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No Bird Sing

by No Bird Sing

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1.
Prometheus 02:35
Verse: How many days are left to remember? How many cold nights in the throws of November? Your hands by the fireplace ‘ Wishing that gas was lit The flame has been saved by the man who would banish it Still all your thrills have been packaged and sold They killed all your mountains to harvest their coal They killed all your wolves to harvest their souls Told all their secrets and boiled their bones How many days are left to remember? How many cold nights in the throws of November? Your hands in the fireplace ‘ Wishing that gas was lit The flame has been saved by the man who would banish it Chorus: Carry the fire ‘ Bury the flame Verse: How many days are left to remember? How many cold nights in the throws of November? Your hands in the fireplace ‘ Wishing that gas was lit The flame has been saved by the man who would banish it How many days are left to remember? How many cold nights in the throws of November? Your heads in the fireplace ‘ Wishing that gas was lit The flame has been saved by the man who would banish it still
2.
Verse: Some say the cure is worse than the disease And kindness is a man when he’s rested on his knees And Ludwig is Van is a 9th Symphony played with Devil Trombones and a pocket full of speed Stomach full of milkshakes ‘ Gully full of greed Heaven metal rocket ships tripping overseas Angel-faced heretics boasting ‘bout their dreams of ultra-violent succotash and fully feathered wings Old folks sing the songs of their father With honor in their mumblings and shit in their wallets Sleeping in a different key ‘ They’re something-aholic On a high wire stuck with aspirations of falling [falling] The lights are heavy and the sirens are calling The steps are getting closer it ain’t no way to stall ‘em Your stains are ‘bout to get all blacklighted and outted and you’ll be in it half naked with no way to get out it [get it?] They’re trying to stick you with some kind of admission Waiting for it all to break down Admit it’s still just the sinister thrill that keeps you up and it’s killed forcing indifference til you get belligerent feel Your hand is steady ‘ Your heart steady racing Your skeleton is getting all impatient ‘ Face it Option one? Put an end to the fun and play those Devil Trombones with no earplugs Chorus: All the policemen are wearing really strange clothes So when you see them ‘ You’ll know who the run from Verse: What do I viddy vid with both of my peepers slit open? Maybe your focus ain’t as sharp as you think it is Nothing up their sleeve ‘ Nothing to fool you with Just two droogs pissing with a mission to do you in Stomach full of fist [punch] Knuckle full of steam Devil brass ringing in you ripping out your seams Heaven metal whispering “It’s time for you to breathe” Falling in the rain until it’s safe for you to sing songs as homage to the demons in your past reminiscent of the medicine you pulled from out the flask And now without your mask ‘ you’re finally disguised as an angel-faced choir boy with nothing left to hide so Outro: Run Don’t stop ‘ Don’t stop Just run
3.
Chorus: Another window’s closed in my dream Verse (Eyedea): Eyes closed ‘ Slowly dissipate Have a stare down with the sun and hope that it can lift the weight I can’t say I never made a mistake but people will be people and I can’t hate you cuz you changed No matter how many times I rearrange the chairs in my apartment the walls still look the same I don’t know why I’m here but I’m glad I came I feel lucky to know you by your first name Let’s dance in the grave of your pain If I had another chance ‘ I’d do it all again the same way Canvass never threatened the paint You’re still my best friend ‘ The feeling never went away You make my days dark and my nights grey Drive a knife through my heart ‘ I’ll try and drive you insane If I can pull some skin from my brain I’ll stick a pin in my flesh and carve a smile on my face Chorus: Another window’s closed in my dream Verse (Joe Horton): Wake life will the night ever taste right? Break strife make it stay in the daylight Wait ‘ wait the stakes are greater than I anticipated Stay straight the snakes attack from behind Take the forsight and strike it blind Two of the same kind let’s lose our minds Step in a slow lane ‘ Race in a long pace Sever your own name and I’ll do the same ‘ Blame is getting late ‘ late never let the nightmares separate from my dreams if it means that I can see your face Placed faith into what I always wanted you to make outta this pile of bricks and this roll of tape Nothing’s ever fair ‘ but at least it’s equal The lake isn’t dry but the beach never ends Deceitfully it bends in the middle When I send you a symbol it’ll mean that I’ve given up on wasting fate Chorus: Another window’s closed in my dream
4.
