1. |
Overture
04:36
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When I awake
I’ll see
What it was you were showing me
I’ll be
The man
You deserved me to be
I know
It’s a long road
But you’re stronger
Than you were told
And nothing
Could drag you down
‘Least of all me
You are a poet
But silent
A friend
Without payment
You were kind enough
To find
The black spot in me
The cleft
Of a tyrant
Feeds crumbs
To the servants
Creates a fissure
To sheol
Between the world and me
In the window
A child
Whose eyes - full of sorrow
Was told they’re
Not blue as they ought to be
So be a man
I’ll be a woman
And we’ll break this whole
Horror show
And escape
To the place
Where we’ll surely
Be free
No blood
No violence
Resting in the silence
Won’t
You
Come
With me?
But then again
We’d forget
We haven’t finished yet
The world outdoors is a-
Screaming out
So you first
And I’ll follow
Your footsteps
Are my bible
And I’ll draw
My feet to a finishing bow
When the store’s closed
And we’re alone
We’ll dance
On our own
To the beat of the railroad
On the platform to board
I’m not restless
For repentance
This life has beat me senseless
But you are all I need here
To console
Please don’t leave
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Snow is falling on the ground
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I see myself falling
I see myself falling into the dark
The lay of the days passed by me
The One who keeps the score
The daybreak recedes lightly
The veil has been torn
Somebody still to save me
The holy night is born
The turpentine of the rags and tattered gowns
The sterile prescription halls
I see myself falling
I see myself falling into the dark
The mouth of the spotless spiral spinning
The dawn of arching arms
The sil sanctifying restless
The headdress of depressed gauze
Though to leave the gates of Eden
To wander hand-in-hand
Corruption of species-being
Into the shifting sands
I see myself falling
I see myself falling into the dark
Ain’t nobody gonna find me
It’s just you and I, my friend
At the jaws of the passage of love into the law
We weren’t so chosen after all
Was it not I who saw the furthest chambers of your dreaming
Your adornments, your melancholies and conquests
The houses that we grew up in
The asylum in our sheets
I see myself falling
(Yesteryear)
I see myself falling into the dark
(Yesteryear)
Don’t walk away in silence
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3. |
The Great Mystery
04:42
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When the lights go up
And the party comes in
I’m looking for a friend, I’m looking for a friend
When there’s no one to hold
And there’s nothing to win
Trapped behind my eyes
I get paralyzed
I really have to go, I’ll find you after the show
When I catch my breath
I see there’s no one left
Learning to love is knowing the world is a fragile place
The iron taste of blood
Now I’m feeling good
And I’m getting a rush
Spread out on the bed
With my hands on the cloth
Holding your naked touch
Every face is the same
So my lines never change
On my brains there’s a stain
Of your body frame
But I kiss it away
Learning to love is knowing the world is so fragile
Wrapped in pulsating vines
It’s all dots and lines
Black resin and wine
I take another drag
I tie my head in a bag
The bag fills like balloons
I’m looking down at the room
I think I lost the thread, I’ve fallen out of my head
Hanging on the edge
Where all the sidewalks end
And I see myself slip
Mystery
Mystery
The walk out of hell is through misery
What it means
What it means
Staring into that which has not been
Mystery
Mystery
The walk out of hell is through misery
Yet to be
Yet to be
Pursuing the dark that’s been waiting for me
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4. |
Ouroboros
04:15
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Waters of red on the banks of the Nile
Abandoned houses stretching for miles
Broken limbs of the wicked foretold by the meek
Ouroboros serpent repeating the week
Flash bang on the mountain, exaltation tablets
Shield of an orphan, three heads on a scorpion
Raphael and the spell, leaves, fell and cum
Circle of the sun, six joined to the one
Rolling the stone
Healing the blind
Like Jesus Christ
Making the dead rise
Open the door
Madness divine
Like R.D. Laing
Watching the big bang
Head devours the tail, in service of the sun
Phallus and the bulb, two collapses to one
Seeds and branches nerve ending damage
Electrical currents spurs eternal recurrence
But cold is the porch on a starry night
Removed from your mouth in the lonely light
Sizing me up certain scything placenta
Immersing the site into fields of magenta
Now is the time
The self divides
The rooster crows
And the virgin cries
Open the door
What shalt I call my Lord?
‘I am that I am’
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5. |
At Eternity's Gate
05:03
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When the pounding on the door
Rings like a kettle
And the microwave light
Blinds like solar flare
All the gravity skips
And the pressure is mounting
And the tyrant is hounding me
When reason fails
And the ‘I’ divulges into some otherworld plain
And all the faces familiar shift
Into frightened strangers
So what is this under my feet
A return into the peat
I take a solitary shower to fend off the
Heat
I held a knife
I held a knife
I didn’t want to hurt nobody
It’s just that the walls were closing in on me
I held a knife
Adonai
Who’s the child in the mirror?
