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Funnily,
I don’t believe
Anything
your pretences won’t pass by me.
not a single fabrication
greying, the cararacts that bind
unpleasantness to more than
my own sight
I guess you could colour me in spite
Here lies your lies
force fed into my
eyes
don’t threaten me
you’re not menacing
stop touching me
you’re my allergy
there’s no permission
for you to speak
you say you never wanted pity?
guess I don’t want you to breathe
im sure you think its funny
pulling the strings
I hope it hurts you when you laugh
to know that you feel something
Nothing
makes me feel so anxious
knowing you can sleep at night
knowing you hurt me
Pry, it out of me
till it makes me bleed
it’s all that I need
it’s all that I
know, you don’t deserve
my company
pretend that I never knew you
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REI - My Exit Smile
04:48
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And I don't know
Where you can find me
I'm hopeful you can read the signs, read the signs
Take this personal
I'm telling you
To save your time
Make it up to me
By distancing yourself
For life
(I don't know, where you'll find me)
You don't even have a say
Please be mindful stay away from me
I will never leave a trace
You will never be the same again
I don't know, if you'll find me
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I constantly surrender the key
To this kingdom of mine and now the flames engulf me
God, I just want to be
Someone for who self-immolation doesn't come as easily
Old habits die so hard they say
And while they live they're slowly killing me
No, it's not lost on me
That I'm a thousand miles from where I need to be
I'm wide awake and my mind's floating out to sea
Dwelling on the trivial creates the waves that I know will capsize me
I can't seem to stop the way I think- I can't keep me quiet
Bind and gag all my synapses and neurons God. I need the silence
Shut up- I need some space to breathe
Shut up- I need some space lest I disintegrate
I constantly surrender the key
The only one I will ever need- and the only one that will ever save me
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Lying in my bed near the ocean
I keep mistaking the waves for the sound of rain
And another time near a gravel road
A car drives by and it sounds the same
My head plays tricks on me oh, all the time
I think I need to try to find
A way to change the light bulbs in my brain
To remember...
It's high tide and high time
I put the ocean metaphors in the past
Because no matter how appealing a gimmick is
The appeal will never last
Press on, next song- it's all the same
Chords rearranged with a different name
Never found a better set of gallows for reason
Than seeing your face
My head plays tricks on me oh, all the time
I think I need to try to find
A way to change the light bulbs in my brain
To remember the growth that comes with rain
And that life is dull if it always stays the same
The change from melody to dissonance comes with the expectation
That I'll instantly become retrospective beyond my years
But it seems to be that spouting wisdom- if you'd call it that
For the sake of doing so only prepares the groundwork for failing
To fix problems that don't need fixing- because that's the wrong idea
Or is it just me?
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†he first child Auckland, New Zealand
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Technical post-hardcore from Auckland, NZ with influences
ranging from tender emo tunes, to head-crushing hardcore rhythms. The band formed as a tribute project to Neon Genesis Evangelion in 2015 as a response to the lack of progressive hardcore in NZ.
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