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What's the Deal?
03:18
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Just letters dripping
Letters dripping
Letters dripping
Letters drip
Letters drip
Letters drip
Letters drip
Letters drip
The letters drip
I can't help but ask
What's the deal with this?
I listen but I can't hear them while I'm in my painter's smock
While my socks are dry
What's the deal?
Drip
Letters drip
Letters drip
I can't hear you while I'm in my painter's smock
While my socks are dry
I wonder what its like to be one of the people
I cant even hear them
While I'm in my painter's smock
While my socks are dry
While I'm in my painter's smock
While my socks are dry
While I'm in my painter's smock
While my socks are dry
I can't help but wonder what it's like
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2. |
Acrylic
09:08
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From your mind creates an image of the soul
What does it look like?
Are the features perfect?
Fret and puzzle over the subject
Dream of what's next
Start a new project
From your mind creates an image of the soul
Does it make you vomit?
Do you trust its judgement?
It's a disease
How we treat our own beliefs
How we stick fingers down our spleens
How we tear ourselves to seams
And we feel like us again
Our plastic souls
Fit our broken bones into a plastic mold
And we feel like us again
Our plastic souls
Fit our broken bones into a plastic mold
We're acrylic again
We're acrylic again
We're acrylic again
We're acrylic again
We're acrylic again
We're acrylic again
We're acrylic again
We're acrylic again
We're acrylic again
We're acrylic again
We're acrylic again
We're acrylic again
We're acrylic again
We're acrylic again
We're acrylic again
We're acrylic again
And we feel like us again
Our plastic souls
Fit our broken bones into a plastic mold
And when we feel like us again
Our plastic souls
Fit our broken bones into a plastic mold
We're acrylic again
We're acrylic again
We're acrylic again
We're acrylic again
We're acrylic again
We're acrylic again
We're acrylic again
We're acrylic again
We're acrylic again
We're acrylic again
We're acrylic again
We're acrylic again
We're acrylic again
We're acrylic again
We're acrylic again
We're acrylic again
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3. |
Inside of My Smock
05:44
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One little slip and the order will fall
Thousands of bricks with our backs to the wall
The hours get longer, reality sinks
Don't close your eyes all it takes is a blink
And then one day as we burn at the stake
Visions of madness exposing the fake
Light up a candle the wax is a sign
Everything melts when the fire aligns
You claim forgiveness from cancer and sin
The right to be selfish and sell all your skin
Take up the offer mechanical gods
Won't waste a second to fill you with smog
Cough up a mirror and choke out a lung
The black smoke burns hotter the thicker the blood
Seek out forgiveness in spite of the mob
Nothing's as reckless as singing along
I see in reflections to break down the myth
That premature death will bring ultimate bliss
The letters will burrow a hole through my socks
I can't hear the people inside of my smock
One little slip and the order will fall
Thousands of bricks with our backs to the wall
The hours get longer, reality sinks
Don't close your eyes all it takes is a blink
Waiting for whispers I stare at the sky
Everyone's dying, I can't fall behind
Like children we rush for a flight to the sun
Avoiding the bodies and dodging the gun
And then one day as we burn at the stake
Visions of madness exposing the fake
Light up a candle the wax is a sign
Everything melts when the fire aligns
You claim forgiveness from cancer and sin
The right to be selfish and sell all your skin
Take up the offer mechanical gods
Won't waste a second to fill you with smog
Cough up a mirror and choke out a lung
The black smoke burns hotter the thicker the blood
Seek out forgiveness in spite of the mob
Nothing's as reckless as singing along
I see in reflections to break down the myth
That premature death will bring ultimate bliss
The letters will burrow a hole through my socks
I can't hear the people inside of my smock
One little slip and the order will fall
Thousands of bricks with our backs to the wall
The hours get longer, reality sinks
Don't close your eyes all it takes is a blink
One day our buildings will crash to the ground
An imminent threat to the horrors of sound
Running in circles our brain on display
Order is found in the ruins of day
Soulless in theory, robotic in mind
Shoot at your feet if you step out of line
They'll chop up your body, throw parts in a bin
If you reach for something that's not made of tin
And the next day as we burn at the stake
Visions of madness exposing the fake
Light up a candle the wax is a sign
Everything melts when the fire aligns
You claim forgiveness from cancer and sin
The right to be selfish and sell all your skin
Take up the offer mechanical gods
Won't waste a second to fill you with smog
Cough up a mirror and choke out a lung
The black smoke burns hotter the thicker the blood
Seek out forgiveness in spite of the mob
Nothing's as reckless as singing along
I see in reflections to break down the myth
That premature death will bring ultimate bliss
The letters will burrow a hole through my socks
I can't hear the people inside of my smock
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4. |
We Were Dancing
02:19
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What's your name?
