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Circular Logic

by Vertigo Fox

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1.
Immolate 02:04
2.
The Watcher 04:37
Shifting shadows, alien to the light In this mysterious wasteland And there's something watching Like it knows you in a way from a past life Like it knows what you're going through It can see you, feel you but do you want it to? Is it one of theirs, are you on the menu? It haunts you it sees inside you Snake eyes pierce right to your soul It faces you knowing things it can't know. Destroy it. Chasing starlight; is it just out of reach? Lost in the enigmatic mines And you still see it watching Like it knows you in a way it's unsettling Like it knows what's gonna happen to you It sees right through you and you don't want it to Do they still want you? Do you want him to know who you are and what you will be? Do you want this creature to see right into your heart? Do you want him to know what you're going through? Where you're running to? Do they still want you? Are you on the menu? Become it
3.
A creature of naked thought It invades his world-thats-not The landscape becomes a jungle His form changes to match Onto all fours, spine growing caudal On his toes, he knows it's not a normal dream Find the wild in yourself Sniff the wind I'll set you free Find the wild in yourself It is now your destiny A spirit of naked mind He asks it why, knowing he leaves his life behind He asks: is this really just a dream? I think this world isn't what it seems We're alive, we walk on branches over the void I'll make you see why it is that we destroy We're spiders all caught up in our own Web of nightmares So now you become the nightmare you destroyed Climb up into the branches and don't fall Steady yourself; use that long tail We're spiders caught in our own web That we call survival Push your nose into the wind, smell the void When you wake you'll discover That this was never a dream
4.
Someone's coming, slick and slithery thing It's arriving I get claws... I get claws... You get half the universe, and I get claws... If you got the moon I'd get dragged along there Fluffy and naked with knives in my stare Nesting serpents under fire I am hiding deep within them Predatory, alive and under attack A pissed-off feline who'll take none of your flack I smell a weasel... weasel... vermin Teeth like sabers, claws like knives I'm sneaking up behind you To the forest, and I've got nothing to say Stop the countdown or get out of my way How did the weasels and the worms come to rule the world? I get claws...
5.
Sampling a taste of crocodile bones There's a visceral pulse of decay in my soul She named me nightmare A dream of the jungle, alone but whole Exotic dark markings on this tawny coat And alien ferocity in my heart Seeking the taste of something living and wholesome The tables have turned on you Now I can see what it is to be a part of this world they all wanted to burn I'm filled with an alien power, it hungers And this is not the lesson I expected to learn To pounce and to hold the night in my paws Crushing your spine in my jaws To savour the blood as it ceases to flow To play the tooth and claw To wait just out of sight in the shadows Haunting your path, you don't know To hold life and death in my claws So come dance I'm scheming gleefully in the shadows Feeling my pumping blood Can sense her watching, see a flash of her looking at me I'm unseen, a tawny flicker in the dark places A savage bloodthirst in my soul Exotic markings on my naked fur Eager for a feeding to unfold Now I can see what it is to be the predator To roam my space To enjoy the chase To be the thing that really devours And I'm not sure I can discern What the meaning is of this bloodthirsty turn I'm aflame with alien passion, enticing And this is not the lesson I expected to learn I'm aflame with alien passion, enthralling This is not the lesson I wanted to learn
6.
Echo Cascade 03:44
Starlit dark, but sight Immense power locked inside Look in your soul as you wander Search for life, you know All this bare landscape You see for miles around You got nothing here so keep running Feel your heart pounding inside Quarries wait all around so start chasing Feeling silent and small in the darkening eventide This was supposed to be safe, controlled and risk-free Instead you wound up naked, face down in the ash Look deep into your soul as you prowl Search for life You got this insatiable hunger, you know You've got a cougar locked inside Keep running Silent and strong Starlit dark but sight Immense power locked inside this form Silent and small in the darkening eventide Silent and small Silent and strong in the darkening eventide Silent and strong
7.
Outside 03:34
Searching a river for something And you can see in all its muddy glory Reflections of sunlight Glinting off refractions of light Nude in the muck, perceptions hold in place Until the water plops You catch a glimpse of a fish She's writhing as she struggles free of another's maw And is this what you look like from the outside? Are you what you're running from? Is this what you look like from the outside? Is this what you are in the dark? This is your burden, a river so wet Fear of a lost life but you won't forget Deep in the woods, hiding in plain sight You found a withering flower Deep in the wet, your soul is darkened Your fur is silky, and your stomach growls The rules reversed but you must kill something Your tail curls as you watch the fish, eyes intent
8.
