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Monsters in your closet, there's monsters in your bed
Monsters digging deeper they're living in your head
Monsters in your doorway and monsters from a hole
Monsters digging deeper, they're digging in your soul
You gotta run away or risk your fate or risk your life
Or try to meditate, evict those demons from your mind
But if you falter now, you know they'll take what you love best
Grab your revolver, vow to keep safe all the rest
Monsters in your closet, there's monsters in your bed
Monsters digging deeper they're living in your head
Monsters in your doorway and monsters from a hole
Monsters digging deeper, they're digging in your soul
My mind is playing tricks
Smokin' weed don't seem to help
Paranoia like this, I've never felt
I try to tune out, but it don't work
And I'm stuck with the same melody in my head
Sound like these demons are singing to me
And they sing in perfect harmony
Why these monsters come for me?
So wrongfully?
I didn't think they'd come back for me
So take your Novocain, and numb your wounded memories
Speak to your aching brain and put your darkest thoughts at ease
Welcome the monster love you've conjured in your beating heart
This is no place to stop, but its a place to start
Monsters in your closet, there's monsters in your bed
Monsters digging deeper they're living in your head
Monsters in your doorway and monsters from a hole
Monsters digging deeper, they're digging in your soul
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Limbo
04:43
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Shadows lengthened in the valley of the damned
As the sun began to set for the first time in 22 years
The girl had been attracted to the stillness of the pond
A hallowed place where the mists swallowed up the sounds
Thin rays of dusk pierced the green roof
Revealing the gold dust in the air
Everything in its right place
Even Monet's water lillies found life here
So, eager to taste the liquid mirror... she fell in
Her ripples ignited the waters around her
Light and warmth danced upon the broken stillness
She felt the grip of legions as
Colors bloomed from unknown depths and she was pulled ever downwards
The lights tickled her ears and for the first time she heard her own soul scream
In its struggle, the scream drowned and all that was left was music
Her body detached itself from the soul, writhing in ecstasy
And suddenly... There was nothing
Sticks and stones can't break these bones
And I can't find my way back home
No prison cell can hold my skin
Your padded rooms can't keep me in
My aching joints now turned to dust
My memories have turned to rust
No prison cell can hold my skin
Your bleeding heart can't keep me in
What is this place that I'm in
Don't know quite where to begin
All around me faces, I'll disappear
Starting over, vacant, but I'm still here
No more chains to hold me still
Fill my veins with man's good will
And up I'll go straight through the mist
I still don't know if I exist
The things I've done all this time
Leave me now like thoughtless crime
There's been no judgement for my sin
Your bleeding heart can't hold me in
What is this place that I'm in
Don't know quite where to begin
All around me faces, I'll disappear
Starting over, vacant, but I'm still here
As the pressing black bound her hands and feet
She realized that this darkness was some new kind of animal
It seeped into the cracks in her mind and left her numb
It blinded her and deafened her
She fought against the pressure, but to no avail
Time ceased to exist
All that remained were the memories
And with these memories she was left with the task of rebuilding
She was lost in limbo
I'm not falling anymore (repeated)
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Haunted Heart
03:55
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So listen to my words, a "once upon a time"
It was before my rise, when I was in a bind
You trapped me bright eyed and enslaved me with your word
You only told me lies, so that was all I heard.
Words of Poseidon, that you thought could hold the seas
I never lied or cried or weakened at the knees
Shifting from then to now, you're right in front of me
I stood the tests of time, and now I hold the key
My colors fade in sunlight, my bones begin to bleach
My haunted heart is counting time though its out reach
The promise of eternity, is right in front of me
My haunted heart is counting time just screaming to be free
You couldn't see me leaving, when I held your stare
They put me in the ground and you don't seem to care
I left my skin and bones, to wake you in your sleep
Gave you my haunted heart, but now it's mine to keep
I falsified a feeling, lives inside of me
I lost my vital signs; can't feel my body heat
Groove to the silent scene you painted in your art
So take me by the hand and heal my haunted heart
(My colors fade in sunlight) My bones begin to bleach
My haunted heart is counting time though its out reach
The promise of eternity, is right in front of me
My haunted heart is counting time just screaming to be free
Heal my haunted heart (repeat)
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Sonar
04:31
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Sounds can be deceiving
When notes become your soul
And what you've been receiving
Leaves you less than whole
I thought that I could reach you
But you left without trace
All I hear are pieces
Filling empty space
Sending sonar out to spaces, crawling with your inner graces
I know, that I can't let you go
And all your photos started fading and you can't here the sounds I'm making
I know, that I can't let you go
I tried to help you baby
In more ways you could know
Now you've left me wasted
And there's no afterglow
My sound is made for healing
You're nowhere to be found
I listen for the feeling
My ears pressed to the ground
Sending sonar out to spaces, crawling with your inner graces
I know, that I can't let you go
And all your photos started fading and you can't here the sounds I'm making
I know, that I can't let you go
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Ghost Blood
03:33
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I'm a mind without a head
Surrounded by the dead
But I'm in good company
Scrapes, love, earth, and bones
Summarized on headstones
What more could you ask from me?
Truth, I now find relative
You get back all you give
Reject this illusion
Feel the weight of your time
A victimless crime
A ghost blood transfusion
I tried so hard to stay awake
When seconds seem hours and courage beginning to break
Lost in the fog and forgetting the sun and the waves
Losing our minds writing the signs on our graves
Feared by men we thought we were
Although we might prefer
To haunt in seclusion
Speak to loves lost and gone
As night kisses dawn
And writes its conclusion
Feel the weight of your time
A victimless crime
A ghost blood transfusion
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Modern Ritual San Luis Obispo, California
Futurepop from the Central Coast of California. Electronic dreams and subsonic nightmares. Liquid melodies with heavy bass dynamics and light etherial break downs. This is what happens when Jefferson Airplane, E-40, and a robot bang and reproduce. Drenched in digitalism with the understanding that Humans are analog waveforms. ... more
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