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The Play Actor
03:14
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Who are you? You never did take off that costume. You've played so well, you've convinced yourself. The magnificent production: reasonably, undoubtedly, a thorough masterpiece with a cherry on top. Twirling, jingling, flailing. Your fantasy is so appropriate. You're wallowing in this and we think your struggling is a dance. I can't see through you to help you.
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A Splash of Applause
03:44
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The silence of the aftermath. That is your only refuge. You'll find your weak excuse for solace among the ashes. So many thoughts poured out, the ink stains. Emotions run high in measure, but shallow in content. And you think this is peace.
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Mort Rainey
02:03
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He tries to memorize every step he takes, making sure not to stop on a crack, always making sure he keeps an eye watching over his back. He breathes heavy to convince himself there is blood in his veins, but he longs to feel life. He waits by the road - searching for a light, anything which to confide. Abandoned, he clutches his chest, as to persuade the thought that there is something left, in hope such thoughts would rest. Is this "life"? Is this the hope we have in what is ahead? His skin: a shell he wishes he could shed. My daydreams haunt me, as my memories sleep in my bed. My daydreams haunt me as I've lost my head. Clear away the dirt, bury the dead.
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I've been removed, naked and weak, I wait for judgement. This could be my last stand...and I will not stand for it. I've lived the life of film. Repeating all of the same images to please another. Now, I wish to play the writer, to script the legend. I am a heart shielded by flesh and bone. My path is none but my own. I'm a heart shielded by flesh and bone. My path is none but my own. I'll follow my own footsteps.
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To Each His Own
02:23
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As each step is approached, each higher than the one before, yet no sturdier than the one before. Some wires just stay taught, no matter the wind. All labeled the same, yet not at all. This crown, held high, cannot be forged, cannot be faked. You can't cut the rope and singe the edges just to have them fray again. Swig it back, your disinfectant. Scrub it in...drive it in. The crossbeams, placed with care, never forgotten. Never goes unnoticed.
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Please adjust your tuning, the frequency is thin. My voice is scratching like a record needle's end. I've grown weary of the speaker's persistent drone. The vinyl's chipping as the sound sinks in...but this tune, it never quite gets through, unless I write it on the walls, screaming "this is me", screaming "this is me..." subdued. It gets harder to still my hand when my heart directs which way it moves. Listen to the storm as it cuts through the signal. The beat replaced by the drops on your window pane. Remember my face every time you look away. Remember my voice every time that it rains.
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Cut & Dry
01:23
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You've built your. Skeleton of truth. Demonstrate how. It walks talks and. As jaws drop in the. Wake of your. Wisdom and as the mob. Carried you on. Their shoulders with. Praise the model. Fell and will be shattered. Its joints are glue. It's sinew is yarn and its bones are plaster.
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ANCESTOR Ambler, Pennsylvania
Ancestor 2006ish-2010.
Prevail 2001-2006ish.
Members currently play in: Withstand,
Get Well, Birthday Boy, Cetus, CDC, Plague Lust.
Other previous bands: Debtor, Sovereign, Burdens, Ropeburn, Under The Gun, Forever I Burn, Hollenlarm, etc. etc. etc.
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