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all of the ends
03:56
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breathing
read my moods, my mind, my lips, my tells
my deepest, darkest fantasies
all are alive and are all of them evil
(read my lies, all are alive)
leaf through like a book
profess your prophesies
and peer down
oubliette hole
(knee's, now thigh's level upswell)
i clearly said i’m climbing out
does it have to be right now?
full vault floats figure out
(engaged grate overhead)
read my moods, my mind, my lips, my tells
my deepest, darkest fantasies
all are lies and are all of them evil
(read my lies, all are alive)
breathing in doubts
leaf through like a book
force fit your analysis
and leer down
supercilious nose
(probing mind oculus slant)
this simulation’s a wasted note
i don’t have to be right though
it’s not common after all
(grain of salt with grain of sand)
in silence while a room decays
all in all it's of the age
cracking smiles that won't be late
dust-filtered light falls on a face
(diagnose, catalog, if it helps you feel better
reduce for bulging wits will pull it together)
my head, my loves, my fears, all of the ends
in sons of us
crashing right up against our breath
rays of force made triumphal
emblazoned, gleaming sunward
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SMFL
03:39
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yearning gazes pinned so long
intoxicate enliven
i lie comatose falsest sleeping
en solitaire
curling aspect tilted
seen through shining eyes
preserving aegis we create
from slain fanged web of stifling apprehension
heal me, seal me safe from all imaginable harm
appease roaring waves
turn aside unalloyed faults with reinvention
seasons - mazes - frailty - loss
fortify primal bonds
will carry us over roads as yet untraveled
mutual reliance built upon sharing lots
allied folded close burrowed sweetly
all while affair
curving abject selfless
a lover complies
the road we laid
plucked star mosaic placed
forms rising ribbon-stair binding us whole
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3. |
the damager
04:23
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pall alight thy tines
pelt is ever thrust
upon the edge
a hull perforated, harmed
circumscribed
cordon around weakened marrow
(i’ll rise, relegating all my aching bones)
livid vital pulp disclosed
its essence pulsing out
abrupt arrest upon
arched neck a raised crown
with practiced flick of sinews
sends cell crashing to the ground
circumscribed
cordon 'round weakened marrow
(i’ll rise, eliminating all my veiling eyes)
encircled by this ragged branch of bone
thrust into mud
circumscribed
cordon 'round weakened marrow
(i’ll rise, dedicating all my raising cries)
suckled by a savage head
with bloodied lusting mouth
cursing writhing riding winged elation
in silence it plied a thought
its tendril's winding crawl
what i thought the end
it thought not the end at all
serpentine
curled around the base of my skull
(i’ll rise, decorating all my shaping wiles)
invaded by the damager
its climbing limbs throughout
regrets, lies, laments and qualms
its probing mapping out
each cold terror preyed upon
its lusting building mounts
serpentine
curled around the base of my skull
(i’ll rise, venerating all my waking hours)
elated by the panicked dread
a noiseless hissing howl
serpentine
curled around the base of my skull
(i’ll rise, perpetuating all my ancient ghosts)
abominated wan embrace
by hateful vermiform
pull back, run
you're feeding on what the ghoul’s surviving on
alight dissolve
you're feeding on what the ghoul’s surviving on
cursing, writhing, riding winged elation
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4. |
days
04:39
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they said my name was carved into the anvil
where forge of worlds spills flame into the air
they said my name was carved into the anvil
blessed list of names to call out at the end
enshroud, life wanes
this cannot be the end though
if true life waits
this false start ending in an age of love
enshroud, life wanes
this cannot be the end though
wash of wild white waves, fires spark lights through the age
enliven, reminding us of what we stole
until promised existence to begin
until promised existence closes in
but this king, this cup, gets me nowhere
if only i can find a world that won’t let me down
i’ll come around
this ego so far beyond the edge of believability
but this king, this cup, gets me nowhere
if true life waits then it’s over
forfeit, sacrificing every day
overrun
fall away down steps below
chthonic embers glow
