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lyrics
*** Arrow of the Age ***
I… I think I’m lost in here… In this blind machination of my id…
And I ran for years, ‘long these streets of empathy bright
Lit by fire, or desire, I can’t tell which.
These moans have I heard for the longest time,
They decry all this motion from the pages of my life, oh,
As they turn through the years. I’m cleft in two, each mind imbued
With half of a man.
I atone.
Ambition still burns in both parts, for this name that I chose;
As an arrow of the age I have fallen at the close.
Now time, my cage, doth own me - Oh, these violent skies will throw me back…
Was I enough? Was I enough? Was I enough? What was I?
One day I’ll be whole.
Oh, one day I’ll be whole.
Oh, one day I’ll be whole.
Oh, one day I’ll be whole.
*** The Mind of Norton ***
Hark, betimes my eyes awaken
shame, this chasm of my making.
Oh, foretold my parchment wavers
Aged, like I. As dawn breaks, paper burns, oh I burn.
Oh, aspire to forge an amber throne
Yet built my castle: wood and gold, my
Rubble heart aflame as sunset coal,
I burn… Oh I burn.
*** Aira Force ***
Am I? Am I to this ancient land, outcast?
Stake I my life here; this burning life, my last.
Made here, reclaim here this name, I know as mine:
I be, incomplete, yet my old eyes guide me; this hearth be my home.
Am I? Am I to this ancient land, outcast?
Stake I my life here; this burning life, my last.
Made here, reclaim here this name, I know as mine:
Oh, be known, half-life of mine…
Know this, I know this; of solitary mind
Half-life or no, I’ll make known this name of mine.
Torn I may be, though my cause may yet be right
Claim this truth: I’m worthy of life:
Be this my land; find me crowned within its light.
Be this my land; find me crowned within its light.
Be this my land; find me crowned within its light.
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Ah, why didn't I buy this earlier? Has been on my wishlist since it's release and Bad Elephant Music's sampler and ongoing sales campaign luckily triggered the buy.
Tags given are post-progressive and post-rock, but the music feels much lighter than I usually associate with those tags. Quite song-oriented, indeed. Great music, great vocals. Carsten Pieper
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supported by 27 fans who also own “Act III: Arrow”
Thanks to the nice-endof-year-offer I came to fill this gap in my private worm collection (a, pardon me, worm hole, so to speak :-))
Wonderful reminiscence to many good things past (Canterbury, 70s prog, folk rock) with a good sense of humour and great ideas (both in the songwriting & in the arrangements) . Carsten Pieper