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A Failure to Start
04:49
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A Failure to Start
We seemed once divided
Into pieces fragments splinter off
Never one to need to confide in
We were confined by the time this all
By the time this all went down
Flushed out filled and repeated
Current mood depleted
To be deleted
A noble cause to confide in
In a state of stasis redefine
The time's time to relax and
Unwind and lose your fucking mind
Let me out or keep us in
Let it out or keep it in
Hope not depleted
Never retreating
Let it out
Don’t keep it in
Won’t let it out
Can’t keep it in
A failure to start will only end you
It could end us too
Making jumps to hop in place
It’s too dangerous for us
Readjust to find nirvana
Meditations on another plain
The days leak into weeks then
When a year feels like nothing at all
We aspire to not digress and
What’s transpired will not define us all
Never retreating
Never repeating
Let it out
Or keep it in
Let it out
Don’t keep this in
A failure to start will only end you
It could end us too
Making jumps to hop in place
It’s too dangerous for us
Simple curse on the mend
Complicated truth I shall not pretend
Kept it, I won’t keep this in
Can’t keep this in
A failure to start will only end you
It could end us too
Making jumps to hop in place
It’s too dangerous for us
To leave this place
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2. |
The Weaker Kind
04:20
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The Weaker Kind
Truth never was
Your strongest suit
A partial cry
Always disguised
There never was
A prescription
The brightest high
Always declined
It’s the weaker kind
It’s the weaker kind
The weaker kind of lie
Now you’re standing on the stairs
The railing's waving goodbye
As you fall down to your side
Then you realize
That you’ve gone to the
Darker side of this life
When thoughts they blur
The spiral timed
Olympic sprint
The finish line
Of the weaker kind
The weaker kind
The weaker kind of lie
Now you’re standing on the stairs
The railing's waving goodbye
As you fall down to your side
Then you realize
That you’ve gone to the
Darkest side of this life
You can’t describe
Oh the weaker kind
The weaker kind
It’s the weaker kind of lie
Oh the weaker kind
It’s the weaker kind
It’s the weaker kind of lie
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3. |
Rehearse to Reason
03:35
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Rehearse to Reason
We’ve carved out a place
A place where we escape
You’ll never forget
Those good old days
We’ve carved into trees
Our initials expecting
The roots to grow
Take hold and lift away
Practicing patience
A moment you don’t own
Reverse the roles
And we'll feed 'em to the crows
Marvelous things they
Won’t appear out of the clouds
The ground work must be
Laid out right now
To quench the thirst
To get ahead
While you still can
Rehearse to reason
We’re never stopping
We’re addicted to the sound
One misstep taken
There’s a death at the opera house
A whodunnit story
No clues left to be found
A mass exodus confronting
The crowd right now
To quench their thirst
To get ahead
While you still can
At side stage we wait
For the curtain to slowly close
Reverse to poison
What does it really mean
Acting a scene
What does it really mean
Making a scene
What does it really mean
How does it teach meaning
Rehearse to reason
Reverse to poison
This is the worst movie I’ve seen
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Institute of the Placated Mind
Intoxicated typographer
Will speak and spell for a tithe
Urban landmine
Pay nullified
Institute of the placated mind
Pulling bootstraps
Known abstract
Immediate change of
The meaning required
To be refined
Redistribute your mind
Speak and spell for a tithe
Redistribute your mind
The rich on a hot streak
Of steak and fine wine
Of the least most importance
Of the quickest decline
A paper weight made of gold
While a thousand donkeys carry
They carry your load
They carry your load
Redistribute your mind
Speak and spell for a tithe
Redistribute your mind
Circumcise all the wires you fried
Redistribute your vacated mind
Institute of the placated mind
I don’t mind, I’m sure you won’t mind
Redistribute your mind
Redistribute your mind
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5. |
Algorithm Funeral
02:58
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Algorithm Funeral
Once I was a stubborn young man
Internet was still just a joke
I would only do the things I wanted
Van up in the sky filled with smoke
Did whatever we wanted
Whenever we wanted
How do you contend
With your contentions
Are you content
With your only options
Preserve and fortify
Romanticize
The past of younger days
Of different expectations
It’s all summed up in ones and zeros
A predetermined outcome
For the remainder of your stay here
An algorithm funeral
For the wasted soul
On the tips of my lonely thumbs
Is the eulogy
How do you contend
With your contentions
Are you content
With your only options
How do you pretend
What’s your intentions
Who do you think
You’re really hurting
How does one contend
With their contentions
Keeps going round
And around and around
And now we’re spinning
Same argument
Same backwards plan
Romanticize what isn’t real
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6. |
All the Way Gone
04:53
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All the Way Gone
All the wonders of the world
Won’t ponder on no more
All the mystery
Gone the way of the buffalo
All of the way
All of the way gone
Along with what was known
Reduced to rubble and dust
May it rejuvenate
A candlestick burnt at both ends
The fire starters will pretend
Not us, it’s them
What do we keep to wander alone
When ruins are ruined and gone
All the way
All of the way gone
No preservation will lead to a
Collapse of catastrophic failure
The making of our own
Leading us into nothing
Let it rejuvenate
A candlestick burnt at both ends
The fire starters will pretend
Not us, it’s them
May it rejuvenate
A roman candle burnt at both ends
The fire workers will defend
Not us, it’s them
Let it rejuvenate
A candlestick burnt at both ends
The fire starters will pretend
Not us, it’s them
May it rejuvenate
A roman candle burnt at both ends
The fire workers will defend
