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The Forest
02:59
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The Forest (Champion, Phu)
Though I know who I’ve become
Fill you in before I’m gone
Tales of lust and tales to come
So we do unknowing
Don’t look back, move the way you’re moving
Hunt in packs, but always looking through it
Lone as one along with almost everyone
Feel the future coming on
Feel your teeth along my gums
Send the son out for the hunt
Learn the songs of fathers
Don’t look back, move the way you’re moving
Hunt in packs, but always looking through it
Lone as one along with almost everyone
Do what your mother wants, but you’ll never ever have enough
Change what you feel is wrong and what will come to pass will come
Plus where do you think you’d run? You never will be far enough
Change what you feel is wrong and what will come to pass will come
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Blinding
04:13
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Blinding (Champion, Phu)
Nowhere to go, no sense in going
Cold in this place, but welcome and knowing
You wanted love, but you wouldn’t give into want
Rats in a cage, trapped but together
Free and alone, which fate is better?
Pull it apart, take what you need to feel whole
This desert road, it leads to the coast
This desert road, it leads to the coast
This desert road unfolds
You wouldn’t know at all I, I need this
Under the lights we’re all alone
I know I can’t provide all the pieces
Building them up when you’re not home
Those lights are blinding, blinding
Send what you want, I won’t receive it
Cruel is the heart with no one to feed it
Smoke from the fire guiding the way to the source
This desert road, it leads to the coast
This desert road, it leads to the coast
This desert road unfolds
You wouldn’t know at all I, I need this
Under the lights we’re all alone
I know I can’t provide all the pieces
Building them up when you’re not home
Those lights are blinding
Blinding
Blinding
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Tourist
03:07
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Tourist (Champion, Phu)
Numb, plied, tired, nothing is wrong
Poised, employed, smiled, getting along
Time, age, fines, an hour alone
Compromise, strive, the best that you’ve done
Every word you’ve always wanted
All the ways I need to leave
Trying to find that what I had missed or
Hoping it’d find me
And I promised words I couldn’t
And you promised fruitless leads
Like a feeling from a childhood
Story in my dreams
I can’t feel it at all anymore
I can’t feel it at all anymore
Every word you’ve always wanted
All the ways I need to leave
Trying to find that what I had missed or
Hoping it’d find me
And I promised words I couldn’t
And you promised fruitless leads
Like a feeling from a childhood
Story in my dreams
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I'm Not Here
03:38
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I’m Not Here
Where was I?
I keep forgetting where I’ve been and why
A defensive smile
Hide the fear of a normal life, then do it again
What’s so wrong with fine?
But I can feel the sickness in my bones
And tight in my sides
Where do I go? Because here I stand but I’m not here
I feel it in my hand but not my heart
Knocking at the door, there’s knocking at the door, there’s all this
Cotton in my mouth and in my lungs
The panic as the calendar unfolds
Knocking down the door, they’re knocking at the door, they’re knocking
Fallen again
See this mouth tends to empty out
There’s pieces stuck inside my head
And they’re not getting out
Where do I go? Because here I stand but I’m not here
I feel it in my hand but not my heart
Knocking at the door, there’s knocking at the door, there’s all this
Cotton in my mouth and in my lungs
The panic as the calendar unfolds
Knocking down the door, they’re knocking at the door, they’re knocking
Where am I and how do I get out?
Where am I and how do I get out?
Where am I and how do I get out?
Where am I and how do I get out?
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Wait for Me
03:54
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Wait for Me (Champion, Phu)
Wait for me
All these roads began as one
Now we’re at different points in all the races that we run
So will you wait for me?
