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1. |
If
07:01
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Thinking maybe we should stop swimming
And thinking maybe we should take it
And maybe if you try, you can stay
If that's all that we can say
If is a powerful word
In hindsight all I ever wanted could have been mine
But now its gone and all I have is the stabbing pain of regret
There are sometimes that I can take it
There are sometimes I just can't make it
You can just reach out and take it if...
If, if, if
Looking back, it all seems easy
I would go where you could see me
I would have gotten that promotion if...
If I had just one more hour
If it comes up I'll ask her
If I had gone left instead of right
I would be home
Thinking maybe we should stop swimming and
Thinking maybe I'll escape it
The world is ending fast
Please come stop
If that's all that we can say
If nothing ever comes easy
stepping out always rough
But its worth it to be
daring and alive
outside of your head
Cause real is always better than maybe
Nothing happens if you don't make it
Nothing's worth it if you just take it
Maybe something good can happen if...
Looking back, it all seems easy
I would go where you could see me
I would have gotten that promotion if...
If I had just one more hour
If it comes up I'll ask her
If I had gone left instead of right
I would be home
Thinking maybe we should stop swimming and
Thinking maybe I'll escape it
The world is ending fast
Please come stop
If that's all that we can say
If I had followed the orders
If I had gone back to sleep
If I could do it again, I would
Then I'd be me
If I had just one more hour
If it comes up I'll ask her
If I had gone left instead of right
I would be home
Thinking maybe we should stop swimming and
Thinking maybe I'll escape it
The world is ending fast
Please come stop
If that's all that we can say
Thinking maybe we should stop swimming and
Thinking maybe I'll escape it
The world is ending fast
Please don't stop
If that's all that we can say
If I had followed the orders
If I had gone back to sleep
If I could do it again, I would
Then I'd be me
If, that's all that we can say
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2. |
Dark
05:23
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We walk towards the end of the world
Can't let them see us until the time has come
This is the worst thing I could dream of
We walk towards the end of the world
Wondering where I should go
Although our chances of survival are somewhat slim
I know our chances of revival can be desired
And no one will miss us when we're gone
And it's breaking my heart
And when our chances of survival are somewhat slim
You can bet I'll never let go
Until they're higher
And I know that we can beat the odds
I can't wait for the dark
Though it may be the end of the world
You give me a will to survive this hell
Though it's a strange place
To find love
There is the thrill of watching it burn
And wondering where we will go
Although our chances of survival are somewhat slim
I know our chances of revival can be desired
And no one will miss us when we're gone
And it's breaking my heart
And when our chances of survival are somewhat slim
You can bet I'll never let go
Until they're higher
And I know that we can beat the odds
I can't wait for the dark
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The sky is so much brighter at night
Cities casting black smoke reflecting light
Landmasses are swallowed by oceans
Lakes will be brown and green with pollutants
Falling falling acid rain
The concrete is mangled and showing the bone
Bloody blackness, collar stain
Smothering swaddling where stars once shone
Sit be still and the world's fate you've sealed, you've sealed
Act as our story meets its most critical junction
Never keep your opinions concealed, concealed
Speak out
Protest
Don't tolerate corruption
Approaching is our destruction
Rotting shells of many cars are passed
By people who are rotting shells of their past
We're almost alone on an airplane
Plummeting down to our indubitable ending
Leaves are but a story told
Of when warmth graced and rebirth was assured
Furthest worry from our cold
Closed hearts that should have listened and heard
Sit be still and the world's fate you've sealed, you've sealed
Act as our story meets its most critical junction
Never keep your opinions concealed, concealed
Approaching is our destruction
Your high-rises will blow in the wind, the wind
There's no wound too deep for mother to heal, to heal
Every injury is in your own skin, your skin
We are the ones who will feel
We will feel
The end of all life is so near
When the time comes quaking with fear
Wind blows in the dust of despair
Clouding up immensely thin air
Nothing left of forests but ash
Valleys turned inside out with trash
Not an inch of grass on the hills
Deadly sun rays piercing the filth
Make a choice
Save or kill
Words you chose to suffocate
Will reemerge livid to block up your throat
Realization hits to late
But as for your conscious you made to remote
Sit be still and the world's fate you've sealed, you've sealed
Act as our story meets its most critical junction
Never keep your opinions concealed, concealed
Approaching is our destruction
Your high-rises will blow in the wind, the wind
There's no wound too deep for mother to heal, to heal
Every injury is in your own skin, your skin
We are the ones who will feel
Sit be still and the world's fate you've sealed, you've sealed
Just stop hurting and you'll help us instead, instead
Never keep your opinions concealed, concealed
Act now or we will surely be dead
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Beach towns are so quiet this time of year
Along the empty boardwalk
Where the joyous shouts still echo
A boy walks alone
The sky overhead is grey
As he walks past the ghetto
Abandoned by the tourists who pollute his home
Not that long ago he would have joined them
Holding the arm of a beautiful girl
With a pearl ring on her finger
A moment of eye contact would solidify
Where fates had aligned
And when she cried out:
“free me from this hell”
He obliged
And then that summer
When the place was wretched
She let the waves wash away her tears
And as she walked alone
Down the atrocious boardwalk
She begged the bullet would remove her fears
