1. |
Orion in Pursuit
04:33
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Speak to me, don’t wait
Why delay
Reach for me
Unmake the space between us
What’s left unsaid is worse than dead
Show me
How wind draws sails to meet it
Pull me in
Teach me to trap the stars
Stolid and wavering
Cupped in your hands
There’s a heat I need
Rising off of you
In dark awake, come away with me
With Orion in pursuit
Hold me
While stars surround and blazing
Like countless fires
An endless distance away
And keep me
Safe in soft remembering
All the while
Between the pages of your mind
There’s a heat I need
Rising off of you
In dark awake, come away with me
With Orion in pursuit
Oh, oh, Orion
Oh, oh with Orion in pursuit
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2. |
Artist's Soul
04:07
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I met Beckett in First Love
(And Moriarty?)
And Moriarty On the Road
(And their words?)
Their words entrap
And bend, distract, just say it
“I’ll forget you when you go.”
Your words to me, discreet
In a language I don’t speak
But they keep on, repeat
Come on baby, come teach me
Don’t forget me when you go
I’m holding out for, holding onto
I’d die for an artist’s soul
These sentiments are enclosed
With no return on envelope
Stand in a line, with more coming behind
To answer what you never wrote
And Moriarty?
And their words?
Your words to me, discreet
In a language I don’t speak
But they keep on, repeat
Come on baby, come teach me
Don’t forget me when you go
I’m holding out for, holding onto
I’d die for an artist’s soul
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3. |
Locked Away
03:54
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And your cycles flow
Tear paper squares that hold me in their thrall
Even now I walk the edge
Like a property that I can’t leave
Oh Ramadan, Oh levantine
Oh language locked away and meaning I can’t reach
Oh Ramadan, Oh levantine
I was breaking down the door to save you from me
And could I learn to read the moon, soft blue
Pools of shade imprint upon my mind
Oh Ramadan, Oh levantine
Oh language locked away and meaning I can’t reach
Oh Ramadan, Oh levantine
I was breaking down the door to save you from me
I see moon shadows spilling in
Flowing where they will
There were times you slipped away
Only now I’m noticing
While I was nesting in a bed of whispers echoing
Oh Ramadan, Oh levantine
Oh language locked away and meaning I can’t reach
Oh Ramadan, Oh levantine
I was breaking down the door to save you from me
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4. |
Feathering Out
03:29
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You were feathering out
In the sun to feel
Everything you knew
Oh and I knew trees were aflame
Trees were alight for you
Drifting and free
Though your ardor keeps them near
Am I feathering out
Into dust again
Under florescent lights
Let metal sing
It was only, only echoing
Drifting and free
Though your ardor keeps them near
Drifting at peace
Though your ardor keeps them near
Drifting at peace
Is defiance in a paltry world
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5. |
Spirit Lines
03:45
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It’s CK 105 echoing, intertwined
In the nerved of my young mind Banana 101.5
Radio waves race down Flint brick streets across county lines
Static crest over fields to find hearts aligned like mine
Let college anthems play on Impact 89
And Wherehouse Records store lost worlds for you to find
2,000 Watts dimming out, contending with spirit lines
Static blow through dirt roads to find hearts aligned like mine
It’s CK 105 echoing, intertwined
In the nerved of my young mind Banana 101.5
Radio waves race down Flint brick streets across county lines
Static crest over fields to find hearts aligned like mine
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6. |
Made Strong
04:30
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Straight lines fall to nature in time
Cities all under siege
And I welcoming I embrace it all
Oh so like a bull forcing through
Straight lines when life comes
At odd angles
Straight lines fall to nature in time
Are your enemies gaining speed
While I generous I offered all
Oh born calling out
Wanting all straight lines
When life comes at odd angles
You’re the cry of a child made strong
Flashing eyes unseeing of
The cunning borne of need
Their spirits called me here
And I left you here alone
So your anger need not grow
Blow already landed before your saw it
End the same either way
But a little time was mine
Either way
Straight lines fall to nature in time
Cities all under siege
And I welcoming I embrace it all
Oh so like a bull forcing through
Straight lines when life comes
At odd angles
You’re the cry of a child made strong
Flashing eyes unseeing of
The cunning borne of need
Their spirits called me here
And I left you here alone
So your anger need not grow
You’re the cry of a child made strong
Flashing eyes unseeing of
The cunning borne of need
Their spirits called me here
And I left you here alone
So your anger need not grow
Blow already landed before you saw
But little time, either way
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7. |
Stand Apart
04:16
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Hey how about we set aside
Everything
What has everything done for us
We remake our names into formless shapes
All fading and transient
And stand arm in arm in the streets
Indifferent and immovable
Until somebody says it aright
Until somebody says our names
Will we always stand apart like austere trees
Of course the fault is mine (oh carry on)
And will we always stand apart still reaching
All blame of course is mine
But roots still intertwine
And hey do you feel that way
That the light is cast strange and unnatural
As if the trappings of stage were just out of sight
Just beyond reach
And so to act in any way is just to react
To that strange force that may not be
Say with me that it may not be
Will we always stand apart like austere trees
Of course the fault is mine (oh carry on)
And will we always stand apart still reaching
All blame of course is mine
But roots still intertwine
Will we always stand apart like austere trees
Of course the fault is mine (oh carry on)
And will we always stand apart still reaching
All blame of course is mine
But roots still intertwine
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8. |
The Long Way
05:18
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And if it’s pain that’s teaching me
Come give me my degree
Dressed in a cap and gown, not honorary
Wrap gold cords around my neck
In dead languages present
Rare learning, high relief
When you walk away you’re only coming back
You’re only coming back the long way
When you walk away you’re only coming back
You’re only coming back the long way
So it’s pain that’s teaching me
In a course I must repeat
While summer’s winding down unwillingly
Wrap black silk around my neck
Small steps to pay respect
When I’m already bereft of everything
When you walk away you’re only coming back
You’re only coming back the long way
When you walk away you’re only coming back
You’re only coming back the long way
When you walk away you’re only coming back
You’re only coming back the long way
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9. |
Typewriter
01:13
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(Instrumental)
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10. |
Fragile Rush
06:20
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Oh it’s pigment bleeding in
On film in negative
Stray voices stay adrift
Oh it’s the nature of days
To make us strangers to ourselves
Come lift me from your bed
Where spirts bleed in colors we can’t see
Give us safe paths
Give us loose embrace
It’s a fragile rush
It’s a loose embrace
It’s a cool touch
Oh it’s a fragile rush
At first intend on stealth
Although they see you well
Their eyes like needles pin you to the ground
Come life me from your bed
Where spirits bleed in colors we can’t see
Bits of metal wrapped in cloth
Sent arching through the air
Oh it’s the nature of days
To make strangers of us all
It’s a loose embrace
It’s a cool touch
It’s a fragile rush
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Vague Pains Novi, Michigan
Fusing elements of classic indie, shoegaze, and new wave into an irresistible kaleidoscopic sound, Vague Pains is the project of singer/songwriter Zachary Lemon. Working out of his basement studio in Michigan, Zachary and his remote collaborators pay tribute past while pushing the genre into fresh new territory. ... more
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