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AUTUMN'S KISS
04:54
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surrender sun for the colors that come with pain
draped in black, soaked with rain
now she comes to let the tension from these veins
in dust and ash, the light remains
all at once, i see a thousand birds take flight
against a sky, a sky of white
all at once, i feel the coming of the night
the birds all disappear from sight
the crushing bliss of autumn's kiss
i can't tell you what it means
so make a wish across these wrists
to live inside this dream
surrender soon to a moon that's come to make its claim
in harvest gold, she boldly reigns
and how we swoon, the chilling tune of her refrain
shakes the color from the frame
all at once, i see a thousand birds fly back
beyond a sky, a sky of black
all at once, i feel the teeth of her attack
the birds are gone, the mantle cracked
the crushing bliss of autumn's kiss
i can't tell you what it means
so make a wish across these wrists
and live inside a dream
a late summer's invitation
in breezy sigh
suicidal ideation
now... here lies...
all at once
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OBLIVION
04:46
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running toward the waves
i've saved myself for one that kills
oceans of secret joy
once i'm destroyed, i'll know the thrill
sequence sublimates
the waters claim the dream of time
the mind wakes with no meter
delete the speaker, repeat the rhyme
and in the hours of almost
i slow as i near the end
i crave the gnosis of nothing
but i keep running
oblivion... oblivion, my friend
nightmares full of love
the things i need keep me bleeding
what's there when i wake up?
in oceans deep, can't hear the screaming
tides turned, the yearning wanes
i feign the heart of one prepared
currents beyond the veil
i'm still afraid of what's out there...
what's out there?
and in these hours of almost
does the blade play mere pretend?
i crave the answer to something
but i keep running
oblivion... oblivion, my friend
if i make myself empty will i be light enough to ascend?
on waves of grace?
to a dispassionate embrace?
erase me now
just to face it all again?
running
running
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VANISHING ACT
05:03
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pictures on glass
the lens reflects an image moving past
portraits hold fast
the light persists
but nothing really lasts
an eternity of ephemera
we lose ourselves in moments
posterity in camera
will anyone even notice?
we disappear
were we ever really here?
what's left of us now?
is there no coming back?
we disappear
the capture has been cleared
the witness is blank in this vanishing act
hours escape
the tape repeats the scenes that we create
always too late
time degrades each copy that we make
fragility is cinema
we fall apart in frames
futility, etcetera
la fin d'un film... étrange
we disappear
were we ever really here?
what's left of us now?
is there no coming back?
we disappear
the capture has been cleared
the witness is blank in this vanishing act
stay
stay candid for the capture
now pose
now pose for the rapture
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SAMSARA
05:06
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i miss the part of you that burned
the photo in the frame
the face that had a name
we spill the ashes from the urn
returning from the flame
but you don't look the same
i'd travel outside of this world
i'd leave it in the past
to be with you at last
i'd break the lock off of the door
and take the stars to task
and i'd never look back
if i could hear you laugh again
but i'm walking with the fire
still holding on to grief
still chained to desire
there's no escape
samsara, samsara
the echo and the ache
at every turn i take, i see you
the endless shape
samsara, samsara
my scream can only shake
the circle i can't break to find you
i need the summer of your flesh
for where will these arms rest
when only bones are left?
to feel the moment that is blessed
but always mourn the next
a sorrow we expect
the sweetness of your spoken word
if it should not be heard
it all becomes absurd
all the boarders start to blur
the light of your allure
makes me so unsure
that i'll ever be cured of want
there's no relief
still walking with desire
still clinging to the grief
there's no escape
samsara, samsara
the echo and the ache
at every turn i take, i see you
the endless shape
samsara, samsara
my scream can only shake
the circle i can't break to find you
no escape
my scream can only shake
the circle i can't break
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RAZOR'S EDGE
04:46
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strike the flower at its stem
red gems flowing out
still and bloodless hand
set against the sand
sunny places never reached
beaches crimson stained
lost between two worlds
neither state attained
an open door beyond the ledge
i hear a wind move through
the siren's song
the razor's edge
what will you wake up to?
lattice turned and crystal cracked
a fractured shadowland
my body is the rift
dimensions set adrift
sunny faces never shown
absent angel wings
lost outside these worlds
just tugging at the strings
an open door beyond the ledge
i hear a wind move through
the siren's song
the razor's edge
what will you wake up to?
