Soul Filter
Quicksand Town
The City Knows
Like Water
All this pressure
Suffocating soul
A race to get there
But I cant stay and I can't go
Running out of time
Want to lay it on the line
But my jaded heart gets cold
And I wanna know
What it's all for
I don't wanna drown
I'm the only one
Who can save me now
Gonna run for higher ground
From this quicksand town
This quicksand town
Haunted memories
Faded self esteem
Hallow vices
Hungry ghosts that feed
Listening to them
As I fight with who I am
And who I'm supposed to be
Looking for escape
Trying to keep some faith
I don't wanna drown
I'm the only one who can
Save me now
Gonna run for higher ground
From this quicksand town
All I ever wanted
Was a feeling to be free
All these expectations
Are killing me
And I can't breathe
I don't wanna drown
I'm the only one who can
Save me now
Gonna run for higher ground
From this quicksand town
I don't wanna drown
I'm the only one who can
Save me now
Gonna run for higher ground
From this quicksand town
This quicksand town
Armor
Sometimes I think I like the pain
An unruly soul to try and tame
But that shit’s overrated
In the end I’ll come to realize
Wake me and unhypnotize
Pull this blindfold from my eyes
All the things I tried to say
You know I hate my heart upon display
Mistakes have made me jaded
And in the end I’ll barely recognize Illusions built upon the lies
Of the one I’ve shamed and hated
Catch my breath and fade away
When all my ghosts come out to play
I’m keeping distance, losing faith
I wear my armor
And I`m still running
I like to think it’s all a game
The only way to keep it sane
But how do I stop playing
Pieces break who wins the race
Who get to take your time and space
When will I trust myself again
Catch my breath and fade away
When all my ghosts come out to play
I’m keeping distance, losing faith
I wear my armor
And I`m still running
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Catch my breath and fade away
When all my ghosts come out to play
I’m keeping distance, losing faith
I wear my armor
Catch my breath and fade away
When all my ghosts come out to play
I’m keeping distance, losing faith
I wear my armor
On My Own
Take it all
Watch me fall
See you smile as I crawl
Here I go
All alone
Never make it on my own
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I remember how you used to love me
You kept me close and said
You'd always be around
Now I feel as if I'm going crazy
I'm at your mercy
You can't keep me down
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Take it all
Watch me fall
See you smile as I crawl
Here I go
All alone
Never make it on my own
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You're drowning me
I'm weak and fading
You always find a way
To keep me on the ground
This hole you dug for me
I'm suffocating
I'm tired of waiting
You can't keep me down
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Take it all
Watch me fall
See you smile as I crawl
Here I go
All alone
Never make it on my own
Take it all
Watch me fall
See you smile as I crawl
Here I go
All alone
Never make it on my own
Illogical Heart
Hey little darling
Off in the distance
I wait here
Without resistance
Come out from the darkness
When you call
My heart is so illogical
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Thoughts are running
Got you on my mind
As I lay here
Getting lost in time
Don’t know where it’s going
C can’t fight it
Afraid of the unknown
But I like
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Should have known from the beginning
Should have known from the start
But you know you just can’t reason
With an illogical heart
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Light of the morning
Shining like a star
I dream of
Being where you are
Whose gonna save us
When we fall
My heart is so illogical
Should have known from the beginning
Should have known from the start
But you know you just can’t reason
With an illogical heart (x2)
Hey little darling
Off in the distance
I was so tragic
with a lustful doubt
Shipwrecked in habit
couldn’t figure it out
With my cynical heart
on a lonely avenue
There you appeared
out of the blue
Dive in your ocean
You led me in
Your love is like water
Where you end and I begin
A sea uncharted
It was still unclear
You pulled me under and
drowned my fears
We’d get lost for hours
in a heart shaped view
Let your waves wash over me
shiny and new
Dive in your ocean
You led me in
Your love is like water
Where you end and I begin
You can save me save me
As I crash into you
Where I go you’re with me
Where you go I’m with you
Dive in your ocean
You led me in
Your love is like water
Where you end and I begin
Dive in your ocean
You led me in
Your love is like water
Where you end and I begin
Dive In your ocean
Dive in your ocean
Where you end and I begin
Beautiful Raven
How Do I Forget You
We've known each other for some time
Through thick and thin
We've been right by each other's side
But there are some things
We just can't hide
Words unspoken
Hearts left broken
I can't cry
Did we even try
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How many times do I have to break
How many nights I lie awake
How come you're gone and you still take
A piece of me with you
Can we forget mistakes we've made
When will I know I'll be ok
How can I let these memories fade
And how do I
How do I forget you
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We sleep together but alone
And there are things
I'll never let you know
But I can't stand to let you go
Words unspoken
Hearts left broken
I can't cry
Did we even try
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How many times do I have to break
How many nights I lie awake
How come you're gone and you still take
A piece of me with you
Can we forget mistakes we've made
When will I know I'll be ok
How can I let these memories fade
And how do I
How do I forget you
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Words unspoken
Hearts left broken
I can't cry
Can we make it right
Lightning Strikes
She was Daddy's beauty queen
And Mommy's sweet little flower
It was so perfect it seemed
Until that final hour
Some things change in time
But in the blink of an eye
Everything changes
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Lightning Strikes
Hold on tight she cried
I'll never get out alive
Fight or Flight
Live or die
This time
Never give up the fight
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They made their way unknowingly
To the crime that they would encounter
Deceived so innocently
Paralyzed he took their power
All that's left is shame
How do you numb the pain
When everything changes
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Lightning Strikes
Hold on tight she cried
I'll never get out alive
Fight or Flight
Live or die
This time
Never give up the fight
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And so this irony
