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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)
...
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?
…
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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Night Opener
05:05
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Wait!
Open up your eyes
Can't you see where you're going?
Do you know what we'll find?
Blinded by wonder
Chasing you throughout time
Can't even see where I came from
Universes tingle down my tail, through my spine
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Feel it as we cross over
Breaking down all the walls in between
Rush of wings as the next light looms larger
Guides this flesh into lands unforeseen
Rush of wind, wing, and blood, entwined
Hunt uncharted skies for what I left behind
Taken me
Wander
Chasing you between
Casting around to perceive, define
Is there a way to reclaim what we've been
Blinded by wonder
As I track you through space and time
Still can't see what I came from
Running naked with just memories of what used to be mine
Rush of wind, wing, and blood, entwined
Prowling undiscovered worlds for one that was mine
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Where have you
Open up your eyes
Open wide
Open wings to feel a new wind
Through the same pelage
Can you even see me asking
Why have you?
Stolen me
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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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Echoes
04:36
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Sycophant to any parrot
Wouldn't you like to pretend
At a voice to echo
Off mountains, through time?
But this one’s mine
Not the world you proclaim, unless it bleeds its heart dry for you
Neither fun nor fair game, till someone loses an eye for you
Great wings black enough to blot out the sky
And you can’t even fly
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A prowling, pouncing thing
I smell your terror at the sound of me
Lurking shadows, bewinged
Raving, maddened at just the thought of me
O heavy armoured one
Who needs but the whisper
of a dulled claw
To be made naked as I
O mighty and strong one
Wouldn’t you like this one to tremble
Tailtip to ear tufts
Wings to shatter
Somehow it’s you tumbling from the sky
Not the world you proclaim, unless it bleeds its heart dry for you
Neither fun nor fair game, till someone loses an eye for you
Great wings black enough to blot out the sky
And you can’t even fly
(not that you’ve tried)
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It’s not the world you proclaim, unless they bleed their hearts dry for you
Neither fun nor fair game, till someone loses an eye for you
Pigeon, go tell yourself you’re an eagle
You’re still what’s for lunch
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It’s you
Who always finds a way
To tumble from the sky
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Starsteel Wingbeats
04:38
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Something massive, in the distance
Once my own
Something looming, been subverted
As it's grown
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Smell the bloodthirst on me
Beneath the world where strange wings beat
Scent of nightmares in you
Prove to me what I’m not, not complete
Clawtips of mine reinforced
Steel stolen from the stars
Earthy, sharptooth, tail, strange form
Eyes like wild beast brought from lands afar
Lifting up, lifting a curse
There can be side effects
Put to sleep, when I awakened
This life had different specs
Lifting up, under no curse
Unsure if that makes this flying better or worse
Fell upon it, devoured it, stealing its wings
The more life we add, less of me I’m keeping
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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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8. |
Event Horizon
05:01
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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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