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Swarm
05:32
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The cure for my disease waits patiently
Closely guarded, her light breaks on me
My aim is true, and eyes are wary
The blessed fruit lies just beyond reach
Barred by fire and barb
My breath becomes a blaze
Breathe in her shadow, taste its unmaking wake
This dazzling dark hollows out my chest
Black fury spirals through this brittle architecture
Subdued, the fibers let go their tethered bonds
Breathe in her shadow, taste its unmaking wake
This dazzling dark hollows out my bones
Her absence, now woven into my skin
Has marked me an omen to all
She burns in their veins
And leaves me devoured
As I immerse in clouds of teeth
Her light, in blinding brilliance
Withdraws the air once left to me
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Singularity
05:54
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How blackness coats my bones, and flows from the marrow
Its fingers have draped over my eyes
I wear it as a cloak, amidst the lightless skies
So that only I can see, the path that I have gone
But in this place, my steps fall into the shroud
I’ve lost, my bearings/sight, of where I had meant to be
This, black, it’s gravity, tears oceans free, of skin and stone
It won't let me go
She calls from burning black, Her words in softly spoken flame
That burns the black from me, reveals my skin
Although I stumble through, a sea of pointillistic gloom
She finds Her way to me, across the distance
The aether hems me in, despite all my best efforts
At once I embrace and deny it
I’m caught in the tension, between the two pulls
I begin to unravel, and will soon be split apart
Come: unify, restore, make whole
Before my shape divides
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Floods
07:43
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"All hope is lost, all hope is frail"
The waves taunt and scorn
"We will bury your dead in our belly
And dash your living upon the rocks."
I cry out for hope, for a chance
But they seem distant and past hope
I'd be content to die in your arms
To feel your pulse cover me in my dying breath
My arms grow weak, and I start to slip
Your shape conforms, around my own
There never was much hope for me
For a man like me to leave, escape these gaping jaws
I am released and reeled back in
Your many arms manifest their indecision
You fill and drain my lungs over and over
Leaving me hanging between life and death
Cover me in the sands, cleanse me on the reef
Let me drink deep the killing sea
Let it have from me my water, and the bones it leaves behind
Blessed sea, take everything from me
Sink, sink down deep
The aching holds me down
Where there is no promise
Where only silence survives
I am haunted by your wake
It unravels me, it undoes me
It pulses and drones and swallows me whole
Flood my lungs till all that's left of me is you
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Leviathan
06:35
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Why have you haunted us so, O bringer of death?
You weigh our backs with crushing sorrow, that sates your thirst
And how you've loosed your knives on our hearts
What bitter joy derives from all of our pain?
All things give homage to you, all things in dread of your touch
You take our bones as offering
Our substance clasped and unraveled
We see the doom of all things lovely/bright
You turn our white to black, diffusing all our hope
Our portion left is bitter sighs
With teeth of skyscrapers, that twist and tear our deeps, you put an end to all our good
We sought untainted light, uneclipsed by your gloom
But your shadow stretches over all
But whispers of flickers of light lie (glide?) within our hearts
Where shadows and silence can never quench our ebbing flame
Let our days of sighing end, and all the bitter chains that have held us here
Give us Light in these darkened days, when all we see are stirring shadows speaking [in] signs
But is there an end to his reign? A light that breaks free his shadow's gravity?
Unbind us, as our ribs are intertwined
Unfetter; can his cords be overcome before our collapse?
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Into the Dark
05:13
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Your light is my path, it shows my steps
But I've been in darkness all my life
These thorns and fangs cling to my feet
From all the missteps that have taken me
Is this everything? The reach of my hand is so short
Is there no grace, that I am chosen to wander on my own?
You saved the world, but am I the grain
That fell through the cracks in your fingers?
Made apart from the whole
Imprisoned inside this breaking shell
Is this everything? The reach of my hand is so short
Is there no grace, that I am chosen to wander on my own?
