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Doesn’t erase all that I am
Oh how I long to be invisibHow do you expect your gardens to grow green
When there’s hate in the heart of the ones who planted the seeds
How do you expect your gardens to grow green
When there’s hate in the heart
When there’s hate in the heart
I want to be
I want it, I crave it, I want to be like you
I want to be
I need it, I’m dying, to feel the way you do
I want to be
Oh to fit in your shoes
I want to be
Oh the things I’d gladly lose
Remember what they told you
Remember what they told you
How can something I want this badly be a sin
Can someone tell me what’s broken from within
I am my father’s son, I am my father’s daughter
I am your precious lamb, lead me to the slaughter
I wait for the day
When the mirror
le
It’s a slow death
The drowning of our egos
It’s no small feat
To kill our gods with kind words
It’s a slow death
The drowning of our egos
It’s no small feat
To kill our gods with kind words
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Digital Sickness
06:58
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I crave the attention
I tremble at the mention of my name
Call it an addiction
I don’t know how they treat it like a game
I want you to hold me
Wrap me up in your thousands, your millions
Even though you hate me
It’s all that I hang onto lately
I’m trapped in this moment
Two way captive audience through the screen
They tell me own it
I need to be heard but can’t be seen
You want me to want more
So that you can take all you can get
You want me to want more
You’ve not filled your quotient yet
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Holes In the Yard
04:48
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Analyzing reflections bouncing off the walls
In hopes I’ll find a glimpse of you in there
Moments that were taken for granted
I want them all
There’s not a second I can stand to spare
But I still see you in your sister’s eyes
Though it’s becoming less of a surprise
Funny how our hearts begin to tell such vicious lies
Lies, lies, lies
The room feels empty now
The room feels empty
The room feels empty now
Do you think they miss like we do
The room feels empty
I wonder if the miss you still
The room feels empty now
Do you think they miss you like we do
The room feels empty
I wonder if they miss you still
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Hogsback
06:08
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You put your hands behind your back
Tell me to guess which one is right
I know that both are filled to the brim
With mostly broken promises
But I can’t bite the hand that feeds
At least that’s what they’re telling me
I can’t bite the hand that feeds
Now the smoke inside my lungs is not my own
I quite cold turkey a year ago
Just when I decided to start living
Feels like it’s out of my control
But I can’t bite the hand that feeds
At least that’s what they’re telling me
I can’t bite the hand that feeds
I don’t want to live forever
I just wanted to see a world
Without your shadow hanging over it
Nature’s one last final wish
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6:59
06:01
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Foolish child
I never thought to be scared
But I learned my lesson
Never will I feel safe
Reminders in the form of
Cracked lips and
Oh god everybody knows it
I can see it in the way they stare
They all know the things I wear when nobody’s around
Girls like us they don’t last long
Girls like us they don’t last long it’s just the way it is
Catatonic
Your muscles they lay wasting, rotting, and
Oh god what a waste of a perfectly fine male human specimen
You can’t just keep mutilating yourself like that
Girls like you they don’t last long
Girls like you they don’t last long it’s just the way it is
6:59
What if I don’t want to
What if I can’t
6:59
What if I don’t want to
What if I can’t
I won’t do it again
I can’t
I won’t do it again
I can’t
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Distillate
10:54
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We got lost in the woods together
It was only for fun at the start
We were searching for anything to make us feel something
Your grandfather’s last words tucked under your arm
You showed me the hospital bracelet
You held onto since 2010
To remind yourself never to let it
Never to let it get as bad as they said
As bad as they said it has to be
You cut me open underneath the trees
Asked if this is really what I wanted
I said I don’t think there’s any other way
I only know to burn a house down when it’s haunted
You told me you wish we could disappear among the leaves
And that you took comfort in all the things you knew we’d never get to be
These distal dreams will never ease
Our sense of curiosity
It’s sitting on the other side
Can’t you taste it
I feel kind of free
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Fainting Dreams Denver, Colorado
Denver slowgaze.
faintingdreams@gmail.com
Live photo by Leah Armstrong
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