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I've Come to Realize
02:37
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I’ve come to realize
Just how deep this goes
Take me there
Don’t fight me
Take all I have
Just don’t harm me
Fading, sinking, softly
With nothing left to hide
Infinite refractions
Of people left behind
I’ve come to realize
Just how deep this goes
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After it's Said and Done
03:37
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After it’s said and done
And the tide begins to rise
Remember your instincts
Know that waters will recede
After it’s said and done
And you’ve seen what’s left to climb
Don’t stop your momentum
Hesitation weights you down you’ll see
After it’s said and done
And the sun casts down its light
Please turn to reflection
Take in everything you see
After it’s said and done
And you lay your head to rest
You’ll dream of the answer
Have you noticed no one owns their truth?
But the night will fall upon
Every breathing group of cells
Sooner or later you’ll return
Emptiness will silence all
Earthly cycles to an end
Sooner or later they return
And the darkness conquers all
Taking living creature's breath
Sooner or later we’ll return
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Welcome to my broken dreams
Where conveyor belts align
Packed in rows of twos and threes
Stacking towers high
Nobody ever said it’d be easy
Nobody ever said it’d be hard
I’m stuck for now but the day I leave
I’ll say Hey-oh, hey-oh, hey-oh, goodbye
Hey-oh, hey-oh, hey-oh, goodbye
Eyes ahead, there’s more than this
Than cardboard miles high
Ignore the pain when sinew pulls
Forget the things you know
Nobody ever said it’d be easy
Nobody ever said it’d be hard
I’m stuck for now but the day I leave
I’ll say Hey-oh, hey-oh, hey-oh, goodbye
Hey-oh, hey-oh, hey-oh, goodbye
Just how long do I have wait
For the start of my life today?
For now, the sun will rise again
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No matter how far he’d go
The storm would still follow
Ghostly in nature haunting it maker
It’s filled with trouble pasts
With rains of regret that last
Flooding with memory
Drowning his future, present and past
Yet he’s unaware That the storm
Has surrounded him From the start
What do you say to the man?
That sits in the eye of the storm
That sits in the eye of the storm.
Nothing went well for him
Living his life so grim
Lost all intention stuck in frustration
Yet he’s unaware that the storm has surrounded him from the start
What do you say to the man
That sits in the eye of the storm
That sits in the eye of the storm
That sits in the eye of the storm
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Fake News
01:32
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Every day is just the same
Helping no one spewing nonsense
All the men around you fake
Always getting what you want
Everyday is still the same
Spreading violence divide and concur
All the men around you quake
Time exposes what you are
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6. |
Closing In
03:22
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Entering the house of my thoughts
I close the door behind
Windows blackened cracked at the seams only letting in beams of light
The walls are closing in
Foot by foot
Losing space
Flashback of who I was
Before I entered
I roam the halls and examine each room I choose to forget
Dusty covered books with words I can’t seem to read.
The walls are closing in
Inch by inch loosing air
Flashback of who I was
Before I entered
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7. |
Wearing Me Down
03:42
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Climbing up the mountainside
Farther I’d go
The higher the peak would grow
Running with no destination
Round I would go
Somehow remaining still
And it wearing me down
Wearing me down
Wearing me - I can’t see who I’ve become
Who am I supposed to be?
Pushing through the crowd of people
Losing my way not a familiar face
Worried of the world around us
Over and over never seemed to grow
And it’s wearing me down
Wearing me down
Wearing me - I can’t see who I’ve become
Who am I supposed to be?
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8. |
Anthropocene
03:59
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We should have been the ones to see
We should have been the ones to note
That the ending’s not that far a way
We could have been the ones to know
We could have been the ones to save
Never seemed to cross our minds
The anthro-
The Anthropocene is ending
Ending now ending now
The anthro-
The Anthropocene is ending
Ending now ending now
We could’ve been the ones to die
We could’ve been the ones to thrive
Troubled people running wild
We’re tired of the lies we hear
We’re tired of the pain we cause
Never seemed to cross our minds
The anthro-
The Anthropocene is ending
Ending now ending now
The anthro-
The Anthropocene is ending
Ending now ending now
We want to be the ones who grow
We want to be the ones who breathe
Maybe this this time we will see
This’ll be the day we change
This’ll be the way we live
Never seemed to cross our minds
The anthro-
The Anthropocene is ending
Ending now ending now
The anthro-
The Anthropocene is ending
Ending now ending now
Softly we ascend and leaving scars behind
Slowly we are taken back
Never to be seen again
Never to be seen again
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Open your mind and greet death
Slowly we descend
Open your eyes and see death
Closely we approach
Closer the stars begin to move
Often with hesitation
Surrender to the ever falling stillness
We often search for
Return to where you hold your truth
A place you can imagine
We tend to lose our site through life now it’s clear we are suppose to
This time we don’t know what’s to come
A silent reminder
We tend to lose our site through life
Now it’s clear we’re not suppose to understand
Fading fading to nothing
Waiting waiting for nothing
Thinking thinking of nothing
Breathe
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ThebandIvory Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
ThebandIvory is the collaboration of singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist Frankie DeRosa and musician/producer Robbie Simmons. DeRosa’s time as an orchestral musician is reflected in orchestration, while his study of eastern music is heard in his unique performances. Simmons’s vision as a producer takes the songs from wall-of-sound to minimal and restrained. ... more
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