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What It Means To Be

by Belle Noire

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1.
Regret 03:53
Is it too late to make up for the time we've thrown away Though we should be the last to preach of decay When we're all thats left of here, How quickly we've disappeared Oh will we just find a way, to satisfy their greedy minds and owe No explanation for the way things have come apart and all the while, you've grasped the opportunity to pull the rug from beneath our feet For the one who's so prepared, was caught just like a Deer in the headlights As the lies they grow in size, you finally realize there's nowhere to run to And every bridge youve burned, were the only way that lead you straight to home Ive seen it before, an now you've done it again and I can't seem to be the one to break the mold and pull away It kills me to say that if I only had stayed, maybe you would not have turned out so damn wrong.
2.
Sleep 03:38
If only I could find a quiet place to take you While your hand so firmly in mine Shaken by the moves now we become so confused eventually all that you know will fall away So stay awake and dont let go We're scared of all the weight of the unknown So hide your eyes and stay a while Before long your welcome has been worn She will be the death of me and all I've known And all the while shes guided me back home Take all the lies and take all the fears Sleep this one off now for me And this is where find ourselves pretending were alright a brief exchange of passing glances is all ill ever need And you come to find, that we can never truly align And weve carried on, but we'll never regain our time You've made this bed Now won't you finally lay in it
3.
Steadfast 05:18
Please take me home and Separate me From all these needy hands, and all of their Demands We sit at separate ends of this Dim lit hallway Only separated by these paper thin walls and though we might as well be miles apart in different times drawn together by these grim circumstances Your mind it changes with the tide From port to starboard side All hail the martyr to finally hear her cry The weeping has gone unnoticed and i feel invisible in that I have no home when These waters are my bride You know not of your potential, just how to lie So quick to fall into complacency and for what kind of life just selling yourself short, and you know not of your self worth resentment resentment that all your biggest fears have come to light Steadfast we stand on our two feet again Steadfast in hopes of reaching dry land Steadfast our shoulders strong So we can carry all the weight of the world as if youve tried.
4.
Ive heard this calling before and I could barely see What lies awaiting in the eyes of the one who calls me home But when's change coming, improvement so to speak when all i know is these Ideas have failed us all before And I wont bare witness to this, this planned unconsciousness if I leave you all out here, Ill leave with dignity All that Want for us is to lay inside and dream for a while To share something more than just the common fleeting of our younger days We sit and think about, reminiscing Only to find these words you've placed so carefully They lead me back to you Is everything you are Everything you want to be The only option I can give you is to always come home.
5.
If silence is golden then why cant i see the way I hear And all that we know is that perception is key to be who you've always set yourself out to be and no explanation for your sudden need to feel alive Because Im running out of alibis and Im running out of lies to hold on to we have all these roads, and nowhere to go to hide from The truth of who we really are Im awake, and the clarity is hard to take And I cant help but think about what you just might be thinking now and your worried state of mind, when everyone youve known is intertwined your sunny days have gone away into the middle of the night If prides a virtue then Ill never change a thing Im just so stuck in my ways, Ill never learn to live again
6.
Fade 04:45
Fade into the floor you'll never stand out among the ones Who'll call you out to anywhere they stand for the sake of being next to you You being light and vibrance to a world thats, dimmed for so long This is the symptom of all we've come to know A little part of you dies so you can grow Dependent on whomever is most convenient and free at the drop of a dime But the confidence wanes at every failed attempt Ive made for you to stay and Who's to know if I paint this picture on and move along Into the next one you find to have a face you deem worth saving now So I stir and I pace, and I can't shake the feeling, that I'm all i have left to blame If all this is a myth, why do we strive so hard for it When failure is imminent.
7.
Everything 03:02
Is everything exactly how you pictured it would be So carefully I've chosen to remain the one who always takes the safest way home in hopes that i would find you there and I'm planted so firmly on the ground and I realize my ship set sail so long ago She wont be coming home Just when you think you have it all so figured out I swear youre wrong and I can only hope you learn to forgive half as much as you place the blame and one day you wont have to beat yourself up for years long past I wanted more I wanted more for you More than I wanted anything.
8.
Green 04:00
Am I a figment of exactly who you thought that I should be I only hope I didnt steer you wrong and let you down exactly like the ones who've came before Vicariously we live With the Dawning of the days we lear with every breath weve been so fortunate to take That these days press on, and so will I as I attempt to regain any use of these, old and tired bones If I could bring you back, to show you what it means when I say That in good time You'll see it all first hand that we've all lied, but we're alive and then you'll figure out the company you keep is full of thieves and youre the accomplice now We've all sold out on our ideals to the highest bidder We've placed a price on something as precious as time and We're caught in the wake of it all But you went through it all in vein Just to throw it all away You threw it all away
9.
From the minute you arrived you came and turned my world Into a beacon of light, and you harnessed all your energies and you wasted them all on me, and now its time To show more action and be sincere you'll finally listen when its all you hear Raise your standards and forget your needs, and focus inward on what is relevant Time flies when you're in motion This time we're stuck on the notion That youth is infinite These city walls will never be enough to hold me and when I finally arrive and I can't find any reason left to stay.

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released July 15, 2016

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Belle Noire San Jose, California

Reverb/ Rock Quintet from San Jose Ca
Est. 2012

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