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Elemental
03:33
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all desire will flood the stream of pain
all despair i give to you in the morning of a new phase
lay your powers at her feet
awaken the elemental need
all my obsessions repeat
i’ve braced the coldest dawn to make the devil see
though i’ve torn your heart away
i cannot stay too long
i offer you a rose so black
to pledge my love upon
the song of doom’s caress that i play
is calling in the golden age
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2. |
Come Around
03:47
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who took the sunlight from your eyes?
if i believed in you tonight
would my heart be wrong?
and if i found you here again
without a trace
i’d let you in
though your heart is changing
you’re so far away
so far away from me
you’re just a dream that’s fading
come around now baby
don’t you want to see
what becomes of the life you share with me
they say what rises will converge
but i don’t know if you’ve heard
you’re still flying down, down
you’re so far away
so far away from me
you’re just a dream i’m chasing
come around now baby
don’t you want to see
what becomes of the life you share with me
come around now baby
don’t you want to feel
if the love i have for you is real
you can save me
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3. |
I Am Free
03:03
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i’ve got the feeling in my blood
that i was born to win
i’ve got the warmth of your love
to make my world spin
i’ve got a heart of solid gold
that melts away the cold
and if the darkness sets in
i won’t let it take hold
i am free
in the fall of babylon
set a new course for the sun
you can give your heart
to the only one
sometimes i feel so lost
that i’m just not there
but i don’t ever turn back
from going nowhere
i am free
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4. |
Fader
04:24
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come see my dropout piece
can i tempt you with scenes you can’t ignore?
i don’t feel peace
as i’m waiting for the beast to transform
oh and this curse could be broken
like a shadow in the night
i won’t look back
but maybe i don’t want to forget
it’s been trippin’ me up inside since i came here
and i wont be satisfied til i lose
hanging on to life as a fader
too wasted to realize the absolute
i’m incomplete
i wander the back streets
though i’m closer now than ever before
and if i die next to you
there would be no defeat
only glory that would shine down on me
oh but our time is borrowed
in the quicksilver sand
there for a flash
but we could not pass through undetected
it’s been trippin’ me up inside since i came here
and i wont be satisfied til i lose
hanging on to life as a fader
too wasted to realize the absolute
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5. |
Poet Of The Damned
03:34
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it all seems stranger now
in our infected town
with the veins tapped
and the vials drained
it’s been a long way down
i cannot explain why i broke the chain of command
or how i came to be the poet of the damned
i’ve walked the floor
searching for a common thread
and the axis we share is not enough to spin my web
i caught you crawling out
of a newfound wasteland
to see my downfall
as the poet of the damned
disintegration is a crime
let’s come together in our minds
before end times
i’ve held the key to the doomsday machine
i’ve raised my rifle high to bend the sunlight’s gleam
and in the slaughter we’re all helpless to his plan
but here on the infinite plane i am the poet of the damned
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6. |
Painted On
03:59
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all this happened by chance
given a love that’s ageless
i know you can’t bury the water
our lives forever entwined
only things that you do can make me this sad
the dream
is high and low
take it from me
wherever you go
a star
hangs the light
in the sky
where you are
painted on
some of the people we know
hide in plain sight
i am at least one of those
will you find me hiding in dreams still to come
in my imagined life i could take you beyond
the dream
was left on
and i saw
you staring off
into space
but your eyes
couldn’t hide
anything
painted on
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7. |
Place In The Dark
04:25
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if you find your mind’s gone
and tomorrow’s dream is over
the sweetest little thing that i could ever do
would be to keep your place in the dark
hold your head in my hands
let your tears wash away
the lines and the lies
all the years we’ve seen our love fade
don’t tell me the truth
i don’t want to hear
they say that’s what the silence is for
into the shadows you disappear
the starlight scatters
were you ever here?
these images are taking me in too deep
where it’s darker now than it’s ever been
i’ve been waiting for such a long time
for love to come home
living in a fantasy
and the memories grow
i’ve forced it and broke it
seen it all through your lens
but i don’t know i ever knew what i was up against
so if you find your mind’s gone
and tomorrow’s dream is over
the sweetest little thing that you could ever do
would be to keep my place in the dark
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8. |
Regeneration
03:39
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then came the night i could not see you
you had grown clouded and obscure
i became the ghostly imagist
trying my hands at various kinds of abuse
that you so graciously endured
don’t let it break your heart my friend
it’s the way the river bends
it took a million years to find you
and when i did you had not lost the allure
the cosmic egg was broken
the yolk it just kept dripping
chained to the wind and chasing dragons for the cure
let me create my world my friend
it’s the way i pretend
now the time, the time is nearing
and i know that you are weary
through sunlit doorways i am travelling
i left the temple and the corpus for the road
i sacrificed my conscience
shed my clothes at the entrance
stumbling naked, eyes cast inward to the unknown
regenerate your tail my friend
it’s the way of existence
it’s the way
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9. |
So Long Mr. Fear
04:06
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it’s been so long, mr. fear
we’ve been together since i was just a little boy
but you’re so bold to take back the years
the wind is cold, without you here i’m going haywire
you’re on my mind, out of time
tell me do you love another more?
have you been walking after midnight in between the rain
i’ve watched it all disappear
out in the storm i said so long, so long mr. fear
i’m terrified, i don’t deny
i want to fly
out of your shadow
i want to make it on my own
do you realize?
that i don’t know the way back home
in disbelief of the new disease
now that the veil is lifted, and i’m all twisted up
i step on through to your dimension
somewhere underneath the indian moon i’m lost
i got the jab to keep you near
how can anything be the same now that i’ve been tossed
to the wolves in disguise
i want to fly
out of your shadow
i want to make it on my own
do you realize?
that i don’t know the way back home
so long, so long, so long mr. fear
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10. |
Jealous Kind
03:58
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hold on to this alchemy
embers in the burning breeze
its just so hard to let the lovers go
when a jealous mind is the only mind you know
something in your memory
keeps your island in the stream
if you walk alone you’ll never know who you are
from the seeds you’ve sown
the harvest will be ours
we collide
in a world where our passion is doomed
you and I, we could never be one or be true
we’re the jealous kind
the kind that lights the fuse
but the tide is rising up to carry you
we collide
in a world where our passion is doomed
you and I, we could never be one or be true
we’re the jealous kind
the demons that feed the muse
but the tide is rising up to carry you
to a sweet surrender
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11. |
Primitive Man
03:53
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There’s a candle that lights the darkened way
There’s a shelter that keeps me dry in the rain
There’s a freedom I get when I feel the pain
Like I’m floating and one with everything
Open your eyes
See what I will be
I may be unwise but I know that life is a dream
Limitations of my vessel form
To go back, to go back before I was born
In between all realities I am still torn
If I ignite the fuse will I be scorned?
Open your heart
Let your love light shine
These words have been spoken before but they are now mine
Baby once when you came into my room
And we spoke of the things that we could not do
It was then that I truly belonged to you
I stayed frozen in love
I could not move
Fire and ice
I am a primitive man
Made from desires I feel but I don’t understand
Open your life
C’mon and change the view
The mist is now clearing and deathlike I’m dancing with you
Oh the serpent is now shown
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Imaad Wasif Los Angeles, California
Imaad Wasif is an LA based musician. He has released six solo albums as well as numerous collaborations. Credits include The Folk Implosion, lowercase, alaska!, Grim Tower and ACID. He is also a touring and recording member of Yeah Yeah Yeahs.
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