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The Uncanny
02:31
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Every night, a lullaby
Whispered by the unknown
Revealing the unseen
Interferring with the flow
They were born in the dark
They cropped up when the walls came tumbling down
They were kept in the dark
Out of sight !
They took shape
In cold mist and burning steam
Haunting this open-eyed dream
As dense as ethereal
I'm embracing the surreal
Every night, they come around
Distraught, I got no control
See the bright paintings toned down
Rubbing out the vaninishing point
They were born in the dark
They cropped up when the walls came tumbling down
They were kept in the dark
Out of sight !
They took shape
In cold mist and burning steam
Haunting this open-eyed dream
As dense as ethereal
I'm embracing the surreal
Cold mist and burning steam
As dense as ethereal
Every night
Cold mist and burning steam
As dense as ethereal
Every night
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On this silent screen
03:19
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A blurry picture,
An arrow on a string,
Pulled from the stage, it pierces me, it pierces me.
As I'm turning over this
Unwatchable scene
Damocles warheads are still bloomin'
A distant place, infected by the rain
Black rain of shame sent by the king of pain
In front of those frames my feelings gain the upper hand
And I wait and wonder
I just wait and wonder
No !
A sad look slowly,
On this silent screen,
Get through the times. It reaches me, it reaches me
When the white flash burned the film
We disappeared
Black shadows on walls are still craving
A distant place, infected by the rain
Black rain of shame sent by the king of pain
In front of those frames my feelings gain the upper hand
And I wait and wonder
I just wait and wonder
No !
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The final blackout
03:49
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We obscured it to the sight
We banned the words which could describe it
This black and white depiction screams a truth, it reminds us that
We will leave our skins
We'll never win, never win, never win
We'd like to shut the time in a glass dome,
A capture of the last condition
We do not control, not control
Some purchased drinks 'n exhilaration
We'll spend the night
Waiting for the final blackout
Watch silly hopes in the stream
As they move with the swirls and hit the banks
Some of us will end their run in the next dam and will swim in sludge,
They won't reach the sea
We'll never win, never win, never win
We'd like to shut the time in a glass dome,
A capture of the last condition
We do not control, not control
Some purchased drinks 'n exhilaration
We'll spend the night
Waiting for the final blackout
A chess game against the dark
On an island that never sleeps at night
We'll close the book with no regret at all
But scream after the end
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Serendipity
02:47
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We were young, in a storm of never ending lies
Irony and fists for defence
Mocking values, ignoring evidence
We were running through the night
Overcoming fear, in defiance of what we should have learned in heavy books
Now,
We must supply our own light
One by one, they fall down in the dark
Now,
We hold a grudge for what we've been
Praying for, serendipity to come
We were strong, in spite of everything we went through
A pretend struggle
That turned to be a pretext for laziness
We were running through the night
Overcoming fear, in defiance of what we should have learned in heavy books
Now,
We must supply our own light
One by one, they fall down in the dark
Now,
We hold a grudge for what we've been
Praying for, serendipity to come
We took off the mask and the outfit
We took off the mask and the outfit
We took off the mask and the outfit
We took off the mask and the outfit
Now,
We must supply our own light
One by one, they fall down in the dark
Now,
We hold a grudge for what we've been
Praying for serendipity to come
With no regrets,
Sincerely yours,
With no regret at all, the curtain call
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No words
02:45
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Can't reach the form that needs to be,
Everything here's 'bout thoughts and doubt
Temptation and frustration's ground,
In this quicksand we drown
I wish I never back down
I wish I never back down
Nonsense sentences translate my groundless fears
I wish I never back down
I pray I never back down
To tell my worst dreads, my mouth's bringing up
No words No words No words No words
No words No words No words No words
We tried so much to extinguish
The fire that burns inside me
No more hard feelings to spread
With ashes for flesh and bones
I wish I'll never back down
I wish I'll never back down
Nonsense sentences translate my groundless fears
I wish I'll never back down
I pray I'll never back down
To tell my worst dreads, my mouth's bringing up
No words No words No words No words
No words No words No words No words
This buzzing noise will never end, will never end, it will never end
Until I faint, a gun in hand. How to deal with my own brain drain ?
A strange feeling I'll never think again, I'll never breath again
All these twisted words combined for nothing, for nothing
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Our deserted town
02:31
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A rusty taste on my tongue for years, no place for apologies
Time lets the barb-wire grow over our thin white fences
Hear the sound, hear the sound of the bombs tonight
Here's the sound, here's the sound of my voice
Each of the lines we've drawn, I've crossed out them all
Won't make the same mistake again, as you can see
Your enclave was wiped of the map on this yellow night
Our deserted town
A dusty wind blows on my sand table, no more traces of enemies
We've burned the past, plastered with mud, how did we get there ?
Here's the sound, here's the sound of my voice
Each of the lines we've drawn, I've crossed out them all
Won't make the same mistake again, as you can see
Your enclave was wiped of the map on this yellow night
Our deserted town
Each of the notes we wrote, I've trashed them all
Won't make the same mistake again, as you can see
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In a black box
03:36
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On a seat waiting for that willing suspension of disbelief, the reason we came here
Turn off the light
Recover sight
We're groping in the dark
Flickering night
Floating bright faces in close order watch the ghosts dance on the screen, shivers and thrills 'til they scream
Turn off the light
Recover sight
We're groping in the dark
Flickering night
Woooo
Everyone, 'n everynight,
In a black box, devoured by time
Everyone here's frighten to shut their eyes
In a black box, devoured by time
Tonight !
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Occulted times
03:22
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The white walls kept the happiness
Of a beloved child
Bodies escaped but not the mind
We hardly cleaned up the liquor store
To soil his blood
With nicotine and cheap red wine
I get it now, I write it ...
Somehow, medicine and drugs were useless,
Nothing else but ruins, they left
You keep restoring
As I pass by the reflection of a lost keepsake,
The distorted figure remains faceless
We just share an opened skin
I get it now, I write it down
The quill breaks with the weight of words
Black ink spread in
The marble veins of his memories
A palimpsest, a repentance
Occulted times
The manuscript was made of stains
Somehow, medicine and drugs were useless,
A different time, a different type, a different shape
Somehow, nothing else but ruins, they left,
A different time, a different shape
get it now, I write it down
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We drift along
02:46
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It's not like abandoning the ship
We crawl in search of lost time, just show me a grip
The tree house burns
The tree house burns
Day in, Day out
Lights off, we got nothing to hold on to
Day in Day out
We drift along
As we get older, the cracks draw the ground
Reasons step into the breach, you're building a new town above
The tree house burns
The tree house burns
Day in, Day out
Lights off, we got nothing to hold on to
Day in Day out
We drift along
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Could you please turn on the light,
This room became cold and dry
Something in the developing bath
Haunted and intricate path
His photographs, he swears, have never lied, they never lie
The spotlights dazzle the set
There is no more room to rest
A wind blows in the shooting script
From the attic to the crypt
This unexpected presence never dies, it will never die
Presencing absence by defeating distance,
They are "what has been", they are "what has been"
Can't leave this endless loop, this scary fiction
They are "what has been", they are "what has been"
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White noises
02:32
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From the deep, a sound
Your tone of voice that comes from the underground
That river of words
Snatches of sentences, distant verbs
My own denial
You still live in my own denial
You're breathing in my own denial
I know, deep within me
That you can't really die
Hope for a change
That turned out to be the worst of your nightmares
Blood has spread inside
The body you left, blue and white
My own denial
You still live in my own denial
You're breathing in my own denial
I Know deep within me,
That you can't really die
We're laughing, we're laughing, we're laughing
Tellin' you goodbye
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