1. |
Grey Eye
02:54
|
|||
[Instrumental]
|
||||
2. |
Ghost of Saiko
01:52
|
|||
Elijah: There…..
Hanging laughter like the morning dew
Young boy coming into view.
Standing at salute.
Saiko: Mr. Elijah, be my eyes, help me see through the dark.
Elijah: You’re a little beaten meadowlark,
And I almost feel bad for you,
but I’m too far through.
Run away (Saiko: Bye Bye)….Why do you turn heel and run away?
If it’s that way (Saiko: Bye Bye)….Why come at all little child?
Little child…
|
||||
3. |
Soundscape Interlude
00:54
|
|||
Elijah:
Stumbling over creeping vines,
Searching for a time that’s mine.
Wilting wings and tattered clothes,
On my way to no one knows.
Coming noise and going song.
Cheers and laughter: “Come along.”
Light in forest magnified,
Let me take a look inside.
|
||||
4. |
House of Raamah
01:46
|
|||
Raamah:
Come one, come all, welcome
Here in the House of Raamah
Look here, look there, everywhere a’
Raucous and Bacchus, oh stop us you won’t!
Come and sit down, have yourself a brandy
We aim to please [ Jester] – innocent [Raamah] --- dandy!
We’ll pin you down, [Jester] – spin you round and round!
[Raamah] Until your lips can’t form sound!
[Raamah (spoken)] Now what we have here is a failure to communicate
[Jester] Too much at stake? [Raamah] Oh shut your face!
If you can find it, you get my key, but either way, I BREAK YOUR KNEES.
Come on, get out, go now.
Look here’s a trick, I’ll show you how.
Toss the key up, and just your luck.
A massive explosion of pink pollen potion, and rattling, shackling, cackling fun.
Scamper, Scamper, what a pretty dancer!
Your lungs are choked [Jester] in a curious cancer.
[Raamah] My eyes like gas swirling on the floor and
[Both] Now we’ll see you everywhere…
[Raamah] Now search for my eyes and I’ll give you a prize
A wonderful key with no earthly ties.
[Jester] But wait, what’s that? Back up, back up.
[Raamah] I can’t believe it but Both: TIME’S UP!
[Elijah] The chandelier [Raamah] How queer!
[Elijah] Mice spinning it round like a hamster wheel
[Raamah] A Crash [Elijah] And Ash
[Raamah] Eyes in the walls that are closing so small. [Elijah] Running from wall to wall in fits. [Raamah] I’ll catch you and crack you and SMASH YOU TO BITS
[Elijah] As I look – to the skies – something catches my eyes!
Glimmer of light and lots of mice
Dropping here before my eyes
I pick up the key and then I see, dusty pupil staring at me
With one desperate thrust, his eyes dart and shut
The ceiling flies off, I must scramble out
[Raamah] NOOOOO, I am king, and I’ll clip your wing.
You’ll never escape this prison ring.
Don’t worry now, I’ll mute your sound, you’re almost drowned!
[Elijah] I've escaped to the ground.
|
||||
5. |
My Static Love
03:40
|
|||
[Elijah]
Coughing pollen,
Midnight moon that sears my wounds.
Nerves uprooted,
Wind pressed on me like a suit.
And right in front of me:
A flash of hair and heavy air.
A helping hand she gave to me,
And I feel free.
Touching pink haze,
Struggling up I turn my gaze.
Vapor static,
Eyes like holes and lips to hold.
[Anita] My name is Anita
I’d been lost and had enough.
Then I wore this locket here,
And soon I found you near…
[Elijah] I want to help you, dear.
[Anita] Then hug me, and hold me
Along through the night
[Elijah] I will but hold you,
But don’t expect more.
[Anita] That’s fine, just let my hands
Find your raw wounds
[Elijah] Oh how, your hands pull strings,
Birthing two wings
[Anita] I’ll take one wing, dear,
Just you look away.
[Elijah] Ripping off like paper cloth
I bite through the pain.
[Elijah] Too small for me to fly,
But maybe over time I’ll try.
[Anita] My little meadowlark,
Just walk with me through the dark.
|
||||
6. |
Field of Shambles
01:56
|
|||
[Elijah] Oh, A dense fog smothers every space,
sucks thought without a trace.
And fields and fields, an army, anorexic figures burnt to cinders.
[Anita] The whites of their eyes turn to the heavens,
but they’re never getting there.
Shambles walking, they’ll keep stalking, they’ll keep stumbling
aimlessly…
[Elijah] The vultures , the vultures pick their bones.
[Anita] Like burning fetus in the sun
[Elijah] Become someone, become someone…
[Anita] Don’t worry now, we’ve left them far behind.
[Elijah] But now there’s new dark shadows,
reaching, scraping, clawing for my mind.
|
||||
7. |
Spawning Grounds
02:48
|
|||
[Elijah]
Umbrella head, spooling darkness of form.
Laughing, mocking me.
Fish in quicksand, bees in a hive.
Multiply.
Your eyes shine
A boy inside, wandering child.
I’ll take my key, to remember me.
A clasp on my neck I cannot breathe.
They’re choking me.
