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When i was young after the bombs fell
The clouds poisoned the air, melting the ground
The sun burned all the trees, towers collapsed, piled up bodies
The survivors wanted to flee, that's when they made Analog City
So I grew up in mind-numbing boredom
Sit down, always obey, don’t step out of line
I knew I had to escape, I faked my death and ran away
Hid from it all as a recluse, but living free with nothing to lose
Out here in this wasteland by myself
Away from everybody else
Everyone’s gone
They’re burning right through the ozone
I will find it in myself to carry on
Who will I be
When the life that lies before me
Catches up with all the things i will become
I’ll dream my life away (And everything that tries to break me)
Until it’s all okay (And everything that tries to drag me down)
I’ll wander like a stray (Will have to learn eventually)
Until I find my place in life (I’ll find a way to get up off the ground)
At my most alone
I felt so lost
But I heard a voice
Calling from across
A face like the stars
Shined in my eyes
Told me don’t be scared
You’ll be fine
And now you're all I have, but that is all I need
What they did not expect from when they dropped the bombs
Is that all of the corpses that they left to rot
In the wasteland with radiation mutating
all the cells in their brain making a new disease
Where you rise after death and you attack at night
And the virus will spread with just a single bite
When there’s no room in hell the dead will walk the earth
So just run so you won’t end up under the dirt
If this disease will spread
A virus in their head
Awaking the undead
Then this would be the end
Find a safe place to hide
Or you'll never survive
Oh you may try to fight
but they will take your life
When the roads not split and there is nowhere else to go
And the only safe path to take leads you back home
You’ve lost everything and almost everyone
Then you gotta face the place you once ran away from
Yea you gotta go home
And the day when all the spirits meet at the end of the road
All of them will tell their stories about the end of the world
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On the Road
04:12
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Packed up all our belongings
Throw them into the trunk say
goodbye to the life we had
We’re never coming back
I got you next to me riding shotgun
a journey lies before us
let’s see where it will take us to but
i don't care where we find ourselves
it doesn’t matter as long as i’m with you
I don’t care how we reach the end
it doesn’t matter as long as i’m with you
keep driving
your whole life in the rearview
i think we’re going too fast
can’t see the world around us
that’s when we hit the pothole
we’re swerving out of control
swerve right into the ditch
guess we’re gonna have to ditch the car but
I don’t care how we reach the end
it doesn’t matter as long as i’m with you
i don't care where we find ourselves
it doesn’t matter as long as i’m with you
and if your legs give out
well find new ways to walk
i’ll reinvent the wheel for you
and if your lungs give out
well find new ways to talk
i’ll create a new language for you
Any way as we get where we need to go
If I’m with you I don’t care at all
I don’t care where we find ourselves
it doesn’t matter as long as i’m with you
I don’t care how we reach the end
it doesn’t matter as long as i’m with you
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You wake up with the sun to
Another weary dawn
Another sleepless night in
A house that’s not my own
We grab our bags and head out
In dim sunlight along
Decrepit roads that lead us
To where we want to go
This life is taking all I have
Just to get through it
So sick so pale and so fatigued
Please let it stop
I just hope that we end up fine
When it's all over
But for now we can just hold on
We come across a city
With buildings turned to stone
As we sneak through you keep watch
Because we’re not alone
We scrounge the town in search of
Supplies before the night
And though there’s not much to eat
Hunger is the best spice
You don’t say much to me but
I still know what you mean
I can’t even begin to
Explain how I’m feeling
I take your hand for thats all
That needs to be expressed
As we try to learn to love
What little we have left
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By My Side
02:42
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Oh my love stay right by my side
You’re the one who can get me through the night
Talk to me, open up your heart
Share the secrets that you keep in the dark
The trees grow through both of our dreams
As the roots form what’s heard and what is seen
And I feel our souls connect as one
As we’re spinning so close around the sun
If the light of day is fading and you don’t know where to hide
Or the road is long and winding and you’re looking for a sign
Then just stay right by my side
It’s just nice being here with you
I don’t care, it doesn’t matter what we do
Though you may doubt how we’ll turn out
