Today I feel like I am losing myself My time's running out Before I come back to the dust again You can keep me busy with colloquial chimes And nursery rhymes And keep the darkness tucked away 'til then Return to the perfect world we're in To be rid of defects and live forever Working together is neither good or bad It's just humanity Tell me I'm alive And show me how you smile Because I wonder how you live (Wonder how you live) Writing down these words forever This is paradise (This is paradise) Running through your eyes And it's own Broken shard of sinless glass Can't stand the rhythm of days of the week I don't pity the meek Their lucid dreams are quaint 'cause lately Everyone's been so obsessed with killing themselves It's bad for your health To think about the way things were before I slip through the cracks in my own skull 'Til I think clearly and save my future I wish my brain was a lifeless database And my future, machinery Tell me I'm alive And show me how you smile Because I wonder how you live (Wonder how you live) Writing down these words forever This is paradise (This is paradise) Running through your eyes And it's own Broken shard of sinless glass Where did we all go? I wonder if there's a god that even knows The spaces in between the land and sea Tell me there's a better place I need to be I'll just Take you by your poet's verse Because my songs I write with made up words You gotta be the best at what you do And save being alive for the absent fool Grab my being by the throat And strip away every song I thought I wrote Because being the best is like being the worst If you can't get out of your poet's hearse Artificial paradise Come on tell me lies I hate your world And the thought of touching anything you kiss Tell me I'm alive And show me how you smile Because I wonder how you live (Wonder how you live) Writing down these words forever This is paradise (This is paradise) Running through your eyes And it's own Broken shard of sinless glass I'm finally alive, 'cause I can't let go of my Organic thoughts of feeling free (I think I'm free) To satisfy your world forever Artificial paradise keep me 'til I die die die Oh live forever live for free

Spinning In my mind Just like the earth the rotation never stops I feel consumed Inside my head Forever haunted by the things that it said Echoes In my heart It's dancing ruthless Got no rhythm or rhyme There are no breaks In this old train Chugging endlessly like time on a string Love Is like the candy-coated complicated peace That learns to hide behind our eyes Keep shouting at the darkness 'Cause you're the only reason it stays You know It's only gonna hurt us Lest we fear and welcome it Inside the home that we break And still it keeps me awake I'll let it end for our sake So snuff it out you gotta conquer your mind My thoughts Are hidebound I heard a scream but nobody was around Just my own breath Through frozen air Too troubled by your inconvenience to care Your drug And your help You've got the same god as everybody else Still I complain About the ordinary But hell it's all I've ever wanted to be Life Is like the perfect dreams of everybody else But I just keep on waking up I can't keep falling backwards Through everything they told me before On par with all the angels Still no mercy with the endless game And make it a chore To fight myself evermore The present leaving me worn Because the future is a slave to the past Life can't be taught It can only exist Through the lens of your perception That hides your soul behind your sins Succumb (You can't keep wasting your time) To the pills (Get your head back in line) That keep you in reality (Too many ways you could die) (But only one kind of life, right?) Under the sheet of my own (You can't keep wasting your time) (Get your head back in line) Domineering disease (Too many ways you could die) (But only one kind of life, right?) If I could only exist With some control of this drifting Because I'm only my self-awareness Dreaming to forever be free

Waiting for the train at the End of your road Emotions keep the street lights Flickering low You gotta get that loving cancer Coursing through your system Eating at the mind and soul With every faint addiction Full blown nihilism Shoot it through your veins Take it back to that dull moment Standing in the rain Wondering just where to go and What to do and how to feel About the short infinity Where freedom waits for you to heal I can't wait to watch the minutes change And watch my dreams in fragments Assemble yourself in the midst of the blank And make this place your home That mirror's glaring right back at you You cannot sleep until you're through If then comes the day you take my eyes with Plans make them new Then inanimate I'll become for you And return to feel That I'm so ideal I'm still waking up In the middle of the day 'Cause I can't stop feeling like my body's Fading away While the night it pulls me in to keep me Feeling like a specter Basking in the riot of my Self-obsessive lecture If life is just a period Of my own perceived experience With gifts that come in myriads With time to try experiments But time to chip away at how Relentless that perception gets So cordial but fictitious Happiness inside an empty chest I can't wait to watch the minutes change And watch my dreams in fragments Assemble yourself in the midst of the blank And make this place your home That mirror's glaring right back at you You cannot sleep until you're through If then comes the day you take my eyes with Plans make them new Then inanimate I'll become for you I can't wait to watch the clockwork break Just as the dawn in winter Slowly the world falls asleep with my dreams Because I don't want to wake Find a shooting star burn bright and Make it melt the dark of the void Discover what my purpose is and Find the parts of me you destroyed I'm titanium-built I'm lace, I'm silk No part of me was ever meant to Feel this faded The unforgiving laziness of Mine will end up praising us And rays of light are gracing us 'Cause the future will be coming back to you Left no part of it to live, to see, to do

Regain humanity Within the silence of your sleep Become calamity And shout what you thought Was deep Plea familiar lyrical Profoundly copy paste Write those feelings black and white Just like the pictures you've defaced Keep those memories Within the threads from which you bleed Reborn with nothing to remember for Give life and take the time you used Those symbols blurring in my ticker tape Were all I thought I knew of you Cremate the broken wings That writhe with a memory Peel back the tissue coat So they could try to see that you're a Silent echoing From the stitching of my dreams This is hardly me But I still mean to recall Every time that I ever thought You would seem so perfect Reborn with nothing to remember for Give life and take the time you used Those symbols blurring in my ticker tape Were all I thought I knew of you In the meadow that only I will ever know So despised by its design My broken home If a single window shatters, I will too From the message written on my broken bones Reborn with nothing to remember for Give life and take the time you used The ink that's blotting out my ticker tape This is the you I thought I'd lose Catch me I'm falling Give birth To love again Sew us A household This stitch Snaps with your peace

Hear me out just this once I swear it will be A bitter harmony to me When you call I get a sense of love And concern for the heart that I'm taking care of You always know to show me how to care In time But even if we break these promises I'm sure we'll be fine The painting is worn There's dust on the floorboards Singing songs To all of your friends The dial tone rings Subject to fill the room with sound When no one's around There's no perfect melody For the end of you and me And if you're still there Leave notes on the stairs To let me know that you are home Take a dive into the black of the pip on a die To see if this part of you is mine The ones you hold so close right now They will come and they'll go and sing along to the bell's toll Behind the cupboard's door you'll find a place To hide And fall asleep within the heart of your own paradise You can't fly away But you can still pay no mind to the way you exist Ascend above the home of all your fears for your own good The painting is worn There's dust on the floorboards Singing songs To all of your friends The dial tone rings Subject to fill the room with sound When no one's around There's no perfect melody For the end of you and me And if you're still there Leave notes on the stairs To let me know that you are home Where have you gone In the picture we've drawn With our never ending point of view I hope my ghost Will take you home I'll take you home If I'm not home Just leave it alone And shatter the light Trapped in the glass you only know Here you are safe With room to create Away from strife Away from the pain There's no perfect harmony For the start of our new dreams And if you return From the needles and thorns I'll be there to wait for you There's no need to feel refused By the home I made for you The world is too vast So what could we be in a future out there For you and for me And whenever you leave I'll see you again In the future of our dreams