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introduction
04:18
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a decade spent in caves
but on the crest of this wave
you drift back to me
my grief is a landscape
a tempestuous journey
with an end
too far to see
but now the tide turns,
a sprawl in time
and a bildungsroman
for all the believe
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black coal burned inside his icing heart
and as mountains start to form beneath the glumes of powerful heights
you cry to let your fear glide gracefully over them
…and on the shore you’ll find the words inside the ocean’s roar
let them guide you to a place you’ve never known before
but Ana, in life you will find that sometimes your feet are anchored
in a fire you may burn yourself and be afraid to ever leave the harbour
but there's still a light on the mountainside
there's a dream where you can hide yourself and your tired mind
or have you tried
to give it all up?
if the sun was out, you’d follow the railroad with crying eyes
but today, a storm is coming and in your mind you can feel its size,
im waiting for the tide to rise…
ana, it seems
there’s a lighthouse burning in your dreams,
and you dim your eyes to see
how the islands fade into the sea,
but all your totems break
and you drown in a sky made of water
ana,
you feel the cold
but in your heart you have never burnt more
four miles you’ll walk, knowing your old house is torn
as the mountains are born
in the distance
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3. |
hideout
03:29
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as hills grow from under your skin
songs of cells sounding from the valley make your head spin
and why did you let your mind begin to tear itself down, well, its beyond me.
and while he pulled all your secrets apart
fruitful fire flooded your heart
but with a weak gesture the night lamp is now lit
alaska, loneliness is a dream i chose to forget
but i know i had it
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4. |
in white glowing bone...
00:50
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5. |
oh! petra
05:35
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the land
and the forceful hold between our eyes
another sun will rise
as meadows burn
afeared of that longleaf breed
the only home i need
that crystalline feed
the fire spreads with no end
but the feeling is gone
that fleshless bone
this forceful hold
but i can release your fragile body
the ghost of my beloved, maybe you're hiding something
inside your motionless arms,
that i have not yet met in my dreams—
a pearl inside the rock
ana i know your mind wanders,
but i’ll give you the escape that your heart desires
a shining violence
by the fire
the mountains:
Ana, you're a fire in my heart
and i hope you survive
the loneliest night of your life.
these mountains can swallow you whole
their caves sing
there is no need to forgive
...oh petra, im on my way
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6. |
cryosphere
00:53
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7. |
lithe
03:06
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ana, i turned in my sleep all night long
and blocked out nightmares of dark fields by the shore
well, i closed off all the doors to trap that night, in the comfort of a storm,
the jetty was always there,
but i was always here
and now, my roots have grown in this grotto
but somewhere,
there’s a garden blooming, ana longleaf,
leave the city,
and leave the need to mourn the people you love
when i was young, i heard the mountains calling me too,
but alaska,
you (always) meant more to me
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8. |
first day of night
03:11
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the rueful dark of this night wont hide
the perfect circle that i have run
this incessant terror in the sullen tide,
the most fearful a day of night has ever been,
away from home, and apart from light
the umbra lured me into its lair,
in complete syzygies of the sun and moon,
i wrote corral hymns, and whispered them to its numinous air
a heavenly home
-now with a glowing bone-
in the night sphere
…and on the first day of night,
our tears dried,
and we were showering inside your silvery moonlight.
but the sun’s paroxysmal light, in its perennial hide,
is a sight to sail from,
and leave behind.
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heart of the gulag sun
03:58
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zamora, a false godlight is here
and it has come to consume all your fire
but fill your dreams with this flat force today
our bond will break
and you will feel the fall as we slowly tear
this time, these swines will take your face,
but take it for the barricades
and then paint it on their palisades
they’re gonna make an apostate out of us all,
in this spineless warfare
but i’ve seen this city rise before
the fervour of a crowd
or did you forget,
all the friends we lost to that fire?
as i opened the door ,
i slowly realised, i’ve never felt this before
come closer
and feel the warmth
around the corner, your friends fight for the square,
now you have a pride to feed,
a home to long for
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10. |
the snow fell for days
01:16
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6 am. a flood.
04:03
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i'm half awake,
as my body carries in the flood.
in sleep i dreamt of no oasis
i only remember you, when you were 14 years old.
so shed all your bashful graces, honey,
then come
and watch my body unfold.
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12. |
wotr
04:27
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and a fire all has all to do with it
because hundreds burned in their prison cells
and as pulleys break your noble stance
you’ll curse forever for being brought into this glance of the pogrom of eternity
ana, you are inside the heart of this black pit
meet the thirst of the river
and drown this flame in it
or a magonia will release all the atrophy onto the sea
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A FRIGHTENING CRIME;
to be LOCKED IN
and to be LEFT OUT
…
in a few seconds i will revise
almost every choice i’ve made to stay alive
beneath the ice,
the river and with it countless lives are moving,
cruel night,
i’ve been praying for a flood
ana, we own this river
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14. |
mariposa
03:12
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safe in the arms of the sea
last lights of mariposa recede
but inside the glow,
i feel the fall, and the rise
of my loathe
this terrible lift of the sea
life’s pain and my grief were the same to me
(will this gentle tide go down with me?)
but i hear the call
the mighty roar
of the mountain hall
and i feel as cold
as i should never be
waves come in between your sight and life’s ship as it sails
and in your mind you’ve gone home a thousand times
my friend, i can now see a light in your eyes,
or is it too early to tell?
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15. |
4miles
03:58
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all the living things
in my heart
in white glowing bone
in lies
but this time
all the others crossed the line
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16. |
terrasphere
02:56
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now clear of the snowfields, and past the stormy sea
the terrasphere is shown to me
both valley and coast, silenced my stolid rose,
but now my dithyramb flows into the open land
these stray lines of ridges are the welts along my back
i see it all,
the tawny earth, blanketing the molten stone
the flesh of a torrid bone…
but ana! we were never born,
so let’s not remember life
…and i always remembered it
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inside this room
that you once lived in when you were eight,
demurely, nightmares enter your brain through the cut from the blade,
and you grovel, but something afar,
from the sphere of our sorrow and our shame...
the mountains
and now,
it’s here,
the mountains peak!,
grazing the karman line,
and the lights, oh petra,
i’m at your doorstep
...
with petals of tears in your room,
let yourself become the cure for your case
your children were all born in winter
don’t let them go to waste
and ana, move slowly into my skin,
and begin to feel what i feel,
let all tomorrows pass while we’re in this tomb,
turn your sorrows into a garden of flowers,
and let your eyes pry
at their bloom
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