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Cold Storm
04:12
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Water vapor rises around me
Tendrils like fingers in my hair
Coiled around my head
A crown in a winter court
Snow falling gently
Creates a soft blanket
A place to rest my head
And calm a fiery soul
A burning castle out of control
Our kingdom entranced by fools
And at the end of the day
A cold storm burned
An emerging fiend, slowly
As if from delusions
Breaks and swells in the tide
Of visions and fears and lies
A narrow trail forms
Through the dense copse
How strange could it be?
To fly away and dream again
The dead of night rings in my ears
Quiet screaming and wary eyes
Watching and moving, writhing
My silence as gentle as a knife
A burning castle out of control
Our kingdom entranced by fools
And at the end of the day
A cold storm burned
Rainfall hard, then gentle
I see their figures in the mist
A shadow in bands of light
And then their eyes close
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A Thousand Years of War
02:57
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(Churning the sea of milk…)
Our precious things were lost
Jointly we search
Gods and demons
(Don’t fall away)
A thousand years of war
(Don’t fall away)
In light I see
(Don’t fall away)
In dark I feel
(Don’t fall away)
Even now
(Don’t fall away)
Even now
(Don’t fall away)
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Beyond
06:14
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Come in, we’ve been waiting
A circle of life and love and death
Figure of myth and dreams
The feeling of flight out of my own skin
I turn to the north, then south, east and west
Something tugs my heart within me
I call to the sun above me
Can they save you?
Things are just beginning
Secure your path ahead
The depth is thicker here
Where there is no air
And expanding to breathe
Beyond…
Don’t waste your time
It doesn’t matter anyway
This is the end
Can they save you?
Things are just beginning
Secure your path ahead
The moon rises high above me
And lights the way
Burning away the blame
The senses are intense
Secure within the space
I swim out beyond
Beyond…
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Underneath
03:08
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We reach through history
Only to believe what we are told
There must be some mystery
Something more to behold
Find yourself alone today
Time passes by, we never know why
A glimpse to another path
A different reality
Beyond the what we know
Underneath a different day
Than the one that I have come to know
There is some other way
Something else to show
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Prophetic Bird
04:03
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Let me tell you of a time in the distant past
Of a girl and a bird with knowledge vast
She who knows all of beast and man
Of gods and heroes throughout the land
Islands far, far out to sea
All alone within your tree
The secret fate of all the world
Ahead, foretold and unfurled
Gamayun, won’t you sing your tune?
Beautiful, prophetic bird
Let me tell you of a time in the distant past
A deity of wisdom, the die was cast
Singing herself a divine melody
A voice throaty and velvety
Her song weaves a web of magic and fate
Hard to interpret until it’s too late
Who among us can comprehend?
Not I, for certain, dear friend
Gamayun, won’t you sing your tune?
Beautiful, prophetic bird
Let me tell you of a time in the distant past
Of elements and nature, the world vast
Sun, rain, wind, animals and birds
Plants and trees, they hear her words
Ancient origins and time now lost
Opulence and decadence at great cost
Her song now gone and dreams now hushed
Wings and feathers, in the ground, crushed
Gamayun, won’t you sing your tune?
Beautiful, prophetic bird
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Broken Days
04:04
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The days are broken
Nights all the same
The beast has awoken
Stay in your place
The world is changing
Things have come undone
The world is shifting
Still turning around
The days are broken
Nights all the same
I’m afraid the past has spoken
You can’t turn away
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Ad Astra Per Aspera
04:27
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We’re so lost
And never found
We live in wait
Of something far beyond
There’s no more
A final shape
Towards dreams
Limiting language
And though we try
Try to grasp
We never know
What it all means
Ad astra per aspera, I will find you
Mors ultima linea rerum est
And in the dark
And in my mind
There reaches a place
A way to find
But never again
To return from there
The mists that bind
And dust we are
Ad astra per aspera, I will find you
Mors ultima linea rerum est
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Hey, listen!