I cannot breath.
|
||||
8. |
Shadow Swarm
03:35
|
|||
[Elijah]
Coughing, Coughing, still alive
In desperate struggle to survive,
Where have you gone? What have you done,
Anita?
Dragged on my back,
Facing heart attack, I crash, I lash, I thrash
I sink into a pool
With cheers and jeers
As a sink, wondering why…
I know that I must…I must
Accept that it’s just my time
To die.
|
||||
9. |
Black Elevator
02:02
|
|||
[Elijah]
Eclipsed by dark,
Infinite pool.
I search for a star,
And I know, I will fail.
Falling deeper,
Screeching quiet.
White splotch on a wall,
And the world
Turns me inside.
|
||||
10. |
White Room
02:39
|
|||
[Elijah]
White room, blank heart.
Things come along, things fall apart.
Standing so tall, four masks on a wall,
Stare into space, like dolls.
Pink mask is smiling, inviting me in.
Grey-brimmed eyeholes, sucking my skin.
|
||||
11. |
Pink Mask
03:10
|
|||
[Elijah]
Mute sound at the sill.
A pool of my blood.
Falling from my veins.
Submerge me with you.
I tear at the mask
But it clings like a viper.
I smash my head against the wall,
Again and again till the cracks form.
The mask, it breaks in two. But it’s left
Scars on my face that I’ll never erase
In the light. The light…
I try to resist.
But what I miss is your kiss so remiss:
Emotionless.
|
||||
12. |
Stone Mask
03:36
|
|||
[Elijah]
Mask of sinking
Stone, I feel a-
-lone the noise has
Ceased
At the window is a
Lone boy at his
Desk taking a
Test to make the
Grade
Leaning over is a
Long pair of bone
Legs and hands giv-
-ing him more, more
Work
Drugged certainty,
Drowning apathy.
Spooling little bit of thread, I hold.
All my family and friends, unfold.
As I imagine a lady in passion
Collapsed on the floor.
I reach out for more.
And with her sobs growing louder, my heart ever prouder
I wake, to make my escape.
|
||||
13. |
Yellow Mask (Daybreak)
02:17
|
|||
[Elijah]
Mask of yellow, waiting for a fellow,
On the wall with not a call, humble and waiting and strangely ebullient.
Putting it on, I feel my troubles are all gone, I’m
Loving living, for once thinking.
Loose, gentle, eyes like slits
Warm sunshine, room well lit.
Out the window, time in a freeze.
Fruits hanging, from Christmas trees.
Dirt road stretching, yawning into winding infinity.
There’s a boy playing with his old dog in the evergreens.
I call out to him, and he responds to me.
[Saiko] Mr. Elijah, you look like you’ve nearly died.
[Elijah] Don’t you hurt my pride, you know how I’ve tried.
[Saiko] My dog here [Elijah] Has a painful limp [Saiko] But she’s happy.
Just try looking at things in a new light
[Elijah] And with that he leaves me in the daylight.
|
||||
14. |
Black Cross Interlude
00:54
|
|||
[Elijah]
As I turn around (turn around) in sunlight they bask.
New black crosses – all of my losses – ‘cross every mask.
Through these snake slits, I simply can’t see, I need more.
Gaping eyes of the blue mask call me to their whispering shore.
|
||||
15. |
Blue Nocturne
03:12
|
|||
[Elijah]
Blue Haze
Spotlights dance like moth balls, over the walls.
Round a figure, formless, vapid, watery mannequin
Standing on a
Child’s chair.
Wilting despair.
Patient, warm noose.
Against the current
I scream in pain
But this
Blue mask, it swallows
All of my words.
So I
Tear it off, and slam on
The yellow mouth,
And it
Lifts its head
Smile, amorphous sea foam.
Stepping down,
It’s coming now
I’m trapped.
Gripped by a need to control its smiling,
Spasming hands put on the stone mask eyes.
Mannequin opens his mouth as if to speak,
But I’m too far to hear, so I let the mask steer
Room goes grey,
It squeezes its head.
Scream, scream, SCREAM.
Putting back on the yellow mouth:
Who are you?
Can you lead me through?
Smile collects in crosshair eye.
Slash through and collapse, stand content.
Mimicking the mannequin
I affix the yellow eye
Staring blankly at the wall
I look to see it fold into the daylight.
|
||||
16. |
The Long Hallway
01:06
|
|||
[Intrumental]
|
||||
17. |
The Clearing
02:07
|
|||
[Elijah]
Standing in a clearing,
Surrounded on all sides,
Jellyfish tendril grasses
Three times my size.
Thin, white, pedestal
About half my height,
On it lies a key
Swirling black and white.
But I search for me,
So I pass the key.
Patient hand on my chest,
Raven hair, raven eyes.
[Girl from the weeds (Lucienne)]
Let me see your weathered face
Those feelings I’ll replace.
[Elijah]
She pulls at my mask, and
I touch her hand, and…
I pull the mask down,
And shove her away.
I know she has no right to stay, but I
Could stay here forever:
Be fooled by a yellow fawn.
But I must take this one step now
Into the great beyond!
|
||||
18. |
Waiting Among the Weeds
01:08
|
|||
[Instrumental]
|
Streaming and Download help
If you like Steve Yannacone, you may also like:
Bandcamp Daily your guide to the world of Bandcamp