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All the Other Fish
03:24
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When you lose the will you fight
not tomorrow
When you lose your spot alright
and just can’t go on
When you find it so hard to open your eyes and look at yourself to see exactly what you’ve missed
I never told you
fell in the water
Climbing back out wasn’t an option
It’s like no time has passed
a shadow you no longer cast
I never told you
fell in the water
Climbing back out wasn’t an option
It’s like no time has passed
a shadow you no longer cast
and I’m getting out
We are not dead
We are still here
They can’t kill us all
That’s their greatest fear
We persevere
Rolled with the punches
Now I got the spins
& while I’m taking my own side
I am not a man
When I’m lost I feel like my skin turns out right in
Turn across me cause you haven’t seen nothing yet
Burn some bridges is always what you said
There you go now second guess
When you lose the will you fight
not tomorrow
When you lose your spot alright and just can’t go on
When you find it so hard to open your eyes and look at yourself to see exactly where you went
I wish I could tell you in a very descriptive list
& have every point of intention coming directly for your neck.
You’re obsessed with hierarchy that doesn’t even exist
If a fool is what I am, a fool is what I’ll be
But at least I’m not another fish
Swimming down the stream with all the other fish
ALL THE OTHER FISH
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A fire that can be fought
but only stomped and made to dim
It’s like I’m trying to fight the ocean
but I’m convinced that I can win
& the fire is always creeping
ready to impose its will
and just like that ocean,
it can be calm or it may kill
Come celebrate
at the death parade
There’s no shelter from the rain
time gets lost in the waves
buried and hard to find
while we hold onto what is real
As we insist that we are fine
we emerge from the shadows
Older from the weight of loss
Somethings you just can’t get over
But we adjust and it’s enough
And much like the fire
I’m stubborn and love to burn
At times that means bridges
At times that means the world
Taught by a dying breed
Step aside, it’s now our turn
And for everything we were taught
There’s twice as much to unlearn
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3. |
Saeculum
04:30
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We don't need to paint faces on shadows
Or give them more sharp teeth
We've plenty of wolves prowling around
Wearing the clothes of sheep
Abolishing our human rights
Arresting us for trying to fight
We don't need another enemy
We just need help building the guillotine.
Could never just accept it
Like it’s a riddle or code
They dare not speak of it
Yet everybody knows
That uneasiness we couldn’t shake
Even as a child
Everyone’s in on it
Everyone’s a liar
That’s why doctors have a bottom line
And the corrupt remain on top
Why mental health is for profit
And why we’re killed by the cops
They rather protect the banks
Than the forests
A dystopian Hollywood
Celebrated with twelve shots
(One two, they're coming for you
Three four(for) being houseless & poor
Five six, better not get sick
Hospitals we can't afford
Wealth in houses of the rich
Rules made behind closed doors)
They say:
“I’m celebrating thanksgiving but not in THAT way”
(if I had a say I’d put you in the worst place)
like you literally can’t find any other day
to be thankful for the friends or the family you hate
Oh, I
I wish I had the words to tell you what you need to hear
& maybe some you don’t
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An Impossible Weight
03:14
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“You're letting everyone down"
That's the voice in your head, it says you're incapable
Letting the fire go out
When was the last time you felt joy?
When was the last time you felt joy?
Caught in a trap, sinking deep into the mire
Weighted & tired - weighted & tired
Try to climb out / slip further down / lose hope
Lean into doubt / call out, make no sound
Try to climb out / slip further down / lose hope
Lean into doubt / call out, make no sound
Endebted, ensnared:
try to climb out
Chained & impaired / no way to climb out/Like crabs in a bucket
frogs in a pot
Crabs in a bucket or frogs in a pot
It's heavy
It's too much
I'd rather just give up
(when you fall down)
(If it's heavy)
(If it's too much, you can call out)
It’s heavy
It’s too much
I’d rather just give up
What happens if I give up?
Caught in a trap
sinking deep into the mire
Weighted & tired
weighted & tired
Darkness surrounds, digging deeper underground
Screaming no sound
screaming no sound
What happens if I show you the dark?
Will you still love all of me?
What happens if I show you the dark?
Will you still love me if I show you the bad parts?
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Cadavers
03:38
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I was lost in a daze
growing up in the
Land of the free
I was afraid
Because nothing is
what it seems
And sooner or later
we all asleep alone
A long list of shortcomings
From which we’ve grown
It’s easy to get lost in this sea
We’re attacked at all angles
Because nothing is
What it seems
Our lives are wasted
Cadavers in the basement
And we’re falling
Falling apart
Looking for endings
Our lines are written in the sand
Arrest us the second we take to the streets
Bleeding taxpayers like a fiscal leech
With guns more important than students
Queer kids arrested for living their lives
Doctors arrested for helping their citizens
Your blood runs green and you’re bleeding out
And everyone knows it
You poison the rivers, the lakes & the sea
Burn & make toxic the air that we breathe
You salt the earth & cut down the trees
But I'm forced to grow the seed within me
Nevermind that I don't want it
That my reproductive system's rotten
Or the risk that I could die carrying my own begotten
Fascists marching freely in the streets
Is this AmeriKKK or Nazi Germany?
Our lives are wasted
Cadavers in the basement
We’re falling apart
Looking for the endings
Our lines are in the sand
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Kiande Amedha Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Post hardcore / skramz from Philly
Album out now on Jean Scene
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