1. |
Underworld
03:53
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I wandered into this underworld
Thought I could handle being free
I’m riding backwards so they can’t see
That my poor blackbirds inside of me
I lost a planet so dear to me
I hear it’s voices when I sleep
I pick my battles always in vain
I lost my blackbird, he’d sing to me
I lost my way in this labyrinth
A fool disguised in human skin
I stay in shadow, so they can’t steal
My only blackbird, what’s left of me.
What’s left of me?
In my fever I dream of them,
I hear their voices, it tortures me.
I lost my battles, I must confess,
I wanted love not this loneliness.
This loneliness.
Oh. Muses lost to me
What’s left of me.
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2. |
Inferno
04:38
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Silence, still seeking silence
Searching for hands no longer living
But still breathing
Existing in parallel
Somewhere I cannot find.
No place
Some place
I am someone else now
They built me from the outside in
Am I within?
Now I an encased in a frame of mind
A fool, disguised in skin
The skulls barrier traps the spirit in human shaped prisons
Collecting miniscule chemicals and memories
Some kind of imprinted lie
Woven into the fabric of this wretched concept we call time.
Bound to shallow views
How can eyes made from flesh grasp truths.
Limbs tremble
A seasickness on steady ground
Weighted by hysteria
An anchor tied around ankles,
Breaking through horizons
And I wonder...
If somewhere I took a wrong turn
I found myself astray where the straight road has been lost.
Thick hazied dreams of alternate timelines
And a dizzying kaleidoscope of selves.
Any other self. Anything else.
Anything but this.
Pains new flavour
Choking back imaginations ripening fantasies of ecstasy
Then rotting back down to earth's solitude
Stealing breath from this now cavernous body
A slate, scrubbed down,
Bleached and burning,
But nothing can be new.
I’m still showing the faded signs of what once was.
What am I to do?
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3. |
Last At The Table
01:40
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Last at the table
Finish what’s left
You and I both
Tell me the tale of your father
Tell me the tale of your father
I thought I knew
Had no idea
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4. |
Sapling
05:19
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Coiling, unfurling and retreating
Unraveling this longing
Coiling, unfurling and retreating
To the ground
I see a light, I see
I see a light, I see
I see an end, I see I see the start,
I see I see it all, I see.
I see it all.
Fingers reaching
Breaking surface
Like clawing out from a grave
I see a light, I see
(but it dims)
I see a light, I see
(the closer I get)
I see an end, I see
I see the start, I see
(but it bends)
I see it all, I see.
(the closer I get)
I see it all
I’m just a flicker
Watching the fire in your eyes
You mistake my envy for a forest
But I feel like a sapling
I’m so jealous.
Did all we know turn out to be our worst addictions?
And are we failing?
Are we failing?
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5. |
Eight Eyes
04:00
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How does it feel
To be running again?
How does it feel
Living in shadow?
How does it feel
In that dust cloud?
Don’t shy away now
Don’t shy away
Forever trying
Never changing
Board a train
Endless stations
Bear the weight
For two
Respire and still now
So now I still
Journeying
Humbling
Fine lines between love and rage
Recklessly loving me
Eight eyes for both sides
How does it feel
trapped in fantasy?
How does it feel
burning bridges?
How does it feel
to be so loved?
Go shy away now
Go shy away
Journeying
Humbling
Fine lines between love and rage
Recklessly loving me
Eight eyes for both sides.
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6. |
We Three
03:36
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Shadow at my door
Stain under my feet
Blur at the bound
The fear we share
The fear that we share
We three, the blood we share
Hopelessly transfixed
a false awakening
Through paintings
Gateways to unwelcome worlds
Befriend this beast, I try
Always flees and always returns
The fear of three, a power raging
Psychically connected
Such pretty hands
Knuckles turn white,
As we grip each other
In our minds, we are one
Battling this omen
Waging a war with our weaknesses
We are our own worst horrors.
Out she falls
Spiraling
Phantom twin
Dust through our eyes
I remember taking the skin from her face
But now she is beautiful
Beautifully plain, serene
Like a doll.
Devoid of any feeling
Sheer nothing,
A hole in the wall
A tear in space
Is she looking to fill herself?
Will she sink into me?
Riding like a puppet
Or will she sear our minds together?
Mourning the losses she can no longer remember
She can no longer remember.
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7. |
The Well
05:33
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Goodbye and good riddance
Never tasted so sweet
You’re so full of shit
Sitting in your room with her
Living and dying
All over again
I wish my heart were like a well
With a cover, so I don’t have to suffer
I could never figure it out
Goodbye and godspeed
Never felt so bleak
I stumble in one last desperation
Sitting in your room with her
Living and dying,
Dancing with our fate, now
I wish my heart were like a well
With a cover, so I don’t have to suffer
I could never figure it out
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8. |
Fog of War
01:57
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Fog of war
The trees circles us
Beyond is darkness
This patch of earth now a planet
The fire our sun
Our life
Our death
As it races toward us
Heat has its own smell
It’s own language
And my skin will be scorched before
I fully understand it’s words
The elements claim back their roots
And we are no longer their children
Am I being murdered by the hands of my country?
