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Darklite

by Vertigo Fox

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1.
This Planet 03:14
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There's no such thing as fresh air on this planet No forests but the big grey smokestacks as far as I ever see On this planet drops of acid fall from the sky and you have to find cover or die On this planet there's no place for a thing like me ... On this planet you have to keep moving, there's nowhere I can stretch out my claws Yet on this planet here I am searching, I've been looking for someone Starved inside it's dying Starved inside it's dying Starved inside it's dying Starved inside it's dying There is no clean water on this planet No rivers but for the acid shoals, and it's amazing I can survive On this planet the air stinks of fuel and fumes and I've been consumed On this planet there's no place for a thing like me ... On this planet, climbing the smokespires Nowhere to stretch out my big black tail Could I be the last? Gotta keep looking Keep searching for someone ... The worst part is I barely notice any of it anymore
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Wake Up 03:19
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Wake up, into another dream Hidden worlds rolled up in the spaces between Deep inside nothing's ever what it seems But you and I are more than we appear Dig deeper, run faster Climb higher, fight harder Teeth bared and claws sharper Erase everything Find it, entice it Live it and lose it Know it, destroy it Consume it... Break up, into a whole self Hiding in sight among the ancient, the dormant, Deep down, though, dark skies are your element But you and I are far from it, winged wyrm Dive deeper, bite harder Search higher, roar louder Snarling and hissing and spitting and clawing And roaring and ripping till only shreds remain ... Teeth bared, dive ever farther Destroy everything
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Dust 03:22
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It's working Can you smell petrichor in the air? You can wait for ages under that feline stare While a damp dust gets under your tail, in your hair But you want to chase, you want to run When you stand like a statue in the grass Jump and pounce on the path, do you think you might be flying? With this energy eating at your biomass It's what you are, it's what you will never be; It's what you will never be It's what you become in dusk's light It's what you are but did you ever want to be the dawn's monster, rushing forward into night? It's failing Can you smell the makings of a crisis? When you feel in your bones that the hunter's become the hunted Do you want to hide from them, Leptailurus? No, you want to chase, you want to run When you wait for them like a statue in the grass Jump and pounce on the path, do you think you might be flying? All the power ripping through your biomass ... When you're being chased by those who you used to be? Do you smell the makings of a crisis? Or do you want to steal *their* skins, Leptailurus? Running forward to the night
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Creature 03:55
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Black Light 03:39
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Are you out here, looking for trouble? Looking for something to control, to define you Lost in the expanse of this little bubble A tiger inside you wants to defy you ... A shadow inside you calls to you To roam, to prowl this land; soft as a dream You're not all you seem ... Wondering, why can't you just be the control? Wandering, miles in a tiny maze But doesn't the the alternative fall flat? Would you rather be the mouse, or the cat? A tiger inside you longs to get out of it An ounce of the cold white windy wild wishes you would become it ... A shadow inside you calls to you To roam, to prowl this land; soft as a dream You're not all you seem An ounce of chaos in you calls to you To prowl nightmare lands; soft as a dream You're more than you seem
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Midnight Ash 04:39
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Orange fire, burning bright Are the ashes spots or stripes? Doesn't matter to me or to you because If you're a monster, I am too Prowling into the woods of night I'm burning just out of sight Lost in a formless forest of naked metaphor Because the truth lies... Distance time, as if in a dream Give in to the animal inside Move faster, move deeper, claws agleam As a tail streaks out behind to complete the scene I'm a formless shadow, are these spots or stripes? Give into the animal inside Wind in the face, in the fur, claws swipe An orange fire, burning in the forest of midnight... Tiger, orange fire burning within me In a formless forest at midnight Your eyes glint with mischief, fullbright We're lost in a hall of mirrors tonight You want me but do I want this? Don't know whether to purr or to hiss My naked dream, burning, flaming bright Amid the trees of the night, the truth lies...
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Biohazard 03:54
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Changeling in my time You're broken inside Fleeing, gotta hide But there's nothing... Endless, not a way to live With the cunning of the weasel The weasel is you You're powered and infected by an acid slime Sirens wail when you come, biohazard ... Endlessly lives the biohazard You never get older, broken inside Your weasel eyes, their stare changed me Transformation acid drips from my new hide ... Changing with times I'm broken inside Freedom, but alone I have nowhere Endless, not a way to live With the cunning of the weasel The weasel is you You're powered and infected by an acid slime Sirens wail when you come, biohazard
