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Momentary Paradise

by Mayfly

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1.
Balloon 03:41
Hands in her hair Gazing out towards the ocean Relaxed in their love There's still enough At least the moment exists But can love sustain? Growing brighter forever? Or is it born just to fade? You can't escape the power of time In the blink of an eye They crawl back to the water To cast off their love There's not enough Best to save what is left Sift the depths of the wreck Try to search for some meaning To make sense of the pain To take the blame I don't think it exists So you hold it Like a balloon But your grip slips It escapes you And it hurts bad As it flies away Sometimes life is cruel But you try again
2.
F. Emera 02:57
Morning, in the wake of an atom bomb Lovers now reside in tombs of ash devoid of life Their momentary paradise in pieces Search the rubble for reason Dying on time The blood red rivers sparkle in the sun's indifferent light Turn it sideways And it still looks the same You have a good day But a number remains Dreaming through the lull of an open sea She's battled with time The years have shed their days And now the moment's taking shape Resign from daydreams Ready to feel reality A love she can hold Her mind's pulled out of sleep She hears the unforgiving sea seep in to strangle her wishes Involuntary, but vicious It's pouring inside She curses out to no one for a life of wasted time Gasping for reason Final moments are fleeting And after the fight The sunrise decorates the scene in apathetic light Feel each dark day's irregular shape Turn it sideways and force it in place Drink the juice up and savor the taste Make the most of, cause time doesn't wait
3.
Truth Teeth 03:16
Wake and have fun with me Sync up each breath with me Entertain the whims of my new eyes Squeeze the juice til' every second's bone dry Let this new lightness breathe Spit me out at the beach Lubricate our minds with a brown bag Battling the light as we bike back Though time seems irrelevant An ivy-draped overgrown monument A constant stream of joys and fog to feel fine Can't afford to let any dust rise But as I talk to myself I see the growth is just a shell Always on the verge of collapsing As silence starts to strum on those heart strings And soon it will just be me Truth begins to show its teeth
4.
Apples 04:19
Broken lines Been disconnected quite some time Can you reverse the resignations After growing towards different Suns? There's no excuse for not even lacing my shoes Good days now buried in the basement Well you could save them if you choose Three apples fall, roll in different directions Now it's hard to talk from their separate dimensions Had every chance, but I always clutched a mirror And now at last, it couldn't be clearer I'm too late
5.
N. Algos 03:16
Two silly smiles, decorative sweaters I can shake it alive and control the weather I stop and it dies, I can try, but I just can't spend my days inside a snow globe And how did they fade outside the photo? Guess I'll let them be in their peace As an artifact left from a golden December Memory's cruel, that's all I remember And the melting of clocks just won't stop So I keep dipping my hands likes it's a bowl of candy, but it's so bittersweet I hardly can stand it I'm overcome by a weight, think I'll break But in time the tide will recede, escape through my fingers Wash the years out to sea, blurring the features Like a balloon swept away, watch it fade So be careful sculpting your pain from scenes inside snow globes You can't pull away once you get too close You'll give them a shake, but just wait cause you'll marry the moments Then the snow settles down
6.
Cocoon 05:07
Knelt down as the lagoon grew quiet And I tried defending the sight I'm tempted by a stone But don't do that Let the water speak The straight light is just what you need So let it have a home But I grow and die everyday Take two steps in then run away I don't know when I scratched the lens It cost a limb to see the dent So let me feel a cocoon's embrace And start clean on a brand new page I know which way to grow Keep your eyes centered in my mind And add weight to my temper's line Now learn to walk alone I won't grow and die everyday Two steps inside now all the way Speak in truths and feed your roots Just make your move, there's no excuse Respect your place, appreciate It's good that pain is friends with change
7.
Awoke to the stirrings of May Her breeze kisses me on the face I cling to the doorway of sleep To see out the end of my dream As the sun coaxes Spring into bloom She sheds light on a mess of a room Says you really should exit your head Cause the dream never ends You just climb towards some elusive peak As if you'd say this is all that I need Just get up And stop breaking each mirror you see Cause a chip of reflection is cheap It's not enough You'll lose your glow But you won't know And if you don't grow... Well that which refuses to move just eventually gets old So the picture starts melting away The colors trickle down the page The brightest burn holes in my eyes Witches seep in and run wild They force me to reset the stage But they've distorted the time and the place I'm panicking inside a dream But you're not here to wake me I've walked off the trail to the peak Well what did I wager to be free? I can't know So I'll float like a seed in the breeze Hoping to find ground, but there's no guarantee Hope I'll learn that there's not one tree with all the fruit I guess sometimes you win, sometimes you lose
8.
Paralysis 03:41
Feel afraid, can't find the door What's it all about? What's this all about? There's someone here A creaking floor Feet glued to the ground Someone let me out I lose my grip, I float away Alone as you could be For an eternity I watch it fade, from deep in space And I can't make a sound Just come and let me out The plane descends, enters the sea Barely make it out, darkness all around I'm not alone, there's something below And now I wait it out You used to let me out But I'm far away Too far away And it hurts to say But I've got to wait
9.
Dandelions 05:12
Another weekend comes to an end I hear the summer's getting ready for bed Makes my heart want to vomit, feel it swelling up And now nostalgia's come barreling in All the creatures know just where to go Start preparing as it starts to get cold I can't seem to locate the flow Not so smart when I'm lying alone And so I search my thoughts so carefully Still they bend And now I feel guilty feeling this way Guess I just crave some form of movement The canary's about to die It's a sign Something poisonous leaking inside But these tendrils are wrapped too tight There's no slipping away Just keep wishing on dandelions until they've gone extinct Not enough time to waste You can't wish your way out
10.
Fish Bowl 05:45
I look up It feels good I feel small Like I should Still I crave And I cry I've felt love And I smile And I don't know why, but I'll try The smallest of waves, are they mine? Do I just watch or can I drive? I look in It feels good I ask why Like I should And I'm big as a sun, and I'm small as a seed And I'm loving and kind and I'm selfish and mean The weight of a lifetime, on top of an ant And the feelings are real, but who talks to my hands Well I speak the words like they're mine Do I have a say? Should I try? Well you wouldn't know a free mind I'll leave the smallest fingerprints By choice or was it imminent? My evolution just a script Death right on time So who's to blame for loss of love? Or broken minds turned murderous Or every joy that carries us year after year Delude ourselves with permanence A shield to insignificance Just please don't ever speak of it We cherish our lies Are we destined to question our fate? And think ourselves in figure eights? With no discovery to be made Hungry for life Why?

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