Chorus: Yell it from the rooftop Sell it from the throne Tell it to your kinfolk or let 'em all alone You can only be king if you can sing a song for the sake of the paper trail the blood money's printed on Verse: The royal family is hiding in the dungeon and they're trapped cuz they got nobody on the outside to pay the ransom cops and the judges skipped down to go dancing and the rest of their court has got more gumption than grey matter oxen are dead, peasants apathetic in what's gotta be billed as a strange change of direction skip the election, let's hang a successor now and let his chain sag lower than the motives of the crowd redraw the borders in order to keep the order like nobody heard the king whisper his will into his daughter's ear years pass by before she gets an apology that's stiffer than a board but lighter than ideology Bridge: yell it from the rooftop sell it from the presidential residence and let the effigest go up in smoke with the idol let 'em all burn in the fire do a dance in the aftermath of ash from the fire like you heard it from the soothsayer spit it from the spire tell it to your first born or let 'em all retire you can only be king if you can sing a song for the sake of the paper trail the blood money's printed on Verse: The crown is crooked on the head of the inhabited of one's man kingdom is another man's extravagant puzzle it's something kinda wonderful, isn't it? that the struggle is sinning and all the sinning is lovable once you split it open ' here's to hoping the answer isn't fuck it all walk across a crossfire of bullet trying to duck 'em all tuck all your aspirations in your shoes before you lace 'em when your souls start decaying' they're your last saving grace and it's safe ' atop this mixture of invincible and silly and spilling into confidence inherently more scary so marry the pomp and circumstantial evidence that let you set the precedent for winning a battle that hasn't happened yet Chorus: Yell it from the rooftop Sell it from the throne Tell it to your kinfolk or let 'em all alone You can only be king if you can sing a song for the sake of the paper trail the blood money's printed on
5.
Chorus: Long long winter Met her in the spring time Cold blooded sinner in the summer I’mma make her mine Wanted her to change me Can’t nobody save me Left her when the leaves died Verse: Sitting by the sea side ‘ Told her I would keep her safe Sure as the reaper breaks rocks into sand ‘ make shore Hold hands ‘ take stroll ‘ make plans ‘ change world into something more beautiful You know ‘ the usual convo like who’s your favorite author She’s really into Hawthorne ‘ I’m really into Chaucer Heiress and a pauper ‘ Princess and pea brain She came of her own free will ‘ We sang well into the middle of the night ‘ with a fiddle and a mic Just a little bit of light ‘ Smell nice like sunshine and daisy chain Oh my amazing grace ‘ Skin like silk ‘ Hair like wool She pushed ‘ pulled ‘ I pulled and I pushed Took what I could ‘ Left what I couldn’t fit Shouldn’t it be a little easier to let us sit Underneath that Mississippi moonshine Sweat dripping glistening like new bride Ain’t nobody listening to whispers in the wind and then the sinner starts to bend an ear to fool’s pride Bridge: War drums beating on the other side of the hill Gotta leave the home that I only started to build If I gotta die ‘ Least my baby’s gonna live Maybe I’ll see her when the leaves come in Chorus: Long long winter Met her in the spring time Cold blooded sinner in the summer I’mma make her mine Wanted her to change me Can’t nobody save me Left her when the leaves died
6.
