Circa Survive

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Sleep On The Ground

To blame them over years
Let out, nothing else
But you don't need your ears
To listen to yourself
don't talk then (don't talk then)
just keep your lips closed
sleep on the ground tonight
sleep on the ground tonight
If you were meant to save me
If you were me to save me
I didn't realize
'Cause this is just for you and I alone
This is just for you and I alone
This is just for you and I alone
This is just for you and I alone
sleep on the ground tonight
sleep on the ground tonight
sleep on the ground tonight
This is just for you and I..

Your Friends Are Gone

(All your friends are gone)

It climbs in slowly behind
If you trust your neighbors
They'd never suspect what you're like
Welcome them into your life
No one has to know
Playback, delete, and rewind

It's getting closer than you thought it'd get
Just get inside
It's moving faster than you'd ever planned
You'll be relieved when

When you open up
You let yourself seem vulnerable
And the morning sun
Will make our bodies comfortable
In taking off your clothes
Everything hidden is suddenly exposed

Nobody wants to hear another
Story about how you couldn't write right
It climbs in slowly behind
No one has to know
Playback, delete, and rewind

Each one is louder than the one before
And the people you care for
At ten times the expense
of all that you spent
You'll be relieved when

When you open up
You let yourself seem vulnerable
And the morning sun
Will make our bodies comfortable
In taking off your clothes
Everything hidden is suddenly exposed

You'll keep it on the inside
'Cause that's the safest place
'Cause that's the safest place to hide

All of your friends are gone
And you were barely holding on
We were wrong and they fooled us once again
We are the loneliest of men, we're the loneliest

And all your friends are gone
Nobody hears you
And all your friends were wrong
Nobody cares
And all your friends are gone
Nobody is here with you
And all your friends were wrong
Nobody cares

Close Your Eyes To See

If you pass away in the wing fortress
There's a time divider and a technical team will be
At your services for what that matters
When the mirror shatters it's harder for me to see

If there are any answers here we haven't searched for
Just type in your code and say a prayer
How could it be, we were so secure?
Cause nothing you've ever planned on
Ever turned out the way you planned

What I tried to say this couldn't feel more wrong
I can't believe its happening or lasting this long
If we know each other then why should it be so hard?
Why should it be so hard to make it stop?

If there are any answers here we haven't searched for
Just type in your code and say a prayer
How could it be, we were so secure?
Cause nothing you've ever planned on
Ever turned out the way you planned

What I tried to say this isn't real
And I feel ashamed that I don't think that I can heal

It's a shame that I would pretend
Before making amends
It's a shame that I can't
But nothing you've ever planned on
Ever turned out
But nothing you've ever planned on
Ever turned out the way you planned
You're still disappointing them
You're still disappointing
You're still disappointing them

If there are any answers here we haven't searched for
Just type in your code and say a prayer
How could it be, we were so secure?
Nothing you've ever planned on
Ever turned out the way you planned

Carry Us Away

This is not a riddle
But it's meant to entertain.
I'll be your loyal Apostle
Just send me in to take the blame.

Well what would you expect to say?
It never mattered anyway

There'll be a site and an invisible light
Shown down on them and took them in
There'll be a time when maybe tonight
Temptations win and I give in

This is not a puzzle or mainframe
But it's meant to strengthen your faith
And each time the night falls upon us
We always end up the same

Well what would you expect to say?
It never mattered anyway

There'll be a site and an invisible light
Shown down on them and took them in
There'll be a time when maybe tonight
Temptations win and I give in

Were we not born into original sin?
What you ask for is what you get
And what you were given
So fold your hands and get down on your knees

There'll be a site and an invisible light
Shown down on them and took them in
There'll be a time when maybe tonight
Temptations win and I give in

On Letting Go

For your futures sake
I've got advice I'd advise you to take
Don't keep betting
"Well, it's gotta light me up sometime"
You lost your turn
You lost your turn

"All I wanted to be was one of your children
And all I wanted to be was one of yours"

See how clean the water is where you are
Wash off your handcuffs
And know the hidden messages you hear
They aren't real.
You tricked your mind to feel
You tricked your mind to feel
You tricked your mind...

