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Quietude
05:33
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At the same time that you made the
Cacophany that rattled my soul
And shook me to my core
I learned that my bones were not made of the concrete
That I had made them out to be
And at the same time that you made the
Sound of silence
I learned what it meant to be still
And to feel the air around me
And to feel your hands around me
I learned what it meant to be
Empty
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2. |
Wait
02:42
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3. |
Teigh Ar Adaigh
08:40
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And in that moment I remembered
What it meant to hang amongst the stars
With the universe as me and I as it
And the song that was myself was sung
Throughout the space that was my mind
And you were there as a lilting note
In my melody
The shining solo tremble of sound
In the center of the milky way.
Moonlight has never been an adequate means of transportation
But somehow you strode in on it
Wearing it like a sash around your curves
Your skin glimmering, because you were surrounded by
and covered in the very stars that blinded my eyes
And I did not see you for what you were
Because stars always stay close
To black holes
And as i reached out to those stars
Twinkling, shimmering
I felt them in my eyes
And their light on my skin
And for a moment i was hope too
Until that shimmer was growing distant
My fingers outstretched with forever longing
I am not ungrateful
Just alone
Can you recall it? Those sweet summer days?
Ah but you were sunshine on clovers
Ah but you were diamond clusters
Prisms and sound
Color and void
You were all of the things that I would gravitate to
All of the things that I was afraid to be
All of the things I wanted to be
Can you?
We used to sit beneath the stars
On hoods of cars
And talk about how someday we’d get outta this town
But then time turned around and wagged her finger
And i guess i’ll just have to leave without you now.
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4. |
Neptune's Gale
03:16
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I should take pause
But i creep along
Under the eyes of those who look for me
I creep, i crawl, i creeep along
Whisper little dove . ten times i heard you
You said remember!
But i forgot your melody
Can you forgive this kind of
Tresspass
Tress
Pass
Me by
by(e)
Listen to me listen
And i’ll weave you a fantastic tale of when i could still see
Back when the sky was green with opportunity
And when my eyes were not yet clouded with the grey of disdain
Dis
Dain
Disdainfully i regard myself
My reflection is a poison and my brain is a dreamcatcher full of bad nights
I can only love a river if it rushes fast enough for myself to not be seen on its surface
Where is the white water rapid that i crave?
Whisper little dove. Ten times i heard you.
You said, you could see me on the mountain
But i stayed home instead.
Watch me seek
And I'll lead you to the bounding main
Here in the briny deep my ears and eyes cannot deceive me
The tide is a bath and the salts are a balm and the sea is a home
I creep, I crawl
Toss myself from side to side in the drink
I am a storm at the sea that i wish i could become one with
My melancholy keeps me restless
and at the surface of my own waters
Whisper little dove. Ten times I heard you.
(lyrics from the extended edition of this same piece, to be released soon)
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5. |
A Hollowing Realization
05:41
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I open up my hands
to look at the crushed paper flower
and i think of how beautiful it was
how beautiful you are
and i cannot help but to wonder
why my own tightly stitched mouth
could have ever opened wide enough
to ever have greeted you in the first place
and i look up at my shelf and at the rows of origami hearts
and wonder how you were so unlucky
to have thought you could unfold me
The day you told me you’d tell the world
I thought that maybe you were a monster
Not that the telling would have done me any harm
But that the intent to do harm was deep within you
And now I hear rumors about you
Words are swirlin’ and truths are comin’ up on the horizon
And as I sit here with a brow raised
And a teacup to my lips
I can’t help but think “I knew it.”
Sometimes...
Loving someone with your whole heart
Is like loving them into forever
Giving them enough love to last forever
But it Gives them all of your soul
And then they take it
And they break it
And you're left without a soul
Angry and jaded I have always shouted against the wind
Vulnerable and afraid I have always grasped at straws
I know, I have always known
Those poisonous lies that dripped from your lips
Those looks and glances that even I could read
Those rumors and stories
I open up my hands
to look at the crushed paper flower
and i think about how beautiful it was
you were so unlucky
I knew it.
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6. |
Goodbye Winter
05:29
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Rowan S. Avery Oakland, California
stage name:
bee.knee.exe
experimental musician interested in breaking boundries between genre, medium, and people
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