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Hiss

by Vertigo Fox

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1.
Primal Murk 03:44
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Hiss 05:50
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Amid dark metal, hissing presses Prowl up warm pipes, like steel tree branches To watch, in subtle-patterned silence Something this one names hellish and monstrous Lashing at the tail at the results of its displays Taking, breaking spirit that could never be its own And it expects a shifter not to see its true face? … Hear the grind, and the hiss, all around, yet I know When it looks into the void, these eyes look back A creature, unseen, lunging from its machine’s black I fear it not, know how it fears this Squeeze myself up tightening pathways Machines catch on my pelt as I pull away Naked yet ferocious, claws out, baring fang To call this one monster is to name itself demon As over its kings, this thing, takes wing For its freedom's only that of emperors long gone Stolen from another just to feed on … … Hunting for some escape from this hideous machine Feeding, it grows, all as I seem to get lighter Can't give it hate, that would just make it stronger Can only trim these wings for its insides And then try To fly
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Exploit 04:51
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Icy spires with their glacial rivers Gravity makes for current strong Open up wings as I’m thrown over A seven-mile waterfall To cold sky, by water, flung headlong Peaks poke up through the mist, like antelope prongs … Diving, falling, and so fast Pulling up slow to make sure the speed lasts Diving, falling, flying so far Feel I could be living flame, glow with the stars Surrounded by nothing but pelt and wind A force that doesn’t want to let me reach what’s beneath Still I smell rot in the core of the trees Brush talons over grass that’s grown through concrete canopy … When we fall, fall into flight And maybe I can push back off the ground But what goes up still must always come down The treasure I’m protecting Hardening, no soft landing … Exploited by the wind under my tail The very lift beneath these wings
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Blinding Deep 05:17
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Dive into a green, mossy dark Deeper than it could possibly go Scent of blood, cables, steel and tree bark I'm pulled through my world on the storm's flow A light burns in the distance, moving shadows As the wheel turns Sense power in the water, steer with my tail Through its pattern Storm's energy into my body Feel the currents as they flow Crackling power strikes beneath me Catch the wind as I feel it grow ... The world spins, ever faster Caught in the cycle of blood and life The wild turns, ever farther Little creatures slipping on the edge of the knife The machine roars, unceasing As a little tawny shadow soars ever deeper into its dark A light burns in the distance, moving shadows As the wheel turns Sense power in dark water Feel the same wind catch on naked fur Lost in the mist I call my wings Storm's power pushes me Further into the deep ...
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Bone Crusher 04:19
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We feel you as you slip away Infuse us too much, make these lives blur My whole world, you tore apart And replaced with one so much stranger The two of us, hunting alone To find our own way in bizarre form Feather-weight and wind, new home Driven by the souls we now hold Feel so alive, and I think we could fly Bolden our hearts, as we darken the sky … I feel the heat of her Reaching inside of me Twisting this flesh And then setting my mind free I've absorbed too much of you for what I was before Pride might lead to falling, but you and me, we soar Feel her run alongside me Bright of eye, yet naked as beasts Those inside us now who knew how to lift up on the wind Dark forces flood my body and I don't know how to hold them in We listen and we question Find ourselves in your herd, though not of them We listen and she questions Tail and ear rising up before action … Crush the bone, devour long-raw flesh Among wolves, though we’re not like the rest Feel so alive, and I know we can fly Open our minds, as we blot out the sky …
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Wilderlust 06:52
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Deep into something else's land Feeling like an invader This body of mine’s overcast Prowling such strange corridors There's nowhere else to go I can't make it home And if I did, it still wouldn't be my own Familiar yet alien Under sunset light And all I can carry with me is my bite … Sometimes it seems I'm wiser than I was Wearing my own bit of world like a cloak Over this pelage, substantial as smoke Glow that emits from the cracks in this stone Just barely enough to see alien jungle Even if tail and claw could climb me back home That place, it can no longer be my own … With nothing but my bite Made for this Leaping on, gnashing and fighting and slaying All for this The bite and the claw, shadows and killing spring Thunder that infused me The wind that won't ever let go I used to think it was all by another's will Now I don't know Soul and body overcast Familiar yet unknown Feel I could learn to fly But where would I go?
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Timelines 03:44
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Apex 04:29
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Pad across the branches here Far from both apex and nadir Growth rippling through a steel hive Systems failing as life thrives As these machines force our evolution Torn asunder to make way for what we were Fold these wings, tuck my tail, slip down into its core And climb onward, deeper and deeper ... Twisting nether space between sky and ground Building it up just to tear it all down To let the jungle grow Let the water flow Expanse of green, in between Two realms where I can't let myself be seen Opposing forces, held naked in sharp claw Struggling to find what it all means As these machines force a transformation Torn apart, recombined, in still-glowing embers Leaving scent of our shapes in the system's remains Break through canopy, flying higher … … Climb deeper, to fall to the apex To submerge in its leftover glow
