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Juno
05:09
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My one lasting endeavour
Eternally awash in violet light
Gasping for air but I will
Always work my way back into
A life passing unbroken
Degaussing the world of my expectations
Until it all fades away
I know you’ll never forget the taste
Hopeless hours passing us by
Every constellation telling
Of a future uncertain
Jealousy of a simple mind
Or being content with being alone
A still frame vacant of any
Thing worth looking up to
Always in orbit around you
Never quite grounding my own thoughts
Sacrificial for nobody but myself
Uninterrupted ambition
Every harvest moon you take
As a sign of a new devotion
You can’t ever let go of
Beneath an indigo skylight
Taking your time working through
Everything you find yourself at odds with
Until you wake up and everything seems the same
Because you’re the only one who can save yourself
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Glow Cloud
03:20
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Calling out to an unresponsive sky
I can’t seem to remind myself
Of an hour when the earth turned thoughtlessly
Leaving us to pass each other by
Blue light reflecting on the horizon
Something there that will return
Careless to the thought of a new judgement
I won’t be chained to this anchor
Though my body lies
I am far away from here
Divination to an uninterested source
Ever watching the desert below
Gazing into an empty space
Speckled with realities unknown
Taking us away with each
Transmission into the forgotten
Floating evermore into this
Catastrophic scene within
A cross-eyed earth recalling every
Thing that ceases to exist
Every day of cold weather brings
Something new to give praise unto
But every night’s a new sense of
Self-righteousness that will fall short
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Internal Parallels
05:24
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Floating down to your wake
A somatic embrace
Far away from the end
Eternal wasted youth
Looking down on your street
For another chance to fall out
To soon to say how long
Every thought of you
Will decay again
Slowly realizing
I wanted more than just
An echo of last year
Darkness outside and within
For however long
I shut myself away
Too late for me now I
Can rest without a
Panic inside of my head
I know you can’t forget
Those nights you’d wait for me
For too long your isolation flowing through my veins
Before you can let go
Falling away from you
Back and forth into a
Distant life I know I
Can’t bask in your light now
Too far gone for anyone
To see whom you think you are
Ever fluorescent skyline
Trapping me with my mind
Every time I pass you by
I can’t reciprocate this
Desperate feeling but I’ll try
To reassure our lives
I know you can’t forget
Those nights you’d wait for me
For too long your isolation flowing through my veins
Before you can let go
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The first time I died the air was cold and filling me with static
As you said one day we’ll wake up and be whole again
Until the neon fades and I can say I loved you all the same
I’ll find myself gasping for air
But I know I will always find my way back through until
We mend ourselves
Homesick for familiarity that will return
Swimming through the void until we meet again
The interweaving fabrics of our sweaters poorly knit
As we touch the face of a god we never believed in
Will dance along the daylight until it’s swallowed by the moon
Spreading our hope as far as it will reach
So we won’t be diluted by the shape of things to come
I know we don’t think the hurt will ever subside
But someday soon we’ll be flooded with euphoria again
I’ll follow every trace you leave until we sit alone
So numb we feel fulfilled but it won’t matter
Drifting along the edge of reconciling with ourselves
But I promise, one day soon we’ll have our day
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Turtles of the Eclipse
04:00
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Trapped in a free fall with no end
I’ll wake up a new design and take out
Every piece of myself until
I am whole again
Sitting like a crown without a king
I will never understand what it takes to be
Anything more than this
Dreamscape of hopelessness and reckless abandon
Until i’m reborn again
I can’t cross this threshold
On my own until you
Instill in me what I know
You’re too careless to endure
All I ever needed was your understanding
But instead i’ve dug my own grave
Lying on the edge between the end
And the start of something new
I know your sanctuary never meant anything
But dragging the summer out until you
Cast a shadow of doubt over my head
And I gave myself away
Kicking up a cloud of dust around me
Until I block out any trace of
Your cruel moonlight then i’ll know
I’m greater than any of your words
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Sleepwalker
05:10
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I am the fox slowly creeping through your underbrush
You are the web I’ve spun that’s soon to be unraveled
Two ghosts in the static drifting evermore into a new beginning
I feel your presence in the night even when you leave for something I could never give
You won’t ever look back until we’re through
Desperate for anything you perceive as new
With the seasons we’re reborn like flowers in bloom
I can’t ask for anything save for you
Sleepwalker acting like you know what’s best
But you are nothing more than a masquerade of what once was
You watch me like a car on fire
While I am the twilight encompassing your every move
I am the overcast sky above your street
You are the taste left in my mouth bittersweet
Scorching the earth just to lie broken and beat
Too self-absorbed to acknowledge those you mistreat
Worship of something we blindly submit to
Seeking elysium with every transgression
Closer to whatever you think is waiting
Rosary beads and holy water just to exit like the rest
I am the sum of your worst fears
You are the rain washing my hopes away
We’ll never see eye to eye but
I’m glad we’ve come this far
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Kuiper Vancouver, British Columbia
2018-2022, now Dead End Sidewalk
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