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7 a.m.
02:59
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It’s just past 7am
My visual field is still blurred
Triangles and circles and squares of phosphenes pass gently by
What was I planning on doing today
Wondering about how to be an artist or something
I lean over and take a sip from my glass of water
Then I get up and stride across the room
To put on my spotted socks, aquamarine plaid shirt and straight-legged jeans
My eyes keep returning to the bed. There’s something random going around in my head
I can’t remember all the things I’ve done in my week
There’s a dharmachakra on the past
The sheets are a mess and so is my mind
The sky floating elegantly in front of my behind
And so I go to the field where the weavers live
And I toss too the echo of the songs I’ve sung
Woe is an echo of the place I know
And the happiness comes and all of this grow
And the light falls past on the sea of change
Where the life foes go
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2. |
Of Love
04:00
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Breathing the void
Pining for your love
Living in agony, in bliss
It’s all the same to me
These days without you pass so slow
And all I can think about where is you are now
You don’t have to patronise me babe. I can’t live much longer like this
You got my shirttails flying all over the place
Maybe I’ll just have a drink, and think some more of you
Cause’ I can’t take it a second longer, it’s like living in limbo
Everything about you draws me towards your love
The world has placed you before me, I feel
In this emptiness of love, of love
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3. |
Raining Circles
03:19
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4. |
The Source
05:00
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When the night comes I can’t see the streetlights glimmering
There’s the darkness that covers both the moon and the stars
A force which constructs this life in the image of my brain.
You tell me, maybe it’s always been this way
I mean to ask… have we forgotten the origin of it all
The source of every melody and creation
Sometimes I think about the difference between I and thou
The way our words divide and categorise
For all of the instruments in the world
The absolute is the only timbre
Strings woodwind percussion et cetera
Remind yourself that all of the sounds will return in time
And here we are living in this nothingness.
And it all comes out from the source
The source I came from, I return to
All terror, all beauty… the source
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5. |
Blurry
03:41
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Travelling, everything, sauntering, running, ambling, wandering, sprinting, stumbling, happening, voyaging, hungering, speeding, thinking, rambling, breathing, travelling
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6. |
Star Dancer
04:35
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After the day you stopped loving me, I got drunk and woke up a foreign planet
But as I came to I didn’t know this system was due an eclipse of Venus
It was some random morning of the 25th century, and suddenly everything was gone
Before then we had been living on a spaceship at the outer rim of the Milky Way
A mostly wordless life, but every time I saw you I knew you were the star dancer
And the cosmos had you sent you down from heaven
I would say without hesitancy, I didn’t need your vain words to calm me down
After waking, as the sole inhabitant of this planet, I decided to head to Jupiter
That I would disavow name, and I would condemn tribe and fractal politics
I always thought those who call the Earth home are doomed to repeat falsity and disobedience
I will always be yours, my star dancer, the heart of Saturn is my home
I will condemn their selfish ways and egoistic diversions
Until we unite with the Pantokrator at the big freeze of spacetime
We both know there’s nothing left for us to do on this planet
Star dancer, the creator of hopes, give us a twirl, red rose
Reverse prancer, a beautiful room, give us a kiss, my one and only
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7. |
Moonglow
03:03
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8. |
Western Paradise
04:21
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In the great void
One wonder after another
Everyone's seeking western paradise
Drunkard stumbling, been drinking
I show most discretion
Where to wind up
Sober this evening
Somewhere on the riverbank
I’ll find
Dawn’s moon in the report
Our sky-piercing sword
Screaming cold, your demons
Buddhas, patriarchs
Then moonlit, stirred by wind
Sinks, its jeweled scabbard
Iron bulls
Wino, Anne Boleyn
Where to, digger
After the ending, always ascending
Realise the difference of your inference
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9. |
Without a Face
03:24
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Tracing the circles of your face
I’ve been going around and around
You were a triangle to my square
And I was the jagged line you didn’t need
Oh, the incline of your love was steep for me to ascend
And the oval we left behind, feels so far without your appreciation
I’ve started to forget your eyes,
The endless days we spent idling by the shapes, listening to the purl
Watching the dance of tides
I only embrace inside your inside
But everything is so vacant without you
Hope is lost and in the sand of time
And I’m not sure how long I can keep going
Without the face of your own love, without the face
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Of All Mornings
03:42
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Clouds form, come on, always slow, night walk
I wander the oceans in the passage of all mornings
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11. |
Heart Untethered
03:16
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12. |
Night Song
02:58
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I want to care for you, To cherish you
But this song I am stuck in makes that rather hard
I want to hold you, to adore you
But now I only feel so far away
In a desert without your water
Everytime our eyes meet
A sea of stars lights up around you
I think you forgot it even existed
You are the wood to the white flame within me
I pine for everything about you
my sun, and my moon
This life may be empty of hope,
But there’s life around you
You are the ocean’s rush
You are the fire’s ash.
I need you
My sea of stars,
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13. |
The Light Echo
06:24
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Camera phantasia
They laughed at my behaviour
And even time can’t force you
If you choose to represent the truth
But when the sky laughs us
We must learn to be tough
And cram your information
They call that cogitation
So when you are lonely
Always remember to phone me
When waves ebb and flow
Recall the sea is in control
If you don’t get my jokes
Sometimes you may just never know
Oh come on my rosebud
Sit with me and watching the rising flood
Spent time all my spare time on synth
It seemed like life was bliss
Being with you was akin to this
And I think I deserve a final kiss
Let the circle sing its melody
Camera phantasia
The light echo
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Vivarium Recordings
future sounds label founded by jobert &
prismer. Run by CHROM-47.
electronic
experimental
dream
vapor
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