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"These still waters will soon claim your lives
And deteriorate your wooden shelter with might
This storm is at its very worst
Quench the dried cloud's thirst"
so i've seen the hideous
and touched the insidious
faced the unbearable
and seen the inseparable
i hear the coming of hail stones to warn me of elegance
(i could hear the wind blowing)
the pitch is quelled and sedate almost like a dream
(i could hear the wind sing and i knew it was her)
witnessed by the moon i've been marooned
so we traced the steps to find ourselves
engulfed in this illuminance
(all we have is quickly sinking now
all we have is quickly sinking down)
"I’m scared of what’s to come...
I’m scared to see what’s instore for me."
"I know you are because you say you are.
Don’t worry boy, I’m here.
For your aid, I’m the light.
I’m the air you breath."
"I know you are..."
my world withered away and i'd find my place
i'm stuck in dismemberment
i'm left for days away
so as long as my dithers allay
you'll awake and grow to witness many things
remember that love is what your lacking
i'll replace the skies with boundary lines and manatees
and through the mire you'll make it out
you'll find meaning
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Poised At Standpoint
02:44
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i saw answers disguised
disguise is deceit
i won't see disguised love
the tales of young love
(take me out from this mess )
disregard all regrets
(i will press on)
to this day that's how she's dressed
i'll take my chances (the risk)
and i'll maintain my position here (the consequence here)
i'm content with where i'm at and its miraculous
im content with where i stand, its so marvelous
(i've required such a stained heart which resulted in tainted thoughts
now i'm searching for a cleansing equipped with logic and reasoning)
you emote a reprimand, the unrequited love
poised at a one-night-standpoint
i couldn't see clearly
let loose, let loose, let loose (equipped with logic and reasoning)
so why not take our chances? (please state...)
i'll state my several inquisitions here (and i won't...i won't)
and common sense has lost its ear (intoxicate!)
(and what would they say if i told you that
i am gone with a grin?)
let loose, let loose, let loose
with the memories of two, quick to find truth
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Kill Off The Camera-Eye
10:59
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i've seen you in a shadowed sky
its where my heart lied
and i'll see you
when i'd see you in our last break-up
this darkened night bleeds in a frame of you
(and how hard is it to say i'd love you here with me)
how hard it is to say you've cast off me
and how hard it is to see myself in your veins
(taking the everything away from me everyday)
(sometimes a picture isn't worth the words)
its my brio
your my brio
A minor set back, i've fallen and you've closed the door.
My lungs have stopped respirating to my astonishment.
They're water-less plants.
Memory has betrayed me once again and i'm devoured by the camera-eye...
(strip the air from my lungs)
(lets me breath somehow)
(strip the air from my lungs)
(lets me breath somehow)
and i closed my eyes
and you were there
when i closed my eyes
and you...
(identities are seizable to distract from common denomination goal)
the glare that leads my eye no longer leads me blind
(just call me camera shy
invasive eyes document my life
and the flash no longer leaves me blind)
(shoulda, coulda, woulda)
(is all that's left for me )
this blink of the eye should have stopped me now
an antidote for my own plague
but it wasnt fair, this should have stopped me now
your eloquence, now atrophy
this is all we'd ever get
(tell your girl she sure looks handsome)
(take these hearts, they're up for ransom)
(you know i know something sweet)
(tell that girl the news for me)
(and what do we say when second chances are all we have left?)
(we can't settle for this
this is all that we'd get
you, me, face to face)
and this re-motion of action, will it rekindle and refine my past life?
(impose for this love to dispose)
the time and place it takes, the blood that drips her face
i swear she'll slit your throat
the heart is treacherous, so don't you follow it
i swear she'll slit your throat
(did you know that you can?)
and i closed my eyes and you were there
when i closed my eyes, and you...
so here, take back all of your love
(take back all of your love)
i've seen you in a shadowed sky
its where my heart lyed
and i've seen you, and i'd see you
and i'll see you in our last break-up
this darkened night bleeds in a frame of you
(and how hard is it to say i'd love you here with me)
and how hard it is to say you've cast off me
and how hard it is to see my veins
(taking the everything away from me everyday)
(sometimes a picture isn't worth the words)
its my brio
you're my brio
you and me (me and you)
face to face
just call me Joe
i planned your stay
my breath, my breath will take me out (take me out again)
my breath, my breath will take me out (take my breath away)
i cared for you but these looked like lies
i cared for you, you make my heart sing
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(gentlemen! roll out the red carpet!
to collect yourselves again
we got an image to maintain
and a spotlight to attend
keep those cameras rolling
intuition to perceive
won't feed me lines from the sidestage
so tell me did you see the que)
"too."
"you felt the same way too?"