I ask to a voice that speaks so clear
It said Ejaz
It said Ezekiel
It said Isaiah
It said Vincent
It said Jesse
It said Susan
It said John
It said Natalie
It said Leonard
It said Judi
It said Friedrich
It said Virginia
It said Magdalene Sophia:
Gifter of wisdom
I held a knife
I held a knife
I didn’t want to hurt nobody
It’s just that the walls were closing in on me
I held a knife
Adonai
Peering through the window
The dark night’s crescendo
And flashing lights of red and blue
With my hands to my ears
And my gaze to the Qibla
A bird of paradise flies through
The clear blue sky
No more fear in my eyes
It’s extremely loud and incredibly close
Yet you can’t always perceive it
I’m looking for a witness
I held a knife
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6. |
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We couldn't share it
Through strain and bitterness
I became a stranger to myself
I was never told about that
Can you tell me when it's over
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7. |
Templar Coltrane
02:30
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Heading into battle
Templar Coltrane
And love is king
And everything is everything
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8. |
Blanket Love
06:29
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Is it a far cry voice when I ask you a question?
Can I look to the sky without seeing it crashing?
Dredge into the bed, figure I’ll resign
Counting the seconds but losing track of time
My face on your pillow without yours on mine
To the ides of August, goodbye
Watching our final Torre Suda sunrise
Two passengers passing each other by
Blanket love, where are you?
I’m leaving
Blanket love, where are you?
I’m leaving
Dragged by the heels into the drift of the river
Rupture of the cocoon borders onto something bigger
The linen sheet erodes and slips through my fingers
In every face I see some trace of dead ringers
On the cobblestone roads that we walked together
Twisting back alley labyrinth cherry blossoms untethered
Eclipsing light on the cliff pulls the plug of projectors
And the still frame wanes like an undead specter
Blanket love, where are you?
I’m leaving
Blanket love, where are you?
I’m leaving
Passing the summit of the hill
You turned away
The ink spilled from the quill
So I turned the page
A fluorophore molecule unable to change
Burnt out and blinded but the scene remains
Blanket love, where are you?
I’m leaving
Blanket love, where are you?
I’m leaving
To the ides of August, goodbye
Two passengers passing each other by
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9. |
Leave a Light On
07:09
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If there’s nothing left to say
I don’t want to make you stay
But just let me hold your hand awhile this time
If you feel like you can’t explain
If the tub’s already been drained
I won’t watch you walk away
If I freed up all my days
If I cancelled all my plans
Would you visit me now and again?
If I lifted myself out of the bed
Approached the gallows next to a friend
Would you see me to the end?
Tears as tender as a kiss
Final surrender of the runaway kids
Inescapable this
Giants filling out the stretch of the plains
Soft mist of the morning gaze
Pours densely as the sun rays fade
Directed to the shipwreck body masses
The sinking cage of burnt-out matches
The heathen's hand wipes and scratches between the bars
The stars refract off of the surface
The chained beast folded into the curtains
Floating off through the weeds and the urchins
Lights glimmer through the cerebral cortex
A veil rests on the zero point of the vortex
A small flicker lights the silver of worship
When we first converged the surge of the circuits
And set our sights on the shirk of the perfect
The moment made the excursions worth it
And memory colours the line points of the instant
And spreads the surplus like snowless Christmas
When the day is getting dark
Don’t forget about me
Leave a light on for me
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10. |
Amazing Grace
04:32
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11. |
Between Spaces
07:31
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It's gonna take some time
I'm caught between spaces
In the afterlight of youth's great expectations
I've started over so many times
I've seen you through so many different lives
Nosebleed seats
Front row of the horizon
From this distance I can see where it all ends
Between yearning and torture I said "I love you"
Leaving the womb
Leaving my room
Sun shines through the curtain
Imprint on the sheets, you were lying there
Silk slipping through my fingers
Nosebleed seats
Front row of the horizon
Barefoot on the airstrip I can see where it all ends
Front row of where it all goes
Where it comes from
And where it gets in
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12. |
Coda
04:55
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The terror of birth, the terror of youth, the terror of age
It's all there typed out on a page
What a shame, I've forgotten your mother's maiden name
Would I have usurped your's from you if you had stayed too close to the flame
I miss nearly all the things about you
But I don't think (you would recognize me) I could be with you
Oh sweet boundless Tokyo
Sprawling out into the reveries of the unknown
Did you find your all-night diner
The one that not even all of Toronto could hold
I’ve found my music
The life that I have made in song
I see myself in the mirror
I see myself in the street
I see myself in the mirror
I see myself on the stage
When I awake I'll see what it was you were showing me
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Ten Day Voyage Toronto, Ontario
"Ten Day Voyage falls under the umbrella of indie rock but veer off in all sorts of offshoot variations, including
experimental, 90s-tinged and shoegaze... [which] presents a musical transmutation of grief, among other themes, whose focus is... slowly and in some instances harrowingly, bringing it all to our attention like an interrogative kiss."
- Vents Magazine
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