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Wasted Weaponry

from Quitting Tomorrow by Variex

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wasted weaponry

black ink to symbolize the only road taken, where shadows get caught in between the holes in the pavement. running your fingers over the surface to trace the lines that lead us to a deeper meaning so sacred. the pinprick into your thick skin for good, with the perception of the liquid that always goes misunderstood. dripping into whatever you want to become, so pick and choose your undeniable worth when the rhythm begins to pull. sinking through the mess of a future past life of new flesh. anything to keep the memories of you fresh, while convincing ourselves that are bodies are still not useless. sever purity and cauterize the loose ends. embrace identity, the recipe for setting free the creative self-proclamation of destiny. enduring the pain to chase away the enemies that we conjured from the ground up with our wasted weaponry.

they’re always running like they’ll never come back, but i can see them think twice from a lifetime away. no sun on this path, stumbling over your tracks. showing the world with no words how you define your name.

mother nature forbid they see it as a flaw. willing to settle in stone and bleed for the cause. the battle for definition remains a free for all so we cover up the questions as protection from feeling small and exposed. all previous notions to be let go, when the voice of reason is a slowly decaying echo. try to walk the line between desire and necessity without stepping on toes, or at least not on your own. wishing in a salt water well, high expectations and a threshold you can’t acknowledge was crossed. caught up in reflection of all the time we wasted. the train of thought we follow to hop on and get lost. whether life, love, or god, we all have our reasons to keep reaching with no net to fall back on. burning like the sun to your retinas just to be consumed by permanency seeping through exteriors of me and you.

no matter the measurement of sentimental blemishes, twisting around, in and out of a circular motion. peripheral background noise developing into your intention. analogous to life perpendicular to the ocean. walking in backwards, authoring your own canvas. breathless, teeth clenched. in a place you won’t be found where even the brightest stars vanish. hold it in, lose yourself in a deep breath. no matter however you measure it, we all have sentiments under these blemishes. twisting around, in and out of another circular motion. peripheral background noise steadily developing into your intention. analogous to life perpendicular to the ocean. walking in backwards, lending yourself to the author’s canvas. breathless, teeth clenched. in a place that you wouldn’t be found where even the brightest stars vanish. hold it in, lose yourself in a deep breath.

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from Quitting Tomorrow, released May 8, 2010

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Variex Oakland, California

Variex is a Bay Area, CA based music producer, rapper, and engineer. He is a co-founder of the New Cocoon collective and has worked with artists like Ceschi, Factor, 2Mex, and Alias. He has also shared the stage with Cage and Sadistik, released an album on Milled Pavement Records, and founded his own label, Red Tempo Records. Variex's newest album, Struggle Sandwich, is out now. ... more

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