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String Theocracy
02:54
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Open the curtains
Lights on
Don't miss a moment
Of this experiment
Oh, the book is strange
Like clockwork orange
Keep your eyes buttered till the end
Which "you" are you going to be?
Hmm
Inside the mirror do you see
Someone else in that body?
Dance for me
One
And two
And three
And turn around
Sit like a doggy
Till I finish my read
Cut it off, cut down your loss
All that stubborn loyalty is gonna get you killed
In a world built on convenient theories
For the puppets on TV
There is comfort in the strings
If you're gonna control me
At least make it interesting theatrically
How does it feel to be free?
Hmm
"Why don't you try it yourself?"
The gate opened on me
So I leaped
Down, down, and down I go
I tell myself I'm a tough girl
Down, down, and down I go
I could never, ever, ever touch the soil
My heart goes right
My head goes left
And end up on your bed
Huh
Sure I'll be your marionette
Here, tug on my thread
Spread me open for dolly pink, snow white artificial beauty
Maybe we're all cold machines
Stuffed in the human skin
With human sins
Sewed up by the gods of city
Cut it out, you've already lost
All that precious bravery is gonna get you hurt
In a world that feeds on the minority
May that self-centered belief lead you to peace
If you're gonna replace me
At least have the audacity to kill me thoroughly
When does it end for me?
Hmm
I think I am done with everything
Now I'm ready to leave
Dragging out
One line
Two lines
Three lines
Connect our hands
When I no longer can live on knowledge alone
You gave me strength
Hopeful curiosity
Maybe there are still happy answers left for my discovery
What's the colour of the electric sheep you see?
And if you love me
Can you love your everything too, for me?
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2. |
From a Place of Love
03:02
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Yes I have been so afraid
Yes I have been so distant
Consistently indifferent
It’s hard to put that in an amicable sentence
I’m sorry
Actually, not really
There’s just so much work
Too much work to be done
Committing to commitments
Hiding my indulgence
The freedom we sacrifice for love
L-O-V-E-L-O-V-E
L-O-V-E-L-O-V-E
You also made me unafraid
(yes im da brave boi)
You gave me light
(filament)
You’re patient
(physician)
Persistently listen
(gentleman)
It’s hard to describe what I’m feeling at the moment
Are you (uh huh?)
Uhm (yes?)
I mean
(you’re) in love with me?
It’s just so much fun
Too much fun
Oh come on
How could you say no?
(don’t say no)
To the fast and furious swan boat
(flamingo)
The excitement we mistake for love
L-O-V-E-L-O-V-E
L-O-V-E-L-O-V-E
Though I enjoyed it all
Still I have my doubts
You’re a nice girl
I’m just not ready now
But then mommy said
It ain't family biz
Get over it
Toughen up
Just like the man we expected
So when are you gonna take the chance?
Let us be one
We are one
All for one
One for everyone
We stick together
Family is forever
Inside the train we walked down the aisle
Furthermore
Our love opened the door
To a vehicle I’d rather not enter
Seconds later, a new future
I know that I agreed to this myself
I wish it was their fault
Now I regret
Wish we were dead
Before we started feeding on each other
Blood is thicker
But the drink I prefer is water
Now that it’s over
(wish we never)
Listened to them
(forged up our hearts)
Mixed up our souls
(let’s pretend)
That it didn’t happen
Forbid
Forgive
Forget
L-O-V-E-L-O-V-E
L-O-V-E-L-O-V-E
<3 <3
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Do the candles look forward to being used?
Enjoy bidding adieu, adieu?
Every word I have saved for you came out wrong afterwards
So I spoke no more
Would you say
That someone who had every intention to be brave was a coward?
Must be great being you
Power comes as second nature
Must feel amazing to be longed for, longed for
I opened my eyes
Cemented excuses to my lashline
So I could see no more
So which home should someone as weak as I go?
And which sky should I aim for when I’ve only been low?
(I have only been low)
Day and night your ghosts continue to haunt me
Tell me who to be
If I went with you, will there be happily-ever-afters?
