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Book Club
02:51
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We are sacrosanct
Meeting in forgotten haunts
To commune with serifed fonts
Minds all racing, this grand pre
Apocalyptic land
Now relies on us deciphering
Our arcane contraband
We are on a quest
To find some meaning in this mess
Or create some if necessed
Earnest questions analyze
Each ligature askance
It's between the lines where we will find our chance to
Turn the tide
Of this semanticide
For the truth isn't dead, it just had to hide
Inside cagey quires
With guiding lights slyly implied
We will find a reading
To set the world anew
We are a book club
What else can we do
We are only hopes
Quaint folkloric hero tropes
Risking lives on horoscopes
Nacarat and mazarine
Sky motion picturesque
We will delve through every rumored tomblike desk, til
On the last page, we find the palimpsest
Of an ancient alchemical almagest
Where the mages presaged
We would read our way out of this mess
We are a book club
What else can we do
We are a book club
Who the hell are you
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2. |
Paladin
04:37
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The heroes rally here
Eyes alight with zeal
Weapons of a cause
With spines of steel
And as a moon among these suns, I'm unsuspected
But it'll be revealed, it'll be revealed
I'm just a plastic shield
A plastic shield shines like steel
And blinds foes with light
But a challenge will reveal a plastic knight
And though I smile as I accept each holy task
They will find me out, I will show my doubt
And they will find me out
Yeah
They're staring
So why can't they see
I can't keep this up
This thing they need from me
Their hopes and their fears, I'll bear them out
I don't need their trust, but I'll take their doubt
I'll take it all upon myself until I break
To crack beneath the weight, my brittle plastic fate
To crack beneath the weight
Wait, wait, please wait
They're staring
But what do they see
I can't keep this up
And one day they'll notice
The daggers of doubting
The demons of don't belong here
Dragons are shouting
"Your first fight will be your last"
They know that I'm no paladin
I'll never be
Revealed
Revealed
Revealed
Cause it'll be revealed
It'll be revealed
It'll be revealed, revealed, revealed, revealed
Revealed, revealed, revealed, revealed
Revealed
I'm just a plastic shield
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3. |
Important
03:14
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Well most girls, they dream of unicorns
Just as guys, they dream of holoporn
And both know not to get too forlorn
That those don't exist
But you never were one to compromise
For lesser dreams that crowds devise
The passing desires of passersby
Wishing substance out of mist
I am on firmament, you are on fire
You are a human and I am a liar
In your diamond eyes I am nothing important
To be tossed by the riverside
I am a fighter and you are a cause
I am a writer and you're a mirage
But someday I swear I'll do something important
Or have less unconvincing lies
Well you've thought it through, and you know your place
Your role in saving the human race
The parts of life you will embrace
To live importantly
You've got the best of convictions
No need for museborn afflictions
No place for the happy fictions
Of charlatans like me
I am on firmament, you are on fire
You are a human and I am a liar
In your diamond eyes I am nothing important
To be tossed by the riverside
I am a fighter and you are a cause
I am a writer and you're a mirage
Someday I swear I'll do something important
Or have less unconvincing lies
Someday I'll die for my misguided mores
Foolish pretensions and ill-conceived forays
My life remembered as that most Pyrrhic
Of moral victories
Someday you'll see I'm a half-decent guy
Chivalrous self-deprecation aside
I want nothing more than to give you something
To shine in your memories
I am indomitable. I am a tiger
I am not an animal. I am not a liar
I am nothing short of a paragon of human folly
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4. |
The City
04:22
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From home in the middle of nowhere, we can see the city far off in the distance
We're not surprised by the size so much as by its very existence
The lights burn together, a singular crowd
Like a low-hanging sunset-backlit amber cloud
A lost soul trapped inside a golden shroud
With only a token resistance
Its promise fills the air
If we dare, we'll find the road leads there
As we move closer to the city, time speeds up slowly to a blur
A million lights turn day and night to more than they once were
There's so much to soak in, we could never again
Want to see something that's already been
Our moments get tired of waiting their turn to occur
I should feel chastened and austere
Seared with a sublime sort-of-fear
Because anyone who's anyone is here
And so are we
Then we rise from the streets to a sparkling suite in an unstained glass hotel
A lost ghost of a note kept afloat by the waves from a slow cymbal swell
And countless skyscrapers stretch in the same direction
Outracing the light from each others' reflections
Chasing the stars and following heaven
With unending stories to tell
I can't bring myself to sleep tonight
This tower of bones shines too bright
Must be a spectrum higher than light
Beyond ordinary sight
Only seen at this height
We should feel effacement and dismay
Like fireflies at a fireworks display
We should feel rhapsodical today
Like lost souls that finally found their way
Their way
But who could live amidst all this romance
When we can't take so much as one glance
Without falling into an ocean of light
Or heedless deerlike trance
To survive, we'd have to be jaded and witty
But we can't see wonder as deserving of pity
We'll always be new to this city
And we'll never stand a chance
Cause anyone who's anyone is here
And if we're not sure we're someone, we might disappear
Yes, anyone who's anyone is here
And we should feel frightened
And we should feel chastened
But we just feel surprised
That anyone can live here at all
Yeah, we look like some kids
Forever new to the city
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