Verse: Should I learn to sink before I learn to float Suffering is hope and none of us can cope Contentment is stuffing little rocks inside of my throat with no signs of revolt I broke down the walls Burned down the drawbridge Jumped over the moat while the serfs all applauded Fought ice ‘ Fought snow Until April’s rain unthawed ‘em both and left me insane and broke to nap on a peaceful coast Chorus: Can’t take what we don’t show ya Can’t kill what we love most Put bruises on our shoulders Bloody up that pretty nose now No telling how dangerous it is Til you put that poison on your lips Each touch as simple as a kiss Each kiss will bring us all closer To the fact that obstacles and cracks litter every path ‘ ain’t no turning back I can’t work my mask ‘ loosen up these straps I never chose to be this close to my mishaps You don’t understand ‘ I don’t want your plan ‘ I just wanna build the muscle memory that’s necessary to devise a way to break the chain on the gate of the cemetery Days chasing me in waves I won’t let ‘em win Never let ‘em catch me coming out my skin Sitting in the sand ‘ Blowing in the wind Feeling every step from heel to toe The twin sets of my footprints never did exist swear I saw ‘em is there something that I missed Something I insisted on becoming before the running became a substitute for bliss Bridge: wishing wells seem to say they want the easy way out but they need to pay back what they didn’t win filthy has never been so close to cleanliness Chorus: Can’t take what we don’t show ya Can’t kill what we love most Put bruises on our shoulders Bloody up that pretty nose now No telling how dangerous it is Til you put that poison on your lips Each touch as simple as a kiss Each kiss will bring us all closer Verse: Oars on the surface of the water ‘ My arms are soar I’m cold ‘ I’m a monster ‘ So I’m told Could you make me warm? It’s wet ‘ under feet try to run ‘ but I sink It’s a dream right? That’s what it seems like Couldn’t be right ‘ I don’t mean no alarm Hidden in the soft creases of my palm lines are deciding where they will begin After every end something starts to stir Strange as this has been ‘ Everything’s a blur Wishing wells seem to say they want the easy way But what they mean to say is things fall apart ‘ Leave ‘em be Thieves’ll come to steal the seasons ‘ Rob the lucid from the dream Just beneath the broken pieces are the sequences between They can keep ‘em ‘ I don’t need ‘em There not mine ‘ I’ll be fine Left behind to find my way the only way I’ll ever find it Love the ocean ‘ Be an island Be the sea ‘ I’ll be Japan Come with me ‘ Let’s leave this place and take some secrets to replant Build a bridge ‘ Burn it down Learn to swim ‘ Flirt with drowning Break the crooked road in half and take the path we just found out about Chorus: Can’t take what we don’t show ya Can’t kill what we love most Put bruises on our shoulders Bloody up that pretty nose now No telling how dangerous it is Til you put that poison on your lips Each touch as simple as a kiss Each kiss will bring us all closer
7.
Land Mines 05:08
Verse: Dream of escape When you’re awake it’s easier to take how you’re close to the breakdown Chase sound round to that dark alleyway Light buzzing wish it wasn’t Just another block away the stain is splattered on the gravel It captures the attachment to the tip of the spear Subliminal fear ‘ littered in the closet ain’t been open for years Better hope the combination isn’t whispered to a criminal ear Set to appear in visions on the 15th Gather old acquaintances ‘ Hold their hands ‘ Grit your teeth Slip beneath your blanket ‘ Try and get some sleep Kiss the cheek of every cold epiphany now Plant a seed up in the ground ‘ Watch it bleed or let it drown Pick it up until it meets the fallen idols Came down from artificial rain clouds No one saw ‘em coming Really was a shame how that little seed of mistrust grew up into a flower and devoured every piece of your it loved before the hour turned to month Month became the withered face of something that stayed to chase the loneliness away Say what you say about the smile painted on the face of the clown The joke is still stuck up his throat somehow Won’t go down ‘ up is where it came from None of us are stubborn enough to feel the same buzz Lit his last smoke ‘ pocket full of gasoline Said his last prayer aware that it was blasphemy After me ‘ the planet’s gonna atrophy Catch disease ‘ you’re lucky if you last a week Joke you’re funny but nobody loves a bitter thief with jagged little teeth violating all of my relief The rest of me is left wondering what the thunder sees inside the storm Our normal way home is scattered with tornadoes and rusted out payphones and I’ll ignore those warning signs with you Chorus: 16 landmines ‘ 17 pairs of feet Don’t nobody move ‘less you think you’re gonna grow some wings Verse: The only way we’re gonna survive is hiding behind the cloud cover up and the sky’s painting silhouettes of guys diving Floor 41 Started as a way to have fun ‘ So jump Forget about the rip chord It’s tucked under the rug with the skeletons and floorboards and four score and six years from now it’ll still be the same but somehow you gotta rise around it like you’re sick of the pounding Like you’re sick of yells but it’s worse because you’re sick of silence So jump And if you fly you’re a part of the problem How could you solve it with wings on your back when you cut ‘em they grow back when you cut ‘em they grow back Chorus: 16 landmines ‘ 17 pairs of feet Don’t nobody move ‘less you think you’re gonna grow some wings [you’re gonna grow some wings]
8.
