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Silently, I Threw Them Skyward

by We Never Learned To Live

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1.
I've been citing my lips again Contemplating everything between silently suffering And it feels so cold on the mind And it seems like we're destined To drag each other down Is it safe enough to breathe the air?
2.
Don't stay awake for the promise of repair. Your branches lie still like the broken verses you used to sing. Softly, too softly. Your whispers lined with thorns, scraping across the delicate white of fearful eyes. As you stare into the distant grey, those two words always seem to be the worst. Your hands release and fall into uncertainty. We were listening, haunted by the endless change and it made my lungs hesitate. My eyes white like the broken verses you used to sing. Harmonised like the broken verses you used to sing. And it's not going to change.
3.
Vesalius 05:06
I've been grinding my teeth again, watching the stars bleeding out their sympathy. Clouded eyes disconnect the faint sound, your retinas perfect white. The lakes lie still inside. You spent so long sinking, the words on your tongue will never taste the same. And it's been to long watching the wires crawl within. And you said "never" as I made you see that they're not getting any better, the plains we've saved hidden inside. Because I've been taking notes of the veins on the back of my hands, and they're not getting any better. Just closer to the worst of. And I could try to lift up the screens again but you will never taste the same.
4.
Return to a place once so familiar, where broken blue would fall right into place. As I recall, the answers were far beneath the top soil and it's all at odds with the way I used to feel. We watched the hands shake as silhouettes. He wrote it down and watched the moons turn to red. There's air in the walls but I'm sutrggling to breathe. There's truth in the waves that lie underneath the sombre songs of the ghost in the machine.
5.
Endless alarm, you surround yourself in endless shades of grey. When there's signs that it's obvious to cut away the chains. When there's hope that it's easier pushing thread between the seams. It's not silence, but is it close enough for you? And sometimes it's easier to speak to no-one. When I counted these mistakes and I feel unchanged. A memory deeper than the sea, the mother of us all. With partial paralysis, the shadow turned his lips white. It's not silence, but is it close enough for you?
6.
The suns, they're watching us with envious eyes and ask what it's worth to hide your destiny. "So stay close" they answered again. If this is the taste of disappointment then I'll wait with baited breath to choke on agony. I climbed inside to feel the weight of us trying to find a place for your head.
7.
space burial 03:21
I could swear that I can see the colours drain away from your eyes. Reflectionless and cracked on the inside. Open stitches to the opaque, but you were turned the other way.
8.
You and I were made to need oxygen. Apnea projections out of reach. You and I were made to need oxygen. Paranoid conscience replaced you with machine. Punctures in the sky are twitching and fading away. Satellites hypnotised you into a daydream. Made to need oxygen, we're all afraid to sleep. And I said "Don't hold your breath, Don't get comfortable, we're all afraid to sleep." Emptying translucency temporarily as it seems to cloak the anxieties beneath. I've been muting these twisted lucid dreams and I tried to paint the worlds pale. Don't get comfortable. We're barely here. We're all afraid to sleep.

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released June 22, 2015

Recorded and mixed by lewis johns - www.lewisjohns.co.uk

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Monumental post-hardcore from Brighton

Sophomore album 'The Sleepwalk Transmissions' out now

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