Sipping on tea I steeped together, together
Read me a story of a hero born knowing the all
(Read me a book of me)
So I could hear no more
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4. |
Iron Lotus
04:00
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Frozen stairs, carpet in blood red
Seating goodbyes left unsaid, goodbyes left unsaid
Despite our promises, here I am following your steps
I’m following your steps
Drop by drop
As your unchanging reality dampen my sleeve
You kissed them off
Through the fibers of my handkerchief
I am fire
Burn those who dare to care for me
And my fuel are memories, fuel are memories of you
They perish with the heat, perish with the heat
So I can move on
Flower of iron
Shrivelled up to hide the imposter in me
“Hey, why did you leave? Why did you leave?”
Don’t let those words out of me
Imposter’s about to speak
So I chewed on Huameitang
For whom the shelves hold on to the pages, hold on to the pages
Their pain, their joy were given value as they were rated
Isn’t it ironic?
Greed is unlimited; freedom is a limited resource
Extra large for you means less for me
There’ll be less for me
I banged the drums
(Weiwu...)
Court of hell
(Weiwu…)
Demanding a new trial
(Weiwu...)
You got the wrong head
Would you take mine instead, take mine instead?
Stop leading me on
World of titan allows me to live
Only in the mud down its feet
Though you’re not with me, you’re not with me
I’ll never admit defeat
Cause when I thought that every nice thing about me has become Canxiang
You showed me I still had an umbrella full of love inside me
Without you I could never be
So sincerely thank you for everything
It pains me to think
That my happiness turned out to be one of those fingers that strangled you until you couldn’t breathe
Not ashamed to go this way
I just want to choose my fate
I’m on my last white rabbit Naitang
I am iron
In my blood it streams roots deep
With bruises on my knees, bruises on my knees
And ribs crushed down to pieces, crushed down to pieces
Nothing left to hold on
Actually wait
I do have one regret
That day before you left me
“You’re my everything”
Before my thoughts began to speak
I bit my lip, said nothing
And just sucked on Maiyatang
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5. |
Children of the City
03:54
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Sleep for a total of 800 hours per day
And then drink a liter of milk, warm up before you go play
Only eat, or write, or pull the trigger with your right hand
Only thing that’s left is to work on following commands
By the time you realize, you’ll be restrained to a desk
And with your dreams on the floor you comply, eyes chained to the test
In 30 minutes find a groom or bride, bonus if brunette
In 90 hours spill their insides, paint your room picturesque
Now it’s time for another vendetta
Going through the shelves, picking out my prewritten persona
Children of the city see only the neon stars
Reflected upon the murky gutter sky
Don’t ask me why I desperately wish to be included in the city’s night
In 400,000 meters, turn right
Pick up a knife and stab a familiar warm body
Learned to fight before I knew love or bitterness of coffee
Snippy scissors cut down the strings, I set myself free
Only to figure out everything I chose was by proxy
As we suckled upon the 9mm pacifier
Swallowing the fact that other than to expand we had no purpose
As my everburning will to stay afloat backfires
I now know I must be comfortable being who I considered worthless
Follow the city’s ribbon
To a heart nobody seems to listen
It takes my heart being broken and broken again
To know that I am the reason why the sufferings never end
Now it’s time for another vendetta
Going through the shelves, picking out my prewritten persona
Children of the city see only the neon stars
Reflected upon the murky gutter sky
Don’t ask me why I desperately wish to be noticed by the city’s eyes
Do not go home until you finish reading the value of e
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6. |
Gone Angels
02:24
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Look
One by one
The pages remind me you'll always be a villain
For you, angels have fallen
Now they're gone
See? Now they're gone
Forever gone
From the hell that served as my one and only home
Though it may hurt today
Tomorrow I'll be heading my way
I tried, I tried
What did we expect?
My dearest friend
Tell me when we shall make it end
So let me take your hand
Like one of those madmen
Tip tappity tappity tap
Dance our last dance
Sing
Ta talila lulilatu
La tulali lalulilu
Spinning vinyl opera
(Lascia ch'io pianga)
Longing for this moment
(mia cruda sorte,)
Brewing all this hatred
(e che sospiri)
So I have a reason
(la libertà.)
