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the silence industry - Where Red Flowers Bloom. 2021.

All songs written/performed/produced by the silence industry.
CC 4.0 BY-NC-SA

*****too long*****

shiver in this soundless din
    of voices without words
 waiting on things we've never known

breathe between electric walls
    closing in upon the hours
  of our enclosure

remain within this nascent dream
   our song of newborn steel
 subsiding in this rising tide
  of beautiful decay

waiting on this moment

i'm opening my eyes
  we're standing on the edge
       like always
  emerging from the fog of years

we've been waiting on this moment
   with erudition petrified

immersed within this flowing stream
 of our illusions
   i can feel you near
 (can you help me find some solid ground
		 on which to stand?)

i'm opening my eyes
  we're standing on the edge
       of all things
  emerging from the fog of years

acid and ideals
  burning in an ultraviolet cascade
 falling like rain
 upon tomorrow's seeds

waiting on this moment
we're waiting on this moment
we've been waiting on this moment
 far too long.



*****where red flowers bloom*****

edging towards a setting sun
   on prismatic seas of you

evening descends upon dialated eyes
  swallowing horizons
 in their velvet dark

drench me in dissolution
 in places where red flowers bloom

beyond these twisted monuments
 standing in supplication
 idols to a cult, vampiric
 lay lands where we may live
    with infancies unknown

turn yourself towards me
   and see
 i'm not searching for anything
     in these moments where we breathe

drench me in dissolution
 in these moments where we breathe
 impossibilities

in places where red flowers bloom
  somewhere within you
 lie lands where we may live
 unafraid within our naked skin

turn yourself towards me
   and see
 i'm not searching for anything
     in these moments where we breathe
   impossibilities
   crashing in waves against our hidden hollows

drench me in dissolution
 in places where red flowers bloom
 somewhere within you
as evening descends upon dialated eyes
 swallowing horizons
     in their velvet dark.



*****mirrors*****

i'm drowing in a thousand thoughts
wondering, "are they even mine?"

can we believe our ears?
can we believe our eyes?
reflections of us move
   through an inverted world
  devouring days
 we can't feel anymore

disinformation blankets me
  like a fog
 malignant voices,
  digital noise singing in dissonance

do you ever feel,
  like none of this is real
 except our burdens?

step right through
 this broken mirror
 into a new beyond

beyond the prayers
  outside the dreams
 beyond fears that bind us to our silence
standing, screaming
 into a collapsing void

in days where fractured memories
 and pieces of who we are
 no longer stand like screens around us
what will we see?

walk on through
 these broken mirrors
 into a world outside
amidst the sounds of singing birds
 and falling statues we will breathe
standing, screaming
 into a collapsing void

did you ever feel like none of this was real?
  do you still feel it?




*****lean(into me)*****

the burning edge of summer
 is slipping into view
with you at the centre of every moment

and i can't wait to feel alive again
 if only i could find the fire within me

why do we spend forever waiting,
 for what we can't define?
 as the sunlight slowly shifts
 beyond our sight?

i don't know just what this should be like
 but i can see you at the centre
 of every moment

lean into me
 in the shade of a thousand cherry trees
 let me grow in wonder, anywhere you are

something is coming on the wings of dawn
can you see?
can you see me, now?

lean into me
 in the shade of a thousand cherry trees
 let me grow in wonder, anywhere you are.



*****breaths, like lead*****

sweltering within your shade
 i breathe these breaths, like lead
wrapped in a heat
 that burns through every dreaming word
  that falls between us
  silent to the shifting grass
 that dances at our feet

we've spent ten thousand years
  in this valley of frustrations
 will you catch me as i fall
 before the gates of you?

can we shed the pretense,
 that this is who we are?

on the edge of exhiliration
 speak to me in words, forbidden

dripping anticipations
 always and forever, unrealized

we've spent ten thousand years
  in this valley of frustrations
 will you catch me as i fall
 before the gates of you?
 so tired, burdened with the guilt
 of all we might have been

always and forever, unrealized
you are my always and forever, unrealized
will we remain always and forever
 unrealized?

sweltering within your shade
 i breathe these breaths,
 like lead.


*****always and forever (a remix)*****
if you play this track at the same time
as "breaths, like lead" on a separate
audio system, you'll get some hecka
dark quadrophonic sounds.