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Dying Light
04:12
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// Dying Light
Dying light in the city
(I’m ready to go)
Tonight is my escape
(Let go)
From this life I never wanted
(I’m ready to go)
Couldn’t find a better way
(Let go)
Dark skies
Hid the truth from us all
Red eyes
Couldn’t stop his own fall
Can’t find
The key to unlock his soul
White lies
Turned black and swallowed him whole
Dying night in the city
(I’m ready to go)
White light calls out my name
(Let go)
To end the life I never wanted
(I’m ready to go)
I’d rather die than fade away
(Let go)
Dark skies
Hid the truth from us all
Red eyes
Couldn’t stop his own fall
Can’t find
The key to unlock his soul
White light
Turned black and swallowed him whole
Find a way to kill me
I can’t replace what I’ve lost
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Ghosts of Hart Island
04:15
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// Ghosts of Hart Island
No one comes
before family said
The same blood
scattered under the light
Left me trapped
by the sirens
Sunrise
Marched onto decks... the new 9 to 5
Tidelines
Five coffins high, the day’s bodies arrive
Called us by name
but forgot mine
One cross they claim
wait in line
No one comes
for their family’s dead
The same blood
fills my head every night
Left me
trapped on this island
Last rites
Paid no respects ... dead or alive
Air tight
Pine boxes left without souls to revive
Called us by name
but forgot mine
One cross to blame
wait in line
No home… No hope... Alone…
Called us by name
but forgot mine
One cross to blame
wait in line
(Sirens rung out… Sirens sung out…)
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Black Heat
05:13
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// Black Heat
Held down, passed around, came up without a future, never had a choice…
Learned to read, by writing on the walls
No second chance, after the first “crime,” caught in the machine from the start
Never did anything at all
Try... as we might… but we won’t
Just forget / Locked away
This time / Nothing's changed
Accept / He's never coming back
Can’t forget / Locked away
This time / Nothing's changed
Except / He's never coming back
Prison time blurred the years, until the new gold standard became a cigarette…
Came to find, the same treatment every time
Never hurt a man, they put him down in the street, but its not the kind of thing we can just forget…
It plays over again and over again
Try…. as we might… but we won’t
Just forget / Locked away
This time / Nothing's changed
Accept / He's never coming back
Can’t forget / Locked away
This time / Nothing's changed
Except / He's never coming back
Try… as we might… but we won’t
Understand the position they put him in
Don’t forget / Locked away
This time / Nothing's changed
Accept / He's never coming back
Can’t forget / Locked away
This time / Nothing's changed
Except / He's never coming back
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Straphanger
06:51
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// Straphanger
So sorry to bother you… (I’m just passing through)
Lurking nomads in tunnels pedal tired tunes
Gin blossoms in full bloom… (This train is a tomb)
Sob stories for the daily commute
Times are tough, everybody knows
Wonder where you went wrong
Years drowning sorrows and so it goes
To the next car move on
Unseen shadows… (in life)
Lost in darkness… (in time)
Stir the still air… awake
Unseen shadows… (in life)
Lost in darkness… (in time)
Stir the still air
Adolescence spent down below… (should have stopped long ago)
A three ring circus in lo-fi stereo
Stomping and clapping in unison… (but they’re not keeping time)
With a plea for some attention
Times are tough everybody knows
Too little work to go round
Pass the hat after every show
And scrape by underground
Unseen shadows… (in life)
Lost in darkness… (in time)
Stir the still air… awake
Unseen shadows… (in life)
Lost in darkness… (in time)
Stir the still air
(in life… in time)
You wouldn’t understand, I never had a choice, found myself here
Couldn’t leave if I wanted to, this place is who I am
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DRIFTOFF New York, New York
Based in Brooklyn, NY, Driftoff includes members of Junius, Rosetta, City of Ships and Superblonde. Their new EP, Modern Fear, is available now worldwide.
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