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Blood in the Water 04:09
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I've been stolen by a bloodthirst dream Calling to me, playfully Ripples at my bare feet, the water seems to be Honing me, shaping me into something deadly ... Lightning, overcast sky Illuminate my soul, asking why Iron blood smell on the ground Don't know what it was that I found ... Tasting power in this flesh, darkest fantasy And it wants to play, it wants me Feel of the current of the wind, under a poised tail An impish predator, deep inside of me ... Fast, devious and sly Observant soul, through my eyes Dilated, darting around Still don't know what it was that I found Ripples of the wind stir the grass under the fur And if I'm a shark there's blood in the water Stolen by a shimmering sunset sea There's blood in the water! I've been stolen by a crimson sea Calling for me deceptively Can feel the running blood, pumping Taste of wild energy lurking just beneath Feel the power under the fur, darkness, fantasy It wants to play, it wants me An elusive metaphor, under layers deep A playful predator, deep inside of me ... Illuminate my soul, asking why Fast, devious and sly Iron blood smell on the ground Still don't know what it was that I found!
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Pull Away 04:19
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Sometimes, do you feel so alien? The deepest place in your heart, alone in the wind? Seeing things like you, but you're not like them Letting the cool wind soothe a lost soul? Can you feel the talons, gripping, piercing, holding Can you feel the sharp point of the beak? Can you feel the soft feathers rub against the other parts? Do you hear the sounds of life fade away, and-- Can you feel your wings, feel your body pulling you off of the ground? Taste the scents of life on the air, never making a sound? Can you feel the claws inside the paw? Can you feel a long, thin tail brushing against you? Do you feel the feathery feline flanks heaving with breath; Taste the breath, smell the air, savour it, search your thoughts, and-- Can you feel the wind, feel it under you; pulling you away from the ground? Hunting this planet for signs of life... you'll never make a sound Looking 'round but can you see? Is this a dream or reality? Will you leave your world behind? ... Sniffing the breeze, don't you believe Didn't you want this feeling? The ice is hotter than the fire Can you feel the WIND?
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Rebound 03:51
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What are you looking for today? Can you smell the pulse of life, leading you this way? You see the flickering of flames The heat imbedded in your DNA Knowing that you should stay away Fall deeper, can you see it? Are you scared, can you find your way? Fall freer, you're in orbit! You're the hunter, nose to the ground What are you running from right now? Can you smell the stink of meat converging all around? Feeling the cold wind on your naked body you can hear their sound But it's a trap, it's a cage and you can smell them Thinking, tail swishing, smell their blood on the ground ... You're the hunter, nose to the ground Thinking, tail swishing, don't make a sound You're the hunter, nose to the ground Thinking, tail flicking, taste their blood and rebound
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Cycle 03:22
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Sometimes I think I've been through this all before Watching myself, knowing what's beyond that door Back and forth, darkening in a flood of life The cycle contains itself, the cycle is, the cycle is And this place wants to eat me alive from the inside Insanity. The only way in is to play their game Sometimes I think I've been through this all before Watching myself, knowing what's beyond that door Back and forth, darkening in a flood of life The cycle contains itself, the cycle is, the cycle is, the cycle is, the cycle is, the cycle is... ... Naked, burning hot under someone else's fur The mind is... And this place wants to eat me alive from the inside Insanity. The only way in is to play their game
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Oil Stealer 03:06
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Watching you I feel everything you do Breaking in two, but you were never whole I'm draining you; devouring you alive I'm a spike to the heart and you're falling fast You'd better learn to fly Suck the life from you Drain it out of you Blips and bleeps, all you are And everything you'll do A tiger's bite to the heart, and you're falling fast You'd better learn to fly Before I catch you...

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Another collection a-la Lost Direction and Intersect. Apart from Biohazard these were all written in the latter half of 2015, after the release of all three parts of Nebula's Trisomy.

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released October 31, 2015

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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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