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Godspeed = Lightspeed
04:50
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Spin, electric eye
Sky peeling, parting the way for you
Grin, aphotic mouth
That pulls the white reflection down
I align, I de-align
I mark the seams in endless starlight
Ice in the tears
Of your moon-blinked eyes
Ice in the brain stem
Godspeed = lightspeed
If it’s just a dream I’m screaming
If it’s just a dream I’m swinging wild and wide
In a terror haze I feel it
Accelerate and arc the endless running ray of time
How we tumble out and separate
And how I fumble reaching for your hand
If it’s just a dream I’m screaming
On the banks of null I’m pleading I - I - I - I - I - I
I don’t want to die out here
(In endless starlight)
In endless starlight (x11)
In endless stars
A stream of frozen skies that spread above the traveler, the revelator
I scream to frozen skies that bloom above me, and a god that loves me
Head full of flame when I look in your eyes
We’re flung from the wheel
You made the whirling world stand still
Head full of flame when I look in your eyes
We’re flung from the wheel
You made the whirling world stand still
Head full of flame when I look in your eyes
We’re flung from the wheel
You made the whirling world stand still
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Sawlung
04:08
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Oh wow there sure is a lot of it about
I don’t know where to start
Consumed or exhumed?
I’m digging out
Eventually
Oh
And so now that we no longer rhyme
The sun will set on us
It’s like a spark swallowed up in the ground
I lost my rings in the swirling dust
Oh
For no one and no reason
The steam will rise
Over the wall in low season
I am descending on a wire
I’m waving by the ocean in a picture back at you
And I’m swaying with the motion of the breeze into your room
This sound used to be music to me, now it’s just a vanishing refrain
Drowned out by the bellbirds ringing in my ears again
And its bending bleeding cacophony is all that’s left there in its place
I’ll take mine with tea and then I will go to sleep
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I Am Shaking Off A Dream
03:23
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I’m staring at the sky
At ships passing in the night
I’m shuffling my feet
I’m waiting for a sign
I’m watching colors smear
And blur and blend and disappear
Sand threads the time in double-time
I just stand here waiting
Into the room I drift towards peril and it feels good
Good to give up
Good to fuck up
I’m walking out onto the wing
Into the wild never-ending
In a dream within a dream
Scattering yards of yarn and string
Had somebody got their claws in me?
Was I the cat that got the cream?
Twilight
Evil
Inspiration
Lilac in bloom
Under the strawberry moon
If you left it up to me
I think that I'd go quietly
I thought I had no fear at all, now it’s all that I am
But I'm shaking off a dream
Where I march into the sea
Where I walk on until the end of where the fading light can reach
I don’t wanna be wasted air
I don’t wanna be wasted in the moonlight again
I don’t wanna be singing songs
And strumming chords
They come out wrong
A brute
A bore
An eye for an eyesore
I just wanna be in your arms again
I just wanna be in your arms again
I
I just wanna be in your arms again
I just wanna be in your arms again
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New Tanuki Suit
03:07
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I don't think it's working
But I swear I'm getting lighter
Than the air that I can't pull into myself
And my chest is getting tighter
Oh no!
We all thought you were messing around
Talking shit to the drunks in your hometown
Drifting around with your head in the clouds
Flapping your tail like a mongrel dog
I can't say for certain
But I saw that statue's eyes drift in my direction
As I pull into my shell
Swear I saw you spitting fire
Oh no!
Oh no!
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Magnetic Light
05:57
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A dual convocation
In a loose constellation
Made of eyes
Ah, the fools run the station
Heaving hues of radiation
In the light
I want to die
In the dust of headlights
Tonight
I want to fly
Through the swarm
I'm a field of magnetic light
At the feet of the monster
They have come to build their castles
In my shadow
And like a howl through the hollow
You scream out
I only nod and follow
Deny all you like
But I know how you
Misrepresented it
Maybe we can try tonight, alright
And breed some contempt
Or maybe just apathy
Hey broken hand
Leave all this grieving unmeasured
It's a curse
And I've been cursing loudly in a bar
In a dream
All is dream
I don't sleep anymore
I can't sleep anymore
Without you
You
Without you
You
We're at full power
From the tallest tower on earth
For every ill but still fitting lie
Unearthed
We just set our home on fire
Hey
Hey
Hey
And I see them walking after dark
In the light
In the light
In the light
Oh god, the light
I see them walking after dark
In the light
In the light
In the light
Oh god, the light
Oh god, the light
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Little Cable Boy
02:28
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I left the Mourning Cloak in the kill jar
Said "I got no strings to hold me down"
Iris sucking light like a dead star
Battered up in a phone box bleeding
He pauses at his own reflection
He wonders if it’s too late to shut it off
You’re dreaming in a big black bubble
You dream until the sky goes dark
You’re still awake when they start cutting
You’re toe to toe in a dance with your demons
When it’s easier to look away from it
Easier to let the sin bloom
But help’s not coming
So you better start running
But help’s not coming
So you better start running
But help’s not coming
So you better start running
But help’s not coming
So you better start
So you better start
So you better start running
I know the devil when I see him
I’m looking right into his eyes
Under the long arm
Of the man, the mob, and the holy ghost
I am under no disguise
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Fever Trippin', Too
05:54
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Wide eyed, tossing, turning so I take some shit so I can go to sleep
And drift off in the dreamless dark alone
I down this one as fast as I can
So I can get on to the next and the next one
Honestly, I just want to go home
If I can
Summertime
The wind is changing
The stars come out to drop and fade away
Birds and lights are circling over me
In another life
The wind blows you wide open
Smashed and broke your chandelier
Looking back
I see it crystalline
As I float away
All these conversations on a ferris wheel
Spinning to no end
I just want to get off of it please
Please
Please
Please
But I’m just tripping
Fever tripping
On my own shoelaces
Trapped in desperate places
As I rattle on home
I’m backwards slipping
In my opinion
It’s a clinical condition
If my meds were only working
I could just get out of bed
But there is no escape
I keep getting stuck here
In every possible way
I just shield my eyes to the screaming sunlight
I see it spin
I feel myself rotting away
I am sick enough
Am I sick enough?
I am sick enough
Am I sick enough?
I heard you shouting
Stampeding out your mouth
A polemic at a dumbfounded crowd
Hidden in figures
We couldn’t figure you out
What you said or what would happen next
But I know the kind of ghost you are
Spell it out in lipstick on my wall
If I have to live here haunted
Just let me go
If it mattered to me at all
I’ve forgotten
Or I’ve gotten over it
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Graveyards Are Safe
03:32
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Blink and you will miss the red sign
The bloodshot eyes of St. Christopher
I died that night on Highway 67
I’m sure I’m out there somewhere in the road
I
I’ve been stumbling to the light
So tell me it’s alright to let go
To get out
To slow down
And stop the car
Wave goodbye, my love, you will see them again
Who were they to you, and who could you have been to them?
When you finally notice it, you notice it’s too late
And it’s unbearable to face it, so again, you turn away
I
I filled my days with these distractions
Tell me it’s alright to let go
To stand up
To walk out
Into the sunshine
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Enemy Airship St. Louis, Missouri
"Enemy Airship creates a sound that is atmospheric yet tightly coiled, its guitars and synths bleeding together to hint at garage rock, indie-pop, New Wave and experimental tones without ever picking a side." - Aarik Danielson, Columbia Daily Tribune
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