.:the.albedo.effect:. Volume One

Lyrics

Music related, not much more to put.

Something Under The Bed Is Drooling

Stop here,
Back away
Because everything I try to do just breaks
It’s only been like this for a few weeks but this horror I can’t shake
I’m lockin’ all the doors and bar the windows to keep everyone else safe
and you think I’m alone in this,
Nah-uh
Creepy, crawly, tentacled, how many legs? I’m sure I’ll never know
escapin’ won’t be [...]

Hidden Track

Hidden
track
at the end of the record
You can say all those things
you couldn’t before
So you
Hide a song
at the end of your CD
and hope the die-hards
or someone will notice
that track ten
isn’t ten minutes long
You’re just too damned afraid
to say what you feel
You’re just too damned afraid
to say what you mean
Boy, there’s nothin’ worth livin for if you
can’t [...]

Making Circles Square

Lift my bloody face
from the table
You’re readin’ it wrong
We’re all in this together
We’re all in this as feathers
Up and Away.
So roll me up a cliff
that isn’t stable
It’s so precious how
Impossibility’s nurtured
When our volatility’s perfect
Up and Away
and I thank those who came first
So I go to town to find
a new start
The hooker’s polite, but
I’m not interested [...]

Old Lyrics

Dearest failure,
I think a celebration is
in order
so break out
break out
break out
all the bottles you’d been savin’ up.
With our
flag under one arm
and yesterdays news nestled in the other
you’re smilin’
smilin’
smilin’
Your pearly whites could even pass as stars
and we are
accidents
and really good at
fakin’ it
when we’re not
covered
covered
covered
You paint my reasons with somethin’ nice
and it’s a
two way clause
a standard [...]

The Visit

He smiles he sees my familar face
escorted through the padded doors
He’s got a look about him like he’s been up for five days,
Tryin to figure out what this Visit’s for
I’m sure that
He thinks this time
is just a game and
I try my best
to keep it straight and
I know my face
Always gives me away.
Truth be told, [...]

Some Days We Sin

Hang Up
There’s nothing left to see here,
Our trial’s over
and you’ve been
released on your own recognizance
Sail a sea
Fifty cameras deep is all
I get to notice
that my head
hasn’t been screwed back on straight
Why now?
I ask so many times now.
You think I’d see a cycle now.
But then it turns out
That we could never survive this,
It’s going to take [...]

Refugee Camp

Meal bells
familiar warmth in our
heart’s swell
How long it’s been it’s
hard to tell
This city of tents
Estranged
Dining outside with the
unnamed
Look around at all the
unphased
and wonder when they’ll vent
The moment my heart breaks
at the height of our mistakes
the form that it now takes
is a little girl
asking her father,
“When
are we
Going home?”

Marched in
Thousands more come every
evening
Sunset bringing more
mouths to feed
In [...]

Public Service Announcement

Apologise for any inconvenience
It’s just that this is the only way to get passed your A.D.D.
The thieves and criminals are dancing all around the solemn, terrified.
All I ever wanted in a second chance is too late; gone are the days of seeing life through my eyes.
I know that it’s wrong to kill
(wrong to kill)
but [...]

The Secret Lives of Retail Monkeys

Next
In Line
Heartfelt smiles
I’m forcing them down and
This place is
Praising the faceless
In ways I never thought I’d have to explain
Surrounded by
neatly tucked shirts
Oh how it must hurt
when
Time
Stops
and I wouldn’t change a thing
I can barely see through this hazy grin
That’s slapped on my face
Now everything’s great
If only just for eight hours and
This can’t last but we’ll do [...]

Starting Point (Growing Wings)

This is the sound of a budding romance
this is the sound of growing wings
There’s no one around with a back seat graveyard
breaking into my stoackade
This is the sound of hero’s start
this is the way we learn to cope
There’s no one around with a care to hurry
no one around to let her know
If there’s a better [...]

Yesterday I Watched The World End

I closed my eyes and turned my head
to a warmer sigh
I block out all the cold
I feel old.
So I downplayed all the hype
These scenes replayed in rewind
in which everyone’s a criminal or dunce
at least once
Graceful
You thought I’d be stable
but I’m a handful
and these things that I’ve seen now kill
Every I hope I smashed in my [...]

Dimed

Ten cents
Can’t buy anything anymore
except text messages
and that’s only if your plan allows
My sense
Has flown the coup like a
headless fowl
with no direction planned
It just hopes that anything
is better than this
Boy
Oh Boy
Was it wrong
Man
Oh man
Are we strong….
This didn’t kill us, now nothing can.
This couldn’t kill us, now nothing can.
Ten cents
Can’t buy anything anymore
except pennies
Ten of them, [...]

After All (Midnight)

These shoes have seen it all
I imagine them appalled
But still they follow
like a lemming to my fall
Been labeled second best
All lights are comin’ red
I’m in trouble
It’s the clearest thing you’ve said
and by tomorrow
there’s a bounty on my head.
Bad news
Follows
I’d try to
apologize
but no one has ears
Sad news
It hollows me out
till I’m bonless
and petrified
And who has time [...]

When I Finally Get It Right

Opening the notebook is a start
but puting ink on paper Without giving thought
is not enough
That of course is why I‘m
Fumbling my words like foreiGn tounges
The language that we think In won’t always tRanslate
The way we want
and wishing I‘d fail gladly in response
Starting from imperfect is a rush
but every single flaW that I exempliFy
builds
mo
mentum to the [...]

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