Tag: music
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Matchstick Lullaby
She with the mask on walks among us veins pumping the same poisons lips a wall built up against the same words but eyes that reflect a different shadow…
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An End to Exile
This hallucination tells me I’ve been here before something from the shadows creeping toward me, an old friend, or a lost spirit…
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Along the Shore
Through the crowd a familiar face smiles and though it beckons me to sit at its table share a drink and play a hand of cards or two…
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Come Wander
Come wander with the cursed and broken through this realm of woodland music where melodies wind along paths to a ritual center…
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Further Down the Rabbit Hole
Somewhere along this way was a reason for going A vision we chased down the path into darkness Or a dream of what we would find On a blind foray into seething wilderness…
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Path Through Wild Thickets
Tread the path through wild thickets Overgrown with the remnants of legend Once made flesh, now to dust returned Fear not the shadows stirring in this place…
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Skin Over Iron Bones
A cold city speaks of storybooks Cracks in the pavement spell out the final chapters Footsteps in the snow dotting i’s and crossing t’s A saga complete with no voice to read it aloud Yet heard by all who stop to listen.
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Hold Fast the Gate
I’ve seen this back alley before In the haze of a dream world, though awake These blinding lights strike me as familiar Behind the door up ahead a staircase descends Into an underworld that awaits my return
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Crossroads
We met at the crossroads Beneath a different moon Edges like water, the stars falling A constant rain of glittering dust Always beginning at the same place
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Symphony of Two
This couch is our throne in shadowSeeping through the open windowsPooling on the carpet and hiding us from the world.It’s too easy to believe in evil at times like this.Melt with me into the nightAnd let us hope we disappear togetherLost to the world—or fleeing it.Who will chase us before the way back is closed?The…
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His First Audience
His first audience listens quietly as his soul spills onto the streetThe world breaks around their oasis and sweeps awayForgetting to carry them along with itSitting at the crossroads of two lives,Two struggles against the passing time,Two worlds caught beneath the weight of the largerGrinding against the millstoneShaped from rough edges into something newTwo bonded…
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Endings
Hands scarred and hardened with useStrike wood and metal to create steel magicCoaxing demon cries from the choking neckBending wails echo off marble ceilingsScreaming upward ever higher To pierce the veil and reign in new dayHeralded by thunder. A thousand kings march to slow deathPassing into shadow without care or thoughtSwept into the wash of…
The Light is On 