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I Will Protect You
03:45
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They’ve come to take you
Not to heal but to break you
And bury the weight of your heart
With a will unbroken
With a word unspoken
They’re coming to tear you apart
But they will not find you
For I will protect you
And you and I will find the blurry line
Somewhere alone for the first time
I’ll hear you call from the hope we find
Runaway love, I’ll be close behind
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Ghost of Eden, you pursue me
With the shackles of reason and folly
Tongue of angels, to consume me
With the voice of a lover in calling
Song of roses, winter jacket
Weaving rope through the palisade bracket
Raise a flag and burn to ashes
In the fury of rage and compassion
They drowned Hana in the fountain
Threw her love off the side of a mountain
If they follow, if they find us
They'll do more than just eat us alive
But you are the only light I can see
I am too scared to breathe
But I’m thinking of something
Veil of Winter, Saint Sebastian
In the fury of rage and compassion
To forsake and to abandon
What we’ve left to remain in the ashes
I’m not bitter, I’m not angry
I will bury my heart if you make me, but
If you follow, if you take me
If you promise to never forsake me,
Yoko, I will not ever forget when I held you beneath the arch
In the veil of winter, where with tears in your eyes you said
“I will never forsake you, I will never leave you alone, for I love you more than this world”
In the darkness, undercover
Through the ashes of crucified lovers
We escape towards the ocean
From the clutches of human devotion
If you’ll follow, If you’ll take me
If you promise to never forsake me,
I will take you, I will follow
To whatever may find us tomorrow
In the ashes and the embers
In the moments that I can't remember
Lives a little Ghost of Eden
Lives a host of the flitting and fleeting
In the flowers by your pillow
In the linens that rustle and billow
In your little book of fables
That you left on the cherrywood table
Dammit Yoko, I am sorry
For these shackles of reason and folly
For the demons that consume me
With the voice of a lover in calling
I'm not bitter, I'm not angry
I will bury my heart if you make me
But if you follow, if you take me
If you promise to never forsake me
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3. |
Flowers in Bloom
04:39
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Fluttering your eyelids
Little tiny islands
Covering the ocean
Covering devotion
Listen to what I say
Come and do things my way
You would not believe me
I could not deceive me
Part your lips in silence
Altruistic violence
Antonym Semantic
Isn’t it romantic?
You and me
Shouldn’t be
Out here all alone
Alternating between what I love and what I hate I find you
Peering off the mountain ledge and now I can’t escape
Oscillating between my intention and affinity
Your eyes flitter and flutter, keeping time without a string again
You were just a girl the last time I had thought to listen to the
Flaring of your nostrils, they receded and reclined
Into the recesses of your tear wells, soaked in ether dripping
From your jealous eyes, oh would you stop stop, would you stop stop with the
Fluttering your eyelids
Little tiny islands
Covering the ocean
Covering devotion
Listen to what I say
Come and do things my way
You would not believe me
I could not deceive me
Part your lips in silence
Altruistic violence
Antonym Semantic
Isn’t it romantic?
You and me
Shouldn’t be
Out here all alone
I can only listen to the trembling as you pick away at
All the little chains arresting you within my heart
Though I’ll keep my mouth shut, I’m not humble, I’m just terrified of
Finding we've been fated just to die here from the start
Part your lips in silence
Altruistic violence
Antonym Semantic
Isn’t it romantic?
