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Cooperate
04:16
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Pen the poem as it appears on the page / Stare awestruck at the blazing stars / You can never escape, but you can see this tiny sliver of our galaxy
How presumptuous we are / To even think to call this ours / Can you even imagine what the hell must be just out of our reach?
How can you expect me to just sit here quietly / When there’s a whole Universe inside my head and we all know there’s at least one more outside of it? / But still, you keep me caged / Ask me the same questions every day / But I will not, no / I will not cooperate / I will not cooperate / I will not cooperate
How long does our kind last? / When do the stars collapse? / If you die then you are nothing / And soon will be the day when at last you are forgotten
The Sun engulfs the Earth / And everything is scorched / Billions of years of history long since passed / Nothing left, nothing left, nothing left
And after all that / After the Sun explodes / Everything that once was is dark and cold / The timing is irrelevant when time stops / And the Universe dies
How can you expect me to just sit here quietly / When there’s a whole Universe inside my head and we all know there’s at least one more outside of it? / But still, you keep me caged / Ask me the same fucking questions every day / But I will not, no / I will not cooperate / I will not cooperate / I will not cooperate
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Barcode Tattoo
04:58
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Oh my love yes I insist / Tattoo this barcode on my wrist / With it we can prove to me and to you for once and for all that I exist
You and I, we’ll set a mattress in front of the record player / You and I, we’ll take off all our clothes / And we’ll put on Radiohead and we’ll just lie there nearly dead / Naked and exposed
Oh my love yes I insist / Tattoo this barcode on my wrist / With it we can prove to me and to you for once and for all that I exist
Oh my love yes I insist / Tattoo this barcode on my wrist / With it we can prove to me and to you for once and for all that I exist
For hours we can lose ourselves / Just staring at the ceiling and holding hands / I promise that I’ll only get up to restart the album / Or if need be I’ll get us more tea
Oh my love yes I insist / Tattoo this barcode on my wrist / With it we can prove to me and to you for once and for all that I exist
Oh my love yes I insist / Tattoo this barcode on my wrist / With it we can prove to me and to you for once and for all that I exist
Feel the planet as it spins / Global warming kicks us all in the shins / But for this moment / Nothing but you and I matters anyways
Oh my love yes I insist / Tattoo this barcode on my wrist / With it we can prove to me and to you for once and for all that I exist
Oh my love yes I insist / Tattoo this barcode on my wrist / With it we can prove to me and to you for once and for all that I exist
Oh my love yes I exist
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Stories
05:07
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Curled under a blanket at night / It was not the heat that kept me warm / With feverish excitement, I’d plunge / To find that I have gills
I find that passion doesn’t last / Often to my own dismay / For that, I must thank my parents / Loving mom and dad
What a strange thought to think about / All that makes them unique / What a strange thought to think about / Everyone thinks
My mother is a raging sea on fire / Cannons quickly loaded, quip and query well researched / And the other hand my father / Logical, reasonable, and quiet
I used to think that I only took after her / Still more like her day by day / But it’s times like these I remember / My father’s in here, he’s just harder to find
What a strange thought to think about / All that makes them unique / What a strange thought to think about / Everyone thinks
We’re so beautifully alone / Yet we’re so tragically together / Who were you at twelve? / Who are you now? / What a novel this would make / What stories we could tell / Tales of adventure, heartache, and sorrow / Fiction with real life mixed in
His wife and kids died in a car crash / She fell in love with her best friend / He has an adorable rescue cat / She writes poetry about a dead uncle / He fought in a war / She stubbed her toe at work / He loves decorating cakes / She’s an ex-bodybuilder / He has a movie review blog / She’s a big vinyl fan / He wants to start to date men / She’s top of her class
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End of Man
04:10
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The man looks down at his filthy hands / And he thinks to himself about what he’s become / Nothing spectacular he thinks to himself / Has come about in this life of mine
This beach / This beach is a curse / This beach / This beach is a curse / For better or worse / This beach / This beach is a curse / For better or worse
Wading, is what he decides he will do and he begins to traverse / The long white shore / As he walks, he walks West until his calves begin to burn / And he turns towards the waves and begins to walk again
This beach / This beach is a curse / This beach / This beach is a curse / For better or worse / This beach / This beach is a curse / For better or worse
The water begins to wash over him / As he makes his way into the inky black / There is a point, at which the cold water begins / To feel like silk there’s no light, no tunnel, no shadow, no darkness, just empty
This beach / This beach is a curse / This beach / This beach is a curse / For better or worse / This beach / This beach is a curse / For better or worse
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Kostyn Ontario
My name is Kostyn. I am a student, writer, musician, creator, appreciator.
Here is some music I
made.
Some of it will show up reincarnated in other projects, some of it will not. For this reason the songs here will likely be fairly bare.
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I write and sing for The Polar Bear is Mine.
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