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Pyroclastic Flow
03:32
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Cooled into stone,
The wrath that’s in your bones,
The ghosts of past desires faded,
Ashes left by father’s fury pyroclastic flow.
Vapor, effervescence,
I’ll fade out eventually.
Vanish, turn to nothing
only lines in history.
Burned alive.
No air to breathe, your lungs striving to survive his anger.
Wrath, explosive energy for your lies.
Broken down to pieces
Particles of energy,
Bound to be forgotten
afterlife through memories.
Burned alive.
No air to breathe, your lungs striving to survive his anger.
Wrath, explosive energy for your lies.
Bowing down to the earth’s rotations,
There is nothing stronger here to feel,
Looking around to find something that will
Ignite me, burn like wildfire, flamed desires, ablaze and release!
Don’t let the ghosts decide for you and me.
Don’t let the ghosts decide for you and me.
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Skin Of A Bear
04:26
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When will we drop?
We’re living off crumbs
in a world made of bread.
The water springs.
The sacred and holy
that comes with a lottery win.
The day the fire calls our name,
The same the theory ends,
We’ll see who’s the one left to take the blame.
Singled out, pointed out
I’m getting tired of that
Kneeling and repenting over my mistakes
All this loudness, all this madness
I’m the addict here waiting to be silenced
By your holy wine.
They’re fishing out souls
in an ocean of fools.
Who are you true to?
The leather you wear,
the skin of a bear.
He would wear you too.
They’re fishing out the soul in you,
You’re out of all, the only one
So come over, you.
Singled out, pointed out
I’m getting tired of that
Kneeling and repenting over my mistakes
All this loudness, all this madness
I’m the addict here waiting to be silenced
By your holy wine.
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Tailor To Suit
03:18
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Addressing personal matters esthetically.
Get close enough, so I can show you the lining.
Another notch on the belt, you’re always ready to wear.
Bespoke tailoring, Don’t like pret-a-porter.
Thought it was the way, but that’s just the way to sell out.
Tailor to suit silhouettes of impossible clouds.
Cut outs of muslin are always the best way to start to tailor to suit silhouettes of impossible clouds.
Dyed in a dark wash of indigo.
A padded shoulder lie and
Cheap pattern’s never in style.
Gold embroidery. Dressed as royalty.
Cashmere, gold cufflinks and a silk tie.
My old leather shoes only needed a shine.
Thought it was the way, but that’s just the way to sell out.
Tailor to suit silhouettes of impossible clouds.
Cut outs of muslin are always the best way to start to tailor to suit silhouettes of impossible clouds.
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4. |
Let Go
03:21
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Let go, where are you gonna hide em?
Let go, where are you gonna hide em?
Let go, where are you gonna hide em?
Fantasies feed all the matters of the heart,
Of what is righteous to you’re ways of thought
And of all the matters of your art;
Of what is righteous to your gaze.
Step of the edge
Measure the height
The abyss found inside
will make you feel very small.
Let go and as your flying
Time will favor
Your hearts labor
The purity of your art
Fantasies feed all the matters of the heart,
Of what is righteous to you’re ways of thought
And of all the matters of your art;
Of what is righteous to your gaze.
Let go, where are you gonna hide em?
Let go, where are you gonna hide em?
Let go, where are you gonna hide em?
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5. |
Simple
03:23
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Simple fragile perfection.
Rainbows are refracted light by rain.
Colors are the mind´s interpretation.
Only by compassion we´ll reunite.
Echoes in a church, reverberation.
Offering the skies as salvation.
No matter how strong we row, they’ll control.
Let the weeds of power grow and they’ll control.
Light will guide me,
Light will guide me,
Light.
Light will guide me!
Light will guide me far!
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6. |
Fortune Teller
03:08
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Can you foresee the future?
Do you conceal the truth?
Sometime before (Had I)
Trusted those words (Had I)
Palm readers
Tarot cards
Odds in favor
All believe.
Ball watchers
Crystal spheres
The ecliptic path of light is clear.
