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2014

by Rswll

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1.
Shark/Spill 04:30
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Spill, pushing over the edges Overkill till it hurts again strange familiar shame Still, standing tall, broken legged Freeze for framed regrets Promise to promise nothing anymore Spill, let love flow too freely free-fall into dark Hope for cynic sharks Still, let love flow too freely free-fall into dark Feed your cynic shark or spill
2.
Damage 03:44
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Smoke breath, flame heart I saw the blood at the very start Still I, blind-eyed Bled my blinder softer parts And if I had known What an empty frail weight You were on me I would have dared to breathe But silently I caught my breath Feeling I had nothing left And I thought you were to gain Maybe siphon all I've stained Yes I wanted you really fucking wanted you now I think some things We are meant to lose, because You had the bad bones They were so cold They did not hold me They only fold Smoke breath, burnt tongue How I cried for your spit on gums Stupid when lonely I should have let you bleed You had the bad bones They were so cold They could not hold me They only fold You always strike out You cannot defend You are the damage Framed as a mend
3.
Star-Bored 03:36
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So I sail, siphoning your dark blue Blew me out the water Warned that I won’t hold on— Two reluctant ropes hang Parallel, we tango dangling, we punchbags hunger for the other’s throat But we once sought each other’s rope Oh, my dear, what happened? The water is rising Ice fills my lungs with a warm hug And still not soon enough You have your heart hang heavily Tell me I should readily lift you up You let go knowing I might hold your weight Wait, wait— This time I am mine Oh, my dear, what happened? The water has risen Two ropes hang threatening to tighten Between us waits a knife Two ropes hang threatening to tighten I hark you have the heavier heart Lights pried from eyes I once prized And I bored of stars blown starboard
4.
Broken Planets, Split Dust 04:28
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A candle cracked The oily dark A star that sparked, sputtered burnt right through the heart Explode the flame Start it again And wipe the blaze blood from walls that know its name A candle cracks The oily dark The tally scores another half-hearted restart Imbibe the flame And try to tame The growing holes from infernos that still remain ‘Cause I Cannot break your frame I’ve broken planets Split the dust, but I can’t rid your name So I,
I won’t stay I won’t run with a hollow light No broken flame The candle cracks It breaks in half The steady love that flew with parachutes of glass So shoot it down Applaud the fall This redone flame is not wanted, no, not at all (Bridge)

