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Roses for Ruins

by Lief Hall

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1.
Dark Seed 06:56
Nature, was I born at a loss Was I mistaken to think I could give it up Maybe it’s a dark seed planted too deep inside me Its buried far below but I water it constantly Cause every time I thought I’d escaped it It just keeps coming back up And every time I thought I could break it It just keeps coming back up Is it a tragedy, a tragedy? Is it a tragedy? I hide it in the dark, never let the enemy win Because its only human nature to hurt the ones who let you in Whispered in silent violence against women It’s in the history of powers corrupt So I shut the walls around me And open myself wide up Cause every time I thought I’d escaped it It just keeps coming back up And every time I thought I could break it It just keeps coming back up Oooh ooh ooh oh oh oh oh Oooh ooh ooh oh oh oh oh Is it something deep inside A dark seed I can’t see I try to drown it out But I water it constantly Is it something deep inside A dark seed I can’t see I try to drown it out But I water it constantly Oooh ooh ooh oh oh oh oh Oooh ooh ooh oh oh oh oh
2.
I was an open plain Let you wander my terrain Season’s time brings season’s change Suspicion’s gaze in your eyes brings Cool winds blade to the open skies I gather the ruins of your attacks Build walls around me To keep it from coming back And will I ever fall in love again? Or maybe I build up too many defences Will I ever fall in love again? Or maybe I build up too many defences From you, from you, from you, from you From you, from you, from you, from you Blood spills, turns to roses Thorned and jagged art Of growing in the dark To keep in my fear The roots grow so deep and high They will bury my body Foreshadow forgotten skies And will I ever fall in love again? Or maybe I build up too many defences Will I ever fall in love again? Or maybe I build up too many defences From you, from you, from you, from you From you, from you, from you, from you From you, from you, from you, from you From you, from you, from you, from you Cold as ice, couldn’t feel Wasn’t right, wasn’t real Cold as ice, couldn’t feel Wasn’t right, wasn’t real Cold as ice, couldn’t feel Wasn’t right, wasn’t real Cold as ice, couldn’t feel Wasn’t right, wasn’t real Cold as ice, couldn’t feel Wasn’t right, wasn’t real Cold as ice, couldn’t feel Wasn’t right, wasn’t real Cold as ice, couldn’t feel Wasn’t right, wasn’t real Cold as ice, couldn’t feel Wasn’t right, wasn’t real Cold as ice
3.
Paper Ash 06:51
We dug for power in the ground Built this prison to be free If we keep searching to destroy Paper Ash will be our only legacy And we’re always running into the night with fists of fire Can there be another good decision here? And we’re always running headstrong into the violence There must be another new direction here Search the numbers for your answer Ascending order to bind the hands Laid your conscience down with death’s last rights It was buried in the burning oil sands And we’re always running into the night with fists of fire Can there be another good decision here? And we’re always running headstrong into the violence There must be another new direction here We are stars turned to flame We are dust Return to earth our last remains We are dust We are stars turned to flame We are dust Return to earth our last remains We are dust We are dust, we are dust We are dust, we are dust
4.
Lead Blood 07:15
All my, my fear Will be brought to you here, as machine I do believe, I’m still alive When memories trace is code in database Will you hunt me? I cannot go back to that lie And I can’t run on low forever No, there’s no rule for you You see the object, in every body consumed You are the one, they call the running blade Your battle cries cost is just lead blood lost like tears in the rain And who will cry for lead blood lost like tears in the rain All the wars you won forgotten like tears in the rain All the gold you claim forgotten like tears in the rain Like tears in the rain Like tears in the rain Like tears in the rain Like tears in the rain Like tears in the rain Like tears in the rain
5.
The truth it laid, for centuries Locked inside, the bed rock In chambers deep, pressure builds With heat, we rise Crystalline With molten cores Earth DNA, solidified We Rise We Rise We won’t be denied We won’t, we won’t We won’t be denied We won’t, we won’t We won’t be denied We won’t, we won’t We won’t, we won’t We won’t, we won’t The truth it comes Electrified With fire, with gas With mineral With water, with salt We cleanse our minds We see into the future lives With bodies of glass Obsidian, the time has come We Rise We Rise We won’t be denied We won’t, we won’t We won’t be denied We won’t, we won’t We won’t be denied We won’t, we won’t We won’t, we won’t We won’t, we won’t
6.
I can feel your ghost beside me, visions I keep Isolated moments in my mind, light dance and repeat We grew old within stills we stole Breathe with fiction’s refrain Reflections cast like scattered ash To mourn our last remains And you play the holy father saint And I play the penitent child ashamed And you play the hard but decent man And I play the corrupter of your command But I can feel your ghost beside me I can hear your voice whisper softly I can feel your breathe upon me It almost feels like truth I’ve given up on us But you’re the only one who wakes me up And I’ve given up on us But you’re the only one who wakes me up And it haunts me, it haunts me It haunts me, it haunts me But you never really learned to love You lost something inside you You lacked something inside you (x4) And it haunts you, it haunts you And it haunts you, it haunts you And it haunts me, it haunts me And it haunts me, it haunts me And it haunts me/you, it haunts me/you And it haunts me/you, it haunts me/you And it haunts me/you, it haunts me/you And it haunts me/you, it haunts me/you
7.
Snakes 08:10
Words are silent, in your eyes I find, the fault line Gather figures, pull them in Recreate, negotiate No need for, kind regards Tell me strait, what is my mistake Shape the shapes inside Shapes laid deep in my mind Shape the shapes inside These are the shapes of my life Shapes laid deep inside Hey heya, hey heya Hey heya, hey heya Shape the shapes, you create Construct, the perfect Shine the illusion, form the veil Make believe, its reality Find the facts, bring them back Tell me lines, to draw the shapes of my life Shape the shapes inside Shapes laid deep in my mind Shape the shapes inside These are the shapes of my life Shapes laid deep inside Snake, snake Snake, snake Snake, snake Snake, snake
8.
You feel a loss of the good inside Wanna leave it all behind You see the hunger and the pain Of people lost in time And it’s not an easy job Living in this world Things look quite the same when your staring at the void Come closer Come to me Everything’s gonna be alright If we just shut our eyes And learn to be How lovely it would be For two bodies to breathe To lose ourselves in time Forget reality It’s not an easy job Living in this world But we can find some comfort In the physical, oh oh oh Come closer Come to me Everything’s gonna be alright If we just shut our eyes And learn to be I’d forgotten, what it’s like to breath Let’s get closer, let’s leave behind the cruelty I’d forgotten, what it’s like to breath Let’s get closer, let’s leave behind the cruelty And If I fall to sleep Will I wake from this dream? And I forgot the world when I fucked you

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released April 6, 2018

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