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Overtake the Cage
01:20
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If you fail to see my hands
They’ll creep and claw it back
We’ve seen this rain before
Running slick above the glass
And we won’t go
Straddling the fence for so long
And we won’t go
Preference for being gone
It’s all gone grey
Won’t you add color to my pallet
Smear it with your knife
Hard to say, black or white
When smudges overtake the cage
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Hey there, little girl, don’t you feel the time twirling down the miles?
My ears, they are stinging with the radio singing much too loud
This certain little lady wanders down the path tree-shaded in her new dress
She’s chasing the Frisbee while feeling kind of frisky in dappled light, more or less
There’s a long train coming, we better hitch a ride
It’s been a long time coming, we can cuddle up inside
There’s a long train coming, and we hopped a ride
It’s been a long time coming, but our tickets are expired
Hey there, little boy, don’t you know that being coy has gone out of style?
You traded in your suit and those fashionable boots for black shroud
This certain little man wanders without a plan or known address
His hands in his pockets, and he can’t stop it if it feels alright, more or less
There’s a long train coming, we better hitch a ride
It’s been a long time coming, we can cuddle up inside
There’s a long train coming, and we hopped a ride
It’s been a long time coming, but our tickets are expired
The light in your eyes, when we let our horns grow
Once so prized, our displaced halos
If we walk alone, and make the world disappear
To fears we’ve outgrown, and greased grinding gears
We’ll flow with the tide, and see where it goes
She’s singing the refrain, sipping pink champagne, a smile on her face
He’s strumming like a goon, his strings all out of tune, but he keeps pace
With this heat wave coming, she’ll be gunning for an indoor stage
Maybe come this winter, we’ll still be sinners, not acting our age
Rearrange the freight, a fresh coat of paint, for a new day
At the pearly gate, I’ll argue with the saint, and we’ll say
There’s a long train coming, we better hitch a ride
It’s been a long time coming, we can cuddle up inside
There’s a long train coming, and we hopped a ride
It’s been a long time coming, but our tickets are expired
There’s a long train coming, we better hitch a ride
It’s been a long time coming, we can cuddle up inside
In this long train coming, we will cuddle up inside
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You know it’s not easy to get you
Sometimes you make me feel so weak
And just when your touch seems so soft
Your claws dig right into me
Sometimes you’re talking like you know me
Better than I even know myself
You rip and pull and tear me
Leaving nothing but faults and inadequacy
And then you smile so smugly
And I hate everything about it
Don’t you come closer
I can see the wolf inside your skin
You are pushing me under
And then wonder why I’m not breathing
Why I’m not breathing
Sometimes you’re asking if I feel the same pull
That we are meant to be
And just when your eyes open up to me
I see the predator underneath
And then you snarl so savagely
And I hate everything about it
Don’t you come closer
I can see the wolf inside your skin
You are pushing me under
And then wonder why I’m not breathing
Why I’m not breathing
I’m not breathing
I’m not breathing
Leave me alone don’t talk to me
Why don’t you get that you were hurting me
Is this a game for you
Do you even care
Leave me alone don’t talk to me
I’m not a part of your pack so you better leave
Is this a game for you
Then watch me play
Don’t you come closer
I can see the wolf inside your skin
You are pushing me under
And then wonder why I’m not breathing
Why I’m not breathing
Your howls are hollow when the moon is full
I’ve got you by the ears
I can’t hold on, with no safe escape
But you’ll whimper so weakly
And never bite me again
Bit me again
Don’t you come over (but you had to come closer)
I saw the wolf inside your skin
You were pushing me under
But now look who’s bleeding
I’m not done breathing
I dare you come over
I saw the wolf inside your skin
You were pushing me under
But now look who’s bleeding
I’m not done breathing
I’m not done breathing
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4. |
On the Low Rung
01:52
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Black cat crossing
The chicken followed suit
Three mice with no eyes
Under the farmer’s boot
There’s not enough salt
There’s not enough shoulders
Only seeing six
And 13-leaf clovers
You’re walking under ladders
I’m stuck here on the low rung
We can sink the eight ball
Right out of the pocket
We keep an albatross
Pinned in our locket
Overhead the horseshoe
Keeps on spinning
The red sky’s blue
We’re stuck swimming
You're walking under ladders
I'm stuck here on the low rung
There’s more crack than sidewalk
The mirror’s in shards
Umbrellas are opened
When it’s raining indoors
We were wished good luck
Before taking the stage
We took the third light
From the same flame
All of this bad luck
Mere superstition
All of our lives
Little more than fiction
We found the glass ceiling
Could only carve our names
An unkindness of ravens
Left to right into the pane
Nothing seems to matter
Our swan song’s not sung
You’re walking under ladders
I’m stuck here on the low rung
You’re walking under ladders
I’m stuck here on the low rung
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5. |
Switch (feat. mattyg)
02:06
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Elevate
Cut away the conscious
Contemplate
Inwardly ironic
Satiate
Peel away the promise
Mitigate
