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Flower Kingdom (EP)

by A Flower in Disguise

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This is Where Love... 03:15
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Planted your feet Now buried flag deep Surrounded by salt for miles As far as the eye can see So distant I can’t sense the living My green thumb hurts This bitter earth This bitter earth This is where love lives This is where love lies Where all the others failed They insist This is where love never dies This is where love never dies Pure, the salt from my eyes Lived to fight, learned to survive As an island Surrounded by salt for miles As far as the eye can see, the first So distant I can’t sense the living My green thumb hurts This bitter earth This bitter earth This is where love lives This is where love lies Where all the others failed They insist This is where love never dies This is where love never dies Surrounded by salt around for miles As far as the eye can see So distant I can’t sense the living Buried flag deep
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Ophelia (Rusalka) 04:09
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I come to claim my body Recovered as Ophelia Discovered the unknown woman of seine Mysterious Mona Lisa smile All the promise has left my body Underneath my death mask On a dark tour, a walking corpse Living dead girl Doll parts no longer yours Only flowers clothe me I did it foolishly for the dopamine The orgasm left with my last breathe And I’m creaking with emptiness The thoughts of peace In the roar of the falls Where I lay ripples tranquility I come to reclaim my body From what death couldn’t expunge The burdens of life This river wouldn’t let me run Like rocks tied to my feet Down but not sunk in the middle place From what death couldn’t expunge Filling the blanks of my eyes Still after the surprise Clogging up my heart Filling my ears Water Lily’s jade my mouth As the creature Oh, dearly beloved A lotus in the mud I vow to nature’s isles All the promise has left my body Underneath my death mask On a dark tour, a walking corpse Living dead girl
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Broken Bird/An Afterthought Still Missing 02:46
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Love come spelling Richen these inner worlds Loved as a broken bird nursed To know your heart inside and out The difference between the back of the hand and the palm Luminous eyes in the black reflecting back the moon’s glow Predators roam Oh, I feel so at home Blind as the shining night Blades drawn in attack Blood blending with the black The stained earth an afterthought still missing Out of earshot Moving without doubt There’s no promise to make As it was no mistake Why’s my heart so fragile? Twinkling like shrapnel Breathe so shallow I can’t find the ground to stand any longer So light, so light My hope faded to the daybreak It’s an invisible fight this flight to take air Touch heaven or sink to hell Oh, I feel so at home Blind as the shining night Blades drawn in attack Blood blending with the black The stained earth an afterthought still missing Out of earshot Love come spelling Richen these inner worlds Loved as a broken bird nursed To know your heart inside and out The difference between the back of the hand and the palm  
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As the First of the Flowers Bloom 04:23
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For the sake of expression There is no perfection I collapse in Don’t save me For the sake of expression There is no perfection I collapse in ideals To curse or enchant The haunted and the blessed walk the same ground A part of death lives in you Day by day it grows Sprouting mushrooms in your wounds Nourishment lies in your ruin Learning as the first of the flowers bloom The universe expanded another sun and moon Open eyes adjust to the reality, no gloom I can’t and I won’t be saved That’s what’s best for me To live out my sorrow on borrowed time Dancing and crying until I die There’s no changing my mind A masochist I break myself down The sadist like you taught me how to frown To bow so low my face touched the grown Breaking my spirit to make you comfortable Now I’m not one for compromising Deconstructing me For the sake of expression There is no perfection I collapse in Don’t save me For the sake of expression There is no perfection I collapse in ideals I forgot the grain of salt Tell me how feel Tell me what’s real Living to the fullest you know how Show me like you know how, you know how I forgot I grain of salt To curse or enchant The haunted and the blessed walk the same ground A part of death lives in you Day by day it grows Sprouting mushrooms in your wounds Nourishment lies in your ruin As the first of the flowers bloom The universe expanded another sun and moon Open eyes adjust to the reality, no gloom The beauty of the truth I can’t and I won’t be saved That’s what’s best for me To live out my sorrow on borrowed time Dancing and crying until I die There’s no changing my mind A masochist I break myself down The sadist like you taught me how to frown To bow so low my face touched the grown Breaking my spirit to make you comfortable Now I’m not one for compromising
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Birds Nest in my Open Brain 05:15
