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Molo (the Serpent)
09:16
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Pariah among the outcast
I am the one the other ghosts fear
Dereliction clings like a phantom need
Windlass and drawing wire
Haul it up from the depths and count the toll
No intention holds for the dawling vein
But somewhere the serpent waits
The sediment divides
And truth a relentless call
We were two birds caught in a chock-stone fate
To take the fall
Messiah to all the broken
They only see your flame in cracked eyes
Would you give them balm for the burns you seed?
Whispering with the darkness
I saw your face in the flickering half-light
Incantations lost to your hollow reach
So, secret, the serpent waits
When the axes fall
They deafen me
Misleading thoughts
Planted infamy
Acquit your mask
A stolen plea
And if you wait
Don’t wait for me
Don't wait
Define me with hands for shaping
And measure trust in the weight of black stone
I could only watch as it fell between
Echoes can live forever
And amplify in the winding darkness
Limitations fail to assuage the guilty
And always the serpent waits
The sediment divides
And truth a relentless call
We were two birds caught in a chock-stone fate
To take the fall
Io, I only know
Wherever you lead I’ll go
Pain
Descending
It’s endless
It’s endless
Lost
To meaning
Come after me
Come after me
There’s a truth to the lies he told me
That haunts me deep inside
How a world fell to dust for leaning
On my eroding mind
But it always returns to weakness
Sleepless in the dark
When the guilt crushes me to breathless
I’ll calcify my heart
Hate
Deceiving
It's endless
It's endless
Snake
Unfeeling
Come after me
Come after me
There's a path that remains before me
The choice he stole away
Like the cold bed of rock that's opening
With every piece he takes
But it always returns to weakness
Heedless, ripped apart
Though the deed left to do is monstrous
I'll calcify my heart
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Belyd (the Blossom)
06:24
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Been saving this for a blue sunrise
I only have myself to blame
For in this place where the nights never end
I know that the sequence has ended with me
Will you await, press an ear to the ground
And hear the scratching deep within?
These fingers twitch so involuntary
I never know who whispers in my bones
He said nothing would change
While the stars have no names
Keep all your pages torn
Lost in your mind
And comfort cold to seek
You have failed me for the last time
But every night I watch the lights
Distant and cold below
Council they keep, locked in secret patterns
And the more I know the further they become
Keep all your pages torn
Lost in your mind
And comfort cold to seek
You have failed me for the last time
It bled into the sky
Color like belyd in fall
While the world still slept
In mock bereavement
What did you leave up there?
The silent spaces between
I can see the lines
I can see the lies
He said nothing would change
While the stars have no names
He said nothing would change
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Io (the Guiding Light)
12:58
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Waiting for guiding light
But, Io, I only know
I did what you asked of me
Traced these lines to their source
Gave the world a mythology
Charted an unknown course
So why do you hide your face?
Was a time when you appeared
And the sea beckons me to transform
But when I do
It feels like I'm losing you
I heard he was coming back
As if debts could be paid with time
It's a seed kept in the dark
In soil that had been mine
So why do you hide from me?
Haven't seen you in so long
And the sea beckons me to transform
But when I do
It feels like I'm losing you
I do this for you
Cast in the ground while he waits
Syzygy
Synchronicity
Does it hurt you to know
This has happened before?
Do you dream?
Would you dream of me?
There’s nowhere to go
Where I won’t follow
Counting down the hours
Last tools to acquire
And edges to hone
I can feel my heart beat slow
My steady hands
No chains could contain your lies
You paid their debts but never mine
Syzygy
Synchronicity
Does it hurt you to know
This has happened before?
Do you dream?
Would you dream of me?
There’s nowhere to go
Where I won’t follow
Listing in the snow
Back turned to the storm
It follows him home
Concealing my steps in his
I'm still the ghost he made
No chains could contain your lies
You paid their debts but never mine
It's almost time
I remember
Long summer days
Laughing, you ran through the rain
In the autumn, clinging fast
Said I'd protect you from the cold
I remember
The nights that never end
Alone, looking down from the mount
And I could not find escape
From the echoes that never were
I remember
Under belyd sky
Your faint silhouette over the stars
And I knew you right away
Although you never grew so old
Now are you angry or disappointed
I thought I saw it so clear
And the sea beckons me to transform
But when I do
It feels like I'm losing you
Io, I only know
Three bodies align
Cold fates intertwine
But death won't sever it
Not if you're here with me now
You bid me to wait
Let go of my hate
'Cause death won't sever it
Not if you're here with me now
Not if you're here with me now
Io, I only know
Three bodies align
Cold fates intertwine
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Antinode Seattle, Washington
Antinode is a Seattle-based conceptual progressive rock band. It began as the brainchild of vocalist/guitarist Travis Corwin, before solidifying in 2020 with their current line-up. Their music follows an ongoing fantasy narrative, The OE Saga, which Travis is also developing into a series of graphic novels. ... more
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