Cause when It gets dark inside No fires bring Safe light Just burns To remark the pain Serrated skin From starting again
5.
Friends! 04:00
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Floss out another glass bit I kissed the mirror again Tug on my sweatshirt drawstrings Not dead yet I still pretend Sometimes a slipping voice in my head whispers “this will end” I name that voice my nemesis I name that voice my friend Fingers locked in your skin cells My microscopic sex I hate hurricanes in my heart you hail with your breath Sometimes a slipping voice in my head whispers “this will end” I name that voice my nemesis I name that voice my friend I exhaust from the faintest fumes Then flee to my brain and back My back breaks when I spill that love I love to then retract Sometimes that slipping voice in my head is screaming “This won’t end!” I name that voice the nemesis who killed off all of my friends!
6.
Gravities 03:20
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Lights burst and the universe breaks Now we're screaming for some sound Count stars, 'cause the heavens know nothing Let them say we're falling down Flung far, at a breakneck speed Not a landing we can find That's fine, it'll happen if we want what's to want, when we're divine? Breathe out, we're without air But it doesn't matter when we can bleed Seven suns when the dark cloud comes Cosmic ice to please Then paint planets with palettes That are newborn galaxies on fire Scrawl names on a black backdrop No angels could retire Those are jealous eyes Crushed underneath the canopy Got a planet held together, no, they'll never split us They can't escape our Can't escape our Gravity Give birth to the meaning of life We can call the truth a lie Bend skies, we can bury the moon Our land will not deny Break time, cut it clean in half With a glass knife, if we choose Erase every past life Live it all again, the old renewed
7.
Tell Me 04:52
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Don’t stop the car I wanna drive get away with you light me up You, my favourite fuse My heart, he screams He has only known such quiet neglected dreams, so rat-a-tat blow apart my silence Hey, you can fill me up you can make me whole I just gotta crack your surface ‘Cause one is not enough No one is, alone You can give my life a purpose Oh, Clyde, just tell me where to run Yes I’m kicking out for fun But I can memorize the gun If you tell me where to run Just tell me where to run Won’t you tell me? Give a little love and just tell me where to run Don’t start the car Don’t forget to pack my breath I have come too far I sidestepped rain checked death My smile tight, bent into shape for the camera shot The world on me but your love is not Hey, you can fill me up But I can’t make you whole And never have I felt more worthless ‘Cause once is not enough for you and I can’t be alone so to the end I will play this perfect Slow it down, let’s get away I want a break from our escape you're not enough, I cannot sate your appetite for more I suffocate you Oh my, oh my The deed’s already done and I don’t know what to become
8.
These Nights 03:44
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Oh, you cut me off again Talking over me you stick your phantoms in my teeth and let them— Breed with your favourite girl Eyes on her lap but your hands on the wheel The film we watched was really fucking dumb I know you didn’t like it but you know your friends did They’re yelling lead They said my music’s shit And no one lends a cigarette so I just want to go home Shit I hate these nights I hate these nights You and all your friends and there’s me alone again I hate these nights I hate these nights Look me through my eyes and wonder why I’m picking fights I hate these nights I hate these nights Swapping all the lying spit Pretending that I’m fine I hate these nights I hate these nights Your jokes are weak, I wanna leave this bittersweet is hard to eat because it’s only bitter Driving is the only part I like but only when my head is buried in another world You call me weird My head is out again Hair up in the wind and really I can’t even breathe And not because we’re drowning in your smoke And not because you lost me in it, too I’m sick of getting through Glassy grins, thin hurrahs Part of which I never was A part of you I never was We should stay apart 'Cause the lights can be so unkind, Oh, the night does blind and I forget the night was never mine Shit I hate these nights I hate these nights You and all your friends and there’s me alone again I hate these nights I hate these nights Look me through my eyes and say tomorrow it’s alright? No I hate these nights I hate these nights Swapping all the lying spit Pretending that I’m fine I’m fine pretending that I’m fine I’m fine pretending that I’m fine I’m fine pretending—
9.
Within 04:24
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Dusted days Is where I tried to keep my bones safe Tried to hide the ruins of me As if they’ve never seen your face Pretend they don’t know your name That the string severed slides the same, no Turn away Your ignorance knows no blame Sand me down And try to fit me in your fault lines Pretend I’m made for you Then break me anew You wanna run? Then leave You think I think you’ve gotta piece of me that I can’t retrieve Oh, you’re blind So blind ‘Cause I wrapped the bandage around Keep your breath, I don’t wanna even hear a sound No more sound ‘Cause it’s a skinny, fine string You try to stitch a wound where your heart is lying within 
Golden decay And other trinkets to embellish my grave Insisting to salvage,
what could never repay The holes You’ve left behind you You’ve left behind You wanna run? Then leave You think I think you’ve gotta piece of me that I can’t retrieve Oh, you’re blind You’ve left a modicum of me But it’s a piece I’ll shape,
Won’t let you take I’ll throw back your greed.
‘til I’m free
10.
Youthyouyouth 03:44
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Everything hurts when nothing works and you are but a lie The salt of my awareness stings the wounds that never bind I laugh and laugh at irony as I am not the same So apart and so afar The youth, the youth today! I've had my turn and spun the wheel But hapless I was left Grey confetti in my hair with tears along my dress I have had my turn, spun the wheel swam in with the surf Spitting into scarlet cups For which I once I had thirst Everything hurts when nothing works and you are but a lie The salt of my awareness Keeps the sadder faces dry I laugh and laugh at irony as I am just the same Hissing at the happier That never let me play Youth, you youth You are not me Beneath my hands I’m whispering “Oh, how I would love to be…”
11.
Lava Lovers 03:59