Could you tell me again?
It must've slipped off the tip of my tongue
You told me while we were dancing
I was young and you were lonely
You grabbed my face and broke all of the rules
I tried to stare at the wall but the wall was you
And suddenly I am nothing more than a song
And suddenly I am nothing more than a song
And suddenly I am nothing more than a song
And suddenly I am nothing more than a song
And suddenly I am nothing more than a song
And suddenly I am nothing more than a song
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5. |
Please Understand
08:29
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She pulls me in
Oh
She pulls me in
No
She draws me close
No
I feel her breath
No
She pulls me close
Oh
Oh
She draws me in
No
She leans in
No
I meet her eyes
I'm so cold
I smell her taste
No
I feel the waste
Of her tongue
I feel the waste
Of my bones
No
Have you seen my friends?
I don't where they've been
Have you been to the edge
Of the ocean staring out at everything?
I will never understand what it means to be you
You will never understand what it feels like in my head
We are all alone forever and always anyways
So what's the point
Everything sucks
But somehow you still find a way to love
And somehow I don't even give a shit
But somehow you still find a way to love me
And I can't even begin to try
But somehow you still find a way to love
And somehow I can't even try
Oh
Oh
You didn't understand me
You don't understand me
She didn't understand me
I didn't understand me
No
It's not your fault
That I love you
And no
It's not my fault
That I hate you
No
You just don't understand me
No
You just don't understand me
Girl, no
You just don't understand me
Girl, no
You just don't understand me
Girl, no
You just don't understand me
Ah
Ah
No one understands me
No one understands me
No one can stand me
Oh
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6. |
Paint and Sound
03:04
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A boy hurries through the crowded halls oblivious to all around him
He brushes someone's shoulder and jumps in fright
"O vile being
Erase this horrid infestation!"
He can't hear them in his painter's smock
The thoughts caress the cobwebs in his heart
No measly flesh can tear him apart
He rushes home and washes his hands
And drowns himself in paint and sound
"O, Sweet Symphonies of Sorrow!
No more, let me destroy this awful gown"
A plan is set into motion
The river bursts through the dam
Something is changing within him
Something drastic is at hand
The boy rushes to the nearby market
He looks around at all the merchandise
A rubber tub and a jug of hydrochloric acid
He uses a credit card and buys it
Leaving the store he bumps into a girl
She talks but no sound comes out
Of course
He is still wearing his smock
It is dripping wet with blood
There are so many colors
The blood is thick, the black smoke burns hot
He pushes her aside, says,
"I cannot hear you
No, I cannot hear you
I cannot hear you in my painter's smock"
The boy begins to run, the coward
Retreating to familiar streets with familiar sounds
The cold wind slaps his face
The rocky Earth penetrates his socks
He steps in grass to escape, but it rained
His socks are wet
His mind is screaming
"O agony, O horrible Earth, O rotten existence!
Suffering, suffering suffering, what more?
What more?"
He remembers his plan
The boy drives to the abandoned logging factory and assembles his materials
He fills the tub with acid, surrounded by walls of filth
The graffiti beckons to him
He turns away
"O vile expression!"
He takes his painter's smock
He throws it in the tub and burns it
He drives back to where the people are
He listens with all his might but,
Despite the smock being gone he cannot hear them
He still cannot hear them
He still cannot hear
Suffering, suffering, suffering, what's next?
What's the deal with this?
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