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Rent Free
04:11
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Walking down this lonely two-lane highway · The howling wind pelts sand in my eyes · The winter sun burns pale and cold on azure · Another mile between us but I don’t mind · It doesn’t matter how far that my wandering goes · It seems that you’re always with me · And though I get lost and these feet may stray · You’re living in my head rent free · Even when I’m miles away · My favorite storm in any port, that’s certain · That earworm melody playing in my head · Pursuing me until the final curtain · You’ll live in my dreams even when I’m dead
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Think It Over
04:07
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I couldn’t help but notice but your girl has somehow changed · That luminosity she had, now dulled to flickering flame · Hypnotic eyes, alluring smile jaded by your neglect · A tempest is a’brewing and you’re showing disrespect · Awake from hazy slumber and take a second look · Lulled by false security, she’s snared by your hook · Think it over, or her love will fly away · Think it over, before it’s all too late · Think it over, or those luscious lips will stray · You better take some time to think it over · Maybe you have noticed her dispassionate kiss · Silenced voice inside your head you wish you could dismiss · I think you might be taking her a bit too much for granted · Show a little care or soon you’ll be empty-handed
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A State Of Mind
04:34
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Darkest before the rising sun · Break of day is slow to come · Waning crescent of falling days · Little wonders cease to amaze · It’s only a passing state of mind, a snapshot in the life · It’s only a state of mind, a glancing blow in time · It’s only a state, you can change it if you try · It’s only a state, only a state of mind · Waiting around for nothing at all · Every day it’s the same four walls · Fixtures in your head to rearrange · Open the window and make a change
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Your Grand Crusade
04:47
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The cut is deep, the life blood spilt so casually · Pooling scarlet on the floor, sticky sweet ·Tried without a jury with a headlong rush by mob · An exquisite inquisition executed without cause · Rattle the beat of savage drums in wild-eyed pageantry · The unbearable standard hoisted high in the sky · Cancel me if you wish, say that I’m no one · Self-righteous anger your annulment has begun · Overdressed in ragged finery, a shabby masquerade · A strident clamoring charade · All the galloping horses lead the unspeakable parade · But I won’t answer the call of your Grand Crusade · Shatter the stained-glass measure of conventionality · Toxic is the crippling touch, oppressively · Closed-minded prefect, silence all divergent thought · A hollow, hardened heart unable to absolve.
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Undone
03:45
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Something’s changed, something’s changed, you and I · Something’s gone, something’s gone from you and I · Tell me you don’t see it but it’s right before our eyes · How did we get here? · How did we come undone? · Do you think that it’s all for the best? · Can we learn not to take from the rest? · Tell me you don’t want it · It’s staring you straight in the eyes
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Return To Dust
04:56
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Close your eyes, behold unseen reality · Peer beyond the darkened veil of antiquity · Words of kings on tablets hewn in stone · Boast forgotten acts yet fallen from their throne · A city courses with blood, sweat, and sand · Crushing mighty mortals in its hand · Surely the starry skies foretold the signs · Or some prophet of old revealed the Divine · King of Babylon, your deeds transmute to rust · You rule for a day but in time you return to dust · Empires forged in the strength of his prime · Worn away by undulating waves of time · Fevered dream dissipates in the mist · Ancient wonders of the world cease to exist · Did your madness cause you to fall? · Did your matchless pride consume it all?
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What Do You Believe?
04:45
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Driving reckless, devil may swear · Both feet on the gas, but going nowhere · A yellow sign means a fork in the road · Arbitrary choices as life unfolds · And if everything we knew came crashing down · Would your tidy worldview stay the same? · Is everything we see just random · Or is there designed probability? · Can we find some purpose in the chaos? · Can you tell me, what do you believe? · Optimistic naïveté eroded away · Circumstance becomes a mystical mayday · Crisis of identity, diminished belief · Disassociate for sweet relief
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Mysterious
03:46
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I saw you on the westbound morning train · Exchanged a wistful glance on this wintry day · Was that springtime blooming in your smile? · The blighted morn was warmed with your sunshine · Existential wading through subconscious mist · Buried passion unavowed · Tell me why your eyes are sewn up in a shroud · You’re so mysterious, a swirling, starry night · You’re an experience, Illuminating the sky in full daylight · Ephemeral hopes are fixed as gazes collide · The daily train a chance for a joyride · Your quickening breath betrays what’s on your mind · But is there beauty cloaked behind your eyes? · I’d love to know the treasure of your artistry · Intoxicating fragrance of the chemistry · But asking for your number would spoil the alchemy
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Vanity
04:33
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Pierce the veil that softens your reality · A low-rent filter of your humanity · Buffoonish me, your persona non grata · Flaunting the lurid scars of your stigmata · How does it feel to be the center of the universe? · Were the stars all hung in the sky just for you? · What is it like to be awash in emptiness? · Couldn’t we stop the dance and let vanity slowly melt away? · Rewire your past and see things differently · Let tomorrow take a break from vanity · Ensnared by the looking glass, you tumbled · Mocked by the reflection, far from humbled
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Liberty
04:30
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All the king’s nobility enact their wicked ploys · Deals dealt in the darkness, backstabbed with practiced poise · Mortgaging the kingdom a trillion at a time · Pennies for the commoners while on our flesh they dine · And the pendulum swings to greater extremes · While we toil beneath the heavy thumb of the king · Craving that heady rush of liberty · A holiday from the tyranny and strife · Burning for a joyful dance with freedom · That breaks the heavy bonds to live our life · A city long deceived by the town Cryer’s lies · Peddling dissension and conniving to divide · A blade’s-edge twisting of the truth to sever sacred ties · Useless fear is selling out while the deluded haste to buy · Deception or reality, tell me which you prefer? · As the Ministry of Truth spins out tales of the absurd
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By Light of Day Evansville, Indiana
By Light of Day is an Evansville, Indiana-based alternative rock band.
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