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Parturition
10:35
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Where does the love of a mother begin
If not at the start?
When mother nature planted stars,
A sea of light to help us dream at night.
And when does her mourning start,
When she sees us tearing down our kin
And tearing out her gardens?
Was the birth worth the heartache?
Made in the image of God, tainted by the devil.
It's like we're all he's touched.
For nature's children are blameless,
Are they not more like God?
I come from the shadow of death.
I bear witness to monuments of ire.
Where does the love of a mother end?
Where is it that she dreams backwards?
Toil, wither, beg.
Burn beneath the sun.
Born that man
May be a god.
Mother is in pain.
Earth whimpers softly.
A child cries
To leave this world.
A sea of light
To help us dream at night.
Suns burning out
To feed our lustful plague.
Mother is in pain.
Earth whimpers softly.
A child cries
To leave this world.
A sea of light
To help us dream at night.
Sons burning out
To feed our helpless line of descent.
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Monadic
13:35
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I'm tired of blaming
A margin of error
On outcomes predestined,
Of faults that are collective.
An orchard was sewn,
Irrigated in segregation.
I'm tired of living
Like the cause is not of the heart.
We receive the blessing of selfishness:
From the forked tongue,
To the clean hands,
To the soured lips,
To the nakedness of age.
I've built a dam around me
To stop my empathy
From spilling down to nowhere,
Like those who came before.
Each day it cracks a hairline,
Gets resealed like a fault line.
I've molded this seclusion
Like I'm better off alone.
Coerced into silence
Because we're tired of screaming
To a gull that will one day
Just turn and fly south.
Our flock is not dying,
They're just losing interest.
So I just stop speaking
And build up this dam.
At the end of days
We'll forget our friends.
There is nothing like
Sweet eternal life.
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3. |
Sprigs
02:53
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The way that two rivers run:
They serpentine in and out of me.
And in the center there's a bank
Where the dead live, so gleefully,
Embracing all of life's failings
And the beauty that is letting go.
Sending off sprigs, watching them float.
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Carnation
05:43
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Like a carnation in acid
Failing to give up it's life.
Contorted and rotting from inside,
My blood runs bright pink in your light.
Veil of a dim pulsing lustre
Submerging my face in a dithering cascade.
My heart is not well and it's soaking up tar
Just to hope that you'll discard it gently.
Am I spent?
Is there no pigment left to color you?
Pale like motherhood.
Will I refind what once helped to mend you?Is it lost?
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5. |
Mother
08:40
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I've wanted to feel for so long,
I forgot what it was like
To have it hit like tidal waves.
Thoughts that don't let me sleep
Pummel the walls of my skull,
Wear me down ‘til I'm nothing.
I've been thinking too much again.
I've been dreaming too much again.
How can I love if I don't love myself?
How can I be loved?
How could I ever be loved?
Yet I'm loved.
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