Energy, it's burning cold Radiating as lies unfold The race has run through a forest clearing Waters lap at smoke-filled groves And in the trees a creature watches Picking out the living traces Tensing as one of them rides past Totally silent... lurking... watching... In a place where the stars shine bright after nightfall Where you fell through a crack in the wall You never wanted to see this from within A static buildup holding rivals in thrall Energy, its silence tells Data in a vehicular shell The creature licks the fur on his spotted paw Watching magma flow with its brimstone smell And in the trees this creature watches Prowling the woods where these outsiders intrude Tensing to catch one of them off its high steed Then letting the moment pass, playing to confuse In a world in need of some static disbursement The soul of this creature, you leap from the branch Wanting to pounce all these racers for silence There's no solution, just parts of a problem Whenever you try to gain some peace you find yourself mixed up in a war
9.
Fall Back 04:01
No ideas but a mind far from blank In the dark my eyes open, awake There's lightning in the sky Electricity tingles, purified I'm fleeing from something, something I did Gotta climb, get up higher into air that's acrid Rising up claws out, naked but dry Losing my grip on the world I'm falling backwards through time And if I don't stop I'll meet myself To an age when the world was just rocks and rime But that past has heard its knell, had its bell tolled No plan but hold on and survive But for the moment I think I'm still alive Sitting in the grass I can see across the firebreak As my tail squirms my nose melts a fallimg snowflake I'm running from something, something I'll do Catch a glance, a reflection of my score Rising up claws out, naked I know I've seen this fur, seen this face before Amid shifting ice, forbidden worlds, I am lost Climbing higher No ideas, hold on and survive There's lightning in the sky I'm falling backwards through time But for the moment I think I'm still alive
10.
Prowler 03:47
Deeper... are you drowning in light? Into memories... now you're prowling the past Do you feel the wild inside you Burning deeper and deeper Do you feel the wind as it ripples your fur Just grit your teeth and run And now you're feeling so lost Can you open your eyes, watch this sunrise again? Can you see what's inside? Does it trouble your mind? Will you balance your life on the edge of a knife? Deeper... are you scared of the light? These memories... you're prowling the past Knowing inside what you used to be But still you feel this naked strength You're standing on the tip of the claw and you know You have to move to fly
11.
Dark Water 04:08
Your meat weakens but even spiders don't forget Personality subverted in a tidal wave of dark self The way you look at me seeing nothing, nowhere As if I can see you but you're not there It's like I'm trapped in a cage in a cave Lost among the bars Trapped in a cave by a cult Watching them prepare my doom Trying to run from a hell they say will never be Trapped in a cage in a cave, lost in my own shadow Firelight in the cave glints off the waterfall The sky grows cold and rivers darken I'm caught in a blink of your eye I'm trapped in a cage in a cave in a cage
12.
Silver creatures come from the light Metal-scented beings destroying the world An eldritch disaster from past the edge of what's real And I can only flee deep into the jungle You destroy everything, I don't know if there's anybody left at all You follow me, hunting me through overgrown woodland but I'm more than I seem, I'm a sleeping tiger A space not your own that you burn without fire Annihilate all opposition Deep dark woods where I am the hunter Stalker of the night, fleeing from you This place is just a thing, to be wielded And it's out of its bounds I'm just a piece of the landscape to you But I'll be back to fight back somehow Hurtle through trees, I'm on the run Leaping from branches to branches Gotta find a safe place; to fight I have to live first Run out of the light to the cool, safe dark You burn everything without fire What are you? Razing this place, always right behind me I want to fight but I don't get the chance A secluded spot awaits me I should be the hunter, was always the hunter Now I'll figure out how to fight back I will be the hunter Stop being hunted, it's time to be the hunter It's time to fight, time to be the hunter
13.
Own Eyes 03:46
You think that you're so clever, but you don't yet know You think you are the hunter, but look deep into your soul I know who you are and what you're about to do Take a step back and look, really look, at the cage around you Before you take the life of this creature take a moment to see He knows who you are, he knows where you've been Before you swing the knife or pull the trigger, take a moment to realize Our only chance is for you to see that you're looking into your own eyes You think you've got to do this but I'd bet my tail you're wrong You think it's your only way out but you're just sealing your own fate I thought I'd finally escaped when you stepped out of the bushes in front of me And then I knew where I'd seen this face, why I'd known this fur I will fight you, tooth and claw I know already I must lose Take a step back and wonder if there's a way to survive Does it all depend on you? Take a step back and look at the cage around you I'm hoping that you'll change the future Because very soon you're gonna see life is shared between us Mine is the last face you'll get
14.
Time is twisted this happened to you before Are you afraid? We all feel smaller on the inside Can you do it, can you change the future? You were killed here before Don't let them get you, come on, change the future You can make it, I know A twisted universe In the winter of the soul Standing your ground, naked in the face of your own past Catch your breath Time is twisted This has already been done So are you bigger on the inside? Will you change the future?

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released April 23, 2015

All music and lyrics by Vertigo Fox. All recording, performing and vocalising done by Vertigo Fox.
Special thanks to R.a.M. Land, Gloomer2000, and jmph for helping with publicity. Check out their tracks too!
And special thanks to the mysterious first-name only Isaac for the artwork.

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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.
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