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The day she stopped
humming in the barley field
The outdoors made no sound
Not a single drop
and the lights have all died down
The ether's closer now
Make it stop
The more I try to get to you, the less you are
Just take me somewhere dark
Horizons here are terminal... so shut it off
Above the waves
Polaris shining in her eyes
They glow as the smoke-stream fades
Too far gone
Now these corridors bemoan their void
and echo this funeral song
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Ghost Lights
05:09
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A dim light in the halls tonight
the space and structure obscured
And this path is a secret
A doorway to Elysium.
A dark spot on the sun
Going blank, going numb
Can you break into this world
and abide in the winds?
All signals are sedated
A distant susurration
So when the pulsar glows at the junction
go through the door and I'll meet you
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Mossweaver
05:37
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sanctuaries shine
a cloak of greenery unconfined
a morning in deep space
moonset over dimming light rays
tending to the vines
stay so high
a birthplace or a grave
so haunting beyond the ships remains
let it all return
immersing only once
the hydrous atmospheres
collapse into you
and when it all returns
ascending to the sun
solar winds and spirits
pass right through you
compass cracks in two
empyreal radiance in lowlands bloom
confluence of the skies
eternities elapse at moonrise
catherdral of the moth
the shaded temples are so distant
contorted roots unscathed
light years shimmer in the passing waves
let it all return
immersing only once
the hydrous atmospheres
collapse into you
and when it all returns
ascending to the sun
solar winds and spirits
pass right through you
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Wolf Nature
08:48
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the blackened sun
is my lifeblood
and it purifies the sound
in the hallowed
loch beyond the gray
calling us all away
the moonlit shores
are my altar
and to manifest here now
to wash the blades
a whisper from the caves
calling us all away
moving close
to ascension
when the time comes
when your time comes
calling us all away
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The Staircase
06:54
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Dissolution in lucid resolve
as shadows burn holes in the wall
empty planets and shades of the mind
block the doorways inside
In the marrow of thoughts sleeps a lowland of grief
a labyrinth of creeper and weeds
And amongst walls of nightshade as spectrum collides
would you recognize?
...but you're not quite awake or alive...
(leave them bloodless)
in the empyrean you reside.
Faces fall
in a dark dissolve
and this last dream
...is not quite as it seems
Hallowed corridors' floorboards astray
to the long foreseen close of the day
As we descend to the basement
and just fall away
A disparity drips from within
in the stillness, a single light dims
With a poisoning blindness, destruction of sight
you have turned the tide
...but you're not quite awake or alive
(leave them bloodless)
in the empyrean you reside.
Faces fall
in a dark dissolve
and this last dream
...is not quite as it seems
Soaring over horizons we have to let go
and quietly whisper farewell
in a common celestial unknown
Voyagers, we arise in one great cosmic death
in the shimmering light of the grove
as the catacombs answer our call
on the night's edge
when this life ends
we can forget
all that's been said
on the night's edge (on the night's edge awake from this dream)
when this life ends (when this life ends the suffering, suffering)
we can forget (all's forgiven but please don't leave me)
all that's been said (one last look and I'm)
breathless
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Cloud Map
07:21
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The setting sun, the ashen graves
A wind-swept island, I want to stay
alone among the trees
Dancing embers in the breeze
Numb and lifted up
on the inside
I feel it now
With death so close, you never know
And I’m free somehow
To fly so low, and let it go
And the emptiness, it knows no grief
There is no memory within the deep
Lucid and released
soaring high above the trees
as suffering fades far
in the distance
I feel it now
With death so close, you never know
And I’m free somehow
I'm free
The doorway looms
the space beyond, it calls to you
and so it seems
that which was, will always be
will always be...
Bending
with the branches
Hallways
and a staircase
that leads straight down
Closer
for the last time
Passed on
to the other side of the door
I'm left behind
And now I know
yeah now I know
I've always known
And I just need to let it go
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Arctic Sleep Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Progressive, atmospheric doom.
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Good, complex metal from Milwaukee with amazing drumming.
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