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Head in a Box

by Head in a Box

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1.
It's Ending 04:38
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All of the other things that you wanted to That you wanted to do See; landmarks in the sky Rubble under shoe Yeah Today I don't want to say Anything to you I feel up down They put me in a box You put me in a zoo Oh, I don't really mean to claustrophize I only ever wanted compromise But it's ending I don't want to tell you how to live your life Ooh but you better close your eyes Ooh it's ending Life as I could bring Hold for a minute Sit while you make it all up You remember the things that I felt? Just quit it You were the ghostwriter in the book of all my dreams Poor, innocent and feral piñata I am Never any fun, yet for some reason you'd Rush in for the loot whenever I was broken and on my own Some of it all turned out fine You asked a lot of these questions, but went offline You caught a rare dolphin and reeled the line Yeah, grabbed ahold with your greediness, golden twine For a while, Columbine to my Noctuidae Then Belladonna beckoning to my inner child You oughta repo the afterlife To find another moment, try to take my time You never really meant to claustrophize Or even really to control my life But it's ending I don't want to close my eyes Ooh and you won't compromise Ooh it's ending Two kinds of mind inside To feel that one is a victim and the other's just passing by This can't go on through time Here one pulls the trigger as the other is vilified At this point, a crime - will I wake up Is either of us still alive I know as I stand here and try to end it You know as you stand there and aim to end it We know as we stand here and write this ending We both know You talk primarily with your eyes And you make up words like claustrophize Oh it's ending In a parallel or next life Oh I hope you compromise Ooh it's ending Enter epilogue, let the credits roll
2.
Are You Happy? 03:32
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It’s a long rope Tied for the note Sign it Vengeful knife corrode Under the mountain Earth swallows them whole But are you happy, now? But are you happening to burn out? Dissolving into self doubt (plotting how to get out?) 

Fishing line and some time, (as you squirm around) These sharks always have devoured you But are you happy now? But are you happy now? And all this would fall around you and time would follow Waiting to find that door to escape Awaken back into pain 
Not a bliss plane It’s a long rope You’ll forget what you wrote (as you proceed to get old) Rest you’ll never find Become your parallel mind But are you happy now? But are you happy now? But are you happy in there? But are you happy in there? It’s time to hold on to the side rail
3.
One Conspiracy 03:09
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Father when we last spoke, you hadn’t woken up that day I left you alone to show the others another way Myself and the siblings, four living, to one we pray There was one contingency But it’s all the same to you Dissolving yourself in alcohol and conspiracies Cabal of sons and daughter as the evening breaks There’s one conspiracy And it had to do with you Listened to wars of information While your youngest bathed Rantings of mad men spelled damnation What’d they have to say? There’s one conspiracy And that conspiracy is true You, You know, we all know No hiding from scum like you All those times, No, don’t say I’m not haunted When she drowned You blamed all the things they taught you to blame To take your eye off your own soul We had a mother once, You gave her a wedding ring Now she’s not home because this, that or the other thing There’s one conspiracy And it has to do with you She never said goodbye And it wasn’t like her to up and flake Looking back through time We were raised by a fucking snake There's one conspiracy That conspiracy There’s one conspiracy That conspiracy is you
4.
The Robot is Stuck 01:12
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Feel: At Home 05:26
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I feel alone, and everyone is locked inside Feel: at home And maybe some have gone and died But I will get by "Yeah, there's nothing out there" I've read Some guy on the internet The stranger that's killing them Seems better than what's in my head Can't keep my thoughts down, yes I've tried I've no more time to bide Feel: at Home Revealed my face with no divide But I still feel fine Yeah, I can't see droplets in air A lie it must be, or rare The danger that's killing them Is better than what's in my head Feel: At Home Convinced my family to not abide And we're all doing fine Yeah, this lockdown just isn't fair I make signs to show I care It's the fear that's killing them I like all my thoughts here instead I feel at home Rebellion so boosts my pride Nothing can slow my stride Feel: at home While all my conflicts rot inside For now, I just don't mind I feel at home Although a friend I hear confide A healing war they fight Feel: At Home That friend since breathed his last few nights And still I'll be alright A stranger that's bringing death All around me infected with The danger that's killing them Is better than what's in my head I feel alone 'Cause everyone I've loved has died But I should be fine
6.
A Nonchalant Uprising 03:36
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Oop there goes another deadhead zombie, that we don’t get 
You got inside, you brought a lot of the things that you would not quit You wouldn’t quit Everybody knows, what their future holds 
Until the day when roads fill in through the soul They crumble and they crawl Sucked in by a mall Until the other day, another nonchalant uprising It’s just another one of those things 
You hear something in the distance, you follow it out of your mind In the sound there rests a little town, and you wait outside You’ve gone to live in my head then you tell me I’m dead but that you wouldn’t shed 
What kind of wings have I, if they can’t help me to fly I guess I might just stand In weighted sand 
Everybody knows, what their future holds 
Everybody knows, when they’re off in droves Your candy coated chains Off in lieu of air Sail these ‘sylum walls We’ve got a lot of something, yeah Nonchalant uprising, hey We live a dream where it’s better to never be seen, or ever sought. 
 You’ve gotta tin some money to build a lot of holes atop a little spot.
 You listen questioning, you question out the brain: your inner solving hut The danger of your high, exchanger of your mind, yeah you know what
7.
Burning Brush 05:17
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Rain drips down your face You blink at me
 As I leave your place

