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A Flash in the Eyes

by Ariias

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Kelly Leah This album is just mind blowing. Chills. Gave me chills. Some of the best music I've heard in my life!!
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1.
Aria #1 03:05
2.
Fragile 06:30
On and off again Thoughts never given Falling in and out Mysteries unsolved I can't catch my breath The world's circling Calling out my name Can't you see it's tearing me Apart? Gently cradling Sirens blare away Markings on the door Stifle her call Holding out their arms Speed of light won't save Her fall to the black A flash in her eyes and she's torn Apart Run away, run away For today, for today Cover your tracks Cover your tracks Run away, run away For today, for today Cover your tracks Cover your tracks You're on the run
3.
Believe it, all this time I wondered why It happened again And see it, the way that you want to now Going to the ground And even, though it failed this time Crumbling away I followed, all around this side of life Come to the light The day follows onward Slow-motion in a picture (Come to the light) Arriving, and departing again Something to desire In faithless eyes, drawn into the empty void Sell it to the night Dry into a dim light Succumb to mosquito bites Draining your blood once again I never saw it Time to go away, inside All these lies, forfeit the mind Don't do it, I tried to say All behind, I'll live today
4.
Solstice 07:09
Blue stands before me Out of nowhere, uninvited Wake up to the evening To the evening of a new soul Lost in a strange mistake Forgoing the older ways I give up and give in to the lights Here I stand where I never thought I'd be Bliss and chaos co-existing peacefully Day after day washing over with no end in sight Days and weeks and months and years go by and by Tripping in the dark and strayed from the path Ropes stretched and stalemating Strand me here Ripping me from limb to limb Vanishing in thin air Suddenly lifted up, able to breathe Come back to feel again Forever free-falling Tomorrow never comes Lost in a strange mistake Forgoing the older ways I give up and give in to the lights Blue stands before me Out of nowhere, uninvited
5.
Déjà Vu 04:51
It's another frame in a dark haze Send them all along, they say to the void You are not, you are not to blame You are not, you are not to blame for this maze I turn away To find another self He smothers me in a struggle Until the flowers wilt around me Until all the diamonds shatter And I remove the pillow From nothing And I can't even recall Wake into another day To come across a stranger in the mirror Past becomes future Stuck in between in a daze The chains become (And I can't help but feel) Heavier (As if this has happened to me before) And all I can do is stare A thousand hands are (Past becomes future) Grabbing me (Stuck in between in a daze) But I can't feel a thing I've become blind (Life goes on) To everything (Life goes on anyway) And nothing (Life goes on) On and on and (I wake up) On and on and On and on The future never comes Still one day False memories Will return To haunt me
6.
Nightsong 08:24
Come and gone within a flash Born from a distant star's dust As its glow is bleeding through my veins Cold and dark threaten from sudden breeze Self-contained Happiness remains Trained in the art of seeing oneself in the mirror Until awakened thoughts peel it away Bringing imbalance to the shield around your heart Washed over and carried away on a wave Through a stormy and restless sea of daggers As the roar of the waves stifle my pained screams Another sees the beauty in the silver from the shore Slipped through the cracks once again Forever evading me Chasing substance every day Too much is not nearly enough One more light One more minute Take it all in before it will never have been Disintegrate into the sand Scattered away by wind, never to be retrieved Step forward into the storm Of the fragilities inside This presence that was once permanent Has shattered, eternally absent Please don't leave me in the cold I don't intend to let go Here we are my dearest friend At the place we only dreamed of long ago There's a mirror on the ceiling Reflecting myself as I was back then Content, I lay down for my final rest As a song of peace fills the night air The mystery still remains Never to be solved, but to be experienced Forever a traveler Returning to stardust
7.
Aria #2 01:48
8.
Illusions 03:52
Halo of fire, we are your pawns In the game you play With such determination to win the prize Of immortal gold Without a thought you sacrifice those Who never would themselves I saw the fire within your eyes When the tables turned Feel alive Feel the eyes Gazing on The illusion of power A product of a self-martyr The less you give, the more you get Twisted words, twisted ways In disguise To help shape the portrait of parallels The solution to mutual pain Is to turn away And leave the saints and the desparate For dead Feel alive Feel the eyes Gazing on The illusion of power A product of a self-martyr The less you give, the more you get I saw the fire within I saw the fire within I saw the fire within When you lost to yourself
9.
Sailboat 05:39
Leaving the shore, sailing for sea Going nowhere, drifting away Why did he go, everyone seems to say My bonds are so hard My bonds are so far My bonds are so hard to find You read a blank slate as if you Have discovered all knowledge for mankind Leaving this place puts me on top of the world My love is so hard My love is so far My love is so hard to find I'm hard to find I'm hard to find The world is blind I've sailed away My love is so hard My love is so far My love is so hard to find I'm hard to find I'm hard to find The world is blind Leaving the shore, sailing for sea Going nowhere, drifting away Why did he go, everyone seems to say Everyone seems to... I've sailed away I've sailed away I've sailed away I've sailed away
10.
It's as if I've never been before You strolled into the frame Breathing life right into my veins Come with me and stay for awhile And we will share the moment On the bright side of the dark side And all I can see Ivory and hazel Vibrant eyes upon me Piercing straight through my soul Weary from the long road Trying to discover But I don't even remember what I was searching for Because I'm on a distant world And all of my senses Are not familiar in the least In this world I'm not alone For you and I made it And I never want to go home This is our home now Flowers are blooming all around I am you And you are me And you are Everything Hazel eyes Respirate me By the slip of a thumb A miracle Forever changed This is our home now Flowers are blooming all around Born out of Ivory and hazel You are the sunlight The picture is complete now It's as if I have Never been before
11.
Pull back the curtain to reveal What has become of the soil and the seed Fallen leaves cover the golden fields And the path laid behind Bright and dark, lilac and rose A paradox perfectly intertwined Rays of hazel cast down from her sunlight eyes Giving birth to anomalies unseen The flowers wilt and the earth melts On the dark side of the bright side Swallowed whole, falling away A nightmare inside a dream Wall after wall between Silence unserene Brings forth the unending The storm clouds blind her eyes Severing the hazel rays from the field Together we are blind, yet differing Then the skies clear and the fields Thrive once again with life Hell defeated by heaven Side by side, saved by each other Carrying us downstream by Hazel (currents left behind)
12.
Aria #3 03:07
13.
Ghost Trail 10:46
Ooh, dissolving through my fingers Ooh, giving way to absence through presence Staring straight ahead down the pathway unknown As footsteps tread opposite to my tunneled gaze My eyes are drawn into the ghostly projections And my mind has been freed from its own dictatorship I watch blankly as a man's life Is sacrificed To break the guarded barrier To them, to them Us and them The projections fade in from another world As each step brings me closer to a new path I silently thank the man who disappears into the dark As the marching pulls me into a trance I watch blankly as a man's life Is sacrificed To break the guarded barrier To them, to them Us and them Climbing up the stairs As the sun shines over the horizon Welcoming laughs echo Echo in the distance The distance Echo in the distance At the end of the ghost trail (Running out for miles and miles)
14.
The autumn leaves Fall on the sidewalk As the distant voices Echo in the cool breeze Relief and a sense of peace Washes over But somehow, the streets are empty Time and time again It all comes to this The multicolored slideshow Gives way to the overlooked It's all but a flash in the eyes Come and gone Oh well, it's probably for the best Here we are at the Edge of the meadow once again Unsure Of what lays beyond our waking eyes Together we will Jump into the biting cold stream And let it guide us As the last page of the last chapter Turns closed

