1. |
Inside
04:47
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I'd like to talk about it
I'd like to confess
Deliver me from solace
Show me your distress
Choke me on the floor
Then make me spend the night
Do everything you can
To extinguish the light
Burn right through my chest
With your vacant eyes
I won't be happy till I see you cry
I was an arbitrary person
I meant nothing to your everything
Time spent being uncertain of the
Lies you told to change me on the
Inside
I wanted your affection
Wanted to let you in
I devoured your infection
I tried to cure your sin
Lock your bedroom door
Beg me to start a fight
And fill me up with your special kind of misery
Give yourself away
To spite me when I'm gone
The kind of agony that spurs you on
Suffocate the things you love
Mutilate the things you trust
Satisfy your hateful lust
Cut me deep to leave your poison on the
Inside
Inside you
Twisted truth
Release me
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2. |
Riverbed
03:41
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Smile
Nod
Control
Acknowledge
The damage
Your role
You took a life so easily
You made believe
Breathe
And taste
The moment
Cave
In
Alone
I've been betrayed by my sigh
I'm still here
And my riverbed's dry
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3. |
Notion
03:38
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Along the way I lost my mind
And found my kind
Now our cup is full
It's spilling over and
We face the notion
Of an ever impending ocean
Of never ending motion
To save ourselves
And now it's harder to align
But more defined
All signs tell us
We face the notion
Of an ever impending ocean
Of never ending motion
We've chosen
To save ourselves
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4. |
Reach
03:16
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Bite the rusty nail
And separate the skin from the bone
Forfeit or fail
Everybody caves in all alone
Wounds too slow to heal
Pick apart the stitches and from the
Struggle with what's real
Everybody reaps just what they sow
We reach
We reach too far
We reach
We reach for all
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5. |
Everybody Knows
03:42
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Two minutes till sunrise and I
Can’t see anything in front of me
So I follow old footsteps up the hill
It’s too hazy to see the sunrise
And I’m sure the light would burn me anyway
And all the while
Everybody knows
Everybody knows
Everybody knows
Everybody knows the truth
But me
It’s too early on a Sunday morning
And my eyes aren’t used to the light
I’m firmly nested in the dark
It’s too late to recover completely
And I probably couldn’t if I tried
And all the while
Everybody knows
Everybody knows
Everybody knows
Everybody knows the truth
It’s just the shadows in your eyes
That make them grey
And all these broken pieces fit
So perfectly
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6. |
Sign to Follow
03:53
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A dose of insecure
A pathogenic kind of ill
Clawing at the roof for the cure
The kind of medicine that kills
A sickness of the poor
Who can’t seem to find or unlock the door
So tell me how to try
Cause I know getting inside’s a lie
There is no sign to follow
So redefine what’s hollow
I’m feeling so unwell
Pathologically stagnating
Can’t scrub the thoughts off my skin
And outside forces seem to always win
They are sickening to me
But they’re everything I hope to be
So tell me where to go
Underneath I think you know
There is no sign to follow
So redefine what’s hollow
(I try)
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7. |
Mistake
04:10
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Life passes by
Like all things that do
Light burns away
Like all things that do
We’ve been here before
Faced this notion before
How can you make the same mistakes again?
Time slips away
Like all things that fade
We’ve been here before
Faced this notion before
How can you make the same mistakes again?
Night will weigh
And take the day
And time will break
Our sight will fade
Away
Make your mistakes
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Listen to me
Or shift the focus to your faults
And all your flaws
Why are you panicking?
Identity
Individuality
Are being taken
I don’t think that you’re listening
So build a shrine
I’ll make it mine
I’ll see my own reflection in the graven lines
If you’re the one who’s talking
Then why are my lips moving?
What about me?
I am myself today
I am myself today
I am my selfish way
I am myself today
(What about me?)
Talk is free
I’ll fill the channel with my thoughts
Until you agree
You against me
Illusory
Invalidating
You can’t be hurting if I’m hurting
If I’m the one who’s talking
Then why are your lips moving?
What about me?
I am myself today
I am myself today
I am my selfish way
I am myself today
Can’t you see your struggles aren’t real?
Trust in me, my reason’s what I feel
Your individuality is overstated
But you’re not listening
You’re never listening
I am myself today
I am myself today
I am my selfish way
I am myself today
(What about me?)
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9. |
Falling
04:17
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To burn
The bridges we don’t use
The people we abuse
The chances that we lose
Remake
Commodify the pain
And alter your own name
To take part in a game
I know
I know it’s wrong
There’s something cynical In the way we pray
And worship
All the things that we create
We push them ever higher till they’re
Falling
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10. |
Inside Out
05:08
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I burn, burn like a wicker cabinet
Chalk white and oh-so-frail
I see our time has gotten stale
The tick-tock of the clock is painful
All sane and logical
I want to tear it off the wall
I hear words and clips and phrases
I think sick like ginger ale
My stomach turns and I exhale
I would swallow my pride
I would choke on the rind
But the lack thereof would leave me empty inside
I would swallow my doubt
Turn it inside out
Find nothing but faith in nothing
Want to put my tender
Heart in a blender
Watch it spin round to a beautiful oblivion
Rendezvous then I'm through with you
So-Cal is where my mind states
But it's not my state of mind
I'm not as ugly sad as you
Or am I origami
Folded up and just pretend
Demented as the motives in your head
I would swallow my pride
I would choke on the rind
But the lack thereof would leave me empty inside
I would swallow my doubt
Turn it inside out
Find nothing but faith in nothing
Want to put my tender
Heart in a blender
Watch it spin round to a beautiful oblivion
Rendezvous then I'm through with you
I alone am the one you don't know you need
Take heed feed your ego
Make me blind when your eyes close
Sink when you get close
Tie me to the bedpost
I alone am the one you don't know you need
You don't know you need me
Make me blind when your eyes close
Tie me to the bedpost
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Van Tilburg New York, New York
Van Tilburg is an experiment in progressive metal. The music combines elements of aggressive genres with spacious textures and electronic influences. It is as much an electroacoustic experiment as it is an in your face rock experience. The project is a study in contrast: delicate aggression, labyrinthine simplicity, expressively restrained, stable yet always in flux. ... more
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