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To the Crawler
04:19
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Found his way here in the night.
Safe until on went the light.
Spotted alone near the wall.
Trying to crawl but every try he falls.
He falls.
This place is so far from home.
Lost soul I wish you had known how
Big the world is through your eyes.
Persist and survive. You don’t ask why.
You don’t ask why.
You slip and fall. Again you rise.
I watch you sadly try and try.
But it’s time to let go.
Better off I hope you know.
You will never make it home.
Better off is to be gone.
You will never make it home.
Better off I hope you know.
Better off is to be gone.
Be gone.
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2. |
Turnover
05:22
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Watch them fly low to the ground.
Feel the wind shift, wiping them out.
They are gone before I realize what I lost
And I’ve lost.
But I won’t blame myself.
I gave them every bit of help.
Remember I was there when there was no one else.
I don’t forget my tongue held.
No, I don’t forget every slight was felt, but
Who knows with no one above around to tell?
When gods in their glory just revel in your hell…
The turnover.
And all they’ve created went wrong.
Every soul that started here is leaving or gone.
Yet I wait with dreams of this place burning in flames.
Yes I wait. I am learning my own faith.
Justice will have it’s day.
Yes I wait.
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3. |
And Still
03:14
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This fear of my own, I’ll never outgrow.
So settled in my bones.
It has me whole with every bit of dying soul.
This fear of my own, it has me whole.
I’ll never outgrow. So settled in my bones
With every bit of dying soul.
And still this want for better will never let me go.
No, this want for better will never let me.
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4. |
In My Shoes
03:32
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Put yourself in my shoes.
Nothing to live for, nothing to lose.
Put yourself in my shoes.
If tomorrow is taken, what life can you choose?
See it through the eyes of someone left behind,
Watching the night fall and he knows he will die.
See it through those eyes.
Truth is we don’t matter very much.
Nobody’s ever going to care what I’ve done.
This is all I get for my love.
This is all I know to trust.
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5. |
Too Soon
02:52
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I see the fall
Everyone out for themselves.
The sacrifice was far too weak.
The first lesson is not one to teach.
We’d rather learn the hard way.
We need higher numbers - more lives we couldn’t save.
We’d rather never see their face.
You poor, poor thing…
Yesterday is a losing game.
And it makes me sick inside.
I’ll be proven right.
They’re all out for themselves, bringing fires of hell.
Witnessing the fall,
I wish I was wrong.
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6. |
Rivers Run
03:55
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Beneath skin rivers run. Deep cuts I imagine.
Fast goes the blood, my life, all my love.
Fast goes the blood, all my life, all my love.
Slow heavy drag.
Sharp edge sinking in.
Dear moment with my friend.
Fresh pain clearing my head.
I’ve been saved with all these years to spend
Of a life I would give away instead.
If I could, God knows I’d give away instead.
Will there be a day I give no more to regret?
My giving to people who take and forget
All my life, all my love.
Oh I wish I was done feeling done.
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7. |
Of Farewell Low
01:20
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Set in stone
And laid in show.
Entries to be told.
Blood ink quotes.
Soaked envelop.
It’s deep lifeless fold.
The moon’s glow
Of farewell low.
A past is in close.
In still, in cold.
The end
Is so.
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8. |
The Abuse Here
03:11
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Get out now. My choice.
No, there never was a point to all this trouble.
It’s your fault I could never love you.
The abuse here goes too far.
You know you don’t do right.
You waste my precious time.
Don’t ask me where’s my heart.
The abuse here goes too far.
And leaves such an ugly mark on my soul.
I’m willing to let my whole life go.
So worthless I feel inside.
I’m gone with no goodbye.
The abuse here goes too far.
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9. |
Given Notice
02:48
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Their thoughts start small.
This default is key.
How they hang on - don’t grow beyond
Their own simple need.
Danger I see and have no say.
Your ruin gets in my way.
My reason is gone, but I still hold on.
Another mistreated disgrace.
I can’t believe you have the right
To disregard so many lives.
Out of sight is out of mind.
Kill the truth - come feed this lie.
No I won’t dim the light.
I won’t let this go by.
Not one more single time.
Never again without a fight.
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10. |
All the More Alone
02:25
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I must truly care
Otherwise why worry? So easily I scare.
I’m sorry I lose hope the way I do.
Sorry I’ve not brightened the way you told me to.
The way you sink into your dreams
When a heart truly wants all that it needs.
The way you sink into your dreams…
Where can I go?
I am all the more alone.
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11. |
To Wish Upon
02:36
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Let go of the night,
But I would breathe again
If I could just keep closed my eyes
And be safe and found
And be filled with the sound of sky.
The hidden space of time before time.
Before life, before light.
If I could just keep closed my eyes…
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12. |
Worthy As You
02:35
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Am I not worthy like you? As a human
In this time and place and fear?
Please listen. Be in my shoes.
In my skin, with my eyes.
See my life clear.
I need you.
Be that someone who knows right and does.
Be someone I can trust.
Am I not worth enough as you?
Be in my shoes, in my skin with my eyes.
See my life clear.
I am here as you are here
In this time and place and fear.
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13. |
Imagine the Fall
03:32
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Time gives way to change.
For things made worse.
Always this threat - life’s promised hurt.
Hear the wind. Feel those waves.
Despite blue skies don’t think you’re safe.
No, don’t think you’re safe.
It’s why every window I look out means a long, long way down
No matter how close I am to the ground.
And I never think of wings, of landing on my feet.
Falling where I don’t bother to scream.
And no one sticks around for me. Such honest defeat,
But the image in mind I’ve no choice but to keep.
Over and over I see, forever falling.
And I never think of wings, of landing on my feet.
Over and over I see, forever falling.
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14. |
There is No Convincing
01:25
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Allyson Marie Cincinnati, Ohio
Allyson is a self taught musician / singer-songwriter who has written and produced her work independently since 2007.
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