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(Prelude)
01:17
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Violent Force
03:53
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On & on wears a wide descent
Turning all my fears alive, diminished light, trapping a lifetime
Until now I’ve just caught a glance, colliding all enchanted ties
into one wrought vision: capsized
Can you feel it, feel it? no, it don’t look good
oh, It pulls you right under with that violent force
Hauntedly, howling winds ascent
Wails of something unworldly, elan vital, soul ascending
Underneath the dark waves above
they crest and crash in cruel tumult, below the bleak but silently peaceful
Darkened lines of lost life bestowed,
obscuration of the truth, this is the end or is it the new birth?
My calm Baylea what did I do? I am so confused, so confused
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3. |
Hidden Souls
04:59
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Under Fall’s unknown
Lifelong vigilance, it’s true
Kept us breathing in fear of winter’s (cold) edge
Calling us all back to her guard
It can haunt our thoughts
Without prejudice diffused
Candle lit in the dark, the shadows embark
Carrying within - wealth of truth
Take a look back
And they’ll try not to wander far
For a long time
They just might (need to)
Search and rescue
Denouement
Not alone
And they’ll try not to wander far
For a long time
They Just might
Search & rescue
In the mirror of our lives
There is a faint reflection
Of the lives that have passed us by
You might find reaching in
In the mirror of our lives
There is the slightest perception
(that) This side of life is a one night show
When the curtains draw and the spotlights glow
...You might find hidden souls
For now I can see
Connected to my life
Are the ties to the threads of which I am sewn
Tearing in, all through my mind
Collected signs
Hushed whispers in the wind
A warning of snares, the hunters trap realized
Cunningly close to the bone
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4. |
Hit the Ground Running
04:44
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A lonely road laid so I tried
Even if the murder crows again
And I’ll pull my heart out
Just like I would’ve before
I believe emotionally that I’m alive
Catching only glimpses so I can
Keep my mind on the end line
Horizon seems to glow
I am ready and right beside you let’s hit the ground (running)
I feel the safety in your eyes
Even if I catch us by a flame
And I’ll hold my arms out
I just keep calling your name
Tempered by the trail of flailing cries
We can make this right for us all the same
We can hide from our shadows
Let’s Turn and face this pain
I am ready and right beside you let’s hit the ground (running)
Are you ready or not? This is all that we’ve got
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5. |
The Truth
05:01
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I’ve lost my whole heart
Will it be found alive?
Will it be found at all?
I can’t sleep like this
It’s never fair for you
It’s never fair for me
Just then they call my name
catching me out of breath
Patience has all escaped
Making this so surreal, so intense
Harvest Moon is rising
Charles Lindbergh at my side
We made miles by morning light
Taking back all that was ours denied
A most inviting sight
Burning out all of the days apart
Tell me the truth, is it both of you staring in the dark
In their eyes, and they come to me every night, every night
There’s a chance you and I reunite
I’ll understand, and I know that you do understand the truth
Calming down, take a run through lost years
Under the cloak of grey
Winters, we make the break
In time we’ll see the world
When everyone else resigns
our coats, they’ll never find
How many nights? I must now carry on only realize I’m holding on
Waking up all that is in my mind
Do you like tonight?
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6. |
Elan Vital
04:08
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With the spark of something bright left unsaid ...intoned
gleaming eyes, flash of truth, contemplated all the way around
In the dark, when the sun sets below the line across the bay
we find hours of design, the world is such a prize for us to take
Caught you breathing out those sighs
Of pleasantly calmed embrace
Cinematic crush outright
Only ourselves remain
Élan Vital,
when we walk under moonlit nights
summer winds on the shore feels right
thoughts of grace like some erudite - love,
Élan Vital
On the shore, humming Debussey aloud in joy
So content, tracing stars, shimmering high above our heads
Sits so tall, chevaliar, Arthur stands guard in calm repose
As we laugh and we sway, some songs we always wrote
Élan Vital,
when we walk under moonlit nights
summer winds on the shore feels right
thoughts of grace like some erudite - love,
Élan Vital
when we walk under starry skies
sips of burgundian red invites
when we walk under moonlit nights
Élan Vital
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7. |
Numb
04:26
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I think twice about life
Honor all this silence, mournful decree
What was once golden light
Is now stardust ash without disease
I concede I’m alone
Tangled in these thoughts of you on your own
Undermined my intent to free you of pain that which seems to portent
I feel, I feel my body is so numb, so numb
I feel, I feel my heart is sewn up, sewn up
Care to light, warming glow
With those memories all gliding the way
Have to know and decide
That it’s all carried on, no need to revive
To concite and rejoice that the life of tomorrow is filled even more
with the past and then now and to all loved souls that I’ve had to let go
Hold tight, hold on, never away, away for long
Call out & sing guiding us back - siren song
Hold tight, hold on, healing our wounds in Avalon
Remain in light long after the night marches on (and on and on and on)
feel, I feel my body is so numb, so numb
I feel, I feel my heart is sewn up, sewn up
I’ve got to know to carry on,
This grief will end and slowly dawn
A brand new day to come
And that’s why they’re never gone
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8. |
Fuselage
03:46
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In the light of the room
Casts a different life than I knew
Where’s the characters - Harvest Moon?
