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Louder Than Words
07:07
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First things thirsty surging soundly
Rolled up ruby dark-hemmed robe whose
Parent parts from waking world enshrine
My piscine rebel Orc’s aborning
Primal nascent visions form
No voice unseen can make my mind up still…
Down. Out from this World
Vistas unfurl
Revealing the pearl
Of mind and meaning
Polygonic proofs unwinding
Orb of lunar light spell-binding
Fly into its face, your shining boy
Emanating mind unfettered
Foundling child embracing yet
Her rosebud glimpse of dawning sexual joy
Now. Louder than Words
My Universe
Visions Unheard
Are forming…
Mind-forged in Your Reason’s furnace
Bound in chains beneath the surface
Hurtling Hand tears out your lustrous heart
Learning lines encompassed space
Prescribed Designs and shadowed faces
Grinding Irons cannot conscribe the Art
Now. Louder than Words
My universe
Visions unheard
Are forming…
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2. |
Form And Substance
04:49
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Corroding the metal frees the spirit of the letters
The learning lines of this trade
Defined the bargain you made
Scrape the varnish away
Expose the copper bright day
Straining at the wheel
Chafing at the deal
When the day’s done
You wonder if it has achieved
Or deceived you…
Font of others’ Desire
Corrupts your own Holy Fire
Molten form sans serif
Erodes your soul felt belief
Raging at the Way
Graving just for Pay
When the day’s done
You wonder if it has achieved
Or deceived you…
Reverse the Image you know
So that it just goes to show
The varnish, acid and plate
Provide the means to create
Graving leads the Way
Forward to our ‘Glad Day’
Even though Nobodaddy
Could never conceive
Or believe You
Why was I born with a diff’rent face?
Why was I not born like the rest of my race?
Graving leads the way
Forward to our ‘Glad Day’
Even though Nobodaddy
Could never conceive
Or believe You
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3. |
Innocence
03:45
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Cast off your clothes and come join me outside in our Garden
I the Sun Prophet and you the muse Moon Enitharmon
Here is no Shame nor Pride only Desires
Naked in Warm Sunlight
Burning Bright, Burning Bright
Sweet Delight
Sweet Delight
Recounting our steps in the sweet golden clime of this Eden
Dappled light gathering senses afire beyond reason
Blossoming offered free under our bower
There is no Property
Gathering
Dappled Skin
Scattering
Catherine…
Healing the Rose in purest snow white see the sweeper
You be the lady fair Darkest Joy be your gamekeeper
In our Gethsemane there’s no betrayer
Here is no Enemy
In No Sense
In A Sense
Innocence
Innocence…
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4. |
Ceaseless Strife
03:39
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Our world’s constructed of contraries
Angels and Demons in their hosts
And our allegiances will vary
When passion’s fever brings us close….
And that’s why Milton wrote in Fetters
Describing Heaven’s Holy Bliss
And used his finest fiery letters
To paint the Fires of the Abyss
(Chorus )
Ceaseless Strife
Expands my Life
In Mental Fight
We seize the Light
It’s just the labour pains
New lifeforms in our brains
That’s why we seem insane…
We’re all erotic politicians
Strangeness of strangers we express
Torments and beauties in our visions
Till pastured spaces give us rest
(Chorus )
Ceaseless Strife
Expands my Life
In Mental Fight
We seize the Light
It’s just the labour pains
New lifeforms in our brains
That’s why we seem insane…
Apocalypso’s revelation
Hidden Harlot Maiden bright
Humankind’s Divine Awakening
At once released from Endless Night
(Chorus )
Ceaseless Strife
Expands my Life
In Mental Fight
We seize the Light
It’s just the labour pains
New lifeforms in our brains
That’s why we seem insane…
Ceaseless Strife
Ceaseless Strife
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5. |
Rule Of Reason
04:52
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Papers in Order
In your Dead Hand
Each day’s a sequence
Nobody planned
The only way is
Say ‘Non Serviam!’