From his place above the crab cake shack
And through the scope of his rifle
He could tell who craved the sweet escape of death
A moment of eye contact would solidify
Where fates had aligned
And when she cried out:
“free me from this hell”
He obliged
The wood planks were in need of a fresh coat of stain
Although brown would have been better than red
The world is full of people who want to be dead
And cause they feel his pain
He would spare them
A moment of eye contact would solidify
Who wanted to die
And all the people screamed out:
“free us from this hell”
He obliged
A moment of eye contact would solidify
Who wanted to die
And all the people screamed out:
“free us from this hell”
He obliged
Beach towns are so quiet this time of year
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5. |
The Step Sitters
02:51
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Ever night, one by one
As the parties run on
The step sitters come out
The step sitters and the street walkers
Wait quietly about
Hoping that just around the corner there is someone like them
But knowing if there were, they would stay away too
Later at night, as the yelling grows louder
The curb walkers and the car leaners
Are not in their beds
They come out of the hub
And out of the dark
Nobody knows what goes on in their heads
Content to wait quietly about until the night is over
Just hoping around the corner, there is someone like them
All you have to do is stop and look my way
All you have to do is reach out
Someone like me would be out of the blue
But I know they would never come out
With the night, I trudge on
Past the people one by one
People just like me
The step sitters and the curb walkers
Missing their chance to be caught
Although we hope there's someone like us
Even stronger we fear there is not
And so we are content to wait until the night is over
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6. |
All the Little Fishies
05:39
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All the little fishies
Have attacked the ship
Blood and guts are splattering everywhere
And then they start to tip
This is for all the little fishies that swim
in the sea
All the ones we tortured for the pleasure
of you and me
We dream about a terrible world
We don't care that we're the cause
They didn't have to poison our food
We poisoned it for us
When will we regret it
When it fades to black
We're told to treat others
As we'd like to be treated back
Those poor little fishies
Beautiful untamed
We don't care they taste the same anyway
And yet we're ashamed
This is for all the little fishies that swim
Every creature
All the ones they tortured while we watched
From the bleachers
We dream about a terrible world
We don't care that we're to blame
Don't waste time saying it wasn't you
You know we're all the same
When will we regret it
When it fades to black
We're told to treat others
As we'd like to be treated back
This is for all the little fishies that swim
In the sea
All the ones we tortured for the pleasure
of you and me
We dream about a terrible world
We don't care that we're to blame
Don't waste time saying it wasn't you
You know we're all the same
When will we regret it
When it fades to black
We're told to treat others
As we'd like to be treated back
When will we regret it
When it fades to black
We're told to treat others
As we'd like to be treated back
We're told to treat others
As we'd like to be treated back
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7. |
The Skylight
04:10
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We walk towards the end of the world
And fight ourselves
The endless nuclear winter of our hearts
Infects our lives
How is it so easy to look away
And never feel the ground shake
We drift alone
under the falling sky
Loathing ourselves
We walk beside the very thing we hate
Because that’s what we are
Is this the end of this horrid mess
Is that our dying wish
Only wanting to find a spot
To lounge and feel it burn
We walk towards the end of the world
Wondering why
It makes me wonder how it feels
To lay under the skylight
It makes me wonder what its like
To be away from the evil of the world
Demons hide in the brightest eyes
Even underneath the darkest skies
And we’re lucky to escape with our lives
To dream about the happy times
Or it be better to have our memory wiped
So we can wash away the darkest eyes
We walk towards a heavenless void
Wondering why
It makes me wonder how it feels
To lay under the skylight
It makes me wonder what its like
To be away from the evil of the world
It makes me wonder what its like
To lay under the skylight
It makes me wonder how it feels
To be away from the evil of the world
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8. |
Ending
03:10
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There we watch
The storm outside
Never wanting
And we sit
Peacefully
Wondering at the sense of
Ending
Will I ever come to see you again
If I blink will you still stand beside me
How much longer can this ending last
Time will never wait
For me
Sunny days
Spirits free
When you know that you'll always be
Terrorized by the memory
Of all the things that could never be
Keep it up just a moment longer
Then I will be free
Let this moment last forever
It only just delays
That ending
Will I ever come to see you again
If I blink will you still stand beside me
How much longer can this ending last
All I know is that you shouldn't wait
Listen to me
Just don't wait
All of the memories still stuck inside
All the times you were broken and helpless inside
All the acid and fire you cannot rewind
And the times you don't want to
Change your mind
All the choices you never could change you mind
All the time that I wasted just change your mind
No more waiting its time that I changed your mind
Let me out cause its time for the
Ending
Will I ever come to see you gain
If I blink will you still stand beside me
How much longer can this ending last
Time will never wait
For the ending
Will I ever come to see you again
If I blink will you never stand beside me
How much longer can this ending last
All I know is that you shouldn't wait
Listen to me
Just don't wait
Listen to me
Please don't wait
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9. |
Nature's War
06:40
