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The Child We Once Were and the Corpse We Shall One Day Be

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1.
Opatija 00:52
"We refuse to comment on details but let's just say that we are not normal people. We worship death and aren't scared of a corpse."
2.
Original Eye 01:33
One thinks the answer to the problem
 is a pot of gold
 but
 that path it travels is a deep dark dirt hole and 
that pain in its heart is a product of the knot tied in the string
 that makes
 the mannequin dance beyond
 its own control. Fulfillment of temptation is a warm wet fix
 for the cold dry dead environment so many be living in but
 when worship of idol supersede love of humanity, god will necessarily eat 
his own family. If 
you've got the power to think, you've got the strength to endure. The road to freedom has long been painted on the floor in a shade of light that can be seen
 by any eye that has learned
 to
 see
 above and beyond the original lie. "Every moment you experience is stored in the back of the mind where things deemed long forgotten are really just set aside. Indeed, the day will come when lifetime is reviewed it is then you will remember the word: SINCERITY" If 
you find yourself alone throughout the day and the night, no matter how many people are in your line of sight, 
it may be time to take a look under the bed
 at the monsters that inhabit the deepest darkest hole in your head.
3.
Affinity 02:53
So 
you say you have acquired an affinity for the darker side of all that we've been given and
 you need a way to make the world listen to the words you have to say and 
you endeavor so hard but 
you keep on failing till you become addicted to the feeling of failure and you
 can't slow down for its far too uncomfortable to stray too far from practical reality? "Inhibit judgement holy one, 
let him do what he will. 
To he his way is just as true as your way is to you. No king of world nor self is he 
who has not tamed the beast 
that lures one to upset the crowd
 thru unfounded belief
. Respect for that which lies beyond one's current comprehension is that which will unlock the door to wisdom and affection. Inhibit judgment holy one, let him do what he will. To he, your way is as untrue as his way is to you." You need a way to make the world listen to the words you have to say? W h y d o n ' t y o u l i s t e n t o y o u r s e l f
 ?
4.
Lies 03:56
Down 
drips the drool from the lips of the fat filthy fool with a grip stiff as death round a slick shiny tool
 as
 he cuts up the young lamb live as it cries out to God: "Why oh why give a thumb to a slob? These sick awful sad mis-creations of math... how can we without word turn this mess into tact? To instruct that without 
love, virtue and poise 
to correctly employ the endowment of choice?" It can read 
it on your heart, it can read it in your eyes, 
it can hear 
it in your voice, it can hear 
it in your lies you
 tell to keep yourself as complacent as you can, so wholly uninformed of the consequences of every vile act orchestrated by the hand in a structure founded on a circular plan 
so configured to prevent the malicious to ascend a location higher than oblivion. How
 amoebic man stabs grace in the back as she falls to her knees to obey his command, to 
play dumb and to please
, to
 be struck bound and teased
, to
 conclude sick, infected, impaired, and diseased
. Oh, the lows we've achieved 
for some comic relief
 from
 this prank played by wolves 
slyly dressed up as sheep
 veiled
 in hypnotic cloth 
keenly tailored to protect
 an impish facade 
from common 
regard
! It can read 
it on your heart, it can read it in your eyes, 
it can hear 
it in your voice, it can hear 
it in your lies.
5.
Balance 02:46
You've been waiting a lifetime for things to be more like more like 
you'd like them to be. If you wait too long to find your balance, you will lose 
it all. You've been waiting a life time for things to be more like more like 
you'd like them to be but the truth is my darling: "The way of the world is no more than the way that we see it." When your eyes aren't your eyes, life 
is not your life. There's no time to take back your life like your 
life time. If you wait too long to find your balance, you will lose it all. If you take too long to find 
your way back home, we will all soon fall. "Everything outside is but a picture of the inside painted by the hand that feeds." Lie. Don't wait too long, too long my love, to find your way your way back home.
6.
Once upon a time, there was a man with a heart of gold until he learned that gold could be sold for a healthy profit 
in the city 
where the people paint their skin with all kinds of depictions of death and lust for those lowly things in life that 
turn our children into 
corpses. What have I become?
7.
8.
Isn't the hardest part about growing older the caving in of the "maybe one days" and the sight of the child we used to be walking one step further away down memory lane with a bag of seeds of possibilities we forgot to sow while occupied by 
temporary
 things
? Don't fret my love
, the meaning of life is the meaning of life and everything will turn out fine the day the right idea consumes the mind
.
