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Intro
01:22
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2. |
For The Ship
04:32
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Ive been to love
And ive fallen in war
One will kill ya
And the other leave you sore
All is fair though
Between hate and adore
If handed the choice
I'd survive the war
If he has it in him
He'll never let us know
Let the devil out son
Beloved so behold
I remembered the words
Of the wise and the old
The fist lasts for days
Let the pen write in bold
But you have my word
That I'll have your head
But you have my word
That I'll have your head
On my mantle above the flames
And the universe will shine again
Fight for the ship
Fight for the ship
Oh Its such a beautiful place
Like the love between the mantis
Illuminated by destructions
Of those who stand against us
Flash of light
Right below our feet
All we feel is the echo
Of another dying breed
Fight for the ship
Fight for the ship
We shall stop and salute
The Emerald flag
We honor our dead
And the battles they had
In the blood drenched heat
Or in the piercing of the cold
We wear the patch
Of the Warship Emerald
Fight for the ship
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3. |
Linda
03:50
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You looked so peaceful
Floating without breath
A delightful fleeting
Of a feeling
We'd be elated to express
From what I'm told
Theres no explanation
Without that name
A fraud of the nation
Captains chair
Holds the weight
Of the sea
As darkened stars
Seen streaking
We've cut our hair
But we keep our throne
Our hyde may be leathered
But we're Emerald to the bone
We are the harmed
We are the husbands
Hold the land
Don't fear the gunmen
Revenge fills our sails
And our path is south
Our eyes speak of acedia
Arabesque tongue of mouth
Simply a Delenda (simply up to Linda)
On crows nest
horizon deliquesce
Oh to be at rest
Galavanting fathers
While the sons
live in Shame
The precipice
we fall from
This is not
The last of us
Lambent leaves our sites
I have no qualm with the view
My Senses I've sheltered
Despite the bones you once knew
And with my hands
I cover my eyes
Taking back our innocence
We throw our spears to the sky
Is This pyrric war
as splendid as you had hoped
I drink from the rivulet
Your mendacity we now know
We won't succumb
To the space between
It may be a nebulas view
All we see is Emerald green
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4. |
Canonbell
03:54
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sons, so desperate for air
don’t settle below
don’t give up your right to the chair
daughters, so lovely, alone
perfect complexion
disregarded, please come home
we die for nothing other
than future and fortune
living a life
where no one is home
come home, darling come home
no one is safe here, or out there on there own.
smoke, see it rising in the streets,
lights glowing in the distance
signal us they grow near.
where did we go wrong? where did we forget?
the sound of the canons
ring like a bell
we all thought we’d hear
but in different light she rings
taking us home,
sending us back…. below
misery loves your company
so much so it won’t let you go.
so much she’s dug herself a hole
right inside your chest.
come home, darling come home
no one is safe here, or out there on there own.
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5. |
My Own
04:48
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Judgement carried by thought
Character brought by the action
Forgiveness lost by the clever
And modesty by their fashion
We only live as long as we're remembered
I remember how it feels
To be soiled
I am the red wood
Hollow, yet full of power
So
Never fight fair
They all have guns
God save this God dam land
Currency and fellowship strand by strand
Let the preachers pockets be shallow and his words be bland
Show the kids a foundation not made of sand
A shot of freedom is made hand in hand
God save this God dam land
I seek the dreamless sleep
Come fight me adonai
Living as though being filmed
Instructions on how to die
That shell pink sky
With fog bound by the river
I've felt the scavengers hunger
I seek her as silver
Its not so hard to detect
A failing redemption
You call this our peace
I am my own
I am my own
I am my own
Its the one who wants war
Is the one we pray for
And when simply asked why
He points up to the sky
With bruises on my chin
And the colored eyes
Another sip of gin
To help swallow all the lies
So just remember this
This was in self defense
Somethings just wont wash off
These things you cannot rinse
Simply a walk
Just like the rest of us
You call it revenge
I call it justice
The only division
Is the set of minds
To see your flag standing
Across enemy lines
I am my own
At once I was yours
Holding hands of the stolen
That trickling rain I seen pour
I am my own
I am my own
I am my own
I am my own
at once I was yours
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6. |
Scatman
04:00
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Youre breathing
with lungs
That youre not ready for
A threshhold has
got ahold
Of the face of the beasts door
The peculiar savage
of the hollow city
Illuminating the leagues
we inhabit
In the winters discovery
By war hounds of the planet
Master of the house
Buried among the mountains
Submissive to the rumors
Chimed by pass and stowe
Oh woah woah woah
Fallen enrichment
of thunder
Naked we come loved
In flight
we reach
the dead stars
Thin gray smoke lined above
Kay dee kay twelve
To kay dee kay one
Did you get tired of bombing the universe?
What'll it be
Hair of the dog that bit me
Its been five months
Or is it a year or three
Ive came to a wall without an end
To fight a war without the sin
I hear the prayers
I hear the yell
I see your whites
We'll fight in hell
No one hears
the intent
They only see
the impact
I've been led
down this path
before
With the Bait
on the line,
and a constant retract
Face me you coward
Face me you coward
Ive cleaned these filthy thoughts
And I still have no room to speak
Now fight back you coward
My chance is looking bleak
Quit hiding in the sky
Your clouds are transparent
Your only existence is by word of man
A pulse too strong to bare it
Make them strong as oak
And as brittle as shale
Punished when they choke
Passion filled trust turns stale
If I did this today
Would he let me see who came
To see who had words to say
To see who had respects to pay
If I did this today
Whats the fastest course
With the least amount of shame
A truce of battle without remorse
And no one left to blame
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7. |
SOS
08:09
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calling out across the ship
stepping over all we built
everything lies, on fire
never did we imagine this
recklessly flailing towards infinity
oh captain don’t forget me
convince my wife she loved me
tell my children they needed me
don’t let this be for nothing!
when all is done
all has been said
where do we go
what comes next?
north of the star we left
south of our next breath
it’s getting hard to see
this darkness is blinding!
calling out across the ship
stepping over all we built
everything lies, on fire
never did we imagine this
With everything you took from me
I've nothing left but questioning
If anything is quite what it seems
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8. |
Graves
03:49
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bring me down slowly,
don’t let me fall too hard.
lay me down with ease boys,
this life was much too short.
graceless, your hands are rushing
eager to let me go.
forget the time we fought
side by side, through the numbing cold?
though I may seem lifeless
I can hear the words you say
i can feel those blades
slowly making their way,
slipping right through my spine.
What is this battle we waged on our own brothers?
Stealing the last breath of our neighbor to slander the next.
What caused this senseless rage
so harsh and so dark.
placing us in these graves.
Our family will be convinced that we
died here with honor,
that we fought with all we had.
We were just kids!
willing to do whatever we could
to keep our feet on homeland.
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Janis Of The Warship Emerald Kansas City, Missouri
Just Listen.
MATT & MATTHEW
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