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Holding Water

by STRANGERS

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1.
i won't open my eyes and bear witness to floods you're holding water i can't keep my head up above i know this is what you had intended for me to fall prey to your ill intentions as we turn our heads we break bonds the bonds we've built to keep us afloat give everything receive nothing chiral hands bound by severed ties your heart and your mind don't see eye to eye you haven't seen the last of me this water that you hold will be my fucking hell to pay the end will never come but the truth is near the end will never come but the truth is near there is nothing after this there is nothing after this differences will turn to distances differences will turn to distances and we will cease differences distances i am holding water i am holding water
2.
Revisions 03:10
for better or for worse we've been blessed, we've been cursed the near storm has your spine wrapped around its finger holding you out above the fallout and don't look down because your time is up don't look down and you're running out of places to hide begging for change as you're watching their heads shake all of your cries for help are now an earache sealing a bet with a left handed handshake losing all faith when the last of your bones break if i can't save my change how the fuck can i save your life safety is only a word safety is our only curse your time will come and you'll get what you deserve pick up your teeth and pronounce the word deny all the voices that you once heard taking advice from a man six feet under can't step outside because you're too self centered safety is only a word safety is only a word that is our only curse
3.
you never cease to amaze me putting all of this guilt on this city you're making things harder for all those around you soon they will pick back up and move on without you and now you're caught being torn between what was and what could be this could be just what you need a little something i call sympathy but don't expect what you haven't earned what's forgotten needs to be relearned needs to be relearned this place isn't quite how i remember but nothing at all has changed save your breath because this life is just a test all you know is that your world is consumed by personal flaws and broken jaws i'll meet you in the shallow sea ankle deep we will meet i will keep living for me not what you expect me to be this is the heartland (heartland) this is my home i will never turn my back on it i will never fucking turn my back this is the heartland (heartland) this is my home
4.
Lake Nyos 04:12
this is life at its peak, listen to the earth breathe. i'd spend the rest of my days digging this grave, for you to fall asleep beneath these weeds and below all of these trees. this place has taken my breath and life away from me. i can't speak, i can't breathe. so alone, so alone. i will not get out of this life alive, so i will just find a quiet place to die it's not all as hard as it seems because this world just seems so peaceful to me. this is my life at its lowest. i can't step back, i can't step away from this. it's running into problems like these that makes me realize that i can never leave. until these problems were washed away by death's waves.
5.
carry yourself over the waters and the mountain tops the setting sun the setting sun on the horizon is too far away from you far away from your eyes far away
6.
Certainty 04:21
every day here is a fucking nightmare the sun slips into a coma anxiety suspends the silence the smoke bends and breaks but the clouds always find us your second wind has fallen behind your second wind has fallen behind as the sun cremates our skyline one day I'll burn down this dreamscape and leave nothing behind and it's as if we've briefly found a cure for the dying and it's as if we've briefly found a cure for the dying the void resonates in the back of my eyes you're a temptress building an empire on ashes, blood, bone and profit but those dollar signs are about to flat line the last vapor speaks with a whisper let the Rockies guide you home let the Rockies guide you home i'm sick and tired of this fools paradise no one understands what's happening to us and only we know why we're here we cannot stop this flow of smoke for it only slips through the cracks filling up my lungs and counting down the years certainty is so close, yet everything is still so obscure we don't know what we want, all we know is that we want it now certainty is so close, yet everything is still so obscure we don't know what we want, all we know is that we want it now we will never stop until we come face to face stumbling from city to city we will all decide when bend comes to break we're done with all of these lies and this pity just let the vultures have your flesh but save your bones for yourself just let the vultures have your flesh but save your bones for yourself

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released June 26, 2012

Recorded, Produced, Mixed and Mastered by: Karl Schubach
Written and Performed by: Strangers

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