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Fracture
03:21
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Your precious time
While in the darkness my smile
With this stirring in the depths
You cannot just accept the dilemma
No not yet
The nothing up here
Is something to fear
Used to haunt you with a touch
Yet imprisoned in your blood
What you wonder
Where you begun
All these questions without answers
Intentions like a monster
It's convincing but there's something
Starts off as a fracture
Then grows a reaction
Doubts and pressure
Gone with a fracture
(Willing victim)
(Don't resist them)
(From a fracture)
(A disaster)
Oh, the terror in your eyes
But this feeling you pushed aside
Is leaking through the cracks
You can't cement them back
I'll take over
Don't attack
Or fight me
I will tear right through
Destroying anything of you
Yet you're fighting with yourself
You're ripped to shreds it hurts like hell
Like a burning no one can tell
You'll just say
Numbness that I'm used to
I'll just do what I'm good for
Pins and needles in my skull
Well it started off as a fracture
Then grew a reaction
You can't win war
Not without a fracture
Painted like a silhouette
Like hollowness I can admit
Yet my smile makes you bow before me
For I come to deceive you
Banish you of all reason
Willing victims can't resist them
Don't let your eyes deceive
Cause' will they see vulnerability
When you go out on your knees
Cause it started off as a fracture
Then grew this disaster
Just accept it with me
Your fracture
Started off as a fracture
Then grew a reaction
Guess it's gone now
Gone cause of the fracture
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2. |
Villain
05:06
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Ribcage is ablaze
Heart a scorched hole
All I taste a burnt haze
Am I in control?
My mind turns to steam
I'm kneeling at your feet
Infest my bloodstream
But this red is all I see
Is all I see
Don't play with matches
That's what mother said
To light it I'm tempted
But I guess you know best
Cause' I would defend you
So I guess I'll push it aside
I would protect you
I lost the privilege of talking
the moment you lit the fire
So any last words
What?
A villain's tale is never told
A villain's song is never sung
A villain's perspective is far too cold
A villain's side is always wrong
Do you believe that's who I am
Monsters don't deserve the title of human
When their consciousness is poisonous
Their toxicity lies
In smoke in mirrors do I hide
Patience
Something which we all possess but
Won't hold
But these flames you're planting just seem
To grow
The fumes alone could drive a person mad
If you
Want a villain then I could
Provide one
Just say please and with one blink it
Will be done
Yet something that you'll never understand
A villain isn't always bad
Oh, don't you dare pollute me again
The smog covers my eyes
You're hurting me
Please, you're burning me
The embers ignite inside
These mistakes that you've made
Pushing me 'ward the hell pit
Perhaps I'll rise aflame
Is all I see
But
A villain can't ever be good
A villain's thirst is only quenched with blood
A villain is never misunderstood
Oh no, a villain would kill again if they could
But right now I don't care what you believe
I'm not a toy, but you disagree
You're forcing me to sympathise
The gas inhaled, my bones now frail
My eyes now veiled, I apologise
Treading
Over the ash left behind from
Last time
Ignoring and obscuring all the
Past signs
And burying them down inside my core
Furnace
Set alight and now my view is
Smoking
Yet why should a monster be a
Victim
When for you they can survive the fall
I'm not the villain
Just like you I feel
I am a person
So why do you insist on this
Delusion
No need for us to play pretend
Why am I always the villain
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Witness Protection
03:48
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If to hide the eyes meant to cover it all
If the trials time wasn't suicidal
If the only kind of defensive action
Is to concede prosecution
Yet multiple terms of confusion
Play the fool the lasting solution
Jury rules then breaking of order
Objection your honour
Court now in session
All right bloodied hands
Raise to the heavens
Tongue is blackjack
This evidence makes no sense
Cause where's the witness
Whoever stole the mind must've kept an arm
Once upon a time bliss was raged with qualms
Out the door the death of a lawyer
Well carry on cause it's not important
It's taken sides, there's a thief among the
Flies around the metallic aroma
Look around there's a stench of dishonour
Remember you are under oath
Court now in session
Who bears the sins in
Oath to heaven
Tongue is blackjack
This evidence makes no sense
Without a witness
So make a statement
Cause judgement day
Dictates direction
Tongue is blackjack
From this program
Out of council
So unlawful
So unlawful
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Pandora
02:13
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Why did it have to come to this
Forced my hand to blind myself yet I still missed
The curse is only mine to live with
Oh, I couldn't help but see the signs
Why couldn't I ignore them like last time
Just had to let it ignite
I don't think the box can hold much more
So move away or else you will get scorched
Curiousity is always my downfall
But life won't stop just because my feet are sore
Hope is all it can contain
Just don't expect it to obey
To the chaos it is bound to create
But I get the feeling it's too late
Fire
Chaos surges out and now there's
Fire
I try to trap but it bursts back it's
Fire
I try to flee but it drowns me in
Fire
Fire
I catch a glimpse, try to resist but
Fire
Creates a spark within the dark and
Fire
It rises up and now I'm stuck in
Fire
Fire
Shattered all control consumed in
Fire
Through it's eyes, I baptise in the
Fire
Now forever haunted by it's
Fire
Fire
I, Pandora, stood no chance with
Fire
Now I'm the villain you desired
Unhindged and cracked, we both are bound in
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Disaster
03:37
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The promise I made to never get played
This crown to this chest
Yet something seems to snatch it away
Don't underestimate my experience
There are thrones to build and towers to instill
Not much by appearance
All these rocks thrown to try and counteract
The avalanche that's coming, but it's funny
Cause' they'll rain back
I hope you're smiling
I hope you're smiling now
I hope you're smiling
That what you've done has turned me to ruin
So I hope you're crying
I hope you're crying now
I hope you're crying
Cause' then it's you, not me
The beautiful disaster
(Willing vicitim)
(Don't resist them)
(From a fracture)
(A disaster)
Not even a fracture could predict what happened
That the castle would be turned to dust by one atom
And even when the gates were on lockdown
The trojen horse returned to pilage to steal this crown
What could be gained
Who belongs to blame
Perhaps there should be a duel just to see who deserves this pain
Well I hope you're healing
I hope you're healing now
I do hope you're healing
But that's not fair when you're the one who cut me
So I hope you're bleeding
I hope you're bleeding now
I hope you're bleeding
From gashes filled with ash
The beautiful disaster
I hope you're happy
I hope you're happy now
I hope you're happy
That life without me
Is beautiful
Without disaster
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Elizabeth J. Birch Birmingham, UK
Elizabeth J. Birch is an undefined glitch, with an extensive musical skill set and idiosyncratic operating system.
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