Not us, it’s them
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7. |
Pencil Pusher
03:30
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Pencil Pusher
Take a pencil gouge out
Both your jaded eyes
Plain and simple
Hear the bell crack
And fall from the sky
Wave the wand
Replace all the
Burned out dead bulbs
In your mind replenish the cells
Where none remain at all
Will you become the way you wanted
In a dignified state
Or will you choose to cheat it
Either way
We’ll dance on your grave
Relive past lives
Bet and win then lose it all
At the same time
Never sure if all is well
Or who needs to stay and fight
To stay upright
Wave said wand
Relight all the desires inside
Ignore them all go fully ghost
Long before the knife fight
Will you become the way you wanted
In a dignified state
Or will you choose to cheat it
Either way
We’ll dance on your grave
We’ll dance on your grave
You goddamn pencil pusher
Will you become the way you wanted
In a dignified state
Or will you choose to cheat it
Either way
we’ll dance on your grave
You fucking pencil pusher
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8. |
Wash Over
04:10
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Wash Over
Of all the days to go out
Of all the goddamn ways
To say goodbye, didn’t realize
The last message I’d ever receive
Strange thing to be hearing
Startled wide awake
Worst news ever
The shock begins to take
Wash over
Stoutest oak trees
Couldn’t come between
Horror collide with terror
In spite of life lived reposed
Not fair at all
head up stand tall
Startled wide awake
Worst news ever
The shock begins to take
Wash over
Startled wide awake
Worst news ever
The shock begins to take
Wash over
No fair toll, not at all
Not fair at all, not at all
No fair toll, not at all
Not fair at all, not at all
Startled wide awake
Worst news ever
The shock begins to take
Wash over
The rain will cease
And the floods will stop
Though it stings
We carry on and on
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9. |
Weapons of Mass Delusion
03:46
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Weapons of Mass Delusion
Weapons of mass delusion
Can’t see through it
All of the lines
Flying the flag at half mast
For the last half of the century
When will we be through this decay
When will the people have their say
Anyone, anyone who isn’t confused here
Doesn’t know or really understand at all
Human condition relent
Set the limit let yourself rest
Do you push through or resist
Either answer is of consequence
When will we cease to exist
What is this bomb that ticks ticks ticks
Anyone, anyone who isn’t confused here
Doesn’t know or really understand at all
Everyone, everyone who thinks
They’re in charge here doesn’t know
What happens next or what to do
Feel it fall, feel it rise up
Feel it fall and rise up in your chest
Manifest in the question
The answer’s obscure and incorrect
Feel it fall, feel it rise up
Feel it fall and rise up in your chest
Manifest in the question
The answer’s obscure and incorrect
You’ll settle, you’ll settle
You’ll settle for this
You’ll settle
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10. |
War of Attrition
03:10
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War of Attrition
We need a reset
Erased, erased into a
Whole new beginning
We have always played the game
Antiquated blame
The sharks will always circle tanks
Holding shovel in hand
We’ll scrape away
The filth that remains
Reset the servers
Anxiety is now to blame
Treacherous roadway
Steering with only feeling
A cliff to disregard
The world at large and what is true
Truly happening
What is this, what’s going on
Who holds the gun
It’s a war of
Of attrition
Of every day breaking away
Take what remains
Take what remains
Human thought is not
A strand of a particular
Conspiracy or of
Your own volition
I am still concerned
What to make of a war
Of attrition
Attritional catastrophe
Who holds the gun
Of a war of
Of attrition
Of every day
Can’t break away
Take what remains
Take what remains
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11. |
Ridiculous Nightmare
05:56
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Ridiculous Nightmare
Opportunist seeking opportunity
Reconstructing images
They wish to be seen
Memory abstract to me conceptually
Why are we placed where we’re placed
Amongst the diamonds or the rough
Rearrange slim to none
It’s a ridiculous nightmare
Not sure who rules who
Not sure how to see it through
Slink through the mist
And who are you
And what have they done to us too
Who holds the key
So to speak
Factually
Who holds the key
So to speak
Why are you placed to where your placed
Amongst the diamonds or the rough
Rearrange slim to none
It’s a ridiculous nightmare
Wound all of the way up
We’re making believe
Our time is free
Essentially expendable
You’re catching a cold
You’re catching your death
Mountains, mole hills
Scraping lines of turmoil brewed
Lasting for millennia
Skewered for the blatant truth
Who holds the key
So to speak
Why are we placed where we’re placed
Amongst the diamonds or the rough
Rearrange slim to none
It’s a ridiculous nightmare
Wound all of the way up
We’re making believe
Our time is free
Essentially expendable
You’re catching a cold
You’re catching your death
Who holds the key
So to speak
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Later On…
You breathe the salt air in
Delighted as it stings your eyes
You stay the victim in your own bliss
And maintain it
Later on against
The grain we’ll stay
Later on regress
Later on we’ll change
Whole moon half awake
Ocean with one foot in only
Way that you hold me up against
Somewhere other ways
No such thing as late
When it comes to me
I believe it
Later on against
The grain we’ll stay
Later on regress
Later on we’ll change
Play the odds against
Your luck and favor
Bright eyes
It’s always worth it
Fade out
The way we came in
Later on we’ll spread
Joy of engagement
But for now we’ll stay tethered
Later on we’ll say
It was all worth it
Against the grain was the way
You breathe the salt air in
As it stings your eyes
The sea the state we’re in
Forever wide
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Chrome Lakes formed in 2013 in Seattle, WA, and have been a staple of the PNW music scene ever since.
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