Chorus: At the foot of the father like father ‘ What is the problem? Can’t see the road so how could I follow? Got all choked up so how could I swallow? Your medicine but better yet let it soak in the sacrament so 39 thieves couldn’t rob us of our sacrilege 39 thieves ‘ Teach you a lesson The 40th fell into the hell of his confession Down down never came back back up up Verse: Wave hits ’ Mind freezes up Sky splits ‘ I gotta pick the pieces up Find the shards they’re buried in the garden Hide your charge cuz it’s a long way home Step lightly and careful ‘ You might see 39 thieves down on their knees and it depends on the season If there’s snow on the ground there’ll be blood in the ice You’ll be tempted to join ‘em now They think I’m crazy ‘ has anybody saved me yet I think I’m poisoned ‘ living under constant threat Is this the plot or better yet an imposter? Like me the life we lead is easily broken Bridge: Never thought I’d have to do this alone Hold on so I won’t break Feeling just a little bit better Never knew how much my fingers could take Hold tight to the side of the cliff now This is it now you’re never gonna get down Reach for the ground until it picks you up You see it’s never enough until it lifts you Chorus: At the foot of the father like father ‘ What is the problem? Can’t see the road so how could I follow? Got all choked up so how could I swallow? Your medicine but better yet let it soak in the sacrament so 39 thieves couldn’t rob us of our sacrilege Verse: I trusted the rats swimming away from the sinking ship and left you to save face Been thinking since then the cracks in this skin are way to exposed to go away If there’s another chance ‘ I don’t wanna take it this time It’s my interpretation of the last mistake that makes good and evil simple as a line down the middle of my spine As the thought of you in broken space There’s a laugh and whisper in the next room Catch a draft ‘ feel a quiver ‘ make ya head swoon Pretty pretty angry ‘ ugly ugly awake We’re living on different pages ‘ Forgetting all the same poems Bridge: Never thought I’d have to do this alone Hold on so I won’t break Feeling just a little bit better Never knew how much my fingers could take Hold tight to the side of the cliff now This is it now you’re never gonna get down Reach for the ground until it picks you up You see it’s never enough until it lifts you up
9.
ars poetica 05:05
Chorus: Ars poetica is dead Walked through the valley to retrieve the head Took the body to the ocean Hoping that the bottom will give it a good place to rest Yes Verse: I been sitting here too damn long Looking at the wrong side of the mirror I been sitting here too damn long Looking at the wrong side of the mirror I been sitting here too damn long Trying to right these wrongs Trying to write this song that only exists inside of a thimble Pin prick the walls and let it slow leak like a symbol Crashing through the conceived convention immaculately pressed within these stone walls that I’m stressing Hand over my eyes ‘ case the whole thing tumbles and my heart stops beating in a pile full of rubble Growing in dead space Darling my head’s warm Look at my red face Tell me if that’s normal Walk with me now ‘ for a coupla miles On either side of the train tracks ‘ a ghost and a bright smile Seconds are mine now ‘ Rest of it’s yours Hang it on the rack and let it ripen and warm Existence is form ‘ manifestations of change It might look kinda different but it’s more of the same Remember my name ‘ it’s right on the page I wanted you to see it ‘ So I wrote it in green paint I wanted you to see it ‘ So I wrote it in green paint I wanted you to see it ‘ So I wrote it Chorus: Ars poetica is dead Walked through the valley to retrieve the head Took the body to the ocean Hoping that the bottom will give it a good place to rest Yes Outro: Hey little angel What about your halo? Why don’t you go and try to find it [find it]?
10.
