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Ecliptic

by Phantom West

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New Siberia City 04:51
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New Siberia City Another year here A choice of death or depth What we can kill none can reclaim Exile from New Siberia City again Discarded even by friends Don’t forget New Siberia City ascends With or without your amends Another kilo To buy my way back home What we can build none can erase Exile from New Siberia City again Discarded even by friends Don’t forget New Siberia City ascends With or without your amends Out in the beautiful, deadly haze There’s an echo of someone beyond the range Come out and find me (nobody, nobody’s there) Come out and I’ll free you (there’s no one, I’m all alone) Out in the beautiful, deadly haze There’s a shape in the warehouse beyond the graves Walk off the trail now (I see you, I see you) And you can be with me (I hear you, I hear you) Another voice here A siren song at depth Where we can go none can pursue Exile from New Siberia City again Discarded even by friends Don’t forget New Siberia City ascends With or without your amends
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Envoy 04:32
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Envoy Once observed on the streak of a solar flame Hyperbolic trajectory is its name Hot debate on its nature and who to send Say goodbye to my family, I’ve gone ahead Now I’m blazing to the edge of space A lonesome envoy of my race Under the veil of a fluid grace I’m able I’m ready I’m willing Haulin’ ass to see So fast... So far... So long! Thirty years I’ve been coasting out to the far (Don’t forget me, son) From the sun which is now just another star (Don’t worry about me none) Now the waiting and now the long journey’s done (I’ll come back when I’m done) I’ve arrived at the rendezvous point as one (Just call me and I’ll come) Now approaching very cautiously I know I must treat this solemnly I know I must tread oh so thoughtfully It’s massive It’s haunting It’s tempting All I can see now is So soft.... So dark.... So... cold. Infinite time - a possibility Infinite dark - a lonely certainty A volunteer is needed to endure A volunteer for whom patience is a sport Our volunteer will shed their mortal form And live in a shell and sing of their former home How could I be so foolish so far away To disturb this bewildering silent place What did I expect ever could happen here? What possessed me to be so damn cavalier? Now before a true eternity All of my words are failing me Even my own heart betraying me I’m dumbstruck I’m tongue tied I’m fucked up All I can say now is Hello? Hello? Hello? Subtle movement inside the abiding cold Recognition from something so very old Blast of silence and now it is here with me This communion is brilliant and frightening Now a lonely spirit speaks to me Moving inside and shaking me Mercilessly now unmaking me I’m folding I’m bending I’m rending What I hear now is Hello! Hello! Hello!
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Harvester 04:32
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Harvester Some say insanity was in the water Some in the stone and the lack of sky Some say insanity was in the ether I know it always awaits inside Chorus: Gather at the barricade And stay together if you’d stay sane Don’t lose faith if we are delayed Only the dreamers can resist the strain and be able to Gather at the barricade Sing a song if it’ll help maintain To keep your courage and be unashamed At the horizon of the infinite you will be acclaimed Simple clarity dissolving Under the light of the stars above Never think too loud in the tunnels Don’t draw attention to the things you love Chorus Check the wisdom of us in the dust How many doubts will you set aside Now that you know just what they want? How to spell out all the blood cult No new life in recycled parts You’ll go out in the exhaust Harrow the harvester mercilessly Squeeze the very blood from its sickened veins Simple liberty in delusion Now that we know what the question means
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The Rail Authority 02:52
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The Rail Authority Disengage All the power returns When sunrise city falls Everyone will burn We find pale bleached bones And we send back frozen mysteries When sunset city falls Everyone will freeze Don’t fuck with the rail authority And hope they pay you no mind Don’t fuck with the rail authority Or you’ll spend a long night outside Redefine All the shameful incivility When sunrise city lies Losing credibility They know who to watch To spot the disbelieving When sunset city lies You’d better start agreeing Don’t fuck with the rail authority And hope they pay you no mind Don’t fuck with the rail authority Or you’ll spend a long night outside Separate All the minor improprieties When sunrise city wakes It wakes to high anxiety Can’t mend crippled souls Tortured with impunity When sunset city sleeps It’ll sleep for an eternity
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Apophenia 04:53
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Apophenia Time is like a wheel they say Just watch and you’ll learn everything You should be cautious what you crave Like god you’d see then run away The echoes in the things we see That come from the geometry The rules don’t change so why should we Expect the outcome differently? We have been building And now we are wielding A sharp blade to pierce the unknown We kept on wondering We kept on wandering We kept on running And found ourselves so far from home What boldness we sanction! What feats we imagine! But what would have happened If Mike Collins came home alone? We ponder what will come to be Our heads lost in our prophecy We’ll hear the cosmos whispering And waste forever listening The pattern will reveal itself No knowledge now can be withheld The prophecy has come and gone There’s no plan, it just looks like one We have been building And now we are wielding A sharp blade to pierce the unknown We kept on wondering We kept on wandering We kept on running And found ourselves so far from home What boldness we sanction! What feats we imagine! But what would have happened If Mike Collins came home alone?
