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Insect In a Jar
05:54
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A point in the sky
We follow the path we've chosen
A moment in time
And all my perceptions frozen
And far in the distant sky
I see the future fast unfolding
It must be the turning point
Returning the echoes that I've been holding
Fate
It's pulling me away
I never could explain
How we could still believe this illusion
So
You're telling me to go
But I would never know
How we could fall into this confusion
The lines in the sand
The memories of wandering oceans
The winds of uncertainty
Will spare me from that emotion
And far in the distant sky
A burning light is calling out to me
I follow the vapour trail
It leads me to the endless sea
It's fate
It's pulling me away
I never could explain
How we could still believe this illusion
So
You're telling me to go
But I would never know
How we could fall into this confusion
But you are still a prisoner
An insect in a jar
Pressed against the glass
There's no one else but you in here
And this is all you are
Captive by the hand of fate
It's pulling me away
I never could explain
I never could explain
Fate
It's pulling me away
I never could explain
I never could explain
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2. |
Thrown Out To Shore
06:58
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A fool is being ushered in
Into a room of smiles and grins
Sits and waits to be re-born
So unknowing and unknown
Youth gone astray
A suited man who's clear as glass
Promises but never trusts
Leans back to fix his tie
Smiles and says "I'm your guy"
Just sign on the line
The roads cross and hold me at bay but forward we march
They say you should seize the day, let your heart guide the way to bliss
Help me understand these tides that are pulling me both ways
What if there's no promised land? Is this dream just a cliché?
How much for your word?
How much for your pride?
How much would it cost to buy you out?
How much for your love, or just your spite?
Just tell me son, what is your price?
In the brink of night
He stepped into my room
And whispered in my ear
"The seeds of regret, are the roots of your demise"
Left behind my best years I've wasted
All the time that I had to understand
The riddles of life left me trapped and helpless
But I thought I knew it all
Time to go, my dear child
Kiss the rising sun goodbye now
Cry what's left to cry about
Don't look back
It's too late now
Nothing waits behind this door
The tides have thrown me out to shore
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3. |
Evelyn
03:56
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Pallid hands that reach to me
How you feed upon the sympathy
And your eyes grow dimmer with every passing day
How the fragile seams of this waking dream
Tear away in vain in the midnight rain
All the memories seem to drift so far away
She shuffles through the parkway in the never-ending rain
She's being held a prisoner in a cell within her brain
The years may change forever but the melody remains
Let it turn - musical box
And the gilded cage is standing still on the windowsill
She turns away
She is staring into empty space, into heaven's gate
She can't remain alone
Who are you?
Who are you that draws me from my home?
She shuffles through the parkway in the never-ending rain
She's being held a prisoner in a cell within her brain
The years may change forever but the melody remains
Let it turn
She searches for the answers to the riddles in her brain
She's been asleep for decades, but her dreams have never changed
The years may pass forever but the melody remains
Let it turn - musical box
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4. |
Devil Of My Dreams
08:48
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Staying alive
Despite odds and chances
Dodging the strike
By the skin of my teeth
Pulse in my head
As my heart is racing
Pain in my chest
It’s getting harder to breath
I’m almost there!
The sun is arising
I take one more step
And try to hold on
Trying
To find a way
To live through this
Nightmare
What is this dream
This cyclical nightmare
What is this dread,
To which I’m confined
Darkness subsides
Envelops my being
It overwhelms
Leaving me empty inside
Is this the end,
Or just an illusion
What is this fear,
That’s plaguing my mind
Suddenly, I feel a hollow emptiness,
It chills be to the bone
I cannot take this anymore
Like my life, will have no meaning,
As I’m insignificant to this earth
I cannot face this horror
Why, is this happening to me?
