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Segment 1A: Encroachment
05:59
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Segment 1B: The Lab
05:54
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Curtain on our heroin throwing up in a floor drain
Idiot sun beats through the haze of the dusty windows overhead
Animals shriek in pain and fear, rattle bars of their cage
Cancerous ooze eats through their veins and their eyes are blistered, melt away
Like a drop of molten lead makes omens in its cooling
She can read the future in the splatter on the floor
The needle falls out of her shaking hand and she says
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Golem i
03:54
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The golem awakes in a windowless room
Somewhere in the ancient city
Peers at the light from the bulb overhead
Pulls the ring and descends through the trapdoor
An ominous shape that has grown in a dream
To gnaw through the walls of the mind
A mirage that will ache in the struggle to form
A clot that has built over time
The golem crawls through dampness and gloom
Somewhere in the ancient city
Moves by the sound from the street overhead
Sightless eyed and evenly breathing
Sensing the throb of the life of the world
Fleeing the chill of the ground
Drawn from its hole like a crab from the sand
Feeling the shift of the tide
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Later that night, again at the bar, Kate finds herself engulfed in silence
She drinks and she talks, she stares at the sky, feels sound in her bones, but she hears nothing
Hollow and fluid like a bag in the wind, carried away by motion without reason
She looks through the windows, at the people outside, milling in crowds, radiantly glowing
Ecstatic under the stars
That douse them in venomous light
Like the blossoms paying for springtime
In the act of blooming, dying
“And am I one of them?
Do I feel as they feel?”
And again with no conscious choice
She finds herself out in the crowd
Stumbling next to a man
Whose name she does not recall
His face too blank to recognize
But too familiar to fear
And the golem crawls through darkness
Under the ancient city
It hears the people above it
And it feels the water around it
And the golem has no memory
And the golem knows no direction
And the golem runs like liquid
Its mind is dust in the sun
Now Kate in the bedroom in a house by the sea
The man brought her here but she can’t recall coming
Tasting the cold air she understands
Somehow the adepts have poisoned the moonlight
She falls down the stairway and out the back door
Trips down the path toward the churn of the ocean
And the Golem feels its body rise
Against something heavy and cold
It pushes the manhole cover aside
Rises into the street
And the Golem walks to the doorway
Of the house beside the sea
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Prelude: The Vision
04:35
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Now she stumbles up the shore, back to the house by the sea
Walks up, shakes the locked front door
Walking through the garden, she sees a light
Looking through the window, in the morning glow
She sees her own body on the bed
She sees the man hang above her; her hands run down his back
Looks into her own pleasureless eyes
And sees her hands reach up to the man’s throat
Runs down the beach and hurls herself into the sea
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Segment 3: At Sea
11:29
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“Strange to think that once there was a planet
With no one there, no mind that could observe
And from the dark, life flickered for a moment
And as it died it dreamed itself important
Am I a clock whose hands move in two directions?
Am I a crow choking on the stone of wisdom?
Am I a cell that runs across a slide chasing poison?
The night is cold and clear, the stars are prickling at the water
The moon’s a sharpened stone to cut a glowing hole in the water
The night is cold and clear, the cosmic ecstasy of the mincer
Loves go by, and roll like pearls falling
From broken string, tumbling away
And destiny, is an animal that’s sickened
Staggering, in decreasing circles
Adrift on my back I will try to ignore
The slow going out of the lights on the shore
‘Cause I know my own way home
An animal bred into captivity
And still ready to chase any sign of release
Or a scent of a great unknown
Europe will crash into Africa
And give birth to a new Himalaya
And my bones will fossilize in an inland sea”
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Post-Script: Ashore
03:53
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Kate in the cold air, shivering, crawls like a wreck from the sea
Lost revelations falling away, withering shreds of a dream
She trips through the wet sand, and she climbs the bluff, back to the house by the sea
Door hanging open, but no one home, the world gone dead and empty
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The roads, the houses and the cars
Deserted for a thousand years
No birds sit upon the wires
No rain disturbs a sunless dawn
Among the ancient artifacts
Even footsteps sounding wrong
Trash and bits of floating scrap
Play among the fallen leaves
And chase each other through the breeze
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Golem iii
03:49
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The golem sits for endless hours and stares at empty rooms
The golem walks alone at night and drinks the poison moon
The golem tortures animals and picks through their remains
It masturbates until it bleeds and feels no joy or pain
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Kate walks through the silent streets
Sleeps beneath the shattered lights
Or in the emptied-out museums
The empty houses she burns for light and heat, hears them sizzle in the rain
She leaves murals on the roads for no one’s eyes but her own
She climbs into the empty towers
Tosses rocks that echo down and knock the windows out below
The chime of the song of broken glass calling up from far below
Sings a song for her alone
She drives, speeds through empty roads, the wind haloing her hair
And the road becomes familiar
Now drawn up the mountain she knew long ago
Up the hill in summer light and the world fades away
Hangs in black nothingness for lifetime after lifetime…
“Until the sun begins to rise
And etch my body line by line
Drawn back into the world
Into the rushing stream of time”
Huddled on the concrete floor, the golem feels nothing
…As a giant pearl, engulfed in slime comes sliding from its body
…As the golem’s flesh withers
…As its empty husk dries up and blows away
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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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