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Become the Root

by Llynks

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1.
Rise-Fall 03:34
Get back to your plans Get held by other hands You're on your mission, new edition Find someone that understands With your hard headed will Only in for the thrill You look me over, cool composure Drilling your holes in me still I can hear you screaming down the hall I'm shaken, I shiver from your call And with you my heart won't rise nor fall You left me here, trapped within your walls Through the rods and the reeds Through the flaws and the scenes Spitting venom, losing momentum You're packing bags, always leaving Locked into the chase Keeping up with the pace At your destination will you awaken Find that you've run your race I can hear you screaming down the hall I'm shaken, I shiver from your call And with you my heart won't rise nor fall You left me here, trapped within your walls I can hear you screaming down the hall I'm shaken, I shiver from your call And with you my heart won't rise nor fall You left me here, trapped within your walls
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Sun receding behind the moon My heart spilling a sweet maroon So fleeting what once was new Didn’t even get a chance to have you Had me wrapped up in every call Left me trapped in between the walls With you I thought I had it all But I’m leaning in further towards the fall Just wait I’ll make your body wrench Wrap around you like a snake Remind you of what you regret It will be early in the morning When you’re aching for me Cutting with no warning You’ll be aching for me There comes a dawning with decay A kind that’s haunting, blues and grays A power in your dismay Learn to combat in the games you play I’ll leave you hanging with a wish Overtaken by what you miss Forsaken by what you dismissed No forgiving when it comes to this Just wait I’ll make your body wrench Wind around you like a snake Remind you of what you regret It will be early in the morning When you’re aching for me Cutting with no warning You’ll be aching for me
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Slow Burn 03:58
Cruel ambition Burning crimson Gave all you had given Where the ashes lay and thicken Your checking out makes my stomach churn I didn't know you'd take a sharp left turn Now this is love that you gotta earn But maybe it's none of your concern There's nothing like that Slow burn I wanna dig into the dirt Slow burn I wanna feel the hurt Limbs grow stiffened In contradiction Retracted incision Parched skin singed linen You're checking out makes my stomach churn I didn't know you'd take a sharp left turn Now this is love that you gotta earn But maybe it's none of your concern There's nothing like that Slow burn I wanna dig into the dirt Slow burn I wanna feel the hurt
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Purified 04:22
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I can’t decide If I’m right for this if I was made to do it Should I feel so guilty Thinking this way Maybe I don’t deserve it How do you get there So down and dirty To all the questions To remember that It’s never gonna change No matter what you do or say or think It doesn’t matter anyway ha It doesn’t matter anyway No matter what you do or say or think It’s never gonna change a goddamn thing No matter what you do or say It doesn’t matter anyway I can’t pretend It’s my time for this If I can really do it How do I feel so guilty Thinking this way Maybe I don’t deserve it How do you get there So down and dirty To all the questions To remember that It’s never gonna change No matter what you do or say or think It doesn’t matter anyway ha It doesn’t matter anyway No matter what you do or say or think It’s never gonna change a goddamn thing No matter what you do or say It doesn’t matter anyway
6.
I watch the sunlight hit the trees below It feels so different to me than it did Not so long ago I’m missing all the friends I used to know I turn towards the mirror Thinking where did all that precious time go oohhhhhh I’ve been taking my time nice and slow Can’t remember names of all those sacred places Where we used to go I see the face of a boy who made me so low And how it changed me for the better man I never thought I’d get there oh oohhhhhh
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Needle in the hole The lethal work unrolls I’m sewing something whole but My hands lose control Fibers stretch like veins Everything looks the same The haunting seeps to stain It’s always done in vain Dreading days threading patterns through seams Weaving lace piecing something clean I’m so tired of this goddamn routine Worrying about what life should be Patterns through seams Nothing earned feeding Off what it takes to be seen Searching smokescreens Not knowing what's waiting for me Keeping guarded Been sharpened and hardened I’m on all fours trying To feel something solid please, please Dreading days threading patterns through seams Weaving lace piecing something clean I’m so tired of this goddamn routine Worrying about what life should be Patterns through seams Dreading days threading patterns through seams Weaving lace piecing something cleani I’m so tired of this goddamn routine Worrying about what life should be Patterns through seams
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Front yard is grey washed with snow No where for the green to grow You’ve claimed this place as your own Hate it but you never let it go Your heavy head is sinking and you’re grasping for the wall Knocking over swinging and collapsing for the fall When you align your limbs Wounds just tighten, thinning your skin When are you gonna give in? Pale and frightened, grim as your sins Trudging you’re filled up with dread Dragging the load as you tread Your reasons to go planning ahead End up wasted time instead You’re heavy head is sinking and you’re grasping for the wall Knocking over swinging and collapsing for the fall When you Align your limbs Wounds just tighten, thinning your skin When are you gonna give in? Pale and frightened, grim as your sins
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I want to lay my head to rest amongst the weeping willows Safe from harm my arms across my chest while mother’s sheeting billows If I’d known that it would come to this I’d never have run my mouth And pack my things and turn 18 and clear my closet out Only here can I become the root Here can I become the root Here can I become the root Here can I become the Only here can I become the root Here can I become the root Here can I become the root Here can I become the Stretch my body out on the moss And sink into the softness Forming bonds with dancing moths Sweeping my sacred fortress Only here can I become the root Here can I become the root Here can I become the root Here can I become the Only here can I become the root Here can I become the root Here can I become the root Here can I become the Only here can I become the root Here can I become the root Here can I become the root Here can I become the Only here can I become the root Here can I become the root Here can I become the root Here can I become the Only here can I become the root Here can I become the root Here can I become the root
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See, one and only I tried to be kind but my mind was made up Too quick to define what was right or wrong Had to decide on a side when my time had run up No sign for what’s what in a rush I know, it left me lonely While you band with your friends while you head for your fun Kicking up sand, tanned from the sun Commanding the land that you planned for your run Leaving dirt on my hands from the damage done I know you’ll keep running I know you’re running from me I know you’ll find your balance You’ll be who you want to be Here, watching closely I hope you sway with the waves as you pave through the wood You find hope in your day through the grey and the soot Don’t have wait to say something good Find your way like you said you would

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Listen to Llynks' cinematic and industrial debut album, Become the Root

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released July 10, 2020

Written and performed by Llynks
Produced, mixed, and mastered by Justin Ethan Matthews

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