"too! i couldn't tell what's true. too."
you felt the same way too? too..."
im sorry for the misunderstandings
(victim of a circumstance as these hands clap
let's take our time to learn our lines)
let's take a glace eye to eye
im so curious
but why entice for your sympathy?
i'll entice for your sympathy
and i longed to view the face of her ceaseless grace
disguised love
i'm weak at heart
(your disguised love) (and with each step we falsely led ourselves into this mess)
and we would tread on limits fret
even if it meant risking what we get
then goes the phone ring
it turns on the answering machine
oh, dont you sweat it Zack
i'll get back to her, but for now the show must go on, just for now
(this curtain call is daily
i smile to please the crowd
i know my choices make me
but some dont make me proud
bow out)
and it's just a play
(it's just a play to me!)
to hesitate and call 'cut'!
who's it up to?
to do this on your own
i won't let you
(your disguised love i'm weak at heart)
(pick up and stand the misunderstandings, and i will stand on understanding)
so hit me with your vague hints once again
(i'm sorry)
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24
04:36
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back when the sky shined oh so bright
we could look at eachother without saying a word
i looked into your eyes and saw everything i ever needed to see
and with one more glance i knew i would love you forever
well a thousand pardons
did you say you love that boy who never got a chance to love?
and i'll be waiting on just one reply
the stars, they glisten and you're the reasons why
but dont mistake me like i won't exist
because i can be that boy that can't resist
you simply spawned me in awe
(did you ever think?)
in ways i can't explain
(my heart is racing)
you simply spawned me in awe
(did you ever think?)
my heart cannot take
(my heart is raising)
you simply spawned me in awe
("Hannah, can you step outside real quick?")
and i'll be waiting on just one reply
the stars, they glisten and you're the reasons why
but dont mistake me like i won't exist
because i can be that boy that can't resist
i'll be here for you when your crying (i'll be here)
did you feel like dying, weeping because there's little to hold? (i'll be here)
i'll be here for you when your crying, did you feel like dying?
i'll be the boy who can say "sorry"
that same boy can regret every flaw he made
every flaw he made to every flaw he'll make
i will love you (i will)
i will love you, i will love you forever (i will)
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Good Morning, Duy Khang
03:33
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oh, I don't know...
(when the sun comes up, i'll be there)
(when the sun comes up, i'll be...)
good morning gorgeous, how did you sleep?
the night is beautiful when you're with me
there's having everything and then there's having you (what did you think this was?)
what would we do if this wasnt on cue? (just a pawn in this game we're playing)
i'll tell you sweet nothings all night long (to get you where i needed you)
ever to test of wrong, i'd ask you, "where'd we go wrong?"
this is where we went wrong
(where'd i go wrong?)
and i'll walk towards the light because there's nothing going for me (except for all of my past mistakes)
i'd wait, oh wait.
but a glimpse of you wouldn't convince me to stay
oh stay and i'll say...
"good morning gorgeous, how did you sleep?
the night is beautiful when you're with me
good morning gorgeous, your a sight to see
the night is beautiful when your with me"
but these feelings won't get me anywhere
these feelings won't get me anywhere at all
my breath will take me when i'm alone
i'll think of someone else and r.i.p my soul
because these feelings won't get me anywhere at all
(i'll place my calling card at the bed
and what is this but a one night stand)
oh, I don't know...
(when the sun comes up, i'll be there)
(now the sun is up and I'm not)
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it's subconscious to me but can it be wrapped around, under-skin?
a dream to disarm me, it stands puzzling and wrapped around under-skin
just a time to set aside and free the desire and fantasies
so cleanse, submerge
but your still part of the skin of yesterday
cleanse, submerge
why don't the hours alter me?
they alter me?
so scrub me off and make me a new man
give me a body we can all fight to stand
(and would you be so kind as to remove your shoes?
welcome to my home, it's my humble abode
and as you're treading in my skin
please note that i don’t mind you tracking the mud in, on carpet and voulour)
i stand far away from you
your touch is corrosive to the skin
(my friends keep storing me inside body bags)
(i don’t have a credit card my only i.d. is a toe tag)
(my friends would rather see me dead than as one of them)
i spy a light that won't seem to touch me
(there's an arson as i stand on my front law)
so let your flower-like-eyes bloom and observe all the colors!
we've left some room to discover foreshadowing faces
listen intently...
listen now!
i'm a crab!
i'm about to hatch!
ship me off and send off a new batch
i'm a crab, what are you?
lets rumble!
(my friends keep storing me in body bags, in bags)
what do i do? just watch you forget?
your touch is corrosive to the skin
"And with the closing of the eyes, I stepped back and gazed..."
