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The Storyteller
07:59
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I will practise life and smile
As everything passes me by
I will wait for the dreams
And the clouds to come in
I will sit here amongst
All the world and its thoughts
And be stationary and meaningless
I will sit here beside
All the tired and the wise
Full of space
Here me I am the oblivious, the obvious
Hear me, I am the storyteller
I will open your heart and smile
As everything darkens inside
While you wait for a light
As the clouds bring the rain
And I the thunder
I will stand here above
All the room and desire
I will stand here beside
The awake and alive
Till they die
Here me I am the oblivious, the obvious
Here me I am the doubtful
Here me. I am the wicked heart, the whipping tongue
Hear me, I am the storyteller
Here me I am the oblivious, the obvious
Here me I am the doubtful
Here me. I am the wicked heart, the whipping tongue
Hear me, I am the storyteller
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Devastate
05:40
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Someone defeat
The need to devastate
Subdue the escape
Empower the resolve
Somebody tell me
The slip from here
Will break everything
As I fall
My hand is tied
To my fragile existence
Believing my life
Is better dissolved
Better that way for everyone
Better that way for our world
This ground is moving
The stinging air breathes
Listless I linger
A billowing crimson
That colours your tears
Yet never I falter
I Feel the thunder
Inside your silence
Better that way for everyone
Better that way for our world
Smile for you
Smile for them
Kept down
But it will devastate
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The Silent Rising
15:30
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Pt i. ‘The Silent Rising’
As she sits staring out at the city
Shining lights block the starlight completely
So above all the noise and the motion
Is oblivion
She knows no-one down there had the feeling
Of the troubles that fate was revealing
All the minds in the noise and the motion
are oblivious
Hope for the silent rising (wake up the minds of the jaded)
Hope for the silent rising (live in the hearts of the faded)
As she hides in plain sight of all people
She silently walks with the fearful
They surround her and fall through her fingers
She lets them go
And the clock in her heart keeps on counting
And the world that surrounds her keep moving
She needs nothing to drag her down further
She simply descends
Hope for the silent rising (wake up the minds of the jaded)
Hope for the silent rising (live in the hearts of the faded)
Pt ii. ‘Patterns and Thoughts’
She can see patterns, she can hear thoughts
The geometric and whispered, the discovered and the sought
And the patterns they are pathways and the thoughts are the way
They are focusing more everyday
She starts to wonder to whom can she turn?
Is there anyone out there to listen to her?
The last time she made effort , she was slandered and cast aside
The only belief from anyone, that she lied
In a scheme that is greater, than that of one man
It isn’t easy to see every part of the plan
And while she knows the answers, but not quite the path
She knows the many will be left holding fast to the air
Pt iii. ‘Lingering’ (Instrumental)
Pt iv. ‘A Worthless Book?’
He’s connected to her and to everyone
There is nothing to fear but disconnection
That sense of exposure
That he ceases to be
‘I’m in love’, ‘I might hate them’
‘I’m making ambiguous statements’
‘I’m maintaining some intrigue and mystery’
Without all of the book knowing everything
There is only some existence
If the world, doesn’t know what you’re doing
Are you here at all?
‘I’m in love’, ‘I might hate them’
‘I’m making ambiguous statements’
‘I’m maintaining some intrigue and mystery’
‘I think the government bullshits’
‘The free world is led by a fuckwit’
‘I can’t find the words to hold on to reality’
Without this, no existence
‘Without this, he’s invisible’
‘Without this’, she says
‘You are the living’
Still he can see nothing at all.
‘I’m in love’, ‘I might hate them’
‘I’m making ambiguous statements’
‘I’m maintaining some intrigue and mystery’
‘I think the government bullshits’
‘The free world is led by a fuckwit’
‘I can’t find the words to hold on to reality’
Pt v. ‘Onwards’ (Instrumental)
Pt vi. ‘Charitable Expectation’ (Instrumental)
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Do we view the same stars?
Drifting through the same night
Do we feel the same breeze?
Bathed in the same sunlight
And if time doesn’t stop
But rolls back on itself
Like smoke held in the air
Why must I stand creating words in my head?
An emotion filled monologue that has seen better times
I wander to that lonely street
To the house that welcomes me
I remember being happy
I remember being safe
All I had to say was goodbye
All I had to say was goodbye
There was something hiding in a message
Looking for response, a destination of belief
It may have been put on hold
It may have been a lie
Sometimes it may reflect itself
As I see it in your eyes
Sometimes unreachable
Like the spectrums in the sky
What do we do to memories?
What can they do to us?
