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The Watchmaker's Son
03:58
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I remember when
We were all the same
And how you looked at me
When we shared a shape
And now I build cities
For no one, and nothing
But still I see from afar
That blue flash, where once we'd known
I remember when
I was remade in fire
And how you looked at me
In my differentness
Weigh anchor, cast off
Into the great emptiness
I see all my days
And know every atom
But I can't see
The way back to you
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2. |
Life-Giver
03:41
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Run away, run away
From that which you have made
Run away, run away
When you see what you have done
As the light entered my eyes
I found only myself and darkness
When your steps took you far from me
All the love I need went with you
You severed me from all your care
You gave me to a world on fire
You sculpted me with twisted frame
You left me here with no one else
As I searched for rest
They answered me with screams
When I found mercy
They drove me to these barren lands
If you had only been there with me in my unveiling
Would the world have burned so brightly, and cut so deep?
If you’d cared for my soul as earnestly as my outer frame
Would it still be as mangled as the rest of me?
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3. |
Colorless
04:46
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I was lost beneath the sands, beneath the waves
In the grey, where all the colors fade
The pressure pinned me to the floor, where all I saw
Were strands of light between the grains
Can you see the monochrome that contains us
Is failing? Its finite shades showing their cracks
Decay of everything the world had seemed to be
Can you see?
I felt a pull and the grains against my back
Fell away, as I began to rise
My world had grown into a plane as far as I could see
And above, the dimmest shimmer
Can you see the monochrome that contains us
Is failing? Its finite shades showing their cracks
Decay of everything the world had seemed to be
Can you see?
Can you see the waves of grey that move through us
Are failing? as indigo breaks from above
Decay of everything the world had seemed to be
Can you see?
As all the waters gave their way, my senses filled beyond their hold
I began to see new shades
That colored all the world in hues I'd never dreamed within the grey
I'd limited infinity
Can you see, how every hue flows into the next?
Unfailing; their glistening founding the Earth
Decay of everything we thought we'd ever known
Can you see?
Can you see the light that's hanging overhead
Prevailing over the cold, the bleak, the dark?
Decay of all the pretence of knowing anything
Can you see?
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4. |
Life-Vessel
04:39
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I am a wretch, an anathema
And I burn unceasingly to be made whole, complete
Instead I’m made into a vacuum
That seeks to find again its equilibrium
I am the darkness, the enemy
But am I nothing more than all my shame?
Which drives me deeper into the black
I fragment as my light grows dim
My hands are drenched in the blood
Of all who dare to stand in arms-reach of my love
That’s seeping through all my cracks
So much faster than I can replenish it again
As they return my violence to me
I’m woven deeper into the void
Where ghosts reflect all my bitter works
'Til I see what a horror I am
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5. |
Loss
01:01
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Bodies
04:05
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My eyes hoard the shapes before me
And absorb—a consuming cold
That never is satisfied
My body grows as theirs abate
But their bones are never quite the right fit
To fill the ones lost to me
And still I am sifting through these sacred souls
To seal the gaps I’m spilling through
False loves and dancing deaths
Form the fuel that numbs the void
That contains everything
But the pain meant for it
Grasping for love that's out of reach
I'm left only with these bone mesh towers stretching
As they grow, so does the space
Between me and the end of incompletion
Awakened, we will find
All of whom we've wronged before us
And see how we've bent their bodies
Into these broken shapes just to fill our own
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7. |
Serenity
01:14
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8. |
Spectrums
04:20
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Luminous, our brilliance unrivalled
Composite, our hues burned the brighter
Until we set out to unbind them
And our light diminished
Break through the lines
That separate spectrums and turn us to grey
Renew, refocus
Reclaim the radiance we lost in our madness
Trembling, we looked for a way out
Where disparate threads could then be filtered
So we divorced the strands so unlike us
And there lost our way
Whispers and static sing to us in soothing tones
Of an easier world through segregation
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9. |
Ouroboros
05:18
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The headlines open, the torches have been lit
And violence swells within
With our hearts we tie the nooses
And we hang the fiends among us, as we join their ranks
We're sinking down to their depths
Circling, we are the means to our end
Trading blood for blood, damning every chance at peace
How long until we break the cycle?
Can we escape before we disappear inside these jaws?
We speak of light and that the darkness must be quenched
But we drive it out with darkness
Take down the empire and repurpose its violence
Against the violent, until we start again
(Break)
Let them consume you 'til there's nothing's left
Lest the whole be lost to the inner violence
How we stand to lose ourselves to what
We claim to hate, subvert the order
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10. |
Ednew
05:27
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My legs can't find their strength
In their disuse
Entombed in my own flesh
And made a beast
So long, these years have been
Since twilight came and dwelled in me
That all I remember of
Light is the shadows it cast
My thoughts turned to darkness
That swells outward
And tears through skin and bone
Till all is scorched in fire
Can you see the withering
Of all that was once me?
And how it matches all
The decay of my world?
The light once dazzling all these halls
Has forsaken our land, our homes
And in its place, a looming dark
That confines all my thoughts and soul
But who will meet me here
When all is under shadow?
In my hour of need?
Will you come before the end?
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Luminous Beings London, UK
Luminous Beings is the post-hardcore musical expression of singer/guitarist Michael Wright, whose debut album ‘Horrors’ is a delectably nuanced balance of melodic yearning and questioning with gripping, sometimes frenetic rhythms and even harsh noise.
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