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Brutalism
04:56
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All of this, it is a struggle
Constant hit or miss
Review the numbers
I don't think you're gonna like it
This darkness, it is a weapon
Watch you swing and miss
A world that threatens
I don't think you're gonna hide it
These fake concerns, self righteous faults
With no regard for your comfort
Now reaction to your thoughts
Rapid decay, desperate efforts
Are we acting less involved?
Worn away to the core?
I need to feel something brutal
Need to lose even more
Made up emergencies evolve
While embracing your discomfort
The compassion you were taught
You now consume, desperate efforts
Have your sins all been absolved?
Have you been cleansed to the core?
You need to feel something brutal
Need to lose so much more
You better stop looking
'Cause I don't think you wanna find it
All of this, a competition
Is it sinking in?
We live to regret
I don't think you're gonna like it
Nothing's the same anymore
This silence here cannot last
We are spread so thin
This storm destroys all in its path
Upon this world, we're not trapped
But we're held within
I'll do anything to make it last
This silence here cannot last
We are spread so thin
This voice destroys all in its path
Upon this world, we're not trapped
But we're held within
I'll do anything to make it last
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2. |
Never Learn
03:44
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You were the one who never had to learn
You were the one who always had
You were the one to always inflict the burn
Desperate for fun that you never had
Now stretch the moment here
Before it's all destroyed
Refine sensations
As outsiders claimed we've toyed
With fragile versions of ourselves
We have employed
To hide the shame that our intelligence
Belies irrelevance
You were the one who never had to earn
You were the one who always had
You were the one who felt you missed your turn
Desperate for meaning that you never had
Our intelligence belies our irrelevance
These dreams, delusions that we will into existence
It use to matter when we spoke about resistance
Only this punishment secured with your persistence
Don't think it matters at all
Don't think we matter at all
You'd hope that life would add some value to existence
Delusions manifest as hope within resistance
This bitter end will come no matter your persistence
Don't think this matters at all
Do these thoughts matter at all?
Now stretch the moment here
Before it's all destroyed
Refine sensations
As outsiders claimed we've toyed
With fragile versions of ourselves
We have employed
To hide the shame that our intelligence
Betrayed us all
You disappear
As the years they now do turn you into stone
And bind your hands
You live in fear of the fear that will return
As you descend
The conceit of man
You were the one who never had to learn
You were the one who always had
You were the one, upon a world that soon will burn
Now we become...
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Tragedy of the Commons
04:59
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In three years this will have all felt like a dream
I was never really here
There's no need to glean the memory that we did meet
And you may think of me here
You may think of me there
But you never really can be sure
If I ever did exist at all
No sense of loss to confirm the facts
Embrace the tragedy
How it seems our wisdom lacks empathy
A voice will beckon "Come and see"
We embrace each other so selfishly
We can't manage to raise our eyes
And meet the gaze of those we left behind
Oh embrace, embrace the tragedy of the commons
And those who are yet to be
In three years you won't be sure what this all means
I was taken somewhere else
There's no mystery
No complications to how this seems
And all the subsequent hours in the mirror you stare
Missing a presence that you can't recall
Are you witnessing your mind dissolve?
Or is survival not a conscious act?
Why hasn't this sparked a craze?
Would someone please just explain this better to me?
My hope is lost in a maze
Would someone please separate this terror from me?
Just stay aware in this place
Please stay aware in the face of it all
Just take your path and retrace
Oh in the darkness...
You may think of me here
You may think of me there
But you never really can be sure
If I ever did exist at all
If we ever did exist at all
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4. |
The Glow
04:53
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And we're coming of age
As if we should know what to do with it
And we're laying them down
We'll decide for ourselves when we're through with it
And we're liars if we say we won't do it again
Now they're reading our name
Pretending they know what to do with it
They just savor the glow
This light shines from below
We may tell them to slow
If we weren't enjoying the show
It's the only way that we know
And we carry this rage
As if we were seeking revenge for this
Place the beast in the cage
And pass out the sticks
Now, here make a fist
And we're liars if we said this was affecting our bliss
Then they count it all up
They rank it and gawk
Then they all dismiss
Always awaiting the glow
This light shines from below
We may tell them to slow
If we weren't enjoying the show
It's the only way that we know
And they send down the word
As if the herd knew what to do with it
It all was so far away
There's nothing that could've been done for this
And we're liars if we say we soon should be seeing the end
Now we sit in the dark
Creating the sparks in this powder keg
We're always craving the glow
This light shines from below
We may tell them to slow
If we weren't enjoying the show
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5. |
Drift Apart
01:21
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6. |
Decadence
02:04
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I bathe here now in pure red light
Expecting visions
Floating, carrying monuments that bear my name
A stinging wound
A pain that's marrying the loss I've felt
The weight upon the muscles built from years of ferrying
Those who love, from distance born
While time I've wasted myself burying
I'm frozen now 'fore two red eyes
Expect absence
Darkness, permanence
From which sky do I fall within?
Refuse to wake
The sentient decadence
I bathe here now in pure black night
Reset the standard
Feel no difference
Request now that you fall behind
Drift apart and find new relevance
Find new relevance
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7. |
Find New Relevance
01:37
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8. |
The Companion
03:56
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I'm speaking to you
My one an truly only friend
If you're hesitating for the truth
On me you know you can't depend
And you still find a way to carry on
Burdened by the things I've sent
A clouded mind finds a way
To focus on everything I won't withstand
I'm speaking to you
My one an truly only friend
Begging for your absence
Even though I know I must pretend
And I know you always say
Communication is a sign that all is lost
But you still find a way to hold my attention
But we soon shall know the cost
I'm speaking to you
My one an truly only friend
Surrounding, passing through me
Recognize you need a love to end on
I'm speaking to you
My one an truly only friend
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THE WELL TEMPERED Chicago, Illinois
The Well Tempered is the music of Robert Bock.
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