Wait for me
I know I promised you the sun
And all I’ve given are these weights of need
And slowly pulled your threads undone
So while these gears inside our chests
Keep moving us along
Down streets that have no end
Turns that we keep taking wrong
Houses that aren’t homes
And people that aren’t friends
These machines are slowly wearing out
Yet somehow still together through it all
So say to me
That all your reasons are for love
Because if we wanted we could be alone
Knowing comfort’s not enough
So while these gears inside our chests
Keep moving us along
Down streets that have no end
Turns that we keep taking wrong
Houses that aren’t homes
And people that aren’t friends
These machines are slowly wearing out
Yet somehow still together through it all
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Sticks and Stones
04:06
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Sticks and Stones (Champion, Phu)
It finds you, silent, and laughs at you while it is eating through your bones
But you’re sad to see it go
Tonight you, you slipped through, and found me when I needed most to be alone
But I guess that’s how it goes
Sticks and stones, far from home
Trail of breadcrumbs
Death by love, crushed the skull
Head forgets the soul
Lied and, confided, enough to fill me with the fear when I was young
Convinced me I was wrong
Uptight, misguided, scared of visits from the ghosts of fiscal ruin
Play the system strong
Sticks and stones, far from home
Trail of breadcrumbs
Death by love, crushed the skull
Head forgets the soul
Sticks and stones, far from home
Trail of breadcrumbs
Death by love, crushed the skull
Head forgives the soul
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7. |
An Island
03:40
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An Island (Champion, Phu)
Darkened rooms, night with no moon
Keeping eyes on the corners
Foolish are the villains we choose
Giving life to shadows we can
Fight for fine
You’re safe here with me
You’re safe here with me
We were young when this was brand new
Rust and age eat direction
Lost within the forest that grew
Kind of sad, but not unhappy
Strive for fine
You’re safe here with me
You’re safe here with me
On an island
To a light, on an island
On an island
You’re a light, on an island
You’re a light, on an island
You’re safe here with me
You’re safe here with me
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The Modern Age
03:42
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The Modern Age (Champion, Phu)
Time, measurement of knowns
Lust to feel controlled
Oceans held by stone
Calm and counting
Belief in ours and ours alone
Kings upon their thrones
Etched into the loam
Looking down
When the cracks begin to spider
And blood spurts out like water
The specialness of knowing
Dissolves with all our bodies and our souls
Faith, statues holding crowns
Glass and steel towns
Sand when broken down
Losing sight
When the steam that pushed us forward
And set the wheels in motion
Pulled cities over oceans
Sterilized the dangers of
The risk of being human
Entitlement of doing
Crusades with nothing proven
And never see the exit signs ahead
The quiet of the silence
Not absence but enlivened
A long goodnight to violence
Built upon illusion of control
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Youth
03:10
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Youth (Champion, Phu)
Oh I wish I’d found you at a later time
Wish I’d met you when my eyes were dry
Muffled words through folded ears of mine
I knew I’d let you down
And prove that all us lonely only do find hope wanting but not having
Down the well with a rope
And I trust that when I find the bottom I will come back home
Once when I was a younger boy I felt sublime
Thinking those that kept a watchful eye
Would reveal their secrets over time
I knew I’d let you down
And prove that all us lonely only do find hope wanting but not having
Down the well with a rope
And I trust that when I find the bottom I will come back home
So we find ourselves not exactly eye to eye
Question how I know inside I’m right
Built upon my memories of life
I knew I’d let you down
And prove that all us lonely only do find hope wanting but not having
Down the well with a rope
And I trust that when I find the bottom I will come back home
I knew I’d let you down
But I’ll come back home
I knew I’d let you down
But I will come back home
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10. |
The End
05:00
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The End (Champion, Phu)
You rely on light
Even though the night is young
Even though the blinds are drawn
Tied to a dead idea
The cycle will go on
Leaving as a tired lion
And through the trees back to the sky and done
You can cling to the right
Believe that nothing’s done
A practice life, just for fun?
Tied to a dead idea
The cycle will go on
Leaving as a tired lion
And through the trees back to the sky and done
Tied to a dead idea
The cycle will go on
Leaving as a tired lion
And through the trees back to the sky and done
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Indie rock from Vancouver, Canada.
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