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Whisper my name Reluctant conversations You only ever bring me up To bring me down again And now I’m feeling Yes I feel every finger Every inch you pushed inside of me Means nothing You know I need you Not at all But I want you the most And what is needing If you only need me To keep you afloat I would swallow your tongue whole But I’ve swallowed mine first I can’t catching my breath You caught mine in your mouth Cut my lips open Till my tongue fell out I cannot give A negative heart But I still will try If you're missing that part Don’t shake the sieve I Might find myself slip through Like lava lovers We must always move I cannot give A negative heart But you know I would die For a fucking restart And now I’m feeling everything
12.
The Introvert's Applause 03:31
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Sharpening my claws To internal applause For scarlet ecstasy For no one else to see A symphony of screams Is really all I need A chest that holds a rock Honey-coated talk Think I’m gonna change Liars Easy to explain Liars Think I can refrain Liars know Not what is fair What’s fair? When you’re a Heart eater You’re a heart eater
 Eat my heart, heart eater Predisposed to bend The arms of all his friends Celebrate the flesh And sacrifice the rest He who ate my heart Bred the very start He pushed me into love Then pulled me into parts
13.
Options 03:42
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I am bleeding with an energy Paragon of ecstasy Parallel to not a soul My own I’ve slain as therapy I do bleed and I bleed it quick My skin thin, my spine a stick Empty of your emptiness... I like it more like this. Being frank, your head is blank My blank beyond your flanks it lands Landing in oblivion And way above the race And the assigned airspace Staring down your staircase Keep away your airway when I don’t honour fair play I mind not a mind I’ve not I’m only blood, flesh, rot Save your saviour I don’t savour Severed your eternity Not good enough for heaven I will count down from eleven and convince myself that God was not good enough for me I know how it hurts I don’t doubt that it does To desolate the base you were hasty to trust But these were my options: kill or fold So, if you must, call me cold You will learn it hurts when you never give enough Find yourself suffocating that which you’d loved And these will be your options: Kill or fold But I will never call you cold I am bleeding with an energy when death is not an enemy and life makes light of friends sending syrups of the end I’m bleeding with an energy when endings mend means to me Now I don’t fear a thing Being killer of the king I know how it hurts I don’t doubt that it does To desolate the base you were hasty to trust But these were my options: kill or fold So, if you must, call me cold You will learn it hurts when you never give enough Find yourself suffocating that which you’d loved And these will be your options: Kill or fold But I will never call you cold I may not have your heart but on my lungs I do depend when oxygen weighs heavier than love does on the head And guardedly I'm hoarding all my love for me instead Amoral, not immoral And a mortal I am bent
14.
The Baddest 03:36
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I will saw you open, help you bleed Feed you with the shit that I don't eat I find luck in my loaded dice Playing nice no more with the human knife I weigh a hollow holo-gram Dressing up in glass Fake a megaton stance like The wicked don't rest But the baddest don't worry I am nothing left to hurt When I desert dessert Still I steal steel From your scraps and scurry The wicked don't rest But the baddest, they don't worry The wicked don’t rest But the baddest don’t worry Swipe your neck with my diamond ring Shine, flash, blink, I am sink or sting Cutthroat tongue I may choose to charge you say my scars will never hurt as hard as yours I’ll never hurt as hard as you ‘cause The wicked don't rest But the baddest don't worry I'll be nothing left to hurt When I desert dessert Still I steal steel From your scraps and scurry The wicked don't rest But the baddest, they don't worry
15.
(If) It Gets Better 05:02
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Look, I got your messages You redesigned the alphabet again You hate to be so fucking drunk But you will tell it all again another morning Till then I’m staring through a glass separating me from a colder world Tapping on my yin-and-yang and writing up songs while the night draws on And I know it’s not your fault that I can only feel alone. But sometimes we talk so tough that it’s all I really want I really wanna be grown Betting on a better life We swear it now, we’re unafraid Discontent with who we are when tomorrow's much better than anything today We just hate our bones, hate our skin Rather live a dream, imitate reflections of a better self on-screen We hate our bones, hate our skin Rather live a dream, imitate reflections of a life we’ll never see Ha, ha Oh, we want it right now And they say that it gets better if we only will to weather The fuck will I do up until then? And I know it’s not your fault you’re the easiest to hate and I can be so “paranoid” Too forgiving, all the same Betting on a better life We swear it now, we’re unafraid Discontent with who we are when tomorrow's much better than anything today We are digging holes in our hearts We self-destruct for sport Scrolling past another dream of which we once swore we would never ever bore But look, I got your messages You redesigned the alphabet again You hate to be so fucking drunk But you will tell it all again another morning Till then I’m staring through a glass separating me from a colder world Tapping on my yin-and-yang and writing up songs while the night draws on about us Digging holes in our hearts We self-destruct for sport then we fill ourselves with hollow dreams and minutely rapport We are digging holes in our hearts We self-destruct for sport Then we suffocate the yesterdays in body bag decor Digging ditches, growing graves inside a fickle chest else we kill off all the better things that never were the best And if we get better we don’t care, we won’t rest And if I get better then for now I’ll bleed to death

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"2014" is a compilation of Rswll's earliest work, consisting of three EPs released throughout the titular year:

"Things Hurt"
"apathy is the new black."
"rswl"

Having lost the master files, Rswll presents them sequenced anew and lightly remastered for this collection.

Although these songs are primarily pop in structure and melodicism, the weirder moments (“Shark/Spill”, “Friends!”) are unafraid to dip into experimental electronica. A wounded core beats throughout as Rswll sorts through feelings of isolation and apathy.

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released December 20, 2017

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