Real Death (true) ft. Time, AwareNess & Oatmeal Queen Lyrics

I was born in Aurora, north Denver's where I reside

How many times have we done this before, how many times have we died?

Tetsuo city I see brown streaks like the bridge was crying rust

Trying to find nostalgia, but just breathing melancholia's dust

Blood on my cheek, metal in my knee, think of it as jewelry

Sleeved and resleeved, deceived, unsleeved and relieved

Past lives retrieved, besieged by grief, madness achieved

Demons and greed, sipping tulsi, found a teacher in a willow tree

Bardo dreams, 49 days but I won't return, I don't believe

No more jobs, no more debt, no more people robbing me

Time indefinite, there's no linear time, that cycle I left it

I made sad realms and hell worlds, the lord of death is my own projection

Do not stand by my grave and weep, I am not matter, I am not there

My stack is shattered, 4 elements, consciousness comes after air

Sometimes you need to devour yourself to keep something else alive

So help me unbuild these walls, hold my hand, let's climb inside

When I leave this world

My bodies gonna break and burn

Who am I gonna be when I unfurl?

What is real life, real death, rebirth

You gave me your story I didn't know they'd come and cut you down

I heard when kings would ride under you, your branches would knock off their crowns

Rain drops from your leaves, fall like tears it makes a type of tea

Your bark cures pain, your branches are tendrils, each one's a memory

But you're still alive in a different form I'm climbing your roots like a ladder

The moon pulls our tears, fearful thoughts I let them all shatter

Take these branches to the underworld, bend and sway with them like the wind

Make a harp from them, then play a hopeful song for a friend

Desperate thoughts turn to demons, gluttony is where sharing ends

But these are just our masks, we forget we are wearing them

If we don't care for others we can't know our own minds

To evolve is to be dispossessed, even from cycles of time

Let stems rise from my coffin sprout and give me boundless compassion

I went to hug her and only found leaves and the wool of catkins

Sometimes you need to devour yourself to keep someone else alive

So help me unbuild these walls, hold my hand, let's climb inside

When I leave this world

My bodies gonna break and burn

Who am I gonna be when I unfurl?

What is real life, real death, rebirth

I know when I leave this world

My bodies gonna break and burn

Who am I gonna be when I unfurl?

What is real life, real death, rebirth

What is real?