstance, you better be ready to take a fall
Ready or not
Your time has come
To realize what's lost and won
Yet we all hang
By the hands of a clock
So let’s just forget about it
It’s perfectly fine to hide in your thoughts, just know it’s a dirty game that you play
Not quite the first, sure as hell not the last, but it's coming fast for you and for me
Ready or not
Your time has come
To realize what's lost and won
Yet we all hang
By the hands of a clock
So let’s just forget about it
So let’s just forget about it
Just forget about it
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3. |
Helen (Please Stay)
03:16
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Got nothing left to say
I’ll carve your number in my arm
To spark my memory
But it’s all burnt up
This just isn’t who I am
You know you hurt me when you looked away
Give me a minute or two
To clear the traffic in my brain
I guess it’s not that bad
It’s just part of the game
You know me oh too well, Helen
I wish that I could say the same
The stars were aligned
But you were so blind
Everything is okay
We’ll meet again someday
All I see is red
When everything is blue
Don’t expect me to say, “Please stay”
Don’t expect me to say, “Please stay”
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4. |
Trial And Error
03:52
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You stand on the corner always watching
Asking, “How do you feel?”
I won’t let my body rule me
I won’t let nobody control me
Wistfully watching over your shoulder
Conflicted with thoughts of angst and rebellion
Your clouded judgment rains over me
Anticipation for an ending
I’m on trial when I’ve made no error
The damage deepens, it all seems clearer
Except for me and you
Except for me and you
Except for me and you
Except for me and you
The marks in your skin tell me the story
Of an artist that yearns for an audience
To stand amazed in all their glory
Someone to listen to their nonsense
Some bullshit excuse that you cooked up,
When you were strung out and oh so caught up
Wasting all my time,
Wishing you were mine
Wouldn’t it be nice?
Yeah, wouldn’t it be nice
It’s so easy to see
It’s so easy to see
It’s what you’ve done to me
It’s what you’ve done to me
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5. |
16
03:16
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Take a look around and try to make it last
Fifteen, sixteen went by so fast
Being followed around by a white van
Lord knows that I’ve done the best I can
Paint a picture for everyone to see
Only to vanish away into infamy
Emotions running high and swept to the side
All we say or do is not enough for you
In the raging sea, here’s our last soliloquy
Flickering light, will you make it through the night?
Still I see myself in your eyes
Now you’ll see what you’ve done to me
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6. |
Nameless
04:41
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She’s biding her time waiting for some savior
It couldn’t be me, a victim of bad behavior
Her smile, it shines - my only guiding light
His words though foul, I’ll keep them in mind
Short fuse with no ignition
True love is an apparition
Don’t ignore what it is that you wanted
It feels as though I’m always cornered
Disdain is just what the doctor ordered
You bite your tongue and shelve frustration
With patience so strong it wards off temptation
Short fuse with no ignition
True love is an apparition
Don’t ignore what it is that you wanted
I’m slumming around so just leave me alone
You’ve done enough, it has me speechless
There’s always some hope for tomorrow
Just as long as you don’t follow
Short fuse with no ignition
True love is an apparition
Don’t ignore what it is that you wanted
You whisper sweet words to me with intentions that clearly just bring me down
I wont let you this time around so don’t you dare show your face around this town
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7. |
Happier Now
03:06
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When the scenery remains
Of what was left in flames
No remnants of the past
All that’s left is ash
It will only rise again
With nothing left to prove
It’s more of the same
With nothing left to do
Though the damage you’ve done
Outshines the good that’s come
Things are looking up
It took long enough
Like a diamond in the rough
In a state of disarray
Now that’s changed
I’m happier now
You could spend eternity
Wondering where to go
Often times it’s so clear
And then you know
Walking backwards in a trance
Holding on to what fades away
It’s more of the same
With nothing left to do
Though the damage you’ve done
Outshines the good that’s come
Things are looking up
It took long enough
Like a diamond in the rough
In a state of disarray
Now that’s changed
I’m happier now
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8. |
In The Shadow Of A Star
03:36
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I can’t tell where you belong
Not quite what I’ve seen before
Your tattered clothes and cold blank stare
Reflected specs of stars in the air
Nothing else comes close
When you turned white like a ghost
I felt so strong in the evening glow
In the shadow of a star
We will all fade just in time
No longer needing a place to hide
Nothing else comes close
When you turned white like a ghost
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9. |
Letting Go
03:05
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I don’t know where to look
Panic strikes my mind
Hoping that you’d stay
I swear I’ll make some room
Half of the things I say
Are meaningless to you
While the other half
Is kept to myself
Stunned without a clue
Feeling the way I do
Was it something I said?
Or not instead?
Some things that I’ve seen
Would cause your soul to strain
They’re better off sealed in
Where they’ll remain
It’s passing and fleeting, slowly retreating
Uneasy feeling of absence appearing now
And when all the roads
Won’t take you anywhere
Where can you go?
I’d like to know
It’s passing and fleeting, slowly retreating
Uneasy feeling of absence appearing now
And if this is letting go I’d rather not know
Some things are better left in the dark
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10. |
Lips Are Sealed
03:40
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A face that’s so forlorn
A lingering despair
Just outside the door
In the stillness of the air
It’s slowly creeping in
No use in fighting now
A mind that’s wandering
Is present in absence
They’ve told me once before that “we do what we can”
My lips are sealed, I won’t promise you anything
With nothing to prove and nothing to lose
I’ll do what I can
The mask slips down your skin
It marks the end of your façade
To know what lies within
Wouldn’t do you any good
They’ve told me once before that “we do what we can”
My lips are sealed, I won’t promise you anything
With nothing to prove and nothing to lose
I’ll do what I can
Over and over again, I won’t stop till I can’t anymore
I can’t anymore
I know one thing you don’t
That this is all for show
I’ve done things that you won’t
But it’s just for show
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11. |
...To Will One Thing
05:06
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Look the other way
It’s no surprise
The start of our demise
Turning the cheek
Try to relate
Or bear a cursed fate
All that you’d do
Would be for naught
Bad karma’s what you’ve got
A change of heart
Pick up the pace
Or you’ll soon be erased
Roaming around seeking what can’t be found
Open up your arms to skies above
Hoping to soar like a dove
Though you belong down here below
You feel more like a crow
Now and then you’re down and out
Purity of heart
To will one thing
Don’t be led astray
It lies within
Maintain your love
Or just waste away
Look at yourself
And not at them
It only breeds contempt
Better for you
Better for me
For the both of us
Roaming around seeking what can’t be found
Open up your arms to skies above
Hoping to soar like a dove
Though you belong down here below
You feel more like a crow
Now and then you’re down and out
Yet we’re all so set in our old ways
Wondering why we’re led astray
Because old habits are hard to break
When nothing’s at stake
Now that you’re down and out
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12. |
Grandfather Clock
04:58
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The years roll on by
As we step to the side
A grandfather clock’s embrace
He gave you time, you wanted space
Now you’ll just have to wait
But for me it’s much too late
You don’t decide your fate
But if it were up to me
I’d save a place for the both of us
I think that we’ve had enough
Now you’ll just have to wait
But for me it’s much too late
Yet here we stand
Nails dug deep in our hands
There’s no one left to blame
There’s nothing left to save
Now you’ll just have to wait
But for me it’s much too late
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John Samaras Queens, New York
Born in the future, John traveled back in time to show us how bad music gets in the coming years.
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