Intentionally toxic
Flip the switch (Break away, find a way)
Fall into the dimness
Embrace electric (to break apart again)
Light enveloping the petals as they fall
Sinking and spiraling (Spark to flame, Find a way)
Overthinking reprisal (Make us mitose again)
Flip the switch
Overwhelming desire to strip away the spiritual
Residue that still clings to every static moment
Flip the switch (Break away, find a way)
Fall into the dimness
Embrace electric (to break apart again)
Light enveloping the petals as they fall
Sinking and spiraling (Spark to flame, Find a way)
Overthinking reprisal (Make us mitose again)
Flip the switch
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These walls
Built soundless for when duty calls
Fight back
Are we still on the right track
Long nights
Waiting for the big surprise
Pent up
Emotions but we're out of luck
These words
Stick ruthlessly in my throat
My tongue
Heavy on my heart and lungs
I won’t mind
If you had lied
Because we lost trust for a while
And if you called and
Cried into my ear
I won’t mind unveiling
Your fears
And if you were standing
At my door
I won’t mind
Find out what’s in store
Let it go, let it all fall down
Let it go, let it all fall down
Let it go, let it all fall down
Let it go, let it all fall down
Let it go, let it all fall down
Let it go, let it all fall down
These skins
Sustain the untouchable
Frightening
Sensations were impossible
Closed eyes
Praying for a divine sign
Are we lost in our own mind
Resentment
Eats up possibilities
Vengeance
Won’t let it get the best of me
Waves crash in and bring me to my knees
Our lifeline swallowed by the sea
And if you called and
Cried into my ear
I won’t mind unveiling
Your fears
And if you were standing
At my door
I won’t mind
Find out what’s in store
Let it go, let it all fall down
Let it go, let it all fall down
Let it go, let it all fall down
Let it go, let it all fall down
Let it go, let it all fall down
Let it go, let it all fall down
Discontent, you fled commitment (I’ve scribbled it down)
Statements, sacraments with no intent (on napkins and notes)
These walls have seen coffin and crown (Distant reminders of how it all broke)
They’re closing in, I’ll tear them down
I’ve scribbled it down on napkins and notes (Now I am crumbled up on the floor)
Distant reminders of how it broke (Scribbled it down, sent it up in smoke)
Shaking, crumbled on the floor
I’ve scribbled it down, sent it up in smoke (Lost Histories, diminished hopes)
Lost histories, diminished hopes
And all I want (All I want is more)
All I want is more
Let it go, let it all fall down
Let it go, let it all fall down
Let it go, let it all fall down
All I want is more
Let it go, let it all fall down
Let it go, let it all fall down
Let it go, let it all fall down
And all I want is more
Let it go, let it all fall down (All I want is more)
Let it go, let it all fall down (All I want is more)
Let it go, let it all fall down (And all I want)
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Late night
Back of the room bathed in black light
Pastels and neon float in fluttered flight
And find their place back on hallowed ground
Time flows
Ebbs and floods in every evening glow
Dripping and drowning the dwellers moving slow
As they fold and flay, unite on their way down
The only guarantee about tomorrow
Is that it’s surely not here today
Let’s see how long the car goes on the scenic way
The only guarantee about tomorrow
Is that it’s surely not here today
We’ll find the gilden sunset we’ve followed at the lake
Fine grass
Bare feet beating with the bass blast
Dirt, dust, and mud through sunlight flash
And find their way back on hallowed ground
Warm fire
Freeform fantasy, each gold flyer
Filling the space like lanterned lace, inspired
Fold and flay, unite on our way down
The only guarantee about tomorrow
Is that it’s surely not here today
Let’s see how long the car goes on the scenic way
The only guarantee about tomorrow
Is that it’s surely not here today
We’ll find the gilden sunset we’ve followed at the lake
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8. |
Blue Orange
04:07
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Under the midnight rainbow
We slipped further into the stars
Watching the floating colors
Lift to get torn apart
Nose to neck in abandoned
Parking lots behind
Stores shut down, the purple gown
No one knows how to find
Between blue and orange find in our view
A hidden yellow flimsy tipsy boat
Set sail behind the golden sunset
To ultraviolet and infrared
While I stare at the starry Cross
Your bear’s dipper is in the way
Somewhere a black hole’s folding
Making us one in the same
Harvest their silver platters
Sow ideas to take their place
We’ll lie in wait as we negate
This useless in-between space
Between blue and orange find in our view
A hidden yellow flimsy tipsy boat
Set sail behind the golden sunset
To ultraviolet and infrared
The ship will set sail with or without us and erase parts of the sky
We’ll burn or we’ll drown till we’re ashes or ground but we’ll get by
Somewhere a fish takes to the streets to try and find a new life
A bird grows gills, a lemming seeks thrills, and hell is covered in ice
Between blue and orange find in our view
A hidden yellow flimsy tipsy boat
Set sail behind the golden sunset
To ultraviolet and infrared
Between blue and orange, we find we outgrew
The narrow and the straightest of gates
Wavelengths and frequency strengths
Unmake our own pretend bed
Unmake our own pretend bed
Unmake our own pretend bed
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Call it heaven sent
To look you in the face
When what we had is bent
Disjointed, out of place
Will we write what we felt
When there's nothing more to say?