A life condemned defending
Betrayed by the powers that be
No happy ending
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Lightning Strikes
Hold on tight she cried
I'll never get out alive
Fight or Flight
Live or die
This time
Never give up the fight
Away you go , away you go, she cried
You only get one life
Lightning Strikes
Hold on tight she cried
Never give up the fight
On The Verge
The sun was setting down the road
The window panes all turned to gold
And under the stars is where we played
I was barely twelve years old
With a lust for life and a hopeful glow
When innocence begins to fade
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Ooh on the verge
In between the space
where lines gets blurred
We were on the edge of breaking of free
And finding out who we could be
Ooh on the verge
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We walked the streets
Like they were home
Never did we feel alone
Living for the twilight
Out of sight we'd hide away
Breaking rules to find our way
Into the tall trees is where we'd hide
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Ooh on the verge
In between the space
Where lines gets blurred
We were on the edge of breaking of free
And finding out who we could be
Ooh on the verge
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Now I've got a few kids of my own
The more you think the less you know
Then I remember those days
The sun will rise and the winds will blow
And the seeds you plant
Take root and grow
Just trying to find their own way
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Ooh on the verge
In between the space
Where lines gets blurred
We were on the edge of breaking of free
And finding out who we could be
Ooh on the verge
In between the space
Where lines gets blurred
We were on the edge of breaking of free
And finding out who we could be
Ooh on the verge
Rebellious heart
Musical nature
Old school voice
And a lyrical mind
A broken heart
Is all he gave her
All alone herself to find
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You flew so high and fell so low
Your final hour would come and go
This sabotage you do to yourself
You fed the flame
Til the fire burned out
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Harrowed souls
Intoxicating
Twist of fate
Their worlds collide
A losing game
All chances taken
Her broken wings
Won't let her fly
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You flew so high and fell so low
Your final hour would come and go
This sabotage you do to yourself
You fed the flame
Til the fire burned out
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You never wanted the spotlight
You tried to hide from the fame
The broken and beautiful raven
Now feels no pain..
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You flew so high and fell so low
Your final hour would come and go
This sabotage you do to yourself
You fed the flame
You flew so high and fell so low
Your final hour would come and go
This sabotage you do to yourself
You fed the flame
Til the fire burned out
No Reply
Another place and time
Looking from the outside
She had to find her way
Impressions from the pain
Never would they go away
She tried to free her mind
One last time
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To see if she could fly
She climbed a mountain side
To never touch the ground
Her stage a velvet sky
Audience her reason why
The fear of coming down
One last time
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You don't know what it's like
To want to reach so high
For you I'd always wait
But that was not our fate
And there was no reply
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Off in a distant town
Her heart had finally found
The love she waited for
Though their souls intertwined
Eventually she had to fly
His heart could take no more
One last time
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You don't know what it's like
To want to reach so high
For you I'd always wait
But that was not our fate
And there was no reply
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For months she tried to stay
Grounded while she bared her pain
The one that got away
A note he finally sent
Unknowingly away she went
She had to fly away
One last time
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You don't know what it's like
To want to reach so high
For you I'd always wait
But that was not our fate
And there was no reply
In a make believe
Of faded memories
Starry eyed endless skies
Waging day for night
Years are gaining on me
Hands of time
Let it die
In a winter sleep
I direct my own scene
Close my eyes I can fly
Spotlight in the sky
And it's shining on me
I'm alive
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And I awake
I have seen the wherewithal
And I believe
After All
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Talking in my sleep
Enamored by a dream
View so high
I can climb
Swimming in a sea
Longing endlessly
I will rise
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Then I awake
I have been all along
And I believe
After all
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All the shiny things
Are waiting for me
Waiting for me
And I awake
I have seen the wherewithal
And I have been in a sea
Full of charms
And I believe
After all
After All
There’s a pretty fantasy
An emerald buried somewhere in the city
If it glitters then it’s gold
My ruby shoes are gonna save my soul
Milk and honey, wait for me
At the end of a fairy tale street
Got no reason to disbelieve
Sometimes I feel like
It wants me to leave
The city
It knows I’m on my own
Over my head and far from home
All my dreams are calling me
I’m caught between this concrete feeling and a stone
And The City knows
Got a suitcase full of doubt
I’m starvin’ half to death
With a hunger for a crowd
Colored paper in the wind
Just another sinner
Trying to buy my way in
My endless summer’s dying
All the leaves are brown
And what I lost is
More than what I found
The city
It knows I’m on my own
Over my head and far from home
All my dreams are calling me
I’m caught between this
Concrete feeling and a stone
And The City knows
The city knows
You’re just one in a million
The city knows
You’re just a dollar sign
The city knows
You’re out of your element
The city knows
You’re out of your mind
I am an ocean
I captivate and sparkle
I’m wide open I’m a natural miracle
But I hit the rocks and break like anyone else
Can’t make it stop but I’ve got to be myself
I’m a mystery, powerful and magical
Suffer the silence
Sleeping in the cold
An old number calling me back home
The city
It knows I’m on my own
Over my head and far from home
All my dreams are calling me
And I don’t want to go
The city it knows I’m on my own
Over my head and far from home
And all my dreams are calling me
I’m caught between this
Concrete feeling and a stone
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