1. |
Palace of Mind
04:34
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What's inside your palace of mind?
I can see you don't want to say it
Doors are creaking, roof is leaking
How rude of me! Come inside!
Throw my front door open wide
Walls of stone
Blocked from view
Open up my gate for you
Lights are off, Curtains drawn
Bring light back into this home
Step inside
Me and you
Bring this house a ghost or two
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2. |
The Million Eyed Earth
07:02
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She awakens into night, and bathes herself in light
Provides a place within the emptiness for life
Our graves we open wide, and cast our beating hearts inside
In favor of the seductive afterlife
While we search the dark for signs
Of one who might share our unique predicament
We might consider not killing ourselves
Before we find out whether or not we're alone
While we hold debate over established truths
We inscribe a pair of dates, inter the human race
In this celestial tomb
Down and down you sink
On we go
You can't lie to us
Anymore
Whereas once we were naïve
Well, now we know
Now we're digging you the deepest hole
We've ever dug
(Money, power, politics
Once we've rendered ourselves extinct
Please tell me the importance of your
Money, power, politics...)
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3. |
Uruk
06:27
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I'm thinking of leaving home for a while
The city's changed into something that I didn't have in mind
I'm thinking of staying home for a while
They say it's rain until Monday, but I guess that I don't mind
I need to find
What's hidden in the forest
What's buried in the earth
What's far across the sea
If all this suffering's made us immortal but not free
And what is meant for me
It's all coming away in tatters
These preconceptions
And I feel so naked without it
This self deception
I should go home and think about it
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4. |
Looking Glass
06:50
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Dying day
I look toward the sun, as it dips away
Spreading night
The moon presides, the stars provide their ancient light
How strange of all this to be here, observed by only us
Who arrogantly declare ourselves lords of this mote of dust
Suspended in beams of sunlight
Suspended in disbelief
Suspended by strings of ignorance and greed
Not thinking...
How strange to be....anything
Would you say home is too valuable to throw away?
An unlikely order in the swirling dark
Unknown, but knowing
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5. |
Portal
06:57
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Denial is
An impermanent remedy for fear
We have searched the universe
But haven't found the sun
Walk the cosmic ocean side
Wait for the tide to come
Common though we are, are we alone?
We may never know
From above it looking down
As the stars are going out, I see it now
I see you
Without fear you travel on
Deeper into the unknown
With every passing lightyear you know
You will never see the lights of home
At last, we pay our debt of time
And we say goodbye
A portal to another place and time
Do we step through tonight
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6. |
Observer
06:56
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I observe
As if on the outside
I recall
As if from a past life
I know you have something to tell me
But you haven't made a sound
I've got something to say...
But that's how it goes
You
See things in another light
Take our space
As we learn to compromise
Take the long road to where we're going
As if we both don't know
You're ready to tell her everything
But you don't even say a word the whole ride home
Winter's come and your tree of words stands naked and alone
Once green and vital, now barren
Words left unspoken, now fallen without a sound
And there they lie, decaying on the ground
(Guitar solo - Jacob Westgaard)
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7. |
Drive
06:39
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Drive home alone
Again
Night roads follow the most familiar way
Cross the bridge where I
could see her eyes
reflecting city lights on the river
Windows down, stars are bright
Into the summer sky I'll drive tonight
What's ahead for you and I?
Can I offer you a ride?
Nothing left for me behind
Nothing left to do but drive
Windows down, hearts alive
Into another life we'll drive tonight
What is left for you and I?
Close the door and speak your mind
Dash lights dancing in your eyes
Drive in silence 'til we both forget to ask why
Go
Run away
Drive away from here
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8. |
To Ease Our Passing
09:17
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I emerge from sleep
I am growing older
Summer is hidden 'neath a blanket of leaves
Winds are blowing colder
There's no going back the way you came
Even if you could return
You'd find nothing you left behind remains
Plum trees line the pathway leading home
Guiding me along a trail of leaves
Ever blooming in eternal spring
Of my memory
(Guitar solo, Nicholas Decker)
To my home I am going
I will not return
Where the tree is growing
Above and below the earth
Climbing higher
Seeing further to my past
The leaves that fell on me as a child
They are growing green as a man
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9. |
From Another World
06:51
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Alone we are
Benighted
Together
Enlightened
Mind's eye fragments
I make them whole
Inside this palace of the mind
I'm in control
Would if we could speak as if we were not accountable
Confusing as this mask would seem to be to others
It makes perfect sense to me
Be at peace
It's OK to fear
To feel the need to scream
To feel that something's changed
Or nothing's changed
Or something's changing me
Enticing me, Driving me
To sleep beneath the freeze
I don't need to know what you mean
To intently admire this thing
Through this transformation
You and I will become
New again
And bound to something older than the gods
We are all connected by it
And yet we feel so alone
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farcaster Portland, Oregon
Portland Oregon based band, formerly known as City.
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