1. |
Fly from the Nest
04:49
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“Fly From the Nest”
Mother, father, son, and daughter
Sweet dysfunction, cannon fodder
Day and night, keep up the fight
Think to myself – this can’t be right
It’s up to me
I must be free
Going to be my way
Cunning teachers, pious preachers
Many answers – each one differs
Insensitive, I can’t forgive
Each think they know how I should live
No time to rest
Put to the test
Fly from the nest today
Sweet canary wants to marry
Give up your dreams while hers you carry
So you whisper that you’ll miss her
Can’t settle now – the world calls hither
It’s up to me
I must be free
Going to be my way
No time to rest
Put to the test
Fly from the nest today
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2. |
Wanderlust
09:34
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“Wanderlust”
I step out the door and feel the heat
Burning from the morning sun
Now I have to learn to keep my feet
Before I break into a run
I can’t deny
I have to try to shake the dust
I have the will
I must fulfill my wanderlust
I may come upon a crossroad bare
And find seduction in my path
She’ll offer fortunes for a price unfair
Balanced in the aftermath
I can’t deny
I have to try to shake the dust
I have the will
I must fulfill my wanderlust
I’ll stand in direct defiance of
The hand that may be dealt to me
I’ll stay true to all the things I love
To maintain my integrity
What do I see?
Society is so unjust
I feel deceived
I can’t relieve my wanderlust
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3. |
Signed and Sealed
05:36
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“Signed and Sealed”
A perfect day with doubled reason
On the precipice of fate
In worlds of cash exchange some stories
Get out, make the grade - too late
The only way to be is hollow
Earn your smile dime by dime
Without compassion, rhyme, or reason
Lost within the hands of time
Signed, sealed, and delivered
Your fate is in your hands
Soon you start to shiver
And they won’t understand
Reality of business leisure
No room for the love of words
If we could yet return to beauty
Love of art on wings of birds
Without, within, or just adjacent
Always feel outside of life
Synecdoche between my fingers
Hand exchanging pen for knife
Signed, sealed, and delivered
Your fate is in your hands
Soon you start to shiver
And they won’t understand
To write or paint a song of passion
It will never pay the rent
Too happy starving - fast for spirit!
Page to page will soon repent
Still at a loss to find the answer
Can’t exist to sign my name
If never losing love for language
Fight the current without shame
Signed, sealed, and delivered
Your fate is in your hands
Soon you start to shiver
And they won’t understand
Signed, sealed, and delivered
It’s time to make a choice
Feel your anger quiver
You’ll have to raise your voice
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4. |
Loss for Words
05:03
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“Loss for Words”
Minstrel wandering
Path he’s pondering
Time he’s squandering
Damn the fates
No tune playing
Price he’s paying
Heart decaying
Still he waits
His muse it seems
Won’t cease her screams
She simply must be heard
Try as he might
He still can’t write
He’s at a loss for words
Bright-eyed novelist
Strong protagonist
Unexpected twist
Still it lacks
Heart of stone un-bled
All her thoughts have fled
Stops her writing dead
In its tracks
Her muse it seems
Won’t cease her screams
She simply must be heard
Try as she might
She still can’t write
She’s at a loss for words
Hear the ticking clock
Break your mental lock
End your writer’s block
Have to try
Can’t get page to fill
Simply lost the thrill
Inspiration kill
Want to cry
Your muse it seems
Won’t cease her screams
She simply must be heard
Try as you might
You still can’t write
You’re at a loss for words
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5. |
If I Cared Less
05:12
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“If I Cared Less”
I can’t seem to find the words
To carve under my name
As I brave the star-eyed herds
All migrating for fame
Half a mind with less in heart
I scribble on the page
All eroded falls apart
Not born yet tinged by age
Feeling like old Bartleby
I’d simply prefer not
Still not coming easily
Lost patience on the spot
Standing stiff with hand to gland
Send futures down the drain
Who knew life could be so bland
Would sooner suffer pain
At a loss with blood run dry
I’m crawling in the dark
A single tear falls with a cry
But that won’t leave a mark
Bygone friends all moving on
A child, a wife, a life
Soon they will be surly gone
In cool domestic strife
Tenderly I grasp my pen
A lover all its own
What my children might have been
Their seed spilled but not sewn
Wondering where I should stand
I look upon the Styx
If I cared a little less
That might just be the fix
Whisper nothings in my veins
