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Rise, my friend
Above the hungry men
That reach for the stars
Their gift to you
Is not what you would choose
If you only knew
Leave, my friend
Come never down again
Find somewhere new
Keep the core
We won't need it anymore
The damage is done
The thirsty hands
Are climbing the blue pavilion
Where the dogs went before us
Where the stars were opened up
By the apple of knowledge
Remember
There are five roads into space
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2. |
In the Circles of Ether
04:17
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I went out to search for Diogenes
And I crept into his golden home
But he was nowhere to be found
I couldn't even find my way out again
It was such a long way out
I have seen an angel
On the roof of the vault they keep me in
She stood there before me
All lucid and bright in the brittle air
She had that lonesome kind of beauty
It made me lonesome anyway
Like a shard of broken starlight
In the circles of ether up above
You are somewhere out there
All weightless and void of company
Adrift above the rubble
I am all smiles and jagged bones
I have my dreams to navigate me
Through the blackness between the stars
I know that I will find you
There are plenty of roads to fall upon
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Shuyit
03:20
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My dear friend holds me in high regard
Watching my every move
Mirroring me in every detail
As I in turn mimic him
As night falls on Earth he fills up my room
And keeps me from harm when I sleep
He was born from my father’s big, bright eye
And chained to my life as a gift
He traces my steps wherever I go
And I gladly invite him along
He’s my brother, my twin, my guardian in life
And hopefully even in death
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The poetry of the mussels
In the deep places of the world
A grain of time
In a silent snowball crescendo
Such grotesque music of light
Such grotesque music of light
Liquid glass falling from heaven
Shatters into shards from the gaze of the king’s eye
A secret gift hidden in the null plane
Stands before you even now
Such grotesque music of light
Such grotesque music of light
A hole in the sound, an inner resting place
Where the pendulum is fast asleep
The circumference, nyctalopic pupil
Knows how to learn
Such grotesque music of light
Such grotesque music of light
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5. |
Pale Hands
02:44
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I am pale hands
Words are flowing through me
This is my kingdom
The white acres of parchment
Talking to shadows
And the words come two by two
Magnetic twins
Tugging at the compass heart
The rain falls back
To the clouds
One sun gives
And one sun takes
This is our proud ark
In the service of the dead
Taking us westwards
Where there’s nothing to be said
Is there a dark side
Of the eye stuck in your head
Is there a meaning
In the opposite of what I just said
The rain falls back
To the clouds
One sun gives
And one sun takes
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6. |
A Certain Fire
04:23
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There is a picture in my blood
That will be forever broken
Like the stars once were a mirror
That was held up to your beauty
And all the clocks are burning
Burning with a certain fire
Melting away our days
Like flowers made out of ice
Vaporous maps outline themselves
Like the blurred folds of the aurora borealis
On the horizon of my mind
It waves, it flickers like a flame
This is the fifth and this is the fire
This is the circle of the black sun’s burning mire
This is the beauty of Cardan’s suspension
In the lighthouse, in the lighthouse, in the lighthouse
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7. |
Killing For Satan
04:00
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8. |
Shepherd of the Owls
04:53
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He's the shepherd of the owls
He's in love with all of those owls
Who scratched their sacred glyph on his chest
And let him rest his bones in their nest
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The Double Helix
03:06
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The city lights lie strewn across the hills
Like the slumbering embers
Of some broken star
That had been cast down from the firmament
The night still swarthy
From the ashes of this great and fallen beast
Many a star will break
As the wheels of the future
Grind their way through the aeons
Dead sun upon dead sun
Will pile up in the abyss of the past
But the big sleep
Is still only a sleep
And the dreams you know
Are only fragments
Of the wonders beheld
By these extinguished giants
And one day
We shall all be likewise
Dead and dreaming
And one day
We shall all rise to a new dawn
Each one of us a fresh star
Outshining even
The splendours of the of the fiery phoenix
An old legend
Which some call the new science
Tells us that the double helix
Once came from the stars
And we know that it will be star again
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11. |
The Retinal Room
02:38
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The wind rears up on its hind legs
Hooves whip up the sea, then charge at the city
A light trickle of spit splashes the roofs
Lungs sigh like a thousand trees
Ribs creak as the ride grows wilder
Hear the whole night shouting out for you
Pan Pan Io Pan
Pan Pan Io Pan
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13. |
You Wander Through
04:10
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I’ve built the traps
And I’ve laid the snares
To catch the feeling of you
But who knows where
Your feet may tread
As you wander through my mind
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