EXIST LYRICS

1. Take My Picture

We all play the game
Get ahead if you can
Heroes we praise
Shining armor, unstained
But here in the sky
You see me at an angle where my
Diamonds cover my guile

Shoot my face
Shoot my face
While I stand before places
And things you and I've never seen
My life story's my dream

While the world is my backdrop
Time stops
And my sketch is complete
Of the places I went
Just to show you I went there
Take my picture again

All the light in the world
All the wisdom and insight can't feed
My sick intrinsic need to become god

Should it matter if I lie?
If no one ever sees
The cost is only known to me

All the things that I've said
Be they noble and healing words
Elevate me to be loved, be revered
Take my picture again

Should it matter who I stab?
If I should cure disease
It justifies my friends as my own casualties

Selling all the truth I spit at the cost of living it
Selling flowers that I've picked
All the ones I've never sniffed
Should I tell the audience that the Earth was flat
They'd believe
'Cause here in the sky
Only I can see

Shoot my face
Shoot my face
Shoot my picture the way I direct you
To help me be free from reality

Here in the sky
We project to you
Strong abdomens while we suck it all in

Up where the clouds
Obscure things I don't want you to see
My life story you read is my dream
Save or fuck the whole world just to win
Take my picture again

2. Happily Ever After (For a Week or So...)

Today my stake rests on my tomorrow's fate
All work, no play
Remember time is money

Get that cash and then what
Happily ever after for a week or so

Today my stake rests on my tomorrow's fate
All work, no play
Reveal my true ball and chain

Save the bitch and then what
Happily ever after for a week or so

I'm livid and living a life I despise
But if I start to prosper
Then I could be loving my time
Save the princess
Cross the finish line

Each journey's a means to an end
Reach each destination to find
There's no end in sight

Time is money, time I trade
And with time, time and time again I will gain
Satisfied the pain in my back
But now there's an itch on my leg
Oh, the universe such a horrible place
You can never win
I can't wait 'til I go to heaven
So I can be bored as fuck
And reminisce life's journeys that I loved
The highs propelled by lows so low, I rose above
I reared my head for every time I fell
Unknowingly

And there goes my life and my stake
Tomorrow, it never came
So all work, no play
Time's price is a mystery
And you have less every new next day

I'm livid and living a life I despise
As I prosper, more problems arise
More gold, less time
Princess is nagging
Grass less green than advertised
It's hell past the finish line

3. So True: Imitation's Flattery

(Oh icon divine, let your words be my guide so I need not my own)

Voyager of the earth and mind
Your love created mine
Never mind how you came to be
Your rules are all I need

It's true
So true
That I do
I intend to mirror you

Archetype, statue in our hive
You help us to define
Wrong and right
Black and white simplified
To cope, categorize

It's true
So true
That the world is much easier
When you sharpen the blurred lines
And you
Yes you
Show me where to stand when I'm confused
Your sounds are my truth
What's new?
More you
For me to replicate every day
Sharpen the blurred lines
Because this life is too three-dimensional to me
I know what I like and I need not dig deep
I denounce those who do 'cause I've catalogued "true"
'Cause I've catalogued "true"

4. So Bound: One Of The Herd

Gold
Imitation's flattery
Blinds you
Know my purity and be set free
Judge me as my uniform is
Back home, in the trash
Lit that shit on fire I was sick of your
Bullshit
Combat boots and camo pants
Hipster plaid, fashion headphones
All the same intent

So don't forget to
Sound like that bold archetype
That paved your path
Stray and risk the slap of rejection's cold wrath
Another clone to bask
In the shadow of something greater
Than you could ever be
Because the game is comprised by rules
Of another's hand

Here in the crimson wars
So apathetic I'm no longer bleeding
Tonight I'll hold the sapphire
High above the crowd in red
I'll test their eyes
And wonder, will the world just pass me by?
Twenty neck-beard test
The strength of steel while I
Cut ore in half with my diamond, redefine
The language in spirit of icon's minds
Whose rituals I defy

Defiant
Your archetype's sources hide below

A light across the line
Sure sign of what's harnessed inside
A soul's infinite tide

I fall in other's eyes
Against the grain that hopes to bind
A heart's true song with question and doubt

Defiant
My archetype's sources hide below
When they carved their own paths
Today's clichés were their own stamps
Bitch about it
Denounce those as they dare to fly
'Cause you've catalogued "true"
"True" is what's comfortable to you

A light across the line
Sure sign of what's harnessed inside
A soul's infinite tide
Out of sight and mind

A fall in other's eyes
Now ask yourself, should I just lie?
Step on my heart's song?
Just play it safe this time?

Imitate
Bold statue high up in our hive
Poster child's inception began before time
Like never did they chance
Hostile looks
From malleable dipshit's first glance
Keep your cult membership first rate
Miss the point of what made your icon great

Here in the crimson wars
So apathetic I'm no longer bleeding
Tonight I'll hold the sapphire
High above the crowd in red
I'll test their eyes
And wonder, will the world just pass me by?
Twenty neck-beard test
The strength of steel while I
Cut ore in half with my diamond, redefine
The language in spirit of icon's minds
Whose rituals I defy

5. Peer Prejudice

Veracity
My feelings launch logic missiles
Wage war on peers
Dig for fault in those of my own blood
You see things that you see and express to thee
Hang your paintings up
I'll find transparency
The world's what you make of it
I made you an enemy
Too close for comfort, too similar
My jealousy prevails

