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The disconnect
Is welling up,
And good intentions are not enough.
Your words are weary,
Their hearts are strained,
And idle vows find the deepest pains.

I'm sick, I'm tired

There’s better ways for us to waste our days,
Than returning stares that we borrowed for too long.
For too long, swallowed up by an empty page.

What starvation feeds you, devourer
Of the words of a thousand authors and poets, alike?
Wells have emptied to whet your thirst,
So I’ll shake out to the last, a drop of fluency

It starts with a spark, a breath and a moment of still,
A flicker, a glow, as the oxygen spills
Through a delta of spindles and stone,
Kindled from nothing in a whisper of smoke.

There a gift ignites; a cursive though takes flight,
And there's a dancer, twisting in between the spines.
Give her the breather's kiss, and watch her spirit lift,

Pry the darkness from my eyes.
Divided, let the light seep in.
Trees devoid of branches, and hollow hives,
Endless black and empty beds.

It's not the same, something's changed.
I never used to be able to see past the trees.
A thousand unfamiliars are lying thick on the air and I can't breathe.

Antarctica

Father, we fled your house of grey.
We ran from home to seek a place
Where our bodies would never grow.

Dreamer, child, be cautious of this world.
She has an appetite for boys and girls

Hold your breath, baby.
We have to make our hearts sit still.
Hold your tongue, honey,
The things we know could unleash hell.

Patch me up, my skin is so tight around my chest, my heart is leaping out.
I feel my imagination playing like a movie in my eyes,
It’s got me firmly by the sleeve.

We get in our own way, tripping on our feet.
Filling up our heads too much with words too hard to speak.
Drowning in a place, where the night cannot escape, commit ourselves into the depths, exposed against a page.

Caught in a phrase, an echo in our minds, a flash, a flood, and it's burned into our eyes.
I can't explain enough, and I won't let it last the night.
I'll show you that the image is still there unseen.
It's darkest before the light, if we shut our eyes to see the things that we have lost inside the lines between.

I won't ask for a second
I won't ask for a chance
I won't look to the heavens
I found hell where I stand

And I feel like I am fighting a lost cause
Just to be heard I can't hear from the howling
Drowning every single word

Is this the edge of the world?
We chased the horizon down ‘til it hung beneath our feet.
Now I’m drifting blind. All I know is we can’t move closer.

I’ve never seen the lights of the north,
The constellations are so unfamiliar.

We followed far, as far as this machinery takes us,

Wandering, weightless
I'm empty, I'm faded
Stumbling, nameless
I'm falling, failing, faithless…

I won’t fade away to nothing

It's never ending a season I can't shake,
a foreign winter a curse I can't escape
I feel the winter burying my bones
a core reminder that I'm so far from home
I know we're worlds apart
Seasons stitched together somehow

What's it like where you are?

We don't belong here.

In a way we are all connected,
threaded together.
In a way we are all suspended,
bound going nowhere.

Wake up,

I wonder, can you daydream at night?
Lying awake, I've had too much time.
I'm watching picture shows in the shadows
Dance for the crowd tonight.
Imagination is such a vivid place to hide, till sleep takes over you.

Through silent homes, the lights are out but I walk these halls.
I haunt these halls, the way I've walked before.

I'm just interference
Noise and whispers
A shadow onto them
I'm dust on the record stop,
A static, a click, a compromise
A discord, a spark, a silhouette
A shady ghost, an echo of what's left

A hopeless romantic, self-medicated on reality;
A misunderstanding is all that anyone can see in me

Pulling up the floor to go deeper down
Tearing at the soil to find the ground

I’m trying to find myself
Coming back to the same words to try to tell a different story

Hold your breath, baby.
We have to make our hearts sit still.
Hold your tongue, honey,
The things we know could unleash hell.

Patch me up, my skin is so tight around my chest, my heart is leaping out.
I feel my imagination playing like a movie in my eyes,
It’s got me firmly by the sleeve.

Be honest with yourself
Do you see in your reflection someone else
You're fogging up the glass, and looking for direction
So close you can't see past

I'll make amends, I'll make believe
I'll make my mind, I'll make you see
I'll take a chance, I'll take a moment

To know your every detail is a lifetime, a story to tell with a touch
Every move is a reaction, every kiss is a reason, a rush
You're my muse, and you're my masterpiece, my canvas and my chemistry
You're magic and you're mystery, my haven, you're my heaven
You're my heart. We will be unbreakable

Let's take it all, as a reminder we'll never need
Every place we dance, in a way, we never leave

Streets, these visions, an origami city folding in.
Construction, creation, we are architects and kings,
Lifting street stones from their beds to build these homes from memory,
As we’re tangled in our sleep.

We were young together, but I’ve grown ancient.
Cracked and weathered and filled with regret,
Waiting to sink, rushing to sink in my sleep.

There’s no injection for this, the aching in your lungs.
So bite down, but even vipers mind the venom lacing their tongues.

Puncture wounds and almost no colour in our skin.
And we smashed every vial of the cure.
Aren’t we vicious when we’re backed against the wall?

I wish you’d just passed me by and we went about our ways,

I wish I’d just stood and let the sun creep through me.
Instead of my attempts to build slingshots, spools and sinkers to bring in the sky.
Inventions out of sticks and stones, a crown dusted off from beneath the bones.
A white liar, protector of our hearts and homes.

Stay, don’t go,
I’ll eat you up,
I love you so.

The gasoline is mixing with the oxygen in this carousel, the silence is so surreal.
I've been misled down empty streets to a heart that never beats,
Of a body that I can't keep.

And we're blessed with these, these horrors for highways.
This city turns, no longer content to just brush shoulders.
Have we lost our touch?

Natalie Imbruglia - Torn

I thought I saw a man brought to life
He was warm, he came around like he was dignified
He showed me what it was to cry
Well you couldn't be that man I adored
You don't seem to know, don't seem to care what your heart is for
But I don't know him anymore

Watchmaker, teach me the ways.
I want to learn the secrets and the sciences of seconds,
The methods to dull my ears to the sound.

If I were a watchmaker, I’d build suspension into the springs.
Hidden gears, secret faces.
Undiscovered hours to keep you in.

If I'm bred for failure, just tell me once
'Cause I don't feel like I'm meant to just survive
If I have no future, if it's already paying for the past
Just give me the pieces so I can call them mine

I don't care if I leave empty handed
I will learn if I make my own mistakes

[Verse 1]
I'm just interference
Noise and whispers
A shadow on the line
I'm dust on the record, a stop
A static, a click, a compromise

[Pre-Chorus 1]

"Motion Sickness"

How could I miss you
If I never met you
If that road turns another way
And never looked back

There's a feeling overwhelming

Be honest with yourself
Do you see in your reflection someone else
You're fogging up the glass, and looking for direction
So close you can't see past

I'll make amends, I'll make believe
I'll make my mind, I'll make you see
I'll take a chance, I'll take a moment

For better or for worse
A vision of the future's getting heard
Between the black and white
I'm aiming every shade of grey has left us colourblind

We are all for none and none for all
We are the sickness and the symptom and the cure
We are all for none and none for all