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Daydream Scenes
03:33
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Imagine waking to the infinite news
Shocked and shattered like the prizefighters blues
Blindly around for the clues
No answers forthcoming
Imagine graveyards filled with the souls
Falling short of the biblical goals
Lifetimes lived under backwards controls
No savior is coming
Chorus:
Daydream scenes
Powered by mind machines
All of our thoughts betrayed
By childish games we've played
Imagine breaking through the chains of denial
Looking past those with a false prophet smile
Bear the burden of existence so vile
No sweetness will follow
Imagine staring at the naked despair
At all the nonsense that's polluting the air
Past the point of even trying to care
All answers ring hollow
Bridge:
Beaten by belief of
No relief from
A mind at peace with
No release
Repeat chorus x 2
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No Restraint
03:27
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The people that you use
The systems you abuse
Your reasons lacking rhyme
Now you're wasting time
Everyone's a pawn
They're good until they're gone
But when the screws are turned
Your perfect image is burned
Chorus:
Come around, come around
No restraint though nothing's found
Come around, come around
Your ship of lies has run aground
Anger, hate and misery
Define your made-up history
Whatever mental state you live
I'm still out of fucks to give
You think you pull the strings
Til adversaries sing
The secrets I could tell
Would send you back to hell
Repeat chorus
Bridge:
Gaps in your thought lines
Driven to despair
Running over the landmines
Laughing, without a care
Repeat chorus
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Communication
03:48
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Communication isn't flowing
Ideas stopped from growing
Blocked from thinking clear
Stuck in neutral gear
We can sit and spin
Or turn this "L" into a win
Changing what you've learned
Won't leave these bridges burned
Back and forth will all the words left unsaid
And all these thoughts now pulsing in my head
Chorus:
Shot down, nothing to say
Worlds apart not getting closer anyway
Leave me behind I'm through with trying
Watch my shadow shrink in the sun that's dying
Heaving threats honed just like sharpened spears
Puncture walls I've built up over the years
Knock my ego down, leave it there to drown
Let it soak the ground, never to be found
Back and forth with all the words that you said
And all the doubts still ringing in my head
Repeat chorus
Back and forth will all the words left unsaid
And all these thoughts now pulsing in my head
In my head
Repeat chorus
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Malachite Riot St. Louis, Missouri
Getting back to writing/recording after 20 years off. Workin' solo until I can find a band - just me and Garageband. Very excited to get back into the swing of things.
Malachite Riot recommends:
Agitprop Alterna
by Peel Dream Magazine
Shoegaze-y, electronic-y, very ethereal and beautiful
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Joe Pernice can do no wrong.
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the bloodline e.p.
by William McCarthy
William McCarthy is formerly of the band Augustines. This EP shows why he remains one of the best singer/songwriters out there. Impassioned vocals over gorgeous Americana vibes.
go to albumIf you like Malachite Riot, you may also like:
I Wish You Could See Yourself Right Now
by Gentle Organisms
The aptly named Gentle Organisms specialize in quietly radiant songs centered on tender melodies.
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Death is Nothing to Us
by Fiddlehead
Boston band featuring members of Have Heart and Basement take their earnest, motivational post-hardcore to thrilling new heights.
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Aussie "mid-fi" band temper jagged, jangling power chords with slackened tempos, hitting the sweet spot between toughness and tenderness.
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