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When Colour Lost Light

by daysdeaf

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1.
White Flags 03:26
One man marches on the edge of the soul, Another watches from the eye of his... Tolls are heavy on this side of the world When one man's bias is what another man is fighting for. Before too long we'll all be waving white flags.
2.
Silver-tongued, blue blood, Mercury: slender serpent with self-economy. Dressed red-carpet and silver-screen Reaching for dreams nothing comes between. She reached for the moon but she slipped too soon. When you got it all they want/watch you fall. Get right. So many lessons unlearned from a silver platter So many values unpruned from a silver spoon Images of silver lining do shatter when her blood runs silver too soon. Oh Mercury, they watched you fall Welcome to the bottom of it all, We're the same here, we all. But you can still get it right.
3.
I've got myself stealing things I don't even need Like a dead watch, a casket: these things exceed. I've got myself on the corner of a dream Of a painter, her brushstroke, and her willingness to bleed. You're standing to close to me It makes me feel uneasy. I've got itchy feet, Man, I must look so fishy. Back then in the chorus of the colour We lost ourselves to one another. Back when our lives were all aflutter We lost ourselves to each other. The simple things get me off my seat, fill my empty. A subtle whisper as you leave is enough to send me, finally get me off to sleep. I've got myself stealing things I don't even need, Like a single shoe, a canvas: these things exceed. I've got myself on the corner of a dream Of a tightrope walker with a daring to exceed.
4.
I take one down for the youth. Them. It keeps coming off my brain stem: wanting more, and more. One thrill for the AM: A swift fuck and a thank you ma'am, Neglecting my chores. Inside the man opens his hand and says this is the cure. All is clear I've been humming since time. I've been up all night listening to "Girl Is Mine." All is fear I've been running since time I've been up all night dancing to "Girl Is Mine." Girl is mine.
5.
They spent their lives waiting for god. I grabbed my poison and fill my fog: Brown drink slick down Ruthlessly drink, drown. Cause I can't sleep with this deep blue deep. Black and blue mark my ego Been neglecting my credo Been burning with a low blue flame Riding out my butane between the devil and the deep blue, deep Lost at sea, everyone is blameless. The cost to me, I'm living rather aimless. I can't see how to be free, so I repress. It's painless. When the marbles from your head spill on the floor. You can count them one by one or four by four. If you can't find them you can just ignore and pour another drink, fill up, slip up on me.
6.
I don't give a fuck. I couldn't give a fuck less. All the same undressed when sleep becomes sleepless. Perfect dark. The next step leads to the question mark, Resignation embarked without leaving marks: Historically invisible. Rhetorically without syllables. Critical. If you haven't lived ones love to the fullest, without ambivalence... Smile before you expire, live under the fire, get higher, be one to admire and inspire. Cause a life half-lived is a life half-wasted, half-tasted. Live free from their scrutiny live free. i can fly god damn, I'm my own man. i know exactly where the fuck I'm going. I know exactly who the fuck I am.
7.
The actors says, "I've been employed so long, god damn; I don't know who I really am." The bricklayer says, "I've stacked a million miles far; it's so lonely when you don't even know who you are." With a lifeless occupation, lowly she's humming, says, "I wonder what it means to be passionate about something." Another season's changed and I'm still the same: reaching for the sun. A spinning wheel without locomotion you are, Falsely reeling under the impression that you are keeping time, But time is serving you. Fill up your plate, satisfy your appetite and get through - Because she ain't serving seconds. She's flying away on her wings. Knowledge of this really disturbs my confidence. I'm trying to find purpose, balance, and become whole again. But she just slips on by, graceful in her sly… This is no way to die. No, never. I said never. I was made to brave any weather - no, never, not I. This is not the way I plan to die. Straighten my spine, straightens me. Inflating my power, focus clearly. With a champion will and potency, And a pregnant purpose that just compels to be free. Another reason to change - and I burst to flames, reaching for the sun.
8.
Tangerine 03:19
The past is dead weight but it never forgives, When you contemplate things you did and never did. Uneven in the evening Crimson against the clean Peel the tangerine if you wanna see. The past it complicates but it can't ever forget. Who you were, now outgrown: body parts together sewn. Carrying lessons with crushing standards, Hoping not to flake and burn where you stand, where you turn.
9.
redREd 03:01
Red-hot I'm the ruler of my kingdom redRed, despot: my rhythm is fearsome. Livid, seeing red when I caught you in the act red-handed, branded demon. When the camera gives you red-eye When you paint the town red, giving red herrings Breaking, swayed and betrayed. Your face is red - I'll never be like you, I'd rather be dead. So here's your red letter-day, you faked/you feigned. Cause you see I'm forever homemade. Never fucking masquerade.
10.
One for the woman who couldn't help it at all Two for the man that couldn't help it as well Three for the ones that couldn't help falling in love with you Afraid of pink elephants She's living in her father's home Looking through rose-coloured glass, But her stomach churns, she turns. Says "god help me, somebody…" He wears pink on his uniform Living in the furors tombs Accepting that it's all for nothing As he watches his lovers burn, he turns. Says "god help me, somebody…" The weight becomes feathers As history reclaims the colour. Hidden way too long Closed eyes don't see mirrors But colour can be restored When you know who you are and what you're fighting for.
11.
Iridescent 04:19
I see you from where I am I see you from Catching my vision Iris of sequins In parallax i see changes You seem different from when These are tricks of illumination Or you've never been genuine You keep changing in the moments Your person: iridescent From face to face you beguile with a clever smile You shimmer iridescent. From place to place deadly in your versatile You shimmer iridescent. I see you from where I am You see me from Reflecting my vision My eyes of sequins We parallel, I see changes I may be different from when.. These are skills of optical illusion Or I've never been genuine
12.
CMY 03:07
When I'm riding blasting Biggie in my beatbox I never feel Yellow Whiskey sunk, smoking funk gets me back on the level. We're trying get on solid ground: precarious, nefarious, We keep going round and round. It takes it all away from me It takes it all away from you It takes it all away from me It takes it all away from you With a magenta floral dress, careless in the sun-setting; like me, setting slowly gently. She brims with whimsy, fondly whimsy: dreams of you, as I, cmy, try to get loose. I can't get close to you baby. Pools of... skin is changing hue. Cyanotic to sleep aquatic there's no antibiotic for a man neurotic. Black.
13.
Prism 04:00
Your words they separate me; in halves by your diction, That you choose so carefully, I know. Sometimes they rearrange me, I know that's not your intention But I must admit fully, it is so. I said, "To me this just means what you mean to me You break my light and bend my reflection To me this just means what you mean to me You break my light but showed me the spectrum of colour" And I can make you crumble, when Im choosing my action: I am just what I am, and this you know. I understand your skepticism, but that's far from my direction. I'm never running angles, that's for sure. You said, "To me this just means what you mean to me" You break my light and bend my reflection To me this just means what you mean to me You break my light but showed me the spectrum of colour" Your light always contains the colour My light always contains the colour My light always contains your light.
14.
Light 04:09
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released April 10, 2014

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