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Something About Science
03:45
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Oh we start, our story 'mongst the stars
Afloat, in the voids yawning throat
I took to the sky as men take to the sea
To escape from my life, from the man that I'd been
S'now here we are, n'I admire my scars
N'each is a piece of the story thus far
I've one that was earned in the hull of a ship
I was rocked by a blast, then by shrapnel was hit
As I lay on my back, as blood dripped from my hip
Still I grinned as this slipped through my lips
Silent night, holy night
All is calm, all is right
Back where I'm from I was tired and meek
I was bound by my doubts, and was too weak to speak
But this gave me strength,
Oh it shook me awake
Back then all seemed barren, empty, and bleak
-there was
Naught to see
Naught to be
And what's left's not for me
Here I stand, in command
In control, my life held in my hands
I've been waiting
For the sun to kiss my sails and show me what's before us
I'm at peace now,
No more on my own,
Though I'm lost
Oh the sound of the waves
How the ship shakes and sways
All is calm as that sweet song
Flows through the night and pulls us along
Now my eyes fall on a solat'ry ship
Its shields are down and it is well lit
I bark a command at my men at hand
The wand'rers know not that they're nearing the end of their world
Oh, the people are shipwrecked
The child alarms, and grips his mother's arm
"Dear, we're safe here, I know it's cold,
Somehow I swear we'll make it home."
Oh, the lights, shining so bright,
I count the stars.
Mem'ries tell only who we were,
But not who we're destined to be,
I see myself stretched out on an infinite sea
Watching, waiting, for clouds to part
For some star to guide my way
So much to be, oh, so much to see
I won't pretend to be content
So much to know, how I wish to grow
I can't pretend that I'm content
So much to be, so much to see
I won't pretend that I'm content
Nothing to show, where next to go
I can't pretend that I'll repent
Oh let me go, oh let me go
The child groans
I drag him along, singing a song
As their ship blows
As the flames glow, as the din grows
As the night flows on
We start, our story 'mongst the stars
Afloat, in the void's yawning throat
I prowl the bow, think on prizes just won
Gladest of all for my new found son
I suppress a grin, for the child is grim
My crew sings my praise, oh what glorious din
Silent night, holy night
All is calm, all is right
We sail through the stars as men sail on the waves
And now I can't pretend that I'm ever content
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Outside the snow is growing
Flake falls on flake in this cold field
For years it's born no yield
And worn the winter as its shield
And it is vast
Ten-thousand yards, or so it seems
But it ends at the trees
The white is bordered by the green
There at its heart
There sits a single speck of grey
A house worn down by age
Let us now see what it contains
Within its walls
A room's alit by lantern light
Though it is wrapped
In mem'ries night
A man sits at its center
His body taught and sallow skinned
His soul expression grim
His heart is weighed down by his sins
Oh what he's lost
Oh what he once held in his hands
Now only mem'ries stand
Though they belong to far off lands
There in the flames some shadows play
They never shrink, nor fade away
They merely dance before his eyes
And sing a song of fonder times
Oh how he wishes for his strength
The will to move, the will to break
Away from thoughts that bury him
And so swell up in'ternal din
Oh won't you say, won't you say what you want from me
He calls at the walls yet they answer the same
He chokes on his din, at the thought of his skin
And he begs let me out, let me out, let me out
He claws at his skin as he beats at the walls,
As they beat at the walls, at the walls of his skull
He howls at the house, at the window, the flame
Wishing just once for something to change
Silence sets in, morning begins
Although it's cold here now
It is himself he must forgive
If from this house he lists to limp
And as he looks now at the clouds
He somehow knows the time is now
And so the sun casts down its rays
And slowly winter at last wanes
He quickly stands, walks to the door,
And opens it with feeble force
He takes the first fresh step
Upon the coat, that winter's left
He feels a pull, albeit dull
As the forest to him calls
Come here, it's calm here
I am cold
Wanting, needing, the clouds to part
For some star to guide my way
It holds me back, I'm trying
Can't you see I'm dying
To feel this, once
As I glance now o'er my shoulder
I see that house doth smoulder
I turn my eyes back to the pines
And wonder at what paths they hide
There, somewhere
I am lost
Hoping, begging
For things to change
For my scars to fade at last
It keeps me down although I'm trying
Just to try instead of lying
Withered in a wretched pose
My face a lit by n'ember's glow
I'll live as if I've never lived
I'll try as though I never have
To feel it, once
I know myself I must forgive
If e'er my live I wish to live
I'll find my shelter in the trees
And leave behind foul memories
I'll cast away the winter's shroud
Which now casts down shadows of clouds
The forest calls this heart of mine
As I draw near the portal pine
He enters
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Hunted By Photon Lasers
04:40
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Oh the sound of the waves
Pounds my ears s'I start to shake and sway
And all of these years, I've harbored my fears
And so my words catch in my throat
I've no retort for all those gleeful jeers
That said, I'm fucked in the head
Wounded and wrecked, I prowl the deck
My composure fixed, undaunted
Though I'm truly often haunted
Harrowed by my hopes and dreams
My muted muse whispers a scream
I am lost I can not feel my breath in my chest
Always dreaming, never doing
Seldom working, rarely trying
Thoughts of effort, my endevor
Yet my dreams I ne'er engender
My lost muse in me is shaking
My life's works in me are waiting
T'someday find themselves created
Though their birth is long belated
I bite my once golden tongue
So swallowing my songs unsung
For fear my peers will me deride
Einfach my words withdraw and hide
With each footfall
Echoing off the ship's steel walls
I am deaf to
My anguished muse's muffled calls
Though I'm desperate
To hear it's voice ring out once more
But my regrets
Bury it like a thousand stones
Ever seeking, never finding
Where in me my muse is hiding
I am lost I can not feel my breath
Inside my swollen aching chest
As the sound of the waves
Pulls me along I wonder
If the world forgives my blunders
Though their countless as the stars
And fill the gap 'tween Earth and Mars
It's the sound that my voice makes meekly
It's the sound as my hand shakes
As my words begin to trickle through
Where are you, oh my muse?
I hear it
It's the sound of a ship as it shipwrecks
Nowhere to dock, all hope is lost, nothing by rocks, nothing
Hear you, feel you
The vacuum of space extends embrace
Mem'ries unfold, of me take hold
Trapped in their midst my words are mist
As nonsense sits on my lips
Oh the thought, of creating naught, so sickens me
It's enough to blanch my skin
Coward I am find shaking my hands
Just knowing that I may become nothing in life
Wakes me, and shakes me, oh I have so much life to live
All at once the world erupts
My fears collapse at last
Oh silent night, restore my mind
Let stars align, just right
Let them shine, cast down their light
I can see, I can breathe
I can think, I can feel
My regrets, myriad
And wicked, flee my brest
My craven eyes are at last cast aside
Where to go?, What to do?
My thoughts race, as I face
Fate's warm open embrace
Now I hear my muse near
Its voice rings sch?n und clear
I finally find some closure
Knowing my pain is over
I now realize my words I held inside
My chest is breaking
Lungs on ribs are raking
Voices, our voices
Sing now as one
My words, are our words
It took too long for me to find them, divine them
I rejoice, I crumble
I shake and sway
No longer wallow
I've lived too much my life 'ther languid, or anguished
Yet now I find at last such feelings extinguished
I shake no more
I want to hold onto you my muse
You're the sound of the ship as it shipwrecks
Standing on rocks, gath'ring my thoughts, regretting naught
Nothing.
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A DIY label from the Lehigh Valley, PA area.
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