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Souvenirs are all that’s left
forge a new life forward
Recollections of past days
just dead fruit in the orchard
Sentimental oppression
heavy in the air
Or is the bleak nostalgia
what colours his despair?
Souvenirs and emblems
symbols that came before
All his wartime memories
hidden in the drawer
Now he speaks in silence
But so much for us to hear
Tripping through his life
like a figure sans its puppeteer
Regimental oppression
reigned across the land
All the death upon the beach
he can’t understand
Souvenirs and emblems
symbols of the life before
all the painful memories
buried in his drawer
Souvenirs and emblems
relics from a life before
like the rose that slowly dies
a life that is no more
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Her dreams live in darkness
a place so far away
Dressed up in false affections
But the stars always fade
So young, so beautiful
a light in the storm
it shines so brightly
but soon will shine no more
Escape all the bindings
a privileged life can bring
Two sycophants in the shadows
Taking all that each gives.
So young, so beautiful
like sunshine through the rain
she burns so brightly
while numbing all her pain
Now the stars have fallen
And her world isn’t right
Silver drowns the flame
Her ember dies tonight.
So young, so beautiful
a beacon in the storm
She burns so brightly
But now she’ll burn no more
So young, so beautiful
like sunshine through the rain
you burnt so brightly
it ended all your pain.
(For Edie)
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Moribund
03:40
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Breathless moment
pushing forward
her last few hours now
All our questions have their answers
and soon she’ll take…
a bow
a bow
Night will fall
The moon will rise
This house will soon be still
But as her words
reveal the secrets
they cannot stop her…
still.
Conversations
Backwards, forwards
A whisper to a scream
The time has come
Her curtain call
Mother wishes it was…
a dream
a dream
Night will fall
The moon will rise
Her world is silent now
Draw the blinds and
Lock the door
You can’t turn back…
now!
Night will fall
The moon will rise
This house is still
So still…
So still…
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Vienna
03:42
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Disappear in the veil of night
Our obsession and their fright
Is it love, this dark passion play?
To survive, is to betray.
In Vienna, a cold dark night
Silhouette in sodium light
His face a dream
Her buried past
All the bleakness that couldn’t last
Oh, Vienna
If you only knew.
Oh, Vienna
Oh, Vienna
If I could make a wish I’d find a way
To let tomorrow forget today
In Vienna, where secrets hide
And the truth means you lie
Forbidden fruit that rots away
They dream the dance of Salome
Oh, Vienna
If you only knew.
Oh, Vienna
Oh, Vienna
If I could make a wish I’d find a way
To let tomorrow forget today.
If I could make a wish
If I could make a wish
If I could make a wish
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L'Avenir Baltimore, Maryland
L’Avenir is the cold synth project of veteran electronic musician and sound artist Jason Sloan. Known throughout the space and ambient music scenes for his contemplative electronic soundscape work for over two decades; Sloan founded L’Avenir in 2011 to explore his long time love of dark synth and minimal wave music created purely from analog and vintage equipment. ... more
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