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Undercurrent
04:37
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Coldly
Reflecting
The light of the sun
Shattered
Across the waves
Across the night sea
Of eternity
She's reaching up
She's reaching in
And I'm torn from the cliff's edge
Again and again
Falling in
And falling out
In turn to weave a tapestry
Life giving rain
A killing drought
Will I sail
To another shore?
Or will I perish in the storm
Crying "should have held on... should have held on"?
Scattered in the fury
It's all gone
Throw it all away
For gain except the loss
On a sign, in a symbol
Undercurrent of my thoughts
Moonlit
Wilderness
Thought I saw, thought I heard
Prompting truthfulness
Is this the way?
Oh is this the way?
Disillusionment numbing
I cannot feel the pain
Will I sail
To another shore?
Or will I perish in the storm
Crying "should have held on... should have held on"?
Scattered in the fury
It's all gone
Lyrics © Isaac Aubrey 2004-2005-2017
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2. |
Ringing
04:07
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Another year further out
I strain my heart to think of you
Your tired words in the autumn wind
Resigned and bound and broken
In a black light
One last sigh
A frightful sound
Rolling under
Calling down
And ringing
From the shadows
Through the years
Ringing
From the shadows
Through the years
A Judas kiss
A solemn cross
You knew you'd never trust again
Drunk and mute beneath the sky
I'll always wonder
If I'd had the words...
If I'd been brave...
In a black light
One last sigh
A frightful sound
Rolling under
Calling down
And ringing
From the shadows
Through the years
Ringing
From the shadows
Through the years
Lyrics © Isaac Aubrey 2004-2005-2017
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3. |
Passage
04:25
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Another step - another sigh
In the cold night
Cursed the last star from the sky
Thought long of an ending
Stumbled on in the howling wind
As it spoke to me
Snow melting skin
I fell into an ocean
Drifting on the graves
Tracing letters in the stone
It's all like some other life
Far away
Color for a time
A contented gray
But for my nakedness
A veil slipped away
And i had become...
...
No way to know
Where to begin
When left alone
To shed that old skin
No way to know
Emotions clouding eyes
To be so young
And see no point in life
A lost ritual
A locked door
Left to find another way
Wait out the storm
Bloody time
A Little Death haunting youth
To ring out the false
To ring in the truth
Lyrics © Isaac Aubrey 2004-2005-2017
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4. |
Hanging
04:41
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A year submersed
Of living lost
Crushed beneath the waves
Neither here nor there
Bleeding everywhere
A stranger in the mirror to come undone
By a single thread
Or so I'd come to learn
After burning, spinning in madness
Who was I to know
In careless hellish throes
Of these secret trials of Judgement?
Little self crucifixion
Or so it came to be
With my heart revealed
Oh who was I to know?
I'd only ever been below
These uncertain paths
To Justice
Oh how the waves roll in
On the folly of youth
They crush and drag out
To the sorrow and truth
Oh how the waves roll in
A baptism in loss
Mute and ascending
My own hidden cross
Lyrics © Isaac Aubrey 2004-2005-2017
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5. |
Dawn and Sorrow
03:50
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Pearl white innocence
Your dawn amid the lost
Now hunger in the arms
Of a love that fears and rots
My grief pulls hell from heaven
At your birth into disgrace
Heralding faith and sorrow
As the tears scar your face
Now all wrapped in flesh
That's made to come undone
You'll ascend the shores
Of my great ocean
And walk down through valleys
Of wilderness and mist
I pray don't lose yourself
Take my silver kiss
There in the stillness
There in the silence
I wait for you
In the deep night sky
The infinite stars
I wait for you
Lyrics © Isaac Aubrey 1996-2004-2017
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6. |
Mercy Killing
03:47
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The trenches are everywhere
With each burning thought
Brighter years too long ago
There's a bitterness with time
A persuasion and often
A form in itself
Towering in the sky
Do you believe
This old flesh
This pained breath?
It's just a flood anymore
Drowning in memory
A disgrace in the light
The bane of youth...
Of you
Living on - living on - living on hate
Please, come close
Come close to me
Could you believe
In mercy killing?
Lyrics © Isaac Aubrey 2004-2005-2017
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The Arid Sea Seattle, Washington
The Arid Sea existed in Seattle from the mid 90's until 2009. It was a sound that evolved through the years, but the mood and lyrical themes remained the same. The released material stops in 2005, but a full length recorded in 2009 is set for release in 2022.. ... more
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