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Run with the Hunted

by Run with the Hunted

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Introspective 01:39
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every light that shines will find a quiet place to die every truth we tell will eventually become a lie i try and i try and i try to understand but there is so much about this world and myself that i will never grasp there’s only so much i can say things can never be the same again i can never be the same
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Magna Cum Laude 03:08
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i've got a pretty piece of paper sealed in tempered glass hanging on my wall they told me it was a ticket on a one way road to success they told it was a guarantee but what they didn't tell me: it was a guarantee for a life spent slaving for my own greed cause it's really just a cog in a machine that's killing my mother just a bullet in a gun pointed straight at my father just a fucking collar i get to wear and you expect me to live like this? til’ i break my will to see another way til’ i'm tired, broken and empty just like them how do i tell them their entire lives were wasted? stolen from them by habit and routine perpetuated by their desire to breed in the end am i just a tool just a part of their machine? now i'm staring at my reflection and i don't know whether to feel proud or disgusted and you expect me to live like this: an old and broken man who said his piece who threw out the truth and let it die in the streets lived a life that he didn't want loved a wife that he'd rather have not keeping himself company between worn and weathered sheets a model constructed to copy and follow prescribed lies coated, fucking easy to swallow degrees of happiness like shades of gray never living a life just filling a series of days and you expect me to live like this? and you expect me to live like this? and you expect me to live like this.
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Double Zero (free) 03:16
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look into my eyes and tell me what you see reflections of the man that i used to be like the light from a star in a distant galaxy it took such a long time to reach me living in darkness. torn in half ripped apart at the seams exposed. alone. flesh ripped from bone this is what it's like to be me my body's all but forgotten how to tell joy from pain in the end it's all the same living in darkness. i wrap myself in sheets made of glass to disfigure this flesh to hide this pain to cover this mask inside i'm ugly outside i'm broken there exists a place between two worlds where the only colors are gray and shapes have no meaning i'm awake when i sleep and i dream beneath the sun but i feel no warmth, i'm the only one set me free let me wallow in this pain let me bask in its beauty at least i have control at least your life goes on there is no shame only truth in this misery
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Sycophant 01:49
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i used to want to succeed so i could realize my dreams but now i've got a new motivation forcing open your mouth and feeding you my frustration i want to watch you choke on the lines that you fed me pry open your jaw with the force that's required tear bone from tendon find the truth in a liar your carefully laid plans, all for nothing your tired aching hands, all for nothing your life so empty, you're missing something (it's me) and you cast a pretty tall shadow but now it's time to move on we're freezing and starving you're blocking out the sun for the rest of us but if i could have it any way what i really want more than anything is to watch you fail i want to watch you fail your silence so righteous come lay down besides us we sleep in a bed of nails
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Occam's Razor 02:22
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give me shelter, give me love give me pressure from above cause i can't shake the feeling you're on your knees for nothing so here's your chance to bathe me in light take my wrongs and make them right give me peace and give me war give me faith in something more just teach me how to believe show me what you see cause the only heaven i know is earthly and the only faith i found was blind so here's your chance to bathe me in light take my wrongs and make them right collective heads in the sand holding onto dreams with holes in your hands i want to be on the right side i want to feel righteousness can you promise me eternity? i want it all for all the world to see i want to know what i'm missing
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I will Make This World Without You 04:09
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so x marks the spot yah? x marks the spot where you left a piece of yourself to die extinct in an epoch when giants roamed the land casting shadows over clocks made useless and if we can't tell time we'll wait forever until distant words come together so plot a course yah? plot a course draw dotted lines right to the end but the spaces between reveal everything you never wanted me to know i stood knee deep in the mess you left me til' my bones filled with fluid drowning marrow it all soaked through, it always does and now the wrinkles and inseams stitch together a pretty portrait of right angles made by fools perfection is just another word for hopelessness and at this intersection standing on the edge of the earth we'll wait forever until the corners of this map eventually overlap
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Synesthesia 03:55
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i threw my voice to the wind and hoped it would carry enough weight to fall with grace, we're all falling all struggling, all suffering, all calling out for a place i'm just looking for answers but i found bodies writhing on the floor fingers grasping out for more desperate eyes straining longing for a vision abused hearts yearning for a final incision to cut away to the pain i ran my fingers through every blade of grass and every grain of sand as if it were the last of its kind because the world that i see now is a moment frozen in time like the calm before the storm the final scene of a crime a final testament to our failure a mouthful of bitter truth digested into lies bodies writhing on the floor fingers grasping out for more desperate eyes straining longing for a vision abused hearts yearning for a final incision to cut away to the pain when my body decays and my memory fades how else can i say? these words are all i have deepening with every passing breath slow absorption into tangled myths of self and soul delving through scars as seekers of solace carving through the chambers of the heart we scrape away memories hoping to heal but it never seems to end we are all struggling we are all suffering
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Silent Conversations 01:32
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i see the look on your face when you come home every night defeated and tired, no longer inspired the weight of the world has you pinned at the neck and i understand your position you did what you had to do and the selflessness shouldn't be confused with apathy you put all your faith in the future and that future was me but i'll never be what you want me to be don't expect too much from me you left me a world unfit to inhabit dead and dying, still i'm trying to swallow your failure it tastes so bitter fuck your generation and fuck posterity we were born to fall short so here's to you and yours a generation of never was we were born to fall short
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Signs of Life 03:24
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my eyes are tired but i could never close them tight enough to learn how to see their lies again i learned a lesson today and its begun to unmake me the beliefs that i carry have finally begun to break me look at what they make you give sacrifice your life to live and all i ever wanted was to ease their fear and pain now i've got nothing left who am i to complain? look at what they make you give sacrifice your life to live smother my will to try nurture my will to die the truth will set you free but it will weigh you down tired of the pain and tired of the questions tired of the journey, sick of the depression i stand before you, bent but not broken weak in the knees, silently outspoken i need this time to breathe need something new to believe because today i feel hopeless today i haven't got the strength to fight today i haven't got the strength tomorrow i might
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Silverfish 02:55
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if i told you nothing's ever good enough for me would you play judge or jury? if i said that i was happily unhappy would you even believe me? i'm just a cynic and i know it i'm just a liar disguised as a poet don't let me drag you down i'll run your dreams into the ground tear down the things that scare me keep my expectations low to prepare me for what i know will eventually come drawing maps inside my head so i know where to run i'm just a cynic and i know it i'm just a liar disguised as a poet don't let me drag you down i'll run your dreams into the ground i hide the truth in a mountain of lies i walk alone in a forest of eyes they see right through me you'd have to bend me to break me you'd have to unmake me to make me do it again, and i probably would stick a knife through these scars open up old wounds just to see what's inside see what i’m made of i could write a line to right a wrong and i could write a song so they could sing along but this path i walk is mine alone "heavy lies the crown"
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Reversal of Fortune 04:06
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i sold my faith to make this right i killed myself for you tonight what we leave behind is hardest to find so don't look back i left a mess the things that once moved me now cease to amuse me i traded happiness for honesty the things that once moved me now merely confuse me i miss the bliss of ignorance steady me, my hands are shaking silence me, my jaw is aching we think different thoughts inside of the same head we sleep on different sides of the same bed the things that once moved me now cease to amuse me i traded happiness for honesty the things that once moved me now merely confuse me i miss the bliss of ignorance there is a violence inside me this world has never known there is a hatred that guides me that i have never shown i found a piece of myself worth saving i'll learn to love it yet i found hope in imperfection i found comfort in death so lay me down and sing me to sleep when i wake up tomorrow, i will be free when the sun rises, i can finally be something more than me.

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released November 23, 2010

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