Hold them close when we are alone
To be forgiven of our sins
All you had to say was goodbye
All you had to say was goodbye
It may have been put on hold, it might have been a lie
Sometimes it reflects itself, as I see it in your eyes
There was something hiding in a message
I gather up my thoughts, and put them away
I know what the world can be, this world as it is
Is not for me, is not for me
Fear makes us companions, It can help us rise
If we push harder, and leave blue skies
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While We Are
06:28
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While we are, we are not
While we move, we are lost
While we bullshit, we are fucked
While we fuck, we dream
While we dream, we are safe
While we save, we are heroes
While we Are
While we work, we have worth
While we try, we can do
While we live, we are life
While we fade, we are wasting
While we drink, we are fun
While we abstain, we are boredom
While we Are
The pen on paper
The lines and marks
To comprehend them
To read the dark
To see the difference
To know the lines
The pen on paper
The words it hides
And so to distance
And so to space
To warm to hold this
To bitter to taste
This winter feeling
This autumn soul
End here in silence
End here
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Never In The Detail
06:44
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Never more connected and concerned
Never more deceiving or disturbed
Never more apart or more undone
Never more together
Never more complacent or asleep
Never more destroyed and incomplete
Never more the weak to lead the weak
Never more connected
Slip away
Feed the faith in isolation
Understand, that your place is where you are
Agree, repeat
It’s all that you can do in understanding
Open your hands
And receive your nothing with a smile
Never more delighted or distraught
Never more enlightened yet not taught
Never more correctness smells of shit
Never more the fear
Never more the weakened feeling strong
Never more the righteous being wrong
Never more the system shutting down
Never more delighted
Slip away
Feed the faith in isolation
Understand, that your place is where you are
Agree, repeat
It’s all that you can do in understanding
Open your hands
And receive your nothing with a smile
Never more deluded or pressed down
Never more the critic is the clown
Never more opinions to be seen
Nothing to believe in
Slip away, Feed the faith
Understand your place, Open Hands dictate
We stay here
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7. |
Coda Jeremiah
14:20
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‘I am not the man I wished to be’
Jeremiah said out loud to no-one
‘I travelled some roads not meant for me,
Troubled, alone and mistaken’.
‘And through every struggle, some overcome,
Some lost inside, slowly burning’
‘I learned an acceptance, of who I became,
And who I pushed down and left broken’.
And the time is approaching to rise
And the time is approaching to rise
Jeremiah stood tall and looked around
Did all that he could to not seem he was fighting
He held out a hand to the girl on the ground
As she reached up to hold it, she noticed the slightest of tremors
As she climbed to her feet he was turning
He was leaving her watching him move to the lights
And as she called out in gratitude, asking his name
He started to call out, but then he just faded into the air
All I see is the light, all I feel is the heat
I see through everything
All I need is the stillness, all I need is the peace
I see through everything
There is nowhere to hide, no safety in place
I am in everything
I can see through your eyes
And speak with your voice
And it makes me sound tolerant
I feel through your skin
How the breath of the wind
Can stir you inside
I hear what you hear
When the speaker’s voice raises
And carries itself to your ears
And I know that you think
Though I can’t see your reasons
For staying here
Only now could I be
Something like any other
Like a man who exists
When existence is fine
Who feels nothing more
Is required for fulfilment
But living here, living this life
And yet I still see visions
Some regard them just dreams
Or are they real possibilities, real opportunities
That I have to change
Who I am to be?
And the red in the sky was within him this day
And his blood ran with darkness and cold
And his vision directed with malice
He moved till there was no-where to go
Those who blocked and impeded were trampled
Cast down with his fire and spite
He would beat them to loss and confusion
With all of his might
And the time is approaching to rise
And the time is approaching to rise
But the distance he travelled grew greater
And the further he went, more he felt
And the feeling was guidance and forgiveness
For all of his life, all that he dealt
When a woman came to him with kindness
His confusion caused her to smile
When he ran, she followed and with patience
She pieced back together
His scattered heart
In a quiet and considered existence
In a corner, the world could not know
In a time when the sorrow was memory
So a future could grow
As the world was returning to colour
And the silence returning to sound
And the heat of the sun fading discord
So the peace could be found.
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25 Yard Screamer Carmarthen, UK
Formed in 2002 it was the release of 2007's Cassandra that really pushed 25 Yard Screamer in the light of the prog scene. Signing to WhiteKnight with whom they have released their last 5 albums, has pushed the band further into the 'Prog' world and led to tours with label mates 'Last Flight To Pluto' and appearances with KScope artists 'Godsticks'. ... more
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