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Holding Out for a Hero
04:39
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The rain pours longer every night
The neon glows a lullaby
And it's haunted
Haunted with our pride
Corruption intertwined with greed
Performing interchangeably
But I wanted
I wanted to be free
A system of the absolutes
Distract to keep the people mute
And we'll all move along
But somewhere it's a different show
The re-ignition starts to glow
Far away now
They sing a brand new song
Now from the shadows
I can see their light
The lone stars shine
On the world's last night
Trapped in the veil
I've only heard their cries
The cities chanting
Their last reprise
Subsections of an institute
The work of bureaucratic brutes
They're trying
Trying to save face
But citizens of darker times
Have learned to question better lies
While they're running
Running out of space
But maybe there's one last resort
When our resources come up short
A light on the horizon shines alone
The cities in the distance live
With sanctuary left to give
Resistance soon ignites into a glow
Raise
Your hands upwards in praise
Not of the gods but rather
The human cause undying
The fear
Has held us back for years
We sold our hearts for nothing
We wasted our own time
At fault
With eyes on you all
They kept us scared and silent
And desperate to survive
The light
Grows closer every night
So we will sate our hunger
And know the world revived
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Never saw a view like the Earth from the stars
Wish I could observe but I'm stuck where you are
Suddenly in a dream state while drifting through space
Like personification, if truth had a face
Now I see you behind
The energy's shine
I want to believe
You could be
My dark star
I don't know what you are
But I've fallen so far
Without you
My escape
Want to see you create
A new world awake
Just like deja vu
Like hallucination I have seen but not heard
Here to be possessed when I'm too stunned for words
Silent communication, your thoughts into mine
Still dimensions away, my shadow out of time
Worn and lonely like me
But out here you're free
I want to believe
You could be
Wait
By heaven's gate
Open the door to things
I've never seen before
So take me ashore
Give me the eyes to see
What's in your violet sky
In your cosmic tide
I'll stay by your side
And float through time
Together we climb
Ascending beyond our scars
With you, my guiding star
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Glow (Reimagined Remix)
05:10
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Watch as the sky
Starts to ignite
Inhale the passion of the flame
Loosen the gears
Wipe off your tears
Turn to the players of the
Greatest game
The hall of fame
We're facing our fears
Two hundred years
We have been waiting for the turn
Trust and obey
Emperors say
But they forget that we
Live and learn
Our furies burn
Hold on
We're building new foundations
On whatever's left
When we reject the nation
Of hate
In its vulnerable state
When will they learn?
False words, no cares
When our world burns
Light up
And fight the fire with fire
When all else has failed
We fuel the blazes higher
Tonight
Set the system alight
What do they know?
Rise up and
Make this city glow
Holding a match
We're going to catch
Up to the first place after all
Never to miss
Born to resist
Against the cracks within
Prison wall
The firefall
Cult of the style
Spanning for miles
Refuse to roll back to the reign
Cut all the ties
Suffocate lies
Loosen the grip of all the
Colder days
Before the blaze
Arrange
The swirling winds of change
When life keeps getting stranger
They've had their time now
We will take the reigns
Arise
March on with brand new eyes
Take back their power
To confuse
The lives they've used
A storm
The future's getting warm
So we'll keep burning
What we built
To show their guilt
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Searching for direction
Aimless and afraid
You dread to see the future come
And take your home away
It's cold and unfamiliar
An outmoded charade
The hope of generations
Tossed aside, betrayed
You've been waiting for the truth to come find you
Are you speaking for yourself or your pain?
Do you sleep in the silence to wane the passing shame?
You are more than what your history made you
Let the ghosts of our fathers pass on
There's a new dawn to come when the past mistakes are gone
And now they're gone
Raised by hate and anger
Fueled with nation's pride
The time of change is coming
When the old beliefs have died
Make your choice enlightened
You can't trust the lies
Don't choose their side of history
Leave the old world far behind
And you feel misunderstood
Not succeeding like you should
But the game says you aren't strong enough
Work hard enough
You've been blaming friends you knew
But we all are victims too
Restricted by the ghosts of days
Long passed away
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I'm waking up
To new frustrations
Been looking for the light
Illumination
These Monarch lands
Hold tainted water
They're starving out the lost
Their sons and daughters
Get up and refuse
Pick a calling
They don't know your name
But I do
Sick of being used?