I fell into the dark and I became it
It covered me, it grafted like skin
It wrenched the light, to bend it around my shape
So that no one could see, to pull me from its grip
My hands became twisted roots, while I I've knocked unceasingly
I could hear the footsteps, on the other side of the door
But the answer never came, I saw the glare then flicker out
So I'm left in this cold, where my light's withheld
All is lost and all is vain, vapid
Will I leave shriveled, swallowed up in thirst? Refuse
Will my light be quenched, ever darkened in the ash?
Will Hope show itself before the end?
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6. |
The Empty House
01:16
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7. |
Muad'Dib
02:57
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The poison is thin, as it spreads in our minds
So subtle and strange, yet familiar as our own
Its shape our atmosphere, expanding to the stars
'Til soon it overcomes, and no other breath exists
I see, I feel it stir
The fear that kills the mind
Its paralysis, has taken me
As it seeps into my veins
It guides my hands, and shapes my lips
And though I look for escape, it's out of reach
They follow my steps, as I follow the fear
Together we go, where resistance is thin
It swells all around me, and grows to violence
Oh, it must be stopped, before the fall
They’ll tear down everything, piece by piece
For the “greater good,” they'll shed the weaker parts of us
I hold the keys to free them from their fear
But still my hands are trembling
So finally it's come--it's here; convergence is at hand
The fate of worlds, of stars, has rested on these hands
And I stood by and watched the fall of galaxies
When all this time I knew, but did nothing
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Anchors
05:08
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The anchors hold me, but their grip, is not enough
They drag me down, too weightless to brave the storm
"Save your breath for the sea, gather all you can
Break the skin, and descend, into the dark"
My lungs are too small to carry me where
The depths embrace my chest
And the silence calls out my name
To know the taste of its blue love
The Earth laid bare underneath blankets of cold
Lighted only by the death that holds me here
"Save your breath for the sea, gather all you can
Break the skin, and descend, into the dark"
"Oh, save your breath for the sea"
Softly they sing
Their melody breaks my will
As they mark me for death
Their design brings me into the black
I feel the weight hem me in
Relentless in their indifference
They rip me to shards innumerable
Oh the fires pour into my lungs
Carving their shape out from my chest
And I sink into the heart of the Earth
As my bones and my thoughts become one
All I’ve ever known is within this shroud
When all I wanted was a way out
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9. |
Symbiont
03:36
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Your grip has fastened us here
Pending above the jaws of death
Your arms will shield us from him
Swiftly hold us, lest we're gone
Find us, we are all lost
Buried inside this shell
Breaking and soon to fall
Catch us, the light seeps in
The serpent's jaws tempting your arms
To let us fall into his grasp
His words like poison in our veins
They make us like stone, like corpses
Unliving and unfeeling things
Stay your ears from his plea
Find us, we are all lost
Buried inside this shell
Breaking and soon to fall
Catch us, we're breaking through
Light us, we cannot find our way
And all the air is crushing us
We are losing animation
Hear us, we are alive, we're here
And all our shell is stressed to break
To spill us out in the jaws of
The serpent, longing for our taste
Oh, come and save us, set us free
"Still I'll find a way inside"
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10. |
Glimmer
07:21
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The shadows shutter, a glowing fracture marks their fabric
With flickering arms, She reaches against this crushing dark
But how long have I spent here, in the black
That my eyes can scarcely discern the undark
Down here, where cold is king
The pressure held my eyes closed
'Til sight was only myth
But Her song, so luminous
Still rings in my ears
Oh, how long have I spent here, in the silence
That my ears can scarcely hear the melody She sings
Her brilliance lost in broken synapse
Where shadow feeds on fear and fault
But can She break through the miles
Of death and gloom that keep me here?
Where cold and empty things
Take their fill of me
That grow and grow, as I
Continue forever in my subtraction
Her brilliance lost in broken synapse
Where shadow feeds on fear and fault
But can She break through the miles
Of death and gloom that keep me here
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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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