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Siren
02:35
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I've been avoiding you my whole life
But I know what I have to do
The way you make me feel
Can't keep me away from you
You're everything I've been searching for
You're everything that's true
And if you tear me down
I'll try in vain to kill the pain from you
You make me sick to my stomach
Whenever I look at you
And you make want to disappear
When I know that I can't hold you
And I know deep in my heart
That I can't run away from you
You'll kill me in the end
Ever since I've known of you
You're the siren in my dreams
That I've always been drawn to
The dark enchantress with the ability
To tear my heart in two
And I don't care if I have to go to hell
In order to be with you
There is nothing in all of this world
That I would rather do
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The Shadow Dress
01:34
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Her hair falls over her eyes
She wears her darkness like a gown
She hides from the people
Hides from the light
Hides beneath her shadow
Falls out of sight
Her anger is beauty
But she's shied away
Her love is a promise
That never fades
Furtive and wounded
Is the soul of her gaze
For so many people
Have made her this way
And I would do anything
For her to hear what I say
For pride in our being
Is the only way
And the worst thing of all
Would be to watch you slip away
Watch you slip away
But we will have our day
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Dying For You
03:01
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Shriveling decaying
Curled brown leaves
Sacred plague sullen heart
Sick all day without sleep
The world just disappears
Fading away
You're like smoke through my fingers
All I've ever wanted
Was to be by your side
Love you to pieces baby
Stroke your withered flesh
Baby you destroy me
I've died a thousand deaths
But this will be my last
If you don't come back to me
You're a disease eating me slowly
I need your freezing touch
I need your corpse against me
No matter what I won't give up
Your entire being possesses me
I'll follow you to your grave
And lay with you there under me
I'm dying for you baby
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Orpheus
02:01
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I look at the moon's
Quicksilver reflection
On the ocean
I cut out my heart
To wear it on my sleeve
The meat of my
Hopeless profession
I tear myself open
For strangers to prod
At my wounds
And mock them
I carry a lyre
Heavy and wood
Affixed with iron
And take this abuse
Because this is the part
In the play
I've been given
And even if I die
A fool
It's still the part
I've been given
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Nyx
01:40
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Angel like
She's sweet as silk
Her voice is like a bell
But don't be fooled by her
She'll drag you down to hell
Now she don't mean no harm
She only wants to heal
Every bit of pain
That you could ever feel
Her whispered voice
In your ear
Is like current on your skin
And she will coax you
To every mortal sin
If you try to chase her
She'll elude your grasp
And if you touch her hand
It will turn to ash
There are many skeletons
In the surf beneath her sea
And she will only find you
In the darkest of your dreams
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Stung
03:14
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I long for your poison
Ashen anger
You are gone
And I'm heartbroken
Reached out
And I was stung
I was naive and hopeful
To think that you would come
And what you've done to me
Can never be undone
You're the only one
Who can hurt me
You're the only one
I've been stung
Got too far under your skin
So this is what you've done
Always been a drunk for poison
Until it kills me and I'm done
Lesser men have fled from you
But I will never run
Oh black widow you are deadly
So much deadly fun
Suicide is love for you
And I can never run
I'll die with your fang
In my arm
Only you can make me feel better
You're the only one
I've been stung
You're the only one
I've been stung
You're the only one
You're the only one
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Dreaming
02:49
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I was dreaming you weren't far away
And you were next to me
I dreamt I held your hand
And we shared each other's memories
I laid my head beside yours
And we shared the same dream
I dreamt you were safe there in my arms
And not tortured in your sleep
We were so far away
In a field of flowers lying peacefully
With the blue sky rolling by
And you were safe with me
And I never wanted us to wake up
To find the walls dividing you and me
Of timid flesh and bone
Made from anxiety
I never wanted to disappoint
Someone just like me
All I ever wanted
Was for you to dream with me
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One Day
02:42
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Even when I'm old and lame
I'd still trade all my years
For just one day with you
While the earth spins
And the sky is blue
And we're still holding on to
The last frays of our youth
Don't worry about tomorrow
It'll have gone before we've known
Don't worry for my weathered soul
All my wounds are healed by you
Darling stay a while longer
Until the day is through
And when you're gone I'll be down
But at least I spent some time with you
And I don't care if I live for just one day
As long as it's with you
Two butterflies chase each other
One can't live without the other
And they'll be gone tomorrow
But who cares about tomorrow?
It's an empty promise we hold on to
What matters is right now and me and you
And as long as you're on this earth
I don't want to leave it
But without you hearing these words
I might as well not exist
My world doesn't have meaning
Without you in it
And I won't crush your wings
Even if you crush my dreams
I've wasted my entire life
But I wouldn't waste a single moment with you
Any day I'd spend with you
Would be the last I'd hold on to
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Spirit Twin
02:07
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You are my spirit twin
You're the one I see myself in
You are my spirit twin
I want to taste the current
Underneath your skin
Where your spirit
Dwells within
You lay there
Sleeping in your bed
With the sound of static
Blaring in your head
Leave your body there
Dead weight left behind
Soar upwards and merge
With our greater mind
Oh you are my spirit twin
I feel you stirring deep within
The black wound in my chest
You've left for me to tend
Don't feel sad for long
The pain of being apart will end
You're my spirit twin
We will meet again
My spirit twin
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Twins
02:29
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Two fish in the sea of dreams
Dreams that pour like water into our minds
And the water we drink
In the water we swim
In the ether we reside
In the darkness of our minds
When I dream you dream
When you dream I dream
Everything we are is shared
And we drink from the well that fulfills this spell
When we paint with a brush
One brush over the other
One current follows another
Until we are entwined in one another.
Twins twins
You are my twin
My only friend
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11. |
Hell Is Without You
03:39
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Love is freedom
Or so they say
Hell is without you
You're the cause of all my pain
Wherever I may wander
In search for a place to stay
Home is right beside you
No matter what price I have to pay
If love is freedom
Then why I am a slave
I would trade fame and fortune
Just to see you for another day
I beg for my freedom
Though I don't wish to escape
Hell is without you
And this pain won't go away
I feel no more pleasure
And everything is grey
And only one thing I ask you
What can I say just to make you stay
And if you are gone
I will wish for yesterday
Tormented with regret
For this cruel fate
I would give up everything
For your own sake
Even if my suffering
Will never go away
Love is freedom
Or so they say
Hell is without you
And I wouldn't have it any other way
Love is freedom
For you but not for me
And only you
Can set me free
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Drown
04:47
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Lost myself in you
Lost myself in you
Now I don't know what to do
No I don't know what to do
Lost myself in you
I am lost without you
Drown drown drown drown drown
Down down down down
To the darkest depths with you
Lost my mind for you
Lost my mind for you
Now I don't know what to do
No I don't know what to do
And I am crazy just for you
Swallow up my rueful being
Pull me into you
Drown drown drown drown drown
Drown drown drown in you
The dark waters of your barren sea
Are calling me to you
And I know I'll find the truth
When I give myself to you
Every dream I've ever had
You have made come true
Drown drown drown drown drown
Drown drown drown in you
La mer est bleu
Love is true
L'amour est bleu
Love is true
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Serpentine Skies Connecticut
Serpentine Skies is the Connecticut-based music project of Steven Belcher, focused mainly around the meditative state between the conscious and unconscious states of mind.
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