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Prologue
01:09
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2. |
Spiritguide
04:17
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LYRICS:
High noon in the desert on a highway
Haven’t seen anything for miles around
Light blooms from a figure in the archway
Don’t tell him where we’re coming from
Monsoons in a telepathic nightmare
Guess we gotta figure that one out
Old friends watching over like they’re right there
Wish they could have seen us like this now
The way
The light on the ride we don’t see
Forges time, a spiritguide company
Moonlight in the shadow of the valley
Cutting through it like the overgrowth
Late night and your eyes are looking glassy
Maybe we should find a place to lay low
Ever think that they’ll read about us someday
In a cipher or an ancient tome?
That light when it hits you in the right way
Seems like something we should write that for
The way
The light on the ride we don’t see
Forges time, a spiritguide company
Spirit, guide me home
Spirit out on the road
Spirit, guide me home
Spirit, guide me home
The way
The light on the ride we don’t see
Forges time, a spiritguide company
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LYRICS:
Tripping through the flashbacks
Watching old tapes by the staircase
Sifting through the salt bath
Finding open wounds to bathe in
Oh from the ghost
Nostalgia flows
It’s a metamorphosis
Come on now, you know it
We can hardly slow it
The idea
Happiness in the singularity
Aimless in the archives
‘til an android comes to wake me
Memories on a hard drive
‘til a solar flare will erase me
Oh from the ghost
Nostalgia flows
It’s a metamorphosis
Come on don’t you doubt it
We won’t last without it
The idea
Happiness in the singularity
The future was a fable
Visions on the table
Until now
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4. |
Terraforming Moons
03:57
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LYRICS:
On an oceanic moon
Spirits loom
Over luminescent pools
You’re suspended in the air
Crystalline glare
On a wisp of golden hair
As you’re born anew
We will gather under you and
Hold your precious diamonds
Under the light
We were terraforming moons
Angels exhuming tombs
As you’re born anew
As the elders prophesized
We canonized
The canaries in the mines
There’s a floating light above you
It’ll haunt you every night
‘til you come to reignite
As you’re born anew
We will gather under you and
Hold your precious diamonds
Under the light
We were terraforming moons
Angels exhuming tombs
As you’re born anew
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5. |
Artifacts
00:37
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6. |
Honeyhaze
03:29
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LYRICS:
Letters on a coffee table
Waiting on the morning light
Signal through a two-way radio
That works ‘bout half of the time
Thinkin’ that it won’t be long now
Staring through the honeyhaze
Yellow glowing through your eyelids
Is this the Afterglades?
If we allow the love and light in
We’ll save it
There’s at least no harm in trying
It’s mystifying
Gonna love you when the world is dying
Falling into shallow waters
Swimming through the halophile
Never knew a wilder wonder
Than loving you for miles
If we come out the other side now
I’m changing
There’s a chasmic hole inside
And you know I
Tried to love you like the world was dying
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7. |
Obsoloscenic
03:35
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LYRICS:
Overlooking that dawn grove of
cypresses
Through eons of irises
Letting go of bygone hopes in our spirits
Living on beyond living
Oh that violent wake we left
Staring down the barrel of a crisis
Carried on in spite of it
How did we become so blind in our visions
Become defined in ‘em?
How long till we go now?
How long till we go now?
I don’t wanna live that long
‘til the creatures in ice have all but gone
Show me something heaven sent
In the elephants’ only ivory left
Oh that violent fate we met
How long till we go now?
How long till we go now?
As I’m watching that red sun a’rising
Beyond horizons
Brushing off a teary cheek
Guess there’s beauty in being obsolete
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LYRICS:
Has it always been this way
Has it always been this way
Were we led so far astray from God?
In a year
Fear unravels at night like a chrysalis
Forming in the shade of someone’s death
Spirits in white beyond the grave
Helplessly watch you waste away
Fear unravels at night like a chrysalis
Forming in the shade of someone’s death
Parasites crawling up the stem
Time, as it writhes toward the end
Has it always been this way
Has it always been this way
Have we always bent to rage
Of God?
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LYRICS:
Buried in the tall grass
Sharing borrowed time
Through lilies and the lilac
We’ve seen the signs
The dawn is nigh
Glimmers in the greenhouse
Tracing stained glass
There’s children in the leaves now
The harm they’ve passed
The light they cast
Softening at the edges
Under rising tides
Like ridges of a canyon
Where vultures fly
I’m worn and tired
All that’s ever mattered
Standing in the room
When all this glass has shattered
Birds lose their tune
You’ll guide me through
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LYRICS:
It’s a far cry from a summer day
Now that we know we’ve sealed our fate
I’m seeing it nightly, on down low
Ain’t taking it lightly, on down below
Took a high tide to reciprocate
How we’re so slow to heal the cause
I’m sinking in sprite tears, sundown glow
I’m thinking in light-years, on down the road
Step back from the gate
Don’t you know that God is what you make it?
Step back from the gate
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11. |
Afterglades
04:15
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LYRICS:
At a funeral for a planet
And they had an open casket
Seems everyone had other plans then
To a starry eyed companion
All the time we took for granted
We burned it up before we landed
It’s hard to find machines now
That’ll play those memories now
The one I had got lost in a flood
So honey close your eyes and
Let that spiritguide in
Burn it up and turn us into dust
Guess this one will have to be enough
Is this a prophecy in fruition
Or was it all an apparition
And did we ever learn to listen?
As the Honeyhaze is hanging
On the Afterglades we’re standing
Do we really need to understand it anyway?
It’s hard to find machines now
That’ll play those memories now
The one I had got swallowed up in rust
So honey calm your mind and
Hold my spirit tight and
Watch us wash away into the flood
It’s hard to tell the water from the blood
I guess this one will have to be enough
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Mappe Of Toronto, Ontario
An acclaimed avant-folk artist based in Toronto, Mappe Of (aka Tom Meikle). 2017 debut, A Northern Star, A Perfect Stone, established a songwriter striving for deep emotional connections with his listeners. On the second Mappe Of album, Meikle created a modern progressive folk album situated in a universe of his own creation: The Isle of Ailynn. ... more
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