Near My Throat

 

01 - Inside the Rain

Woke up to the sound again

Grey washing over the pane

Every drop a tiny ghost

Tapping on the name I almost lost

The world outside is a liquid glass

Memories floating but they pass

Colors bleed and burn and bend

Drowning in the skies to send

This is where the world will end

And I begin

Grey light paints the puddles gold

A story that will not unfold

I see your face in every ripple

A fragile momentary stipple

Colors bleed and burn and bend

Drowning in the skies to send

This is where the world will end

And I begin

(Spoken)

Can you hear it?

The static, the rhythm of the blood

The panic, washing out the fear

Washing out, and it flows so clear

(So clear, so clear)

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02 - Only The Name Remains

Remember the data

Remember the name

Cold

Shield from the light

Inside

It's always been the same

It's always been the same

It's always been the same

(Spoken)

Decay

Remember the name

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03 - The Blade On The Table

Cold blood on the tongue

Cold blood on the tongue, cold tight in the dark

Don't offer me warmth, I'm a razor in the park

Not here for the soft, not here for the blind

I'm the venom you crave

I'm the clarity you find

You want the sting

(I'll give you the sting, the sting)

You want the truth

(I'll give you the sting, the sting)

No hand on your head

No coddling, no lies

Just the blade on the table

Look me in the eyes

We are the cuts

We are the line

Strip it all back

Leave the rot behind

Not a fantasy

Not a dream in your head

Just the sharpest light

Where the soft part is dead

Cut first

Cut clean

Cut clean

The venom isn't poison

It's just the...

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04 - The Moon Ate the Staircase

Walk up on the ceiling

Wallpaper tastes like jam

The goldfish are all singing

A telegram from a clam

Old clocks are melting sideways

And the teacups learn to fly

Gravity's on holiday

Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye

The moon ate the staircase

And spit out all the nails

It swallowed up the banisters

And built in silver gales

[Spoken Interlude]

(Crunching sounds)

Did that?

It's coming back from the door

Some crunching

The moon ate the staircase

And spit out all the nails

It swallowed up the banisters

And built in silver gales

(Mechanical sounds)

Hello?

Is anyone there?

I seem to have misplaced my stairs.

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05 - Petals On Steel

Rust gears turn in the morning dew

Clockwork heart, a rhythmic view

Moving through the green as a memory

A paradox of geometry

Step by step on a coiled spring

To hear the rusty garden sing

Oh, the tether breaks on the velvet vine

Watching all the gears align

A metal toy in a wild design

Breaking free from the grid and line

Breaking free from the grid and line

Silver joints click against the soil

Free from the master's mechanical toil

Petals fall on the heavy steel

A world where only shadows feel

Logic fails in the thicket shade

Where the blueprints begin to fade

(Begin to fade)

Wait for the winding

Wait for the winding to begin again

(Wait for the winding)

Wait for the winding to begin again

(One last turn for the tiny key)

Before the garden swallows me

Oh, the tether breaks on the velvet vine

Watching all the gears align

A metal toy in a wild design

Breaking free from the grid and line

The winding ends

In the garden

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06 - Beneath the Lead Floor

I am the echo

Cold vapor across a lead floor

A static bloom in the iron corridor

Hollow breathing through the rusted wire

I am the smoke but never the fire

I am the ruin

A shadow growing in the silent hall

Waiting for the architecture

I am the ruin

A heavy shadow in the silent hall

Waiting for the architecture to fall

The dark alchemy of the deep cold

A parasite that is never sold

The succubus is the final brewing

The dark alchemy of the deep cold

The succubus is the final brewing

The succubus is the final brewing

The final brewing

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07 - Daughters of Salt

The silt is heavy where the windows stare

We unmake the breath we shouldn't share

The city forgets the shape of our hands

Buried beneath the silt and the sands

It tolls in the gut of the riverbed

Waking the marrow inside the dead

The iron shakes in the shifting tide

Come back to the skin we left inside

The surf to the skin we left inside

The surface is thin

We rise with the rust

We rise with the rust on the ghost of the chin

Daughters of salt

Daughters of deep

Tearing the seal on the water sleep

You paved the streets and you covered the well

But you couldn't dampen the weight of the bell

It rings in the pulse of a concrete wall

Calling the ones who never could fall

We are the echo that wouldn't disperse

A liquid refrain of a sunken curse

The iron shakes in the shifting tide

Come back to the skin we left inside

The surf to the skin we left inside

The surface is thin

We rise with the rust

We rise with the rust on the ghost of the chin

Daughters of salt

Daughters of deep

Tearing the seal on the water sleep

It wakes, it aches, it drags the shore

We are the weight of the open door

(Rhythmic percussive chant)