 At night I go, all night, yeah all night Awake, thinking about you I hear your voice, on the telephone
 Oh, this restlessness goes On and on and on 
I have an insane amount of love, for you And everything you say Writing it all down All night, yeah all night
 Awake, writing about you I don’t 
want to forget a moment with you 
Oh, these pens to this paper, they go On and on and on I tuck your dread away You were off to sleep, embraced Opaque 
In my arms, you dreamed 
Until the dawn 
We’d follow our routines We come to meet In love Being with you is not hard Do you think of me? Do you know I’m here? As you’re slumbering All night, yes all night Awake, as I am caressing you Beside you in bed and under a throw Oh, I want these nights together to go on and on 

Last night I watched through you your window You forgot to leave the lock unrepaired Forgot I cared But it doesn’t matter I’ll find you Remind you In your routines At my planned place to meet I’ll take you To the place you dream Where I whispered in your ear When you’re sleeping I’ll find you When you’re sleeping 
I’ll take you While you’re dreaming I’ll protect you 
I love you
8.
Float Away 04:22
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A lifetime it took a lifetime to come to this moment here with you You kept me warm I hope I had returned the favour here To you And we’ll maybe never meet again And we’ll maybe never be again Our mother left us I’m sure she had her reasons I hope she’s ok You came back for me as the predators circled, you came back for me Stay close to me As we float away, float away Stay next to me There may be no pain When we float away Stay here with me If we wake up again, doesn’t matter where, who, or when 
I hope you’ll still feel me and I’ll feel my only friend And we’ll maybe never meet again And we’ll maybe never be again But for now, this now, you are my rock But for now, this now, you make everything alright Even as we die
9.
Unrest Assured 01:33
10.
Annoying Dance of Nothing 03:33
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Holding onto body set and mind You’ve gotta love things You’re bone dry Molten sense, American eye You’ve gone and faltered You’ve got a lot of them It’s not a thing, it sounds it goes away, you know That we don’t belong to Not anything We can’t hold onto your notes on... We have no time to get a lot done ’til the fire begins to consume them We are the only ones who find love to kill Instead of finding humans We leave a lot of life to chance Yet we are the only ones who only know what high is when the low tide begins 
We all go blind We lose our mind Body, set, and mind Receding tide Inside we draw a line We build it up too A coat of paint will follow Yeah we wait a long time to live 
You’ve gotta lie 
To get ahead in life tonight
 You’re going to fall down to raiders 
You’re going to fall down then tell yourself you don’t mind You poured the wrong tea now That’s what I’m trying to say You’ve got the wrong tea in your cup of reality Simmering it reflects your soul Feel like you’re the only one By your own reasons Buy your body and sew the other timelines in Now you’re not the only one 
 By the eyes awake By the haves undone And why don’t you do what you do You are the only one who can learn from your mistakes You’re not much fun when you’re on your cyanide I won’t be here for everyone I cannot guide you in everything You’ve gotta live inside the oven Your body and your mind Body, set, and mind Know what I’m saying? Everyday Nine to five
11.
Lonely, Lonely Road 04:21
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A lonely, lonely road you’re on This lonely, lonely road you’re on The only, only only one You crawl before you only run The moon comes up before the sun
 You learn a lot, you feel a ton 
Then grow a bit, you rush to wait
 Countdown the time until your fate.
 This lonely, lonely road Your lonely, lonely road.
 You have a friend, or maybe some
 You get a job until you’re done 
Work down a list before it’s too late Find a cause to celebrate 
 You birth a daughter, maybe son Regret a lot of things you’d done If you make it late, somehow you’ve won Life beats and beats until there’s none This lonely, lonely road Your lonely, lonely road You’d only wish you’d known You might have taken it slow

 When love chimed in Life linchpin 
Love chimed in Loved and lost Lonely, lonely road

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released August 27, 2021

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Head in a Box Kitchener, Ontario

Based in Ontario, Canada, "Head in a Box" was created in the early moments of the 2020 pandemic, locked down and in isolation with a Baritone-8 acoustic guitar. The goal: to create songs as individual, fictional stories inspired by real people and events in an attempt to make the empty space, which enveloped the songwriter, feel a little bit less empty over the many, many months we were to endure. ... more

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