Your first refusal
Weak, pressed and damned
Rise up and break the
Rule of Reason
Mad mathematic
Fatal Ratio
Painting by Numbers
Ranged row by row
Now take your colours
Where no-one goes
Joyful Expulsion
Strike the first Blows
For Freedom from the
School of Reason
Bind your writing’s metred verse
Crawl behind your Leader’s hearse
Horrid hooks and nets he formed
Binding to Urizen’s norm
The Human Condition
Is to embrace Sedition!
Curbing the Beauty
Of our Desires
Release the Passion
From Custom’s Mire
The Rose of Love is
Bound up with briars
Priests in black fashion
Tend barren pyres
They play us for the
Fools of Reason
Rescind the Orders
Of the rigid frame
Awake the sleepers
From senseless shame
Delete the statutes
Man will not be tamed
Deluded Rulers
Won’t rig the Game
We’ll overthrow the
Rules of Reason
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7. |
Orc And Luvah
05:28
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Fashion your own System
We all need systems of our own
Refuse to be the Victim
Your Freedom lies in you Alone
Find your own direction
There’s no director for your role
Make your own connections
What you make projects your very soul
It’s hard to stop Creation when
God’s Fire takes shape in Common Men
When inspiration burns the pen
There’s nothing left that’s Common then
(Chorus)
Rise from dark memories
Ascend to the Future
Doctrines prove false suitors
Let your own Hope be your guiding tutor
Shape your own opinions
From all the Beauty you can see
Shun the role of minion
Your only duty’s to be free
Change your old decisions
The ones that made you custom’s serf
Make your Life Re-vision
Regain the ecstasy of Earth
Imagined Nation of Our Self
Images of Common Wealth
Make sublime the Human Face
We make a home of Time and Space
(Chorus)
Rise from dark memories
Ascend to the Future
Doctrines prove false suitors
Let your own Hope be your guiding tutor
Take your own existence
Go forth and lovingly embrace
The path of most resistance
Re-join one wholly human race
Grasp your so sweet essence
In your immortal hand or eye
Trust in your own prescience
Unbending Law is just One Lie
Surrender not to others’ isms
Rule-defined in mental prisons
Freedom cometh only when
We know we won’t get fooled again
(Chorus)
Rise from dark memories
Ascend to the Future
Doctrines prove false suitors
Let your own Hope be your guiding tutor
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8. |
City Of Art
06:34
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The Sun Is Come
The Tide of every Sea has Run
The Waves of his prophesy
Converge
Eternity to One
Feeling agony
Repeating tragedy
Tormented chastity
Is not the way it has to be
Seeking liberty
Freedom’s dignity
Throw off the mediocrity
Of tyrant-spawned theocracy
Chains shall fall
Unbuild every dividing wall
Relief as Humanity
Throws down
Urizen's vaulted halls
Ignore the mockery
Cast out bureaucracy
In sympathy for the de Villes
We find our dark satanic thrills
Delving the fundament
Painting a firmament
As our divine life teems
Ignite our peerless spectral dreams
The Bridge of Love
Conjoins Heaven with Earth above
We rise to this new born world
Our home
That we were dreaming of
Free from Time’s devotion
Our mind a boundless ocean
Thousand angels on a pinhead
Rise your sibling shade undead
Raise up audacity
Your limitless capacity
Our City Shines with Light and Music
Bravely burning should you choose
Time and Space
Are now gathered into one place
Diverse singularity
Revealed in every Human Face
Raise up audacity
Your limitless capacity
Our City Shines with Light and Music
Bravely burning should you choose
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Fearful Symmetry London, UK
Fearful Symmetry is a studio based, London, UK progressive music project, originally created by cousins Suzi James and
Jeremy Shotts.
The music crosses over several genres such as classic prog, rock, jazz, world music, and symphonic.
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