Held candles to my heart
Pinpricked point won’t be the end
Perhaps a quiet start
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6. |
In the Dark
09:35
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“In the Dark”
I feel the sleet
Human retreat
Outside the line
Caught in the brine
Lost in disguise
My empty lies
Leave me in the dark
All out of time
A lonely crime
Cold in repose
Glad no one knows
Lost in disguise
My empty lies
Leave me in the dark
Don’t care to change
I’m out of range
Shorten my breath
Mirror of death
Lost in disguise
My empty lies
Leave me in the dark
After a while
No need to smile
Taken alive
To this I strive
Lost in disguise
My empty lies
Leave me in the dark
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7. |
Necrosis
06:11
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“Necrosis”
A world of need is the death of dreams
He’ll never grow up to be what he seems
Nine to five at a dead end job
‘Til his last breath does a paycheck rob
His friends all well off or happily married
Their dreams being simple were easily carried
The artist will starve, his love will wither
He’ll never moves forward, only hither and thither
He’ll never grow up, he’ll never grow old
He thinks a rolling stone grows no mold
His head is hot but his heart is cold
And it won’t be true if his soul is sold
He trudges on but he just can’t see
Machines got him, now he can’t get free
Walking death and you know his plea
End the necrosis of society!
A fettered mind in black recesses
A shallow end won’t reach the presses
His broken dreams get no osmosis
His captive soul will face necrosis
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8. |
Accidental Assonance
03:30
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"Accidental Assonance"
*instrumental
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9. |
By Chance
03:38
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“By Chance”
Where the blossoms bloom
From rotting flesh
In the light of something fresh
With the foreground blurred
By winter storm
Something better fit to warm
Chance taken
Can’t surrender
Awaken
Hidden splendor
New roads are cut in the hardened ground
We weren’t meant to get around
In the summer rain
We still see light
Fireflies in meadows bright
Never feel at ease
You tell these lies
But their truth may soon surprise
Chance taken
Can’t surrender
Awaken
Hidden splendor
New roads are cut in the hardened ground
We weren’t meant to get around
As we venture out
Our paths upturned
Find the pit where passion burned
Where you come to stand
To set the bar
Will reflect just who you are
Chance taken
Can’t surrender
Awaken
Hidden splendor
New roads are cut in the hardened ground
We weren’t meant to get a…
Chance taken
Can’t surrender
Awaken
Hidden splendor
New roads are cut in the hardened ground
We weren’t meant to get around
We weren’t meant to get around
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10. |
Tone is Set
05:14
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“Tone is Set”
A touch of charm set to disarm
But do tread carefully
The right handshake can make or break
A friend or enemy
Your tongue all tied behind
The faults nobody tells
You’ll simply have to hope
Your first impression sells
So take the plunge
And don’t you doubt
The tone is set
From here on out
A pretty lass you met in class
You got the guts one day
You try to flirt but red alert
You find nothing to say
An opportunity that you
Have missed you can’t regain
So don’t you crucify yourself
You see you must refrain
You have to lunge
To win the bout
No need to fret
Just choose a route
So take the plunge
And don’t you doubt
The tone is set
From here on out
Button down, head into town
For your big interview
Need this job, can’t be a slob
You’ve really thought this through
Sitting in the office
See a stain upon your tie
And you are so embarrassed
That you think you may well die
You have to lunge
To win the bout
No need to fret
Just choose a route
So take the plunge
And don’t you doubt
The tone is set
From here on out
Don’t over-criticize
You beat yourself up so
Over things about you
That no one could ever know
The tiny imperfections
That are so hard to detect
That you are only human
Is all that they could reflect
A touch of charm set to disarm
But do tread carefully
The right handshake can make or break
A friend or enemy
Your tongue all tied behind
The faults nobody tells
You’ll simply have to hope
Your first impression sells
You have to lunge
To win the bout
No need to fret
Just choose a route
So take the plunge
And don’t you doubt
The tone is set
From here on out
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Amalgam Effect Denver, Colorado
Amalgam Effect is a band in celebration of unification and amalgamation. Their genre is progressive rock at its core, but the emphasis falls on the progress of music and art for the future.
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