1. |
Unreconcilable
06:04
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They'll try to drink right from your cup
With a thousand filled up to the top
I'll keep the dirt
You take the bliss
With smoke-stained lungs
As masochist
I'll take my steps
Self-conscious of
The space I take
In this gruesome place
Something is seeping through the mud
Steel wings screeching up above
Machine of mirror
Just keeps pressing on
Taking what it wants
Unreconcilable
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2. |
What You Watch Grows
04:07
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You gotta catch yourself
Ain't nobody else
Gonna grab you when you stray
Keep a steady eye today
Every single day drains light
If you don't keep your head on right
Never stop to rest your mind
Or it will bury you in time
What you watch grows
Don't you know
Didn't anybody tell you
Default steps
Rut digs your feet in
Crutches growing to replace them
Suck them lifeless
Up the ankle
On until your head is hollowed
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3. |
Red Letter Day
03:08
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Another red-letter day
(Just hand it over to them)
Oceans of lost faith
Another red-letter day
(After all, wasn't much to begin)
Drown in blue disgrace
Nothing to say but oh well
(That about sums it up)
Guess they'll just toe the line
(No one to stand for us)
I fell
(That about sums it up)
Right for the devil's lies
(We were undersold and undercut)
Nothing's changed in all these years
(Yea that about sums it up)
Just found new words for slave
(Just comes down to campaign pay stubs)
To make your body move like gears
(Ain't it all so clear when it's done)
Bow your head down till the grave
(All that mattered was keeping your job)
Another red-letter day
(All we have is just an empty vessel)
True colors are shown
Another red-letter day
(It was never meant to be full)
Another rapist takes the throne
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4. |
Good Enough Isn't
00:26
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Good enough isn't
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5. |
In Loving Memory, pt. 1
02:08
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Saw the firefly you sent
When your laugh passed me by and left
Never got to say goodbye
Just tried to resurrect in graphite
But couldn't quite find your lines
Swallowed up by some lost tide
I'm glad you're not in pain anymore, Mike
Maybe we'll meet again sometime
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6. |
Shadow Chase the Mirror
03:47
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Can't even give you
Ten seconds time
But always expecting
You'll engage with mine
Shadow chase the mirror
Miss another
Bright sunny day
It just fades away
Built-up my tracks
With a broken heart
Layed down my rails
Right along the scars
Hammered every nail in
Cracked back wide open
Another sunny day
Just passed away
Sun streaks splintering in
Warmth walking along the carpet
To meet my feet
Make me grin
First time in weeks
You'd be surprised
Just how often I
Look right at something
But I don't see it
Shadow chase the mirror
Miss another
Bright sunny day
It just fades away
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7. |
Tilt
03:52
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Trouble gathering myself
Think I left some pieces back home
Where I last moved out
I got to get back there
I don't know how
Things are just starting to swell
What is this beneath my feet
Reaching up to grab at me
Bleaching joy white with guilt
The floor is always on a tilt
Thank god I bought myself some time
But that mountain hanging over me
Is always on the rise
I don't know what space there is to take
When the shadow keeps my pace
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8. |
Stump
04:06
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Played it safe
Most of my life
Not a thing
To feed at my mind
But it was my mind
All of the time
It did not sleep
So neither did I
There was something else
Going on here
Ain't quite put my finger on it
But I hear
Deep dark buzzing in my ear
Growing louder every year
Just a stump seen
But these roots stretch deep
Growing all along
Four hundred years strong
So I tunneled down and found
So many bodies root bound
Pawn your time off
For your very own cross
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9. |
In Loving Memory, pt. 2
02:11
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Kept seeing owls the last few days
Before you had to be on your way
Didn't wake me up that morning
Which I should've known was a warning
Your pace just slowed until it stopped
The sun set on your window spot
I'm glad you're not in pain anymore, Jade
Maybe we'll meet again someday
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10. |
For My Friend
03:10
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Hope I see you again
Hope that you are still my friend
We could pick up right where we left off
If I haven't changed too much
Hope the road hasn't been too rough
Things are so hectic, I'm sorry I haven't kept up
Now I'm so far from where you are
Back then we stood in the same spot
Hope I see you again
Hope that you are still my friend
We could pick up right where we left off
If I haven't changed too much
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11. |
Another Day
03:14
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Another day
Another chance to say
I can take away
What I want
You wake up in the morning thinking
I am it
I am all there is
Anybody try to tell me different
Has it coming to the back of their head
Another day
Another chance to say
I will take away
What I want
What do you get the man who has everything
Who sucked the rivers dry
And blamed it on his kin
Who took every turn
With only him in mind
Who's selfishness
Is where his fame and fortune lie
You get him stolen goods
To feed his hollowed soul
Try to fill the void
With sentiments he stole
When it all comes crashing down
On those below
He'll take the bailout
And start building his new home
Another day
Another chance to say
I will take back
What's mine
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12. |
The Maze
02:55
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Took a turn
Don't know where it goes
But had to make a call
I couldn't just stall
Then I got myself lost
Couldn't even keep track
Of how to find my way back
Bias is a maze
I don't know how we'll ever leave this place
Backtracked
Figured I'd think it through
It's hard to tell the truth
From the stories
Now I'm drowning in worries
Didn't even keep track
Of how to find my way back
Bias is a maze
I don't know if we'll ever leave this place
I took a turn
Don't know where it goes
But had to make a call
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13. |
In Loving Memory, pt. 3
02:58
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Saw you last on Christmas eve
A shell of what you used to be
But you left yourself in those old songs
When you taught me how to sing along
Drinking anything but water
Celebrating to the final hour
I'm glad you're not in pain anymore, Bruce
Maybe we'll dance again by the blue spruce
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Torchiana Athens, Georgia
Singer/songwriter music by Matthew Torchiana Hoban, based in Athens GA.
For booking, email torchianamusic@gmail.com
I'm always down to play.
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