"Gentrification"

Let me be
The existential
Passionless pacifist
Let me figure it out
I know I'm not alone in this

And don't help me
Unless
You plan to give me your best
It's pointless to continue on
If there's no point in going on

Don't fight me
You could clue me in
Without caving in
I don't need
Another false perception
Clouding my vision

Hard on me
So hard on me
Falling steeper into
Deeper predictabilities
I want to break free
Forgive me for the frequencies
In which I dig a ditch
And pitch your insecurities

Falter for the final time
Ribbed in filtered images
For every fault builds bigger bridges
I can't fight my failures
For much longer

"Bound"

I want to say what's on my mind
What is it
Is it hiding just around the corner
I feel like I've been keeping secrets
And I have
But I don't want to hurt the ones I love
Not any more than I have

And I could keep a half truth
So close to my vest
But at best, still not bulletproof
Am I designed to unwind
And crumble to the floor
I'm not sure
If anyone is waiting
To untangle me

And you were never there
Never there for me
I tried and you pried
Into every aspect of my life
I would have let you come freely
But you won't consider your bounds
Won't consider your boundaries

And so I'm spinning here in circles
Round the same old thoughts again
A few points that I ricochet off
I don't know where to begin

And so I venture where I know
Shifting orbit in degrees
Ghosts of the ellipses I travel
Show you where I've peaked
And tried progressing
Past the ghosts inside
I'm haunted by the fact
That I may be here till I die

"Curve Of the World"

Life on the pavement gets so linear
Two dimensional points of view
I can see the horizon
But can I see further, over

And I feel so stuck
The comfort of my feet upon the street
Take me high above it all
To see
The overarching shape of things
The curve of the world

They tell me that the world is flat
And who am I to doubt
When all I've seen is that
How can I believe in further, over

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And I feel so small
When I'm standing tall
My shadows cast so close to the ground
Take me up
Where I can't touch
The ways I'm rooted down

"Everything Could Go Wrong'

This car
Could swerve
Off of the side of the road
I'd have no time to react
My heart
Could stop
My pulse arrested
Cardiac

Everything
Everything could go wrong
Everything
Everything, I go on

This plane
Could crash
Fall out of the sky
No flying back
My words
Could burn
Down everything I love
Turn it into black

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If it happens or it doesn't
If it was or if it wasn't
Yeah, I could have a heart attack
While everybody gets there fine
Gets there fine
My pulse doesn't decided the guiding line

"Sleepy City"

Early Sunday morning
See the boats, they leave their trails
V-shaped marks split the deepest parts
The sailors raise their sails

And the city's all laid out
In neat and tidy little squares
People live their lives in boxes
Just to live there

And some people dream
And some people have their own routine
And some people follow
And some people lead
And nobody's wrong
For trying to be free
Though we stumble along here
Crumbling

I pass over the ocean
Seeing isolated lands
You could call them private kingdoms
Or exiled contrabands

Are our worlds so disconnected
We forget to understand
We're all as desperate as a desert
Dry, dependent grains of sand

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And the city is asleep but I'm awake
On wings I fly above its flooded gates
Building tops and limitations
Are concepts far from me
I just want to be free
We all want to be free

"Cockeyed Idealist"

I see the good
I see the good in everyone
I see the good
I see the good in everything

But don't think I don't know about injustice
Don't think I ain't seen the shattered sky
Don't tell me to see with eyes wide open
When every day I try

I see the fire
That burns beneath our feet
I see the fire
About to spread and reign deceit

I'm not a liar
But my words get blown off course
Guess I'm a liar
I'm my own destructive force

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And you can search the world and find
Every evil intermingled with divine

"Intense and Dense"

Wade through the sound
Between the notes and what is found
Truth doesn't always come clear
In the brightest of notes

Because hope can be
A groan or a melody
And sometimes we make our own
Out of anything we can find

So don't you worry
If the words don't come out right
Every moment you are building
Every moment is a fight

Wake to the sound of
A heart that has half-given up
And lift one leg right after the other
The weight to start the day

Because home can be
A place that's hard to reach
So find hope in the moment
Don't let it slow your pace

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"Melatonin"

Sleep now
Don't try to fight it
Oceans are rising
To carry you

Sleep now
In your burrow hiding
Nestle deep inside and
Let it enfold you

And in waves
Across your face
Like a sheet of satin
Pull you to that place
Embrace
The pond of grace
You are sinking
Slowly, soundly

Deep down
Feeling even lighter
In the hearth the fire
Is quietly smoldering

And the dying light
So small inside
See the single strand
Of smoke float to the sky

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"Adrenaline"

I wake with the sun
It's starting a fire in me
Feet on the floor
Start my engine running

Awake in the dawn
I need your light
Alive in the wake
Of the fading midnight

And my pulse
And my heart
The cadence is set
From the place I restart

Break through my gray
Show me that spark
Light the torch in my eyes
To protrude through the dark

And the trees
Start their arc
Succumb to the wind
Of the morning star
In waves
Rush through my heart
Flooding my blood
At the day's start