Anguish carved away inside -
Subdued by the dimmed lonely night,
I now realize, realize,
I do
Utter a sound, it’s okay
Never around, my heart breaks
Missing your eyes everyday
oh, I’m terrified that I
Might only be a shell,
Emptied out and hollowed,
In this loss ~ Fuselage
Make the most of routine
Promised salt-water home on the sea
Never called it out, lone reprieve
Just a better life
So it might seem
Yet just as I framed up our world
With escape in mind, I let us down, I unfurled
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9. |
Birds of Paradise
03:47
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“Not a discipline” so said a Medici
Not an oil canvas painting to start
Turns out love is not an art, it’s a novelty
Still a treasure tied and bound to a heart
Yet it seems as though I should know better now
I’m a fiddle strung and tuned too sharp
In my mind’s eye you have meant everything, oh everything
In this lifetime I’ve lived attentively
But nobody told me…
Don’t be so upset, at least she has touched you (they said)
Don’t be so mad, her heavy lips have touched yours (they said)
Don’t be so obsessed - it’s just a matter of feeling used
...and after all, I find that interesting
Took a long look at my fraying tapestry
Count the patterns, (they) turn and circle in doubt…
Eerily, as if in tune to the autumn leaves
The brilliant colored birds fly south
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10. |
Special Life
03:53
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In the middle of the pouring rain
I have stood here for the last five days
Kept me out of time, to the depths again
So much has been washed away
But your bitter mouth, it’s your poisonous tongue
Leaving such a terrible taste on so many minds.
You’re unraveling now even as you tighten you gaze
There is so much pain/ (There’s so many lives)
Yet your heaven surrounds you
We all have our day
But it don’t mean a damn thing
I’m sure that your special life makes ours somehow weaker than yours
I’ve known that your special life shines on, on and on to forever
In the wake of all the failing I rise
Run the gauntlet, daring out to the light
Simply tell me I should be ignored
Simply stated: that I can't have what's yours
With all those severed lines, torn so shamelessly
It’s a wonder that you're standing so tall
Oh, your bitter mouth and your poisonous tongue
It's the way in which the tyrants will fall
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11. |
Tropic of Cancer
05:02
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My only calm inside
Is close to the wind, might be here for all my time
Call to all those souls -
It feels like forever knowing his fights alone
Until now I am just not holding up at all
Only served to undermine, that’s why he’s reaching out in my mind
Tear down those walls
I’ll see what’s worth fighting for
To have and to hold
A gift that’s a miracle all told
Alone out at sea, my father and me
Voyage takes us under the sun
I’ll hide from the world
And be reborn
Theroux’s ‘Coast is in hand
A lovely write
Allie Fox ignites, vultures soaring up in the sky,
Do I let it go? Do I let it go? Is it all up to me, in this dream?
A lucid dream?
A long way from the things of man
I don’t know if belonging is mad
But in this tropic of cancer we’ll set sail instead
Is this not enough?
Is this half enough?
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12. |
Regalia
04:06
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A new day begins
Clutch the unknown in your fever
Awaken the mind
Turn around now calmly see that
Your whole world awaits
Getting bigger and getting smaller
It’s all we can take
One for love,
Two for the show,
Three for the price,
Then let it go (repeat)
Time runs out on all of us
...We know
Whatever the price
With every love
Whatever the life resolves to
The evening arrives
What was done is thought as progress
Reflect on the worth
Fires burn with consolation
Together we learn
‘Once’ is all there, there to treasure
It’s all we can take
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13. |
Perfect Escape
04:56
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taking it all away
shudder to think, i’ll suffocate
call out the sentinel guards
protect my soul from inside out
oh, the knife or the shadow play
fall on the line
caught between rites & strong
oh, too long ‘till the holiday
I’ve made the break, i’d always just said, “okay”
I’ve got the better view
It’s much too late to change
I’ve got the peace of mind
It’s the perfect escape
I should’ve known
It’s the heart that’s made to break
I’ve got the peace of mind
It’s a perfect escape
fall away, fade away into the deepest of reds
only the coroner bled
lost in the dark with what was said
words that could only belong
to wolves in the woods, so long, so long
oh, to suffer this holiday
making believe
I could be this in truth
oh, to know that in Cairo
I could be gone,
the sands of time which never blew
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14. |
Carousel
04:42
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Oh, the moon it casts us out
From the land of the weak
Into hell
Onward tonight, life's carousel - it calls, it calls
Always haunting, always the sound
Sentimentally I use your words
Hesitantly I will try, try
To live in this memory, memory of you
Hesitantly I will block out the view
Mourn until light-up, then I fall asleep
The walls all collapsed now, you’re in my dreams
Nowhere to go, nowhere to hide
Can’t say, “hello”, just stares in silence
How I wished you survived
(“It’s a sign..”)
Every time I look around for a sign that conjures you
I find that I am not alone, it’s just harboring I do
Calling out aloud again as if I can talk to you
Never mind my lost eyes, I just might break through
Sentimentally I wear your clothes
Hesitantly I will try, try
To live in this memory, memory of you
Insistently I will reach out to you
(Eventually I will end up with you)
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Sadkin Duluth, Minnesota
Under the flickering lights of the odeum resides the moody New Romantic acolytes, Sadkin; futurewave from Duluth MN. Fronted by Max Mileski, who self produced the first album, Elan Vital. His beacon to evolve Sadkin to the stage met with merit as Nic Hanson (gtr), Anton Jimenez-Kloekl (synths), Daniel Vopal (bass) & Stephen Hamlin (drums) have now all congregated to present their futurist art/pop. ... more
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