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i.am.masquerader
02:13
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I'm a Masquerader
Acting up s'if I'm on some shit
Procrastinator
Waking up nothing more I slip
There's no swaying me, no way to sleep
The dreams that I'm missing
I'm rib-caged
Lungs can't breathe out
I'm vein-chained
Tied to my skin
Wannabe creator
Time approaching danger
Gotta be quick on the draw one more tick and the floor will give way
A thin ice that I break
My mistake double take, I'm opaque in the wake of a great plague
Too late to wait, no momentary hesitate
I see the fall, I see the grace but I'm
I'm rib-caged
Lungs can't breathe out
I'm vein-chained
Tied to my skin
I'm in a stationary state, this masquerade
It makes me weary sets my mind rotate
Into a white tomb, a bathroom
Marble slate, a statue showing cracks soon
That shield ain't shit, not gonna save you
These days a reflection gonna stay true
As i catch a glimpse of mine
The white lies turn to black flies that swarm my mind
To hide from the hot fires in cold eyes
Despite the light that I always used to find in this
In this, in this
Fuck I never called for this, I falled for this
Like tons of bricks I hit and break my swollen fists against
This mask this counterfeit I've stitched
To my face I've never once been shown it
Hey hey
Hey hey
Hey hey, hey hey, hey hey
Hey hey
Hey hey, hey hey, hey hey, hey hey, hey hey
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These keys, they fit different doors
A piano or board I hit the spacebar paused
Lord please, know this is flooring me
Knowing this seemingly, believably, completely fucked feelin
Every cord cut now, thought brought to the table chucked out
Incredible sought, guess what, not found
All that I want feels less than I got
Just pressin' on pressure pressure
Pressure pressure pressure pressure
Pressure pressure pressure pressure
Pressure pressure pressure pressure
Pressure pressure pressure pressure
Pressure pressure pressure pressure
Stress against the mind
Gonna test ya, heart or the feather
This is a measure that you cannot hide, pressure
Pressure pressure pressure pressure
Says you waste your time
Am I the lesser, one or the better of
All of the rest because gotta decide
Pressure I'm four men on horses, pressure I'm immovable forces
Pressure got me thinkin 'bout
Pressure I'm a wave of doubt, pressure I'm a silent crowd
Pressure got me pickin' out
The way forward, what's important?
Fight for the lock, better fight for the lock
Cause you know, you've only got one shot
Only got one shot so fight for the lock here we go
You've gotta fight for the lock, you've gotta fight for the lock
You've gotta fight for the lock, you've gotta fight for the lock
You've gotta fight for the, fight for the lock
Pressure
Pressure
Pressure pressure pressure pressure
Stress against the mind
Gonna test ya, heart or the feather
This is a measure that you cannot hide, pressure
Pressure pressure pressure pressure
Says you waste your time
Am I the lesser, one or the better of
All of the rest because gotta decide
This a holy trinity uncertainty we face it off
Religion preached a stake or cross for every single demon falling
Underneath us us us
Falling underneath us us us us
This a holy trinity uncertainty we face it off
Religion preached a stake or cross for every single demon falling
Underneath us us us
Falling underneath us us us us
Pressure pressure pressure pressure
Stress against the mind
Gonna test ya, heart or the feather
This is a measure that you cannot hide, pressure
Pressure pressure pressure pressure
Says you waste your time
Am I the lesser, one or the better of
All of the rest because
Pressure pressure pressure
Pressure pressure pressure
This a holy trinity
Uncertainty we face it off
This a holy trinity
This a holy trinity uncertainty
This a holy trinity uncertainty we face it off
This a holy trinity
This a holy trinity uncertainty
This a holy trinity uncertainty we face it off
We face it off
Face it off
Face it off
Face it off
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Paper Thin
06:35
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And i’m knockin out whoever fuckin comes my way man...
My mind is fuckin blank, my mind is fuckin blank man, it’s fuckin blank man! Bring it on!
My mind is fuckin blank man…
I just wanna knock out everybody man, I wanna knock out everybody, every motherfucker that steps my motherfuckin way!
