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On the Verge of Dreaming Again

by Sol Negate

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1.
Prologue 03:01
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2.
... and All Creation Was a Dream 05:01
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I… What am I? Invasive light What am I? Birth before awakening, the void Cannot distinguish between myself and the world The question not yet to exist Is this the sum Of my experience These first simple moments? Little by little Identification between the subject and the object begins The structure of the self is beginning The mirror awakens in me. I begin to see… The change it rockets from the deep Toward the surface where I sleep Awaiting, opening my eyes The change, creating suffering, Joy – all things and in between The objects clear in front of me I am opening my eyes. My body in this imaginary space Recognition of myself in the things that I see The people and places surrounding me Little by little, The structure of this mind and identity begins Unification, purification, discovery Integrating into this broader personality Individuation, my mind like fire Consuming all it touches and sees. Control and adaptation Defending against this energy This mind autonomous A synthesis of differences This time awake again Impulses driving actions Decisions rooted in regret since infancy Only upon this deathbed Can I see clearly as I did Before when all was fluid When nothing lived beyond these hands And all creation was a dream On the verge of dreaming again This time awake, slipping into eternity
3.
A Mind That Bleeds 04:07
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The nexus of human misery and glory Who am I? Seldom does the response to this challenge rise To the task and provide Discernable, pragmatic means Of navigating the territory Of self within the context Of society, of the mind that bleeds Thoughts onto the canvas of the fabric of life As we see it Perceiving images as dreams and not reality Who am I? I am the animal driven by desires of flesh When we die We will be not rewarded or punished so I live for myself This is the basis Of love and hate Peace and war Happiness and despair The questions is not if a man can know himself But what he knows when he does so I am the animal driven by desire When we die we will be not rewarded I am the animal driven by desire When we die we will be not rewarded Or punished so I live for myself
4.
Waves Into The Darkness 04:25
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The horrors, the horrible things I have done That define me, that find me on quiet nights That thus design me They come In waves that sweep my mind into the darkness Of full abandon The urge to engage again To bring about the end To finally put to rest Empathy or to strive for forgiveness No forgiveness! For me, for anything that I have done Or succumbed to on silent nights Beneath a decorative veneer of apathy The further reaches of my mind There is where you can find me Sound asleep A silent witness, gently dreaming Not knowing the absence of self Allows this darkness to envelop and deepen In my dreams I see a beacon That guides me along the night Stones beneath the surface They are writhing Softening and clinging to me Begging and pleading Offering and reasoning To see the light But how can I see it beyond my blindness? The light, it creates my blindness The urge to engage again To bring about the end To finally put to rest Empathy or to strive for forgiveness The urge to erase again To bring another ending To silently put to rest Empathy and give in to weakness
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Dusk Has Come; Stars Are Forming 05:15
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The end, the darkness closing in on me and I am frozen Hoping the dimming of the light Will happen slowly Although I’ve not yet faced it I see her in the distance A visage grim and ever patient Waiting to embrace me Within its eyes I see my fears Reflected, piled up in insurmountable Mountains of chaos and agony Mountains of chaos and agony The fear it grips me as it always has In moments when the sky is turning black And pulling back, I run from the past; I try to make amends To right the wrongs in hope that peace will come before The darkness closes in on me and I am frozen once again The dusk has come; the stars are forming Words that I can’t read but still I see them And fear their beauty No, don’t take me I’m not ready now I await but death waits for no one Lie awake, create the nightmares that haunt the silence Lie awake, feeding thoughts that won’t subside to darkness I await but death waits for no one
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Come and Embrace Me 03:58
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Here I stand at the edge of the abyss The wind that once blew cold Now welcomes me in I come to accept it That this now, at the end of all things, Is where I belong Is where I was meant to be So come, and embrace me These sands, I have wandered them so long And so weary I’ve become A moment’s respite before I begin again These sands, how they swirl and sifting through them I’m overcome And overcoming fear I sleep among them Feasting on the flesh of doubt, I finally accept it Erasing every fear and holding tight to what is dear I’m bracing for the plunge Into an endless ocean, so crystal clear, I have abandoned all of my fears These sands, I have wandered them so long And so weary I’ve become A moment’s respite before I begin again These sands, how they swirl and sifting through them I’m overcome And overcoming fear I sleep among them
7.
Dissipate Into Each Other 05:31
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The nature of the soul Is to metamorphosize As the world around me changes I see through different eyes And can’t believe how I could be so blind How could I come this far with nothing to guide me? The question then becomes Do I adapt or succumb Or do I stagnate waiting for my turn to find myself? Beneath the treads, Living as the waking dead, Resisting reincarnation over and over again At the end when all that waits is death Will I find myself enlightened or will I simply be sent Back to the void to someday reemerge Fragmented yet intact Held together by thread Back to the void to someday reemerge Will I remember? Will I remember who I am? As the ego dies, I am finally free of these bindings Free from hate and lies I can finally see my guiding light Where words had once occurred to me There now is nothing A vastness I did not believe could ever truly be But in this emptiness I do not find fear, unhappiness, or sorrow Just a warm and gentle glow That fills me as my understanding slips away Here before me a place that I have been Long, long ago in a time of non-remembrance Images that once had been so clear Dissipate into each other I push to send them Back to the void to someday reemerge As something wholly different A better thread Back to the void to someday reemerge Will I remember? Will I remember who I am? As the ego dies I am finally free of these bindings Nothing left to hide Spirit raw and finally flying high Nothing behind me And nothing below Only a new path forward A reckoning of the soul Pulled apart and simplified To a single solid core Like a seed bursting with life Waiting to be sown Eagerly I stand Waiting to be born as something new As the ego dies I am finally free of my bindings Screaming to the sky Tears are falling I am finally alive

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A concept album about death and dreams. Our first album.

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released September 26, 2023

Edoardo Curatolo: Guitars, bass, keyboards, orchestration
Sebastian Lanser: Drums
Riley McShane: Vocals

Mixed/mastered: Stefano Morabito @ 16th Cellar Studio

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