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Despair (2018)
03:47
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Despair took her
Darkened the moon's pale light
Despair broke her
She surrendered to it without a fight
Despair r*ped her
Her stilted bones could not function right
Despair made her
Fall towards the center of the night
She got lost in the city that night
Despair take me
Darken the moon's pale light
Despair break me
I surrender to you without a fight
Despair r*pe me
My stilted bones cannot function tonight
Despair make me
Fall towards the center of the night
We got lost in the city that night
Run through our cold heart streets tonight
This is the stop
This is despair
Now is the time that you enter the nightmare!
(The red moon is falling down...)
The red moon is falling down!
Fall towards the center of the night
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Running in Place
05:15
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You came to me at times
When the trees had frozen spines
In the piedmont
Your terms undefined
A hearty hello falls before a dejected stare at the floor
(Where's your spirit gone?)
You don't have to pull me underwater with you. Anymore.
(Drowned in hollow ponds)
Now there's no way to placate. Harmony deteriorates into nothing.
(Where's your spirit gone?)
One day for sure, we'll see what we were as a good memory
(Drowned in hollow ponds)
Gone bad.
(I just.... I just don't know... I just don't know where this is going.)
(I have no more sympathy. Your misery is not my responsibility.)
(Don't laugh. This is unsustainable.)
The hills hear your whispers
The walls have eyes
And the floors tell me that you've been lying all along
We're doing everything wrong.
(let's go)
Why would you cast the spells at me when we could make it right
Hiding from the one person pleading you dare not to take the blade to your life
We both make huge mistakes
We'll bury them all in darkness and hope that they won't come back
And now we can see
(We just can't stop running in place)
As clear as smoke screen tears in our eyes - good times, are eaten, alive
We just can't stop running in place
We'll bury them in darkness and hope that they won't come back
We can't stop running in place
We can't stop running in place
We just can't stop running in place.
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3. |
Secret
05:05
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I wanted you to wait for me
But you couldn't be asked to stay
There's no words I can say to change what happened
It's all gone wrong and may never be the same
It will never be the same
Lift the weight from your shoulders
Cause it's not a secret anymore
(I am the one who is always left out in your plans)
There's no way to announce your departure
Now we know who's better at playing pretend
No way of knowing if I'll ever again see you like this
Already abandoned before the end.
Lift the weight from your shoulders
Cause it's not a secret anymore
Don't hold on to it, just loosen your grasp
Wind blowing, the tide showing
Misdirection at every turn
The waves crashing, your blade clashing
The bruised hearts of the spurned
(I can't remember the last time you said something genuine to me)
Laughing, madly
(I am discovering that you weren't quality company)
At your lit up silver screen
(I can't remember the last time you said something genuine to me)
Can't wake up from the never ending dream
(I am discovering that you weren't quality company)
Lift the weight from your shoulders
Cause it's not a secret anymore
Don't hold on to it, it's out of your control
And it's not a secret anymore
Anymore
(Goodbye)
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I see you at night and I stare at you
You don't care for me
Without the light, I still glare at you
Look away from me
So don't lie, it's taken you all night
Of feeling the same with me
So don't die, it's taken you all night
Of feeling the same
You are too old to fare on your own
(please please please release me)
You are too old to fare on your own
(oh please please please release me)
And they say, it can't be won
When it's your eyes touching my eyes to the past we know
They say, it can't be done and they say, it's all just fun
It's your eyes, touching my eyes
Don't like what you find, staring back at you
You don't care for me
So don't lie, it's taken you all night
Of feeling the same with me
And you know that I won't, know that I won't
You are too old to fare on your own
And they say, it can't be won
When it's your eyes touching my eyes to the past we know
They say, it can't be done and they say, it's all just fun
When it's your eyes touching my eyes
Can you hear my faintest breath? Is it amplified?
The number that I've become will put you inside
I've got a message that I must relay
No, I can't delay it one more day (it's not going well)
It is desperate, can you relate?
Can you please, please relate? (I'm not holding up)
Will you comfort me?
You'll comfort me?
And they say, it can't be won
When it's your eyes touching my eyes to the past we know
They say, it can't be done and they say, it's all just fun
When it's your eyes touching my eyes
This isn't you that I came here for
(Just open up your eyes, you dead ones) [all ashes on the floor]
This isn't you that I waited for
This isn't you that I came here for
(Just open up your eyes, you dead ones) [I will never need you more]
This isn't you that I waited for
Just open up your eyes (oh, please, please, please release me)
You dead ones (oh, please, please, please release me) [That I waited for]
Just open up your eyes (oh, please, please, please release me)
You dead ones (oh, please, please, please release me)
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5. |
Red Moon
03:32
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I might appear to sit across from you
But I'm not actually here
The red moon has taken me away
(And left an empty shell)
Don't know why it has come back again
But it's left me very uncertain
Of whether I should just go or stay
(Neither suits me well)
Doubt arrests my mind again
(These doubts are arresting...)
Watch my face fade away
(Come on and, come on and)
Second guess my disarray
(Come on and second guess my...)
Watch my face fade away
(It's just not enough / Is this enough?)
I was not prepared
For your unwelcome visit
I was quite comfortable with my black skies
(You show up when you please)
But I know that there is little I can do to stop you
From making your blood moon arise
(You bring me to my knees!)
Doubt arrests my mind again
(These doubts are arresting...)
Watch my face fade away
(Come on and, come on and)
Second guess my disarray
(Come on and second guess my...)
Watch my face fade away
(Here it comes now...)
The feeling arrives when the red moon arises
(Is any of this really happening?)
And I just can't escape
(Am I being led astray?)
The source of my fright and my lack of foresight
My clouded thoughts, my doubtful heart
The home of despair in this land of nightmares
And I can not ESCAPE
If it's red, it's dead.
I'm living in my head.
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6. |
Despair (2016)
03:53
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Despair took her
Darkened the moon's pale light
Despair broke her
She surrendered to it without a fight
Despair r*ped her
Her stilted bones could not function right
Despair made her
Fall towards the center of the night
She got lost in the city that night
Despair take me
Darken the moon's pale light
Despair break me
I surrender to you without a fight
Despair r*pe me
My stilted bones cannot function tonight
Despair make me
Fall towards the center of the night
We got lost in the city that night
Run through our cold heart streets tonight
(You will bear witness to this)
This is the stop
This is despair
Now is the time that you enter the nightmare! Oh!
(The red moon is falling down...)
The red moon is falling down!
Fall towards the center of the night
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The Formaldehide Silver Spring, Maryland
Play this loud.
† 2015 - 2023
All sounds by Nadja Wendell Newby Jones unless listed otherwise.
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