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Dew
04:08
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I remember fourteen and floating
In my room
Your voice like water
Under my bed and through my head
And I knew that I could love you
I remember sixteen and setting course
Drifting on sadness and dripping like a sieve
Your every note stopped the holes in my heart
And I knew that I would love you
Miss Blue, you’ve gone missing
Miss Blue
I remember daydreams and sinking
Into your depths
A voyage over blue waves
And still I hold my clumsy breath
Would that I could have loved you
Miss Blue, you’ve gone missing
Miss Blue, and I’m missing you
And I’m missing you
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Mayfly, into the world you wake
A spark of stray heartache
Little child, mind wide and wild
This garden is yours to make
Your mark for everyone to see
A humble prodigy
Green-eyed, sister cyanide
It’s you they all envy
In melody’s humming womb
Your sacred heart can bloom
These four strings are the key
To loosen this gravity
Blonde and thin, wrapped in pale skin
And all the boys want in
Fools and thieves, desperate to believe
An angel versed in sin
Your kin are rooted to this ground
This town has bottomed out
From above, they rain on you with love
But their hands still hold you down
Love this place as you may
In Eden, only shadows play
Four strings will set you free
Shrug off this gravity
What lies beyond the state lines?
A fiction or a star sign?
You’ll never know unless you cut your roots and run
A restlessness you just can’t shake
Clinging to an unknown fate
Follow it across the sea
And shatter this gravity
Cut your roots and run
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3. |
Lost in Normandy
02:00
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Watercolor Autumn
04:00
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The prodigal daughter is missing no more
But lost as ever still
Stranded on the sidewalk, in this city by the water
If neither coast will call you home
Then bend them to your will
With bloodstains on the asphalt
These streets are yours to wander
Embrace, and carve your world anew
She is everything, everything to you
Chicago holds you close, an echo of your blue
This is everything, is everything
Line your eyes with the colors of autumn
Beneath the hazy streetlights, you’ve found your kindred souls
Brothers in your cause
Sneaking out the window, eloping with your lover
She’s more than just an instrument
Her strings beat like a heart
Her whispers reassure you
These streets are yours to conquer
Embrace, and carve your world anew
She is everything, everything to you
Chicago holds you close, an echo of your blue
This is everything, is everything
Line your eyes with the colors of autumn
Embrace, and carve your world anew
She is everything, everything to you
Chicago’s just the start, it all belongs to you
This is everything, is everything
Line your eyes with the colors of autumn
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All eyes cast upward
To catch a glimpse of you
The immaculate heroine of rock
Like a bottlerocket glissando
Across a summer evening
You shimmer in the night sky
As we stare in awe
As I stare in awe
This is everything you wanted
To be, this life is more than a daydream
A daydream, a daydream
She is everything you wanted
To see, to breathe, and abandon your gravity
You’ll never stumble again
This is everything you wanted
To be, this life is more than a daydream
A daydream, a daydream
She is everything you wanted
To see, to breathe, and abandon your gravity
The fruit of a golden tree
A taste that you so desperately need
Sweet like the winds of June
You could stay here forever
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6. |
Apostrophe
05:12
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In repose like royalty
The word bends a knee
To swear you fealty
In repose like royalty
The world bends a knee
To swear you fealty
Cup the universe to your lips
Savored like a lover's kiss
Nothing will ever taste so sweet as this
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7. |
The Serpent
04:50
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It’s cold in here
Don’t you agree?
A listless fear
Coils around your ear
The world slithers by
Like a promise through your fingers
And your voice is lost
Buried in a quiet cough
In a little white box
The mad shadow has shed its skin
While your own grows paper thin
And nothing is sacred, not even your heart
No, nothing is sacred, not even your heart
If the taste of your blood
Will keep you here
You’ll keep biting your tongue
In silent prayer, silent prayer
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8. |
"My Eternal Opera"
07:07
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Your cheeks are stained from all this crying
Your voice is gone, there’s no use lying
Friends all fell away, some into graves
Their phantoms trapped inside the airwaves
It’s all falling to pieces
One of your brothers collapsed in shame
You and the others crossed out his name
A little needle shot up with sin
You stand up straight like you’re better than him
You’re all falling to pieces, falling to pieces
Daydream daughter, where are you going
With all this sadness weighing you down?
Pain haunts you like a dirty spirit (can you hear me?)
In the early mornings you can almost hear it (can you hear me?)
Spin the rumor, you’ve lost your way (can you hear me?)
Just a little hit to hold it at bay
You’re falling all to pieces, falling to pieces
Daydream daughter, where are you going
With all this sadness weighing you down?
