1. |
Dragon
03:23
|
|||
|
This recurring feeling of fire in my stomach
the crumbling ceiling of my mind, I am out
of fights to define my life
to ascend here or accept my calling
the beast, destroyer of all things
I am the Dragon with bloody jaws
like your father with his jagged saw
or your mother with her sharp claws
your tired mind with its earthly flaws
Oh if I wanted to live, I would slip under
the light and roam the quiet streets at night
But I have wings, I am a hundred feet long
and I can only see myself in this cave
with my old distant ways
but you want to believe in things you haven’t seen
you're living with the stars and i’m still squinting at the beams
I am the Dragon with bloody jaws
like your father with his jagged saw
or your mother with her sharp claws
your tired mind with its earthly flaws
I saw you scaling the ledge
little hero, with your torch in hand
that fire! like a secret to tell
all alone, I heard talking to yourself
Here in this sand I lie, a captive here until I die
but you came back, you came back!
little hero with your precious plan
I am the Dragon with bloody jaws
like your father with his jagged saw
or your mother with her sharp claws
your tired mind with its earthly flaws
|
||||
2. |
Dragon II
03:55
|
|||
|
A decision to stumble on
my thoughts swarming above
obsessions to complicate
the light that I have long ignored
Taking my time to uncover the path that defines my past
making the climb to realign this body that is mine
Control on overdrive
just know that I try
to draw back my life
from the echoes of the night
A distorted sense of confidence
my body, wandering thin
twisting itself out any chance to give in
Taking my time to uncover the path that defines my past
making the climb to realign this body that is mine
Control on overdrive
just know that I try
to draw back my life
from the echoes of the night
The eternal sedative of night
I want to believe that someday
I’ll be the one I see in this daydream
the way your eyes gleam towards the sun
Control on overdrive
just know that I try
|
||||
3. |
Shadow
03:36
|
|||
|
Desire, a tempting hand
(pull me closer to the plan)
control what you can, my beloved friend
our only chance
You don’t have to win
to dance with the thoughts, you carry
your shadow follows close
charmed by the things you bury
Like a fire that strengthens the interest
of its own invention
towards a glittered force
bursting through the door
You don’t have to win
to dance with the thoughts, you carry
your shadow follows close
charmed by the things you bury
Who am I kidding? I’ve been at this for infinity
the torment, the failures, the purpose
I am indebted to, as the eyes of the night
I decide (decide) to never look back
You don’t have to win
to dance with the thoughts, you carry
your shadow follows close
charmed by the things you bury
|
||||
4. |
Machine
02:36
|
|||
|
The shrouded feelings of life
a seemingly endless insufferable time
is that true?
you "work the machine
because you have to"?
There is heart
I believe is true
there are eyes
looking out for you
Only you can find
a reason to keep yourself alive
that’s nothing new
two worlds in front of you
There is heart
I believe is true
there are eyes
looking out for you
The shrouded feelings of life
a seemingly endless insufferable time
is that true?
you "work the machine
because you have to"?
Two worlds and the understanding
desire evolves when the plan is failing often
To wait where I am standing
means I will never learn to fall
and in the end, we’ll accept
the answers we had all along
two worlds, the places I belong
Plague of my life
plug me inside
|
||||
5. |
Thread into my heart
04:50
|
|||
|
Close to the end
of this dream I often have
where I stop to look at you
wrapped in the arms of the still night
your hand stretched out to pull me
towards a tireless light
your eyes engage, and for once I feel found
your ancient vow resounds
And all I can say - it’s not goodbye
I’ll find you in the next life
and every day I’ll assume the wait
and when our eyes lock
I’ll know I am in the right place
Return to the feverish night
I lie awake ready to lean into this life
When I was young and everything had its meaning
and we didn’t care to make sense of it
or try to cling on to
today – I know it’s all you have
but I don't mind even when i'm sad
i've grown so cold and suppressed my light
but today I know it’s mine
Here you stand at the gate
at the home of recent fate
eager to apply this moment you worked for
If you never believed, there would never be a door
to open and be pulled towards
the truth that you once ignored
the light was always yours
Shadow or light, I am tired of siding
so, I decide they’re both worth fighting for
this droll sentiment I will thread
into my heart until the end
|
||||
6. |
||||
|
We hurried through a crowd of hands fumbling a vacant crown
who might have betrayed tasted the end of the Slayer’s blade
All of this for an endless night?
I don’t want to be something that just exists
I want to walk with the light, I want to talk with it
To know your loss will never vanish, yet
the soul is an ember that endures to lead you
from the ruins of your past
to the moment you break through
and the only meaning you have is here
in the vale of your hands
Do I stay or do I run far away?
a liminal space
trying to relate
When your body beckon’s decay
and the world you wanted
blurs the sorrow you sought to evade
Was it better to climb out than standing there just looking around?
