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By the hand of God
By the skin of your teeth
Hanging by a thread
Sink your teeth in the meat
Honey, isn’t it sweet?
It’s impossible to fight gravity
Physical or not
Brings you to your knees
Just when you were strong
Won’t ask pretty please
Knows no right no wrong
Moving right along
Anywhere you go
You’ll see in their eyes
The dull deadness that cloaks
The fears that paralyze
Delivered as a joke
Cutting you down to a sizable or minimal
Remnant of a lethalized hoax
But it’s their hearts that broke
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Hey you can’t deny it
It’s a waste of time, but I’ll buy it
It’s all over me, a healing oil
It won’t let me down
Needs my toil
Services serve us you see
And goods are good
They’re what we need
Oh hey there, didn’t see you
Sipping wine again in Machu Picchu
Opposite of how it seems
I care, I’m deep, I live my dreams
And now the priceless things I own
Become for me a mighty throne
O Desire, my love
O Desire, hither to me
O Desire, my love
I desire all of
Haters, jealous neighbors,
Our necessities require your labor
You can’t deny it
You can’t deny it
Die ‘til you try it
You can’t deny it
Desire decides, desire decides
You try to defy
Desire decides
Hey you just won’t make it
Without the things you want you need
Without the things you want you need
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Desperation I Know
03:33
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Ill-advised, can it be a good thing?
Sacrifice the comfort you’ve been wanting
I’m just insecure, can you reassure me
Fulfillment of a longing will add up to something?
But you’re on track, the train departs
Heading off to Who-knows-where-to-start
And you can’t compare yourself to me
Individuals since infancy
Never reaching social symmetry
And you can’t compare yourself to me
Fatal flaws and mediocrity
O Success: The Great Mythology
The Holy Ghost
The Perfect Wife
You fill yourself with meaning
You try
Desperation I know
Eases up when you are well fed
Desecration of hope
Nightly terrors within your bed
Only seconds to go
‘Til you’re captive within your head
Desperation, I know
Feeds the dreams you wanted.
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Annyeounghaseyo Again
03:23
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Annyeounghaseyo again
When you promised we were friends
Spring had sprung, it’s here again
Hoped by now I could depend
On the passing days to mend
You didn’t have the words, alas
As if my father had just passed
You hoped by now I could erase
The memory of that vacant space
Where we traded honest sentiments
In days before the summer
Had I grown accustomed to
Disrespecting myself for a few moments
To bask in your waning sun?
No one can please everyone
At least we shared polite sentiments
In days before the sudden end
In days before the summer
Say it over and over
With nothing left to recover
Annyeounghi geseyo.
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Points AB
04:14
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Woke up just in time to see your shadow’s depth receding
This tenuous line stretching from points A, B,
You to me
Our frail design
We try to survive
Hunger and thirst for pure perfection’s lie
‘Til we die
Cover ourselves in its protection
You’re so talented
Is it intercellular or discipline?
When somebody asks really how’ve you been
You’re in control
What could they know
You say “so-so”
What do they know?
And we try to survive
Hunger and thirst for pure perfection’s lie
‘Til we die
Cover ourselves in its protection
Habits burned into the patterns of our minds
Always taking up time
Is there something I should do?
Does this matter or not?
Is apathy such a crime?
All the goals accomplished all the prized polished
Every object in its place
Everything we wanted though our heads are haunted
All we do is take up space
Woke up just in time
To see your shadow remain on me now
So this is how
This plays out.
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High American
02:41
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How many times can I tell you I’m gonna learn?
Freedom, entrapment both familiar
I soar the skies, tumble and burn
Futile as I see any effort being, honey
One must decide to live or survive
No telling why I fall for the same tricks, never funny
One day I will arrive
Fight or to flee or be a failure
I have the right to choose a side
Useless as I feel on a daily basis
You should know that I try
I’ll try ‘til I die
Can’t say just why I put in the effort
Promise you I’ll tell you when I arrive
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Like Never Before
02:49
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Heaven help me now
Seems so far away somehow
Need to hear a word
That deflates this hate absurd
Heaven help now
Must persist somehow
I can admit I’m a tourist
In a strange land I supposedly knew
Take pictures and learn the language
But privilege is just for a few
This is all I know
Drag me I won’t go
Where are you from, dear?
Does your origin match your skin?
Can we box you in?
Why are you still here?
Please disappear you’ve become
That which we most fear.
Bless your little heart, child
You don’t look like us
And you sure aren’t the girl next door
Just want things to return like it was before
Now let me be clear
Irrational fear has a grip on the way you hear
Take a few steps near
Look into my eyes
Look how human to shed a tear
Bless your little hearts now
I don’t look like you
And you don’t think like me, what’s more?
Just want things to be good like never before.
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The Ballad Of
04:05
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Indiscreet and exposed
Just as you supposed
In the other’s eyes
Caught a glance and a whiff
As my spine went stiff
Heat is on the rise
Well done, good and faithful son
A loved one complies
To deny, to forget all your words of deep regret
You paint a thick disguise
Indiscreet and exposed just so everybody knows
What evidence implies
Oh no, we really need to go
I know we could have had it all
How low, digging down a hole
Follow what lies
Well done you could have been someone
All done, but didn’t we have fun?
Well done, good and faithful son
Love never dies
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Always The Same
02:36
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You’re never all alone
My demons stay and they’re doing alright
Junebugs and thorns that skitter up my side
Ever so soft
Search and surround
Without any strain
Hey baby, hey, do you feel alright?
Can you prepare for overwhelming night?
Caught in a state
Callous and sweet
It’s never the same
How can you brace
For chaos to meet
To give it a name?
It’s always the same
You’re never all alone
Surprising isn’t it when you need a friend?
(Believing to be fine on your own)
Surprising isn’t it when you can’t defend
(Ideas, the actions that you’ve shown)
Surprising isn’t it when you must depend
(On somebody else to be the one)
To lead you out, to make way, to harbor
You’re never all alone
There’s always a sign
Never assume
It’s always the same
You’re never all alone
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Jewelry
03:37
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I apologize for the hell
You and I aren’t living so well
Fight the creeping feeling
Seeps from floor to ceiling
Analyzing all that you said
You just feed me gently with freshly made daily dread
Easy as it is to forget why I need you
I’m calibrated for you, you’re mechanized for someone like me too
I’m generating fuel you use to love me how you were meant to do
I apologize for myself
Every waking thought spent on everything else
Grows the sinking feeling as the paint is peeling
We always come back here again
Can’t tell adversary from the most faithful friend
As easy as it is to hurt the one who needs you
I’m celebrated, defamation isn’t what you’re seeking to do
You’re venerated by the good you do, not only intentions to
I’m not afraid you’re gonna go, not after all we’ve made it’s so easy to know that
I emanate the feeling you reciprocate right back to me too
I emanate the feeling you reciprocate right back to me too
I emanate the feeling you reciprocate right back to me too
I emanate the feeling you reciprocate right back to me too
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Nicole Yun Virginia
Nicole Yun is the singer, guitarist, and songwriter for dream pop trio Eternal Summers. Nicole’s sophomore album, MATTER, is out digitally on April 14th, and her vinyl campaign is up now on Bandcamp!!!
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