Now darkness turns to glow
Fear and beauty
Like oil and water
Co-existing in a fever dream
Fires legs on fumes
Ghosts in full swing,
Could outrun any child of man
It didn’t occur to me how helpless we are
Walking organic containers
At the mercy of circumstance
I am too afraid to cry
Eyes glued to the hues of my southern hemisphere
Ablaze, A borealis of flame.
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9. |
Army
03:03
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Now the sight of your army fills me with fire
Burning up through legs that stand on their own.
Your soldiers, brain washed.
They’re puppets dribbling at your feet
And your poems of lost love humour me.
I can see your fabricated world now
The walls caving in
Living and dying in fantasy.
My rage is expansive
And I will destroy and rebuild a thousand times,
Living a hundred different lives simultaneously,
Sucking on life,
Sucking it dry,
Before it consumes me.
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10. |
Dryland
04:17
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You let the sleepers lie,
You know the sleepers are gonna die.
You see them praying in the dark,
You know the endings not so far.
You didn’t know it was gonna be this way,
You would have told her you wanted to stay.
You would have had the kids you never wanted.
You would have kept your feet on the dryland.
You would have said yes to your brother,
You would have given love, you never bothered,
Now all the things you wish you would have said now sink,
Down to the bottom as good as dead.
You let the sleepers lie,
You knew the sleepers were gonna die.
You left them praying in the dark,
Now the ending’s not so far.
You could beg and plead,
Your fate is sealed.
Now peacefully,
Cold.
Why don’t we talk about it?
Death comes so easy.
Why don’t we talk about it?
Now it’s all you’ll ever know.
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11. |
Oils & Inks
01:48
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The air
(The wave)
Flows and swells
(Is coming)
A great ocean
(Over)
Oils and inks blending together (No time to breathe)
Fluid
(Soaking)
Will I wash away?
And take all that remains? Growing
(Slow down)
He’s in the garden
Growing
(Slow Down)
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12. |
Destroy Everything
04:46
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Now we are alone together
Skin glows sickly I’m repulsed
Hands softness turns to leather
As I begin to pulse 2, 3, 4
Pulse 2, 3, 4
You return but you are not the same
Eyes alight with madness and disdain
Destroy everything.
Death taker, life giver
Born again but maybe it was wrong
Fear, hopeless turns to danger
As I continue to pulse 2, 3, 4
Stop 2, 3, 4
You return but you are not the same
Eyes alight with madness and disdain
You return but clearly not the same
Deaths demonic dance now silent
Destroy everything.
Kill
Burn
Destroy everything
Dies
Burn
Destroy everything
Kill everything
Burn
Everyone dies in the end
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13. |
Vessel
03:56
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Jump starting a heart
Paranoia
A skipped beat
(Circumference..)
Symbols smeared in maroon
A tormented limping vessel
My once pale skin is now charred and frayed
Organs rearranged into an unrecognizable design
Mazes forming, folding and fading
Coiled and collecting in pools
Limbs torn
(Conductant...)
And flesh dripping through a scorched barren land
White noise
Static Silence
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14. |
Blue Angel
03:07
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Blue angel
Tendrils of light
Spirit of wonder
Pulverise
Tilting landscapes
Figures leaning over a form
My body?
Am I being observed?
Oh there’s something in the water
I can’t seem to find the eyes behind my lids.
Where am I?
They drift away into light
Clarify...
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15. |
Infernum
04:28
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Infernum, sacra mors
Innovo, vivere
Erro
Crawling
Time suspended
Try to tear through
The material
To the other side
The inferno
The mundanity
Painful in a different way
Crave the blood lust
Dream of chaos
Try to break through
Rise out of a different view
Is this the promised land
The indulgence
A sick desire
For my inferno
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16. |
Circle
04:01
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Out of the blue
I feel crystal clear
It’s quiet now
Slip inside the pool
First one to revive
The waves of everyone we’ve ever loved
Of everyone we’ve ever loved
Careless of the time
I circle through it all again
Through everyone I’ve ever loved
Keep hold of everyone we’ve ever loved
Blending into the dust
The land, the earth
Breathing in time
A universal mind
I see a light, I see an end
And a start, I see it all
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i Häxa London, UK
Disjointed fragments of time collide. Two sides, one of logic and one of chaos, seeking unity and truth through the expression of freedom.
This is i Häxa.
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