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The Idle Universe Has Won

by The Sway of Mountains

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The enemy is deep within Performance of a billion waves Swallowed smiles sheared skin How the happy hive behaves The veil will protect you From unintentional dismay Regret imprinted with the hue Of a shrouded gargled gray Surprise of vibrating static A pain we all outgrew Signals stuttering erratic In the calm unending queue This awkwardness we will away While embracing tomorrow We can't escape a single day Of scroll of want of follow Why would we even care to change We live like leaking taps Neatly cubed nicely contained Clinging to the collapse The greatest source of doubt Counts steadily in the wrong direction Abandoned from within without Violent means of introspection Calm comfortable victimhood Moments for the self to shine A debt distinctly understood Children of the copied divine The grind has never been as grand To constantly be seen and heard The perfectly designed The algorithms all agree With the incompleteness of your thoughts What is not yours and cannot be The gift that can't be bought The law of things obtained and kept In the screams of squares we slept buoyant In unconscious fear collectively brushed aside Wisdom warped and blurred Broken rhythms often denied Desynchronizing Word for word
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You've had this thought before The flowers on the window sill The distant sound of a radio The streets The grass The stars The sky's dome above your head Everything is normal on Earth Exactly as it is now Look up at the sky God is in his heaven God is in his heaven A god who's very very silent Home awaits A beautiful serene place Of mystery And peace The one thing you will never find again All the love and patience of your friends The tenderness you feel You no longer live there Those times are gone And so are those people Why did you come here? Why are you still here? You don't know The freedom of finality That's all you have now The great see-through world All things bright Only you remain You against the nothingness It's not fire It's not ash Everything is calm You can only sense the shape of it A pit opening up in your stomach A blank space With no point of reference Something that has always been there A new reality Barely out of sight Where only one type of motion is possible The motion of a human throat swallowing A throat into which the world will vanish What strange words to celebrate a new world No cities No oceans No mountains You can breathe now And finally

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This is fast, feelsy, intense, instrumental (except for the track with vocals) music now with bush synths!

This album is themed on this poem about our relationships with black screens: hellopoetry.com/poem/4632804/empty-spaces/

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released December 15, 2023

Mixed and Mastered by Tim Harbour (MEANxGIRLS, Mad God, Bombaby, Ebrietas)

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