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Running
04:06
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Where am I trying to go?
Forgetting and forgiving the flow
I’m running fast yet moving slow
Another chance for this all time low
Resisting the current state
Reciprocate and appreciate
Murderous appetite gone too late
Conflicts and oppression to speculate
Here’s where the box of grief will end
I have no money left to spend
Garden of Eden in a revolving bend
A servicing stamp of the contraband
Hello Mother and Father, I’m back to find
The rules and the fame to a Columbine
Peel back the layers like an orange rind
And wishing the world was in a different line
Where am I trying to go?
Prelude, fugue and capriccio
From beginning to bed the line I won’t toe
Forgive me for running but moving slow.
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The Dividend
03:39
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Worse than this is how it turns out
Crystal sandboxes that nobody knows about
Arming myself with the ticking clock
The cliffs, the water, the aftershock
I live so hardly than I do
Reusing thoughts I thought I threw
Away it flies, I can’t see you
Reviving lives but you can’t say who
The dividend
Commences the vending machine firestorm
Wrecks all that is seen and done
Guarding strong from the icy sun
Grotesquely turning figured blocks
The versions of myself I mock
Ghastly fearless skies of gray
The spotted roster falls each day
The triteness flows like edging parcels
The verses stroke like colored pastels
The top of fortress from which I fell
The dividend contends and sways
OH WELL.
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Before the Rain
05:00
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Well you feel so small in the world today
But I see your smile
Well it comes along with the carnival
At the turn of tides
Well I once wished that I knew you
But the game is up
How dare you try to move me
From underneath the world
Too much, too much, too much, too much
Too much, too much, too much to see the day
Before the rain
Single words from the mouths of slaves
That you hear at dawn
The curtains drawn like a pencil sketch
Of your memories
Well I see you in the corner
Left to go and die alone
Well the day is the thing that you take in stride
When your loved ones are gone
(Chorus)
Once upon a time
There lived a world so close to us
Once upon a rhyme
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Tall
03:15
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The silence penetrates you
Lock and key prevents you
Early morning rise to grow and touch
The all-to-be, just come and see
The wilderness envelops you
The fiercest hand that crushes you
Late day up-and-at-’em
Got swirled hair makeup on the plate
Do you know the way to understanding?
Do you know the cross to bear on landing?
Do you know the furthest mountaintop to climb to? Where and when should I meet you?
The righteousness reminds you
That nothing holds sacred for long
The down and dirty commends you
For the gone and soon-to-be, as you will see
Don’t remind me
It’s somewhere inside me
Don’t reside in me
You’re still stuck inside of me
‘Cause I’m tall.
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Storm Clouds
03:19
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[Instrumental]
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Deepest Disillusion
03:42
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In the tired, in the restless
Unspoken and beautiful
Reclining and dangling
Freely
Illuminations, standing open
Refreshing the cavalry, systematic delivery traveling
And when it comes to pass
The virtuosic melody rising high in you
Somewhere along the line
And when the song has died I turn away and say
“You know you’re strong but can you make yourself believe that it’s true?”
Viral message spreading fire
Over the gasoline of collapsing autonomy
Freely
Consummations in the stations
I don’t know what you’ve been told but it’s wrong
(Chorus)
1 2 3 4 5
I don’t know how to be real.
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Apparition
03:40
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The words combine
To light the trail
That leads you
The test of crime
No conscious rhyme
Darkness leaves you stranded
Apparitions in the woodwork
Ticking time bomb in the worthless reverie
It doesn’t matter
Why does it matter
It doesn’t matter much anymore
Correct my language
When I speak off-tongue
But I can’t stand it much anymore
Heavens rewind
Guitars will cry
I am stagnant
Stick up for them
And count to ten
The fucked up world we live in
So is it correct to say
That there’s a motive under that skin
So is it over, can I finally breathe
Or do I have to pray “Goodnight Tannenbaum”?
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Contempt
04:23
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So here’s the last goodbye
So here’s the words I’ve been trying to say
So why do people pretend to exist?
Why do they come to me
Asking, asking for love?
So here’s where we will part our ways
The pain inside me reeks of staleness
So why do those who lose forget the meaning?
Why do they come to me
Asking, asking for more?
Dunces and kings, overtones
Lost on the moon, lost in the hallways
I feel regret, contempt, remorse, no more
I feel understandably so – gone
I’m back in high school once again
The lines are blurred from sitting so long
Unearthed from dark lives, the homecoming queens
Sleeping in many beds but never your own
Remember when we used to dream
Before those dreams became obscene?
Mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters stuck in the seams
It was the wildest thing we’d ever seen
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9. |
8th Dimension
02:49
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Information cannonball ...
In the eighth dimension ...
[Spoken]
Yes, I’d like to order one large pizza,
um,
the mozzarella sticks,
a side of fries,
a large pepsi,
and make that to go please.
thank you.
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10. |
The Day After Time Ended
07:59
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[Instrumental]
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Tall (Alternate Take)
03:18
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[SAME AS ALBUM VERSION]
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[SAME AS ALBUM VERSION]
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[SAME AS ALBUM VERSION]
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Evan Schafer Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
My name is Evan Schafer. I am an indie musician with a strong grounding in traditional composition, but the material always has a unique flair. I guarantee not being bored out of your gourd when turning on one of the records. I produce, mix, and engineer everything myself, and have done so since late 2005. ... more
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