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Aeterna Tristitia

by Aeterna Tristitia

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Suffer 04:57
Suffer, suffer at my hand I once saw a light but it faded away It's dark in the tunnel, my empathy decays And no I think it cannot be okay Not unless I find some way out of this pain Release the tension built up in my bones A force so great it shakes the houses of stone A suffering so great it quenches my thirst This is war, it doesn't matter who struck first I once saw a light but it faded away
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Believe 03:24
I can't believe what I've seen this day I can't believe what I've seen this day I can't keep it to myself, no I can't keep it in Can't keep it to myself, no I can't keep it in Victims of society trapped in the zeitgeist Mind so limited it pales to the field mice Soul so fragile it would snap like a branch Apply the force to break it unless you meet my demands I believe I'm a fool and the world's even worse Self-deprecating thoughts until I rest in my hearse Alone in a room in a cycle of despair In spite of my progress I'm in a state of disrepair I can't believe what I've seen this day I can't believe what I've seen this day I can't keep it to myself, no I can't keep it in Can't keep it to myself, no I can't keep it in I must confess, I'm a different man This inner conflict, will it ever end? In time I hope I'll see the revolutionary In time I hope I'll see the resolution carry me
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Better 08:02
Something is wrong, something has got to be corrected Something is wrong, something has got to be corrected I tried to call you, but there was no one there Above all I wish I could caress with my hands your hair But here I've found that things don't change Here I've found it remains the same And if I was a man of faith I would pray That things got better Barely awake and subconsciously aware I pull myself out of the curls of your hair Fully alive and fully ashamed I'm reduced to a daze getting lost in the haze Rest my pen on the paper, write my name to the letter The words ring hollow, things aren't getting better There's nothing left for me here, yet I'm beyond shedding tears My mind so numb that I feel no fear But then I think for a moment and conceited thoughts awake me The people that have wronged me and those who've forsaken me My misanthropy pure, I feel the suffocating rage Asphyxiate the world in a cloud of flame If I could change I would If I could change I would No it never gets better No it never gets better If I could change I would If I could change I would
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At some point I realized I had been so hypnotized I said I don't feel compromised, but my mind says otherwise And I can't say that things have changed I am a victim, I cannot feign I move along can't move away In this cul-de-sac, here I'll stay Here forever At some point I knew that my life had frozen in space and time Incapable of moving on, I speak in tongues, my mind is gone And when I wake up, from my slumber I've learned nothing from my dreams Those dreams don't come and if they do They'll only make me feel even worse than before I can't keep chasing fantasies, I only wish they were reality I can't keep chasing fantasies, I only wish they were reality There's something out there, greater than dream care There's something out there, greater than dream care There's something out there, greater than dream care And no I can't seek it, it just has to come to me I can't keep chasing fantasies, I only wish they were reality I can't keep chasing fantasies, I only wish they were reality
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The devil speaks to me in my bedroom He tells me things that I shouldn't know
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Last night as I laid myself to bed Thousands of thoughts began forming in my head Hope I can finally get some rest Don't wanna hear those voices again Another day comes and another day goes 24 more hours gone and nothing to show The way that I feel coincides with the way the wind blows Always on the edge of a great moment but it never comes to fruition All I have are these fucking songs, my pathetic exhibition Inexperience has soiled me and indifference has destroyed me A blackened presence in my mind, it rots for all eternity Seeing machines for their parts again Thousands of gears move in unison The moment I falter, I won't rest easy Can't think of the future without getting queasy Seeing machines for their parts again Thousands of gears move in unison The moment I falter, I won't rest easy Can't think of the future without getting queasy Last night as I laid myself to bed I thought of the future and hopes that I possessed The world is too small for my aspirations Hello Mr. Bright Future, here's my resignation Last night as I laid myself to bed I thought of the future and hopes that I possessed The world is too small for my aspirations Hello Mr. Bright Future, here's my resignation

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The self-titled album. The songs would still be some of my best if not for the very poor production quality, but I've long since lost the source material. Inspired by Swans, Low, Red House Painters, American Football.

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released November 12, 2013

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Aeterna Tristitia Valparaiso, Indiana

The bedroom recordings of Joseph Brown, 2013-2017.

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