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darker skies

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1.
The Warning 05:02
The sun is baking the landscape below Another day of our lives Our gazes lowered, away from the glare By routines occupied The people's hardship rising, it grows harder to maintain The lives that we still cling to, is it all in vain? We simply accept every new decree Never suspecting a lie Thinking the troubles are sure to end While slowly we are bled dry Kings conspire together to change it as they please Is it for the good of the world, or just their pleasures appeased? Their pedestal ascending by the plans they've laid Deception turns us upon our own, confused and afraid Stop and ask yourself does There seem to be any Sign of compassion Or are they just preparing An optimal setting Where we are subdued and Being born, dying while Structures benefit their kind? Is that so mad? Stop clinging to illusions of allegiance to a side (No, I know that it's right) We're one and in the castle our enemy hides (I see you've strayed from the light) Tribulation's rising, how much more can we endure? It's right out there before us: their intentions impure When our children's children view this as history Will they see the fools we've been and ask why we didn't flee? Stop and ask yourself does There seem to be any Sign of compassion Or are they just preparing An optimal setting Where we are subdued and Being born, dying while Structures benefit their kind? Or are you blind?
2.
The Ashen 04:31
Youngest child let me shelter you from the cold, give you the best and more But in this palace you find yourself within, you'll fear our brand of recourse And I learned the meaning of fear The flame you wield inflicting scars Left me weak and susceptible to vice Now you've grown with a palace of your own, so tell me how does it feel? Do you strike out when the child begins to shout, another turn of the wheel? There must be something in our blood Or is it something you did to my heart Why the ones we're sworn to protect must fear I feel the rage building within The same fire that was left unguarded And burned me into something resembling you Colours pale from touch of flame, it burnt them all away The Ashen fears it shall repeat today Youngest child I look at what you are, what's left after the flames A daughter of your own, you try to make a home, I pray you don't do the same You realize that I know I've seen what's left and my guilt and pity will never leave me alone You could have been so great I'd give anything to change the past but time has run away Colours pale from touch of flame, it burnt them all away The Ashen fears it shall repeat today Quell the fire it can't return to your young betrayed The ashen pallour she must not attain
3.
The Sublime 05:40
Bewilder It is extinguishing optimism Disenchant Despair as a sunny vision's fading Stolen Weren't we promised the rewards of victors? Unfulfilled They were fantasies I held so dear Stolen And I find hope is gone Unfulfilled And yet I must go on Do you find hope is gone... If it was you all along? In the beginning There was none that wasn't mine No convention or expectation Just the will to see it unwind In the beginning There was nothing but my mind It was just me and the sublime Sublime... the beauty of our world A force beneath the surface, a fuel for our souls Feel the chill, it's taking hold, taking hold Strive to be the medium and mine the ephemeral for its gold Do you find hope is gone... If it was you all along? In the beginning There was none that wasn't mine No convention or expectation Just the will to see it unwind In the beginning There was nothing but my mind It was just me and the sublime Sublime... does it slip through your grasp? Peacefully prepared hearts and minds join the masters of the past The jester taunting you at the gate, at the gate Bows to you and steps aside, is this inspiration fate? Bewilder Did it extinguish the optimism? Disenchant So the sunny vision has now faded Stolen Time to forgive the old expectation Unfulfilled Find your way to achieve exaltation It's out there, it's out there, don't despair Yours to share, it's out there. It's out there, don't despair It's out there, it's out there, don't despair Yours to share, it's out there. It's out there, in the air Come to find a gift to behold Out my fingertips, from my soul Gears of progress teeth do align And the burden's released from my mind Nothing matters (but this truth) Touched the sublime
4.
The Sunken 05:14
Condescending look upon my face And I'm feeling love for no one My body is tired, my heart is numb You think this must be who I am I need you I'll mislead you And I'll push you away And I'm drowning By the moonlight While you're looking the other way Living life behind a bubble's film And escaping one glass at a time Elixir of carelessness your spell's Charm's wearing thin yet I'm dying of thirst I need you I'll mislead you And I'll push you away And I'm drowning By the moonlight While you're looking the other way Just a matter Of time until Another friend is turned away Every careless Gesture of mine A symptom of my soul's decay Aqua vitae, your sultry charms lead me astray I do not feel there is any good until you've poisoned the day Aqua mortis, you suffocate a sober smile Pour you into my every wound, how much longer to be beguiled?
5.
Candy Tree 03:00

about

'darker skies' is the follow-up EP to 2022's 'Solemn Songs of Nightsky & Sea'.

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released April 6, 2023

Main credits:

Geoff Hodsman: Guitar, bass, orchestration, growled vocal
Maude Théberge: Lead vocal, growled vocal
Jeff Mott: Backup vocal

Additional credits:
Laura Sasiadek: guest vocal in 'The Sublime'
Kirill Zorin: acoustic guitar in 'The Sublime'

All tracks composed and arranged by Geoff Hodsman.
Orchestrals and ambience at Studio Grandiose by Nathan Gross.
Mixed and mastered at Ecliptic Recordings by Geoff Hodsman.

Artwork by Varises Otak

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