Branch of my father tree
How I loathe your leaves' prosperity
And I confess, should they die?
Condolences, but I might not mind

Veracity
Indifference ain't enough for me
Peek in your window and I don't like things I see
Judge integrity, when I could just look away
Create your weakness so my ego rules supreme
You know things
That you know from the walk you've walked
But your shoes don't fit me
I don't want to hear you talk

Branch of my father tree
How I loathe your leaves' prosperity
And I confess, should they die?
Condolences, but I might not mind
And though I see that they've grown big and strong
I can't help but notice
Their colors appear slightly wrong
They don't encroach me
Your well-being is just my misery

For every time I've watched you spitefully I pray
You could tell me "touché"
Take me seriously

"Touché"
Walk by and look my way
Can I be your threat?
Maybe your envy?
See me

Lynch that kid
Look at how he holds his pick
It's weird I don't like it
So noose on neck
Rip him to pieces on the Internet
Or at least just behind his back

All of the people in the distance
Doing things that I love in their own unique way
And I've got nothing now
So I'll make something of nothing now
My righteousness, my own veracity

As above
My supposed truth brands thee false
Rules I made ever-changing
So below
Watch where you stand as I might step on you
In fact, just hide because I'll try

All of the people in the distance
Doing things that I love in their own unique way
Branch of a common tree
Our similarities piss me off, oh so royally
Branch of my father tree
You like what I like
But you don't know how it's done right
My own veracity
Brother and enemy
Your presence is my misfortune
No matter the miles between us

Branch of a common tree
Brother and enemy
Branch of my father tree
Brother and enemy

6. To Sever the Strings

Worn
Fake
Hollow
Allure withers away
Facade recedes
Brace for reality
Guilt's seize

Echoes afar reach my ear
Painting pictures
Clearing the haze around me
Too clear, too vivid
Their whispers reveal suggestions
To face the life I've ignored
Hidden enlightened signals
Expose the stage
And strings by which I'm played
So cold, so bitter
To see circumstance's rigor
Is what binds me

Grip
My
Chains
Tow
Until the hands
Let go

Having thought that my stake rested
On the will of those who found
Picked me up and put me to work
See the fault in my own cynicism's guise

A day's work breaking stone
And hauling dirt for the worth of merits
None my own
That each statue that I raise
Comes with an ominous price
As the hand playing strings that bind me
Were the hands dictating all the moves of my life

In this void
Empty space takes my view
As I sculpt and carve each day's output
Same old things made anew

The memories of doorways missed
I thought it wasn't my time
Do the hands playing strings that bind me
Only dictate my own free will
As they're mine?

No masters
Free from the hold
My will determines my strings
Take control

Echoes nigh pass as I'm
Feigning pictures
Leaving the haze around me
To yield to my
Strings the universe assigned
Warm inside, victimized
Hindered enlightened signals
Pleading, beckoning to be heard, I see
The sun gives way
Tonight, strings still attached, I say
"Tomorrow's a new day to cut them off"
As I said I would today

Worn
Fake
Hollow
Allure withering away
Facade decayed
Release
Grieve and replace
Clear the field
Erase
Tear the roots
Burn the dead earth
And sever my strings

When the surface is stripped clean
Once all the filth is gone
And we see that the reigns are in our own hands
Does the life that's left really change?
Or flourish?
Or stagnate at the base below fault's peaks?
Do we truly cut our strings?
Or hand them back for safety's ease?

7. Shade from My Fire

Window wide open
Breeze touches my shoulder
Should I climb through it and see what's awaiting me?
Oh, what's awaiting me now?
Some distracted life
Where my pain subsides
You and I forever free from time to float and wander

Feeling these feelings of life on a treadmill
If just to turn it off
See what's awaiting me
Leave what's frustrating me now
Places I've not seen
Faces from my dreams
Happiness in possibility
Unwritten, free

Oh, I'm so tired of this race
See the height of the walls of my cage
Bars that I built so I'd feel safe
To protect this tired life that I hate
Maybe one day the truth that I fear
Will unmask itself and I will be
In some careless life
Where my pain subsides
You and I forever free from need and time
We'll run to find
Shade from my fire

8. Fault's Peaks

Awake the next day
Replaying words that were said in vain
Bold is to night as shame to day
You understood
And for the eve I was banter king

So now in the light
Preconceived visions of what I'd like
My perfect form resides in mind
Things so innate in myself hinder survival

Rise and shine
I can't see your fault's peaks
Far too high

Just two inches too short
Life given to training
Still pales next to someone strong
Withering and dull in daytime
Intention aside we were born as we are
Withering and dull in daytime
Sun sets
No soul watch as I fly

I am covered in ice
A ceiling, which for my life
I've tried to breach the surface
Yet just scaled its horizon

I fight a struggle like
A circle expanding wide
Its radius is perfect
And though it spreads so certain
It won't become a sphere

Awake the next day
Replaying words that were said in vain
Bold is to night as shame to day
Now in the light
Preconceived visions show what I'd like
My perfect form resides in mind
Mind only

Tread lightly, subconsciously, carefully
Things innate in me hinder survival
Pretend I can
Rise and shine
Blinders block faults sky high
My shade, forever

Withering and dull in daytime
Sun sets
No soul watch as I fly

Rise and shine
I can't see my fault's peaks
Too high to climb
I'll lament myself instead
And pray one day maybe I can change
Although I won't







EXIST LYRICS