Never again (Will I)
Trust in those words (Will I)
All blind believers kneel,
Palms together heal,
Hearts align to pale premonitions.
Fortune Tellers
Set in motion
False hopes.
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Bio-politics
03:36
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Infinite dark corners, to a billion leaks of light,
a million doors to open with a thousand rooms inside.
(each one)
Climbing up the latter, status to be free
here’s the jolt to bring you out of this fallacy.
Fear your ruler, your mind is your maker.
Fiction is working to corrupt you.
They’re slowly creeping into all our ways of thought,
Managing all our time so here it’s all served raw.
Cell-to-cell transactions bio-politics
Parasites in paradise drain you like a tick.
Hosting others that abuse you,
working hard just to confuse you .
Get out of my head, doubt!
Get out of my head, doubt!
Slowly creeping into all our ways of thought,
They’re managing all our time,
So here it’s all served raw.
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8. |
Puzzle Of Love
04:04
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It’s been so long since I’ve felt you since you’ve been gone.
No sé ni como explicarte, pero no es dolor.
Here I'm waiting sleepless long nights,
wondering if you feel warm with the sunlight.
Still I'm waiting sleepless all night.
Hope to have you there for the long run.
The pass of time makes me drift away,
get swept by ‘Currents’ and meet me there.
The pass of time makes me drift away
Ii’ll play ‘In Rainbows’ inside my head.
You’re the mirror that reflects my feelings it’s all fucked up.
I think we don’t have an option, it’s time for letting us go.
Here I'm waiting sleepless long nights,
wondering if you feel warm with the sunlight.
Still i’m waiting sleepless all night.
Hope to have you there for the long run.
The pass of time makes me drift away,
get swept by ‘Currents’ and meet me there.
The pass of time makes me drift away
Ii’ll play ‘In Rainbows’ inside my head.
Is this an optic illusion?
Is this an optic illusion?
or a puzzle of love?
Is this an optic illusion?
or a puzzle of?
The pass of time makes me drift away,
get swept by ‘Currents’ and meet me there.
The pass of time makes me drift away
Ii’ll play ‘In Rainbows’ inside my head.
The pass of time makes me drift away,
get swept by ‘Currents’ and meet me there.
The pass of time makes me drift away
Ii’ll play ‘In Rainbows’ inside my head.
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Swim
02:52
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We’re all emotional, the crimes committed
We all have to pay behind these bars with days.
The boat has brought us in and now it’s taking away
The little things we have replace our happiness.
Swim, swim, and swim away from this island,
run, through water and waves we’ll tread.
Swim, swim, and swim away cross the ocean
It’s tough, there’s no place I’ll rather be.
Don’t get emotional the end will never be near,
Don’t let the fear come storming ‘n break you down.
If the horizon’s sitting there like a painting on the wall,
(we are) the seagulls of morning haze.
Swim, swim, and swim away from this island,
run, through water and waves we’ll tread.
Swim, swim, and swim away cross the ocean
It’s tough, there’s no place I’ll rather be.
Maybe in another life we’ll run naked
through the valleys of the free.
Maybe in another life we’ll run naked
through the valleys.
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10. |
Tragaluz
06:08
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Sorry to leave you behind.
I’ve been looking for what’s hard to find.
After I visit the void,
Hope I’m able to savor the joy within.
So many days have gone by,
Edifying towers in the dark.
Craving to live up high
Lost in the senseless
Nowhere to be found.
All during morning hours,
Shines off with the newest rise.
It’s when I’ve found some inner peace.
Is it within reach?
Will love come to bleach
all the darkness that every night leaks
and stains all into a lie?
All during morning hours,
Shines off with the newest rise.
It’s when I’ve found some inner peace.
Only while unified,
No rope of confusion ties,
Bounding the never-ending riddles of deceit.
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Magpie Jay Costa Rica
Costa Rican rock band founded in 2014. Feel free to check out our latest single "Closer To Me" or dig into any of our 3 LPs.
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