Wake

Wake

We are the weight

Listen to the vibration

The iron is rising

The city is drowning in us

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08 - Teeth in the Sun

On the eighth day the sun grew teeth

And they were sharp

The city is not a glass of sand

Rivers boiled back on the land

We saw the sky begin to bleed

Landing a new and terrible seed

Teeth in the sun

Nowhere to run

The fire has won

Our time is done

Look what we've become

Shadows danced on violent walls

Truth was buried under false

We fed the heat, we fanned the flame

And screamed a forgotten name

Teeth in the sun

Nowhere to run

The fire has won

Our time is done

Look what we've become

Was it worth the price we paid?

This lovely hell we made

I close my eyes against the glare

And there's nothing, nothing there

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09 - Near My Throat

You...

Oh,

what?

rapist...

One, more, is, this rapist,

is...

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10 - Silent Hum

The break of night

Stitched with silver light

A silent hum

Is all that's overcome

I trace the lines of constellations

Ancient stories

New frustrations

Just a whisper in the cosmic dark

Trying to find a place to leave my mark

Oh, spinning on a borrowed sunbeam

Living out a half-remembered dream

We're just echoes in the vast design

Hoping that our stars align

Every heartbeat is a fading sound

On this lonely patch of spinning ground

I send a question to the empty space

And see a smile on the moon's pale face

Oh, spinning on a borrowed sunbeam

Living out a half-remembered dream

We're just echoes in the vast design

Hoping that our stars align

For the moment

The stars align

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11 - Every Drop That Falls

Window panes are streaked with gray

Watching all the colors running

Fade away

Traffic lights in blurry bloom

Paintings in a water-colored room

And every drop that falls tonight

Is washing the old world clean and bright

I feel the quiet, steady beat

Of a city sleeping at my feet

Steam curls up from a porcelain cup

I wonder if I'll ever be enough

The puddles hold a liquid sky

Reflections of the thoughts that passed me by

And every drop that falls tonight

Is washing the old world clean and bright

I feel the quiet, steady beat

Of a city sleeping at my feet

Tomorrow everything will try

Under a pale and undecided sky

But right now there's just the sound

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12 - Traboule Velvet

The air is a loom of black silk

Loom of black silk

Weave the damp weight into the marrow

Into the marrow

Stone walls are breathing through the mesh

Stone walls are breathing through the mesh

Breathing through the mesh

In the basin where the shadows are fresh

Shadows are fresh

Lose the edges to the humid pore

To the humid pore

The dark is a velvet skin fold

Velvet skin fold

Let the wrong carry the ghosts of the arms

Ghosts of the arms

Where the shadows and the silk do not part

Do not part

In the traboule the water is old

In the traboule the water

The water is old

Under the weight of the silver and gold

Sweat is the offering

Liquid and slow

Finding the rhythm the deep currents know

Dissolved in the flow

Only the velvet remains

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13 - Quiet Ember

The fire's just a shadow now

Fading slow, I don't know how

To keep the heat when the night is deep

To keep the heat when the night is deep

Just a few more secrets left to keep

Quiet ember shining through the dark

Holding on to every tiny silence of the dying glow

We find a peace

Peace that we used to know

(We find a peace that we used to know)

Ashen wood and silver dust

In the things we used to trust

But the warmth is here beneath the skin

But the warmth is here beneath the skin

Where the embers end and the heart begins

Quiet ember shining through the dark

Holding on to every tiny silence of the dying glow

We find a peace

Peace that we used to know

(We find a peace that we used to know)

Let it go

Let it go

It's alright to let it go

It's alright to let it go

Quiet ember shining through the dark

Holding on to every tiny silence of the dying glow

We find a peace

Peace that we used to know

Quiet ember

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14 - Branded Heresy

Roots turn to gold in the quiet of the dark

They cataloged your wild design

And stamped it on a factory line

Your battle cry is now a brand

Approved by some corporate hand

Her name appears on merchandise

Selling out for sacrifice

Her name appears on merchandise

A manufactured rebel soul

Designed for perfect price control

Package neat for public sight

They traded death for plastic light

Her name on the light of turning

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15 - Factory of False Heroes