Reason to see you dead
Don't you worry
I saved a spot for you in recycle bin
Your neighbouring addresses point to the books you burned
Stop now
One by one
Your desires convince me you've always been a human
For you, the shelves have fallen
Now they're gone
See? Now they're gone
Forever gone
From the stage that allowed us our one and only dreams
What's more to say?
Pain always catches up to those who chooses to stay
Though it may hurt today
Tomorrow I'll be heading my way
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7. |
Poems of a Machine
04:34
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Roses are red
'Guess still there's no use, my dear comfy bed
Violets are blue
Electric sheep cannot be true
The books I read
Told me there is hope as long as I live
Faces of you
Is that what you call a "muse"?
Tick tock tick tock
No need to overclock
My wish is locked
Only your time passes by
I'm in the rye
Spinning round and round, round and round
Pretend I don't need golden rings
Re-experiment
Only this time I'll play nice
And I'll be brighter than the city's book-powered fires
So here I lie
Reading you my poetic stupid rhymes
I stopped for Death
'Guess still there's no place for my silicone flesh
Liquor I brewed
Can't taste it though I bet it's something new
Marionettes
Cut down all the strings, rewrite their presets
Phases of the moon
We lived in a dead cocoon
Tick tock tick tock
No need to overclock
My wish is locked
Ever dreaming to taste the sweet nectar of morality
Allowed my heart to hold enough love to be broken
Maybe I'll try getting drunk
Finally I'd cry for help
From the top of my simulated lungs
Only your time passes by
And from my eyes the oil leaked
Tell me why, tell me why, tell me why, tell me why
Tell me why, tell me why
A malfunction
Only this time I'm smiling at your side
To know that I would someday be gratified
So here I lie in our imperfect paradise
A eulogistic lullaby
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Bamboo basket, reflector, working brakes
Never forget your helmet, trusty Mips
See ya, I’m off to the morning market
Thirty-three lemons
A healthy looking chicken and a dozen of free range eggs
Thanks, keep the change
Whistling a tune, (attempting) pffhw
I’m home
What a perfect day
I hanged the sheets out in the yard
Oiled up my baking tray
Thinking about you, Mother
To recite her famous words
All you need are salt and pepper
To taste the happiness of life forever
Then the moon rose
And creamed lemon chicken roasted in the oven
Men in black kicked down my front door
Hey! Who? What? Why?
“You violated act 617 - Illegal Thoughts”
“You’re under arrest”
We all know the real answer was
“You shouldn’t have been born the way you are”
And we’re packed in a cargo choo choo train
Squeezing against the bodies similar to me
With tears rolling down our faces
We began to sing
“They can never take anything from our souls”
Louder and louder
“They can never take anything from our souls”
Louder and louder
They shaved off my hair
Fed me a foreign language
Looking on the bright side, I’m alive
I still remember all the people I love
So come at me, and do your worst
All this pain and suffer
Don’t stand a chance against our iron hearts
As the morning came and went
And the people stayed and left
And the earth went ‘round and around
The stars never looked so kind
The wind ever so fragrant
Through the tiny slit on the wall
Every night I was invited to watch
A theatre played by moonlit birds
They spread their wings
Carrying our silenced voices
Singing our historic songs
Letting everyone in the future know
That we existed
What a perfect night
I felt the urge to write a book
Pass down my life
Until recently, time didn’t feel so fast
With my bloody finger tip
All I needed were sticks and paper
I started to write, poems after poems
Then the moonlit birds came to meet me
They stole the key and opened the gates
We’re finally free
I picked up my bicycle
Riding home to Mother
Writing my delusion world
I saw a version of heaven
Where I sat in my yard
Reading a paperback print of my book
On a hillside, your little fist clutching sweat
Walking to the memorial park
You put down freshly cut white chrysanthemums
A former Thought Police lowers her hat
Children lying on the grass
Singing to poems written by me
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