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Atrophy
05:20
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Atrophy
It’s time to look close, It’s time to reflect
It’s time to get checked all that’s above the neck
Are the lucky ones those who are never even born at all
the colour’s been bleached from out of the eyes
The marrow has started to caramalise
As I perish inside, everyone else seems to thrive
And I cannot decide what it is to be alive.
I crawl into myself
I crawl into myself
I crawl into myself
Living is just not enough
it’s just not enough
A mind is a terrible thing to be lost.
But a mind is a terrible thing, full stop.
I cannot control the input and output commands
A lesion exists on the tissues that lie
On the brain that once lived but long since atrophied
As I perish inside, everyone else seems to thrive
Still I cannot decide what it is to be alive.
I crawl into myself
I crawl into myself
I crawl into myself
Living is just not enough
it’s just not enough
Raise your pulse
Breath to waste
The time is ripe
But still we sit and wait
It’s gone but still we wait
For nothing, nothing, nothing,
Stop.
It’s time to look close, It’s time to inspect
the smallest of worlds where the miracle’s kept
As I cherish this life everyone else seems to die
Still I cannot decide if what I am feeling’s alive
No I cannot decide What it is to be alive
No I cannot decide what it is to be alive
© 2011 The Doppler Shift
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2. |
The Emotion Machine
05:17
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The Emotion Machine
I’m tired
I’m tired
Of more of the same
Enough is enough
Show me where to get off
Back to planet Earth
With a bump
Back to back mistakes
No rewinds or retakes
As the illusion starts to fade
I awake
Is this it?
Is this it?
There’s no reason left to exist
As the voice inside you
Screams for more
My world by design
My thoughts come to life
And all that I’ve lost
Is here by my side
A new season arrives
New colours defined
And all that I need’s in my mind
In my mind
I’m wired
I’m wired
My heart beats with the machine
It learns from my mistakes
It counters every move I make
The only path of my escape
Is to awake
Is this it?
Is this it?
There’s no reason left to exist
Is this it?
There’s no reason left to resist
As the voice inside you
Screams for more
And we’ll be safe here
And we’ll be safe here
We’ll be safe here
In love
© 2011 The Doppler Shift
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3. |
Path of Least Resistance
06:04
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Path of Least Resistance
It’s killing me day by day
From the comfort,
Of my own home
I’m a man in a coma
Wake me up when it’s over
I find it hard
To make it count when it matters
But it always matters
There’s nothing left
We’re just silhouettes in the dark
You were there
And now you’re not
I wish I was
As invisible as you make me
Feel inside
I’m a man in a corner
But I can’t live here any longer
It was another life
But there’s no point blaming the past
Let the waters rise
This breath’s your last
And I follow you down, down, down
To the river bed as it floods this house
It’s time you saw
That you and me are connected
On the inside
I don’t want to be sobre
Just wake me up when it’s over
Behind these eyes
There are tripping wires
Let the water rush in
To kill these fires
In another life
There were butterflies there were sparks
Then it swallowed you up
And the world went dark
And I follow you down, down, down
To the river bed as it floods this house
I Let the poison sea wash over me
And in your arms I drown
© 2011 – The Doppler Shift
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4. |
Held by Glass
03:58
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Held by Glass
A disappointment to yourself,
A disappointment to the ones you love,
It seems you can’t be helped.
Hold in your breath displace your weight,
Imagine yourself as small as you can,
As fractures spit then break.
Your life’s not something special
You are all just moments in the dust.
You can’t get off this rock,
You’re held by glass just like the rest of us.
A thought that gets under your skin,
That old familiar sense of someone else,
Watching from within.
Those hands weren’t made to save you,
They’re made to let you slip and watch you fall,
Your inevitable fall.
Your life’s not something special
You are all just moments in the dust.
You can’t get off this rock,
You’re held by glass just like the rest of us.
© 2012 The Doppler Shift
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The Man Who Was Forever Haunted by His Head
Put your hands in my hands
Guide me
I don’t understand
Myself
Bang goes a flash then
Crash goes the life I know
I hope
You’re world goes up in smoke
Put your lips on my lips
Remind me
Of all the good that exists
Unseen
Bang goes a flash then
Crash goes the world I know
And here’s the joke
I am my last hope
Demon
Be gone
This sickness can’t go on
Fair Weather
Friend
Farewell this tale must end
Because in stars
We’re born
In they’re death new life can form
Reach out
Reach out
Beyond this mortal form
Reach out
Reach out
And let thy world be gone
© 2012 The Doppler Shift
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6. |
Legion of Decency
04:24
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Legion of Decency
I’m all you hate
Yet forgive me
I am all you have
And yet you forget me
One kiss from me will kill you
One bite will heal
Inside of my cells swims
The infinity
I’m the seam between
The material life and the dream
I’m the face in the mirror
But which one’s the reflection,
Which one’s the reflection
You’re talking a lot but you’re telling me nothing
I cut you off at the source but you keep on coming
You stick in my head and you’ll live there forever
Forever and ever.
And in your despair
It be waiting to meet you there
The thoughts that you’re hiding
Are coming to get you, they’re coming to get you.
They’re talking a lot but they are telling you nothing
I’ll give the Devil his dues that fucker keeps on coming
He sticks in your head and he will be there forever
Forever and ever.
It’s sleepy time, but before I go
I would like to call for heads to roll
Let them burn, let them burn
They have no souls
Let them burn, let them burn
They are animals
They don’t feel what we feel
To the earth they return
Let them burn
© 2011 The Doppler Shift
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7. |
Wilderness
04:15
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Wilderness
The worst has passed,
The streets survive,
Through the fog, In the darkness
You were there tonight.
It’s good to have
You back again.
Let it hurt, Let it hurt
So I feel Something.
Our hands pressed up
To meet the glass,
But our fingertips
Will never touch
© 2012 The Doppler Shift
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8. |
The Lost Art of Living
05:25
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The Lost Art of Living
Let the last living soul be enlightened
And as he walks with his god through the dead
Watch as he begs for their lives
In exchange for the thoughts in his head
I confused all my power for wisdom
It seems not all the great minds think alike
And all of my riches were stolen
So I had to face what’s inside
So pour me a double, fetch me the bottle
Until all my troubles are gone
Because I’ve hit the bottom
But the bottom won’t hold me for long
And they all hold me down and watch as I drown
I’m their light bearing angel hurled down
To the ground
Is it better to be loved than feared
To keep your enemies near and your god
Away from here
And now that I’ve caught your attention
I assume that you’ll all listen well
Then return to your homes and your lives
and slowly slip back under the spell
For in trying to kill off your demons
You killed off your angels instead
Now you feel like your trapped in the moment
You feel like your not in your head
So pour me a double now fetch me the bottle
Who gives a fuck anymore
Because I’ve hit the bottom
But the bottom won’t hold me for long
So let’s all be saved
© 2011 – The Doppler Shift
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