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She danced with red roses
While the great white shark flew in the sky
All while Sylvia died
With birds on her shoulders and in her eyes
She drew a boy with seven hearts and brains
Each one made to blend together perfectly
It was such a beautiful mess
She crumpled it all up and threw it in the trash
In the morning she would paint her eyelids black
She'd imagine a magical world of beauty
A tiger with a sharp set of teeth
And a boy who could love her for eternity
I am a girl in a beautiful dress
Yes I am, yes I am
I feel beautiful when I fly in my dress
Yes I do, yes I do
I am a girl in a beautiful dress
Yes I am, yes I am
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Garden Parts 1 and 2
05:18
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Pt 1
There's a woman next door and she's working on her garden
She does it everyday and it always makes me wonder
If she does it to stay alive
Me I've got nothing I'm sitting in this bedroom
Playing all these songs that no one wants to hear
But I think it's making me feel better I really do
Once had a girlfriend that made me feel important
Then one day she woke up and no longer loved me
To this day I feel like a waste of space
The sweetest girl I knew put me back together
Never got to tell her how much she matters
If you're listening here's to you
You're beautiful, you're smart, you're stronger than I'll ever be
You're caring, you're brave and you make me happy
And I miss you
I'll start myself a garden plant some new flowers
Grow some new friends to make me feel important
And yeah I'll do it to stay alive
Yes I feel like I am a waste of space
Yeah we all are but it's up to us
To not make these lives a waste of time
Pt 2
The last time we kissed
There were tears on your lips
Cause I said you don't love me
And still to this day
I don't know if you cried
Because I was wrong or because I was right
Tonight I'll go
To that place in my head
Where I feel safe and not so alone
Cause I know she'll be there
We'll be our best
This acceptance of sadness will bring us happiness
We'll fall in love
And forget the rest
In our fictitious home of sweet Sacresc
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Garden Part 3
01:44
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You danced with red roses in your hair
I dreamt you kissed my eyes and made me see again
Then you pulled them out and put them in your pockets
You whispered sun touched words in my ear and made me hear again
Then you cut them off and put them on your shoes
You danced with red roses
I dreamt you touched my chest and made me feel again
Then you ripped out my bleeding heart and crammed it into your rib cage
Cage...
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Ariel
04:31
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Ariel, my sister, you died in the womb
Depression has burrowed into my bones
She takes off your dress as your eagerness dies
Sweet machines moving throughout your body
A longing for meaning has taken my heart
Red Roses carving her imagination
Ghosts burrow inside of her mind
Those birds on your shoulders are the reason you fly
Unlike the great white shark of the sky
Love, love taught it to soar
High up above the deep sea of blood
Where you'll fall with Ariel and be born again
Over and over, we fall
We land
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Bluebirds
06:08
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Take off all your clothes to get a sense of something real
He touches your soft stomach then your chest as you explore
The body of a machine meant to leave
The image of what you are becoming
If he haunts you in your sleep
Why don't you ever leave
A bluebird with no eyes flies in my ear into my brain
It paints my eyes pitch black and leaves me with red roses
It whispers everything is best like this
While Ariel drinks blood from my heart
Now I live in a magical scene of fake beauty
It comforts me but leaves me wanting more than this bluebird
Hold me you can kill it with a kiss
Just promise me that we will die like this
These thoughts keep me awake
These thoughts keep me awake
Jesus died and never came back, still he changed the world
We will never die and if we do we'll come back to life
We will leave when we are satisfied
With an ending that extends past our lives
Sweet American poet are you still all alone
Love has left your bones but you have two kids of your own
You once wrote you are in love with the pain
We both are exceptional at dying
There is a parade
In Sacresc
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You will live you will die
You will love you will love
Do you see it on our backs that it's beautifully painted
Life is full of sadness but you still don't want to die
At the New Year’s Eve Parade we will sing, we will sing
I'm not asking you to come back and love me
I'm just asking you to come here for a second
We lost feelings to the winter as the leaves all died together
Held your face as you were sobbing have you missed me have you missed me
We learned how to live life with happiness life with happiness
At the New Year’s Eve Parade I will find it I'll find everything
At the New Year’s Eve Parade we will look back with happiness
We will love what we have lost and look forward to the future
The sidewalks filled with people dancing and laughing
With balloons of our memories flying away from us
They held lights in their hands and everybody sang
I'm not asking you to let me be lonely
I'm just asking you to go on without me
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Part 2
03:02
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8. |
Toothless Tiger
01:33
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Oh
Toothless tiger hear me now
