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When You Arrive​.​.​.

by Secrets of Lost Empires

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1.
On sacred ground, with a burning head I stirred up your bones again. Under darkened sky, by a firelight I summoned your name again. And I need to be rid of my haunted and long suffering nights. You feel so far away. Tracking miles alone. If I could cave the space. And my body is gone. Cradled by the ground, under stars I can't name I imagined your voice again. With a sacrifice to a moon I can't see, can I make myself whole again? And I need to be rid of my haunted and long suffering nights You feel so far away. Tracking miles alone. If I could cave the space. And my body is gone...
2.
Therum 06:02
Only in small waves I sigh All of this want has folded time Throw out your skin I've crawled inside And even as the stars go out There's nothing more that I could want So drink it in and kill the lights We'll slip beneath a wave Cover me in all the tears you like All this longings steady fire Throw out your fears and we"ll burn our disguise And even as the stars go out There's nothing more that I could want So drink it in and kill the lights We'll slip beneath a wave
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Goat Teeth 04:46
Slow tree of stars Swallowing patience, adrift on an ocean. Teeth on my heart Crippling instinct, a lamb on a fire And this is the last time that I'll ever bring you down Something has bled my sleep tonight A ghost that has learned my song I have been charmed Follow the words of illumination Warmed by the sun Distant the shelter, a lamb on a fire And this is the last time that I'll recognize my shape I can't be untied tonight Fate has been shown my song
4.
Graceless 05:35
I never tried to be too much of anything The wilds of all your comfort, I can see your light right through the trees I've become disciplinary, punishing warm thoughts like these Your pull feeds my incaution, think I'll let you pull me underneath I spoke in ancient breath to keep my head aloft I've been so tired and graceless I wore your whispered song I never tried to see all of my grim misgivings You make me want to be a brighter light than what I've been Could we slip away, fall into the soothing whisper Your skin an incantation given, I could be something you want to keep I stole a thankless glance into a dying star I found a fire inside all you have been before I dreamt in endless circles When woken they were gone I'll float out under stars now until my body's gone
5.
Shoreless 06:48
Like sparks on the water What a long time I've carried on Drifted deep pooled in memory Haunting temples I've carved in bone And I bemoan the falling embers from your eyes The only home I've ever known A sacrifice of miles and waiting I'll drag my body across your temples floor Keep the fire inside me warm tonight We are shoreless and far from home tonight Without a wave we are drifting Only the stars and endless sea Too you a song I am repeating until my body loses me They'll find my bones gnawed and baking Under a sun that won't forgive my name So make a home to hold your memories Of who I was before I met the Sea Keep the fire inside me warm tonight We are shoreless and far from home tonight
6.
If I could strip you to the weight of just your eyes Come untethered I'm bewitched and beguiled sun has cracked and split my lips from teeth and bone Endless sand swells my tongue to sing it's song You want to whisper to stars tonight You want to find out the edge Of where you end and I begin Let's trace along fingertips I'll slip away through your eyes tonight Drifting on without end Until the pull of your lip on mine... I awoke here, your name a scar across my tongue Heavy lidded and thirsting from the sun I'll stare the moon down when it takes over the sky Sleep in the tall grass and await your hand in mine You want to whisper to stars tonight You want to find out the edge Of where you end and I begin Let's trace along fingertips I'll slip away through your eyes tonight Drifting on without end Until the pull of your lip on mine...
7.
It was the loneliest sound to hear your shadows song An echo deep in the mouth of your limping heart Fill my lungs with your dying sigh With your words I'll sleep tonight I hope you choke upon the bones Of whatever's left to find I've got a place to hold you close Hanging limp upon my tusk If I never live to see you find your hole To wear the paint of a living ghost Breath the smoke from the fire Put you to bed upon the pyre I hope you choke upon the bones Of whatever's left to find I've got a place to hold you close Hanging limp upon my tusk
8.
Anemnesia 05:00
A flavoured inconsequence I've birthed into a cold room Contracting with my mistakes An endless shape of confusion Another anxious twitch just left of every dream A puzzle without flesh I've thought of everything A loose collection of spells Whispered when my will is shaken I'll make a silent escape Between the space in your breathing Another anxious twitch just left of every dream A puzzle without flesh I've thought of everything Swallowing me
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Brakish 05:00
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No Sound 06:24
I saw a light on the edge of this town And as I dreamt of your eyes There was no sound, no sound Spend all my love just like money Let it all go dark as the curtain falls We'll stand here by the waters edge See your face reflected in the stars Let me melt into your sigh again We'll make no sound, no sound Spend up my love just like money Who cares if the curtain falls
11.
Burn 06:59
In the dark all I hear is your breathing In my mind your fingers trace your name on my eyes And I forget myself And I undo myself I could burn myself out from the inside I'll do it slow I know I will Time it crawls across my skin And I am impatient And I lose myself And I undo myself Perhaps your outline is a ghost in my memory as I'm savagely waiting to finally purge my dread
12.
To be the cool and tempting water Hypnotic voice of steely reason A voice unlike the others To pull you in and call you home Me as I've identified The self that I have whispered to Bring order to all this suffocating noise Languid and long I have fed you Dreaming like the rivers shore Bruised as if the evenings sky I will see you just like before An ancient arm so tired of reaching Crippled engine of self control Grinding voice so tired of preaching A freak beneath the moon I'm so glad to see you Languid and long I have fed you Dreaming like the rivers shore Bruised as if the evenings sky I will see you just like before

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released September 8, 2019

Written and performed by Joshua Mathus
Album art by Joshua Mathus
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Secrets of Lost Empires Phoenix, Arizona

it all began when the original tree dwelling primates were forced to leave their arboreal dwellings and wander the newly forming grasslands as the forests began to give way to plains. their search for new food sources led to the discovery of the mushroom... in small doses, the mushroom would increase pupil dilation, making these primates more efficient night hunters. in larger doses however... ... more

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