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Empty Earth
02:06
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2. |
XIII Death
06:00
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When I hit the sink began the dream
of someone standing alone, staring at the sea
and with the shivers that came
dancing over my grave
in foreboding
As I watched her there, paralyzed
I felt a shift within from my spine up to my skull
where Chrysanthemums bloomed
in foreboding
A murmur from the earth
Ancestral voices from sunken tombs
in the cities you reach in the deepest of sleep
where one day we will meet
an appointment we keep
with the night
But in a smothered interior
a lone and naked figure stares back into a mirror
and on the table the cards spell out a future
in foreboding
If regret is a dream of having seen the future
then still you’ve chosen not to change your path again
A dream of having crawled from the ocean
A dream of crawling joyful from the womb
and learning to breathe in the air
to be awoke from the nightmare of a world
where everywhere you see
humans longing for death
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3. |
Morveren and the Sea
11:12
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Standing on the shore she will never know
Her tears still reach him in the undertow
I wonder where’s the wreckage that around your body racks
Dreaming of you there, crawling your way back
At night I pray the storm will rise and wash me away
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4. |
The Whorl
06:13
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I’ve been staring at the walls again, seeing through
I hear the sound of the waves seeping through into the room
They fill me with a feeling now that I once knew
An image of you waiting in an empty room
Waiting for me to get tangled up in the history
Coz I get so bored alone and when I get that way I know
It’s calling to me from a cellular memory
Calling to you from the centre of the whorl
I lay in foetal position
Await the rush of the ocean
and now the noise filters through
I’ve been waiting for you so long
So now I make my way back into a dream
but now I’m on the train I want to be
In the rain outside as it lashes down,
pummeling the ground, a cold that seems to follow you
over grass, and over stone, down those paths again
I make my way back to where
you called out to me from a cellular memory
I’m getting closer to the centre of the whorl
(chorus)
I’ve been waiting so long for you
I look into the whorl, I’m seeing through
I’m falling through the floor, falling into
I’m treading water, and sinking into her
The smell of rain makes me new
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5. |
Polkerris
06:23
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When I awake I find myself
standing on the beach
with driftwood and seaweed
swimming coldly around my feet
A congregation of robed figures
stand judically along the beach
and with a wordless spell
they seem to will something
to rise up from beneath
A great black mass begins to rise up from the deep
it comes dragging chains and wreckage and other debris
And it sends a wave of ash and oil
crashing towards the beach
and when it hits it sends the world beneath
rising up to meet me.
But after a time the horror subsides
and I struggle but find my feet.
It spits me out and I float gently
out to sea asleep
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6. |
Nos Da Dhywgh Hwi
06:52
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Setting off
Red sky in the morning
A sailor’s warning
Cast by the dawn
The drunken feeling
of being aboard
To find the release that
I’ve been dreaming of
Your apathy
has been the death of me
and your apologies
wont mean a thing to me
The love you reap
will become inverted
and the bed you’ve made
is where you will sleep
So I’ll go quietly to the open sea
and let the waves take me into eternity
There’s nothing left for me but to go quietly
to the open sea and let the waves take me
A curse on you and all you will do
Everywhere you go, I will be there too
Nos da dhywgh hwi
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7. |
XVIII The Moon
05:12
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8. |
The Moth
04:59
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Here once was a window
but now it’s gone
and the path it looked out on
is overgrown
I painted a picture to take its place
but it never changes in the wind and the rain
A faded grey photo with its edges curled
only meant something real in another world
After the rain a displaced spider
crawls up to your window
I went out to the forest
to be among the birds
but the trees remained silent
and unconcerned
Back in the bedroom with the walls closing in
is like trying to sleep at night inside a coffin
Looking up at the window into the night
where a moth’s mottled wings cover the sky
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9. |
Winter Light
07:58
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Standing still under the winter sun
It’s weak white light fills me up
Why would someone stay for so many years
in such a suffocating place?
Trying to make amends,
not trying to save face
To fix a broken bottle,
to mend a brittle fence
every time the storm breaks on through
Remembering to breathe,
allowed to take my leave
it is okay to die
if that’s how it has to be
but now I understand
what I’ve always known
to be written in water or else be turned to stone
Cut your dead adrift
Let them float away
As it rains into the sea
A sigil is drawn complete
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10. |
Abyssal Plain
02:42
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Dawnwalker London, UK
Dawnwalker is a collective of musicians based in London, England and led by songwriter Mark Norgate. Their music blends
modern metal with experimental rock and progressive influences.
bookings:
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