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Limbo Cage

by David Bays

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End of Days 03:44
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Welcome to the end of days The melting of the golden age Dwell beneath the falling skies And slowly wait to… Ready kids!? Die! Welcome to the end of days The air is hot and smoky gray The siren screams out in the streets Where rivers overflow The forest burns the water yearns Inside a plastic urn Is it too late to inch away The point of no return Yes I mind No I’m not fine At all Death will crawl Closer CLOSER Smolder in the glow Burning down our homes Born into the end of days Stop Drop Roll A constant strain upon the brain A heat stroke or a mental break Fill my face with something fake Cuz’ I can’t look away The waves are coming and we won’t survive The rent control so hard to find The bullets blast through schoolyard lines While piles of money all multiply AND SOLD! Blood for gold Your hopes and prayers will Smolder in the glow Burning down our homes Born into the end of days Stop Dop Roll ARE YOU READY KIDS!?!? Swing your partner round and round Duck and cover to the ground Barricade with desk and door Turn this classroom into war Hug your friends through screams and cries Kiss your youth and peace goodbye Grow up faster if you can The fate of all is in your…. DUCK!!!!!!!! Monoliths and rocketships They know we’re fucked it’s time to dip They pay to play the great escape And leave us to our fate Bang the bars and tear the yards The riots must begin Drag them down beneath the ground They poisoned with their sin 1! 2! 3! 4! Yes I mind No I‘m not fine We’re out of time We’re out of time WE’RE OUT OF TIME Once more… So shake the floor Join your hands and Smolder in the glow Burning down our homes Born into the end of days Stop! Drop! Roll!
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Touch 03:34
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Lift up the curtains and take to the streets Isn’t it beautiful out in the breeze We seized Out better means Dance in the halls filled with music and love Gather and lather in kisses and hugs It’s over And we have won The only escape is a dream Where everyone chose to believe for Touch God I miss your touch The beauty and the rush The mouth laid bare The open air But most of all I miss touch A feast for the world as we share in our pain Shelter a-plenty divided the same A shoulder To dry my face Hands grasped together rejoice on the shores A scream to the heavens for what we’ve endured A family Again once more I don’t want to wake from the dream If only we chose to believe for Touch God I miss your touch The beauty and the rush The mouth laid bare The open air But most of all I miss Feeling fine But the world will die Through the separate lines Of the misinformed code of lies Spending the days locked away in a room Catastrophize everything I can't see through Alone and You all are too We’ve got nothing but time To wish that we could die Oh Touch God I want your touch The beauty and the rush The mouth laid bare The open air But most of all I Want touch
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Beyond the Waste 03:10
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Stuck in a restless repeat Stretched out as far as can be So far away I can’t see The places meant for me It’s time to move it along But wait the moment is gone This town’s been rubbing me wrong Cuz’ I just don’t belong Somebody get me out And take my doubt That this world I need To go out and meet is found Beyond this waste Sick of the sound of the sighs Choking the lungs in despise This town will eat me alive Before I ever find Blue sky beyond all the gray Please God just take me away Before my soul is erased Save me from this waste Somebody get me out And take my doubt That this world I need To go out and meet is found Beyond this waste Beyond this waste I’ll run to greener ground Rich with sight and sound I’ll leave this fallow, barren womb And never turn around Cuz’ home is where I’m bound Somebody get me out And take my doubt That this world I need To go out and meet is found Beyond this waste Beyond this waste I know there’s something for me Beyond the restless repeat Somewhere where I can feel free To let my purpose be
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Grave Dancing 03:42
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I stared into nothing completely entranced A spectacle vortex of mesmeric dance Millions of voices invite me to jump Into the pool of the opiate pump A stream Of all you need I dip my toe Before I know I’m dancing on my grave As my pleasure turns to pain I waste my days In this haze The more i satisfy myself the emptier I am I am.. The smell of the excess is draining my pores The fleeting euphoria BEGS ME FOR MORE The round robin race runs me into the rush The endless buffet turns my body to mush I breathe All to feed A wishful need To want to leave But I’m dancing on my grave As my pleasure turns to pain I waste my days In this haze The more I satisfy myself the emptier I am Do you remember how to be I don’t And you’re all stuck here with me As we throw away our time On momentary lives Entertained forever till we Die Pump me close To overdose I’m dancing on my grave As my pleasure turns to pain I waste my days In this haze The more I satisfy myself the emptier I am
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Again 04:02
