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Labyrinth of Light
03:44
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Struck a match outside the club
Lost the city in the light
Oh, we could say anything we want
and we can claim we had no choice
But we just can’t deny we love
The fuse's voice
Lit a candle in the brush
Lost the forest in the light
Oh, we could say anything we want
and we can claim we had no choice
But we just can’t deny we love
The inferno's voice
They wander after the rain
A heart-knot whispering
The shallow-buried remain
Who gave up everything
Started a holocaust
Too late to be undone
You'll never call the shots
But they might let you hold the gun
Clothed in the desert's melted sand
Lost their pity in the light
Swearing revenge on the uninvolved
For what they themselves rejoiced
But they just can’t deny they love
The rocket's voice
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Primary Target
04:00
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Count the fortune
Of the Blessed
All around you
All together
Moving bodies
On the dance floor
Shoeless and carefree
All around you
With your shovels
And your terror
Burning scarlet
But I'm alright
Blinded at the markets
Parsons at the lime pits
All poor fuckers who survived this shit
Weep for them now
I’m already gone because home was a primary target
They will find more
The defectors
Clutching gemstones
By the creek side
Where they fell down
Now the wordless
With their mouths all
Full of mothballs
Blinded at the markets
Parsons at the lime pits
All poor fuckers who survived this shit
Weep for them now
I’m already gone because home was a primary target
Streaking across the sky
Living at last for now
Over the winter schoolyard
Casting the shadows low
Burning into the walls
Flashing at once then stillness
No one left to
Sweep the black sparks
And the ashes
From the puddles
Count the fortune
Of the sightless
Shedding their skin
In the darkness
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The City and the Sea
05:57
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past
the pier
and the crowd
all lit up in neon
and the sea
beyond the shroud
pulling, stretching dreams into the light
slow
proceed
through the dark
watching past the sand dunes
in the sea
at low tide
flashing, turning spotlights to the land
And there’s an ache in my heart like a coming storm
But the rain never comes and the pain never goes
lights
connect
overhead
flashing, synchronizing
binding tight through the air
the crowd now taken over and adream
life
will now
show you dread:
spreading clouds in gemstones and in x-rays
understand
there's no use hoping for a better past
visited in
the vision by
a spectral form
the lesson-giver:
those who you owe,
they never will be satisfied,
or bother to save you.
And there’s an ache in my heart like a coming storm
But the rain never comes and the pain never goes
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4. |
This Hour's Loneliness
09:49
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we return to nowhere
the house we had to evacuate
in haste one clouded dawn
no past or future anymore
just a present infinite
trapped in slow decay
years of buried grief
sealed off until now
twisted metal rusted
splintered frames and broken glass
scattered all around
each wall became a window
in a dreadful flash of light
then turned back to wounded walls
"who knows who's home?"
years of fettered grief
well up and seize us
each thing where it once was
but these counterfeit old halls
merely look like home
once familiar but not the same
like it was
birthed in ruin all fully formed
"who knows who's home?"
years of aimless grief
now cast in amber
just can't bear to drink of
dolorous, severe, and endless well
of this hour's loneliness
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The Pinetree Line
05:02
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destiny
beckons
a coming rapture of wrath
the bombs live
only while they’re falling
the pinetree line went silent then,
and everyone along with it
falling
into
unmoving shadows on the wall
the silence of
the playground is a terrible thing
a hundred little silences
stacked on one another
where else could we be
when it was time to fall
and time to shine?
where else could we be
when every wall
turned into a window?
when a bow of fire
connected the sea
to the multitude
built a sparkling pier
across the strand
and over the dunes
and through the
rivers
boiling
the war had been
dry for too long
we prayed but
pray for rain long enough
something else eventually
will fall down from the sky above
where else could we be
when it was time to fall
and time to shine?
where else could we be
when every wall
turned into a window?
when a bow of fire
connected the sea
to the multitude
built a sparkling pier
across the strand
and over the dunes
and through the
silence
hanging
high tension on the wires
what fools we were
after the sky fell down on us
it wasn't finished bleeding
upward into heaven
the survivor's guilt
rolls along
we all misunderstand
the meaning of it all
an incredible fear
fades away
along with all the memories
all through the
empty
hospital
each ward now reserved for poltergeists
the truth hangs
nothing more will happen here
not for want of the dying and ill
but for want of anyone to help
where else could we be
when it was time to fall
and time to shine?
where else could we be
when every wall
turned into a window?
when a bow of fire
connected the sea
to the multitude
built a sparkling pier
across the strand
and over the dunes
and through the
static
crowd around
a radio gather so close
we strain to hear
anything on any channel
we'll waste forever listening
to just the static whispering
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All Cats Are Grey
06:42
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7. |
All Human Wisdom
05:54
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They say visions all foresee
The sea will overtake the land
People embraced in ancient dreams
The ocean taking them in hand
I wanted to be
No longer a part of the city
I wanted to know if
I could become a part of
The dreams of the sea
There'll be no promises to keep
There'll be no deliverance
Nothing regards us in the deep
Just a mute indifference
In neither the city
Nor under the sea
Will I feel at home
Engraved on our ruins
All human wisdom
Contained in the words
"Wait" and "Hope"
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Phantom West Los Angeles, California
From the dreamlike instrumental and electronic sounds of the 2005 album Chimaera, the noize/industrial/dance remixes of The Rain Expedition EP in 2006, the highly varied synth-pop, darkwave, and hard rock of 2007’s Aleph Null, and then the introspective, long-form ambient work on the 2009 album Aperture, Phantom West has never been constrained (for good and ill) to a single sonic template. ... more
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