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The Price For Living

by Taiia

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1.
Dance 04:28
A hollow breath by hallowed grounds will shatter you A moment passes, you're alone, this is truth This waste continues, a constant turnover of human kind So they may keep and eternal cure, breaking your will, molding your mind Conniving and cunning this silver-tongue speaks Your hopes are so rotted Your drive is feeble, motionless and weak. Logic craves, it's sweet escape Growth inside can't be replaced Asleep all your days (Stay awake) They claim you're keeping the grind to keep your occupied mind. You break all those chains (Break the chains) Once you allow yourself to thrive you find the will, the will to survive You take a step towards knowing truth The journeys long, but growth is proof So take in these words and start to bask Change is the constant, release your past Don't take my speech as wasteful lies You claim your labor helps you survive Never a question, no time to ask How much cash is in this grab? I humbly bequest you seek your cure Start over again and still once more, Just live your dreams and break the chains There's so much more to this than pain Logic craves, it's sweet escape Growth inside can't be replaced Asleep all your days (Stay awake) They claim you're keeping the grind to keep your occupied mind. You break all those chains (Break the chains) Once you allow yourself to thrive you find the will, the will to survive
2.
Devoid 03:17
My sins I pray tell, forgiveness seems bleak The ink of this pen on the next page it bleeds Accept nothing less, except evermore Where your comfort lies in me, our lives seem so torn And where is my peace, when storms start to break You say you've seen it all before, repent and replace Creature Comfort Lingers No Longer The ghostly echo rings, the empty cold void Release inside of me, this dope sick joy Insidious and dull, restricted yet benign The influence is maddening, no future worth trying Experiments can drive us with research in my head Relapse into the older ways reject forgiveness I'm calling resignation, I'll blame it on my past Surveillance states are ending now Freedom means rest. Creature Comfort Lingers Draining me of what is left The ghostly echo rings, the empty cold void Release inside of me, this dope sick joy
3.
RE:Volt 03:48
They see you treading lightly, We all appease our fate Now apathy is thriving, an enigmatic state I've seen you suffocating, and still you heed their call A waste of pure potential, now drowning in the trawl You think you're going nowhere, so now you seek your cure OD'd on false pretenses and still you're craving more Desires turn to vengeance, you search for casualties There is no substitution for what you can't set free Take control you own your actions Onus on the few that know Division scorching motivation Saints and Sinners, Heed the Revolution The Irony is nasty, replacing corporate greed With all your time and effort, their laws becoming creed Some momentary silence, filled with anxiety No life is worth a dollar, breaking society The terror taken lightly, a cadence that you own No sense in living kindly, a new and lofty low Our chains are moving forward, there needs to be unrest This is an Era calling, this is the final test Take control you own your actions Onus on the few that know Division scorching motivation Saints and Sinners, Heed the Revolution
4.
The Trial 03:58
Worn down so deeply you beat yourself right to the core Isolation leaves you empty yet craving for more Minutes blend into the hours All your days slipping away Crippling consciousness leaves you without an escape No Escape Is this the price for living? A toll to great to bare? Now the time has come For pressing on This life is worth the fight Your Trial begins Trading your blows Fighting yourself Stagnated growth Pray to a god You'll never know Choices are yours Long is the road Destiny calls To be reborn From the unknown Is this the price for living? A toll too great to bare? The weight is pressed upon you Pressure builds As hope begins to tear Now the time has come For pressing on This life is worth the fight The Trial's calling Well beyond these shores Destination lies A path Never tread before Is where your Plight will hide Now the time has come For pressing on This life is worth the fight The Trial's calling Well beyond these shores Destination lies A path Is where your dreams reside
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6.
Rage 02:52
