please stay with me
just don’t tell me

(pristine, plastic, dreamt as static)

stop your smiles
I can’t read you

(I’ll dream slipstreams, you don’t know me)

I can’t stand it
I can’t move you

(pristine, plastic, hell cries static)

god will speak before
I truly end

where, where’s your pride?
bitter pride
completes us

swear to your words
tell your name
we’re waiting

you’re incomplete
be no one
forever

we’re incomplete
the best you are
is alone

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I’m choking on your laughter
screaming out your name

I’ll be dead before I’m seen, yet
I still think I’m here



breathe, you carnal sin
choke, like all your kin
air like olivine
prepare the worst for him

dream, the words of god
damn the deaf again
now living’s just excuses
battalions of time

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fields of ever-blooming widows,
cancer's in your hair

calls from every lightened envy,
breathing in your air

looming from all above each canyon
the latitudes retreat

say their names once again, I
couldn't be prepared

lands of ever-dreaming orchids,
you want what you can't get

truth has bargained off enchantment,
heaven looks so dead

clear, the reapings of the sunrise
your lips, they never show

dry, the blessings of your hope won't
hear the words they said

I have now become the reason
light never escapes

I have now left the seasons
up to your fate

error passes off the sunset
it all goes away

empty, the hours die away, yet
here we are again

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there's no weakness anymore
what do you know?
it feels just like the first time

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