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Bloom
05:23
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Everything will change now
Everything will turn into a lush green
There has been enough heat
All tension will be released
The sky will fall upon us in a bright white flash of light
The ocean will suffocate us in its blue velvet might
So very far away
So impervious and so opaque
A heatwave rolling over me
I’m not afraid, but I am weak
Like the ants seek asylum in our house I seek asylum in your arms
A rain that will wash away all that which prevented us from being pure
And maybe we will bloom
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Airbourne
05:26
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Soaring through the air
I am coming over there
No matter how hard I try
I can’t make it to the other side
I do not deserve to fly
I grew up, still can’t go out at night
I’m an infant, soon a child
Ground me, keep me out of sight
A giant magnet pulls me back
A sudden stop, a mid-air crash
A hundred locked doors, a hundred keys lost
Why can’t I stop trying to go beyond?
There is no infinity
I’m looking for my boundaries
I refuse to believe this is an endless place
Drawing lines into this endless space
I look down, all I see is clouds below
Concealing all those places I cannot go
From the air it looks more round
I have to get down there somehow
I have to find a way through the air
I have to find a way out of here
I have to find a home in the air
I have to find a home somewhere
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Focus Back
04:52
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Tonight I’m not blinded by the city lights
They blur into the background, they blur out of sight
They shout their message to my deaf ears
I see beyond now, everything is clear
And I see beyond for the first time
I see shapeless figures black the sky
I flinch as they twitch and twirl before my eyes
I wonder if it’s out there or if it’s within me
They dance towards me to get within reach
And I’m afraid for the first time
Tonight I’m not leaping straight into the unknown
Right here on the verge is where I feel at home
And now the more I understand the less I care
Stand on the ledge and throw your hands up in the air
And I recognize my reflection for the first time
I’ve got to focus back, I’ve got to focus back
I’ve got to focus on what’s at hand
Got to focus on the city lights
Tonight I’ve got to focus on tonight
First things first, a bubble that won’t burst
My thirst for the unknown won’t be satisfied tonight
One thing at a time
Focus on what’s at hand
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4. |
A Dream Sequence
03:25
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I dreamt
That I slid over the edge
Into the water
Into the depths
Away from remorse
Away from fear
Into the emptiness
Into the silence
Away from chaos
Away from order
There was nothing there
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Hollow Sun
05:27
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Can you hear the wind that blew the sun away?
The hollow sun that shone my way
That’s how we cooled down
That’s how we became cold and indifferent
Hollow sun, superficial star
Who knows where you’ve been, who knows who you are
Hollow sun, shine on me through the clouds
Shine on my misery, shine on me loud
It could be a nice day but I’m not certain
Could walk to the window and open the curtain
Embrace this moment and drop this burden
Walk to the window and let the light in
Maybe you gave me something
Maybe my bubble needed bursting
I really wanted you, oh well
On the scale of the Milky Way it doesn’t really matter
I really needed you, but I guess
For a speck of dust in the universe, it could be worse
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6. |
Coöccur
04:32
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Imaginary electrons on imaginary orbits
Could we coexist?
Eight on most, on the innermost two
Could we collocate?
Distant guesses and probabilities
Could we cooperate?
Could two things happen at the same time?
Could we cooccur?
We’re two extremes, we’re too extreme
We don’t really exist
Two dimensions, parallel lines
We will never intersect
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Nightingale
04:47
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Come June, be a nightingale, sing your song
Open up your beak, with your hundred tongues
Delicate, beautiful, crisp, and smooth
Tell me what I want to hear, a hundred truths
Read my mind, what do you find?
Read my eyes, illusions and lies
Come here, little nightingale, turn me on
Spread your wings, open up your arms
Please me, please be what I want
Fly me into a hundred suns
Vulnerable white lies, prone to catch fire
Now you’re sunburnt, a red hot liar
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Mystery
03:16
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When is it late enough to go to bed?
Nobody’s hurt but I feel stupid
And now that I’m too tired to remember what I said
Take me into your arms
Wash away my sins
Dry the tears from my eyes
Because they have never seen
The night as it wakes up
Cracking out of its black shell
Everything, everywhere
I might just break down
I want to live through this nightmare
The human experience
And while I smother you
With my painful innocence
I need you to read into my nonsense
A grain of salt from the dead sea of understanding
Take me into your arms
Whisper in my ear:
“You have floated too far
Into a dream of fear”
I’m a little shaken
By the fear of this all being a dream
A recurring piece of reality
Why I cannot just wake up
Next to you when the sun comes up
Is a complete mystery to me
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Sleepwalking
05:53
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A June evening
Sleepwalking
Into the grassy grounds outdoors
Sun shining
So blinding
Making everything seem so bright, seem alright
Daffodils
Reflecting
The sunlight into my eyes, can’t see where I’m stepping
Frightening
Preventing
Me from seeing the blackness of the Earth
Under the flower bed
Into the night
Out of sight
As we disappear in the shade of the midnight sun
No more fear
The snows of yesteryear
Are melting away under this heat, so blistering
I have no might
That’s alright
I don’t need to know what happens next
Learn to let go
Lose control
I have no right to know what happens next
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Echoic Helsinki, Finland
Echoic is craft rock by Finnish musician Otto Nuoranne.
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