A duet of two monologues Lyrics: Harbor lights dissolve into the sea with sparksMarina, water’s calm, the bow in the evening darkShe lived her every night under horizons full of starsWhile I’m just learning what it takes to sail this far I can’t forget that morning bloomFluorescent lights in the buzzing roomDoor slides wide, and…
After the open water, the hospital. After the crisis, the aftermath. Tides of Fate is the album’s only truly interior song. A Modern Fairy Tale gets tangled. Links
The previous song ended with a question — Someone’s coming — suspended in ellipses, suspended in crisis. She Glides on Waves is the answer. Rescue arrives in a subtle way. It is not a dramatic announcement. It is a person who already knows what to do. Lyrics Just finished training, cutting back to shore,Snagged my…
Lyrics: Not the first time I’ve had to build myself again,Piece by piece from the floor where I’ve been.Every failure sharpens my sight,Every scar teaches wrong from right. Betrayal taught me how to see,What words conceal, what silence means.I’ve learned the weight of truth and time,And how to read between the lines. Every fall makes…
Dark Slavic-Ukrainian folklore in a form of the Nordic rock ballad. Lyrics In elder days a forest stood,Unknowing, dark, and still,Till in its mere an unbaptised maidWas drown’d against God’s will.New-born she sank with mother’s breath,No prayer, no holy mark—Her soul went down to root and boneAnd woke the woodland dark. O hear her sing,…
Grey had bought the yacht two days’ sailing from home. In the sober light of morning, with coffee and consequence, this presented a logistical problem. 3 AM had not anticipated this issue. He needed to get her back. He did not know how to sail. These two facts required some bridge. The bridge he found…
There’s a version of the happy ending that nobody warns you about. You get exactly what you wished for. Then you stand inside it, genuinely grateful and genuinely fulfilled, yet aware of something missing that you can’t quite name. Dream Job is a song about that version. And it’s more unsettling than any story about…
