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Embark
02:04
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I'm not constant, I'm not one who's consistent,
Alone with my thoughts, how can I fix this?
When everything that I've known comes crumbling at the end,
But I've never been the type to give up or back down,
I'll set my sail and embark,
Embark
I am constant
I'll set my sail and embark,
Embark
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Swaying in every move like a pendulum
Taking me back, back to the start, to where I began
I can't break free from this path
It's the same fucking story
Now I feel so disconnected from the swing of things
Laying here as if all things were hopeless
Am I really, disconnected from what seems like everything?
I've been dreaming of a way to feel whole again, to keep it together
Have I been holding out?
I'll rip out these roots
So let the pendulum swing
Moving in time
With forward motion
(I want to be new)
Starting again
Like a pendulum swinging
(Over and over)
It never ends
It never ends
Over and over
(A pendulum swings)
Starting again
And I want to be new
(With forward motion)
Will I find my way?
Out of this place
Will I find my way?
Will I find my way?
Sound has been my pivot in life (in life)
I feel like I have been losing my fucking mind
Will it slowly fade like a lit candle at dusk
Or will this be the lighthouse on the coast guiding me home
Nothing is stable
Nothing is absolute
Only time can heal
I've been lost for so long, I've been somewhere else
Truth be told it was in a dream that I found my self
I won't lose hope
I felt so alone
I'm headed for better days
I've fucked up, I've lost myself
This isn't who I am
I'm changing for the better
I won't fade away
(Fade away)
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Shipwrecked
04:16
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After all is said and done will I be proud of myself and the works that I have created?
I struggle to recall happiness
So many days pass me by I know that I won’t remember,
I will not remember you someday soon,
I feel like I’ve been living a new life,
Without old memories eroding me from where I should be
I don’t know where I'm going, but does that mean I'm lost?
You counted me out so place your bets
and I won’t be carried away by the current (the current)
I don’t know where I’m going but does that mean I’m lost?
(Mean I'm lost)
I won’t be carried away by the current
The weight of the world is placed on my back
I won’t crumble and crack from the pressure
It may be hard to express that I'm not a success
it’s one of those things where you don’t know if you’ll ever have it
I’m damned if I do and I'm damned if I don’t
If I don’t give a fuck then I’m shit out of luck
There is no second chance
So take what you've got
But I feel like I haven’t changed at all and I’m still here getting older
The young man that I see in the mirror looks towards his future
But I feel like I haven’t changed at all and I'm still here getting older
The young man that I see in the mirror looks towards his future
So many days pass me by I know that I won’t remember,
I will not remember you someday soon,
I feel like I’ve been living a new life,
Without old memories eroding me from where I should be
I won’t get caught in the rip tide I’ll swim along the shoreline
Now that I know that I was never alone, I was never alone
I was never fucking alone
All I had to do was reach out
The world’s not what I thought it was (reach out)
I looked around and saw the positivity
It’s in the air that I breath
Exhaling through the airways of the people surrounding me
I don’t know where I'm going, but does that mean I'm lost?
You counted me out so place your bets
and I won’t be carried away by the current (the current)
I don’t know where I'm going but does that mean I'm lost?
(Mean I'm lost)
I won’t be carried away by the current
At the shoreline I see my heart beating
I won’t get carried away by the current (the current)
I won’t get carried away by the current
At the shoreline I see my heart, drifting away into the sea
Yet another part of me swallowed up by the sea
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All this time, It had been right in front of me,
Close enough to see but just out of reach,
Will my works help obtain my peace or will they be the death of me?
Cause I've had visions of this world,
A place where I could be set free, of all this hatred, all this guilt,
It all comes crashing around me,
Every night I lay awake, relapsing into the same fucking state,
I tried to grow out of my shell,
It's like this four god damn walls have become my cell,
The ghosts of my past have been weighing me down,
The ghosts of my past have been weighing me down,
Even though I'm struggling to keep up,
I'm not beat yet, I'm not beat yet,
I'm clinging on (clinging on) to this so called "hope",
I'm clinging on (clinging on) I'm clinging on,
I'm struggling to keep up, but I'll find my way,
My way back home, I won't give up,
It's always been hard to move on, with your head in the ground,
six feet down,
I've dug my own fucking grave,
And all this time I'd been born under a sun of attrition,
And I've been waiting for myself to begin a new endeavour,
I've had visions of this world,
A place where I could be set free of all this hatred, all this guilt,
It all comes crashing around me,
I've been waiting for myself to begin a new endeavour.
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Swaying in every move like a pendulum
Taking me back, back to the start, to where I began
I can't break free from this path
It's the same fucking story
Now I feel so disconnected from the swing of things
Laying here as if all things were hopeless
Am I really, disconnected from what seems like everything?
I've been dreaming of a way to feel whole again, to keep it together
Have I been holding out?
I'll rip out these roots
So let the pendulum swing
Moving in time
With forward motion
(I want to be new)
Starting again
Like a pendulum swinging
(Over and over)
It never ends
It never ends
Over and over
(A pendulum swings)
Starting again
And I want to be new
(With forward motion)
Will I find my way?
Out of this place
Will I find my way?
Will I find my way?
Sound has been my pivot in life (in life)
I feel like I have been losing my fucking mind
Will it slowly fade like a lit candle at dusk
Or will this be the lighthouse on the coast guiding me home
Nothing is stable
Nothing is absolute
Only time can heal
I've been lost for so long, I've been somewhere else
Truth be told it was in a dream that I found my self
I won't lose hope
I felt so alone
I'm headed for better days
I've fucked up, I've lost myself
This isn't who I am
I'm changing for the better
I won't fade away
(Fade away)
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The Parallel Toronto, Ontario
A three piece progressive metalcore outfit hailing from Toronto, Canada/Salt Lake City, Utah.
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