"All I wanted to be was one of your children
And all I wanted to be was one of yours"

Are we even now, are we even now?
We are unrelated, we are unrelated
[x2]

If blood is thicker than water
Then you'll drown quicker than we intended
If blood is thicker than water
And you'll know where you can find us in the end

So we can begin again
So we can begin
[x2]

"All I wanted to be was one of your children
And all I wanted to be was one of yours"

Kicking Your Crosses Down

In case it gets away from us
Don't pull it close
The damage revealed the cost
And it wasn't worth it
But they'll never know
To keep in mind the line that separates idols
If the world is a dream and nothing is worth it
Unless you have a god

But we won't be saved
We'll live as slaves to love
What God takes away
Let's refill all your holes with mud
"Purchase your tickets; I'm kicking your crosses down"

In case it gets away from us
Don't pull it close
The damage revealed the cost
And it wasn't worth it
We're all going to hell

But we won't be saved
We'll live as slaves to love
What God takes away
Let's refill all your holes with mud
"Purchase your tickets; I'm kicking your crosses down"

And all the voices sound just like you
I'll be there, I'll be there
Breathe in, breathe in
It's been so long, I've felt so wrong again

I fixed myself up nice but you never came
The words rolled off our backs and sound the same
I'll be waiting, I'll be waiting
I hope that it's worth it but I'll never know

Semi-Constructive Criticism

Leave out the meaning this time
Let tensions evolve
Intimate groove confused
In childish tantrums
Your feelings were sacrificed
For a greater cause,
and if you forget what you saw, you'll be forgiven.
But there isn't a chance...

That I could do this on my own.
Now our perceptions have grown.
Branches and petals of paper and metal.
Amber tinfoil forest confines us...
And we disconnect like this is the end
we disconnect like this is the end

For everybody else's sake
For everybody else's sake
Set your mental alarm
You think it's safe to rely on
(Let them sleep!)
But there isn't a chance...

That I could do this on my...
We do a childish dance.
Your feelings were sacrificed
For a greater cause,
and if you forget what you saw, you'll be forgiven.
But there isn't a chance...
But there isn't a chance...

For everybody else's sake
For everybody else's sake
Let tensions evolve
Intimate groove confused
In childish tantrums of youth
Let tensions evolve
Intimate groove confused
In childish like you always do

Set your mental alarm
If you think it's safe to rely on
If you think it's safe, for everybody else's sake

memories
will find you
in the last place
you would think to look
All the time that it took to locate
Maybe it’ll just pass by you
or rip right through your heart
Underneath the surface
we break apart

Disappeared from public places never seen again
How long has it been?
How long has it been?

Underneath the surface
none of us deserve this
Underneath the surface we break apart

Disappeared from public places never seen again
How long has it been?
How long has it been?

I don’t want excuses
I don’t want apologies

Disappeared from public places never seen again
How long has it been?
How long has it been?

Fever Dreams

Sinking into my awareness
realizing what’s been done
I’ve taken a life and mine for granted
Neither planned or in passion
riddled with guilt and crazy panic
my body tells my mind to run
into the forest towards the mother
though I’ve destroyed her favorite son

All the things I should have done,
All the things I should have done

Execution style in the courtyard
where everyone awake can witness
the cowardly shot into the temple
all because I lost my temper
Burn the evidence, flee the scene
always keep those fingers clean
Devil eyes stare into mine
they say there is no place I can hide

Now I must compare the consequence
end my life or just confess
I won’t last a minute in confinement
Either way I’m going to hell

All the things I should’ve done
Oh, oh, oh
All the things I should have done
Oh, oh, oh
Either way I’m going to hell
Either way I’m going to hell

All my life
passing
before my eyes
All the time
I was awake

You were alive and just arriving
I couldn’t see your eyes
All that is love is ever lasting
I didn’t realize

I was awake

. Frozen Creek

Upon a pebble driveway
There sits a house
And it’s the loneliest place
I haven't spent much time there,
It wasn't allowed,
It just didn't feel right

‘Cause it’s all built upon a burial ground,
It just doesn't feel right,
It just doesn’t feel right

On top the frozen creek,
I would love to take you there
And swear it flows through me
On top the frozen creek

If I open both of my eyes,
I still see an empty space, so empty
But if I keep them closed
Then there's still a chance that something is out there

‘Cause it’s all built upon a burial ground,
It just doesn't feel right
It just doesn’t feel right