unceasing spirals uncoil vitriol
lamenting our hour
as orb persists in turning around
each cycle strengthens and culls
this notion of another world is emptied out
look around at our insignificance
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if only i'd owned this malevolence before
just a portion of the enmity i'm holding over
i'd fly a ward wide around, a wall of thorned acrimony
once sheltered, begin to start over
holding it on my tongue
prickle wreath, a prickle wreath in your arms
esteem it bleeds, the gold is leaching out
but when the air goes
in suffocating gasps
there's embryonic envy
in every aching itch
holding it on my tongue
cannot breathe, cannot breathe, hacking lungs
on the edge of drawing in what’s eking out
the charlatan comes
with scintillating imprints
of fledgling onyx fantasies
with every waving hand
breathing in
the exhausting reek all over
his rushing fool Midas hands on me
brushing wool pulling over
if only i'd owned this malevolence before
just a portion of the enmity i'm holding over
i'd fly a ward wide around, a wall of thorned acrimony
but I won't let it start over
drowning in
concocted airs, vials and philters
we’re rushing to fill with our hands, the sea
while trifling jewels warring over
trifles, gone cycles
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6. |
taking on water
04:53
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spent a long while
descending round a wrong home
sick and hiding behind loves
and lulls and pulls
envolve light
come running after hues
when nothing is there at all
but cold bright anthelion
enroll cult hail
it seems we're marching right next to no one
entrails untied every loss that's inside
coping, reeling, heaping laughter on
buried, despondent
sleep dreamless in fear of waking up
in this body’s myopic angle
locked in parochial list
slackened, softened face
waiting to see if i'll
catch hold of a passive null miracle,
inimical
sinking morning
emergent reality washing over
realization comes that
ailed ideals will lean quite low in the night
every err that you own
unraveling inside this blind loath core
lift it up
it’s every bit as live as the blood
which flows in breathless amazement of all
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7. |
white wing
04:17
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giving up on love, on life
just right on time though
grinning while the tails of all I owe
are draping down
drawing down our bones’ receding light
with weave winding sheet
stays flesh from pitching low
a lack, alight
end flight in web’s entangling vessel
composing threads each trace a story whole
all pulling back
leading back down lid’s enfolding eye
tendrils in stasis
fear plucks breath, winnows
strewn rose mound
complete the life ring 'round
burial shroud
come wrap the white wing 'round
giving up on love, on life
look out below
giving it up, give it up
to the big black, lack hole
tethered, I fly
orbits ‘round cradling arms
on taut wires
a kite-faltering flight
completely end over ire
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8. |
lost hunts
04:21
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regal head hangs high above
in bygone moment
an oath to seek thee through the shroud below
inevitability pinning these arms down tight
ghastly bonds surround everything and all we are
limiting animation’s repertoire
i vow to seek thee through the clouds below
fires raging all around
cinders raining underground
blaze encompassing renders horizon's line
marches inward inexorable consumer
coalescing brilliant sun disk pyre
i vow to seek thee through the shroud below
nimble hooves proceed racing down towards tree line
innate compass guiding route to seek the feral paw
flight corralling points ascent to spire
vile/engaging lost tableaux
creeping hints of charms become unknown
beastly/vital, burning bright through the clouds below
twist warp and weft aligning days
peeling back my eyes
lost hunts dangling twine along wrong roads
old dreams of living blood
upstaging all of the hard won
meager insights i thought i’d gained - undone
solemn lachrymal waking dawn alone
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playalpha Oakland, California
Years of practice and musical study have gone into Alight, Dissolve - there are few projects like it in today’s musical landscape. A work of modern rock, it alludes to an older, more platonic place. From the complex vocal harmonies, to the darkly poetic lyrics, to the runaway drums and ever present synth, there is a lot to take in and be rewarded by. ... more
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