In becoming something
Does my old self cease to be
Does my path yet unfold
Or have I seen all there is to see
Where the fallen keep me
Where the temple of time
Brings me to find my way
With courage, power, and wisdom
Three spiritual stones I find
To aid me
To unlock my destiny
And call forth the hero in me
I cannot find the right way through
Help me, guide me
(Hey, listen!)
Where the stone dances
There may be a way for me
Behind and ahead
A labyrinth of being
Hiding a map
And a compass
To find a way through
To the ending
I’ll find the pieces
Of my heart there
So I bring my magic forth
A song of sun
I ride along
To bring her home
I cannot find the right way through
Help me, guide me
(Hey, listen!)
Where the stone dances
There may be a way for me
Three spiritual stones I find
To aid me, to unlock my destiny
And call forth
The hero within me
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Spirit and Image
11:14
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Spending time flying standby
Through places where life and time are still
There’s a light I find
Dimly lit upon the furthest point
And if I try, maybe I…
Somewhere resides a path
A tunnel to crawl through
And if I try, maybe I…
Maybe I could try
Spending time painting corners
Scuffs and scrapes and bridges long since burned
There’s a light I find
Dimly lit upon the furthest point
And if I try, maybe I…
Somewhere resides a path
A tunnel to crawl through
And if I try, maybe I…
Maybe I could try
It’s time to step away
To spend less time fighting me
Would it be the first
A manifestation of a dream
The apocalypse of chimera
If I twist apart reality
It doesn’t matter what they claim
This is what I choose to be
A phantom exposed within
Peels away opposing power
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Orbital
03:36
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Look above
Look to the sky
As the moon rises high
Our circular path
Look below
Look to the ground
As the water trickles down
Deep in the earth
We are sun
We are stars
As we spin through the hours
On and on
This soul
This heart
There’s another way around
Out beyond
Soon
We’ll know
We alone
The cosmos far
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O Euchari
05:14
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O Euchari,
in leta via ambulasti
ubi cum Filio Dei mansisti,
illum tangendo
et miracula eius que fecit videndo.
Tu eum perfecte amasti
cum sodales tui exterriti erant,
pro eo quod homines erant,
nec possibilitatem habebant
bona perfecte intueri.
Tu autem in ardenti amore
plene caritatis
illum amplexus es,
cum manipulos preceptorum eius
ad te collegisti.
O Euchari,
valde beatus fuisti
cum Verbum Dei te in igne columbe imbuit,
ubi tu quasi aurora illuminatus es,
et sic fundamentum ecclesie edificasti.
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Find a Way
03:31
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Every deed is on us
Carry on with every thought
Somehow we find the strength
To go on
There is one isolated system
May the future grant us the view
In a time of living history
This is who we come to be
There are worlds
Apart from worlds
Places in between
We never see, we never see
Far and away
And in dreams
The space that follows me
The worlds that came to be
And now I can never know
Who they were
Float away
Find a way
Float away
We’ll find our way
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Resist
02:58
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There are no signs in the sky tonight
Nothing in the air to suggest the time
Is close at hand for a change
A shift is ready, a new path to chart
There comes a time, a time to begin
And we've spent days in the wind
Sometimes it's too late
Too late for eyes to open
There's everything wrong
And nothing to be done
And we watch this farce
We allowed this to happen
There's a time to resist
A time to fight back
Their roots are deep
Nevertheless, we will persist
Weary and defeated
We take our place
One among many
Is all hope lost?
Weary and defeated
We take our place
One among many
Will all hope be lost?
There's a time to resist
A time to fight back
Their roots are deep
Nevertheless, we will persist
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The Machine in the Garden is an independent gothic/darkwave duo featuring Roger Fracé and Summer Bowman. Since their formation, Roger and Summer have developed and advanced their unique style through years of collaborating and intertwining their musical tastes. ... more
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