9.
Cold & Grey 05:19
There's a fine line between what glitters like gold and what may annihilate an innocent soul. Ain't it all so cold and grey
 alone
? You try to keep an evil mind busy 
but them bright lights got a death grip on thee. Ain't it all so cold and grey alone? Whatcha gonna do? Whatcha gonna say... When everything falls apart? You'll be left lying there. You'll be left lying uneasy. Whatcha gonna do? Whatcha gonna say... When time ain't on your side? There's a fine line between what is true and what is told and all that may liberate a kidnapped soul. Ain't it all so bright and alive
 with you
? Until you are what you know you ought to be 
happiness ain't ever gonna head your way. Ain't it all so cold and grey alone? I now know that home is in your arms
 and heaven is but wherever I am free from harm. Ain't it all so bright and alive together? With the tide high and you right by my side it ain't so hard to hear that child inside. Ain't living sure a lot like
 LIFE 
together
?
10.
Simplicity: Life should be made as simple as can possibly be but not simpler than what can be possibly. Complacency: It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. Authority: Without wisdom is an axe without an edge fitter to bruise a young mind than to polish it. Conformity: One dog barks at something and millions upon millions bark at the bark. Take me down south to a small town where green grass still grows on the ground and where the children have not yet lost their imagination. Take me down south to a small town where mother nature can be found
 and where the children have not yet forgotten fascination. Rationality: That which is rational 
is that which is REAL 
and that which is real is that which is RATIONALITY. Facts: Unlike the masses intellectuals have a taste for rationality
 and an interest in the facts. Sorcery: Now known as advertising, marketing, 
dark suggestion, and/or underground animal psychology. Elvis Aaron Presley: Still living large under a palm tree in New Mexico somewhere between Taos and Albuquerque Insanity... It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly
 sick
 society
.
11.
What may "be" may be made realized by writer and wrote word although what may yet stand common will be first ever absurd. No act is but as godlike as "intentional attention,"
 if all truth is "stiffened" solid by no more than mass consensus. When attention is the "shaker" and the shaken is the "moved" and movers are the "living" and the living are the "proved," all breathers will be "fastened" as the mountains to the earth till dream and inner "shudder"
lead to upper-end rebirth. When FEAR be given precedence to love and reasoned thought, all that which could have "risen" 
will be left to crawl or trot forever
 and
 ever
.
12.
Loveless 01:04
Lost and lonely loveless lover hiding yourself deep beneath the covers, mark my words: "Everything you say will come back to you one 
day
."
13.
Tiny Talk 00:41
You think it doesn't mean a thing but everything must mean a thing for nothing ever equals "nothing" if you really stop and think. Fill the head with tiny talk and follow suit as hands in clocks and never dream of looking inward for the combo to the 
lock. When everything is systematic, it is all automatic 
for the one who is aware of the code beneath the smoke and mirror plot 
to keep us but dead dots atop the map that leads the genius 
from the bottom of the earth up to the top.
14.
Been Longing 03:01
When did we learn to taint and adulterate the most beautiful things in life 
like the birds and the bees
 and a love for the trees
 and a fantasy free of perverted things
? The moment
 "happily ever after" 
became a joke to you and to me was the moment we turned our back on love
, on truth, 
our self
, and a world worth living in. We've been longing for a while now to turn around to sing a song for more than the shadow on the wall been longing for a while now to turn around give it up,
and at long last RESPECT ourself. It is the
 cause 
of the wag of the puppy dog tail, not the mysterious pill
 for sale, 
nor the life on the knees nor the death to please, 
that will release the soul from 
material 
prison. It is the
 bright little girl 
and the
 just 
little boy 
fast asleep in each other's little arms after a long afternoon of uncorrupted laughter who will teach the world the secrets of living.
15.
Ronda 03:50
Because she got them eyes and she got them lips, she got that style 
and she got them hips, she got that soul full of holes and rips but keep that love inside them fingertips. I have never felt sunlight shine as brightly as when I am beside her
. I have never felt love like this in my life, no no, 
it's why I'll keep singing now. I'm pretty fond of Ronda. I'm pretty fond of her, 
I'll sing it loud. 
I'm pretty fond of Ronda. Think I'm in love with the girl. Because she got that strength and she got that mind, she tell that truth
 and she sell no lie, she got that past full of screams and cries, but turned that pain
 into p a r a d i s e.
