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by THE WELL TEMPERED

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1.
Brutalism 04:56
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
2.
Never Learn 03:44
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...
3.
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
4.
The Glow 04:53
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
5.
Drift Apart 01:21
6.
Decadence 02:04
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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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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released June 1, 2019

Written & performed by Robert Bock
Live drums performed by Craig Borchers
Live drums recorded by Greg Henkin
Mastered by Collin Jordan at The Boiler Room
Cover layout by Matthew Tenney

TWT live is:
Craig Borchers
Eric Olsen
Robert Bock

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The Well Tempered is the music of Robert Bock.

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