Poema Arcanus
Transient Chronicles
1. Us, Those Half Dead
[Lyrics: Claudio Carrasco / Music: Igor Leiva]
Never imagined what I’m realizing, indeed
Sudden proof of cryptic face
You, half-dead.
Thousands of fears, explains themselves
As a grim puzzle,
the truth emerges from depths
Beauty caresses gently the dead
A caress given back as a ruthless pest
Words sound unknown,
can´t understand
Dead fading colors,
your skins turned ashes grey
A long season in darkness,
one sorrow after the other,
no rest for dead side arises
Death taking over me
A breeding ground to forget respect
Infection progress slowly
Taking control of our will
Far away from me, you call my name
Distance translates it as a scream
Us, those half-dead
Breed at the bottom of our disgrace.
2. Stream Of Debris
[Lyrics & music: Igor Leiva]
There used to be home
A fair deal of some sort
Absolute world, a secure world
The cub now feels strong
He escapes to see the storms
Absolute world, now a bleak world
Without Roots, without shelters
No fears but the fear of freedom´s void
Building on this air, a card castle
Built only to witness its collapse.
Without roots, without gods.
Just clear vision
A constant walk along a ledge
At last line, a dead end
Feet on dark mind
The free soul dwells in vertigo
A material legacy we left behind our steps
Lifeless, useless
Behold the absence becoming flesh
He old air inside my empty home
Dust and silence
Will feed the ghost of memories gone
A doomed attempt to say forever
In mortal men´s domain
Dragging the dead weight of time
The hangman in disguise
Collecting, acquiring, storing
A dream of transcendence that expired
Collecting, acquiring, storing
A stream of debris we call life.
3. Fugitive
[Lyrics & music: Igor Leiva]
Running away alone
Running away
Wandering here not knowing why
Gift of life wrapped into fire
A fugitive from a black realm runs
Singing a closing credits song
Get the best of this short trip
Holding landscapes, holding dreams
Night falls, the countdown runs
Night dawns, a small loss unnoticed
A day to remind, or a day just to forget?
The better the memories,
The fewer the time that´s left
Time hurts, the hours kill
Time runs, at thieves grabbing life bits
Tomorrow will come,
Tomorrow will bring us death
The fugitive is caught, the curtain falls
End of play
4. Inquilinos
[Lyrics: Igor Leiva / Music: Igor Leiva – Claudio Carrasco – Luis Moya]
…Almas de ayer, cantan aquí
Viajeros
Corriendo contra un tiempo escaso
De paso por la eternidad
Otoño
De calendarios obsoletos
La vida fugaz
Almas de ayer, cantan aquí
En lava y en temblor
Mares de ayer, desierto sin fin
De piedra, silencio y Sol.
Herencia de extinción
Inquilinos al pasar
Efímero invasor
La montaña observará
Vida que viene y se va
El comienzo y el final
Glaciares
Testigos de generaciones inquilinas
Aguas de lo ancestral
Milenios
Segundos de un reloj perpetuo
La carne y su levedad
…sangre que viene y se va
Las historias,
Los retazos desde el tiempo del olvido
Gris memoria de exiliados
Por el viento esparcidos
La piedra observa imperios al nacer,
Guerras vomitar sangre de fe
La piedra escucha imperios crepitar,
Ruinas sin edad.
5. Fading
[Lyrics & music: Igor Leiva]
The last days of summer
Through storms and distress
Blind of the frailty
Drifted out of place
The logic of carbon
The fate of living things close
A grip to reality I never asked for
Then this old superhero
Became a little wounded bird
The path we all follow
Crumbling down before my eyes
So calm yet so bitter
Attachment with nature
Fading light sparkles
Still unexplained
Flesh shelters life
Flesh shelters sickness
The answers lost into cold
White labyrinth talk
Life is a runaway
From shelters and from prisons.
Encounters and loss draw
This complex map of time.
6. Omniscient Opponent
7. Lambs
8. Default Song
9. Our Little Blood
Luis Moya ‒ Drums
Igor Leiva Benavides ‒ Guitars
Claudio Carrasco Garcia ‒ Vocals
Pablo Tapia ‒ Bass
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