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All We Have
04:31
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Savoring this beauty before me
A still capturing my brief time in peace
Whether we bathe in the sun or the rain
We lose ourselves in gifts of beauty
It is all fleeting
And if we don’t pause, we lose it all
This is all we have
So, savor it before it’s gone
Before we’re all gone
And I am so blessed to have shared them with you
I hope to never forget all those times
But even if I lose those memories in age
I lived them
I felt all of them
And that is all I can ask for
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Yearning
04:46
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What happened to me?
I used to dream
Now I can only see through things, darkly
All around, life digs its claws into me
Unable to lose myself in myself
Bleeding away the bliss
I just… I... I miss it
The seriousness of a child at play
When time would leave me alone to be
When reality and dream weaved
Into a wonder-filled life that felt right
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Only Way Out
03:12
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We could be so beautifully wise
Yet our fears and tears leave us deaf and blind
As thousands of years before, thousands more will be the same
The only way out is to understand, and it seems we can’t
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Behind the Knife
03:44
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It never gets any easier
Another day, another problem
I get it
Life tore you apart from the start
All you know is to fend off the fear
With a bitter knife to save your life
We tell ourselves it’s not supposed to be this way
Unable to accept and cope with the pain
But let it go
Let all of your wounds close
And I’ll take life’s swings for you without a knife
To show you how to embrace the hits
Go ahead and drop your blade
I promise you that there’s another way
Look down into the knife
And you’ll see what’s behind
Peace cowering under bitterness
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Castles in the Sky
05:56
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All my life, creation’s been my home
Where catharsis led me
From childhood play to all the soundscapes
I’m going to miss it
Even though I’ll be long gone
This keeps me around
And even if no one ever hears this
At least I put all of myself into something
It’s all flawed one way or another
But it’s real; why wouldn’t it be?
Through all the joy and all the sorrow
I’ve found beauty
Even though I’ll be long gone
I appreciate you
And even if it all amounts to nothing
I meant all of it
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Ordinary Beauty
02:22
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A Darkened Corner
04:36
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Sometimes my soul is too weak
When it can’t bear the bitterness, it tries to flee
There is nowhere to go when fleeing is leaving all you’ve ever loved
I've learned from every mistake
Yet it is not enough to keep the peace
There is nowhere to go when fleeing is leaving all you’ve ever loved
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On Weathered Wings
02:51
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I couldn’t have known things would be this way
Who I am, what I’ve done, all the ways I’ve changed
Am I good enough?
How long do I have?
I can’t keep wasting my life in anxiety
Whatever will be, it will be
Might as well get used to uncertainty
I’ll take firm hold of my wings
But I won’t bother with where the wind takes me
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Letter from the Heart
04:18
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My sensitivity and fears weren’t always there
All of them were broken into me, one by one
You messed me up for the rest of my life
But I don’t need spikes on my deathbed
I forgive you
It doesn’t matter whether you deserve it
There’s just no life with hate in the heart
And this life is all I have
You messed me up for the rest of my life
But I don’t need spikes on my deathbed
I forgive everything
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Ghost of the Rose
04:49
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Time always finds us, takes us
Bittersweetly into the unknown
Looking back, we leave ourselves behind
I should have listened and loved
All that beauty withered 'cause of me
I am so sorry
With the withering rose
All beauty fades, and we’ll fade too
We become ghosts with the rose
And the artefacts of the artificers hold us all
In our eternal home
I’m just another ghost
Thank you for the time I’ve had to live at all
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11. |
All I Am
02:12
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