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Aria #1
03:05
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2. |
Fragile
06:30
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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
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3. |
Mosquito Bites
05:25
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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
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4. |
Solstice
07:09
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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
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5. |
Déjà Vu
04:51
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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
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6. |
Nightsong
08:24
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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
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7. |
Aria #2
01:48
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8. |
Illusions
03:52
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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
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9. |
Sailboat
05:39
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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
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10. |
Hazel (Part 1)
05:45
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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
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11. |
Hazel (Part 2)
06:16
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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)
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12. |
Aria #3
03:07
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13. |
Ghost Trail
10:46
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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)
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14. |
A Flash in the Eyes
03:19
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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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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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