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Machines

by Highrise

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1.
How Will They Know 04:58
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2.
Machines 03:49
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I thought it was the moon A sign that read coming soon Shining in the sky The stars replaced by streetlights A poor attempt to make it right This artifice is dull Smoke and steam rise in patterns Cognate of constant chatter Neither seems to last Every corner hosts bright signs Every business reaches blind This is the machine of humanity Among these many cogs there's me This is the machine of humanity I wish there was more to see I am burning in the cold I tell you how I feel but you're not sold I wonder why it is raining in winter Drops of water strike with such timbre Generated beings, generations lost Work all day, what does money cost Everything we are is an exchange Money for time, it's life we arrange This is the machine of humanity Among these many cogs there's me This is the machine of humanity I wish there was more to see
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Stuck 03:26
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4.
Rush Hour 04:07
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Shame and sorrow Complacency returns tomorrow Fill this void today As my heart blackens deeper Lights out as the devil puts me into a sleeper Holding onto past-tense laying on my back Sin makes it hard for me to swallow Ingrained in brain visuals of her fear "Somebody took me for their own pleasure" No big deal I saw the terror in her eyes and the anguish inside as her captor ripped from her thighs All identity You believed a lie While His children die Crying out hopelessly Don't you know they're human beings? Euphoric feelings justifying slavery Monetary gain makes my stomach cave in You don't understand the gravity of this hell Dying underground, a story you will never tell Twenty years have passed, and every chance of escape Has slipped away, out of grasp. Someone save me, I am eternally bound. Dreaming is no sancuary, mind isn't Sounding, quite right. These thoughts of suicide. But how? I'm trapped. Even my soul can't leave. Why, God, have you forsaken me? Are you even there? I'm in need of rescuing. He's coming back soon, my eyes are out of tears. Every unknown fear, came to me at once. The promises of work, broken like my body. It's time for a change. Get up and save her life. Don't listen anymore, too many have died.
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Ignore 02:04
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6.
The Nearness of You 05:44
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Surely You are good But my heart ran away Surely You are good But I was swept away (x2) You brought me back to this place You gave me water, You gave me a drink You brought me back to this place You gave me water, You gave me a drink My flesh, my heart may fail Whom have I but You You have been my strength, my refuge Whom have I but You (x2) The nearness of You is my only good (x8) My flesh, my heart may fail Whom have I but You You have been my strength, my refuge Whom have I but You There is no one else Whom have I but You There is no one else Whom have I but You There is no one else
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Selah 05:58
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released June 13, 2016

All songs except "The Nearness of You" written and performed by Matt Troiano and Stephen Carlson.

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