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Written in blood

by San Zhi

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1.
It's not written in blood, there's no time to make amends, if our eyes met you couldn't justify the pain When cloths cut its cut pure, with our minds and nothing more, Breaking blood chains just leaves you seeking out a cause.  I only came alive through you I only came alive through you I only came alive through you I only came alive Its not written in blood, there’s been time but there wasn’t a change And our eyes would meet to justify the pain There’s no scar, there wasn't a cut, there's no need to clean it up, but if our paths met you would it validate your loss?  I only came alive through you I only came alive through you I only came alive through you I only came alive
2.
BLOODLINES 04:19
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4.
GIVE IT UP 03:31
5.
ICE LIGHT 04:16
Walking in time with sun glazed dreams
No forks in our thoughts and symmetry gleams
I'll hold this thought for when I've reached the morgue

Eyes fixed down on a concrete path
Hairline cracks and they force you apart
Harmonies spilt into streams that flow in to drought.

And your pulse starts weakening and there's dread in her eyes
And the pins in your arms that keep you alive

Get out, get out, get out
See the ice light shining and the sky's not falling
Stay out, stay out, stay out
There's no triumph in glaciers here

Chests were ablaze, now hollow con-caved
Charcoal not gold flows through our veins
Lets find some air, before we reach the morgue

Magnetically hitched, but magnets can flip
Forces can turn, and wounds come unstitched
I'll wake up one day and realise we kissed with burnt lips

When you glance behind eyes as dead as the skies
Lose sight of the harbour, frailty thrives
 Chorus Cold flat, shadowless ice light
I was fluorescent

Ice light shining and the sky’s not falling Chorus
6.
NEGOTIATES 04:27
Our two paths,  were closely intertwined, but  they tangled and choked us destroyed our insides.  There was a way to unwind all that chaos, without cutting chords deeper and scaring our make-up.  Aching stomachs, hollowed insides, pits of dread replaced hope and pure times.   Aching stomachs and hollowed insides I'd wait in silence if you were worth the fight Physically  Warning to  Run further from you But I'll negotiate,  what you've left in my head, remember a Beauty that stemmed all my dread  But I'll negotiate, why you went with your head, believe all your reasons to find another bed.  To pull out a heart that you once kept alive, then hand it back in pieces and blackened inside Is a cold response for any twisted mess, when someone you fought for retaliates, with stakes deep in your chest.     But I'll negotiate, hear the bruised beat of your chest, remember how your beauty to drip onto Our bed.  But I'll negotiate, why I  burnt my lips in his bed, remember all the cracks you left in my head.  AIt's easy  mto follow others as they lead you away from our mess, but what we had was for life and they'll find their own nest.  I'm not saying these scars can heal over night, my own ones are raw and dense from this plight.  But I'm not one to give up on a partner for life, I'll carry on my own fight and hope we align.  Please negotiate and realign with why we built our own path, please remember how we took on this world with shields of laughs.  Please negotiate and don't inject your heart, with hits of bitterness as we're drive apart.  I'll wait for you in silence.. but you're worth the fight.    Aching stomachs and hollowed insides I'd wait in silence if you were worth the fight
7.
Static Hearts You're waiting, for that thing That spokes your wheels and makes you grin Pulls you out of this dull lit place Gives you fight gives you sparks gives you face Wanting to go to somewhere you don't know Where you never come down, never watching people grow Burying your worries, culling lovers on your way Close your eyes, starting over everyday Cos when sparks start flying in the lightening Where everything you can touch seems more exciting Your static heart beats the surface is the light  Your cold blood warms and this city feels right Holding on until that glow Draws you in and stems the flow The flow of envy running warm in your veins Of happy people loving normal things Touching nerves to feel awake  Shifting the ground with every step you take Thoughts alive, through trouble you wade Waking up in the bed you made Cos when sparks start flying in the lightening Where everything you can touch seems more exciting Your static heart beats the surface is the light Your cold blood warms and this city feels right
8.
REPEATS 04:31
Swear this all forgotten, but when id heard you'd rotten
Into other arms I can't forget
Glacier gleamed then melted, bright feathers bloomed then wilted
Glittered corpse left floating in the lake

The broken golden smile, Chisled with denial
Cracked with one glance of solid bliss
It could easily be read, that you only grow up when your dead
Learn more when there's nothing to be said

It repeats and repeats on cogs turn in her sleep
Now her body is a mess to the good times she can't keep.

Thought you would remember all the times we tried to render
Other arms that held us in the night
The waves evaporated, meadows flamed then weak ash grated
Flickered shards of wood, burning in the wake

Her beauty is diluted, this piercing noise is muted
Oil seeps and tender landscapes blaze
Bursts of spring sweet air drawn thin, future looking down and grim
Cut deep with a bitter almond sting
9.
DREAM BEINGS 04:01
Keep your dreams close, recorded beneath your rib cage, it's where they tick and where we banish cynics baron haze, walk the line colour in your endless days, we won't be the ones yeah, we won't be the ones that fade away Chasing dreams, it's a nightmare in this mental state, but the heat of blood, it keeps us breathing until we awake.. Until they happen, Fight the fear within you every day.  we can't be the ones yeah, we can't be the ones that fade away  Take these chambers Carry them beyond the sun Build these layers  Get higher than everyone Take these chambers Carry them beyond the sun We survive the world together as we evolve,  we dissolve away as one Collapse our our clouded minds Our minds that sit On crashing stars, in our endless days, we can't be the ones yeah, we can't be the ones that fade away  There a place where our dream beings can co exist Be soaked up by people Who love back without a twist This curse can shatter In this city, in this maze If you can find the pattern yeh We won't be the ones that fade away
10.
Without the shame, no you don't, feel love Savour your name, its bitter taste, swallow, and I choke Brushing it off wanting more your best friends don't know who you are CHORUS: Breaking these hearts is waking me up Living without you tastes like blood Craving new starts is cutting me up But I can't sleep alone, we need to breathe alone I can't feel love And our love is at cost in the bold light where your mind is a corpse in the cold night Our bodies get lost in a blind sight I'm giving up nothing We could have something but at what cost CHORUS Why am I, Why am I, Why am I Telling you nothing, Still holding on to the love you give Why do I, Why do I Feel numb
11.
BLACK HOLES 03:38
Heavy skies of fear and dread A place in my memories, a place in my head No hand to guide me into the clear Just a lost twisted love, is keeping me here The cold’s a comfort that will keep you awake Awake living hopelessly by timeless mistakes Who will you love, who will you love in a world so cold Who will you love, with a lost, twisted soul Chorus: Blackholes, no god there waiting for you at the end Friends say time’s a healer, and I’m willing to pretend That Blackholes are fiction and space will find a way Cos’ all you live and die for, is all I really need to make me stay It’s a gateway in the sky you’re waiting to pass It will suck you up with the fear of the past What’s there, is torture but you take it To leave this behind Heavy is the weight tied, tight around your neck As heavy as the skies, you look to, to forget Break the weight of the lock, and let the clouds part Will a new dawn start Chorus
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released June 1, 2020

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