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Ȝæ, Ȝæ
08:47
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And so you wove a spell for me
And so you fell to me
And so you painted the world for me
And so you swam the sea
My heartbeat marches me on, and on
The once devoted will wander
The heart opens and by arrow is spilled
We are filled
We are filled
Are you to be my regretted, oh beloved?
Are you my regret?
Are you my regret?
Are you my regret?
My regret?
Bring me out of this dream
This dream (This dream)
Where I cannot speak
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2. |
Ought Nots
06:50
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Don’t dare to speak its name
It’s best when left untamed
Fall back and hold you stayed
Let be your normal ways
Though you’d cry out, it’s still the same
Be careful who you choose to blame
Hold your mind unmade
Let be your normal ways
Hold still, draw the curtains ‘round
Disappear without a sound
But it’s still the same
It’s still the same
And the moment passes
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Go take nine steps
Withdraw
Burn the bridge, you ought not
Speak your mind, you ought not
Even try, you ought not
Lose your mind, you ought not
In this everlasting peace
You’re the last one who’ll be
Don’t dare
To speak its name
Let be
Your normal ways
Let be, let be
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3. |
Wisp
05:04
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Never been so hard to know
To hold the arch on high and fit the keystone
Never been so hard to know
To hold the figures still through fire and brimstone
A mourning song (Lullaby, sweet one)
For all that lay beyond (Let the days and pains roll past)
The highest gate without a key (Pure of form, pure of mind)
A psalm for all uncertainty (Break above the caste of time)
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[Unintelligible]
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Empty heart in empty head made
Stepping sure through hazy hell
Burned-out branches and briars prey
Simple subjects like iron break
Buried now I rest in trance
Will-o’-the-wisp, guard my grave
Spectre I once thought I knew
Figure I’ll ever pursue
Sleep sound in sweet embrace
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4. |
Held Haunt
06:14
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Why don’t I remember
Why don’t I remember what you told me?
Burn me at the stake I make
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Skinned and pinned and pulled back curtains
To find a thread long woven through me
There’s no purity
There’s no purity
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And only Time will tell
If we’re lost or if we’re found, oh.
We drift down a river
While it tears down all we make
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What am I forgetting?
Where is it I’m standing?
Maybe I flow, and down I go
And on it goes, and on, and on
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Now behold what we’ve become, time crushed down to a thimble
Breaking against these eternal wrongs, as if we really moved at all
Smile, you serpent, and light our heads, as you always have and always will
As if tense were anything at all
When we’re held haunt
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A Psalm
08:35
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Hear me when I call, O God
Have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer
I walk here among your people: here I am among your children
I see your face on a stranger, before I turn and look again
And my eyes are ever straining
To overcome a starless night
This world will never end
The gate is ever shut
Down here I’m lying
The sun is dying
The sea is rising
Your hand is falling
We are light, we are heat (Down here I’m lying)
We are snuffed out with a goodnight kiss (The sun is dying)
Pure of form, pure of mind (The sea is rising)
Ashes to ashes, prisoners of time (Your hand is falling)
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6. |
String By String
04:42
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You live a half life, it’s true
A ghost—in a shell, in you
Dancing with the forms of night
Painted blue, and painted white
Yet no known reason or rhyme
Or words could ever describe
The simple lack of pretension when
By wolves you’re swallowed alive
Rising up, string by string
We’re rising up, by bloody strings
I’ll go higher
I’ll go higher
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Make believe, pretend to see
Hold fast when you need to breathe
You can’t touch it, you can’t feel it
It only wraps you in its teeth
So lay it over string by string
Lay it over string by string
Lay it over string by string
Lay it over string by string
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7. |
Loose End
12:00
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Atom bomb, shorn men mark
Immolate my mind and my sickly heart
It’s all so clear, it’s all so clear, it’s all so clear—you could burn my sins away
Free me
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I’ll board the train
As the sky turns grey
‘Cause I can’t bear to face the wolves
We hate to see a good thing die
How deeply my fear in memory’s sown
You could never know
As I fall into an autumn scene
My bones exposed, my battered machine
My loose-end worries leave my soul
Everything’s outside my control
So we’ll drift and sway
As our forms die
So we’ll drift and sway, as our forms die
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But when the sun comes up again
And burns us for our sin
I’ll run and board the train
Lest the world cover me again
Loose end, loose ends
They’ll stab me in the back again, and again, oh
So we’ll drift and sway
As our forms die
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8. |
Bilge Eyes
15:09
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You’ve wronged me
You’ve wronged me
You’ve wronged me
You’ve wronged me
Drift in the Yellow Sea
Time and I, paralyzed
Haze weaves through me
In a limbo between the lines
Anyone could replace me
I don’t know what I am
What I would give for unblank eyes
As I feel a leviathan come close
Feel it come close
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I’ve no power, I’ve no power
I’ve no power, I’ve no power, save us, helpless
Helpless, mindless! Helpless, mindless
Save us, save us
And behold the wicked soul, and behold our wicked curse
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It’s all the same, it’s all the same
I don’t know why I stay
I’m held, bound, tethered
By the hollow pull of the moon
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9. |
Before the Fall
07:22
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I’d hold your hand in Eden
If not for the veil between
The perfect, the shapeless thing
Was never meant to be
Child of pale parent lay
While in my head you remain
And autumn falls around you
And bones crack, and flesh burns
I hold onto you
And I’ll never let you go
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You make me wrong, you may be right
I’m tired of the wait
Release me, please. Release me, please
Push me, pull me, I’ve seen it all before
Stay a while, please
In the rhythmic arcane, in drugs and cityscapes
We’d whisper and curl—hold onto me, please
Perfect intangible, rational animal,
Nine steps down will make the feeling go away
Make the feeling go away
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Moses, or Virgil
Will lead me up, and make you mine
They’ll lift their hands, and light my mind
Reveal my part in the symphonies of time
I’ll loose the chains, and shed my skin
Lose myself in the torrent again
I let you go—now, don’t look back
But for God above and heaven lament
Lead me up, step by step
Lead me up, please
Up I go, step by step
Up I go, up I go
The upside-down will make perfect sense
When the world is righted with power immense
In a fury of strings, with the sounding of brass
I’ll sleep in Eden, loving at last
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Wightfall Atlanta, Georgia
Art, Alt, and Experimental music from GA, USA.
I am an independent artist making music as cheaply as possible.
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