Wilderun
Epigone
1. Exhaler
I felt the world too well
I felt the world too well
There was nothing to tell
The starlight of the shell
The wind would be my spine
At the advent of my time
The glory of all things
Was implicit to the waking
Each new day so clearly awake
Cloudy dreams no more
Than ghosts who partake
Endless years contained within a day
Hell comes near, the question waits for its play
The key was skin and bone
When the earth was still my home
The fortune has been spent
And the secrеt has been hidden
Locked away
How could I lose
The greatest knowledge I ever knew?
2. Woolgatherer
Then all bent and turned itself to smoke
Lesions filled with questions appeared as soon as I awoke
Will you persist?
Practicing the end before the start
The way I'm crawling sideways
You're better off if I depart
Won't you dismiss me?
Dismiss me
I'm tired and applauded for an answer
That's slipping
Appearing as a statue while running through the trees
One earth kept its balance
But luckily there were more I could not see
They were born of nothing
Stay with me
Stay with me
You've let me in
So graciously
Secretive emotions the universe will keep
Punishment or privilege
It offers you an opening to peek
This is the way
This is the light
Yet suddenly
Becoming much too bright
The treasure should never have been unearthed
Reality twists and reveals its worth
The clock is set forever in reverse
My revelation's just a memory to nurse
Free the eyes of the reverence within
That well has dried
Nothing I imagine can compare
I'll be a passerby
Do they ever see the final world
That they create?
Or is it the very nature of its heart
To arrive one moment too late
I just wanted to escape to your domain
Mine's not the same
Wandering, vibrant stream
Burrowing purpose
Soon as it has touched my hand
It's far too near
What I hold dear
Cannot be stained by me
Leave it there
I've a window and a chair
Burning throat, make me float
Let me lie where
Ego does not dare, but still aware
A web of dead converging branches
Drips with blood and squandered chances
There's something I missed here
I peer through the woods onto the altar
I knew that dreams could bend
And often falter
But this is not the same
Not cowardice or pain
The fundamental void
Is staring blankly
Lead or follow, maybe this is over
Flee the spring before the bar is lowered
Clearly this cannot capture the holy
Precedent that will forever hunt me
We will not dismiss thee, dismiss thee
Forever you'll chase the answer
That's missing
3. Passenger
Passenger
He is a river with endless flow
His source seems eternal under the water
He found a loophole in creation’s glow
So steady and measured his pace
Oh what grace
All in place
All in place
She is a mountain within a storm
How beautifully weathered with no effort
She’s probably had that since she was born
How much we have reaped from a mind forlorn
While harvesting chaos, the door is ajar
It starts seeping (Such spontaneity!)
The beings enter from near and afar
And they aren’t leaving (Blessed for eternity!)
Keep feeding the gaping disease
Where meaning persists (Isn’t it wonderful!)
You know this journey is all that you need
We must insist (Aren’t you so colorful!)
Pain’s just a passenger
In spite of the author
We’ll never lead you to that lake
To drown suffering and hate
You need this like fire needs the air
Tabula rasa, a road you should not dare
Die in creation’s lair
They are the martyrs, we’ll praise them so
And borrow their feelings for just a while
But once they sink in, we’ll let them go
Oh surely they’ve learned to cope
Forever the deal, it’s forever the plan
To break every rock and inhale the sand
Never enjoy the surface, always digging beneath
You know what you are, when you see…
All the hells and all the bliss revealed
As a single god
It won’t help, yet to it you must kneel
It began its life as a partner
When it fed you tales of woe and wonder
It’s depleted all its stores
Yet somehow it still remains
It still feigns its uses
Practical abuses
How mundane this healing
What are you achieving?
It was a creature that clawed at your back
Keeping your vision just slightly off-track
“Oh don’t you worry, you’ll thank me for this
Praise will rise from the ruins and mist”
You still need me
It gave you everything when this began
Stories and questions and worlds to expand
But it is the origin, is it the start?
Or just a parasite sewn to your heart?
Obfuscating
Forevermore
Drown in the wellspring
Abandon meaning
4. Identifier
Already have I fallen prey
Hypocritical dismay
Still I go forth
Still I go forth
Slave to the form
There is a mystery inside you
A purity of being we innately know
How can the speechless seem to ring true?
