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Better Days I
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Take away our homes
Take away our jobs
Take away our meds
Take away our kids
Take our history
In complicity
Take away our lives
Take everything
We will still be here
We will still be here
We will still be here
We will still be here
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Better Days II
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We will still be here
But survival isn’t enough
We need to thrive
A better world is possible
For everyone
Never give up the fight
We will rebuild together
Never give up the fight
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A Slip
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Don’t blink
A second you’ll see
A flash in the pan
A moment of your life
Forever encapsulated
Holding your hand
The instance you get
Is all you have the privilege for
I keep myself a step away
A family with attiitude
A pile of matches on a tray
A little slip is all it takes
To overturn a single day
Don’t you wish I was more like you?
Stop biting off more than you can chew
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Fashun Faggot
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Ornamental suffering
Shining spectral dream
All they hear us say is
“Look at me”
Fashion myself a faggot
A weapon against
Your conformist fantasies
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Hate On
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Life spent in the shadows of your norms
of your dissatisfaction
you can save your breath for someone else
for anyone else
i don't care
i don't want to hear how you'll always love me
i heard it all before and then you pushed me away
it doesn't matter
you'll say whatever you need to say to make yourself feel better
your hatred gives me power
your hatred gives me strength
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Imprisoned
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carve the flesh from my bone make it an effigy all you’ll have left of the me you
prefer to remember me fondly or whatever I don’t care what you think of my
existence a felony
my flesh is a prison my name is my chain
my life is in flux my existence a crime
undeserving of your god’s love I do not yearn for your god’s love
i only wish to see your systems burn down with you inside
tear down this prison join me in the cremation furnace
burn motherfucker
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Bulletproof Boys
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I can be your precious magnet
For your partial rule-worship
Retracting my hand
In fear
How do you make God laugh?
You make a plan
What could be lower
Than lukewarm acceptance
Resignation
With no will to change
"I'm different now"
I never said that I was brave
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Crater to Darn
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Just beyond your senses
the dead and playful are wriggling out
from under your covers
Slick with cum and carmine
By a thread
the hanging Earth grows darker still
and Memory - pearlescent
holds its intrigue
New thoughts fatigue and I can no longer even imagine a safer world
Rudiments of care
machinery of renewal whirrs into action always too late
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To This Ground
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The moments between the pain of this change, in the beauty of it's discoveries that constantly lay before me there are those times when I think I can take one second more. Tie me to the ground and I'll stay. Feeling left behind for a second time and wondering what that means when I say I can't take one second more. Tie me to this place. To this ground.
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Ariamis
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Dreaming of a painted world
The place that we swore to reunite
Left powerless by what was meant to be
And in a vague way I cut myself in two
Both impractically and in vain
A failed resurrection of moments in memory
The buried weight in my chest hollows
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Instead
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Cut my teeth on teeth
filled these bones with saw dust
choked myself on hope
a continued existence as an act of resistance
in a world that wants you dead
just living is defiance
instead of
succumbing to depression
killing myself
i'll simply be
no one gets to decide for me when this ends
i'll keep living instead of
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Balans
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undefined
mutable energy
flowing inside
energy
mutable, not unstable
chameleon with integrity
fluid and certain
strength in antagonism
home in truth
safe within
balance found
home in truth
safe within
balance found
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Peace Be Still
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What does it mean to be happy?
Things I thought I knew when I was young
In the end I will die
In the end I will be
In the end I will die
In the end I will be more than a thought;
I will live on
In the end I will die
In the end I will be
In the end I will die
In the end I will be
Peace be still for a while
I will be happy
Peace be still for a while
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Tweez
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Pulling at the threads
Routine with no success
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Be Seen
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Cry out
Reach out
Whatever you need
I'm here
This is for you
My invisible friend
May you always be seen
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Pressed right against my head
You’d rather leave me dead
Then give me tools
To make my own home
You take my arms and break my bones
Where is the light?
Where is the respite?
I’ve lost everything but hope
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Does It Matter?
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Does it matter anyway? Putting my guts back into my frame
Does it matter anyway? As I keep pushing on
Does it matter anyway? Even now?
Damaged goods, is all that's left
Damaged remains, yet I move on
For theres no other way out, of this mess that I have made
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Feed On You
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It's that time of year again
throw the colour everywhere
market research shows
we're suckers for an empty pledge
but I'm sickened
I'm laughing
so tired and sickened
now we feed upon you
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Blisters
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Worthless skin and bones big ears big nose having gangly ass freak
Blisters in the space that I hold for my own perception of what beauty feels like when I look in the mirror
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Trans the Planet
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you "normal", plot to enslave, identity for sale. nuclear family, trapped in the white walls. bent to the whims of growth, too powerful to fail. cisgender is capitalist, cancer of the world.
save the planet, launch a TERF into the sun. burn a comedian at the stake. bow down to your trans goddess. I will slaughter you and build a better earth on your ashes.
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Accord
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sign this contract with my blood
we give the devil his due to satisfy this rotten flame of ambition
briars wave a punishing crown
jagged idol falls to the ground
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Allostatic Load of Lead
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i can't even stand the sight of myself anymore
i dont know where all these fucking cuts came from
all these goddamn bruises
but one thing i know
i will never be what you wanted
i will always be what i needed
you can never undo this
you gave me the tools to end this
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Necrosis
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Necrosis take my flesh
Derelict corpse for rent
Watch me pulsate
Blood feast, prophet
My hands are calloused,
bound to my losses
but what's left to lose when your future is shackled?
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A Cautionary Tale
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Bled out on the concrete
fear and intimidation do it's best to force standards on you
and worry that the only mark you'll make
is as a cautionary tale
no more
it's time we got to live
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How Do I Look?
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save yourself
twisted
bones snap like twigs
comfort closet
misspent tokens honored
placement, process, progress
futile accords
everyday
your soul will flay
when you see my face
i dont know me
i dont trust myself
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Better Days III
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We will still be here
We will still be here
For our future
We will still be here
We will still be here
For our future
For ourselves
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Better Days IV
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For the future
For our dead
For the future
For ourselves
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