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Birds nest in my open brain Chirping Birds nest in my open brain Like the thoughts they boomerang It’s rare not to be ashamed It’s rare not to be ashamed Barbed and tripwire thoughts I should be I should be happy But the ants are biting through my sleep Bubbling the swamp of blood Down where the river runs, runs Birds nest in my open brain Chirping, cracked by the sun Birds nest in my open brain And it writhes as a pit of snakes, agitated worms matured Squirming in the grip of apprehension The unfamiliar rarity to find delight in being seen Seen trying, embrace the feeling Accept praise, worthiness The avoidance of the situation Squirming in the grip of the raptors Breaking down to surrender Triggered to fall in line No silence can make my mind clear Wishing it all to disappear Squirming in the tight grip of which I’m torn and torn Bubbling the swamp of blood Down where the river runs, runs
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I Swallowed a Mouse 04:47
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Nobody wants Nobody wants more than to think of anything else Nobody really cared Nobody really wanted me there To think is to shrink Nobody would miss me but me Fine is benign Light on my feet Behavior told it all All I wouldn’t say But all I knew well I swallowed a mouse And it’s scratching, scratching to get out But it’s part of me now A year’s time, there’s a nest in me And it’s not a secret but I contain it Safe, I just want the quiet I intend to keep it safe within me I know the cold in my own blood Paralleled to the blackest birds Excluded or intruding Nobodies scarier So many scars in my mind Stolen all this time Running up the walls Chewing on sparks Another watery eye daring myself to cry Like always, like always Nobody wants Nobody wants more than to think of anything else Nobody really cared Nobody really wanted me there To think is to shrink Nobody would miss me but me I swallowed a mouse And it’s scratching, scratching to get out But it’s part of me now It can’t escape me or being found We’ve grown numb to each other My blood dries to it We are whole as a forest I am a haunted house
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No Place to Belong 04:44
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It’s too bright They’re too loud and they won’t ever quiet now You’re not meant to live in such a light It burns out all the life in and around you Lost to the cause, the cost So, I know all I say is lost on you It’s all lost on you Waiting for the fall The dark place is calling like the womb This is no place to belong Not sure I’m strong enough Even with the weight of death It hurts beyond belief It’s too bright to look it in the eye I want the quiet back Is this fear in me So close to cracking, it sounds like laughter and lightning I refuse to give in to the madness Normalizing absurdity It’s too bright They’re too loud and they won’t ever quiet now You’re not meant to live in such a light It burns out all the life in and around you Lost to the cause, the cost So, I know all I say is lost on you It’s all lost on you My love is not physical Everything that glitters isn’t gold Everything that shines isn’t light The trained lions and charmed snakes still bite Waiting for the fall The dark place is calling like the womb This is no place to belong Not sure I’m strong enough Even with the weight of death It hurts beyond belief
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Star Like 03:50
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I should be more careful You should see your face See your face See your face Light takes over the pupil Eyes pouring the moons glow It’s hard not to be hysterical The momentary freedom of zero These tears become star like Hanging by a tier of heaven Within invisible walls I’m trapped, I’m trapped But in reality, I’m trapped in a skin I can’t shed My head in a in a plastic bag These tears become star like when I’m falling Awakened the sleeping and the buried These tears become star like in the dark Every breathe I draw Cut off before it fills me Every breathe I draw The feeling there is more Slips through me To the mist of bursting bubble So much I can’t hold Back and forth still to action So many test All the worlds stages From the knights to the pages The mage to the saints I should be more careful You should see your face See your face See your face Light takes over the pupil Eyes pouring the moons glow It’s hard not to be hysterical, falter my strength The momentary freedom of zero These tears become star like Hanging by a tier of heaven Within invisible walls I’m trapped, I’m trapped But in reality, I’m trapped in a skin I can’t shed To some it’s transparent, to me it’s inherit I still don’t recognize myself My head in a in a plastic bag These tears become star like when I’m falling Awakened the sleeping and the buried These tears become star like in the dark
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Flower Kingdom 02:53
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For the grave robbers A good corpse If judged by the contents of my heart The stone of the soup It boils down to Gratitude for the torch you gave to me Peeling like a petal Carved up with your knife Drawing chalk made of bones I believe, the eyes like the flowers bloom, bloom Lay down in the flower kingdom My body will eat itself, if left alone To preserve itself It needs and needs, like a self-destruct sequence This is always, a heaven, a hell, and a paradise Ouroboros don’t think twice I stand for the glass half empty The bad up to waist, neutral of my place A heaven, a hell, and a paradise Migrating flames For the grave robbers A good corpse If judged by the contents of my heart The stone of the soup It boils down to It boils down to Gratitude for the torch you gave to me Peeling like a petal Carved up with your knife Drawing chalk made of bones I believe, the eyes like the flowers bloom, bloom Lay down in the flower kingdom

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released January 24, 2021

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Singer/songwriter/producer/visual artist and writer.
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