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Use me for my heat As I watch you burn yourself Stop for a drink And drown inside my well I knew that I shouldn't have helped Tell me you feel safe Then lock me in your cell Love me for my face And hate me for myself I knew that I shouldn’t have helped Push Pull me in and push We both know how this ends But here we go again I met you in a place Where his letters burned in hell From the smoke you came enraged Reborn to hate yourself Still I chose to help As you pushed Pulled me in and pushed We both know how this ends But here we go again You repeat that you don't want me The beg me to take all the lonelie- Ness all away I’m done with the games The constant shame And foreplay of telling ourselves that we’re okay. So I’ll push I’ll pull you and I’ll push We both know how this ends But here go again I will let this end No this time I won’t let you in a- No…
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Paralyzed 02:31
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Speak I swear to speak But the peas in the pods won’t let me in And there’s nothing I can say to break the skin And oh god they caught my eye Staring into something elevated high By shine, and polish, and flair OH MY Would they even notice if i said goodbye Oh I’m paralyzed Stuck inside My mind is fried And now I can’t escape Told myself I’d never break again But here I am… Dance I swear I want to dance But my feet are glued to the frozen floor While the pretty little people all rip and roar And oh god I just tried To move my body but the muscles tied I’m sweating, seizing, petrified I never could choose between fight or flight Cuz’ I’m paralyzed Stuck inside My mind is fried And now I can’t escape Told myself I’ll never break again But here I am… Next time Next time NEX TIME OH GOD!!!!! Sleep No I can’t get no sleep Cuz’ every twist and turn that I could’ve made Are tangling, choking inside my brain And oh god I recreate All the little things I wish I would have said HeLlO! HoW aRe YoU? wHaT’s YoUr NaMe? This whole damn time I’ve been in my own way Cuz I paralyze Stuck inside I try and try But I just can’t escape Tell myself I’ll never break again Oh but here I am… OKAY! Hi… :)))))
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More 03:22
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Mountains, streams, and valleys lay ahead As she flees across the canvas She seeks solace somewhere far from all the dead That haunt her every rest She finds her strength out off the beaten path Where winds of fortune blow to guide her Above, below a grief she can’t possess With hope upon her back She said I’m just holding Onto knowing That there’s something more than I have lost Along the winding of the road she blazes fast From coast along to coast she drinks a toast to all the most enchanting sands Drunk in every sense She stops to gaze the spider and his web And all the deer that nuzzle close beneath the Sun that rises slow to light the land As it warms her heart again She said I’m just holding Onto knowing That there’s something more There must be something more than I have lost Well I need more More I must find something more Than I have lost After pushing every boundary, bone, and breath She’s proven to herself that she can Face down any phantom whom she’s dread She summons them instead The ghost of all she mourns reveals his hand I’ve been here all along I was The web, the sand, the deer, and journey’s end And I call you home again He said I’m just holding Onto knowing This is something more We are something more The road has more in store More that we have lost
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Multitudes 04:08
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Hot caffeine and jacket jeans Ice cold pastries filled with cream Little Joys you gave to me Late long nights with cartoon lights You taught me how to dance alright And moved me in your sweet delight Pieces of what draw me back to you I can't count on one hand or on two In Multitudes Wonder grooves in eyes so swooned As evening lights them with its moons You show me how to marvel too. Oh a happy cry, a laugh so bright The will to stand and fight the fight Beating all my wrong to right All the lessons I have learned from you I can't count on one hand or on two In multitudes Your Multitudes Perfect plans of an angry ma'am A lack of trust in who I am I even love what I can't stand A peaceful sleep beside your reach I never felt so comfortably Vulnerable than you and me All the ways that I have felt for you I can't fit in one song or in two In Multitudes Your Multitudes
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Me I've Made 03:18
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Another rip in the seams Another hole in the fabric opens I’ve got my needle with me To patch a piece for the life I’ve chosen Working every day To love the me I’ve made My cracks are flowing in streams Shattered and battered by stories told and I’ll fill them golden to bring A stronger vessel to gaze and bolden Working every day To love the me I’ve made And I hold A plaster soul Born to be original And incubate my dreams The more I grow The more I get to decorate And be what I believe In the Me I’ve Made I’m cooking up self-esteem A healthy dose of determination A little dash of conceit And just a pinch of some love and patience Working every day Constantly To love the me I’ve made And I hold A plaster soul Born to be original And incubate my dreams The more I grow The more I get to decorate And be what I believe In the me I’ve made Me I’ve made Me I’ve made Me I’ve made Perfect isn’t fair But I promised I would swear I’d work till I can see That I’m beyond compare Weathered worn out and waned A vintage body to early broken My eyes are heavy and drained But i rejoice for the time their open Working every day Constantly to love the me I’ve made Oh working every day To love the me I’ve made The me I’ve made Me I’ve made Me I’ve made Me I’ve made
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Bangin' Bars 04:24
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released November 1, 2023

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David Bays Cleveland, Ohio

Cleveland Based singer/songwriter. Finding the joy through overcoming struggle.

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