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Siderius Nuncius
04:53
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Eyes spin remembering when I lived my life in the stars
Gathered matter on silver platter and now here we are
Solar fission gave me vision inner ear hears birds
Compelled by holy bells so clear are their words
Fears quelled lets dispel confusion through a sieve
Trees hardened in the garden and there eye found iVi
A rambler born to gamble I offered up a bet
We rolled a pair of dice and a pair of eyes we get
Holy rollers in systems solar clothed robe lords
At necks nape attaches cape threads minted pig cords
By quiver they deliver mercurial drips
Vessel doors adorned sidereal script
Letters unfettered read magnetic they combine
Read them stellated gems the treasured mine is thine
Stage hands at my command as the world turns
Endowed a shroud of cloud witness this return
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2. |
Conjunctive Union
03:26
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Body of water earthly mirror
Reflecting heavenly will
Still water bonded unity
Until the dragon gets its wings
DISMEMBERING
Dispersal scatters vapor climbs
Flees itself and shuns its kind
Soaring air blissful free
Yearns to share both sight and wings
CONDENSING
The cotton boughs that bloom by dawn
On earth cast shadow upon
Lambs rolls in bitter charcoal
A tempest storm brings renewal
SHATTERING
Some drop to swim atop the earth
Some drop to nourish or quench thirst
Some drop to ponder their source
Many the drownings meandering the course
REMEMBERING
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3. |
Oh, A Paul
02:50
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Wandered in with a mare a mint
Tales how I fell through wells in the sky
Derailed details let my arrows fly
Married a maid and much love we made
In shade we wade in caverns of lust
Naked supine entwined like a braid
Til our ashes splash on Lake Avernus
Our bodies, our bones
Our silver and gold
Let em be deep-sixed in the river of Styx
Take my hand we're almost home
Our first days emblazed with resplendent rays
Now my love is gone she's ruined my song
Spires flame of bonfires tamed
With a headful of dreadful gloom I now long
Three nights I flail restless I wail
Millenial queen that I adore
Delightful bales threshing hale
A perennial stream forevermore
Under the world
We revel
We revel
Under the world
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4. |
Death Angel
01:43
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Built so sweet in symmetry
Drawing blood from ravens wings
My angel
Death Angel
Cursed day disappear
Waiting til night draws near
My angel
Death Angel
Get busted for
Another wrong road
Blessed son
Blood of wolves
My angel
Death Angel
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5. |
Little Crown
06:20
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6. |
Sea of Tears
06:18
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Drawn inside the wheel and it spoke
Crucified starlight
Sail away you lonesome vessel
A fathom deep your lines
Joy and pain the work of a day
Ever upward we climb
To the dawn ever on
A sea of tears we glide
High up in the sky
Silver moonlight
Argentum knife
Transform and die
Assembled in mind
to crumble in life
Vacant hell empty it dwells
All the devils are here
Full of mirth for every birth
Legions toss and cheer
Every step blinded I wept
Mercy set thee down
Every tear is crystallized here
I’ve sewn you a shining gown
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7. |
Sew A Phi
05:20
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Should the sun come down from the morning air
These days either way I could not care
I've said it before I'm not from here
Remember to get back there
Building my own rocket to the stars
Glimmering white reflective it shines
Horizon below rip through the atmosphere
Conquering! Seven embers remain
Then I will meet her there where the many become
Twenty and one
Transforming is the silver queen
Messenger between her and the king
A mirror a comb for the shining one
Spike aligns with an iron throne
Magnanimous is this one
Lightning eyes brass horn thunderous
The last one is slow ever ancient and old
One leg lame dragging a cane
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8. |
What we did
03:36
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We did what we did
We did alright
Under the cover of night
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9. |
Linen Legion
04:07
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Caraceni and Hirpini Caudini and Pentri
All those called Sabine who yoked Roma in Caudine
Enshrined in Appenines to the shores of Pompeii
Pietrabbondante standing to this very day
Show me where the golden flowers grow
Bosco Sacro Agnone
Silver firs are ringing bell choirs
Herrenius Pontius tries to tell his son
Media Via will the very death of them
Raise sacred curtains assemble all fit men
Swear your allegiance to the linen legion
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10. |
Misery
04:37
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Dropped on my head the moment I was born as a kid
Nurses and doctors they hid from the squid that had somehow lived
Growing up it was tough without any luck
Shared my cradle with our dog Able in the back of a pickup truck
Made the first grade all my genius there was displayed
Excelled so well at that grade they thought it was best I stayed
Everyday the teachers ask that my parents explain
How I was born with a whole body and only half a brain
My best friend
You're my best friend
Misery
Abandoned in the wild the bramble kings a feral child
Free from man I ran with the beasts and found my peril mild
Though my favorite pet was eaten alive by rabid bats
On my window fell his flesh in a rhythm - one, two, three
Drop me a line it's fine I'll pick it up in good time
Confined in a bind til I find me a kind nine to nine
Read a webpage from a boss with advice sage
He said "work more hours you hours you cowards, then you'll get more wage."
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11. |
A Sire
05:16
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A rose spring up from desert sands
Southern rains ruling rams
Arms crossed marred by fight
Red march of spring light
ARISE!
Arise and now I see a ray
Sewn air unto ease
Arrows true I throne
Reed turn a T at rose
AROSE!
ARISE!
Amen what you do ought be true
Sough rich feathered head
I bid adios
Resplendent starry rose
A SIRE!
ARISE!
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iVi Tacoma, Washington
Miranda -
"Oh Wonder!
How many goodly creatures there are here!
How beauteous
mankind is!
Oh brave new world, that has such people in't."
Prospero -
"Tis new to thee."
Played, recorded, and mixed in orbit by Severian, a torturer's apprentice in the guild of the Seekers of Truth and Penitence.
Severian has but one rhythmic bone in his body, the Claw of the Conciliator.
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