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Intro: The Ruins
03:30
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Indoor Cat
05:08
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Like a cat who's spent his life indoors finally let out to roam at night
Overwhelmed in sound and energy, wide awake and thrilled and terrified
Here the stars are cold and threatening, directing me to roam beneath their light
And even if my back is arched in fear, my face is thrown adoring to the sky
Run away from rooms where years go by in comforting and deadening routine
We all sit and watch the world outside and no one has control of anything
And are there monsters? Am I a monster? Do I dream of blood between my teeth?
And are there wonders? And am I a wonder? And do I dream to be another's dream?
And what if I can never tell how to live outside?
When to walk in confidence and when to run and hide?
What there is to be despised and what to be adored?
What to run away from and what to run toward?
At the edge of what the light can see, where the garden fades into the trees
Another universe is beckoning, another world beyond reality
I want to cry and I want to howl, I want to run into the woods and die
I want to fly and I want to drown, I want to never want to go inside
And what if I can never tell how to live outside?
When to walk in confidence and when to run and hide?
What there is to be despised and what to be adored?
What to run away from and what to run toward?
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When the light comes
It knows who we are
It knows where we hide
And who we're hiding from
And what a short, mundane, trip it has been
When it comes, I know it will find me alone
Here, I know, is a weakness of mine
A fear of confrontation and surprise
For what I forget
And what I forgive
And what I put down inside
The debt owed is mine alone
There, below, the debris of a life
A slate of satisfactions and delights
For what I have known
And what I will miss
And what I will never find
The debt owed is mine alone
For years I thought I, could escape the person
I always knew I'd have to be
But it's far too late now, to think of changing
Without becoming less of me
Here in our melting world there's
Great wells of pity that taste like love
By day I know I'm yours and
When the night falls I know I'm alone
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Find the way below
Lie down and take shape
Away from a warning that burns outside
The challenge to love or be damned
Against all better judgment I find I miss the way
The failure of love makes time go stretching out
And walking on a fall day in a shimmering cascade
Of sorrow and self-pity, all lost to me now
Seems a hundred years ago
Seems like somewhere out of time
Seems like the gardens of the moon
Seems like another life
But the echoes have come here to dwell
To be consumed in wanting but unable to see
The shape of satisfaction or what that would mean
Confers on self-destruction romantic dignity
And lays a veil of beauty on the suffering
Seems a hundred years ago
Seems like somewhere out of time
Seems like gardens of the moon
Seems like another life
But the echoes have come here to dwell
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Unendurable reckoning made its way through me
It left me in a grief meltdown fantasy
But it swept all the dust off, burned my vision clean
Sleep alone, I find, never falls untrue
A vine that's cut to nothing
Growing thorns and coming back anew
In the eye of the tragedy I could see what had been lost
The melancholy and ecstasy of solitary thought
The enduring mystery of the joy of jerking off
I'm no longer ashamed of the urge to run away
I'm no longer afraid of the urge to dissipate
Sleep alone, I find, never comes too soon
Weak and falling blackly
Live in hope or die inside the truth
Sleep alone, I find, never falls untrue
A vine that's cut to nothing
Growing thorns and coming back anew
I've never really been alone
Never anything except alone
Now I only wish that I may known
The notorious freedom of the ghost
What's death to one sets another one free
We are what we have to be
What tortures one is another's relief
Once I thought I saw with clarity
What seems in one light a blessed release
In another the madness of grief
What seems on one light like it could be peace
In another is just apathy
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I hope I am not who I deserve to be
And what dreams bind me
Come undone in the heat
I hope I am not what time has meant for me
An age of cruel wonder
Comes with awe and grief
And as the mouth is opening
I only hear a dry hollow sound
Empty then of everything
Except a growing feeling of despair
The luminous future has faded into an unknown
Like a bell dying slowly til we only imagine its tone
Yields to something strange and dreadful
In a time of cruel miracle
If there is no air that will bear the words
Then these pieces will fade into the glow
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No One is Receiving
04:37
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Thwarted by the drone of my unsatisfying voice
And by the fumbling of my clumsy hands
My song stumbles across the air, nobody is moved,
And though many things in life depend on chance
Many selves in many lifetimes will experience this failure
There is something in the failing that binds us to the earth
A voice that tries to cut across the gaps of empty hours
In the hope that something real will be heard
But everyone is sending, no one is receiving
All our voices drowning in a sea of empty noise
Everyone is speaking, nobody is listening
Our hearing overwhelmed in the illusion of choice
I'm trying to say something but I don't know what it is
I only know never comes out right
I can't pause and take a breath and hear how someone else would say it
I insist I have to be the flame that sets the world alight
With the world around us trying to reveal its true nature
But its radiance diminishing, and growing ever fainter
And the people that surround us are no longer so appealing
and our solitude is calling in its small, insistent whisper
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Love Among the Ruins
04:57
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Hold on where the sunlight on the placid water smiles
We will dive into the cities swallowed by the ancient sea -- old water
Hold on where the current winds around some sunken thing
A mere ripple for that monolith that rises in the ancient sea
Hold on where the waves will wash the plain that was a street
In the ruins she will wait for me; gather counsel with the evening sky
And I know the ocean will receive us then
I know the ocean will receive -- and she will dream like an animal
Hold where the water laps upon the shattered eyes
Of towers of wealth and luxury swallowed by the ancient sea
Where the country does not even boast a tree
None to mar the rippling majesty, such perfection as you've never seen
And I know the ocean will receive us then
I know the ocean will receive -- and she will dream like an animal
Though well you might dream, how little you'd know
If the dreams all made earthly now, the dreams made real
Behold the light, behold the light
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Everything's Clear
03:43
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When I feel like it only rains on me
The god I gave my life in prayer and fealty
Will tie me and flay me and lay out my hollow skin
Wear me and shape me and play and dance within
And when I chase the cloud to the corner of the sky
Spiral in the shock of the ever-shifting light
It will lift me and take me somewhere behind the sun
Lift me and take me somewhere behind the sun
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Electric Brain Electric Shadow Olympia, Washington
Electric Brain Electric Shadow marries the compositional sophistication of progressive rock with the textural richness of ambient music, the dynamics of post-rock, and the emotional vulnerability of alternative and post-punk. The resulting sound is complex yet accessible, attentive to details of sound and arrangement, and evocative of thoughtful melancholy. ... more
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