Never doubt how I feel about you now
Yes I know there will come a day
That will end up being the last time I see your face
Stay right here, do not be afraid
You’re all I need to keep me feeling safe
If the light of day is fading and you don’t know where to hide
Or the road is long and winding and you’re looking for a sign
Then just stay right by my side
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Paranoia from the noises outside
I keep a gun next to the pew bible while I sleep at night
I hear them scratching at the door attempting to get inside
And I don’t know if it will hold or break before the sunrise
So we hide behind the altar of this abandoned church
We take aim against the ghouls who've risen up from the earth
All the bats fly out the belfry as a warning for us
To get out before they break in for if not then were fucked
Then they broke down the door, as we ran out the back
I promised that they would never take us
But I knew that could have been a lie
Just keep running as fast as you can
We can get out of this alive
I’ve been running my whole life to survive
Just to get free from these creatures that hold me in their eyes
Why do they wish to take my life just to awaken my corpse
Another victim of the plague that can’t wake up anymore
Oh babe I never want to lose you to the scum of the earth
Or see your limbs torn from your body if we make the wrong turn
I hear them growling all around us echoing through trees
And they are catching up behind us faster than we can flee
As bodies pile up, I don’t want yours thrown on top
I promised that they would never take us
But I knew that could have been a lie
Just keep running as fast as you can
We can get out of this alive
As we think that we’re safe I hear you
Cry for help as I pull out my gun
But I couldn’t stop what happened to you
After it’s teeth sunk into your neck
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Last night I dreamt that you had died
I had to face it
I can’t escape what is true
So I pretend that it’s not real
Is there someone out there
That’s picking up my voice
Please listen to this plea
We need some help
Let us have one more drink
For tomorrow you may die
I need something to calm me down
When I look into your eyes
Is there something out there
That’s picking up my voice
Please listen to this plea
We need some help
It’s all my fault
I couldn’t stop them
It’s all my fault
I cannot save you
Is there someone out there
That’s picking up my voice
Please listen to this plea
We need some help
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This is the part where I realize
This isn’t the love story that I prophesied
And this is the start of tear-stained cheeks and eyes
For this is the ghost story that keeps me up at night
You said you don’t want to become one of them
It’s better off this way, it’s how it must happen
I begged you to wait a little longer please
You told me hey it’s fine, I just think it’s time but
Don’t be afraid angels will carry my soul away from here
We will be safe from all that hurts us when we're in our next life
I must be cruel, only to be kind
Thus bad begins and worse remains behind
This life won’t be the same without you here
I’ll feel more like a ghost after you disappear
I said to you I hope that one day
I will get the chance to see your face again
But you replied that’s what I’m scared of
If you see me again in this life you should run
Because a soul would not be there only a corpse remains
I’ll see your face but there will be no feeling underneath
All the stars in the night sky cross above us
Be alive before you bite the quintessence of dust
I hope that you know how much you meant to me
When we meet at the end of eternity
And though I know, everything must die
I thought you would at least have a bit more time
I guess no one’s ever really prepared
For their next life, so give me
A kiss goodbye and one last look into your eyes
I wept after you said you loved me because it made it worse
As you sat by the lake I pulled the trigger
My ears rang louder than anything I’ve ever heard
I scream out towards the sky
As you lie there motionless, the life has left your eyes, I’m not alright
And one day you will come back as leaves blowing in the wind
Or flowers growing through the sockets of your skull
Now your life has reached its end but I still love you
I have lost my only friend but I still love you
This world is coming to an end but I still love you
Why does it matter at all that I still love you
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8. |
Haunt Me
03:04
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This room feels so empty
Without you here next to me
The cold comes creeping in
I can’t escape it
Emptied all the liquor stores
Just to keep me warm
The blood has stained my hands and clothes
And won’t wash off
A ouija board, a seance to
Try to talk to you again
Haunt me please
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CarriOn
03:52
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The sun sets on another day