We're still falling
They won't be the same
When I'm through
Diverge the chase
Don't follow pace
Make your own way through the heavens
To raise hell
Drum up the last yell
For the ones just getting by
So my coin is flipped
And this sale has shipped
I am on my way to deliver
In motion
Gunning for a promotion
'Cause I won't let the status slide
I'm thawing out
Restored by starlight
I push against the tide
The planet's birthright
We're building up
A new solution
To tear it down for good
The institution
Get up and refuse
Pick a calling
They don't know your name
But I do
Sick of being used?
We're still falling
They won't be the same
When I'm through
Meeting up and crashing down
They're suffocating
In these godforsaken towns
We're sick of waiting
For the odds to flip our way
With pockets empty
We could force the board to pay
Light this starry night
I'll bring the fire
If you make this tragedy right
I've been inspired
By the cold hearts far and wide
The cheated system's
Gonna fight back for its life
Diverge the chase
Don't follow pace
Gunning for a promotion
'Cause I won't let the status slide
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Unearthed and trapped within the conflict
The strings behind the scene
Set to consume like selfish addicts
The envy turns us green
Our eyes shift up to one more face
Out of place and
Nightmares of murder and cold steel
Become real
Knives out
We're going down
Just like a slasher
It's a massacre
Bloodstains
On holy ground
Here's your happy ever after
Starved out in dust to make a killing
For shares that we won't see
Our minds feel hate and flesh is willing
We hurt what lies between
One second passes and you're gone
Our weapons drawn but
Somehow these kills won't make us whole
We've sold our souls
Alive for
The weekend
We're walled in
To contend
One could imply it's by design
But nothing's left, I'm taking mine
As nature rolls back time
Destruction
The horror
To blame on
The scorers
They sit atop and watch the game
Where no one wins and gets the claim
'Cause we all fall the same
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Brightly in a sea of light
The spotlight of a neon life
Is only shining for tonight
To spread across our culture's blight
Infected with envy
And restless for a change of scene
Keep your eyes on the screen
The storm has come
And life will never be the same
No rules or heroes
The only savior is your name
Fight the darkest nights
The only story's what you write
Trust the age of dust
There's no more honor 'til you die
Welcome to
The world that waits for you
Where the first one to the dollar
Is the last one left alive
The bright divide
Shining a spectrum wide
Into the cinematic future
Are you ready to survive?
Headstrong in a deadly race
The righteous never make first place
Pandora's opened unto us
The towers slowly turn to dust
New chaos roams these streets
So human, and spreading like a flame
At the end of the game
Set scene
Welcome to the future's matinee
No dreams
While we sleep in the dark of our last days
Don't breathe
In the smoke when the ash will fill you
Don't flee
Take the hint and watch the preview
No pain
Now the hurt just keeps us sober
One flame
Burning out to push us over
Mercy
Not a trace so don't tread lightly
None worthy
Take your place and hold on tightly
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Breathe it in
Feel again
Another plume of smoke arises
From a dark and forceful end
Safe from none
We've become
The old foundation of the timeless
Underneath the city's thumb
Players in the game
We're all just details in the background
Always out of center frame
Break the firewall
Retake your access and infect them
Send a message for us all
Codebreaker can't you find
Can you read between the lines of code
Tell me all that you know
How far down the hole does it all go
Altered and obscured
You're the virus and the cure, in one
Execution's begun
Leave the truth unlocked and we've won
Second chance
Newer plans
Fully connected and exploring
Intertwining in braindance
Turning on
When they're gone
Watch for the eyes up on the skyline
Where they see you from beyond
Set your mission tonight
We're slowly turning less than human
Just to numb this city's bite
Edge of new frontiers
We're making for the outer reaches
Where the badlands end right here
Codebreaker can't you find
Can you read between the lines of code
Tell me all that you know
How far down the hole does it all go
Altered and obscured
You're the virus and the cure, in one
Execution's begun
Leave the truth unlocked and we've won
We'll rule this town
Just to shut it down
Never, never
I won't accept but we're
Together, ever free
Outlaws in every system
Dimming, dimming
Our only light inside keeps
Winning versus greed
Embracing our condition
Give your time
I want to you show you now and
Break your mind
We'll be the start of a new
Rebirthed hell
Pushing the cracks in our own
Synthetic shell
So break away now
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It's not about regret
I just haven't settled yet
I won't compromise our future
For the things we'll never get
In a monochrome wide expanse
Where I got locked in a trance
Now we've got to take our shot
Or I fear we'll never get the chance
Heads up high and don't look down
