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Into Broken Sky

by Vertigo Fox

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Intelligent Architecture 01:38
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Vicious Mythology 05:25
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Are you, in there? Are you aware? Drop down from the clouds, into my own lair My claws, tensing, elude your snares Upwind, yet now, I catch your scent in the air And I still remember… Being tricked into a forever battle With you Being locked into the beast's shape and power By you Tooth, tail, and claw, I’m not who I'm replacing Strike and attack, knowing not what I'm facing When you needed an opponent, a foe You sure know how to make one I’m caught in mythology It’s vicious like you I’m caught in mythology Lost to my own truth … Strike out fast, but you dodge away Endless battle, I'm in to stay You say it’s the dance between fortune and calamity I don’t even know which one I’m supposed to be [solo] Lash out, slash out, grapple and clash Our fight, destined, I'll always come back Remember everything I loved being chased away Recall the smell of their fear, it seems since that day The world runs on poetry, instead of on logic Sleek, carnivore shadows fighting frantic for its fate I’m caught in mythology All vicious and nude I’m caught in mythology Lost to my own truth Until all that remains is the clash … All I can share is our clash
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Endure 04:49
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Lost in the forest, where I found myself Not what I thought I would find A part of my soul, I had never known Or at least, thought I’d left behind My world, gone, like it was stolen Right out from under my feet Tail-twitch unease, at my function Living as the knife’s edge; hunter; fleet ... Spirit-beast mine-- are we sure? These lives, these times, haven't much allure Spirit of mine-- are you sure? I'll find a way for you to endure I'll find a way for us to endure Lost on the branches, where I found I was... Not what I wanted to find Naked, alone, where I should be at home My spirit connections refined All of the senses, now opened All of the world, gone, taken Our scheme, our plan, our animal scent All of my life, replaced with ... Spirit-beast mine-- are we sure? These lives, these times, feel less than secure Spirit of mine-- are you sure? I'll find a way for you to endure ...
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Break the Circuit 04:42
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A dangerous weapon In between dimensions Different shapes, different faces Same score to be settled Wind tugs under this self, as my body transforms Soaring through skies of a thousand different worlds … Through five lives – all raging Nine lives – leave the debris Seventh life – to stay hungry; for blood The beast within us waits to break the circuit To feed on rage and battle-lust My world, it falls away With nightmares, it’s replaced Islands whirling in a cyclone’s wind Tail twisting to its beat Looking down from this wingless flight Far, far down Claws flex at scent of living meat Far, far down But I call wind of the storm to me Branch-paths that don’t lead where they seem Wind tugs under my form, at these naked contours Soar over the lands of another new world … You know what I am You know these dreamlands You know what I am (what you're given) You know what we have (so just give in)
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Swirl 04:46
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Unknown in a burning cold Chaos tugging at my soul Ride on strong winds just to display How much this landscape fails to change The Serpent, they thought they slew Was only sleeping, under the horizon ... Can't quite see All this world, swirling around me Set it free All these islands caught in the storm Am I lost? I still see you gleaming In my dream As I'm caught in the swirl of the world! Feel this wind, under tail and wing A pull, to the sky, to the void To the wolf's- serpent's lair, at the end of the world As its chaos, my life, are alloyed Naked amid devastation Horizon blotted out by pieces of world Falling with no ground to land on As muscles flex and wings unfurl Serpent's chaos tugs at me Caught in the swirl Will you let me see? ... Chaos and life become alloyed Pulling us into the sky's void
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Red And White Rage 05:12
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Think you're secure, but you're scared You dream about the things out there Things out there that want you dead You know your lives could keep me fed Claw marks tally where you fall As leaf and soil mask the sound I'll give your world a push And watch as it comes down ... Scent the smoke of your fires Blowing t'ward me on the wind When the rains come down, from their twilight crown We'll see whose element wins You may have the heat of fire I’ll be invisible, capricious as wind should If ever you didn't have to fear me You still would Stone and soil, speaks clearly For I need wear no barrier to the elements now My pulse pounds faster as yours slows And seeps into the ground … … Claw marks tally where you fall A tail quivers from the rush Of blood on sun-bleached walls
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WorldWind 03:51
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Under the Mantle 06:16
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A battle of stealth and wit Spot the movement of a shadow Tense and leap away Slip down into the world’s core On silent pad, tail, and wingbeat In the night to stay You stole a role that wasn’t yours I’ll take it back from your very soul On these waves of power where you soar (alone) Do you remember me? … Caught in this nightmare dream, with you Locked in a nightmare's heart, askew As our worlds fall As claws hit the spalls As our worlds fall As we lash and maul You took a world, not yours to break Locked in a naked dance of claw, and quake Do you even know just what’s at stake? (just what we take) … Your power far exceeds this fanged snout of mine Flying up a hurricane of shattered space and time Leap up from stone to stone As they tumble To take you from behind (To catch you by surprise) Do you remember me? … (taking the mantle)
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Unbindings 04:37
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Hunting on the beaches as the sun goes down Waiting for the nightfall, anchorless, unbound This world turning inside out and upside down And all my designs, it confounds Lost on the wrong side Taken the wrong side Thoughts whirling through my mind Wind currents I ride A tail lashes, look up to the sky Am I not one of the good guys? ... A scent of life, in the darkness As great wings unfold A single strike, excitement, fading to silence I feel like I'm losing control Caught in battle with something, I don't know what I found But by these fangs and claws I'm gonna take you down Naked under blood red skies Where I'll live to fly Jaw-deep in flesh and mud in my eye Am I not one of the good guys? A scent of life, in the darkness As great wings unfold A single strike, excitement, fading to stillness Bloodthirst, cruel but not cold ... Silhouette of wings in the darkness Under a blood-red sky Lost to the noise and the stink and the bloodthirst But I'm still here and I'm gonna survive A scent of life in the darkness You lose your life in my darkness The scent, the marks, of life A final scud, smell of musk and animal blood Am I not one of the good guys?
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Erosion 04:32
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Life erodes me like water Through all these actions, these decisions See and taste as a hunter Sink my claws in and slaughter On my canyon’s floor Too fast to snatch, sunlit blur It’s too late to do anything but fly ... Winging up, over the gorge Look down at all the things this life left unforged Lifting up, over the gorge All that could have been, behind these closed doors Breaking through the ground level Over shattered lands where I found my wings Daybreak’s heat strikes flank and tail I can see the waters branch Try to scent out the right path … Closer to the sun, to the barrel of a gun Still stinking of the waters far below Glowing hot, never done, naked, ever on the run Cosmos-shunned ...

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released January 31, 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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