1. |
Carry On
03:15
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Eyes wide open
Stomach full of fire
Cannot function
No matter how I tried
All these civil lady manners going down with gusto
Running through the icy discotheque
Everything seems louder than it used to be
Lay amongst the benches with all the taxidermy
But I feel like I screwed up by not getting it on tape
Falling face first in the snowfall
backs pressed up against the walls
(Oh)
CHORUS: We could break them down
(Oh)
We could watch them fall
(Oh)
But we can’t keep running
So we’ll just carry on
I see the monster in your eyes you see the looking glass in mine
There was no promise made
But I can promise you my life
Suppose we lost our path our track
but kept the memories in tact
The walls they still remain as we dance through our domain
(CHORUS) X2
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2. |
Daydreams In The Dark
03:26
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One of these days
I’m going to run away
One of these days
I’ll just jump on the train
On the tracks
At the door frame
Call them back
Play the heartstrings
Wash the lesions
Out with water
Fill your pockets with the little things
CHORUS: Daydreams (daydreams),
In the dark, and I can’t tell anything apart
They’re just old shapes to me
A living fantasy
Daydreams (daydreams),
Set alight
By all the starry nights
Insanity I’m sure
It’s what keeps the art so pure.
One of these nights
I won’t be afraid
Maybe I’ll just
Slip through the grates
Through the bars
Mind the gaps
Watch the stars
Count the alleys
In the hail as large as stones
Cracked enigmas like broken bones
(CHORUS)
On the tracks
At the door frame
Call them back
Play the heartstrings
Wash the lesions out with water
fill your pockets with the little things (X2)
(CHORUS)
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3. |
Icarus Fever
04:16
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Try to buy another day
Try to fly another way
To reach the peaks in half the climb
But I’ve got time
CHORUS: I-I’m not like yourself
I’m not like your eyes or your smile
So I
I’ll wait for you here
As long as it takes, I can hold back the tears, to the end
Incantations watch my hands
Sets of wings and other things
I’ll try to make you understand
To measure them so carefully
(CHORUS)
But I-I won’t disappear
The fever won’t break
‘til you’re under my skin
And I
I’ll strangely defy
The stars as they plummet down to the afterlife.
(CHORUS)
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4. |
Lonely Turtle
03:37
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I am moving slowly
Thinking I’m annoying
The helmet that I wear
Decaying like my prayers
All my friends they hate me
Always so degrading
I’m better off alone
But please don’t leave me a ghost
CHORUS: I’m a crisis creature from the tips of my spine
To the shell that’s aligned
I am not depressed just borderline obsessed
How much life is to handle
Maybe I should read a manual (oh yeah.)
Feet don’t work correctly
Self esteem objecting
Said I should just give up
But I can’t get enough
Watching hares pass by
Still going nowhere I,
Am better off alone
But please don’t leave me a ghost.
(CHORUS)
But I, I know why
We’re all just lonely turtles
At one point in our lives
But I, I know why
We’re all just lonely turtles deep inside
Deep inside.
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5. |
The Overpass
03:18
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Maybe one day- we’ll meet again in another life
But I’ve found a way
To hold on to you for another night
CHORUS: But I’m not a child, and I haven’t found a way
I don’t want to leave without you, so I can waste another day
It’s not what envisioned this overpass to be
The road’s changing
All around me
One of these days
To disappear without a trace
Under the tracks
Of the lucky one who’s took my place
(CHORUS) X2
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6. |
Foreign Idol (Interlude)
02:26
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You’re not as perfect as you seem
Erase the trace that led to me
And I’m not fine
What can we do
To get this message through to you
Our days they all depend on whims
Or bad decisions on your end
The truth is all of us pretend
To invest all our time in this
But what can you do
What can you do
You’re his friend when he’s alone
He watched all of your videos
Two of the same, he always was meant
To play the game that you play
You made a mistake
And he followed suit
It influenced everything he knew
But what can you do
What can you do
But what can you do
Foreign idol
We trusted you.
we
trusted
you.
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7. |
Truth Serum
02:37
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Use your creativity for it frees the ghost inside you
And when that ghost
Starts to grow
Its shadow stands right by you
They stopped the clock so they could freeze
The toxic boring memories
Madness keeps the genius sane
Until his canvas screams again
CHORUS: Speak memory
Oh speak melody
Speak do you see?
All our comforting
In vain
In a motel room they sat
Running from illusions
And lies
Well look at that!
Our world flipped now upside down
Too afraid to turn around too terrified to speak our narrow minds
(CHORUS)
Tick tock goes the clock it’s ringing waging wars upon our heads
Knock knock here’s your time it’s coming last
(CHORUS) X2
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8. |
Angel With A Glitch
03:36
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Did it hurt when you fell from heaven
Did you see me in the trees
As you ripped off all your wings
To shed the righteous skin you wear
Did you cut off all your hair
Dyed it blue
So they wouldn’t die for you.
