Separating From Myself, by Aaron Benscoter

Separating From Myself

by Aaron Benscoter

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1.	Your Dreams 03:52	buy track
2.	I Am 01:40	buy track
3.	Trying 03:09	buy track
4.	Surreal 03:57	buy track
5.	You 02:41	buy track

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"Your Dreams"

Now I'll go away
You'll see another day
Nothing feels as real
Lost in my ideals
Every Time I fly
I’ll see more than eyes
Could ever reveal
Trapped in the surreal

Now that I am lost
You will see the cost
Existing this way
Strips away your brain

Existential flight
Is what drives my mind
Don't let yourself fade
Into the charade
Everything you dream
Exists just upstream
If you swim enough
You'll break your handcuffs

Live your dreams
So you can be
What I conceive
As purity
Live your dreams
So you can be
Like me and
All the ones before us
Live your dreams
And you will see
Existence in
It’s clarity
Live your dreams
And please believe me
When I say
It’s possible

"I Am"

Rain drops falling down from the sky
My eyes closing slowly and I
Reach out into blinding lightning
Time stops and the cold is frightening
I sense more than one around me
Feelings soaring like that time we
Ran around asphyxiating
Ourselves it was more than frightening
Medicating myself and I
Find I’m falling into the sky
I am separating from my-
Self when I used to be happy

Now I am hallucinating
Am I real or fantasizing
Everyday I seem to find my-
Self embodying this fucked dream
Am I flying through the sky we
See when rain collides with our eyes
Everything you think is surreal
Explains itself through an ordeal
Time collides and all that you feel
Materializes in real-
Life and it will show you your way
Into the abyss where I stay

"You"

You went away and I corkscrewed
It’s not your fault cause I construed
That all my pain was caused by you
But I was wrong, cause you are strong.
See I'm a leech, I'm obsolete
I feed off life, I'm a blight
Yet you have love for everyone
And we had fun, but now it’s done.
I've become what you warned of
I fell in love with awful drugs
And when you left my mind regressed
But I still know, it would hurt you.
So I shut out my thoughts of you
When you came home I left you alone
To spare you from my toxic love
But I regret the path I took
I regret

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released September 19, 2016

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