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Can't Pretend to Know
03:46
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I can't pretend to know
Where you and me will go
I can't pretend to know
Where we are gonna go
She, sitting and waiting; he, anticipating
Hesitant conversation, neither sure what they're saying
He imagines forever, she can't decide whether
All the risk of the gamble, benefit of the playing
He said
I can't pretend to know
Where you and me will go
I can't pretend to know
Where we are gonna go
La, laya da da daya
La, laya da da daya
We design our own future, the lives that we manufacture
Elements, when assembled, make for joy or disaster
Can you be anybody, practice well enough to be?
Are we able to be our own servant and master?
She said
I can't pretend to know
(I can't say where we will end up)
Where you and me will go
(not a thing that's clear to me)
I can't pretend to know
(I can't say how we will fare this time)
Where we are gonna go
I can't pretend to know
(I can't say where we will end up)
Where you and me will go
(not a thing that's clear to me)
I can't pretend to know
(I can't say how we will fare this time)
Where we are gonna go
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O Discordia
05:40
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And all these years and victories, they don’t really mean a thing
When all I have to ponder is what the future’s yet to bring
O Discordia! Discordia! How I hang from these strings
If not the proper life I once foresaw, a life made from these things
Elements of art and romance, tragedy, et al
O Discordia, discordia, whatever hangs must fall
A purpose, a reason for to be; that guiding force, one’s destiny
It’s that thing, that thing that makes your life worthwhile - what’s comprised this fantasy
O Discordia! Discordia! How I hang from these strings
If not the proper life I once foresaw, a life made from these things
Elements of art and romance, tragedy, et al
O Discordia, discordia, whatever hangs must fall
Long I’ve dreamt of romance, chosen for some noble cause
I wonder, I wonder, when it calls me, will I stop me and give pause?
Will I give in to ka’s pert design, and head out on the quest?
Do these notions register with truth, or do I dream of naught?
O Discordia! Discordia! How I hang from these strings
If not the proper life I once foresaw, a life made from these things
Elements of art and romance, tragedy, et al
O Discordia, discordia, whatever hangs must fall
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Respira
01:58
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Snowbound
03:37
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Where'd you find that melody
Took my breath, swept me off my feet
Will you sing some soothing lines
To stop me before I start sinking?
Does a false eloquence say
Every word that don't quite come to mind
Will we find some place and time
To understand all that we're thinking
I would gaze in a cold black mirror
I might find one face in the furor
All I need is a lover and one year longer
The lakes are all snowbound, the trails are all snowbound
When anywhere could be where we are
Let's not be here, in blindness and fear
With hints to entice us, our thoughts indict us
How do we make sense of where life's turns take us?
When we're lost, debating truth and value
Life betrays these values. We are the fire!
Cast off all ancient memories if they hold you snowbound
The lovers inside us emerging
I would gaze in a cold black mirror
I might find one face in the furor
All I need is a lover and one year longer
The lakes are all snowbound, the trails are all snowbound
The lakes are all snowbound, the trails are all snowbound
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No Quarter
06:02
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Khorussana Djam
06:13
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You'd probably say
That I don't know my purpose
But I'll tell you my friend
Now I know - this is my voice, and this is how I use it
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It’s difficult in this world to be
One of the non-business-inclined
We’re on a different path
Sometimes parallel, but fulfillment from a different state of mind
Counterintuitive
I’m gonna really live
There’s never just one way
But this path I can’t forgive
There’s got to be a better way, I won’t just slave my life away
We are the unemployable elite
You’d trade me places any day, but I won’t just give my life away
We are the unemployable elite
If only creativity
Was a marketable commodity
If only there was recognition
Of truly unique personalities
Counterintuitive
I’m gonna really live
There’s never just one way
But this path I can’t forgive
There’s got to be a better way, I won’t just slave my life away
We are the unemployable elite
You’d trade me places any day, but I'd never give myself away
We are the unemployable elite
There’s got to be a better way, I won’t just slave my life away
We are the unemployable elite
You’d trade me places any day, but I'd never give myself away
We are the unemployable elite
There’s got to be a better way, I won’t just slave my life away
We are the unemployable
We are the undeceivable
We are the undeniable
We are the insatiable elite
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State of Affairs (2020)
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Combinator Seattle, Washington
Combinator melds melodic progressive metal, synth-funk, soulful vocals, and glitchy breakbeat electronica into a dizzying, post-futurist dreamscape. Schizophrenic, yet born of an overall cohesive vision, the outfit is at once funky and ornate; the auditory distillation of one man - Sean Fairchild's - wildest melodic hallucinations. ... more
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