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The Good Monster

by Gui Zen

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"So how's the shelf life doing?" Asks the Cradle of the Sun "How can you be so bored and lonely When it's clear you're not alone? This rapunzel is afire So I can't just lend you my hair But don't just lay down and die sir It's like you're already there--" Is it passion or entrapment? I can't quite suss it out Juggling all this Magic With these weeks of work and doubt Your eyes lit like vermillion A little more i long to see You can do it clean or dirty But either way You can't be free So make the choice you've got to make And do your best to watch for us To watch for you and me Take back all the blame I don't want it anyway Take back all the shame I don't want it anyway Take back all the pain I don't want it anyway Give me back my name I never gave it away Give me back my name It was never yours to take
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i loved it much more than I think you know does that come as a surprise to you? But this is not about bitterness or confidence Or any confusion of the two I think this is about pride somehow More than it is about trust Well I can leave mine at the door If you can learn to listen and digest I'm only going to ask this once but WHERE the FUCK do you get off? O.o carrying that grudge around aiming it at anyone you can don't your shoulders get a little sore? Well I don't want to carry it around no more A real boss don't have to be a boss to get ahead he's only gotta be the man and it ain't fair for you to throw that back at me my friend can't you see me, I am doing what i can Doesn't it bother you when all your friends keep passing you back all your cigars? It's not as if it makes me happy when I hear you aren't doing well I just get so fucking angry when i see us burning bridges full of cars So hear me now and take this chance to believe me I never ever stole from you I reserve the right to be confused And I don't think that we deserve to lose Doesn't coldness get a little old? Well I don't want to carry it around in my soul no more
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O i can breathe - howl :D We Will Make Cracks and We Will Grow there's no cement in this world that could ever stop our flow so one day just not too long ago i walked into the cafe mother nature was just sitting there digging oil from outofher sake and you know that she crept up to me and whispered in my ear "eat ... the ... rich" and then i said "Why not just fix things? For all and for good? - god forbid we lead the way to forgive -" (You think it's so simple, don't you?) she said OK i can do that but you've gotta promise me you're going to Remember One Thing Nature Is Not Wallpaper
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I-fi Wireless Fidelity for sky Your I Powerless and infinite As mine this song or death beyond the final breath We speak the truth Sometimes like Myth Chord Mountains sine wave hills the Dots are all out tonight it's Time to not quite get my fill i can't wait to hold your hand in mine i will wait right here just out of Time i can't wait to hold your hand in mine i will wait right here just out of Line ...So you're going on your little adventure now don't forget your bag of meaning Last time you forgot it somehow o it's no surprise... you only read between the lines Oh look you've got me talking to myself again Bubbling on nothing Churning on ideas They start yeah they never end o it's no surprise you don't see the lines with those eyes do you? Why not just take me with you? I've never had more in my life before What better time to throw it all away... Why must you pull and taunt me? You fill my mind up so much but won't even leave One thing to say o it's no surprise You see through my eyes Do you still want to follow me to higher ground?
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East of the Garden of Eden we Shattered our illusions and then Cropped up some of our own Outside the tiles of Generation Y Not Which until now we thought was home Well I may not now see the Beauty of the still life you Were so kind to show to me just give me some time my love to chat up the woodcarver for a while and i may think me born a son i will never stop no i will never ever ever ever ever stop :p so Now that we are apart my love i cannot imagine a better way to spend our Lives the lonely valley adventure or the hungry hum of dementia the solution and the problem both are Time sands of the Earth all blow away whether in Africa or Asia to the Tune of galacial facial lines an apple's always in search of its core what are all the sculptors of the earth all Searching for? That they must delve so deep in rock i will never stop Speaking in Riddles i will never stop Making Up Words i will never stop Humming b/t Bars i will never stop Sounding abSurd i will never stop Sharpening up Horns i will never stop Hauling My urn cuz i will never ever ever ever stop Love process i merely process you are all that you are to me we had a child and it was me
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Crystallize 06:11
crystallize dear Crystalline bring to us your finest wine the cuts are choice the mettle's fine I'm sure that all you need is Time cuz you're a staple in this thing we call Humanity doesn't matter what they cannot see when they love to be blind you're such an angel you look it so there with those crystal wings i see them on you every time you sing don't even have to close my eyes even if sometimes you're like the fucking devil so crystallize dear Crystalline bring to us your finest rhyme the beats are choice the metal's flyin' i'm sure that all you need now is Time
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he told me don't be broken but he threw me to the wolves well it works alright and for my part i think i understood well when nothing says forever still can make this good so like a prayer for the dawning whatever is i will let be let the morning light sing its song to your silent poetry while i wave to the departing dying parts of me now he tells them don't be broken when he throws you to the wolves but will it work alright? and for his part i doubt they understood he can never say forever but he still can make this good
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throw your bones into my pail be happy someone's meant to fail don't have to expose the irony to somehow set wind in my sail just leave me off your radar sir all i want's to talk to her haven bound and quite in turn to touch the stars from which we hail Sow the seeds with make believe Plant them on the path to peace Don't deny what your eyes see the Dream is only half the Dream Spacey Spizzy Sis Spacedizzy Isn't quite the problem is she? Knows things you could never learn made Her choice - spent Her turn Bends her ear intent to listen as Freedom sheds its definition * * * "To people of good judgement Every beauty seen here resembles More than anything else does That merciful fountain From which we all derive ~ My eyes, desirous of beautiful things And my soul, likewise Of its salvation Have no other means to rise to heaven Then to gaze on all such things" - Michaelangelo
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Next 11:11
just one more step is left to go before the next step comes won't you take this step with me my love? take this step with me when you see a wave don't you see it wavering? what motion's not a wave my love what motion's not a wave? and don't the ocean feel like home? up and down though it may be but who are we to say we are not home inside a wave? a wave... so one more step is left to go before the next step comes won't you take this step with me my love? take this step with me and when the wave pulls back don't it pull your soul to sea? don't it feel like it won't come back my love it feels that way to me... so shall we huddle round this light we have together bear Moon's gravity for who are we to say we are not home inside this wave this wave... so won't you take this step with me? and I Don't Care what comes Next Just come there with me and I don't care...

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'The Good Monster' is a creature that lives in a place somewhere between fact and abstraction - half awake and half dreaming, but always both.

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released May 9, 2012

All instruments/vocals/lyrics written and performed by Lukai ~ recorded and mixed by Lukai, mastered with Brandon Hoffman (www.gnomegrownmusic.com) ~ album art is "Moon Shiva Wishing Well" by Jennifer Juniper Varon (www.wix.com/tendershark/art_page) ~ this album is dedicated to Everything ~ Thank You (Eternally): my amazing family, HP, TS, SB, Serafino + Mr. Hoffman!, JP + LW, Christine Kitz and Sol, the Gladgnome Legacy Crew (I made that up, I won't be offended if it doesn't stick), to any artist that didn't give up just because the world doesn't make any sense, and very much Jen Varon for redefining real in a way ahead of her time ; }

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