You just have to go, no time to think how
what you wish you found
has always been here, just look around
I don’t think life here is meant for me
in the ways I’ve whittled it way down
our backs to the ground
in caverns we prowled, dreaming about
the persistence of the clouds
and all that lives beneath them
eccentric disguise – the vagueness of life
the prospect to die at the same time
|
||||
7. |
Mage
03:17
|
|||
|
It's all we need
a blinding sun, the silence strung
to the untied path we run
Late into the night
we saw them, a cloaked figure aimlessly in flight
they said,
“I don’t know where I am going
I just know that I am on my way
when I regard myself as my own best friend
This offer I extend
there is a mage with flames for hands
and bones in a grave of the undead land
find them, tell them all about your plan”
We walked away in search of the mage
this world is a mystery, and it was getting late
Here I am, a mage with flames for hands
will the mortals understand that I am just like them?
burning with a purpose, destroying all I have claimed
a solitary mind with thoughts impossible tame
|
||||
8. |
Lilac
04:35
|
|||
|
Right before you become
two open eyes, you are a feather in flight
fastened to the night
and honestly, when all is done
I offer you my eyes to see the world one more time
It was crash-landing, a snake in the plan
your memory gnawed at the blood in my hands
I felt so alone the last time you came home
How you drew your bow so fast, so long to the past
when time was only a shoulder tap
we buried you in the lilac
and lingering there was burning trap
but I kept coming back to the only world I know
continuing to grow from the debris of my experience
Compelled by the fire
lost, devoted to desire
possessor, sheathe your blade
where I stand
You are the ancient furnace
of the dragon’s stomach
you are the thundering call
of its fearless summit
There was a time
where I was never quite found
then I opened my heart
and emerged from the ground
to this outside world
your love was an entrance
to a life deserved, unexpected
to this outside world
our minds were the exit
to a truth we learned and once neglected
|
||||
9. |
Clouds
03:15
|
|||
|
Laid down, sprawling
the past still calling
you’re quiet for a dreamer
are these thoughts someone else’s
or are they mine? their compulsive schemes designed
I wonder
Do they even matter? – that’s the most romantic part
a scattered mind opens the lock
to the devoted buried feelings and patterns repeating
Beholding yourself as different
as you watch the city dissolve into ashes
Is it everything you dreamed of?
It’s mortal sound below the undone clouds
above the land to which you are bound
There's no better timing
for your restless, fabled mind
waiting for the perfect time
to live without a body
to live among the sound
Ever since I found out
about this world above the ground
I've been waiting for you
That's the most romantic part
a scattered mind opens the lock
to the devoted, buried feelings and patterns repeating
|
||||
10. |
||||
|
Taking all
your burning lust
its sullen touch, it’s destruction
you'll sorely land on
and learn to understand why
darkness taught the meaning
of the untouched, foggy feelings
all the nights absent minded, blinded by the fire
I know you know that feeling
There was a ranger with an energy so divine
in the dark caves they climbed with the echoed sounds as their guide
a rift between eternal minds and the material drive
left us locked down here until the end of time
to question if they would come back to tell us what is like
above the towering rock so vast
there was a mage with the power of flame
banished away for their connection to this fiery rage
that transcended the fire we all desire
and openly admire, oblivious to things we obey
Ever since I found out about this world above the ground
I’ve dreaming to get out and learn to understand why
darkness taught the meaning
of the untouched, foggy feelings
all the nights absent minded, blinded by fire
I know you know
|
||||
11. |
Flame
03:48
|
|||
|
The fire swept up our eyes
Our attention tethered to the night
All the way at the top
I could see the smoke
I could of dream a world
That I would like to know
Your memory is sounding all through the house
And you’re ringing that bell
Beneath the wounds I’ve never felt
We ran fast
through the setting hour
the fire shed its body
it’s erratic powers
you stopped and asked, “do you believe in me?
what I offer to this world will set me free”
you could sense this relationship between us and the flame
it’s elusive shape, it’s roaring sound
the fire we hold, I can feel it now
the night leads us
to what we cannot see
or what we’re afraid to believe in
but I am better than I was
Sometimes fate is just
A door we close
Waiting to be alone
All the way now
All the ways I’ve met you before
You can want it more
But forever you will find
There is only one thing on your mind
I can feel the fire
The flame rolling in my chest
Every trial we put to rest
All the way now
All the ways I’ve met you before
|
||||
linkboy Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
If you like linkboy, you may also like:
Armed To The Teeth L.M.O.M.M.
by Kill Alters
The New York noise band's latest lurches like a demented funhouse ride, its explosive peaks bursting out giddily and unexpectedly.
go to album
Kingdom Starlight Bliss
by PERHAPSY
Perhapsy’s latest—which is also available on translucent cyan vinyl—draws from shoegaze & dreampop, and tells a wrenching true story.
go to album
Latin-tinged pop that is as progressive and charmingly lo-fi as fellow Qvole Collective band Chicano Batman.
go to album
In The Midnight Sun or Stubbornly Persistent Illusion
by GOLDEN DRUGS
featured on Bandcamp Radio Aug 12, 2014
go to album
Last Of The Natives
by THE NATIVES
featured on Bandcamp Radio May 13, 2014
go to album
featured on Bandcamp Radio May 13, 2014
go to album
featured on Bandcamp Radio May 13, 2014
go to album