There is no gravity here
But still your shoulders are bowed
It’s all falling to pieces
You’re all falling to pieces
Daydream daughter, where are you going
With all this sadness weighing you down?
There is no gravity here
But still your shoulders are bowed
Way at the top of everything
Do you feel so very small?
With dangling legs over the edge
Do you feel anything at all?
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It’s getting colder, you’re feeling frail
Your fingers start to fail
You cannot hold her, your battered bass
Mascara stains your face
The world wavers before your eyes
Silhouettes in empty skies
The taste you savored, now soured and sucked
And you know everything is fucked
And he ones that need you
Will be the ones to bleed you
Sitting pretty upon a barren throne
Together apart, together alone
They said they loved you, those little liars
Voices wrapped in barbed wire
Now they’re above you, lighting a fire
Building your funeral pyre
And the ones that carried you
Will be the ones to bury you
In defamation
And assassination
All eyes cast downward at you
Who will cast the first stone?
And the ones that carried you
Will be the ones to bury you
In desecration
Annihilation
Sitting pretty upon a barren throne
Together apart, together alone
Four fragments, once a single stone
It’s all coming apart, and now you’re alone
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10. |
Throwing Knives
02:50
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Cut out your tongue and hold it up
For everyone to see
No more a marionette
And never a trophy
Hypocrites one and all
Bound to a vision
It was everything, but
Not yours
Oh! how those ropes burned
As they lashed you to a post
Flames biting your namesake
Traitors kissed you on the cheek
And hissed in your ear
A graceful stab is all it takes
To cut away the years
Can you hear me?
Traitors kissed you on the cheek
And hissed in your ear
A graceful stab is all it takes
To cut away the years
Blind the eyes (my eyes) that gazed
In wonder and simple love
They’ll never (I’ll never) see you again
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Change of heart, change the song
You’ve been walking for so damn long
Aimless roads, teem with ghosts
You’ve been walking a lonesome coast
White lines bend your spine
Chase the habits that thieve your mind
Eden scarred, narcotic arms
Chase your habits and all their harm
There’s nothing at the end of your famous road
A quiet nothing at the end
Wrists are raw from broken laws
A faded image of every flaw
Crack cocaine and pleading veins
Feed the image that stole your name
There’s nothing at the end of your famous road
A quiet nothing at the end
Winter’s end cannot mend
Wander on your exhausted wend
Pale as shade, oh, how you’ve strayed
Wander back where you were made
There’s nothing at the end of your famous road
A quiet nothing at the end
Grieving clouds crowd together and dampen the sun-
Light. The road stretches
Behind you like a faded reel
Of film, and your soles are worn raw.
There was a pain, but not anymore.
Twelve years of steps, now just
Yellowing polaroids, scattered
Fragments of a dream. The faces
Begin to blur,
The names, dates, places—
Stains of black
On white.
There was a lesson, but not anymore.
You touch
Each memory with a callused
Finger, and the images waver,
Ghosts under a glossy surface.
Only you remain,
A dusty portrait in a poorly lit
Corner.
There was a purpose, but not anymore.
Change of heart, change the song
You’ve gone missing and they’ve moved on
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Eden is overrun with weeds
Friends have scattered like dandelion seeds
You’ve gone and buried all your deeds
In the rural plains of obscurity
A stablehand in plain dress
The fables hint at mugshots and arrests
You keep your secrets near your breast
A fugitive and recluse at your best
Gravity never lets go
No, no, and I know
This time
You’re missing for good
Your bass leans in a corner
A harmless relic and listless daughter
There’s no one left but me to mourn her
And sometimes you, her guilty coroner
Gravity never lets go
No, no, and I know
This time
You’re missing for good
Do you get dizzy under all those stars?
Do they ever wonder who you are?
You left a hole in their evening sky
The same hole I see in mine
Gravity never lets go
No, no, and I know
This time
You’re missing for good
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13. |
Miss Blue
04:36
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Miss Blue, forever missing
I’m forever missing you
A stranger you’ll remain
Lost in Midwest wilderness
Still I wander this old garden
Beneath a drowsy moon
Loving what you loved
I hear your voice across a decade
In every ringing note
Like a fever dream
I taste your sacred heart
Miss Blue
We’ve forgiven all your wrongs
But all you left were songs
To the world, to me
Miss Blue
Wherever you may be
Your little legacies
They are everything to me
They are everything to me
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14. |
Mourning
02:33
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it's not perfect
but it's mine
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thejudasobscure Waterbury, Connecticut
"The Beast of Brass City" - one-piece screamo/noisecore. 100% of music/merch proceeds go to CT Bail Fund.
contact:
thejudasobscure@gmail.com
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