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The Birth Of Color
01:29
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"Through the beginning, I saw the end.
From the birth of color to a monochromatic earth.
When the sky and I wept.
And in each tear, I found a memory worthy of a smile that parted the water in a bittersweet fashion.
Dream...dream.
Dream."
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Dreaming With Eyes Open
05:51
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"Dream with eyes open.
Dream with your eyes open.
The colors blend together in an inversion of what I’ve needed to exist.
We are...we are all frauds in the absence of love...love.
Without the beauty you left with me, I am cracked and split beneath the skin where eyes are blind.
You are never coming back.
There were times when you were all I needed.
You defined something I believed to be fiction- the truest form of peace.
The truest form of peace.
Times of first love and scenes of romance gave me a meaning and clarified that there was a purpose.
You showed me that life is not an inconsequential string of random occurrences that one day ends in perpetual rest.
You gave me hope.
I stare in a daze as my mind is washed in the memories of all that we shared; dreaming with eyes...dreaming with eyes open.
I held you when you slept.
Eyes fixed in love of your beauty, how deep our love was."
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Your Absolution
03:40
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“Focus your eyes upon the heavens as they shift to red and grey.
Don't stop pushing through the wilderness, for your goal is within your grasp.
You will pass through the valleys and leave behind ashes and bones of your past in the fields.
You realize that it's not far now as the ground begins to crumble after each step you take.
The storm becomes ever more violent, but you've found it.
Seconds after your discovery, the remainder of earth, our home, began its final exhale.
You found the only thing you needed.
You found absolution at the end.”
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Dear Father
04:07
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“I hope everything you’ve done was fucking worth it.
How the fuck could this have happened?
I’m your son.
The questions remain: how many years must I bear the cross of a fatherless life?
I had to push all I felt within myself.
I didn’t need an apology, I needed you.
This has to be brought to an end, but it’s not in my hands.
And I can’t control these tears.
My love is unconditional, I can’t do anything else.
You’re the only father I will have... the only fucking father I will have. It’s 2:53 and I’m singing this through swollen eyes.
Screaming at the walls and bleeding out from nothing.”
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“Every day was the first day he saw her eyes, he saw her smile.
The eyes of falling autumn leaves, the smile of incomprehensible elegance. There wasn’t a second they spent that wasn’t an act of regained innocence.
These two damaged humans were repairing each other day by day, word by word, with a loving embrace.
Every scar surfaced.
Hell itself took hold of him, then her.
21 lacerations formed the shape of a circle and through the blood a heart was seen.
In that moment, his eyes began to close and saltwater rivers began to flow. All the letters he had written for her became illegible, discolored, and faded in a tragic realization.
A woman that he felt was the perfect human alive was creating a departure.
But everything he was given would last longer than the days he would walk the earth.
Endless memories are in her name.”
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Hues Perishing
01:15
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(Instrumental)
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(Spoken)
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I Am Your Reflection
03:55
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"The things that you don’t say are the things will make your grave. Breathe deep and see through the thoughts that always condemn you. Your curse is from the air you breathe and in every single life you see. I know this is true, for I am a carbon copy of you.
You have no reason to fear, your hope will always be here.
This song will come on, all your wars will be won.
So scream to the skies, you’re are a miracle of life and the mountains will fall, burying all your plight.
There will be a night when it seems right.
You may cry and want to die. But the sun will rise and all that you despise will be nothing within your eyes.
The darkness will be erased and everything will change.
You have no reason to fear, your hope will always be here.
This song will come on, all your wars will be won.
Now scream to the skies you’re a miracle of life.
This is the beginning, not the end.
Your hourglass has not run out of its sand.
Believe in you and believe in the truth.
Myself and the world have so much faith in you."
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“I must burn the pages I’ve written.
They bear three unholy names.
These women can’t be on the illustration I paint, yet our histories betray this.
From the garden that burns for all time, to the most bitter of oceans, and the one that was thought to be unique: everything fills me with hundreds of words blocked by a four-chambered stone.
We always open the first page with bright eyes and a warm gaze.
These three harlots have left their essence in me...fingerprints beneath skin.
The radiant golden rings that rested atop their heads are engraved as intricate memories...”
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“...every moment is a detailed fragment of so many days and nights, carved into every sunset I witness, and every raindrop that drenches my head.
So we all must fear isolation.
My fear runs deeper than any ocean, river, or sea; pulsing with the regality of the moon.
But I refuse to perish without the love of my life in my arms.
My saga shall not end without true love.
This life’s meaning is not fulfilled without it, so I place my faith in an ever-fading light.
There’s nothing more tragic than a heart beating for the last time in solitude."
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“Grey skies paint a portrait of fate.
Left with an absence oh so great.
Agony sears through his mind.
The lie told that his life would be fine.
Both worlds will cease with this harsh embrace.
Wishing pain would dissipate if their lives were erased.
Vivid emotions run rampant like wildfire.
Yet things like this never began with himself and the liar.
The streetlights light the way through my hell.
What's left for me to gain only time will tell.
Save me.”
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These Colors Fade Lake Forest, California
These Colors Fade was created with the intention of creating something musically unique through poetic lyrics/vocals, melodic guitars, beautiful keyboards, moving bass lines, and powerful drum beats. TCF originally was developed as a means to write and perform music in the downtime held by Keelan Donahue between musical projects. It has since become his sole focus as a musician. ... more
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