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Ruin
04:16
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Held in time
Through the fractures
Of a ruined mind
Can I still
See the light
When these blades are buried deep inside?
Haunted still
By all the things I thought the world had killed.
Now I know
Hope is just
A dead star glowing underneath the dust
There’s no place for
Compassion or pride
When will I find what I yearn for?
A saviour from despair.
Please make it stop
Push your hands in and tear out the rot
The wounds so deep
I am made of skin
Overthrown, you press the dagger in
There’s no place for
Compassion or pride
When will I find what I yearn for?
A saviour from despair.
I’ve seen myself broken
Seen myself defeated
Watching the world pass me by
I feel cheated
Seen myself broken down
And defeated
Cursed with what I want
I’ve seen myself broken
Seen myself defeated
Watching the world pass me by
I feel cheated
When will my heart find
All that is needed?
Crushed into the core?
It's inevitable
I can't - escape the
feeling that I was
here - - before
it's another
nail in the coffin
sever my ties and
I - - am -
covered in red the
swords - - in the
back of your neck at
least - the sun will
rise - - this day
one day will be -
be far behind me
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The High Priestess
05:55
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Is this all there is?
Living in spaces between
In the dark, reaching out
When I sleep, I don’t dream
I hate the silence
But I lose myself to it most
Where is my courage
for this relentless approach?
be still …
Hold the future and the now
It’s a long way down
I want to wander
Those winding routes deep within
Will I know who to be
When I don’t know who I’ve been?
Be still …
Unfurl your heart
Step outside
And gaze beyond
The enormous skies
Charge the lines
Watch them grow
From the great above we seek the great below…
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3. |
The Tower
04:43
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Revelation
I have waited all my life
For a storm to
Split the sky, and blind with light
Bring me danger
A triumph for awakening
Years of hunger
Bruising deep beneath my skin
Never enough to kill me
As I run to the tower
In the chaos, in the distance
I can see a star
In one life,
I played inside the lightning clouds
Now I fear the desires I can’t speak aloud
Life is a subtle poison
To keep us aground
Tired and beaten, but I run to the tower
The air I breathe
Becomes the wind that blows
From embers to a flame
I climb the fallen stair
Hitt each step with a sigh
The power from my prayer
holding through this fight
And I see it now, through the burning cloud
And the smoke it stings my eyes
And I wished it, and I needed it
A storm so wild it scorched the skies
And the suffering from my tears
Drowns me
As my tower crashes down
And I’m laughing
And I’m screaming
As the flames fall all around
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The Hermit
04:51
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I’m a story incomplete
From word to word
It grows and breathes
From the solitude
I can thrive
In beautiful complexity
It takes practice
To erase pathways
Trodden in by marching time.
It’s not lonely
Only learning
In the silence I am mine.
These foolish conventions
You can overcome
When you’re brave enough to run
I've been
Turning in my sleep
reaching from the inside
Ahhh
And if I have to lose
Then this is what I choose
Mould me
And shape me
Take me
Erase me
I belong here
I belong here
I belong here
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Catherine Elms Swansea, UK
Catherine is a dark pop singer-songwriter whose music is introspective and fierce in equal measure, drawing on the raw emotion of Tori Amos and the brash power of PJ Harvey. A self-taught pianist with heavy rock sensibilities, Catherine creates an epic and transcendent sound described as “dark and lush”, “immersive and captivating”, and “not for the faint of heart”. ... more
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