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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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?
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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?
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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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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