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August
02:13
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Rest easy, my love: we'll be home in a moment
There's truly nothing to fear
I know it's quite strange, but this traveling component
Will ne'er again reappear
I don't blame you for feeling afraid to go
And your brothers and sisters will miss you
But I promise to give you a loving home
As warm as the month that you came
When I look in your eyes, I'm as full as the ocean
A world all fluid and free
My heart's overrun by some unnamed emotion
I wonder what it could be
I've never cared for a creature so strange and pure
So deserving of praise and affection
But I promise to give you a loving home
As warm as the month that you came
You'll be safe, you'll be sound, and this I know:
You'll be as loved as the might of your name
You'll be as loved as the might of your name
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Sunbeams
04:07
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Give her a crown
She's reigned over plushies, credenzas and beds for years now
Double over and bow
You didn't believe in her regality
No need to atone
She's more than inclined to forgive you, and here's how
Just build her a throne
A sorting of pillows all fit for a queen
So approach her as you will
You can take her in your arms
But don't remove her far from the sill
She's enraptured by the charms
Of the sun
Oh, the sun
She loved the sun
There she resides
She sits by the window and basks in the light for ages
Until she decides
To join you if ever you make yourself known
Then she'll be your guard
Her highness can settle for startling wages
But with her regard
You'll never again want to leave her alone
So approach her as you will
You can take her in your arms
But don't remove her far from the sill
She's enraptured by the charms
Of the sun
Oh, the sun
She loved the sun
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3. |
Images of You
03:02
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There is a picture of you on a pillow
Gazing at something unseen
Something beyond these victorian walls
This wash of crimson and green
But while your thoughts are wise and fierce
I'll never know their sense entire
Though a strange, unnamed ingredient between our minds
Can render some insight acquired
I do remember a day in the springtime
After I stepped through the door
You came to meet me with a curious stare
Those eyes that I so adore
And in that time, my thoughts awry
I put my faith in love alone
I thought that my affection and my time with you
Could spare you the malaise you've known
I've well preserved these images of you
In my devices and mind
They do affirm all the grace of your truth
They do your nature define
All tenderness and decency
Affections not of humankind
We'll never be the vessels of the selflessness
You had the sapience to find
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When she move - pitter pat pat pat -
She strikes with assassin's slash
From shadows dash violent attacks
You can’t quite imagine that
She’s savage insane you cannot escape
Day and night the hunter tracks
With mandibles, fangs, intangible pain
Better move cause she on yo ass
Them knives goin in your back
Your thoughts of survival pass
Five per paw she slide her claw before your eyes like flash
See the beast then it fades to black
Them razor blades coming real fast
No time for praying, amazing grace
Nobody is savin your ass
Midnight stalker, thin knife monster
Even killed the kids:
Anankin Skywalker
Came, saw, conquered, terrorized
Bugs see death before their eyes
This god of death immortalized
By turmoil left where we reside
The scars she left on all or minds
No where to run no where to hide
Got gorgon eyes, we petrified
Voltron could form won’t protect ya hide
No Dr. Jekyll or Mr. Hyde
This monster's genius all of time
When she come around it’s all of our time
So say your goodbyes and swallow your pride
Her followin eyes are hauntin your life
Cause no one survives her massacre strikes
Played like a doll
Her teeth and claws befall
You've no way, no way at all
To dull or blunt
Her
Nails like a blade
This is her crusade
You've no way to ever dissuade
The insect hunter
What you know about them shadows?
You ain’t been through no battles
You ain’t really earn them scars,
You ain’t been alone in the dark
She’s thuggish ruggish for real
You on the rug trynna heal
Get carpet bombed with claws and paws
This carnivores on ya heels
She’s queen of the dark dimension
In her den you get lost in seconds
Can’t count the loss of yall brethren, man
Down there it’s like a life sentence, man
That fear is so sweet scented
She just stalks the dark for its essence
She so macabre with her methods
With them sordid arts she’s a legend
Now why have I taught these lessons?
Cause counting ya blessing won’t do shit
She’s a god among you peasants
Them pleasant thoughts just useless
Split necks like pez dispensers
Don’t second guess your movements
One swipe and heads get severed
She loves that. Bring ya whole crew, shit
She plays with her prey, that’s crucial
They call it cruel and unusual
So moves ya ass and don’t like back
That fear you have ain’t mutual
She get a hold of your body?
It ain’t comin for the funeral
No suits or ties she watch you die
Only closed casket is suitable
Played like a doll
Her teeth and claws befall
You've no way, no way at all
To dull or blunt
Her
Nails like a blade
This is her crusade
You've no way to ever dissuade
The insect hunter
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I awake
For something in my system does remind me it's incomplete
And for a time, I'm left to quell my appetites alone
I await
Your imminent revival to the day: a strange conceit
You're not aware of all the intimations I have shown
If only my anatomy could able myself
To retrieve my dainty delicacies without your indolent support
All of my anxieties of hunger and health
Would dissolve, but these are dreams
All immaterial and so
I turn to you
Will you indulge this whimsical girl
And give her all the food in the world
Contenting thus her soul?
What will you do?
Put all your trite affections aside
And with these smart refections applied, I'm whole
It's getting dark
You've taken to your tired, unwound positions: you're done for the night
And I'm inclined to likewise seize this moment of repose
Now I embark
Within my imagination, on a dream that's vivid and bright
I pray the days ahead are so delectably composed
It's true my inability to fend for myself
Seems to bind me to reliance and debilitate my agency
But all of my anxieties of hunger and health
Are resolved, for your compassion keeps me fed and warm and so
I turn to you
Will you indulge this whimsical girl
And yield to all the love in the world
She carries in her soul?
What will you do?