CHORUS: And I
Just want to know
Oh why
Did you let me go so wrong
You lost your voice and pitches
exchanged them on your back
For pins and glitches
You found God
In a bookshop north from here
Have you heard the things you’ve done
Killed a man who loved someone
For the sake of orders driven
Find yourself as unforgiven
Did your horns grow in while singing battle hymns
CHORUS) X2
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9. |
The Data We Need
04:10
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Do you need more information
You only know my name
And yet you have my address
I find that quite insane
Did you know I have three freckles
Right below my eyes
Because it seems to me
You see it all, including my demise
Then tell me this
My overlord
Are you what I’m living for
To pull the wool
Around my lips
So that I can see the point in this.
I’ll never look up again
Because you have the data to keep me quiet
Silence in place of oxygen
And live off the money that a smartphone pays you
As you commanded I adapted quickly
Tried to pull it off but it’s just no use
Hung by a cable are the rebel’s names and
Time keeps running in two
CHORUS: 1-2 1-2 1-2 1-2 1-2 1-2
1-2 1-2 1-2 1-2 1-2 1-2 1-2
Do you need more information
You only know my name
To see the life I’m living through
and you find it quite mundane
I bet you got to know me before I covered up your face
Typewriters never took the eyes of the figures in my place
(CHORUS)
As you commanded I adapted quickly
Tried to pull it off but it’s just no use
Hung by the cable are the rebel’s names
And now we collided and it’s up to you
I’ll never look up again
Because you have the data to keep me quiet
Silence in place of oxygen
And live off the money that a smartphone pays you
As you commanded I adapted quickly
Tried to pull it off but it’s just no use
Hung by a cable are the rebel’s names and
Time keeps running in two
(CHORUS) X2
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10. |
Yesterday Saint
03:18
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I’m stripped inside
I’m not here
Be surprised
Holds you dear
Carry you
I’ll carry you home
I’ve realized
You’ve done the same
Trashed the lense in the picture frames
Carry you
I’ll carry you home
CHORUS: I never knew you could sing
Behind my eyes you’re the face that drowns me
I never knew you could sing
Behind my eyes you’re the face that drowns me out
But you, you’re not the saint
That I prayed for yesterday
But the world
Is too unkind to recognize her own mistakes
It’s far too late
In the night
To hold your hands
And if the sun
Doesn’t rise
We’ll just pretend that it’s alright.
(CHORUS)
Oh I’m stripped inside
I’m not here
Be surprised
Holds you dear
Carry you
I’ll carry you home
But we, we’re not the same
As you’d hoped we’d be one day
Be surprised
Carry you
I’ll carry you home
Just one more time
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11. |
What Only The Fools Know
04:13
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It’s what only the fools know
Watching half past the hour
Scratching pens on their papers
Tracking beautiful strangers
Triple the teeth
worship the fallen
let seeds underneath
rot in their gardens
And some of our weakest, and deepest, and frail
Flee in the midst of our darkest details
CHORUS: Wearing gilded coatings
Sugar etched onto steel
In their jackets
Torn in their classes
With silver and vapor
That clouds up the glasses
Like you weren’t meant to be right.
It’s what only the fools know
Kept in trance without voices
Rushing just past the office
Stopping dead in their tracks
Triple the teeth,
worship the fallen,
let seeds underneath,
rot in their gardens
And some of our weakest, and deepest, and frail
Flee in the midst of our darkest details
(CHORUS)
Livid they cried
Warping, distorting
we won’t be alright
The silence will shatter us
Lyrics as rifles, like whispers we tread
Songs as the ammo flew over our heads
(CHORUS)
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12. |
When We Became Fairies
04:02
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Tell the vultures to stay away
I haven’t let go of your hand
And tell all the flowers that I’ve run away
I haven't let go of you yet
CHORUS: But time
Keeps learning
Every which way to forget
So I failed to remember
I couldn’t return here again
We’ve made our home inside the trees
On the day
That we became fairies
On the day
That we became fairies
Tell the wings
And tell their cliches
I won’t fly as high as the sky
That I write my magic through ways of a pen
As a verse wouldn’t sicken and die
(CHORUS)
And just in case of emergencies
I blew out my wings
I turned out my pockets
Grabbed hold of the things
That just made me want it
Could I love you
Should I love you
Oh I love you
We’ve made our home inside the trees
On the day
That we became fairies
On the day that we became fairies
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Sophie Drozd Fairfax, California
Sophie Drozd is a classically trained pianist, and vocalist. She has been composing music since she was 7 years old, and released her first album Lost Anthem in 2016. Many of her songwriting inspirations are drawn from her metaphorical perspective on everyday occurrences, many of which include allusions to nature, historical and mythical references. ... more
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