i've been dreaming out loud
never catch me sleeping sound
now i won't be found
exit through the scenery
a backdrop so absurd
should i leave in haste
lay waste to my words
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6. |
ERASURE
03:12
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a wave of light
collapses into dream
tangential figure
presents itself as me
i'm just a shadow in your mind
i'm just a shadow
i'm just a shadow in your mind
i'm just a shadow
some dim refraction
in a familiar shape
and from the prism
a certain piece that can't escape
i'm just a shadow in your mind
i'm just a shadow
i'm just a shadow in your mind
i'm just a shadow
you might recognize the face
but just a trace survives in your world now
what stands before you in my place
erasure
erasure
erasure
a melted image
a presence here, illusory
delays the sentence
persistence of a memory
i'm just a shadow in your mind
i'm just a shadow
i'm just a shadow in your mind
i'm just a shadow
retcon the message
reconfigure all the facts
holding a fragment
the rest is never coming back
i'm just a shadow in your mind
i'm just a shadow
i'm just a shadow in your mind
i'm just a shadow
you might recognize the face
but just a trace survives in your world now
what stands before you in my place
erasure
erasure
erasure
i'm only part of me
divergent sight
sleight of heaven's hand
there i go, yet somehow
here i am
i'm just a shadow in your mind
i'm just a shadow
i'm just a shadow in your mind
i'm just a shadow
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GHOST BIKE
03:10
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rolling along
in the wrong world, in the wrong lane
a lace in the chain
by the sidewalk, there's a bloodstain
was that me?
did i shift the line of sight?
i go ahead
the cycle is red
but something somewhere rests in white
they come along
with the flowers in arrangement
the metal is cleansed
in a layer of spraypaint
is that me?
what they carried from the site?
i go ahead
but someone is dead
light a candle by this bike
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AGENT OF CHAOS
02:52
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she hits the scene with no brakes
like a house falling out of a storm
from the rear, feel the shake
and the car spinning out of control
into space
see the face of the passenger riding along
is she gone?
where'd you go?
everything moving slow
who knows what she's on?
who knows how long she's been gone?
agent of chaos
who knows what star she comes from?
dead stop! you're awake!
take a breath and a look to the one at your side
she's alive!
what the hell?!
something fell like a house from the sky
did you die?
there's a cop
and the traffic is still flying by
what did they find in the seat
of the vehicle stopped behind?
who knows what she's on?
who knows how long she's been gone?
agent of chaos
who knows what star she comes from?
a driver's side exchange revealing the stunned and expressionless vessel at the wheel possessed by nothing but the former contents of orange vials scattered amongst the cloth and plastic limbs of children's dolls piled in the back seat whimpering a single repeating syllable as if suspended in time - it is at this moment you realize that a glint of light skipping off the windshield dances into your eye as though from some unfamiliar sun - a peculiar taste to the air sends the early nerves of a creeping panic, a moment's scare as you glance once again at the guest in this wreck and she's there, having taken the rough journey to the shoulder with you - but is it the same you saved from in a spin-out drift as if lifted from the world and projected through a rift?
shift into view
this is new... this is some place that you haven't been
from the din, strikes a voice
one that you've never heard in your life
it's your own
different tone
spilling words that you shouldn't hear
here and now
tell me, how did she smash it apart anyway?
who knows what she's on?
who knows how long she's been gone?
agent of chaos
who knows what star she comes from?
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9. |
ELECTRON LOST IN HELL
08:27
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every reality is lost possibility
every last particle met with hostility
two places at once
a feat of agility
maintaining both states?
beyond my ability
no one can hear me scream
i'm lost beyond their vision
yield submission to the superposition
every reality is lost possibility
every last particle met with hostility
two open doors
i move through willingly
the me that survives is the fucker that's killing me
how i landed here, no one can tell
discarded version lost in...
help me!
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to the oft plucked flower of my youth
both mage and empress
both sage and temptress
we'd trade our inks in clumsy cursive hand
i'd drink you in by line
pretend to understand
songs of experience too soon
they'd never bore us
from verse to chorus
you'd give my stunted words a gentle chance
so sweetly prop them up
their puerile romance
i was the child, you were the wise
looking at the world through one another's eyes
you'd give us truth when we'd hear lies
one innocent spared
one innocence dies
misplaced powers of my past
both fool and master
both friend and actor
you cut the shape of something i could be
if i could drop the fear
that never looked like me
i was the child, you were the wise
looking at the world through one another's eyes
you'd give us truth when we'd hear lies
one innocent spared
one innocence dies
one innocence lost
one innocent cries
fly on julia
fly on tom
fly on michael
fly on nonn
fly on kelly
fly on ray
fly on friends
light the way
fly on angels
fly on thieves
fly on martyrs
i believe
we keep flying
beyond the scream
beyond the seal
beyond the dream
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Kill Scenes Chicago, Illinois
Kill Scenes are a dark dreampop project from Chicago, IL.
for booking, sync, etc., contact: killscenes@gmail.com
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