Will we paint ourselves
In a million shades of grey?
I’m not so cynical an individual
If you wrote me a letter
It’d probably turn into a song
Until I drained the soul
Of every pen stroke you’ve done
If you happened to call
I’d remember your voice
Until the strain of it all
Gravitized to a black hole
Into a black hole
Fresh out of sentiments
Can't look you in the face
Something more to resent
Lost along the way
Will we scrawl our names
On the side of some shunned cave?
Will we paint our graves
With a million shades of grey?
It seems so cyclical, sever umbilical
If you wrote me a letter
It’d probably turn into a song
Until I drained the soul
Of every pen stroke you’ve done
If you happened to call
I’d remember your voice
Until the strain of it all
Gravitized to a black hole
Into a black hole
Into a black hole
In our sights, but out of mind
As foreign worlds collide
Pieces recombine
Our skies swirl and slide
Will we stay quiet and stare
As the galaxies degrade?
Will we see past the glare
To a million shades of grey?
We’ll toss our principles, lost at the pinnacle
If you wrote me a letter
It’d probably turn into a song
Until I drained the soul
Of every pen stroke you’ve done
If you happened to call
I’d remember your voice
Until the strain of it all
Gravitized to a black hole
Into a black hole
To a black hole
To a black hole
Focus lost to sensory perception
I’ll keep you on the ground
I understand it’s a forced projection
But it’s keeping you around
Hold tight when the solid shadows allure you
Hold tight when transitions test your faith
And if you’re feeling crazy just find my face
I’ll keep you sane
Or float together in this lunacy we create
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10. |
Good Stuff Happens
03:17
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You said you missed me
But due to bad aim
And that I’m inconsequential
Until you’re in the game
The shots you’ve taken
All venom and lead
The shots I’m taking
Are going straight to my head
But good stuff happens all the time
Good stuff happens all the time
Once we’re in our graves
Sit in silence
Sip day old stale coffee
Shun good science
It’s not worth building
Monuments for falling
To topple foreign towns
Monuments have fallen
And crushed our faded crowns
But good stuff happens all the time
Good stuff happens all the time
Once we’ve been razed
Hey, do you think we could come back home
Live in the shadows of what’s to come?
Hey, was my bleeding not enough?
Why did you fill, just to spill the cup?
I watched you slow dance through the hall
Good stuff happens once we fall
Maybe we’ll never make it out alive
Maybe we’ll never make it out alive
Because good stuff happens all the time
And good stuff happens all the time
Maybe we’ll never make it out alive
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11. |
Welcome Mat Punching Bag
05:48
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I've been knocked down again
I've been left stranded
For all the times I've strived to bathe in your light
I guess I never did anything right
I’ll never get anything right
I’ll never get anything right
I never get anything
So put your arms away, safe for another day
Smear your shoes across my face
Like a doormat in your life with mud and briars and tears cried
Or a punching bag to ease your state
Enter the winter
A splintered surrender
Everything I’ve tried to re-brighten your light
I guess I never set anything right
I never said anything right
I’ll never get anything right
I never get anything
So put your arms away, safe for another day
Smear your shoes across my face
Like a doormat in your life with mud and briars and tears cried
Or a punching bag to ease your state
Can’t find a word with enough meaning
To encapsulate, to expunge this feeling
No catharsis that time’s not stealing
Ink stains paper piled to the ceiling
Can’t find a word with enough meaning
If I could bring it all back
The diversions of your past
I’d trade my life, twice, to undim your light
But I guess I never did anything right
I never did anything right
I’ll never get anything
So put your arms away, safe for another day
Smear your shoes across my face
Like a doormat in your life with mud and briars and tears cried
Or a punching bag to ease your state
Can’t find a word with enough meaning
Can’t find a word with enough meaning
Can’t find a word with enough meaning
Can’t find a word with enough meaning
Can’t find a word with enough meaning
Can’t find a word with enough meaning
Can’t find a word with enough meaning
Ink stains the pages piled to the ceiling
Can’t find a word with enough meaning
I’m tired, this is me dealing
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4 Star View Cape Canaveral, Florida
Originally from Northeast Mississippi and living in Cape Canaveral, FL, 4 Star View is a cathartic songwriter who swings among genres to create emotionally laden soundscapes. He is the poet laureate for the city of Cape Canaveral. Every album is unique in sound and themes. Most songs are single take, single track to produce a raw sound. Mistakes are not fixed because flaws are part of the art. ... more
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