I could not believe you
I could not deceive you
There is something wrong with me
Come and See
Everything
Lunacy
Fallacy
You and me
Shouldn’t be
Out here all alone
Sitting watching lights exploding blooming like the flowers
In the vines entangled trite and narrow in my jealous hands
Take your fingers weave them into mine, If you will hold them, so that
I can fall in love with what I’ll never understand
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4. |
Into the Sea
01:08
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Until your eyes are gleaming like the moonshine
Upon the waters languishing by halflight
Until the only thing within your heart is love
Until my sorrow flees into the morning
Until I find the one that I'm adoring
Until the only thing within my heart is love
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Aizkorri
03:01
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Picture a home across the sea
A warm summer bed for you and me
Away from the gun of the musketeer
Away from our land, but away from fear
Through mountains of the northern cold
Through valleys of the winter snow
I'll take you by the hand
Oh love we can never be one
And I cannot love you when my breath is gone
I’ve only enough to be warm
But I’ll carry you on through the storm
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Mari's Cave
04:09
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They’re not coming to reconcile
They’re not coming to die
Ten thousand wolves bounding through the snow
With our blood in their eyes
With a heart drenched in ethylene
With a tongue soaked in lye
I will tell you we’re safe in here
I will tell you it’s fine, it’s fine
You’re here with me, and they won’t come for
You, oh you, they’ll never get through
I’ve got strength enough to hold them back and everything to lose
Yeah, it's true, it's true, I promise, I do
Though we’re trapped inside this mountain and the wolves are coming soon
It’s not over, we’re not through
With a heart drenched in ethylene
I will tell you it's fine
But the glimmer inside your eyes
Knows that soon we will die in flight, as white as snow, the lies I tell to you
Dammit Yoko it's true it's true I'm lying to you!
I’ve got nothing left to hold onto and nothing left to prove
oh it's you, it’s you, but what can I do
When we’re trapped inside this mountain and the wolves are coming soon
Is it over? Are we through?
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Leviathan
04:00
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Deep in my heart is a trembling hand of fear
Of the precious and dear
Of the barren, cold, and hollow
Of the reeling gall of sorrow
Come lover, gather at once to draw me near
For the hand of my fear
I will give my life to follow
Words I say but never swallow
Ten thousand wolves on the edge of the ravine
Heart of envy and greed
Who is he who calls upon us
Casts his spear and bridle on us
Go lover, hurry at once towards the sea
To be boundless and free
I will give my life to follow
Words I say but never swallow
Down on the peak by the edge of the ravine
Yoko looks up at me
With a gentle smile she falls off
From the ledge to break the mounds of snow
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Saint Marina
04:21
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Awake, my love, in fields of white and gray
Awake, my love, the wolves have gone away
The storm has calmed, and night has turned to day
Awake, my love, awake, and come away
And we’ll run to the sea
Where at last, we will finally be set free
Awake, my love, in fields of white and gray
Awake, my love, awake, and come away
Why aren’t you waking, my love?
Why aren’t you moving, oh love, where have you gone?
Why are you bleeding, my love?
Why are you bleeding, oh my God what have I done?
Oh my God what have I done?
Come back to me, come back to me, come back to me, oh my love!
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9. |
I Will Believe You
11:59
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Yoko I know now
You gave everything you had to save me
But In spite of it all I
Can’t abandon all the hope you gave me
Because I believed you
When you said that you would always love me
So I will believe you
Even as I cast away your body to the sea
Carried by waves, you
Look the same as the first day I saw you
Asleep on the water
Little boat upon the winding river
And I still remember
When I found your little arms around me
So I will remember
Even as I cast away your body to the sea
But now that you’ve left me
I’ve got nothing left to hold or cling to
And I know I'll never
Stretch these hands out far enough to reach you
But I'll believe
So wait for me Yoko
Don't you tell me not to care or bother
Wait for me Yoko
I will follow you into the water
You and I will find a blurry line
Somewhere alone for the first time
I’ll hear you call from the hope we find
Runaway love, I’ll be close behind
Until your eyes are gleaming like the moonshine
Upon the waters languishing by halflight
Until the only thing within your heart is love
Until my sorrow flees into the morning
Until I find the one that I'm adoring
Until the only thing within my heart is love
I won’t fall asleep, until you are next to me, oh love
I know that you'll be waiting there for me
I know not what awaits us at forever
But you can trust at least that I will never
Forsake the one who first awoke my heart in love
Into the sea, I will follow till I sleep oh love
Just promise you'll be waiting there for me
And when I wake, I’ll find you in the morning
The one I love, the one that I’m adoring
Until the only thing within your heart is
Until the only thing within my heart is
Until the only thing within our hearts is love
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Esko Tiko Washington, D.C.
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