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Elegy Simulacra
07:55
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- Lyrics by Josh kay
Colors flow
From mind to wrist
Immersed in subtle trails
Hours pass
Without remorse
And foster grander scale
Cold machine
Agreed and clean
Indeed, the counterpart
Brooding road
A path biased
Negotiate the cause
Semblance
Discord
Simulation
Semblance
Reason
Illustration
Assumptions reign
Proposed design
Sterile silhouette
Groomed to please
To trace the lines
Laced with opiates
Or sacrifice
Brief time to risk
Abstract yet elegant
Visceral
Bear witness to
The essence of existence
Semblance
Discord
Simulation
Semblance
Reason
Illustration
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2. |
Fathom
06:53
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- Lyrics by Josh Kay
The ridge slopes gently
Dividing green light
The roots abstaining
He views the veiled blight
Into the clearing
A field of calm white
The air is rich here
His breath is without mind
Tempting marrow
Forfeit outer rings
Tempting silence
Humbled perfectly
Back in suspension
Inviting bright lights
New roots of fiber
So pallid, gripping tight
A meadow names him
Uncharted beauty
To sleep obscurely
Secure his own release
Tempting marrow
Forfeit outer rings
Tempting silence
Humbled perfectly
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3. |
A Wreath of Temperance
06:40
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- Lyrics by Jon Damon
My purpose stalls again
She sees it through my cage
A hidden thought of them
A relic from the age
I cannot see your face
We’re better off like that
So many questions raised
Why this new habitat?
I still don’t know why it is here
No reason I can seem to find
But like it or not it’s so clear
Like a tumor the secret’s in my mind
Days to months, now years, I’ll never leave
Freedom never chief as harmony
Every second I'm more bereaved
Freedom they tempting never breaking me
I still don’t know why it is here
No reason I can seem to find
But like it or not it’s so clear
Like a tumor the secret’s in my mind
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4. |
Velvet Margin
05:12
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- Lyrics by Josh Kay
Two steps arrive in larger leaps
Inertia will end
Craft joys that once required keys
The margin shrinks a little more
Sort through the entries, suspend peace
Inertia will end
Fear flooding, salvaging a name
The margin’s fine but bittersweet
Bargaining
For the velvet treated edge
Nothing more
Seeking the prospect certainty
Inertia will end
Upgraded tolerance for pain
Regress to progress, understand
Bargaining
For the velvet treated edge
Nothing more
Bargaining
For the velvet treated edge
Or collapse the pale
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5. |
Heirloom
05:35
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- Lyrics by Josh Kay
Conclusions on display
Sequence to signify
Learn to expedite
The pendulum will swing
The slightest shift in line
Yields the faintest pride
Gift to all the earth
Tame the sky forever
Illusion of wisdom
Sequential borderline
Learn to tend the flame
The pendulum drops down
A storm cellar awaits
But is it too late?
Gift to all the earth
Tame the sky forever
Heir to all reveries
Mother must be proud
Heaving pillars stone
In vain
Fragile calculus
The frame
Scar the centerpiece
For lust
Consciousness opaque
In dust
Gift to all the earth
Are we young forever?
Heir to all reveries
Mother must be proud
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6. |
Zero Sum
07:03
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- Lyrics by Jon Damon & Josh Kay
Beams locked in
Flash across the range
Blocked in
Force assembled
Skid along the way
Hauled in
Cloaked features
Cornered beneath the paint
Lawless
Circumstance
Desperate enough to clear
Suspect
Destiny
Clandestine
Held back from the start
And each other
Emblems shine
En route to find
And collar
All the distant marks
No mention of the others
Destiny
Clandestine
Held back from the start
The sum of scripts we now impart
Wild abandon
Time fleeting and
Raw purpose
Last tactic
Weave counter web
Grasp closure
Destiny
Clandestine
Held back from the start
And each other
Emblems shine
En route to find
And collar
All the distant marks
No mention of the others
Destiny
Clandestine
Held back from the start
The sum of scripts we now impart
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Attenuation
10:36
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- Lyrics by Josh Kay
Faint light prompting my eyes
Decaying tunnel, certainly I've been here before
Yet my slate remains white
Why do my words shatter in our dialogue?
Find warmth
By design
My design
But compromise
Engage with my own hands
Seems right to me but many questions still remain
My worth soars in your truth
So why do the tunnels bleed and rot away?
Hard lines form on my skin
Your gratitude now chisels at the fabric in me
All the while my tasks grow
The things I've seen will bargain for own sanity
Vague warmth
Age defines
My design
Past compromise
Expecting the vast gold
Distortions of mind
Withered and stricken
Cherish awhile
My testament signed off
Perhaps this is right
Clearance for solace
Release
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8. |
The Ivory Silo
08:48
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- Lyrics by Jon Damon
Like candle straw men
Un-breaking the string
Just in time
On the double
Nowhere
And starting nowhere
From the beginning
On a chance
To clear
The remains
Wages
Never
Never enough
Reclaim
Place On
On the pulpit
Canned laughter haunting
Thoroughfares of mind
Motor skill agents
Act in kind
Cut out and shapeless
Forging a new plan
Blanked hardware idle
Slighting man
Wages
Never
Never enough
Reclaim
Place On
On the pulpit
Sand in ceiling
Loosens above
And ready
To dust
Dust the culprit
And crumbling overtures
For the last
Congregation
Blind and fading fast
A bogus moniker
For a faux
Constellation
Anvils made of glass
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Alizarin Los Angeles, California
Cinematic prog metal centered around brooding melodies, wrapped in epic compositions.
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