On top the frozen creek,
I would love to take you there
And swear it flows through me
On top the frozen creek

I made a promise to you long ago
I’d do the best that I can
I’d try and keep it
I made a promise to you long ago
That I’d do anything to keep this home

On top the frozen creek,
I would love to take you there
And swear it flows through me
On top of the frozen creek

I would love to take you there

Through The Desert Alone

Sadly, I walk around this place on the shells of eggs
My shoulders are cold
I put it off for so long, I put it off
and know I’ve got to live with what I made
forever

What was stolen from us
now is forever lost
just because we’ll never pay the ransom
What was taken from me
I will never regain just because
We’ll never pay the ransom

I’ll become like the desert wind
and I’ll drink all the gin
Shriveled up under desert lights
eaten up in the night
I can’t keep this up much longer without
needing more from you
I need more

Wasted with the rhythm
angry at the melody
How did you stay so sweet?
Cause you were my ally once
You were my confidante
I need somebody close
to be close to
forever

What was stolen from us
now is forever lost
just because we’ll never pay the ransom
What was taken from me
I will never regain
just because we’ll never pay the ransom
just because we’ll never pay the ransom

Imaginary Enemy

You're so careless, careless
How did you get so ungrateful?
You treat me like I'm a disease,
Oh, and it's been killing me
Chances are, you never even cared at all
I'm sure that you had your reasons
But I'll never get to hear the truth
Disguised in all your alibis
It's a tradition, practiced,
every time you say goodbye

I've tried so hard
to be what you needed
Your imaginary enemy
I've tried for so long
to make you believe it
That I am not the enemy

Slipshod cavalier,
I can't stand to see those things that
You have taken for granted
Thrown away everything you've been handed
Too much all at once that's how you got so ungrateful
All you saw was the burden
Standing beside all your blessed truths
Disguised in all your alibis
It's a tradition, practiced,
every time you say goodbye

I've tried so hard
to be what you needed
Your imaginary enemy
I've tried for so long
to make you believe it
That I am not the enemy
Imaginary enemy

Oh, oh, oh, oh
Alright, yeah

I've tried so hard
to be what you needed
Your imaginary enemy
I've tried for so long
to make you believe it
That I am not the enemy
Imaginary enemy

I Felt Free

Nothing new to say
Nothing to report ‘cause the future happened yesterday

If I could tell the truth
I could make you stay
but forever seems so far away

I fell apart in your arms
for the last time
And I felt free to do what I want
because of the things you told me,
because of the things you told me, you told me
I felt free

You could be the end of me
Too many shades of gray
It’s just another pointless game that we play

I couldn’t tell the truth
I’ll never make you stay
because tomorrow always happens yesterday

I fell apart in your arms
for the last time
And I felt free to do what I want
because of the things you told me
because of the things you told me, you told me
I felt free

I felt free

I will learn to live again for now I’m breaking
all the things I couldn't mend without escaping
I will learn to love again
I will learn to love
I will learn

Get Out

I can't get started from the part where I left off yesterday
Should have spent my time a little wiser
I sat alone
Guilty as sin
Waiting for words to come
From out of my head
Still making sense to anyone

I can't wait to understand the reason
I've yet to translate any meaning
Besides, it's not worth it to try
Get out
Get out

Locked myself up in a room without a window
Just to see
If it was any easier to breathe
(I was wrong)
Never underestimate the daylight
There, it's so much easier to breathe

I can't wait to understand the reason
I've yet to translate any meaning
Besides, it's not worth it to try
Get out
Get out
Get out
Get out

There's no meaning
Besides, it's not worth it to try
Get out
Get out
Get out
Get out

Get out
Yeah

100 Steps

Why's the pattern gotta change
We don't see life exactly the same
Always
What about a better place
I know I'm forgetful
My memory's erased
Always

There's always one hundred
Steps ahead
There's always one hundred
Steps ahead
Steps ahead

Why's the pattern gotta change?
We don't hear music exactly the same
Always
What about a better place
I'm know I'm forgetful
My memory's erased
Always

There's always one hundred
Steps ahead
There's always one hundred
Steps ahead
Steps ahead

