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Lurker
05:09
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Don’t look back
Are we alone, left to rot and wither in the cold?
Can we hope for a life in circles, never growing old?
Believe; embrace the stories living in the sand
Release; and trace the echoes buried by your hand
Release the stories living in the sand
Don’t look back
I'll breathe while I can feel
Nothing
Unravel these wires surrounding my mind
Truth be told, I can feel it coming and my fear begins to wane
And you don’t know that I am one and the same
I want nothing less:
To be cursed in you, the crimson baroness
I want nothing less
Be cursed in you as the legends predict
Remove what is left
Feed the ashes to mortal men
I want nothing less
Built from you, the dead hand that we give
Are we alone, left to rot and wither in the cold?
Can we hope for a life in circles; never growing old?
Believe; embrace the stories living in the sand
Release; and trace the echoes buried by your hand
Release the stories living in the sand
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Acclaim
04:16
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Don’t let anybody in; it’s not part of the plan
Sustain the innocence of holding on to an invented condition
Don’t hold back as you preach the sin, a promise made to your constituents
Dig in and expand the division; power gained in a sheltered position
It starts with one; it’s come undone
Let them burn at every single stage until they fade away
Suffocate the dignity
Impurity
One more name to feed the fire; burn without an ounce of grace
So long, the crude and vile drew no question to their fate
How have you paved a way to feed on those less than half your age?
All acclaim you take and take while the victims bleed until their dying days
It starts with one; it’s come undone
Let them burn at every single stage until they fade away
Take back all of your signs from those supporting your kind
Abandon your vicious right, and stand down from the spotlight
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Coming alive: creator, you’ve opened these eyes
Though the heat in your veins is much different than mine
Mysterious signs: the process begins inside
Conventional form will complete the design
I guess I’ll keep moving if that’s what I'm supposed to do
I guess I’ll keep moving if that’s all this is coming to
Revelation: calculated indecision is a standard progress
Complications: proven methods can’t explain the variation in concept
Pull the plug
Take it back to the way it was
No knowledge in the reservoir
Erase the chaos, escape the fog
Pull the plug
The sight; the sound
Look to the evidence
The trite; the scowl
Surrounded by consequence
My structures remain, but my center of gravity fades
What difference could it possibly make?
We’re one and the same
I’ve taken a name: one piece that I can’t pull away
So where do the others fit into place?
Where is my place?
I guess I’ll keep moving if that’s what I'm supposed to do
I guess I’ll keep moving if that’s all this is coming to
Revelation: calculated indecision is a standard progress
Complications: proven methods can’t explain the variation in concept
Pull the plug
Take it back to the way it was
No knowledge in the reservoir
Erase the chaos, escape the fog
Pull the plug
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Glass
04:03
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Little window let the sunlight in
Show me what I need
Won’t you get in side my head?
Sometimes I can’t keep it out
Sometimes I kick it around
Sleepless night, lie awake in a dream
Bloodshot eyes, can you reach the machine?
Faceless man at the end of the scene
Familiar stance, could it be me?
Sleepless night, lie awake in a dream
Bloodshot eyes, become the machine
Little window made of broken glass
I know it’s bound to hurt but I know I'm coming back
Sometimes I can’t keep it out
Sometimes I kick it around
It doesn’t feel like it matters
Somehow it keeps me from breaking myself
No it’s never enough
I’ll bet on the blade, make the deepest cut
No holding back
Bury my debt to each setting sun
No it’s never enough
Suspending my age while I make it up
No going back
Open the gates to release the flood
No it couldn’t be…
Another sleepless night, lie awake in a dream
Bloodshot eyes, become the machine
Sometimes I can’t keep it out
Sometimes I kick it around
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Disconnect, return to life
The quiet breath you hear at night
Dark intentions open every door
The worst of what we are, we always were
Turn to dust
I breathe so deep, this iron lung begins to rust
The Deceiver is with me
He guides as my right hand
The Master of Illusion
In the light, not shadows
The Sinister Snake with two faces
Show me them both as you shed your filthy skin
Brick by brick, a stable fix
Walls collapsed and torn apart
Break the stitch; trade wax for wick
The echoes of a steady heart
Turn and run
Keep yourselves undone
The blame is not on us
God doesn’t answer me anymore
I’m starting to think that he never did
I still cry out sometimes into the dark of night
Into the blackened deep hoping something changes
But it’s been ten years, and he refuses to speak
God is dead… Or he never was
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Shadow King
03:58
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Why do we pretend?
Please my friend sedate the beast inside my head
What else could we defend?
Oh god my friend, be near me when it comes to an end
While you toss and turn, I grind your teeth
You’ll always need me, you’ll always need me
And I need your mind, it’s mine to keep
Throw me another line, I’ve been dying to meet
While you toss and turn, I grind your teeth
You’ll always need me, you’ll always need me
And I need your mind, it’s mine to keep
Throw me another line, I’m everything you want to be
Freeze…
Raise your head
It’s only the radio waves tuning out
Fading every word you say
I’m you, and I’m me, and I’m everything you want
I’m you, and I’m me, and I’m everything you want to be
I’m you, and I’m me, and I’m everything
What a test we’ve been
Seven years have gone, my friend
Touch my skin I’m taking you away
But what of the mess I’ve made?
It’s all I am
Seven years, what’s one more day?
Raise your head
It’s only the radio waves tuning out
Fading every word you say
No, but the king in me won’t turn away so easily
Until I’m no longer in shadow, no more the contained
Until the day I am free, you’ll always need me
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There’s a needle in your lifeboat and you’re trying to keep from going under
The feeling that you might choke: suddenly it’s taking over
Better hope that you will stay afloat because the water is rising
Watch it float away
Don’t believe me?
Can’t you feel it getting old?
We all stay the same
All contingency has stalled
You’re all alone
The hymn of time; the air I breathe
The lurker preys upon my sleep but struggles to hold
He speaks in serpents tongues
A whisper of her soul
The devilish structure latches onto my bones
Pulsing inside of me, rip and birth
Under the waves you are born
Gripping earth, demand, improve
Planted roots don’t share your stench
Wither and wilt
This home we have built will outlast us all
The castle will fall
Wither and wilt
This home we have built will outlast us all
The castle will fall
Watch it float away: a burden greater with the weight of every stone
We all stay the same, and every question makes itself unknown
There’s a needle in your lifeboat and finally you're going under
The fever that you let go; the weight that you believed was severed
Now you'll rot and wither in the cold, and the water is rising
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The Earth and I
04:15
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Now I am lost, and for once it doesn’t matter that I’m gone
With an open mouth I’m racing toward the sun
How does it taste?
Escape, if only just this once
On my breath alone it carries on and on
Turn the earth on its side
Run from the night (ride)
Turn the earth on its side
Run away from the night
What a way to survive
How will it taste when the earth and I collide?
Fading; something is shaking down below
With light escaping, I just make it on my own
The bed I have made is a place the hopeless would not want
On its breath alone I’m racing from the sun
Run from the night
The earth and I collide
Fading; something is shaking down below
With light escaping, I just make it on my own
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Lurker (instrumental)
05:09
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Acclaim (instrumental)
04:16
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Glass (instrumental)
04:03
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Artificial Construct is an experimental music project comprised of Taylor McGilvray and Steven Ostroske.
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