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Detained

by Jake Lennon

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Two pairs of trousers, a shirt and some tape is all that he offered the sea along with his money worn to thin and his last identity the planks on which he placed his trust those cold and weary feet setting forth from loss towards belief The last sight of land, the darkening shade the cold depths where life is discreet that same sea on which in just ten days two hundred souls found sleep the surface whispers broken dreams where hope fights desperately to pitch it's chance into the rising wind
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A tension brews behind these walls I feel that we are changing there's a certain hope that's bound to fall of desperate hearts kept waiting above it all there reigns a fear the old pain's not forgotten once the risk made our choice clear but now our will is rotting Permission's so much like a threat when held by those in power patiently they make their bets they watch and let doubt flower if they can catch and crush our hope they'll offer their salvation the acceptance of the hangman's rope to relieve this degradation Death is what we ran from there and patiently it follows pushed by time towards despair the self is stale and hollow Permission's so much like a threat when held by those in power patiently they make their bets they watch and let doubt flower and when you're told they'll send you back it completes the equation the mind collapses, something cracks and heeds the blade's persuasion
3.
Wait 04:10
Wait, little bird wait and you'll be free this decision must be made but not so carelessly wait, little bird leave it all to me empowered I know more than you can see Wait, common heart wait away the years in the dark your eyes adjust the empty cell made dear wait, common heart wait and trust your fear drown your hopes beneath your quiet tears Wait, fragile soul wait and know your place the belief in life is felt and shared but yours needs to be traced wait, fragile soul I will keep you safe until I find the proof of your disgrace Wait, dearest child wait and learn to trust that change and all it's sweet relief will only come from us wait, dearest child wait long for you must wait and watch the bars until they rust.
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Phoenix 02:29
Maybe if I refuse to eat then you will hear my voice I'll take the pain that they began and prove my final choice maybe if I refuse to drink and make the dear earth moist I'll sink towards asylum and rejoice Maybe if I refuse to speak I'll have a chance to sew express the secret suffering that they will never know maybe if I can pierce and pull my lips forever closed the feeling of dissent will somehow grow Maybe if I can light a fire something here will change I'll find a use for my lost heart that's twisted and deranged maybe if I can light the way with passion dear and strange the phoenix will arise out of the cage
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My poor little girl all the things I've put you through what else was I to do I did it all for you my poor little girl how was I supposed to know that they would have you thrown into a cell alone my poor little girl when you asked them for their help could they know the loss you felt as their white hand left it's welt my poor little girl just past ten you've met despair the love that they don't share makes the future cold and bare my poor little girl I have failed to give you hope for I have lost my own twisted and ingrown my poor little girl you stare with empty eyes your lips are cracked and dry your cheeks as cold as ice my poor little girl lost without a voice you proved you had a choice you've shown where life is poised my poor little girl brought from strife to strife detained and out of sight a child takes it's life.
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A Prayer 03:49
Praying for a window on a wall not to touch or even heed the call just to know that my lot is not all to see the flow of life for mine has stalled praying through a gap between the bars to see the distant hope of dwindling stars silent so as not to spread my scar I think of home and search my memory's shards praying just to feel I'm not alone that still a part of me remains my own that something in this life is set in stone despite the depths to which my heart is thrown praying and I truly do believe for others here have suffered just like me and somewhere in this pain that makes us we I've seen something that brings me to my knees.
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Return 02:43
What part belongs to both of us the free and the detained what's the part that makes us we and what does it contain what lives without a thought in ease or trapped by hate decays what can it do to give this thing a name? Who am I beneath the weight of tyranny and force how can I exist in time when they have stopped it's course I fall and no-one hears the sound so no-one feels remorse how was I to know what was in store? How can power grant belief and crush another life cut away the fraying threads that run from hand to kite who can see their suffering and still proclaim the right to dive into the long and darkening night?

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These songs were inspired by the stories of people who seek refuge from war and persecution, particularly those who find themselves detained by the Australian government.

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released October 1, 2015

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