Strange Terrain

We read the signs completely backwards
no one could see if we ended up
where we needed to be
to find out how it all works with
so many partners
and nobody wants, nobody wants to sit
behind the wheel, behind the wheel

Who's the one pounding the gears
avoiding the crowds
keeping their ear to the ground?
Oh I’ve made a mistake
I never learned how to get back to the place, ohhh

Where have all the signs gone?
I don't know where I am without them
in our lives

We made designs completely backwards
and nobody knows if we’re even close
to where we need to go
to find out how it all works with
so many artists and nobody
wants to sit behind the wheel, behind the wheel
(Get your own map)

Who's the one pounding the gears
avoiding the crowds, keeping their ear to the ground?
Oh I’ve made a mistake
I never learned how to get back to the place
where all our confidence kept us behind a shield
Only light could get through
where all our confidence kept us behind a shield
Only light could get through

Where have all the signs gone?
I don't know where I am without them
in our lives

Dyed In The Wool

It’s so sad for us
when we find ourselves
giving away, giving away
and it’s a shame for us
when we find ourselves
going to waste, going to waste
so throw away the love that we made.

(I know, I know)
and nothing’s going to change that
(I know, I know)
and nothing's going to change that hopeless feeling
I get when you say you'll understand and I know you can’t

There's no reason to be here
we should pack up and leave
I have never felt that way before totally alone
there's no reason to leave
I have never seen you act that way before, totally exposed.
As you throw away the love that we made

(I know, I know)
and nothing’s going to change that
(I know, I know)
and nothing's going to change that hopeless feeling
I get when you say you'll understand and I know you can’t

(I know, I know)
The longer it takes the more it goes to waste
(I know, I know)
I want to believe you but I can’t feel a thing
(I know, I know)
the more that you get the less you are
(I know, I know)
nothing’s going to change that hopeless feeling
I get when you say you'll understand and I know you can’t,
and I know you can't

and I know you can't help this feeling
I get when you say you'll understand and I know you can't.

Airplane Dance

They've got something green just for our condition
Safely in hands
Any unconscious faith you had in your convictions
On an airplane we dance

And even off the aircraft
Everything seems to make us laugh
Attention won't come easy
It never did
It never did
It comes easier

We've got something great so hopefully you trust us
And don't do too much
Any unconscious faith you had in your convictions
On an airplane we dance

And even off the aircraft
Everything seems to make us laugh
Attention won't come easy
It never did
It never did

So what you ended up having to say
You're always gonna owe me the same
We're all, we're all over the influence
We're collecting interest

And even off the aircraft
Everything seems to make us laugh
Attention goes away
But we always end up
On the plane
We're off the plane
On the plane
We're off

The Longest Mile

You'll retire with some
well deserved space that you needed years ago
it’s not the same as if you pushed it away
unescorted through the longest mile
now that it’s over

I have some regrets
but I can just forget them

I must admit now going down within this ship
I couldn't have a better crew to travel with
If I make it in one piece back to land
I will never sail again
never

Peace and quiet
start to interrupt,
your life is not the same as you had hoped
Living up to all the things that you played down
If you don't get a hold of it, I wont be around
now that it’s over

I’ve made mistakes
it’s all I have to learn from

I must admit now going down within this ship
I couldn't have a better crew to travel with
If I make it in one piece back to land
I will never sail again,
never

Now that it’s over

I can’t help
but think that
we’re coming to the end
If that is
the case then
I know we can’t pretend
to never make a sound again
Never make a sound

Spirit Of The Stairwell

Scratched out a note I wrote for you
to wake and read
to know that I was there once
I knew that there was nothing that I could write to assure you
of my return
But all the paper said when I was done is
‘do you still want me?’
because I’d be terrified if I had to leave this place today
We haven’t saved the baby

As I said
my darling
spring is constantly calling me
and there’s no place that I’d rather be

I won’t be angry
if you have to leave,
but I won’t be waiting
for that day
So don’t say you’re sorry because
I won’t believe you

Didn’t see a sticker on the door when we walked in
but I know it’s going to cost us
the same amount of love it takes to get you through
but it never moves you
I’d be terrified if I had to leave this place today
It’s where I threw my love away
Then we saw a different side of “Annie” nobody saw
She tried to kill the baby

and the earth and its skin will open up
and birth out a perfect mirror
that makes all our reflections clear