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Ashes fall like a snow in summer
Lightning strikes, bring it all down
Too late now cause everyone’s fast asleep
It has begun nature’s war
Ashes fall like a snow in summer
Lightning strikes, bring it all down
Too late now cause everyone’s fast asleep
It has begun nature’s war
Landslides of fire burn out our lungs
And melt off our faces and bury us alive
This isn’t a war we can win with our guns
And it’s far deadlier than suicide
Millennia of pent up aggression
explodes into our living rooms where we will be patiently waiting
We paid a lot to get good seats for this show
The best seats in the house
Ashes fall like a snow in summer
Lightning strikes, bring it all down
Too late now cause everyone’s fast asleep
It has begun nature's war
And the people say that everything is over
When the fire reaches the sea
Colored filaments are pulsing with the energy
Yearning for a breath of cool water
Now humanity’s united in one front
Battling an enemy that's far too great to be defeated
Too late to change, too late to escape
Its time to suffer as we’re casualties of a global war
The earth swallows us whole
And washes away every last trace of our corruption
The earth’s population control
Leaves no ruins or anyone to discover them
Ashes fall like a snow in summer
Lightning strikes bring it all down
Too late now cause everyone’s fast asleep
It has begun nature's war
And the people say that everything is over
When the fire reaches the sea
Colored filaments pulsing with the energy
Yearning for a breath of cool water
Ashes fall like a snow in summer
Lightning strikes bring it all down
Too late now cause everyone’s fast asleep
It has begun nature's war
And the people say that everything is over
When the fire reaches the sea
Colored filaments pulsing with the energy
Yearning for a breath of cool water
And the people say that everything is over
When the fire reaches the sea
Colored filaments pulsing with the energy
Yearning for a breath of cool water
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10. |
Breathe
05:59
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Remember that first chilly fall night
When the browning leaves blew in the air
And you caught that first glimpse of auburn hair
And you knew you never had a chance
There's no point in fooling yourself
If you don't get your hopes up
You'll never get let down
A moment of silence where the dread begins
Of what would happen
And the toxic air is too extreme
Just remember you need to breathe
Breath
And you don't know what to do now
Stay calm, you can figure it out
And even though its going to be tragic
Breath
And she lead you on for years
Although it was to your delight
She had you in a trance
Until that morning in luscious spring
When she said "you never had a chance"
And she opened the front door
And told you to leave
A moment of silence where the dread begins
Of what would happen
And the toxic air is too extreme
Just remember you need to breathe
Breath
And you don't know what to do now
Stay calm, you can figure it out
And even though its going to be tragic
Breath
Since the day you escaped
Its been like you've been blind
Caught in your hindsight
A mess you can't repair
And you just want to forget the whole affair
Counting the days until you expire
And hoping that there could be less
You put the rope around your neck
And kick out the chair
A moment of silence where the dread begins
Of what would happen
And the toxic air is too extreme
Just remember you need to breathe
Breath
And you don't know what to do now
Stay calm, you can figure it out
And even though its going to be tragic
Breath
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11. |
Corruption
05:00
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Here we go, you had it coming
I'm gone, you won't get me back
If you listen you'll hear me calling
Come and face my wrath
With every touch you broke me
With every word you lit the fire
I'm coming back and this time
There is no more quite
There is something there but its corrupted
There is something inside me that's corrupted
Now get ready for
Your corruption
Break me with your pretty little hands
Break me with your empty eyes
Hate me, cause you know that I deserve it
Every speck of misery
I had coming
I want to rip your heart out
I want to smash your head against the wall
Every cut is calm and collected
Drowning in the blood I blamed it all
Slit your wrists and I'll watch you bleed out
Slit your wrists and I'll watch you bleed out
I like people with scars
So now I'll give you some
There is something there but its corrupted
There is something inside me that's corrupted
Now get ready for
Your corruption
Break me with your pretty little hands
Break me with your empty eyes
Hate me, cause you know that I deserve it
Every speck of misery
I had coming
Break me with your pretty little hands
Break me with your empty eyes
Hate me, cause you know that I deserve it
Every speck of misery
I had coming
I'm so sick of these lullabies
So put your hands in mine
Give me the knife
I see the dew on the window
Making the streetlights sparkle
On the summers night
A late summers night
The warmth in the air
And the crickets chirping
Reminds me of a time not that long ago
Or was it a long time ago
There is something there but its corrupted
There is something inside me that's corrupted
Now get ready for
Your corruption
Break me with your pretty little hands
Break me with your empty eyes
Hate me, cause you know that I deserve it
Every speck of misery
I had coming
Break me with your pretty little hands
Break me with your empty eyes
Hate me, cause you know that I deserve it
Every speck of misery
I had coming
I'm so sick of these lullabies
So put your hands in mine
Give me the knife
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Sam Seibert Honolulu, Hawaii
With a voice like a chainsaw, dipped in honey, and set on fire, Sam and his band effortlessly blend lush, quick flowing arrangements of hard-hitting drums, guitars, strings, and winds, with raw, passionate lyrics, soaring melancholic melody lines, and pop sensibility. He has been compared to bands like Twenty One Pilots, Death, John Lennon, Slayer, and “if The Beatles or Billy Joel was metal.” ... more
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