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FALLMAWKS

by Pidgin

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1.
Albatross (Across your Axis) 03:41
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Take a look at yourself tell me what you can see Is it the eyes of a bird resting innocently? Weighing down on your chest a feeling you can't suppress living with an unwelcome guest. You try to get away but the pain's here to stay... Day after day The albatross across your axis will always be there after all The albatross across your axis will be there after all Why must you carry this weight? you plead towards the sky The wind is all that responds 'answers aren't so black and white' Some kind of punishment feels so immediate yet an eternal torture you deal with 'Can anyone else here see what this is doing to me?' You call to a lonely sea The albatross across your axis will always be there after all The albatross across your axis will be there after all -- You dock your ship at your hometown tired after your long trek Family, friends you look around and see birds wrapped 'round their necks! The albatross across your axis will always be there after all The albatross across your axis will be there after Always be there Be there after all!
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Skipping into Autumn 01:27
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Who knew that passing could look so beautiful? Tree leaves bleed out red crumple and fall I stomp them out with my red galoshes when I go skipping into autumn just myself and I -- The day is ending It looks so beautiful The sky bleeds out red as daylight falls I make my way home Can't wait till I can go back out skipping into autumn at some other time!
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If You Ever Come Around (Don't Make a Sound) 02:11
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If you ever come around don't make a sound cause if you make a sound then you risk being found And I can't protect you then from whatever you had said and I'll wish you hadn't said what you said… way back when… If they ever hear you speak they'll call you a freak and then they'll point and laugh and I can’t be seen with that So I… Will take their cue I’ll point… The finger at you It’s true you see cause if I wear their shoes then I’m never gonna lose cause I won’t be the one they’ll wanna make fun of But you say my stance is fake that my loyalty’s at stake since I won’t put myself at stake Well then go… If that’s what it takes Oooooo-ooo-ooooh Now there’s no one left ‘cept the ones who act exempt from the values we hold close I’ve been tied up to the post When you make your mindset seen when you’re resisting the scene Don’t give up solidarity Fight as one Or fall… like me…
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Bursting the Wall 01:37
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A friend came up to me and said he’s trudging like a train without a track I said ‘a simple simile can solve the suffering that ails your mind today’ We made a pact we must enact the revolution starts today! Everyone was pushing pins and pressing painful grins against their gilded golden grails to no avail Left behind: the basic signs of life this class had lost to leave a legacy of quarters and dimes We could care less about arrest we’d rather have some time to rest! — That was the day I stood amazed System decayed They sweetened their deal They lost to their zeal We pushed back their heels They don’t know how to feel But we know how to feel Yes smokestacks can fall and silver gears can stall cause we burst the wall! They might have the gall But we’ve got us all!
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My Highway 03:49
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I was walkin’ by myself down a lonely highway I saw the boss sitting there she asked “you gonna come down my way?” I said depending on what’s down this street I’m balancing this task to treat myself to a calm life ahead but what if all I find instead is desert and desert and just some city lights that shine on the horizon? Well there’s a cactus full of water but what if the water’s bitter? and the night keeps coming after me but I know I can’t quit or else I’ll fall off the map and be forgotten for all of time The boss shook her head and looked dead at me right into my eyes She said… ‘It’ll never be your way, it’s my highway’ Doesn’t matter what the world thinks of you, they don’t care anyway But you’re useful to me so I’ll pay you and you repay me with a job well done And so I walked with the boss down the crowded cold highway… I was tied to a raft and I was floating down a river and the boss said that she’d row if she had oars that I could give her But with my hands bounded in ropes and with the rapids coming closer there was nothing I could do but watch the death of all my hopes and so her swearing was drowned out by the waves of the stream and my mind Then we crashed up on the shore without a creak but with a paddle as she hit me with her saying I had sabotaged her efforts “it’s my fault that I’m a shame, I hated her since the beginning” The boss had given me so much and now her patience thinning She says… ‘It’ll never be your way, it’s my highway’ Doesn’t matter what the world thinks of you, they don’t care anyway You were useful to me so I paid you and you gave me nothing not even respect And I was left in the sand with my arms tied in bands… I left my satisfaction for debt I left my satisfaction for debt I left my satisfaction for debt and the skulls in the dirt are all that’s exempt And I don’t wanna be And I don’t wanna be And I don’t wanna be one of them! — The stars caught me staring and they gave me a message A beam of light that lingered in my mind The world is bigger than just one person And a person's bigger than the words that hurt them Don't think... That it'll never be your way, that it's their highway Doesn't matter what the world thinks of you, don't you care what they say You're useful by being yourself so be yourself Be the best you can be. And so I freed myself The night; she set me free
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Autumn December 01:12
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It’s my autumn December the time you can’t quite remember It’s my autumn December my autumn December When the wind, it howls and the monsters growl Can’t stop raining down Everyone’s laughing out loud Upside smiles are frowns Goosebumps biting down Stuck with your family now Outside’s cold and ugly… Beauty
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Marching up the Mountain 04:04
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There once lived a man Just a man, normal man Who was plain and as average as they come But this man had a plan Yes a plan, master plan From the tree he’d fall so far and be the plum In the town, little town Man would educate the crowds Telling people of his tales of childhood strife But then word got around In this town, they found out That the stories that he told weren’t of his life And they were marchin’ up the mountain going One by one And they were marchin’ up the mountain going Two by two And they were marchin’ up the mountain going Three by three To cast off the man and throw him to the stream Before man hatched his plan In the town that he found He’d go round askin’ people of their youth He had learned that the circumstances around his birth Were more fortunate that he used to assume But even through thick and thin All the trouble and hardship Gave the people of this village a unique bond And the man envied them Wishing he could touch a hand To the town he had so quickly grown so fond And they were marchin’ up the mountain going Four by four And they were marchin’ up the mountain going Five by five And they were marchin’ up the mountain going Six by six To cast off the man across the river styx Runs this king, so called king Who had stolen everything Telling tales, earning glory, sharing none Now the true words of old Rest within forgotten souls As a flippant field of stories spread around At the summit of the peak He knows his position is bleak The king cries for mercy for his grave misdeeds But the town looks him down And there’s no turning back now! He’s made his field to fall in and he’s swept With open arms
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Waiting Room 03:37
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It's there the application form is in front of me but the drum in my chest wont cease or rest Admissions, the woman widens a smile as if knowing, somehow, the future would still be bright I'm there the proctor has shone a great light on me and my drum beats faster keeping me on track Professor, why the huge red letter? as if knowing the craft was not enough for you I was left in the waiting room As judgment reigned on me Cold with a stare for if I had dared to question the things I'd seen It's there the papers that were left when I was thrown away now the drum is still, it's lacking a purpose in life Conductor, a train with holes will always fail its cargo as if knowing the world could ever be reasonable ...
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You Still Have Hope 01:59
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Look at his eyes Gazing so hopefully I look where he's staring I see nothing there How come he's so happy for what I can't see? Is this a huge problem or is it just me? The sun is setting out there The clouds don't have a single care Or is it smoke that fills the sky? It blocks my view I can't see why... You still have hope. You still have hope. Why do you have hope?
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Affirm the Affected 02:31
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A mock-up of a project I want to do someday soon.

I spent the last fall challenging myself to produce a song each week. (It was my first time writing music) these songs are most of the results from that.

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All told from the view of a disgruntled little bird

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released April 5, 2024

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