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Graveyard Pilot 04:38
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Graveyard Pilot You should know why we’ve come to hate you You brought us your ghosts, your nebulous fears Brought us this heat and disturbed our peace Breaking our disregard, we awake If I could, I’d extend my fingers I’d open my mouth and turn you to dust How, under siege, can we be set free? We will call you to walk off the trail One by one, if it takes forever our patience is vast with time on our side Then into my clutching gaze, drawing you I’ll let my silence tear you to shreds
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Valles Marineris II 06:39
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Valles Marineris II Every drink (red dust at the bottom) Every room (red dust at the bottom) Every shoe (red dust at the bottom) Every womb (red dust at the bottom) Every heart (red dust at the bottom) Every tomb See this poor starving child Two meters tall This one can’t stand upright Stumbles and falls Shameful to starve in plain sight So they’ll sent away to the canyon Every bone (crumbling into red dust) Every oath (crumbling into red dust) Every deal (crumbling into red dust) Every home (crumbling into red dust) Every dream (crumbling into red dust) Every hope (crumbling into red dust) With enough dusty drinks I’ll feel no shame Won’t be pressured to think Or to dream I just do what I’m told Serve and protect (and disappear inconvenient things) They’ll clear me from the ranks If I complain Send what’s left to the tanks With the slain In the canyon await Shroud-wrapped faces of those that could not fit in
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Solar Neutrino Problem 05:08
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Solar Neutrino Problem Pure Unexisting Pure time And then I’m free You’ll know to run along I can show you how to see And when I pass right though I’ll call Follow me Follow me Through the plight From fire to night Fleet and light In the open sky You’ll know to run along I can show you how to be And when I pass on through I’ll call Follow me Follow me You know, you’re lucky you ever found me Me, myself, and I three petaled reed We change always on a whim We change anytime we can, any time I Fly through The heart of the world Right through The heart on the land You’ll know to run along I can show you how to read I’ll dare you to go when I call Follow me Follow me All through the black now To tell a story Of the fires that made me And the shape of time that creates me You’ll know to run along When you’re free and can perceive The slip of time you’ll be ready To follow me Follow me Follow me
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The Dalsey Courier 03:42
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The Dalsey Courier We were tired Of the Atlantic But we get complacent ere we fall Billowing Smoke outside the bulkhead Drew some straws to decide who’d climb the hull Chorus: The journey through Shows there’s nothing left that we can do Except surrender and prepare for the end I shove my bloody hand Into the torn up fuselage again Indecently probing and groping to keep it alive Climbing out Through the cheesecake illustration Turbulence nearly pulling me into the dawn Vanity Drove us to the shortcut We wandered off the TRAIL and now we’re gone Chorus Further and further down we fall All the way down to the dimming core Further and further away we call All the way out to a distant shore We knew that help was a light hour away Jupiter will make us hers today Silent Passage through the interface Pressure mounting each meter that we descend We’ll just be A fading bruise on the atmosphere A distant stream of light and fade away
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The Ligeia Mare Civilization 04:38
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The Ligeia Mare Civilization During the cold of the year in the deep carefully folding our bodies for sleep Shepherd the warmth And muster our forms Close around the new born Through the cold Long before we knew what was happening We were already, already gone Chemical razors descend from above Mistakenly dropped on the people we love Tearing apart our descent galleries Shredding the textures of our families Lysing our cells And slicing our shells Quiet sleeping can’t tell It’s the end Long before we knew what was happening We were already, already gone After they find our dissected cocoons After they find our remains in our rooms After they find our molecular schools After they find that our absence is true Then will they weep For us, lost in our sleep? In their thoughts will they keep Us alive? Long before we knew what was happening We were already, already dead Will they weep for the small cold creatures That could have been friends?
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Just the Same but Brand New 05:09
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released November 19, 2021

All songs written and performed by Timothy A. Clark, except "Just the Same but Brand New" written by Annie Clark / St. Vincent

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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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