16.
In Secret 04:53
I have never seen
 the moonlight shine 
as brightly 
as when I am lying next to you. Darling, 
I will prove myself to you. And I have never seen the illusion of time as clearly as when I am right here next to you. Darling, 
I will give my heart to you and with every day, I'll take a step further into you. I have never felt the meaning of life mean more than right when I am lying next to you. Darling, I will prove myself to you. And I have never felt the point of it all pierce as deep as when I am right here next to you. Darling, 
I will give my soul to you and with every day, I'll take a step further into you. For ain't the hardest part of living all alone, never learning 
how to love someone at all? And ain't the hardest part of dying all alone, never learning how to live your life at all? And ain't the hardest part of walking backward, never learning how to live your life at all
? And ain't the hardest part of keeping a secret, never learning
 how to live your life at all ? I have never felt
 the sunlight shine 
as when we rise and when we fall as one from two - 
that's when I know 
death isn't 
true
.
17.
Good Grief 02:29
Ain't living in the valley of the shadow of despair getting kind of tough to bear
? And ain't a kingdom built on witchcraft and depression slightly less than ethical
? You ask us: "when did we go wrong"? We say: "The day you sold your smile just to fit in
 with those who appeared
 to know the truth
 but in the end 
just r e p e a t e d w h a t t h e y h e a r d to lead you to confirm their point of view 
to ease the PAIN
 of being AFRAID
 of
 S E X 
 and
 D E A T H 
 and all those 
things we'll keep h u s h h u s h till it's too late." Good grief. 
 Did you know: That if you take the time 
to close those eyes 
and think about all that you have h i d d e n 
deep inside your mind, 
you may discover that
 the 
truth 
is simply underneath
 the
 covers 
of the lies
 that keep you
 safe
 from dealing with the "yeah, I knows..." 
the
 "oh wells" 
and
 "whatevers" 
that keep chewing on your heart just like
 a hound upon a shoe
? Until you gather up the nerve to
 kill 
what keeps on s e p a r a t i n g you 
from
 your T R U E LOVE you will be blue. And did you know: That an "angel" is a THOUGHT that will lead to E Q U I L I B R I U M of mind and body and soul and that 
a "devil"
is a THOUGHT
 that will turn a little girl into a slave
 on a
 slip
knot
 leash... D o y o u g e t i t y e t ? Who could "save" you from your self but your self ? GOOD GRIEF.
18.
(You) paint a picture of the sky with a head held high
, a depiction of the bottom of the sea with 
a broken heart. With 
an open eye, 
an image of a tall tall tree, an etching of the earth with
 the lights off/Write the song of a childhood giggle with 
the sun on the mind, the ballad of the widow with
 the blindfold tight. With 
an open eye, 
the anthem of a funny fox, a death dirge
 with
 a soul in a box. And so... 
the point of the plot: "A spot at the top can not be bought from a shop." When one is brought into the world by a 
CHILD
 without a sense of how to 
run 
itself 
it really don't take too long
 a time 
to find a
 LIFE
 on the path
 to
 DEATH for "living" ain't "life" when a day is
a night and love ain't but a fantasy it's a hard knock time with a NOOSE tied tightly around your DREAMS
 And again... 
the point of the plot: "A spot at the top can not
 be bought from a shop." To the children of the lifelong night: Your subtle cries have attained our ears. When all hope is lost in darkness may our song
 free you from
 fear. And so... 
the point of the plot: "A S P O T A T T H E T O P I S N O T A N Y T H I N G M O R E T H A N
 A T H O U G H T
."
19.
I've been waiting on a time like now to take a step further outside of myself to discover another
: that rare breed
 with a heart of gold. Maybe if I get moving, 
I will find her before I'm 
grey and old. It seems
 I've been standing in a long long line
 of those who will be waiting till the end of time to find a life worth e n o u g h to be worth the while but now 
I know the right melody can bring the dead back to life. You've been waiting on a time like now to take a step further outside of yourself to find another kind
 of
 you
 that ain't so dead and cold. Maybe if you get moving you will find it 'fore you're 
grey and old. You've been standing in a long long line 
of those who may be waiting till the end of time to find a life worth enough
 to be worth
 the
 while. Did you know the R I G H T m e l o d y can bring the D E A D back to L I F E?

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