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The End of the Beginning
04:51
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How could you notice
Under your skin
Hiding in shadows
It comes from within
Brace yourself and meet your match
I’ll keep nothing
Cause it all comes down
Save yourself, there is no catch
I’ll walk alone
Until I’m found
Til the truth comes out - 3x
Every night I die just a little
All this time I'm caught in the middle
All my life I fought with no winning
And this is the just the end of the beginning
Free yourself, float away
Let go or here, you’ll stay
Hold it close and open wide
You have no fate
The mirror lied
Let the truth come out - 3x
Every night I die just a little
All this time I'm caught in the middle
All my life I fought with no winning
And this is the just the end of the beginning
This is not the end
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Unhuman
04:53
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When the moon shows its face we will rise
With the the gift of these wings we will climb
Memory shapes the human mind
We will erase and leave behind
The brightest beam of light has the narrowest focus
This is how we fight; it’s the only way to hold us
This is how we’re made
Not born alive
The memory of shapes
We follow signs
In your dreams the ghost has come alive
In these walls there’s no where left to hide
Under the light of the sun, you will grow
Offer your life to the one you can’t know
It’s written in the code
No one had to teach us
Ending days of old
So distant they can’t reach us
The walls are caving in
While everything expands
It’s all wiped away
Yet everything still stands
In your dreams the ghost has come alive
In these walls there’s no where left to hide
Under the light of the sun, you will grow
Offer your life to the one you can’t know
Only when you’re dreaming, ya the ghost has come alive
You’re stuck inside these walls, ya there’s no where left to hide
Run to the light and you will grow
Offer your life to the one you can't know
Under the light of the sun, you will grow
Offer your life to the one you can’t know
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Collective Mind
03:27
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So loud and so soft spoken
We are so beautifully broken
We’re growing wings
Where we have cheated time
We share the need -
A free collective mind
We will rise and peak
Say it after me
Say it after me
We will not retreat
Say it back to me
Say it back to me
Stand up, stand up and be counted
We have them all surrounded
Move out, move out and discover
We’re taking it all
It’s time this time - we need it
Fall in, fall in - we believe it
We have the soul and we feed it
We’re taking it all
We will rise and peak
Say it after me
Say it after me
We will not retreat
Say it back to me
Say it back to me
Now is our time this time - we will have it
They wave a flag and we grab it
We draw the light and they know it
We’re flooding it all
March on, march on til we see it
We follow it down and bury it
Not moving on til we stop it
We answered the call
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Fade To Black
03:42
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See me and all that I’ve become from just a spark
Opening my eyes to the darkness and everything that lies within control
Learning to take the power back
Pulling deeper
I will be the only one who stands when it fades to black
Hear me
All I ever wish will never be
I have seen it all and how it ends
The colors of the world are black and white
The deeper that we go, we shed the light
Pulling deeper
Everything will always fade to black
It owns me
Everything that’s taken me apart
Echos of your voice are ring in my heart
I see you everywhere but I’m alone
I’m becoming the night
It’s time to give up the fight
I will take the power back
When everything fades to black
When it fades to black
When it fades to black
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5. |
All That Mattered
03:28
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Love is just an allusion
Love, I am lost in confusion
Suddenly I have reached tomorrow
Running free
Like wolves, we follow
I choose love over pain
I choose sun over rain
Cause you are all that mattered from where I stood below
You held me in the sky
Made me dream that I could fly
And that illusion shattered when you let me go
Fear, the space between where I am falling
And you, a thousand miles above and climbing
I have chosen love
I know what it will do
But I have chosen you
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Quiet War
03:38
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Just like love
Pain is meant to be
Until we deal with ourselves
We can’t be free
Just like love
We are meant to grow
Until we see ourselves
We can’t be known
We’re moving minds at the speed of life
Oh, we can’t keep it up, we can’t go on
We’re burning up, we’re burning out
We can’t ignore it's a quiet war
Oh, my enemy is human
With all the noise in my view
My enemy is human too
Just like love
We’re born delicate
We can fight with light
And soft power
We can’t ignore it's a quiet war
Oh, my enemy is human
With all the noise in my view
My enemy is human too
My enemy is human, like you
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No Remorse, No Regrets
04:46
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Lies but never a liar
Takes but never a thief
Leaves with only a cross to bear
What it gives is yours to keep
Strange persuasion
Clearing the way to the clearest path
Dreams illuminating
Parting the seas to take it back
It won’t remember so it won’t forget
It knows no justice or regrets for the blood it lets
Believing nothing, it knows no pain
And it feels no remorse when it enters your brain
The shell and the powder never ask why
When the hammer is down it doesn’t know who
Strange persuasion
Clearing the way to the clearest path
Dreams illuminating
Parting the seas to take it back
The slightest hand is moving minds
I’m gonna tear it all down before I die
The one I loved is the one I see
And what I’d give is not enough to bring her back to me
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8. |
Game Ender
04:33
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Every word I ever heard
I know them now, I know them now
And they all mean the world
Is beautiful
Every thought I’ve ever had
I see them now, I see them now
And they all mean the world
Is beautiful, beautiful
I don’t need you to spell it out
I know it now, I know it now
Brother, we’re saved together
The sky delivered
Home is now an ancient memory
No return to sender
I don’t need you to say it
All is gone and all the world can see
It’s a game ender
We will rise as one
Stop what has begun
Bringing down the main offender
If you hear me now
Scream the words out loud
We will be our own defender
Feel it in your veins
Celebrate the pain
They forget, we remember
When we hear the cries
Cross the darkest skies
Bringing down the great pretender
We will be the game ender
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Black Smoke Assimilation
04:15
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Protest, they got my number wrong
Regret, all the same
The sun set but you become the dawn
Reset, it’s all a game
Out of reach
I planted you, the seed
You’re learning to believe
That you’re the one that changes everything, everything
Black smoke in our lives
Breathing it, breathing it
Black smoke in our eyes
Blind by it, blind by it
We can't run from it
We can't hide from it
There is no light
There is no sun
Hands up, touching down
The way back is forward now
Go on, go without
Check mate, we’re all locked out
Out of reach
I planted you, the seed
You’re learning to believe
And now I release
I give it all away
Black smoke in our lives
Breathing it, breathing it
Black smoke in our eyes
Blind by it, blind by it
We can't run from it
We can't hide from it
We will give to it
We will live through it
There in the fade I remember
Ivory snow in December
There we worshipped fire
Now we are embers
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10. |
World With No Sun
05:21
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Let it sink in
Let it begin
Everything ends, my love
Ooooh
Sins
How did I let all this in?
A feeling I’ll never resist
Naked and shedding my skin
Now I will never exist
Tied to the moment I took
I wish I could give it all back
But it’s tied to the moment that I took
I followed a most selfish path
All the regrets
Burned in my eyes
Quietly I confess
It’s not like it used to be
Sins
How did I let all this in?
A feeling I’ll never resist
Naked and shedding my skin
Now I will never exist
Tied to the moment I took
I wish I could give it all back
But it’s tied to the moment that I took
I followed a most selfish path
Oooh waiting on a world that can’t see me
Oooh waiting on a world that can’t see me
Oooh waiting on a world that wants no one
Oooh waiting on a world with no sun
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Les Friction Las Piñas City, Philippines
Band Members:
Evan Frankfort
Helmut Vonlichten
Paint
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