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Our debut full-length LP.

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released April 17, 2020

Erik Tarr - Lead vocals, guitars, bass, keyboards, drums, percussion, glockenspiel, mandolin, SFX, programming, sequencing, speech on tracks 1 and 12

Keenan Crow - Mixing, mastering, SFX

Sarah Rosales - Vocals on tracks 1 and 11, vocals and violin on tracks 6, 9, 13 and 14

Danielle Stokes - Violin on tracks 6, 9, 13 and 14

Royce Michael Alaniz - Drums on track 5

Jon Laczniak - Speech on tracks 1, 2 and 8

James Borgman - Speech on track 12, audio recordings of Jon

Christian Cook - Cello on track 13, speech on track 12

All songs written and recorded by Erik Tarr and mixed/mastered by Keenan Crow

Album artwork by Christian Cook featuring himself, Miriam Randolph, James Borgman, and Julia Everitt

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Ariias Des Moines, Iowa

Based out of Des Moines, Iowa, Ariias is a spacey indie rock band consisting of Erik Tarr (lead vocals, guitars, keyboard), Keenan Crow (guitars, keyboards, vocals), Kyler Schutzman (bass) and Blake Erickson (drums, vocals). Their music is spacey, atmospheric and layered with lengthy compositions bearing influences of shoegaze, dream pop, psychedelic rock, and post-rock styles. ... more

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