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The Cloud of Unknowing
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In the moment of slipping down a tilted beach toward an awful sea
As seconds unravel along the cadence of dreams and bleed wisps of time that stretch and fade and bend
In the spiral arm of the cloud of unknowing, the breathing light and the transparent ocean
In the joy of forgetting and the terror of being melted away and dripping from within
The prison of ego into the bright well of dreams and the humming light to dissipate and blend
Into the spiral arm of the cloud of unknowing, released from time, released from though and meaning
And when you are older, maybe you'll understand and you will love me then like you think you do today
So hold me my darling before I'm sick -- before I'm gone somewhere far away
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The Worm of Lechery
04:01
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A slow moment's gravity eaten by the worm of lechery
Breathing slowly, eyes away, blissful and unyielding ache
And it lives in my mind, and I’m pressed from all sides
Bones of knowledge, pulp of dreams, eaten by the worm of lechery
Leaves me floating idly in deep blood-warm immensities
What it weaves into me I can't breathe out of me, I can't dream out of me
And the lights go winking out across the evening sky
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Nicky's Teeth
03:19
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When we drove by the grave
Our dead son's voice on the radio
I was not him
I wouldn't reach out to you through
The great veil of madness that kept you from me
And when I came home and found you with your teeth pulled out
Anything you need to hide from the devil
Then you smiled at me with your gums still bleeding
You smiled at me with your eyes still shining
With love from behind
Love from behind
The great veil of madness that kept you from me
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And the drugs tore my brain to pieces
And the drugs put it back together again
It was all wrong and full of missed connections
Unable to hold words or ideas
But I saw the way ego left me blinded
All my life I’d never loved honestly
I saw how scared I was to hurt you
I saw how scared I was you might love me
You knew then, better than I knew myself
The way I let it take my mind away
So don’t tell me you didn’t see the better half
The color that it brought to my days
As the high eroded
That open feeling slipped away
Back into the prison of my sober braib
Wishing I could love that way again
I roam now, chilly eyes on empty streets
Accepting that I will always stay
Entangled in fondly and poison memories
Unable to stand against the day
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And the eyes of a crying child should teach us all how meaningless our sorrows are
The sadness will go here and there -- it will chase itself in circles out and up and on
But I can’t think about these things or I may dry up and fade into the howling winds
In the pettiness of private thoughts, in the small omissions and sinister but tiny lies
I saw you were discovering some unknown space where you never knew you could hide
And I see the world they want from you ignite upon a TV screen
What they hope that you will build I won’t be here to see
Because the world moves along outside, and soon I’ll move into the world outside
And the noise of the city around us, outside it’s growing out and up and on
And you go home to your hive, your tower, and I to my room upset, unloved, alone
Open up the window and release into the dusty air
The flakes and shadows of everyone who’s ever lived
They’re churning in the world outside
They’re the dust on which you build your life
And the noise of the city around us
Outside it’s growing out and up and on
And the system, the web they will build around you
Will know you better than I ever thought I did
Long ago when you were young and a seed of hopeful things
Long ago when I could see around the bounds of the mystery
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Gnossienne No. 7
03:18
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And the screw turns and memory fades out
And a life burns and history breaks down
When I’m alone and dying in the desert
Struggling to make a good account
Of the many arcane disappointments of the future
A song I barely knew when I began to sing
When I’m alone and dying in the desert
Or living on in some unholy machine
Or folded up after many years of weakness
Withering in the twilight of the dream
Though well you might dream, how little you’d know
If the dreams all made earthly now, the dreams made real
Behold the light (lie?)
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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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