Let's put the day's defections aside
And with your snug affections applied, I'm whole
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6. |
Ghost Light
04:08
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Am I disgraced?
Devoid of all fortune befalls upon our race?
I just don't know
If e're the jaws of love will yield and open wide
For me
I thought I'd wait
And use the passing time to learn to stand up straight
'Cause I had you
My little animal companion by my side
You see
You were my ghost light
A single star within the void
With you, I'd boast might
You kept my confidence employed
Assurance, then, would fit me like a glove
To think that I was worthy of your love
But now you're gone
I can't believe I have to learn to carry on
Without you here,
The floor will disappear from under all I know
Is there a way
To save the memory of your humor from decay?
For if things don't change,
It might be all the means I'll ever have to grow
In times of fear and rancor
The dead can still be anchors
You are my ghost light
Haunting my sadness with your joy
I still can boast might
Your memory keeps my faith employed
Assurance still does fit me like a glove
Achieving my salvation from your love
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7. |
Night's Manifest
03:42
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From the time you were born,
The only thing you're guaranteed is me
And I've sworn
To tear you all apart
I am old to the bone
But I've aged like a redwood
I have woes of my own
All the wrath of an angel scorned by God
This is my manifest
My history inscribed
Now learn me, you wingless bile
And all that I've derived
These rules, I've bred from reticence
Before I had my say
I've learned, in lieu of endless life,
It serves to make you mortals go away
I'm as cold as a frost
Ancient as broken hearts
I'm all you've lost,
Or don't you recall?
Light as a dime
Bold as a dragon breathing fire
And in time,
You'll know me as the maker of your fall
This is my manifest
My blackened wings unfurled
I stand parched and realized
And poised to drink the world
But here in this realm of mine
Not all is as it seems
In spite of my appetite,
This all could prove a nightmare,
Or a dream
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Comprised of the solemnest memories,
I wander outside of the door
But here, it's nothing but evergreens
The winter should bare something more
From the sky fall erratic formations
Each snowflake is one of a kind
Could one fall in the shape of a gravestone?
An evanescent goodbye
I don't need you
I'm ok
I don't believe you
Anyway
Will you just leave me
All alone to grieve? See,
I don't need your advice
Go build her the churches
Not of bricks, or birches,
Have them made, made of ice
With death comes ephemeral listlessness
The time to engender the scene
Bearing anger and arduous wistfulness
All among winter's whites and its greens
I don't need you
I'm ok
I don't believe you
Anyway
Will you just leave me
All alone to grieve? See,
I don't need your advice
Go build her the churches
Not of bricks, or birches,
Have them made, made of ice
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9. |
Forgetful of the Road
04:19
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Their last song echoes
Through a tavern of stone and glass
The only thing left to do is to square up my tab
But I can't let go
Of their vanishing epitaph
It'll be quite a while before I step outside for the cab
I don't even remember where I was before
What will be there when I step through the door?
Could be the winter, the summer or spring
I don't care
Sometimes it's good to be
Stationary
And just a bit forgetful of the road
For there, you'll find
The piece of mind
You carry with you when you choose to go
The band's departed
The hickory, wooden stage
The crowd starts to mumble a tone-deaf kind of rapport
It had only just started
Already they've disengaged
There's more to the world than what motion will try to restore
I don't even remember where I was before
What will be there when I step through the door?
Could be the winter, the summer or spring
I don't care
Sometimes it's good to be
Stationary
And just a bit forgetful of the road
For there, you'll find
The piece of mind
You carry with you when you choose to go
But time goes on
And dreams are spawned
By nothing more than simply staying still
And then I take the road
I take the road
A memory's canonizing to fulfill
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10. |
Emerge the Warrior
05:11
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I was once of the mind that a broken heart was not a necessity
By design, it lays siege to elation forevermore
Oh, but Time, as we find one another, stirs an ancient recipe
It never fails to remove all the bonds in your reservoir
Now this heart that I thought secure
Is rent for losing you, who I've adored
But I have found a method to endure
By welding all these woes into a sword
Oh, how many times I've cried
It's been unendurable since you've died
Despair is a hurricane, with ends notorious
But I'm not afraid to sink
Or to be harrowed to the brink
I will outlive the fray, and emerge the warrior
I'll admit the allure of denial: to walk away from all the pain
I didn't care if the bleeding became internalized
But the blood in the dams of my fabrication then oxidized into a rain
Then it fell
So does grieving shiver off all disguise
Now this heart that I thought secure
Is rent for losing you, who I've adored
But I have found a method to endure
By welding all these woes into a sword
Oh, how many times
How many times
No, I'm not afraid to sink
Or to be harrowed to the brink
I will outlive the fray, and emerge the warrior
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11. |
In Waves
02:50
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In spite of my jovial guise,
I've tears that do seldom appear through my eyes
They haunt me on vulnerable days
No matter my will, I can't wish them away
But I've no regrets
On how they came to be
I've loved and I've lost
A sadness spawned from glee
On the kaleidoscopic shores of our minds
Do our thoughts sway from breath to the grave
So, when the sands of time make memories strange,
Head to sea, and remember in waves
This world is perplexing at best
It defies expectation and curses the blessed
When calm seems secured and surveyed,
A maelstrom of troubles is sure on its way
But don't be afraid
Of where your trials may go
Your nerves will never leave you
Unless you spurn the flow
On the kaleidoscopic shores of our minds
Do our thoughts sway from breath to the grave
So, when the sands of time make memories strange,
Head to sea, and remember in waves
Let us try and indulge in our whims for a change
Head to sea, and remember in waves
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Drill Bit is a solo project conceived by New Yorker Arif Silverman. The project is continually expanding and experimenting. Feedback is much appreciated!
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