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Balcony Roses
03:24
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I sit by your window
I float by your window
wondering if you'll ever see
the light in the dark part of me
I sit by the glass and envy
how you smile so freely
it's hard to believe
you're so much poetry
I can barely breathe
I write notes in the window
and watch your face light up
But will that smile ever be mine
or am I just rain to you, a little pastime?
regardless, my whispers are yours
whether drizzle or downpour
God, I can't think of a better way
to spend this end of eternity
writing love letters on window panes
and knowing they light up your face
I shall be here, on your balcony
outside your window or in your dreams
wherever you wish to be
offering a love that will never cease flowering
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Cloudspeak
03:01
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[Atlantis in Greek]
"Tha vréxei símera, kai an óchi,
ta sýnnefa tha tragoudoún anexártita.
Tha sas tragoudísoun mia kataigída."
[English translation]
"It will rain today and if it does not
the clouds will sing regardless.
They will sing up a storm."
I can hear them already singing to me.
A dialect of storms across centuries.
Carried in the wet fog, memories
taken from the sky and its many seas.
I listen like a lover
of more than just the weather.
I await the wisdom
of elevation.
It will rain today and if it does not,
the clouds will still sing.
Oh, they will sing up a storm
So sing with me, my lover
of mother nature.
We are in her spell today,
we must feel what she has to say.
Rain doesn't just pour...
it soars.
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Plucking Colors
03:05
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(Please don't...go away...please)
I could sit here and pray:
please take these feelings away.
But it wouldn't change a damn thing.
I feel for you deeper than any...fling.
See, you cannot uproot the effect
love has when two souls intersect.
You just have to embrace the beauty.
You just have to surrender to the...insanity.
So I think of you in any capacity
and I feel an emotion like destiny.
Could it be that I'm crazy?
Yeah, maybe. But you know what?
It doesn't change a damn thing.
Pluck from me all the petals you wish,
you shall never vanquish
the colors of love that exist.
They bloom in your name,
even when you are so beautifully nameless.
I could sit here and pray:
please take these feelings away.
But I wouldn't want to do
anything to bereave my mind of you.
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Pluvial Thoughts
02:14
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They're not in my head anymore.
Can you hear them?
Listen
No longer prisoners,
they permeate the air
in droplets
in rivulets
I am free now..
that I can let my mind
w a n d e r
I am free now..
that I can let my heart be like
w a t e r
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Embrace the Flood
03:15
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I'm finding you everywhere I swim
in the airwaves of yesterday
and the tidal thoughts for tomorrow
I'm finding you in the mist
above my deepest oceans
You crash like an omen of the apocalypse
I have no Ark but I'll accept my fate
if it comes in the form of you
if you come for me
I'll dive into the sea
headfirst, heart-first
I trust the fathoms
to absolve me of the flesh
and replace my blood with lightness
with water
with you
with you
Flow in me and I'll find a way
to sail to the ends of your earth
we both serve a greater purpose
If we follow the signs of the horizon
where clouds crash into the ocean
we can traverse any obstruction
and find peace in a tempest
you are...my compass
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Excruciating Beauty
03:00
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I've found you, my love.
Interstitially woven
betwixt the lungs
of clouds that refuse
to sing
feel me
seep in
like a hard rain
not ready
to blow over
No amount of thunder
can match the power
in your excruciating beauty
it's a struggle just to grasp
like a bolt of lightning that lashes
the gentle heavens
before hell raises
and still we're captivated
Shhhh...
You could stir the strongest waves
in my calmest seas
with your effortless grace
for better or worse, you destroy me
and I can only pray
not for shelter, but more rain
so I'll fall asleep
when the clouds thicken
waiting for dreams
of your excruciating beauty
to free me...
Shhhh...
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Betwixt Lungs Vienna, Virginia
Experimental hybridization of spoken word and metal, favoring the prior.
A storytelling and poetic outlet from the vocalist of Moon Devoured, Excreta, and Entongue.
Betwixt Lungs recommends:
My first extensive endeavor into spoken word with original music.
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