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Dark Curious
04:55
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Distance fades to darkness
This strange creature
Calls to the silence
Feel the blackened energies of this world
Against an animal nakedness
Fade into the light
...
Eyes gleaming into the blackness
Couldn't make it out as my own--
A kind of nightmare in sleekness
Desolate verdance, a world hiding the bones
Such ancient places
With these inhuman faces
Tail droops, feel even smaller than before
And all those cruel magics now ignore
Sprouting wings, claws tear at blackness
What do I bring?
I am no part of this!
(fade into the light)
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Eyes glowing into this deepness
Couldn't make it out in my own--
Anatomy of sharp-magick'd sleekness
A world sharpened, but I've no more reason to go
Desolate sharpness
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Argon Spark
05:56
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Infiltration
Under cover of
Deep transformations
Strong and sleek one
Midnight creature of
Dark aspirations
Still I could not find the start, of those dark sparks in your hearts
Only that I somehow now wield the same, too
Till I felt a touch on mine, as though reaching out through time
Could it be my power, poached and stolen for you?
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But I am not the one you sought
Only one seeking after your gleam
What being could it be, that traded you for me?
When I thought I was to stop its dream
Soaring weightless as if in a dream
This naked furred body isn’t what I thought it seemed
Tail stiffens, ears pin back, fangs bared in silent scream
Staring down in terror
At those eyes across from me
Your dark spark
I took this form to stop
Yet somehow
These claws could be its cause?
Still I could not find the start, of those dark sparks in your hearts
Only that I somehow now wield the same, too
Till I felt a touch on mine, as though reaching out through time
Could it be my power, poached and stolen for you?
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Power out of me, unwillingly enticed
But I’m no dark god, just your sacrifice
Recognize this beast, know the reasons why
I will not let you remain alive
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Fiendsfoil
03:56
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Can't be losing my focus
Still learning what I must notice
These blurring shadows hide well these dark wings
A normal hunt's spoils
Won't be enough to bring you
If I'm to save all of us
If we're to feed
If I'm to make it through
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On the prowl, to keep you sane
For clever, dangerous prey again
On the hunt, steal minds and souls
A small price to keep this god whole
My soft ones
By wing, and claw
I'll take you alive
Preserve what lives inside
Oh dark ones
With your scents on my wind
My tail's set to chase
These paws hold their time and space
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On the hunt, won't fall apart
Find my power in their still-beating hearts
Smell my power in the air, I'm nearly there
To the snatch
To play with, change, convert, transform the catch
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Innominate Granite
04:46
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Wandering the tales in these ancient rocks
After the time moves on
And life forgot
As it moved on, and it thought it grew strong
But failed to perceive the systems
To which it belongs
A scent, an understanding I never caught
Savagely stubborn as an ocelot
Or the intruder it fought
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I can’t escape from those nameless rocks
These nameless thoughts
Can’t bring me back to mine
I can’t escape from these shadowed crags
From the clouded whispers
That pull away from time
(Did I only imagine my mind)
Can feel the long tail of an ancient beast
Swishing behind me as
Together thoughts are pieced
Can sense his body fur, and nakedness
As I pace between boulders, which become sharp
As my carnivore teeth
Is it time to leave?
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Climb, weightless to the wind
Strange powers flow through this blood and bone
And I somehow know the world below
Will not grow into mine
In this or any lifetime
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Leave my scent, and descend
To claim the throne
Of meat and bone
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Event Horizon
05:01
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We knew not what it was
Till it ground us, dust under its claws
Stranded in a strange new flesh
Still I don’t understand what it’s done
The sense of it, of size, of awe
Of tumbling into a lightless maw
I still feel it
Tail quiv'ring at the thought, though it’s long gone
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Know not if it’s by nature
Never found what intentions it might hold inside
Am I all that it left here?
Can’t see what I’ve become, how, or why I survive
Not quite mad and yet still not sane
Know how to hold on, alive, but not what shape I claim
Scents, colours, noises, not the same
Since it winked out and left me, alone, unknown
The sense of it, of size, of awe
Of tumbling into a lightless maw
And now so naked and small
Hunter's instinct, for blood, strikes yet again
It ground them all to dust
We tried to steal it, but it knew us
Know not why I'm left alive
Could I be the last of two different kinds?
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Of size, of awe
Of tumbling
Into a lightless maw
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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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