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Anathema

by To the Sun

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1.
Hope Hangs 04:52
i did not 'til that morning realize the sheer full-wrought size of your common stop sign they span from wall to living room wall oh i can not think of a better cure at all for a hangover and i sleep for twelve fine hours a day to keep conscious thought away and sometimes i swear that the colors in my dreams are beyond compare with any i have seen with open eyes and you know life is long and longing never forgone but here's hoping this song's gravity pulls us along in all your footfalls must follow a lingering tune weaving wavelengths 'round the air where your curves move and hope hangs with christ tied up in that suicide but god what is there i haven't already tried hope hangs with christ tied up in that suicide but god what is there i haven't already tried that rainy three-mile walk all for some candy from your register i'd make twice and not give a fuck how late for work i was i was and you know life is long and longing never forgone but here's hoping this song's gravity pulls us along in all your footfalls must follow a lingering tune weaving wavelengths 'round the air where your curves move and hope hangs with christ tied up in that suicide but god what is there i haven't already tried hope hangs with christ tied up in that suicide but god what is there i haven't already tried in all your footfalls must follow a lingering tune weaving wavelengths 'round the air where your curves move as long as i care to carry a melody where i'll go is where i might keep you near to me i said where i'll go is where i might keep you near to me
2.
hail the descent of days the fervor wont to fade while the living devise their demise to delay attraction's been laced with polymerase love and hate are exactly the same self-affirming narcissism that we trench in to catch our reflections and beyond is a chasm webs and schisms and a girl with grey eyes once dreamt of drowning so to give the world its proper grounding she tore down the blue skies left horizons searing love and hate are exactly the same self-affirming narcissism that we trench in to catch our reflections and beyond is a chasm webs and schisms both old lies of lone perspective both old lies of lone perspective both old lies of lone perspective both old lies of lone perspective both old lies of lone perspective
3.
the view from the view from the precipice the view from the view from the precipice and man made fear of the flowing light were we were left here hidden from sight and man made fear of the flowing light were we were left here hidden from sight from the highest crest of his brow illuminescence came crashing down gone bleach white, soaking the ground spewing visions all around the maimed frame bent up in pain the sight stains the brain with shame now which was it that made them lame? which name, succoring, came to blame? the view from the precipice is kaleidoscopic the view from the precipice is kaleidoscopic the view from the precipice is kaleidoscopic the view from the precipice is kaleidoscopic the view from the view from the precipice the view from the view from the precipice it's the light here that defines as night, dear, softly sighs a wight clearly outlined and his plight is so assigned and his plight is so assigned
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Blind 04:32
no way to justify actions i've sworn by but if i'm laid to the ground by a hostile rush of thought at least down here i've got something that feels sound is sound and i'm just passing time until i can see you again and i might be blind but i don't see i don't see the end i don't see the end i don't see the end i don't see the end and time will dull the intensity of poisoned memories but the fires at the end of the world won't kill this silent regret not with my whole life spent and each neuron unfurled and re-furled and i'm just passing time until i can see you again and i might be blind but i don't see i don't see the end i don't see the end i don't see the end i don't see the end i don't see the end i don't see the end
6.
the sky here is so bright a sharp vision of white and glaring right at it i see figures in static how long has it been i've had these eyes open? i'm staring at the sun with pupils come undone the beauty is all around like white fire raining down and finally it's coming clear there's something drawing near how long has it been i've had these eyes open? i'm staring at the sun with pupils come undone any day now i'll hold these weary eyes closed let the light slip past me as my life outlasts me
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the earth is a ball of souls throwing off sparks into space each a speck of sporadic gold sure to soon evaporate this place is a slick slope into a dark abyss each moment if we look up where we used to be a mile above glinting faintly our hold ephemeral the sight of that light a smile and a thin memory most struggle so hard against the fall but in the emptiness of eternity our lives do not matter at all we’re just wisps of consciousness constructing fragile melodies sending them into nothingness how rare if by some reckless chance a fool's beautiful two should share briefly their decent how terrifying now to have slipped far to where none are a hood erasing where she went most struggle so hard against the fall but in the emptiness of eternity our lives do not matter at all we’re just wisps of consciousness constructing fragile melodies sending them into nothingness there is no difference we can make no divine plan, nothing steadfast and we must live our given fates before we're extinguished at last
8.
Solitude 04:05
a flicker flared sent to wander about my room a passing dream we won't remember the potent ruse the glassy gleam captured never we play the fools our entire lives held together in a neural bloom as the thick royal blue daylight slips away a slow procession of headlights has will to wade its wavering way through windows splayed and at the wall each brightened stalls 'til filled with light they singe the sight and spilling wide begin to slide in fast ascent from existence these cold corners are airy borders on a dream gone by morning lit here briefly and abandoned silently a flicker flared sent to wander about my room a passing dream we won't remember the potent ruse the glassy gleam captured never we play the fools our entire lives held together in a neural bloom there is beauty there is beauty there is beauty like no other there is beauty there is beauty like no other there is beauty in solitude
9.
Anathema 08:14
i once had a solemn vision of a golden light everlasting there was a chorus there of women all praising impossible things perfection is an idle place every breath there taken goes while hands atrophy and waste to maintaining the strong falsetto how quickly eternity grows old its blinding light fell back on the stars though in purgatory i now behold you're allowed to play guitar ...one group is suggesting that this next solar cycle could be the strongest we've seen in modern times...
10.
we lead a war so bitter against the cruelest winter we know our struggle is just but there's such power in this cold and i've an awe for the steadfast and old maybe i will submit and be crushed with that thought i hear a rush as the schism slams shut with the force of a lifetime spent tearing at the lining it hits me hard i feel a soothing heat as my brow begins to bleed i have given up my guard and shall be thrown into deep final and infinite sleep

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released December 8, 2023

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