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twenty-four weeks
01:23
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ex utero
02:45
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welcome to the sacred place
where seeds are sown
consequence reveals your smiling face
many things to be shown
flowers will grow with sunshine
and the rain
and repair themselves from
environmental pains
I hope you find this world alright
it can be cold
stretch towards the sky and soar
it's within your reach
use your mind, follow your heart
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tilling life
04:43
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hello,
can't wait to finally meet you
tired eyes prepare for a wild world,
eager just to greet you.
entropy,
here's how things will unfold,
a dedicated soldier,
carrying every load,
proud to be at war.
telegram, forgotten note
failed to mention plans,
as the rounds unload
I'll walk this path alone
my battles are my own
I can die in your eyes,
if that's what you'd like,
cause now I'm tilling life.
undoubtedly brown eyes
contributor to this earth,
moral distributor,
proving his own worth,
fulfilling prophecies
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entropy
05:49
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on the path
to birth the next in line,
stalling engines
crawl through frames
of time
pull the thread,
watch it fall apart.
then unravel
fast outside the cell,
into the caste
that plagues
the animal shell
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reincarnation
03:32
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my friend it isn't easy,
with the cards that you've been dealt;
getting decked right in the face,
heard it hurts like hell.
are you sure that she's the one?
'cause there's plenty in this place.
I'm sensing the connection...
did you have her at the six string
you broke upon her face?
try again in the next life
left early in the morning,
with the pines still your wake
untold one-way road trip,
destination: sunshine state.
your Dasani's filled with Svedka
and plans long set in place,
now you dance across the painted lines
searching for a new rat race.
eyes sell truths,
even when you don't want them to;
encoded proof to you.
you fell into this life
that you chose for you
and the wheel spins round, again.
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the human condition
03:56
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I can't blame you
for the way you were raised,
painted into a picture,
stuck inside a frame.
I love you anyway,
but the creators of this condition
should change their color paints.
the cycling of habits
unintentionally conveyed
learned by future generations
until you stand aside and break away,
you can get away.
be mindful of examples
that trace circles in the sand
crumbling without growth
no foundation to take hold.
and I know that life is hard,
we'll slip and we'll fall;
but I'll mend your injuries,
stand up and walk
beside me.
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poison ivy
04:55
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from the ground arose
tended plants that grow
nourished by the flow
dying as it goes
I've given up on you
I've given up on myself
found a clearer view
these broken vines won't do
sweeping tendrils pull
feeding warmers snares
culled and then repaired
conditioned to prepare
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free bird
03:31
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you were a dove, with a glass heart,
all locked up in a bird cage,
with the door left open,
and your wings unclipped.
I could've watched you fly away,
but you stayed in your cage,
not ready for the coming of age.
I should've watched the way
that you communicate
what you can't say.
I should've watched the way
that you procrastinate,
'cause love is just above
but you can't fly.
feathers drawn and out for display,
you like to see all the birds at play,
but then hide away when it's time to go.
finding solace in your confines,
the world is cold
and you'd rather stay behind;
"it's so safe here,
and they feed me!"
all the walls will fall
if you give them time.
the olive branch will break
and we will be left
with the choices we make,
so fly free.
I could've watched the way
that you communicate,
but I am deaf.
and I saw the way
that you procrastinate
so I flew away,
from you.
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meatus
05:30
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lately I've been scaling walls so,
these lines are overdue.
skinned knees, how hard I fall,
been guilt tripped by you
you fed my ears for a lifetime
but it's just not true
I've held my tongue for the last time,
an unobstructed meatus.
when you bend your philosophies
to neatly fit your suit,
growth becomes impossible
but nothing gets past you.
oh how you twist & fold the truth,
packaged into pill form,
digestible for you.
oh how you twist & bend the rules
into a game,
undefeated against you.
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Ballade of Braque
04:01
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je vois sous la peinture
ces lignes sont vieux
I don't need a song,
to tell me how to live
your lines blur in.
and you can paint along,
though I've been through it,
your lines blur this.
le temps brouille les lignes
de qui l'a fait nouvelle
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fragile pt ii
04:27
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in the name of
all that's lost in some way
in the wake of
the cost of not listening
when she's crying
it's 'cause she can't breathe
and now we're dying
but we're not prepared to leave
there has to be a better way
than ignoring what's beneath our feet
it wont be a subtle price to pay
when the queen bee cannot eat
there has to be a better way
than destroying her with greed
it wont be a subtle price to pay
when the queen bee cannot eat
one day the sun will swallow us all
yet we remain indifferent
and the story has been told before
we'll just have to learn again
we'll just complicate
it's inherent in our breed
not bother to contemplate
if we are really living
in denial of what we can't see
here for only a moment
dead unto the next
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lie detector
03:04
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Undetected truth
Protected from you
Fast invented lines
Better read the signs
'Cause it feels
Like a lie
Controlling you
to an end
uninfected group
can't provide the proof
fast invented minds
not questioning the times
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singularity
07:46
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time has come
to face the soul
embrace that we
could be just one
into the flesh
we are thrown
consciousness
source unknown
now to use these eyes
of this avatar disguise
now to use these eyes
never in this life have I
seen past sight.
will in time
we return to
the source of all
that creates us?
is the unity of man and machine
a necessary step in natural evolution?
once we are able to transcend death
and travel the stars,
what will be next for mankind?
will we eventually be the creators
of our own universe
of which we now occupy?
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tony appleseed Asbury Park, New Jersey
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