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The course that lay before us
Forked and weeping venom
Looming crescent quite insistent
Both be explored
While differing in distance
Kindred finish within them
Unspoken vows on broken boughs
Petitions ignored
‘Don't say words you're
Going to regret
Don't let the fire
Rush to your head’
Chasms left in their wake
Contrasting in nature
Sands of time shall soon restore them
Rest assured
Paths traveled in hindsight
Similar in feature
Clarion collective vision
Forever blurred
‘Golden locks
Time to silver turned
Time too swift
Swiftness never ceasing
Youth against time and age
Forever spurned
But spurned in vain
Waning by increasing’
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1828 (Father of Waves)
05:35
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Gravely profound
Her woe is foreign
Marrow corrupt
Poisoned by mourning
His gestures cold
Eyes stone and stoic
His glower parched
Feigning heroic
‘A memory in motion
Only passing through
All you'll ever know
All you'll ever do’
Horizons bleak
A lightless vision
Detach, defeat
A clash collision
Her comforts gone
She risks exposure
He ambles on
Callous composure
‘The voice that spoke of other days
Is hushed within his breast
But mine its lonely music haunts
And will not let me rest
It sings a low and mournful song
Of gladness that is gone
I cannot live without that light
Father of waves roll on’
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The vex within these vows
The hex upon this house
These withered, unsure hands
Could be my own
Paper, splitting skin
Clinging to frail bone
Rings that sprung eternal
Now home
‘The scorching fevers
Which distract the sense
And snatch us raving
Unprepared, from hence
At thy contagious darts
That wound the heads
Of weeping friends
Who wait at dying beds’
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1940 (Whirr and Chime)
05:20
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Huddled like urchins
Moaning and mourning
The future
We'd always envisioned
Floating unhindered
Others' seams
Seemingly splitting
At convenient distance
‘All the clocks in the city
Began to whirr and chime
O let not time deceive you
You cannot conquer time'
'It was late
Late in the evening
The lovers they were gone
The clocks
Had ceased their chiming
The deep river ran on'
Until the ceaseless hands
Expose our vulnerability
Tales of woe
And abstract sympathy
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1866 (Porch and Portal)
03:36
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Plunge into imbalance
Ice beneath in floes
Unstable existence
Serving sentence
Endless woes
‘Pale, beyond porch and portal
Crowned with calm leaves she stands
Who gathers all things mortal
With cold, immortal hands’
Saviour came as sinner
Horizontal events
‘Desperate plea
For recognition
And recompense’
How long will we carry on?
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How did we sleep at all
Without burning up?
How did we dream at all
Without burning up?
‘Then did I check
The tears of useless passion
Weaned my soul
From yearning after thine
Sternly denied
Its burning wish to hasten
Down to that tomb
Already more than mine’
‘And even yet
I dare not let it languish
Dare not indulge
In memory’s pain
Once drinking deep
Of that divinest anguish
How could I seek
The empty world again?’
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The salt and soil have settled
The hymns escaped the air
The view of home obstructed
And returns in turn now rare
A shadow of itself
And he about the same
Eyes that shone so brilliant
Now perplexed and without aim
‘So close the ground
About her shade
Black curtains draw
My bride is laid’
How is your faith now, Father?
Do you still trust she'll be there?
How she appeared within our dreams
Through that harrowing year?
I want to believe
You’re better than this
I need to believe you’re better
I know you need
To forget that time
I know you need to forget her
The course that lay before us
Differing in distance
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