To find the frequency and carry on
The bypassing of justification
The ether breathes through you
And that is all you need
And yet persists this one persuasion
To link it all to some mortal deed
We cannot stop corrupting you
Transcendence can and will not do
Aesthetic formed by precedent
How else would we know what we meant?
Shed that earthly cloak
Stained with what we spoke
Curse that we wrote
The reason manifests in an instant
The rite of being is arranged by space and time
Yet we're still skeptics of an existence
Absent corporeal and lucid lines
Primordial is what you heard
Let all this space become absurd
Before this time, before this word
Before the gods were ours to burn
Shed that earthly cloak
Stained with what we spoke
This was never meant to be
So close to you and me
How can I distance myself from this?
Turn all my being to smoke and mist
Oh, still I give essence a cursory glance
And once again into this dance
We fall
All creatures gather traces of mind
Constructing stories of what they hope to find
Think I'd rather be blind
All this correlation of the abstract
Will shine all the brighter once we can pull it back
Once we can pull it back
(I have fallen prey)
You, identifier
(I have fallen prey)
You can go no higher
Maybe it's time to let go
The signs displaying in the stars
The stars consumed by my eyes
My eyes inverting into my voice
Still my voice betrays
Writhing in a vast and cosmic source
From this, let my cause divorce
Deconstruct the great supernal seas
Overwhelm, dismantle me
Your voice, your lies
Sever all your ties
Your voice, your lies
Sever all your ties
Tiptoe into the vague
Sneak past patterned plagues
Chaos seems to be void of shame
Yet I always return
Where to make is merely to yearn
This was never meant to be
So close to you and me
How can I distance myself from this?
Turn all my being to smoke and mist
Oh, still I give essence a cursory glance
And once again into this dance
We fall
We fall
We fall
We fall
5. Ambition
6. Distraction I
One of three if I'm lucky, one of two more like
What a waste to be dwelling
In the light's demise tonight
This was never a problem, no reason it's appeared
No tangible conclusion, at least not one that's clear
And yet I cannot fully grasp in its wondrous breadth
That which I'm afraid to lose
That for which I've wept
Counting everything aimlessly, count it all again
Everything eludes me, yet concerns me more
All is more unknowable than I've ever known before
Constantly the providing sun feeds me life
Yet I cannot notice as I'm tracking its path in the sky
Terror has come to stay
Look away
Dare you expand into all
Downfall
7. Distraction II
Pulling it back again
From earth, moon, to hand and pen
We can keep all the wheels turning
Safely remove the "when"
Toil the land for years
Witness repeating gears
We'll cycle until we believe
The earth will present a mirror
But a mind so curious
Must drift now and then
It will peer for a moment
Just around the bend
All is approaching
More quickly
Than you can close the door
Pulling it back again
From millions to less than ten
It's a map with no destination
There's minutes left to defend
Wounds that you seek to heal
And subsequently you'll peel
The flesh away from the body
To curb the looming reveal
But no length of exertion
Forever holds the seal
So let the mountains reach high
Let the rivers run deep
So that we'll never rest
Not until we're asleep
When the equation dissolves
But until then we'll run
O forgive me, I've glanced
It is coming undone
So let the mountains reach high
Let the rivers run deep
So that we'll never rest
Not until we're asleep
When the equation dissolves
But until then we'll run
O forgive me, I've glanced
It is coming undone
8. Distraction III
The wailing winds have died away
Surrendering myself to say
That I see you now who lurks beyond
You're not quite there, and yet you're never gone
I see that you've come to stay
I look away
Still I dissolve into all
9. Distraction Nulla
10. Everything in Its Right Place (Radiohead cover)
Everything, everything, everything, everything..
In its right place
In its right place
In its right place
In its right place
Yesterday I woke up sucking a lemon
Yesterday I woke up sucking a lemon
Yesterday I woke up sucking a lemon
Yesterday I woke up sucking a lemon
Everything, everything, everything..
In its right place
In its right place
In its right place
Right place
There are two colours in my head
There are two colours in my head
What, what is that you try to say?
What, what was that you tried to say?
Tried to say.. tried to say..
Tried to say.. tried to say.. tried to say...
Everything, everything, everything..
Everything in its right place
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