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utopia.
02:29
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It was beautiful in the city. The buildings were spires of copper and quartz glass, that shone like glitter in the sunlight. There was a sea made of diamonds. I could go whenever I wanted, all I had to do was close my eyes and I would find myself perched on the highest tower with the wind whipping around me. Flying was as easy as breathing.
I wore a different face there.
There were only a few of us who lived in the city, but we would play games in the rainbow reflections, turning ourselves into hard light and liquid mirrors. We would slip into each other and trade bodies back and forth until we couldn't remember which one we started with.
We lived in peace until the day the city died. The copper melted and the glass was nothing but dust. The diamond turned to dry ice and sublimated in the heat until it was gone altogether. The others wouldn't tell me what had happened.
We moved on. What else could we do? We found a new ocean, and built a house on the cliff above it. We hid. We stopped playing games. Sometimes we hated each other.
I don't know if they forgot, or if they just couldn't let themselves remember, but we never spoke of our city again.
Sometimes I look out my window, across our saltwater sea and I swear I see copper glinting in the sunset. I swear the sea is diamond.
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The Choir Electric
02:46
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Fall with me into the night
Burn the neon kill the light
Feel the static of the rain
Call the bet and play the game
Fall with me into the night
Burn the neon kill the light
Feel the static of the rain
Call the bet and play the game
Dance with me into the dark
Let the circuits pop and spark
Strip the screws and break the gears
Consciousness is fleeting here
Dance with me into the dark
Ay ah ay ah ay ah ah
Let the circuits pop and spark
Ay ah ay ah ay ah ah
I can feel this sorrow fading
Hit the ceiling of the sky
Say goodnight and you can fly
Reach the zenith of your heart
Flow through lifetimes in the stars
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artemis_ascendant
03:22
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Cascade (feat. SOLARIA)
03:30
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Things will get better
I feel it in the air
We're here together
We'll make it out I swear
I will not run away
I will not run away
I will not run away
I will not leave you
(I will not run away
I will not run away
I will not run away
I will not leave you
I will not run away
I will not run away
I will not run away
I will not leave you
I will not run away
I will not run away
I will not run away
I will not leave you
I will not run away
I will not leave you
I will not leave you)
Ties that we severed
Lie rusted in the moon
Burn like the summer
When winter comes too soon
Rain falls like crying
We're fire in a flood
Live like we're dying
Like running's in our blood
I will not run away
I will not run away
I will not run away
I will not leave you
(I will not run away
I will not run away
I will not run away
I will not leave you
I will not run away
I will not run away
I will not run away
I will not leave you
I will not run away
I will not run away
I will not run away
I will not leave you
I will not run away
I will not leave you)
I will not run away
I will not run away
But if you run away
I will come with you
And if you run away
And if you run away
I will not run away
I will come with you
Yeah when you run away
I will run with you
I will come with you
I'm coming with you
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prismatic drift
03:36
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6. |
melpomene
05:00
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THE MAN: You've never killed a shadow before have you?
ZENITH: No but-
THE MAN: It's easier than you think, you know all its weak spots, the trouble is it knows yours too. You just have to be faster.
ZENITH: But I don't want to kill her!
THE MAN: That's very sweet of you, but she isn't likely to afford you the same kindness
ZENITH: What happens if I won't do it?
THE MAN: She'll eat the bleeding heart out of your chest
ZENITH: I don't think she will.
THE MAN: And why's that?
ZENITH: Because I won't do it to her.
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EXOGENESIS!
03:54
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The body revolts you revolt against the body
The body defective defect from the body
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8. |
//C|T/\DEL
05:22
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9. |
radiantflux_infinite
05:27
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Infinite Radiance
Fucking nothing
N-n-n-n-nothing
Just a fu-
Just a fucking fraud
Fraud
In the Infinite Radiance
In the light of G-d
In the Infinite Radiance
In the light of G-d
In the Infinite Radiance
In the light of G-d
In the Infinite Radiance
In the light of G-d
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10. |
glass knife
03:24
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If my body is a temple
There's a shrine inside to you
You're my fracture fractal lover
Bolt of lightning running through
With a glass knife in your eyes
My souls of souls inside a storm
A torrential rain of honey
I collapse and I'm reborn
And if I was made of marble
Would you carve me from the stone?
You're a songbird in the starlight
I am hallowed hollow bone
With a glass knife in my heart
And in the screaming of the red
I would worship at your altar
Where I’m turning gold to lead
And if I could kill my darlings
And my darlings could kill me
We’d dissolve inside the smoke rings
And your teeth would set me free
With the glass knife in my hand
You hold my head inside your claw
I’d eat every shred of crystal
And I’d love you till I’m raw
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11. |
Sundeath Riviera
01:52
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SOLARIA:
Paradise is disposable
Silicon is gold
All the poppies that wave in the wind smell like asphalt and you long for the cold
All their promises are bloodless
Cuz only misery's free
When the rain hits the concrete it smells like a bonfire and you long for the sea
And the air tastes like acid
Plastic apples and weeds
And the streets full of mansions and vacant lot suburbs are all you can see
But the circuitry is perfect
If the evergreens die
And it's five thousand dollars for a shed in the backyard every month that you cry
And I'll always bleed software
Fucking coastal elite
With a motherland rotting and sick from the blood under billionaire's feet
So the choices are simple
Either learn to sell lies
Or else leave through the threshold of planned obsolescence and just ask yourself why
(And I'll always bleed software
Fucking coastal elite
With a motherland rotting and sick from the blood under billionaire's feet)
VIRIDIAN:
Lungs are full
Body cold
This is not mine
No more sad
Someone else
Moderate the joy
This is not mine
[3x]
Lungs are full
Body cold
This is not mine
No more sad
Someone else
Moderate the joy
This is not mine
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viridian fractal Portland, Oregon
Remy Dafydd-Besbris, aka viridian fractal, is a sound enthusiast, multidisciplinary visual artist, and man with earrings in Portland, Oregon. He makes songs that sound like strange dreams and feels weird writing about himself in the third person. His real name would probably have better SEO, but it's kind of too late for that. ... more
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