Braincase

By Alex Sugg

On RIVAL

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(Take me to this holy aisle and sing

Save me from this haunted island

Take me from this haunted photo.)

I don't believe you

Because I can't see you

Because Gods are made of man

And the questions that I have

Make me uneasy

Well, maybe its easy

To let it go away

In a drug to take your place

I'm done looking for it

I'm done searching for it

So take this as goodbye

And hold my word a promise

I'm done looking for it

I'm done searching for it

So take this as goodbye

And hold my word a promise

I want to leave you

Erase and release you

This hole sits in my chest

And the silence on your lips

Pushes me further

You feel so much further

Where is the love now?

In the fire, on the ground?

Well I've been looking for it

And I've been searching for it

So show me who you are

Or loose my eyes forever

Well I've been looking for it

And I've been searching for it

So show me who you are

Or loose my eyes forever


[Levi the Poet]

And I don't have all of your answers

I know because I don't have all of mine

But I do know that if we both

Wrote out all of our questions

And somebody took the time

To explain all the mystery away

(Maybe in numerical order

Calculated, textbook highlights)

They'd be cold and unable to sympathize

With divorce

With how you felt when your dad died

With the way San Francisco quaked

Like your heart break

Like our fault lines

Like the way the cityscape melts away

With the sunrise in the rear view

Like these memories aren't just mine

Like how beautiful and devastating for

Our hearts to fail at the same time

I don't have all of the answers

But the one that I do is that there would

Be no pursuit of them

Had not someone been pursuing you

Don't call it "doctrine"

Don't say "cliché"

Don't say, "cope"

Call it power

Say it's confidence

Say it's irresistible hope

That all of the longings that you're convinced

Are folly

And the groanings that you rationalize

Could collide with the answer that you've been seeking after

After he ignited the pursuit inside

And I know that there is no

Refining fire quite like suffering

Nor suffering as devastatingly beautiful

As when God died

Let our wisdom stumble across

The foolishness of that broken rock

Cleft for all of our wanderings

And resurrect in the tongues of love like

Men as trees walking

And then:

Clarity for the first time

Like the grace that saves you

Is the grace that keeps you

Is the grace that gives you life

Like "I will not let loose your eyes."


[Outro: Alex Sugg]

Kill the pride, kill the pride

I made my mind

That i want it

That i will trust you

That I will trust you oh

I'm here now, I'm here now