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Segment 2: Downtown (incl. Golem ii)

from The Golem by Electric Brain Electric Shadow

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lyrics

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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from The Golem, released September 29, 2020
Additional vocals by Rascal Miles

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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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