Chopper 01:55
Sleep under a phantom moon With the one you love Tell her secrets and her lips will fit you like a glove She’s so picky she can spot the shooting stars from airplanes Amazing how she learned to shatter men like broken window panes Dance with your shadow It’s your last time to shine And if you cannot find your shadow Well my friend just borrow mine Feet are scarred from stepping on the shards of the discarded but it keeps good time and all of its entanglements are honest The air doesn’t smell right ‘ Like whisky and hormones Or all the holy water she would drink if the door closed Memory sorted into different distortions and it’s surely this normalcy ‘ taking its toll on me Only the homeless are free from the scandal so touch the foundation and watch it unravel Spent months with the candle but too dark to use the view from the crucible that was stranded in the center of the place where I lived before When I tried to give a reprieve to the leave but it’s harder to breathe when the wind through the trees is just breeze and the turnikit turns itself round It’s wound so tight that it might just Snap ‘ Stagger ‘ Fall Stand again and tell the world it’s nice to see how it can spin Thunder ‘ Clap ‘ Twisted grin Catch yourself and watch that bit of clean off your busted chin [I’m so glad that you could see me like this]
11.
Kristoff Krane: There’s nothing to know ‘ There’s no one to miss The longer I roam the colder it gets Alone ‘ Slowly I grow with a hole in my chest the size of my head Joe Horton: No Something I said opened it up Wandered inside ‘ Nowhere to climb Level the mountain ‘ Sever the spine Only the fountain rusted and dry Kristoff Krane: Yes Death to the sky ‘ Hope that it lift Face to my knees ‘ I’m covered in dirt It’s only a moment to focus within and the moment I leave is to know what I chose Joe Horton: No other option ‘ Offered the throne Broke as a promise covered in gold Untangle the rope ‘fore it strangles the only remainder of home that I knew from the search Chorus (Both): Take it in ‘ Breathe it out Let the sparrows in your house Show ‘em where the attic is and let ‘em be to set up shop Watch ‘em sing ‘ While you dance While you cook and while you break shit Never let ‘em go ‘ It’s their escape They’re escaping Bridge (Both): There’s a blackbird sitting on a telephone wire He couldn’t fly away because his wings were really tired But he knew he had a family that missed him very much Pretty soon he will be back ‘ Pretty soon he will be back Joe Horton: Back back back back Back to the strap me down the tree Front to the trunk ‘ Hands up the leaves Stand ‘ Squeeze the last of the sunlight streams between the man that I am and the sea ‘ Wanted to be ‘ drifted away Stay ‘ Follow your legs Wherever they take you it’s better that way ‘ I’ll send you a kiss if you wish it away ‘ Kristoff Krane: The way ‘ the way it sways in the wind I lay all day awake ‘ Afraid constrained shake in my aging skin There’s no way out ‘ No way to repair No faith ‘ Naked again ‘ Ashamed Nothing to blame ‘ I make believe I made a rainbow Watched it for a heavy ‘ six side of each slave to free us all completely ‘ but entangled obsolete Play fair ‘ weak ‘ arms to feet ‘ naïve Hard to reach ‘ I’m hardly me ‘ Please I come to leave [Breathe it out] Chorus (Both): Take it in ‘ Breathe it out Let the sparrows in your house Show ‘em where the attic is and let ‘em be to set up shop Watch ‘em sing ‘ While you dance While you cook and while you break shit Never let ‘em go ‘ It’s their escape They’re escaping
12.
Verse: The photo album is filled with pictures and strips of negative space Clean enough to see the seams ‘ plain as daylight on our faces Easier to trace the constellation beauty marks when all your brightest poses aren’t used to life outside the dark Lose yourself Drift to that horizon line where sirens find a place that’s safe enough to lose their voices crying Exits winding ‘ complex and all the lines can bend Footsteps like minute hands that ride the spiral til it ends Could it be that we were both lost? Impatiently tossed out We need to be found before we hit the ground I closed my eyes ‘ stopped my heart from beating mid-stream like maybe you would come back to me if I stopped breathing You love the withered roses I hold you in my arms You kiss my fingertips and rest your head inside my palm It seemed so simple inside the walls we built to keep the sun from seeping in Chorus (Alicia Wiley): We were lost in the distance Plastic lines brought us back Chorus {Joe Horton): Plastic lines are sharp as knives They’ll cut your heart and bleed it dry Hear a secret ‘ Tell a lie Touch the morning ‘ Kiss the sky Verse: If you were lost in a city in the sky I would carry my wings in my back pocket and fly forget to walk and then try to touch my tongue to the tip of the sun like nobody ever told me that it couldn’t be done Chorus (Alicia Wiley): We were lost in the distance Plastic lines brought us back

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