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The Notorious Freedom of the Ghost

from Love Among the Ruins by Electric Brain Electric Shadow

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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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from Love Among the Ruins, released March 24, 2023

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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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