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Blank mind from the light spars
With the wins too sparse these
Tattered wings they catch glass shards
Pulled loose through the parked car's windshield
I'm awake but it don't feel real
Motherfucker
Still about to clip through
Another song and
I'm feeling oh so sick now
I'm feeling oh so sick
I'm feeling oh so sick now
I'm feeling oh so sick now
I'm feeling oh so sick now
I'm feeling oh so sick
Paper thin
Bag of bones
All within
Guess you know
Void of sin
Head to toe
My feet swing
This tightrope
Paper thin
Bag of bones
All within
Guess you know
Void of sin
Head to toe
My feet swing
This tightrope
Liquify this day form a puddle
Raindrop in time ocean flood till
They say this wave it ain't much
I crumble 'neath the weight crush
It still the crux in my 88
Flux across space incinerate
Junction struck through my head my fate
Is stuck I can't alleviate
Deviation creation frustration
Wasting my patience
The steps I'm taking
The stakes are raising
No breaks now
Doesn't matter what you say
They're still killing our neighbours off
First time I see a guy like me shoved
And it's for speaking up
You ever seen hate getting hit with tear gas?
I'm thinking not
Too little too late
Too little too late
And every way I stand it holds weight
I'm tryna shake it
Your parents, brother, sister, your mate
The smiles I'm faking
No escalating
Downhill sprint, paper thin
Boots break-in
Waste the colour of my skin
Or be anti-racist
Paper thin
Bag of bones
All within
Guess you know
Void of sin
Head to toe
My feet swing
This tightrope
Paper thin
Bag of bones
All within
Guess you know
Void of sin
Head to toe
My feet swing
This tightrope
You liquify this day form a puddle
You liquify this day form a puddle
You liquify this day form a puddle
You liquify this day form a puddle
You liquify this day form a puddle
You liquify this day form a puddle
You liquify this day form a puddle
You liquify this day form a puddle
Paper thin
Bag of bones
All within
I guess you know
I guess you know
Paper thin
Bag of bones
I guess you know
I guess you know
I guess you know
I guess you know
I guess you know
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Heirloom
02:02
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Drown in sweet sickly glaze, glisten yellow
Bones frozen solid, molded skin
Hard and sticky paralyzed in, swallow thick
Viscous crystalline mess left behind
Suckle at teaspoon edges, syrup trickling down
Waking up to 70 grams piled in
Heirloom hangs overhead, lives mixed with sugar
Hourglass spills out, now soak in it
Now soak in it
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Mellify
05:32
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Pushing against the sway
Cross section of a snake
Jaw chewing face away
Caught you in eager frame
Still life attained remain
The same way or be late
Addicted to today
Repeat repeat repeat
Pushing against the sway
(Pushing against the sway)
Cross section of a snake
(Cross section of a snake)
Jaw chewing face away
(Jaw chewing face away)
Caught you in eager frame
Repeat repeat repeat
Pushing against the sway
Cross section of a snake
Jaw chewing face away
Caught you in eager frame
Still life attained remain
The same always be late
Addicted to today
Repeat repeat repeat
Repeat today repeat today
Holding up my arm you drop blood loose through my veins
My pulse is dissonant, don't feel for it you'd have to strain
Send corpse ascending on the train
Destination go there 'rive nowhere but my casket
Alive but air deprived my bones frozen I'm an object
Situation bonded, blood with a burst through the earth responded:
I'm not buried yet, not buried yet
Not buried yet, not buried
Not buried yet, not buried
Yet
Mellify this
Life I've wasted away
Always astray
Always
Pushing against the sway
Cross section of a snake
Jaw chewing face away
Caught you in eager frame
Still life attained remain
The same always be late
Addicted to today
Repeat repeat repeat
Repeat today, repeat today
Everything is different they say, but nothing's changed
It's all the same, every day it's all the same
Nothing will change, nothing will change
People my age gettin tired
People my age are just weak
People my age get inspired
People my age get encouraged to speak
Day after day to get hired
Day after day of the week
Not even free
Heirloom hangs overhead
The broken bones now mine to mend?
Never forget, never forget to pay
Your rent
Mellify this
Life I've wasted away
Always astray
Always
Always
Always
Astray
Astray
Astray
Holding up my arms you drop blood loose through my veins
My pulse is dissonant, don't feel for it 'cause you'd have to strain
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Masquerader Reading, UK
Based out of Reading, UK - Masquerader are a math-punk band born of the gentrifier nightmare / cultural wasteland of the
London commuter belt, filtering the rhythmic dissent of math rock through a ferocious post-hardcore lens.
Skipping lead guitars, the band embrace their three-piece dynamic, forefronting angular electronics, incisive bass guitar, complex drumwork and breakneck vocal delivery.
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