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Take It Or Live It
03:12
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Take It Or Live It:
Who said I wanted to be alive? You never asked me if I wanted this life. But you did it anyways, just because you could. Am I living out your dreams? “To be, or not to be” never belonged to me. And now I’m trapped inside this skin with your name, your face, your place. What did you want from me? Who did you want me to be? In a world with so much pleasure and so much pain. In a world with so much love and so much hate. We’re all just hostages with Stockholm Syndromes. I am only alive so I don’t make you cry. You’ve given me this life, so why can’t I take it?
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Love Less
03:25
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Love Less:
When I looked into your eyes, what did I really see? Was it you or was it me? Or who I wanted you to be? A missing puzzle piece I tried to make fit to fill this empty void and make me whole again. If seeing isn’t believing, then what are you even? Are you flesh or fiction? Or just my imagination? I’ll see what I want to see. They say, “You must love yourself to love someone else.” I guess that I have never truly loved.
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The Most Dangerous Game
04:07
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The Most Dangerous Game"
All you need is what? All is full of what? Love is all you need, but what about me? My heart marches on loved or unloved. No love will set you free. I once was loved but now am found. There’s nothing you can love that can’t (also) be loved. It’s just a fucking game I don’t want to play. Love is all you need, but what about me? If all is full of love, then why do I feel so empty? Love is selfless. Love is selfish. I can learn to play the game, but what’s a pawn to a queen? So who can I be to trick you into loving me? I want to know what is love without hate? I want to love everyone and no one. I want to love everyone or no one. If God is dead, then what is love?
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What Doesn't Kill You
03:04
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What Doesn’t Kill You:
Wake up. Pick your face up. Who is that man in the mirror staring back at me? I think I used to know your name. Did you ever find those wild things? Well they found me and now the sidewalk never ends. Some of us will be lost forever. Some of us don’t know we’re lost. I don’t wander anymore. Because sticks and stones, they broke my bones, but words can never heal me. What doesn’t kill me will make me stronger. So keep on punching, make me superhuman. I used to be the brightest light shining in the dark. But now I lie with shadows at night. I am the darkness in the light. Even the man in the mirror has gone.
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For All The Words I Never Said:
(Instrumental)
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For All The Chances I Never Took:
I’ll bite my tongue until it bleeds. I’ll stand in place while the world keeps spinning around and around, but not forever. For every bridge we build and every bridge we burn. For every last question and every last answer. I live my life with all of my regrets, so I can learn from all of my mistakes. Because I could die tomorrow, or I could die today. These could be my last words, so what the fuck am I waiting for? I know that we were born to die, but we were also born to be alive. Let there be light. Let there be life, in spite. Every mistake we make, one day will be erased.
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