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Shifted Silhouette

by Vertigo Fox

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Inundate 04:36
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Secrets in the dark waters Drowning the upper world Shifting changing lost powers Forces my wings to keep unfurled To keep their shape To the shadows Holding a dead flare between my teeth Keep the monster Gliding softly Down the steps to where the rooftops meet … Think you have it all, then It takes everything you thought you couldn't lose And you inundate the world Till there's no-one left to use Fly, beast, fly higher Just to spite that dark power Space twisting into dream-shapes Buried spark beats in my blood Can’t begin to discern the landscape Pay the price of my shape, to keep above In grey of dawn Stretched far too long Long tail keeping me in balance between Waves of pressure Licking at my pelt Pulling me down, but I refuse to drown Fly, beast, fly higher Just to spite that dark power … … Wing, beast, climb higher Claws sparking with your stolen fire
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Percept 05:04
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The ancient liminal zone All creatures that are caught in this dream Web of lies that we call home Knowing only what I can perceive Dive in from the night to the light To make sense, tail lashing side to side To pick up speed, as the circle draws tight To descend on another life … Teach me to soar, to ascend To be the monster in this nightmare realm So we can have space to pretend We’re not the monsters in this nightmare realm If it moves it can sustain Swoop down on huge, silent panther wings Naked as beasts tugging at the world's chain All of us just ghosts in that machine Essences, disjointed To make sense, bring it up into our night Drawn back into circle of beating blood The percept, descending on time … Can’t break bonds you forgot how to feel Vicious as weasels, unleashed and unrevealed From the song, that’s hidden, that we never fail to hear From flames yet unburned, that which you breathe … … Chained and bound to the beast To the world’s dream Nightmare, the only air that we can breathe
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Mind's Sky 04:25
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Pad on talons like swords Stare through bright eyes Delving into my own lore In the red skies This warped world seems to ignore What's in my mind This warped self flying for Dome of pain that's now mine Feel myself fall, and the air catching Under wing Crouch, crawl, tail against the wall Farther into this thing … Fly deeper and deeper, how far down could it go? Staring through the pits of a mad emperor’s soul Into depths of viciousness, as I pull against the flow Still I feel it in my form, losing control More I try not to think it, the more real it becomes The more real I become Felt myself fall, when I opened my eyes Found this thing Naked animal scent, which dream-world was it That gave me these wings? … … Now I'm watching you fall Through my bright eyes Stare to the mystery of us all That pride intertwined With my mind
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Supernal Scream 04:48
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Light as a cat's feather Floating out of one life Just to end in another Plaything to the creature inside Drop down into its den My tail betraying mad intent Forever, the space between these deadly hunts Scream at the sky knowing full well why Mastering the space between the elements All I’ve got left is learning to fly … Scent of the wind on my body On nothing Sweeping through these imprints of stories Of nothing Not the expected curse But am I something worse? Even the sky's riptides Don’t seem entirely unalive The supernal side of this nature The sidereal clawmarks left on my soul Naked supernatural part of my nature Can't be left here to die alone Forever, the space between these deadly hunts Scream at the sky knowing full well why Mastering the space between the elements All I’ve got left is learning to fly … … The hunger, all that’s left of us And only air to lift it up
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Ancient Unbound 05:06
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Just a shape in the flames Don't know how to be tamed What you no longer ordain This lost power reclaimed It was hidden inside Now it’s mine Was it animal ferocity or the turn of a phrase? Of course, you disengage … You had lightning in a bottle It's slipping away And I won't strike the same way twice The moment passes too close You’re running like prey ‘cause you never could pay my price A form, alone, beautiful in terror Among this lack of graves Suddenly set into the stinking sharp-clawed relevance Your oldest stories attained And you've chosen, at who to take aim Since the sense of vast rapid wind calls my name A tail that lifts, looking towards these frontiers What you hid down within you, now you made clear … … Lost in a land you despise Can’t let yourself see it in the light Lash out at everything that won’t stop A ghost, a whisper on my flank No oxygen left in your little fish tank Screaming at the wider sea As you fade
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Fusion Storm 05:16
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Step into the clouds, can you feel it? Took the wrong lane Trying for the concrete manufactured shells Finding myself lost somewhere very much else Took the wrong road Swallowed by great woods and foggy chaparral Something of this nature is not natural I know soon I'll be lost in the night Or has it already found me? For my tongue already tastes lifeblood Within this hulking fusion of nature and debris … When thunder roars and I’m swept up Feel the pull, soul can’t stay on the ground In sizzling current, enveloped A feeling like I'm lost in the clouds Step into the fog, and unseal it Took the wrong path And I think I'm almost a dragon Wings pressing my body fur Long tail slipping through the leaves Took a path long-since crumbled If its other end was ever there I’m power naked, razor-clawed and feral My breath burning mist to wisps just briefly Fusion of wild and supernatural What room could there be left for me … This place, the fog, assimilates? Or have I some role, unclear?
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Locktide 06:30
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This shouldn't be real Think I fell through the floor Through the universe Who opened this door? And what am I down here? This sense, not all my fear For it seems almost some twisted home And I don’t think it's my own … If I tried to go What might follow my stolen soul? For I’m not alone Prowling deeper into this darkened cold A world for a lock, holds to the tide Unsynchronized, releases what's inside Stranger beings pricking whiskers Tickling at my tail Unheard, naked, but in my shadows Faint scent of their trail Tear apart any who see This creature that’s me For once I’ve been revealed What gets unsealed? … I know that you're out there I know what you want That I'm holding out here Would be so easy to falter Dark gravity A world for a lock and I'm a key … … Dark gravity Why’d it choose me?
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Savage Protector 04:50
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Twisting shadows on the ground cast Splinters of dark off the canopy Lost in a pocket of the vast Empty, monsters only company Wings spread, tail raised, gaining altitude Where the only scent, of life unnamed Under skies of brooding attitude Animal silhouette, shifting, misplaced in airspace Feel the gusts and flashes call to my DNA … Let the lick of flames Lift the air, ignite the right way Whisper the starfire’s name And don’t lose my way, to get away Chains of spots, ashes on fire-pelt Wings buffeted even as they’re raised Feel these broken sparks tingle through myself Naked to the same power I'm drawing And I never wanted to be burning bones and branches But I need to grow their claws to play this game Shed altitude, to the stink of these ashes Back where I belong, into the flame If you wanna survive it, you must become it When you plummet, you still fly from it Its personification, by implication Its savage protector … …
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Cloud Driller 04:46
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Thunder drills within Waking, question All that’s left in this town is the mausoleum Watch, uncertain Your hunting pack, half beast, half man And all something in between And all attack Calling souls of the thunderclouds To all run free, or to burn down … Keep on true This world smells only of wind and wild And of you Though your heartbeats still betray this exile You woke up playing in the lightning Setting fire Lose yourself, you run to this pack of the blackened back What we aspire Rising on the wings you bought Naked to the storm and to your own thoughts Your tail showing you caught this scent But I must remain lost Remain clouded Coiling souls of the lightning call To you, I see you fail to flee, understand You have what you need … … Scavenging, unearthing what’s left Of what you yourselves left behind And you can see All you are is all that you need

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I took a trip to California, where I finally found my first 8-string guitar, and this is what I made :)

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released December 16, 2023

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Vertigo Fox Winnipeg, Manitoba

Vertigo Fox is a band made up of one mysterious, probably catlike creature.
A mysterious creature who, tired of hearing the same themes in music year in and year out, decided to create something altogether stranger.


Vertigo Fox enjoys long walks and hikes, though the cats he inevitably encounters always tell him they're prowls. ... more

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