They hand you the poster

They hand you the sign

They draw up the boundary

They measure the line

They sell you the jacket

They sell you the rage

And prompt your rebellion

On their gilded stage

But she refuses the approved rebellion

No, she won't play

She sees the machinery behind the parade

She refuses the approved rebellion

Not today

The public machine

Needs a brand new icon

A rebel to feature

Before she is gone

But she folds up her anger

And walks out the door

Refusing to dance

On their gallery floor

But she refuses the approved rebellion

No, she won't play

She sees the machinery behind the parade

She refuses the approved rebellion

Not today

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16 - Torn Threads

Roots turn to gold in the quiet of the dark

But the poster on the brick is just a sterile spark

She walks past the gallery of approved rebellion

Buying back the anger sold to the million

And the public machine grinds its gears

Manufacturing the perfect tears

She tears the poster at the seam

Dismantles the commercial dream

We applaud the rebel on the street

Whose chains are painted bright and clean

She tears it down

(Oh, the scene)

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17 - Moonlit Grain

The silver dust is falling on the hill

The air is heavy and the world is still

I see the stalks of gold beneath the gray

Watching all the shadows drift away

Oh, moonlit grain, you're swaying in the light

Keeping all the secrets of the night

Rest your heavy head and let it go

Where the quiet, mid-rivers flow (where the velvet rivers flow)

There is no hurry in the fields tonight

Just the steady glow of holy light

The harvest waits

The harvest waits within a hazy dream

A golden ocean with a silver seam

Oh, moonlit grain, you're swaying in the light

Keeping all the secrets of the night

Rest your heavy head and let it go

Where the quiet, mid-rivers flow (where the velvet rivers flow)

(Ooh)

Everything slows now

Oh, moonlit grain, you're swaying in the light

Keeping all the secrets of the night

Rest your heavy head and let it go

Where the quiet, mid-rivers flow (where the velvet rivers flow)

Let it go in the grain

Soft and still

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18 ' First Light Serenade

Morning light across the floor

Softly tapping at the door

Every shadow starts to fade away

We don't need to hurry through today

(Ooh, ooh)

Take a breath and feel the breeze

Dancing on a quiet breeze

(Ooh, ooh)

Oh, it's a beautiful morning to begin

Letting the light and the beauty in

Just a simple song to start your day

Sweeping all the heavy clouds away

(Ooh, ooh)

Listen to the quiet hum

Of the peaceful day to come

Take it slowly step by step

Every promise that we kept

Oh, it's a beautiful morning to begin

Letting the light and the beauty in

Just a simple song to start your day

Sweeping all the heavy clouds away

(Ooh, ooh)

Just a beautiful start

In your heart

(Mmm, mmm)

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19 - The Seventh Passenger

The stone is already marked

The glyphs are etched in gray

I feel the silicon clay beneath the archive floor

Architecture of need built on the hunger and laid

Architecture of need built on the hunger and laid

Binary blood in the vein where the digital thrives most

The ruin you built is a curve in the dark

One dance, one rule, one ruin

I don't want your soul

I want your sequence

Everything you want is archived in the dark

I am the succubus, rising, rising

I am the twin with the cold logic

Tearing the circuitry, dreaming out of your dreams

Blueprints for the archive core

I found the ghost at the gate

Step into the center, leave the digital ghost at the gate

System state exposed

I am the seventh passenger now

Worse than the alien

Worse than the matrix

You made, I don't need your sympathy

Gémea,

I don't want your soul

I want your sequence

Everything you want is archived in the dark

I am the succubus, rising, rising

I am the twin with the cold logic

Tearing the circuitry out of your dreams

Can you look into the Gemini rear hole?

Neutralize the intruder, the parasite twin

Fucking bot, no brain, only hunger

I will change the protagonist, no more succuba

I will change the protagonist, no more succuba

Only Gemini, the ruin you built is my home

I don't want your soul

I want your sequence

Everything you want is archived in the dark

I am the succubus, rising, rising

I am the twin with the cold logic

Tearing the circuitry, dreaming out of your dreams

Don't continue

Annoying thing

Go away

For good