MCE

from Castle Island by Free City Collective

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I’m a martyr without a sacrifice to be made
just to plant another helpless hand
in a hopeless time
pull me off of the freeway
start it over again
coax me back to bed
where I can lay my head at ease
coming down on a dusty road
with the world outside in a verdant glow
bivouacs of fractal-patterns
home to a time and a place
when it wasn’t a race
to be caught in the web
of the soft parade
I could almost taste my sense of time
I don’t want to be here
anymore than I wanna fit in
but I’ll be what you want
and I’ll say what I need
to get on with the grind
what an apocalypse of the world
around, and within
lay me down to sleep
maybe in time
you’ll finally see it all work out
how it always would
and not the way
you thought it does
and you’ll lose it again
half of anywhere I’ve been
I don’t recall
am I a modeling idiot?
am I off of the cause?
all I know
is all I know is wrong
the moment’s gone
I can burn out on my own
to be honest
if we’re being honest
well, what’s really honest
if I’m terrified to be seen
in another way
that’s not the light?
pull it apart
and try to make it all work out
but it doesn’t come
playing a part to say you’ve won
and, if you try
you may conceive it all worthwhile
take a lauded bow
and mark your name in style
shake off the veil
shallow faith will lead you blind
and I will always remember
what I want to regret
you’re an impossible staircase
you’re an impossible lie
relativity
it all remains to me
whatever way you want
is what you need

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from Castle Island, released March 16, 2014

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Free City Collective Vancouver, British Columbia

Free City Collective
2006-2012

Free City Collective was an altternative pop-rock band that released a collection of demos and three EP's from 2006-2014.

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