But through the night I stay awake
For I don’t want to have those dreams of you
Just to wake up to a world
Where emptiness leaves me cold
And I’ve lost all desire to continue
But I’ve got my friends and folks
And I’ve got all kind of hopes
Waiting for me at my destination
So I’ve got to endure the rough
And shed all of my former grudges
Just so I can find some resolution
It will be alright
Though you’re floating through the clouds
While I’m stuck here on the ground
I don’t care about that I still want you
I deserve this loneliness
For all the times that I’ve transgressed
It is mine and something I’ll hold onto
But If I don’t keep going now
And make my way back to that town
Then I may never see my friends again
So when I hear those ghouls approach
I grab my bag with food and clothes
And continue going on my way
Maybe I will not see peace until I reach the stars in the sky
But if I don’t keep searching I may miss out on peace in this life
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After all I’ve been through I have made it
My journey has reached its end
But scattered through the rubble of these buildings
I find the bodies of all my old friends
When I walked these old streets I couldn’t find
Anyone that was still alive
Oh this town, is filled with these corpses
Just a graveyard with no one who survived
And I passed through this lonesome land
Through ruins of a place I once called home
It brought thoughts of all my time spent here
And the memories I’ve made in days of old
But those memories are all in the past
And those friends all have died or disappeared
The only thing I could find in this city
Is a postcard saying wish you were here
Wish you were here
I am left all alone in this world
What’s the point, there’s no reason to keep going on
When there’s no one but ghouls to console me
And everyone I’ve ever loved is gone
I let their teeth sink into me
Just so I could try to be with you again
In a drunken confession I screamed out
To no one, or anyone there to hear
All the grief and the shame I have ever felt
But I think it all just fell onto deaf ears
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11. |
The Sickness Unto Death
04:41
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The room begins to spin
As I lie down on the floor
I start to cough up blood
And start shaking more than before
This venom in my veins
Is making me sick mi amor
And I keep hearing voices
But none of them are yours
I am
Becoming grotesque
Lean into the edge
Don’t let me fall off
I feel with my hands, I see with my eyes
But this body doesn’t feel like it is mine
It begins to ache, it begins to sweat
Everything is so disgusting in my flesh
I begin to hate this physical world
I just want to ascend and never return
I don’t want to feel, don’t want to endure
The discomfort of a body anymore
My heart’s pounding loud, overwhelms my ears
Fire on my eyes burning all the tears
Constant weary soul, constant anxious mind
Always filled with dread from morning to night
There is no quiet, I can have no peace
I can have no rest, there’s only unease
Wounds are festering, bones in agony
Oh god I am weak, please give me mercy
I am
Becoming grotesque
Lean into the edge
Don’t let me fall off
I feel like my life's coming to an end
Although I'm terrified
To look death in the eye
I feel like my life's coming to an end
Please god
Please save me from
My rotting body
I can't do this anymore
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12. |
A Prayer
05:20
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My time has come at last
I can see the past but I need to move on
Look back on what I’ve done
Soon it will be gone, but it wasn’t much anyway
Am I more than just dust
In this universe, floating where the wind takes me
Or is there a guiding force
Am I on a course towards where I need to be
Where will I go when I die?
Will I go up in flames or ascend to the sky?
Will we meet again in the next life,
Or will we end up in different realms?
Am I forgotten now
Hiding in a crowd of faces that look away
Will it be like this
As long as I exist as myself in its current form
Please can you show your face
Before I embrace the emptiness before me
I just need a sign
That after all this time it amounted to more than nothing
The waves of death swirled around me
The torrents of destruction overwhelmed me
The cords of the grave coiled around me
The snares of death confronted me
And will this really be the end
Will I find myself free of pain
Or will I get what I deserve
Is this what I deserve
And I’m dying as lonely as I lived
Now my life has reached its end but I still love you
I have lost my only friend but I still love you
This world has come to an end but I still love you
It doesn’t matter at all that I still love you
Everything began to spin, I laughed so hard that I cried
My heartbeat began to slow, I laughed so hard that I cried
My vision began to fade, I feel rotting in my brain
And after all my bones break, only my thoughts still remain
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