DOWNLOAD: replacer.bandcamp.com/album/soul
So I'm excited to finally present something I've been tinkering with for some time, in fact this was begun immediately after Still No Words with the intention of following reasonably close on its heels but I got stuck trying to figure out how to turn the idea into a full song in a satisfying way, so it ended up on the backburner for a while. Eventually I was able to figure out some kind of shape for the whole thing, which turned out to be kind of huge. I was even considering making it into some kind of EP release, but settled on just having it be one big song. Please do let me know what you think! I hope it takes you on an adventure as fun as the one I had trying to get it done.
LYRICS:
Do you feel the endless motion
Far beneath the earth while you are sleeping
Dream if you want to
Let your eyes grow dull and heavy
You may peer into the darkness
Gaze into the endless motion
There is something in the moonlight
High above your head and all around you
Sing if you want to
Time will call you back and back again
Are you sure you know the melody
Stay in everlasting motion
Enrobed in light and full of splendour
A further course now shall you take
You may venture into darker atmospheres
And you will know us when you wake
But you have to play your role
It’s understood the things that you’ll do
Cannot be foretold
But nonetheless a great many things
Are in our control
And if we were to show you them all
It could make you whole
If only you’d give us your soul
Inside a dusky palace courtyard
She tries to find a melody
She tends to think she’s all alone there
And wishes somebody could see
The heat is wearing down the piano keys
The strings are rusting as the sand comes in
It’s like a dream how fast the music changed
The story can’t be heard above the wind
But something’s there behind her eyelids
A sense of darkness in the air
And voices singing deep inside her head
Too late to help but not to share
The regent asks too many questions
The servants drink and talk of bills to pay
And in the courtyard there is happiness
For she has lived to dream another day
Used to be so cold
And now the measure of the secrets you know
Is something to behold
Do you wonder how the life that was hers
looks so dim and old
you only need to do one more thing
To let it all unfold
You just have to give us your soul
We thank you for your contribution
It’s very luminous and warm
You’ll be prepared for more instructions
And bring the rest into the swarm