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Endless Flow 04:40
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Currents, they feel the call Flow over, between your trees Balance, by tail and claw Siren scent, of living meat Wet bark and sod underneath Till quickened air lifts you off running feet To devour it as it still breathes … Does it feel right? All this duality Hanging on for dear life As death sustains those needs Currents, they feel your call Rushing to the moonlit sea Steer with your tail, through rainfall Blood taints water, enticingly Claws locked, naked, with some beast Deadly combat quickens your heartbeat As the sea sings, unceasing … Does it feel right? Your danger in the trees Hanging on for dear life Just to spit at its hypocrisy As death sustains...
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Blood RedWoods 04:30
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This place holds power It will not heed instructions like their machines Will of the woodland Harnessed by a creature who understands its needs And by me ... You see an untapped dreamland Their noise and their stink and now everything flees I'll weaponize the woodlands You don't see the forest for the wood within the trees They can see the branches but not the trees Nor my tail held straight out as I creep across the canopy Promises of the place to which they're lured Your world is ending, and you didn't get it insured If they want to take this place they can take its shape like me Hold my sharpness close as I slip through the violet leaves My claws set to take you, should you so choose If our nature cease, it will be when those who can adapt refuse ... An untapped dreamland Your noise and your stink and now there's nothing left to be Weaponize the wetlands They don't see what's here only what they can make it be Blinded to what is they just see what it is to be Secure within my pelt just waiting for you to show your flaws Naked with the wild's magic held between my jaws
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Machine Dream 04:42
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There is only ever death A splash of warm blood, and then silence My life plays games with this place A sharpened mind tipped with sharp ordnance If this reality is but illusion A spiteful machine, who detests our intrusion … I'll leap out, over the abyss Try not to dissolve into magnetic mist Wing out, orbit the abyss Just to defy its grip Never such a thing as life Mixed up, between forms, built to battle and flee To pure universe, misshapen blight If only I knew what this one's supposed to be Wake naked in unknown expanse Tail curls, killing-muscles tense And leap to the sky, just to find Nothing’s recognized Nothing I recognize Watch this universe twist in segmentation Deadly illusion for this naive disruption …
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Cold Circles 04:48
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Branches twist like tunnels, like caves Permeate an asteroid, hurtling through space Paths that don't care where they lead Just grow out to get away from here Even as the wind lifts me, I still look to see Must find where every one will go Or I might be going in circles 'cause sometimes we're growing in circles ... Such small places in reality But they're still too big for me to see Such a cold time to spend with this universe All spread out below this tiny body The boughs and vines writhe like snakes That caught me by the tail to hold me in place These paths go out of their way to trick me Gotta run fast and wily to succeed And I run till the wind lifts this naked life-thing Feel it in my pulse, in my bones That I know I'm flying in circles That the world is trying to encircle me Path of the wind And this animal musk Grow on this world, cursed To be the end of an epoch ... Such a cold place here in reality Where I sniff the branches to tell where I've been Because I might be going in circles Life growing in circles On this piece of space debris We're flying, the wind, the world Whirling in circles
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Seared 07:32
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I'm fallen, and I'm lost By quake and whirlwind I'm tossed In the dark and the stink of fear But what you don't know– I'd rather be here You, you think you can change me You think that we want the same things Where anyone else might be right You're just not thinking Not defined by what I refuse Even as claws tear apart what I choose You think I don’t see right through you Don’t know that you’re afraid too … This creature, this burning thing Its pain isn’t what you think Your machine, its heart of hate That’s not what’s at stake Left naked, and still lost Swept up in the frigid wind I crossed Some beings are warm enough to take on its bite You’re only left behind because you never learned flight Espionage, sow mistrust You’ll villainize all who just weather your gusts My fangs pierce, you’re like dragonfire with no scales If you don’t want to be impaled, then get off my tail … … You, you think you can change me You think that we want the same things And anyone who didn’t make it an excuse Might… have been right… Fallen, but with power unlike any you could learn You, you wanna watch me burn? I’m living, searing flame, just you try and see me burn … … And like the flame, the fight I hold, under this pelage It burns without your hate, without your malice

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released August 9, 2022

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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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