Slipping into his mind Anger won't leave the stage They shout with noting left to say The Glutton hides his truth away But when push would come to shove A family burned by it's loss Will run out of people to trust Rely on men who's lips are shut Inside knowledge comes with a price Weighing on your sanity But not on my watch, we slay our demons here By my ticking clock, the hour draws near So lets face some facts, that no one can atone For what was often said is what they often know Slipping into my mind Reason speaks for me now The pain you blame on those you know Is driven by the lies you've told But when push would come to shove The years of lies and cover ups Secret, secret keep it hush The toughest pill can choke the young Inside knowledge comes with a price Weighing on your sanity But not on my watch, we slay our demons here By my ticking clock, the hour draws near So lets face some facts, that no one can atone For what was often said is what they often know But not on my watch, we slay our demons here By my ticking clock, the hour draws near So lets face some facts, that no one can atone For what was often said is what they often know
7.
Fate 04:44
Temptress has taken bets inside this Book of Fate The more you abuse yourself the more you have to wait Procrustean bed of lies Just like a tempest now rest and rise, rest and rise God's abandoned Isolated and still Sip of poison Rotting your time away Evil magic Dawn blends into the twilight Break the pattern Freedom designed beyond these walls Wardens of Judgement now posses your flurried thoughts Longing for inner peace you do just as you're taught Pacify, truth be damned You did this to yourself now rest those eyes, rest those eyes God's abandoned Isolated and still Sip of poison Rotting your time away Evil magic Dawn blends into the twilight Break the pattern Freedom designed beyond these walls I find a new page turning to a blank empty space A place designed for freedom, a place designed for rest With abandonment is exploration, with liberation comes fear Redemption is futile when your plague creeps ever near The observer becomes the observed in self reflections wake The madness grows quickly, as constitution breaks
8.
Dissent 06:03
You can run with the rabbits or hunt with the hounds As opposition grows they now hold the crown But reserve panic and malice for another day The game is more complicated then they say It's purely chaos and noise but in there is beauty A formulaic cacophony has never seemed so pretty These conditions consuming until people drown And once you let go, you can see a way out Pressing forwards Through this hell Will you make it? Sound of Nell Noble demons Cannot know Paths you wander On the road Moments calling Cannot pass Compulsions lie They won't last Open entries Gateless gates Hero's journey Is your fate This shot at liberation falls into our hands The whispers of dissent from higher command Unfocused energy results in this waste Conditioned at birth to submit to disgrace Staring at you Changing face This Controller Made mistakes Thinking quickly Move ahead Draw your weapon Leave it dead Soon you realize That it's you Ego Masking Point of view Clock is waiting Moment neigh Embrace release No more lies This shot at liberation falls into our hands The whispers of dissent from higher command Dramatic opulence won't save you from fate You will suffer to this trial of rage
9.
Ready, Steady, Can't hold me back Ready, Steady, Give me good luck Ready, Steady, Never look back Let's get started READY, STEADY GO! Seconds, minutes and hours Losing sight of my power The more you speak, the less you know No more wasting time for new thought to grow Plot becoming lost in the premise Changing into someone worthless Just let the tide drift you away Another day to repent for mistakes There is no cure (No more words) When life will leave you lonely I know this truth is a journey, not a destination So as you move (What's there to lose?) Your art becomes so taxing But this path you're on will release your soul Becoming ever free STEADY, GO! Half a mind set on your future Half denying your true nature And as these wheels spin into dirt, You must accept all that you're worth So, voices in your past critique Leaving you left with this mystique So, drop your guard just for today Become yourself before it is too late There is no cure (No more words) When life will leave you lonely I know this truth is a journey, not a destination So as you move (What's there to lose?) Your art becomes so taxing But this path you're on will release your soul Becoming ever free STEADY, GO! Ready, Steady, Can't hold me back Ready, Steady, Give me good luck Ready, Steady, Never look back Let's get started READY, STEADY GO! There is no cure (No more words) When life will leave you lonely I know this truth is a journey, not a destination So as you move (What's there to lose?) Your art becomes so taxing But this path you're on will release your soul Becoming ever free STEADY, GO! And please TRUST ME.

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released May 4, 2021

Album recorded at Bear Away Studios with Producer Pat Risi

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