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5. |
My Last Lament
05:36
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As I write these words my eyes slowly shut
Lies are the only truth and truth is all I've got
Like a feather in the sky I will lose myself to my existence
I'll embrace what lies beyond, I'll close my eyes and fall
Lost I slowly slip into quiet madness
And every memory becomes a star in the open sky
Breathe in the silence
Numb all guilt and pain
Removing my halo
I'm writing my last lament
Clinging to these walls
Feeling nothing but the cold
Trying to break free
As they close-in on me
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6. |
Disconnected
04:24
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A sentence is spoken
It's only a whisper
So far in the distance
There's no one around
A girl in a painting
She's singing to music
But no one can hear her
There isn't a sound
And late in the summer
She tells me her secret
A face in the window
A voice in the night
It's just a perception
It's just an opinion
She's biding her time until the moment is right
When we're disconnected
Detached from all the world
When we're disconnected
Detached from all the world
It's just this connection
Perpetual motion
It's pulling me backwards
I'm tied to a stone
Umbilical union
It's just a dependence
Please take what you want but don't leave me alone
It's only the doorway to this house of deception
It's only the devil that pulls you away
It's just a perception
It's just an illusion
It's only the feeling that brought me here today
When we're disconnected
Detached from all the world
When we're disconnected
Detached from all the world
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7. |
The Rise
05:30
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In violent seas lives creation and myth
Reality wonders its glorious realms
Explosions of light settle down with
Mysterious shadows, conceptions of dreams
Time solid as ice
Like glaciers it flows
These shapes come to rise
From dreams they arose
Watch towards the seas
Can you see there’s
Something in the depth
That’s quickly fading out of range
Silhouettes of history
Bring forth a coming change
Solidified tempest, leads them to the edge
Of brilliant patterns, which scourge through the land
Of towering walls, spreading out their roots
With weapons of metal, and statues of sand
Increasing each day
Corrupting the night
Controlling the land
The dark and the light
Somewhere far in time
This too will end and
They won’t know what hit them
On that fatal day
But two millennia is a
Long, long time to wait
In the end it won’t be them
That lay themselves to waste
We founded cities that stood through all storms
And fortified these walls, with our very blood
So stronger each day, will these empires grow
They can withstand heaven, but can they withstand us?
But now let’s rejoice
Spill wine on the floor
Corrupting the night
Till its gone to the core
Rise
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8. |
The Unfolding
10:11
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At the foundation lies the rise of the Sun
Lighting the inevitable fall
In the dim red light the anthill grows, expanding
Always trying to spread out their walls
Ten Million sunsets, this land has witnessed
And if god can help them, they’ll see ten more
In a web of roads this land shall soon be covered
Torn apart and stripped of innocence
Fertilized by blood of their great wars
Religion clouds up our minds with ignorance
There may come a time, we’ll be living in shadow
But we’re not about to hold our breath
For now, we take pride in avoiding the struggle
In front of the hot warning flame
The rivers run dry, yet we’re drowning in water
Compressing the mud to the earth to the stone
Then leaving behind, frightful landscapes of slaughter
As we cover our eyes, from the blame
No longer able to support the unimaginable
Light (Dark) Rose (Fell)
Stirring the Dust
The instant spark that blinded us
Died just as fast
With little struggle, void of energy and hope the world lit
Up (Down) Flame (Ash)
Rubble and rust
To some it felt like many years
So little time has passed
So many prophesies, so many souls, so little all it
Meant (To) Us (Who)
Blindly believed
That we are chosen that this was
Designed to keep
After what felt like an eternity but merely was a glimpse
Of, what could have been
In solemn stance and silent dreams
Faded to sleep
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9. |
All That Remains
09:00
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Remains… Smoke surrounds me, I’m in ruins
Of great cities which once flourished
Under innocence of rain
All that remains, bricks and stones of fallen towers,
Memories of skies and oceans,
Clouds of arrows gone astray
Did they ever think!
Did they ever stop, and see the sun
Will I ever know?
Is there anything I could have done?
(Wrong timing, lights the ruins)
What stood, for a hundred golden years
Now has fallen to the abyss,
Concurred by sin, and slowly lost in vain.
All that remains, is this legacy of chaos,
Silhouettes of granite giants
Weathered slowly by the rains.
He looked to the bright, scouring sun
How could it come to this, he asked
Silence had answered him
Everything in this hopeless land
Evermore void of life
He turned to the flame, chilling his
Face with the shadows of the past,
Turning away at once
And spreading out his wings
He stepped on this ground one last time.
And leaped, off the earth he once received,
For this his mind did not foresee
That the flame brought the end
To this flawed reality
There was nothing to defend,
Leaving this forsaken land
With the wind, here and gone
Spread your wings towards the sun
In the shadow of dawn,
I fear that we’ve gone too far to see the fall
In the time that is left,
I feel all that I regret, I’ll soon forget
Now that everything’s gone,
I fear it’s too late to learn from our mistakes
Though the spirit lives on,
Our time’s done, and memory is all… all that remains
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Driftglass Toronto, Ontario
Driftglass is a progressive hard rock and metal band based in and around Toronto, Canada. Drawing inspiration from a variety of classic and modern influences, Driftglass has released 2 full length studio albums and one EP since its inception in 2008. The band continues to write and perform today, with its most recent release - World of Conversation - available on all major streaming services. ... more
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