It's the heart of those who want nothing
That say we should watch the world burn
It's an art museum in her mind
It's existential suicide
To be born again in another world
How beauty drowns out everything
Except depressing memories
How I wish you could see what I see
Great white shark of the sky
You eat everything that you see
How I wish I could be just like you
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Sunken Sailboats
03:39
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Still just as lovely as the first day we met
Oh even happier ever since you left
A sailboat set for the moon sinks in the ocean I steal for you
Lying on your deathbed will you think of your first love
Like flashes of time scattered throughout your life
If our memories meet I hope mine tells yours I'm sorry
Every cage in this world has open doors
It's our minds that stop us from flying free
It's self doubt that stops everybody
I am alone no more family or friends
But I still have myself and if that's all I have
Then I'll find love in this life and red roses inside my mind
Every heart in this world lose itself
To the mind of the man it keeps alive
But I am trying to keep on living a life with meaning
A sailboat set for the moon sinks in the ocean I steal for you
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We Are Liars
04:13
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I killed an angel
I put her inside of my cage
I killed an angel
One that loved me until she grew wings
We became the people we said we'd never be
We became liars each time we would say I love you
I love you
Yes I do
Are we still liars
If we don't know we're telling a lie
Are we still liars
If we don't know we're telling a lie
Can I still love you
Even though you don't love me too
Can I still love you
Even though you don't love me too
I love you
I love you
Yes I do
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Seven Sided Child
09:22
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Seven sided child
I want to be loved and capable of love
But the trouble was I was never enough
I'll never be, not even for me
The stars look back at me
We watch as comets crash
As your smile slips through my grasp
My life glitters from your lips
You wanted this, you wanted this
Penny wearing queen
Will we listen to our old hearts
From when we were meant to be young
Two fireflies inside of a jar
Does the clock watch us die
Does it cry when we say goodbye
I'll watch you walk away
I'll watch you fly
I'll watch you fly away, as I do the same
There's a sea of blood in the eyes of god
There's a sea of blood in the eyes of god
Cherry colored baby
There's a tiger up on the hill
Horses singing behind stage curtains
Young lovers dying in the belly of the boy
Two flamingos dancing in the dirt
A dead teenage girl with holes in her arms
A million stories told to us by giants
Glowing immortal girl
The second you left I knew I was dead
But now is time to be born again
Through the eyes of a world that spins and shines
Was it me you stopped loving
Or the feeling of being loved
Those who want everything
Will soon want nothing
You said it best I hated myself but never again
There's a sea of doubt inside of my mind
There's a sea of hope inside of her mind
Sylvia
You were right about death
I kissed you to see your importance
I dreamt you bewitched me in bed
To love someone you must love yourself
Get your head out of the oven
Sylvia
Seven sided child
We were born in Sacresc
We will die in Sacresc
Over and over and over and over again
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The summer brought the winter like we always knew it would
We were fools for dreaming, I don't know why I was surprised
We stole the sea, we drank it up and suddenly I became hideous
It's a poisoned pill, I'll never make you happy again
It's kinda fitting that the band will play at the conquered kings crying feet
Well I'm tired of kneeling, when I sing this I'll be standing
It's hard to tell If I'm the one who's moving or if it is the
World around me that is constantly twisting
Either way I am twisted up and I feel like
A bluebird with bright eyes and I can finally fly
Yeah you and me, I guess we started taking separate streets
Things will change, things will end,
Some will begin again and some things will remain
Keep your feet on the ground, keep moving
Cut the string from your back, keep talking
Take your hands off your head, start running
The rain is black, the street lights are dead, I am shining
A crow's nest falls from the peach tree's branch, it's time to plant another one
This time I will bury the seed alone
I've learned how to use my broken legs, in fact I am taller now
I only hope the past is proud of me
I look into the mirror now, I've burned all the paintings to see
What you have done to me, it is beautiful
What once was cruel is caring now and wickedness is
A garden of love and I’m not scared of it
In fact, I stare at the pain of it all, I am grateful for it
Some things will decay, some things will shine
Some will be lifted high and some will be back again
Turn the TV off, start singing
Color the sky, don't worry
Be a witness now, start writing
The moon is red, the sun is out, I am flying
You say that you don't feel like you, in fact you say it with tears
Well you should be saying it with pride
Burn my body in the flame that will ignite this new
This new chapter of your life
Oh I want you to
Keep your heart alive, start living
Stop regretting your life, stop wishing
Burn all these cages, start screaming
The rain is black, the street lights are dead, I am shining
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Sacresc Austin, Texas
Sound Swells/Feedback Loop
Everlasting
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