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Summoner
03:37
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(Instrumental)
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2. |
Anthym
00:39
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(Instrumental)
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Disengage
02:53
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I know that you
You have no bounds
As you're shakin' around
To the ultra-sounds
And you know that I
Like to cut to the quick
'Cause you're making me doubt
That we're living in bliss
No, no, no...
I ascertain what is at stake
I disengage, we've been shortchanged
It's all on you - there is no dispute
We shake and bake and disengage
You know me
I'm on high alert
So pitchy and terse
While you're almost inert
You never open your mouth
But I’m still calling you out
I ascertain what is at stake
I disengage, we've been shortchanged
It's all on you - you're long in the tooth
We shake and bake and disengage
It's all on you - there is no dispute
And I'm resolute to disengage
There is no proof, no super-sleuth
So, ferme la bouche - I disengage
It's all on you - you're long in the tooth
We call on youth to disengage
Does not compute - there is no excuse
So, ferme la bouche - I disengage
We ascertain what is at stake
We disengage, we disengage
It's all on you - the burden of proof
We shake and bake and disengage
Ferme la bouche!
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Waves
04:39
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Alone
You’re floating on the waves
And it seems (let down)
That you’ve got what it takes
Until now
You think you had it won
It’s hard to ignore what you have forged
Oh, you should take it as it comes
And now, you’re floating on the waves
Head down, floating on the waves
Shut it out, if you’re floating on the waves
But soon
If you settle in your mind
Your thoughts renew
You glean the truth
Oh, there’s another of your kind
And dis-ease
Is coming off a wane
Your sense deferred
The truth’s absurd
Oh, but what does it mean?
But now, you’ll be floating on the waves
Ride it out, if you’re floating on the waves
Oh, Disdain!
Hey, Don’t go
Oh, Don’t go...
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5. |
Tear It Apart
03:12
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We scraped the flint and made the spark
Then blazed our path without a chart
But we fell short, our progress lost
So, you dropped a ten ton bomb
We started speaking out in psalms
And when the truce is laid to rest
It’s not myself who’ll acquiesce
To hear you speak of just demands
Such empty words from artless men
Coming down off your lofty plinth
But now you've pushed a bit too hard
I strummed a chord on my guitar
And drove a beat through our heartland
Somehow, that you might understand
If you stop on a dime
You’ll break my heart
If you fall out of line
You’ll tear it apart
The forces are prime
To tear it apart
When truth is locked in mediocrity
It’s not my place to offer sympathies
Truly shocked at what this used to be
Here’s a thought - a takeaway
Know that it will be ok
With hands embedded in the clay
Truth is, we'll still be ok
Hey!
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Heaven
03:45
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If you study the contrast
Of a grey cloud in a blue, blue sky
It's like my emotions
In the darkness as the days go by
What do you see
If you look into the sun?
Look into your eyes
And your heart is vacant
You're so impatient
Oh, with heaven all around
Days go by
I still get the urge to cry
With heaven all around
You're crossing a divide
And the days go by
Your heart is vacant
You're so impatient
Oh, with heaven all around
You don't need to chase it
A love this faceless
Oh, for someone who's so blind
You're crossing a divide
To reach the other side
And I guess this is goodbye
Now the days go by
Your heart is vacant
You're so impatient
Oh, with heaven all around
Days go by
I still get the urge to cry
With heaven all around
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Peak Nothing
03:31
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This is how it begins
An end without a start
A needle in the skin
Scars that leaves a mark
Ask anyone who knows
If anyone is there
As you’re leaving your body
Flowing upstream
If you never saw yourself
If you were never really there
Would you know what to feel?
Hardly self-aware
Would you know what to think
As you’re going off the rails?
You’re drifting
Unfolding
Traveling
Sleepwalking
You wake up in an ice age
Wandering on an astral plane
Forget everything you know
Forget anyone who cares
As if you were in control
As everybody stares
It’s impossible to see
If it isn’t really there
Dark star yearning
Perceptions keep fading
It’s so strange
Pink feelings
Changing into something
Heart racing
Still sleeping
Unconscious
Peak nothing
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Solero
03:40
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(Instrumental)
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Cameron
04:24
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Cameron, come to me
You soothe my soul
In this misery
So Cameron
Would you come to me?
And take your clothes off
We’ll make the most of
Whatever will be
The microphone
Will follow me
So you can talk
And we can speak
So Cameron
Would to come to me?
You say the right things
And in the morning
I memorized your face
We took the long way down
But no-one ever said to turn around
However long it takes to find this route
It’s such a long wait...
But heaven knows
If you will stake your claims
Or surrender what the boundary contains
Excuse me but I need to make this plain
That nothing in the world would bother me
Oh, nothing in the world would bother me
If Cameron would come to me
Oh Cameron, would you to come to me?
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If Not Today
03:08
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Indistinguished from the start
Reckless with invectives
Too devious to parse
They want to cut and paste
A new, different hate
But without implicit trust
They’ll separate us, one by one
Your sensibilities collapse
Streams of consciousness
Dark as vantablack
Within your outer space
Without a sense of place
As we breach the golden age
Drawn into a fiery haze
That keeps raging, day by day,
It goes on and on and on…
Still, our minds remain transfixed
Open eyed, mesmerized
By a monumental myth
The ground will start to shift
If not today, maybe someday…
From the way it sounds
I'd rather be left out
From the weight, it feels like
I'd rather do without
In a way, it seems
If we leave it up to fate
Then the weight will lift
And we could let it all escape,
Let it all escape
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11. |
On The Cusp
05:48
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Oh, I know
It's unprovoked
When the skies turn gray
With just a touch of rain
Now you say you want a little piece of me
But oh, what you'll get is incomplete
A fleeting phase - or so they say
Now you bleat and brace under the driving rain
And is wanderlust what you really need?
Oh no, if what you get is unforseen
We're on the cusp of a turn in luck
We sing a new refrain
As love runs amok and makes a case for change
And you wait in vain for a sunny day
But oh, the more you wait
The more it rains
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12. |
Snowflakes
04:16
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(Instrumental)
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AJ Rosales Chicago, Illinois
AJ Rosales is a guitarist and multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer currently located in Chicago,
IL.
'Progressive Acoustic' is a term that would loosely describe his sound, but ultimately, it is more than that, blending multiple genres into a cohesive and modern sensibility that sounds like "AJ".
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