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you know i'd do it for you in such a train-wrecked moment
(sing with your emotions, sing the emotions in your head)
you know i'd do it for you, when it's time to let go
your heart is calling for her but she's not listening
your hand, frozen still
and images of her are welcomed in
and your hand quivers a bit and it only means you'll live
being alive means pain, being alive means agony
does being alive mean pain?
because being alive means everything
being alive means pain, being alive means agony
so does it entice some kissing and loving to live?
does it remind of the last time i've been through this
but at the same time i'm still searching for what comes next
behind her opulence i must confess
(remind) you know i'd do it for you
(define that) in such a train-wrecked moment
(remind) you know i'd do it for you
(define that) even when it's time to let go
i'd kill to taste your lips
Alyssa, my heart lingers with every kiss
Alyssa, i'd kill to taste your lips
Alyssa, just stay if i fall like this
and i'm just glad that you're here with me
bestir from this touching-spree
let this chapter unfold with these words still untold
i'll give you my vigilance and make this reach you
oh, i'll make love reach all of you
If adulation could reach you
you know i'd do it for you in such a train-wrecked moment
you know i'd do it for you even when it's time to let go
being with her will discard the pain
this time being alive will mean everything
being alive is appeasing with the aesthetic in everything
Alyssa...
i'd kill to taste his lips
if adulation could reach you
if adulation could reach you
then Alyssa...
i'll stay for all of this
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hello angel, take me by the hand
i promise i won't cut the rope this time, oh this time
hello angel, i'll seal your broken heart
when the timing is right we'll be together, oh together
i wanna be yours, oh Radiance
i vowed to be her's, oh Radiance
let go of me or just try to kiss me, lovely
well i'm still here, i'll still be here
impetuous, mild, or devilish
or confident just to be delicate
well i'm still here, i'll still be here
i wanna be yours, oh Radiance
i vowed to be her's, oh Radiance
the clouds begin to darken now that your gone
blinded by your beauty, gazing into nothing
am i ?
i wanna be yours, oh Radiance
i vowed to be her's, oh Radiance
so much for the subtle
you had me stumbling just to get a word in edge wise
this is contradiction
then label me contraband
i've been blowing smoke in the shape of your sky-lit eyes
this is my life without even asking questions
this is my life without even pretending
cause i've seen you lifeless while i just stand
wordless to this
these moments
the strenth of our names - melodic
(cause i've seen you lifeless, wordless, angelic, melodic)
like the most precious stone, you're like a jasper stone
shining crystal, and oh so clear
this love won't go (i'm still here)
but if you wait i'll show (i'll still be here)
this love won't go
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why do my eyes act like mirrors to you?
what do you envision?
i don't see you the way you see yourself
so, stop the statements you judge within
i see you and take in the truth
you showed me something no one should ever experience
if you thought it was alright, well f.y.i, i wasn't fine,
no i wasn't alright, i wasn't fine
but hey girl, he's better now
and it's just too bad you're not here to see him/it
no there's no way i'll let this night pass
no there's no way i'll let this night
(common courtesy dictates that i'll sleep safe and sound
instead of waking up to the white noise of a bitter scraping mouth)
clairvoyant cries of my life
is it just an illusion? (just an illusion)
a hope that won't come by?
my anchored arms are now gone
they're now unable to grasp anyone
'a million times to mess up, so why pick today?
i still haven't met the next Her, or will it be something once again?
or maybe even a new chapter, and what will be said after that?
unanswered questions have always been my thing
and it seems like there's no one here to help me
(tell me something, anything to keep me here)
(i dote on every line and word, insincere)
(so tell me, is envy buoyant, dear)
(so tell me, is envy buoyant, dear)
(better anchor your limbs to keep you afloat)
(better anchor your limbs...)
a sight so remote (i'm sorry i can't see)
farther than a stone's throw (set to wide-screen)
set to wide-screen, this view to an unlimited degree (encompassing me)
it's a trademark in your eyes
a foresight paradise
let's take this as a jumping off point
you'll see me better when i'm in your thoughts
you'll love me better when i'm long gone
let's just say we were mean't to dance that way
i still taste your lips in this airless mist
and i can say it's safe to say you've already filled your lips
and i can say we were mean't to dance that way...
so shift your gears towards something more
go ahead boy, see what's in store for you
(get out of sight
stealing light from your eyes
get out of sight
stealing light from your eyes
what i came here for was the fight of my life
and if this just another pheromone mixer,
we'll chase shots with her wasted love
we'll chase shots with her wasted love)
my love of life it seems has been detached by frozen
grasps to be fastened
to fleeting hands which brings me here
glaciered confines
but unfortunately,
this is at last the time to decide
you'll step that step to begin to thrive
this is at last the time to decide
(illustrated in fine lines, i'll take my time)
(set your eyes to the sky, keep your feet on solid ground)
"Turn the dials and yank the lever
Off i go to embark on account of my own incur
My last companion is my new self
and apprehension no longer applies, now recoiled
Through the expanding cerebra, unraveled paths roll forth
on icy oceans , ponderous they proceed
With increments in time producing the irrevocable...
So i've seen the hideous
And touched the insidious
Faced the unbearable
And seen the inseparable,
Paramount scars from memories of false vows
Oh Radiance...
but look! i see..."
[ T O B E C O N T I N U E D... ]
www.thusbecomingaura.com
"The heart still beats."
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Radiance Was Her Name Temecula, California
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