I won’t be angry
if you have to leave,
but I won’t be waiting
for that day
So don’t say you’re sorry because
I won’t believe you

Everyway

I would find a different way to say
You're gonna have to change everything you've made
You're gonna have to reword every metaphor you'd use
So that people who are hearing aren't confused

If that's the most important thing you do
Detail every ounce of pain that you went through
Make sure you leave something down to show the way back
Make sure you leave something down to show the way back

Every way you wonder if you're wrong
Every way you wonder if you're wrong
Inaccurate and inprecise
There is no gift without a price

I'm so mistaken, lost my direction
My souls been shaken

I would find a different way to go
There's no signs in life to guide you on that road
And if it's the most important thing you'll say
Make sure they understand

Every way you wonder if you're wrong
Every way you wonder if you're wrong
Inaccurate and inprecise
There is no gift without a price

Every way you wonder if you're wrong
(I'm so mistaken)
Every way you wonder if you're wrong
(lost my direction)
Every way you wonder
Every way you wonder
(my soul's been shaken)
Every way you wonder if you're wrong
you are

Backmask

Don't know why so much confusion
needs to be obsessed about
Under the mountain, the seeds depression
watch it disappear

Don't remind me again
It's already written

Distance always seems familiar
Nothing here can change without
listening carefully for your queue
to exchange the other lines

Late at night and call to us
building nesting in our skulls
so it can rest conveniently
conserving all the energy it takes
lower your head and take some
time to feel the sound
Surrender expectations
It's not just an explanation that we've found

Don't remind me again
It's already written
and nothing's only alive
it's already been given

Don't know why so much confusion
needs to be obsessed about
Under the mountain, the seeds depression
watch it disappear

Late at night and call to us
building nesting in our skulls
so it can rest conveniently
conserving all the energy it takes
lower your head and take some
time to feel the sound
Surrender expectations
It's not just an explanation that we've found

There's no need
There's no need to force it down
There's no need to force it down
I just need
I just need to make a sound
There's no need
There's no need to force it down
There's no need
I just want
I just want
I just wanna make a sound

There's no need
no need to force it down

Stare Like You'll Stay

We believe to fully understand you
you must step inside
For all the reasons we can think to hate you
we want to make it right

Can't you see that everybody goes through the same thing
at different times
And all the ways that you can say we're different
you're wrong, we're alike

Just say you'll keep your eye on everyone

Take a last long look at where you are
Allowance received and I can't believe
there's anything like this
'Cause if you're half as good as you say you are
then you can prove it

Stare like you'll stay alive
if you stare like you're there

We believe to fully understand you
you must step inside
For all the reasons we can think to hate you
we want to make it right

Just say you'll keep your mind on everyone

Take a last long look at where you are
Allowance received and I can't believe
there's anything like this
'Cause if you're half as good as you say you are

then you can prove anything to us
then you can show us how it's done
so we can show it to everyone
if you stay alive

Stare like you'll stay alive
if you stare like you're there

Stare like you'll stay alive
(we believe to fully understand you, you must step inside)
if you stare like you're there
(we believe to fully understand you, you must make it right)

Lazarus

Anything that happened when I was young
it came so measly
now all of those things are haunting me
and nothing will calm

I won't be offended if no one sees
I just wanna know what that'll mean

When I'm alone I make believe that
I'm in a different time and place where
nobody wants to know my name
and no one will recognize my face

Anything that I did way back when
it seems so long ago
Might as well have all been by accident
I've nothing left to show

I wont be offended if no one stays
I'll just blame it all on my old age

When I'm alone I make believe that
I'm in a different time and place where
nobody wants to know my name and
no one will recognize my face

2am, I'm thinking about how lucky I've been
I need to take a moment to myself
6am, I'm thinking about how lonely I've been
I need to take a moment to myself

Sleep Underground (Demo)

You play that role for years
there's nothing else
But you don't need your ears
to listen to yourself
Don't talk back,
Keep your lips closed tight
Sleep underground tonight
Sleep underground tonight

If you were meant to save me
(Sleep underground tonight)
If you were meant to save me then I didn't realize til now

This is just for you and I alone
This is just for you and I alone
This is just for you and I alone
This is just for you and I alone
Sleep underground tonight
Sleep underground tonight
This is just for you and I