Let's get the hell out of this town
Drive away and don't turn back
We'll find a better place than
These gray and broken towers for miles
We won't be safe yet for a while
We'll drive away until the end of the road
When it feels like home
Meet me out beside the lake
Where we drowned our past mistakes
I will always hold these memories
But that's all I'm going to take
Snap a Polaroid for the road
For the end of this episode
I know we've always tried to leave this
But it's hard to let it go
We could build our own commune
Find a way up to the moon
We could start again offworld
Across the stars
There's a way out left for us
At the city in the dust
Some say there's a hope
So far from where we are
Find the ocean on the coast
Drive away and leave your ghost
They'll be looking for us now
But we'll be gone
And if they ever find us out
We'll go as far as they allow
Then we'll embrace until our end
As the sky carries us on
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Safe from an early grave
But death feels closer still
When does the human soul cave
To find itself a kill
Promised a crown of glory
Fought for an equal stand
But fortune would never find me
In this blood red land
Why have I given my heart
I've fallen so far
Because now the future scares me
Why am I broken and small
I'd sacrifice all
For sainthood and sanctuary
After I sought protection
The saviors broke my bones
Lost streets that I remember
Now lie here alone
Mantras of greater purpose
End up left behind
The faithful don't deserve this
Desperate and blind
I would give anything
To know I'm not alone
I'm tired of suffering
When I once had a home
Fallen graces
Familiar faces
Never look like mine
Rings of fire
And holy water
Never turn back time
Why do I
Have many questions
Intel I can't find
Still unsure of
My mind's selection
To trust my fallen kind
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Out on a limb here
Just letting this year pass
Every second crawling
With no help from you
It's all a blur when
I get the feeling that
Everyone is bullshit
So I must be too
I'm undeserving
Of this old house of cards
Trust me, I will find
A quick way to lose
Stuck with the fear of
Living a better life
It's easy to feel safe
When there's nothing to prove
Set me on fire
Throw me away
I'd rather feel this than nothing
I know how to be afraid
Call me a liar
Make me feel small
I feel like this world should break me
But nothing changes after all
I'll never be perfect
But neither will you
In words left unspoken
We've buried the truth
No room left to breath here
Pressed under the knife
I know I deserve the silence
Of a disconnected life
Just for example
Say you forget me
To start over apart
And rebuild something new
It sounds familiar
Endings begin again
Each mistake I'm learning
A lesson from you
You know the scope of
My inadequacies
Between the lies
You acknowledge I'm here
I'll take the fall for
The faults of who we are
Give me all the blame
When I give in to fear
Crowded out
Yet alone
In this house
Not a home
I can't find the will to settle
In your eyes
I see pain
Not quite mine
But the same
You can't help but try to meddle
I've been sleepwalking again
Mindlessly searched for the end
What's in my head, and can I rest it?
I'm disconnected from you
My efforts leaving me bruised
Am I loved, or am I desperate?
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When you're crowded out by freedom's price
And you take a shred of bad advice
The system knows but you're kept underground
When you can't afford a flight to Mars
When you were never born to touch the stars
The endless maze of concrete wears you down
Can you theorize our better lives
Where the grass is green on the other side
We'd compromise and find a way to thrive
If you're scared of being left behind
Then you'd be so disturbed with dreams like mine
The realization that our world's alive
Control comes cheap
But nothing is fair
They wake you from sleep
But nobody's there
You walk among sheep
And that's why you're scared
You'll never be the man in the chair
Take your medicine and swallow down
All the bitterness that built this town
Don't let him hear you start to criticize
You know this array was rigged to fail
When you fall apart then you can't bail
To find a place of safety in the sky
Light a signal flare and find a way
Out of coerced androids on parade
Assimilation comes or else we die
When we worry still and break the rules
Then our consciences will make us fools
And you always end up the system's slave
When you are not enough to make it
They've taken off and left you naked
Like they did long ago to me
But now I'm free
They cut you out and tore the sutures
Out of the cinematic future
To shine with or without
To silence doubt
You know the shadows like I do
We're driven by what we've been through
And now we fall on the sword
We'll never be the chosen kings
We'll never know the finer things
But we can open up the door
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Aviators Fort Myers, Florida
Aviators is a Southwest Florida indie musician specializing in fantasy rock and gritty synthpop. Many songs are inspired directly by beloved video games, shows, films, and novels.
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