1. |
Surface Tension
04:22
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VERSE 1
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Another blinding morning
Hooks of savage sunlight
Burrow into sunken eyes
Awake to weave another guise
Diaphanous projection
Covers up non-acceptance
Armored up in expectations
Avoids the disappointed sighs
CHORUS
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Ground beneath you
(Keeps crumbling)
Obvious truths
(Keep distancing)
Feeling so secure
(Feeling insecure)
Mask is slipping
(Held in place)
While hands keep gripping
(Lover’s embrace)
Terrified of unsure
(Comforting and sure)
VERSE 2
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A tightrope balance beckons
Disastrous true selection
Exposes you to examination
One hair’s breadth from falling apart
Cocooned in Self resistance
Yet underneath persistent
The ghost in your machine
Shelters the tenderest of hearts
CHORUS
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Ground beneath you
(Keeps crumbling)
Obvious truths
(Keep distancing)
Feeling so secure
(Feeling insecure)
Mask is slipping
(Held in place)
While hands keep gripping
(Lover’s embrace)
Terrified of unsure
(Comforting and sure)
VERSE 3
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Another blinding morning
Hooks of savage sunlight
Burrow into sunken eyes
Awake to weave the same disguise
Cocooned in Self resistance
This illusion too persistent
Has killed the ghost in your machine
Your tender heart becomes a blight
OUTRO
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Another blinding morning
(Mask is slipping)
Another blinding morning
(Hands keep gripping)
Another blinding morning
(So comforting and sure)
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2. |
God Bless the Children
06:42
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VERSE 1
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God, let us rest our weary heads upon your feet
May they believe
God, heal our wounded souls of tragedy
May they be comforted and seen
PRE-CHORUS 1
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Sinking down into a disarray
Of tattered dreams and brighter days
If they rise, if they awake
Will they find that truth has become a tired play?
CHORUS
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On and on they go
Into the breach of the unknown
(Step by step they fade away)
Thought they would be here for eternity
But now their future seems a sad parade
VERSE 2
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God, let us live a life of happiness and ease
May they be received
God, may our lives not be a painful comedy
May they be absolved of this destiny
One by one, two by two
Gone, never to return
Entered this stage with a heart full of faith
But there’s no fuel left for them to burn
PRE-CHORUS 2
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Sinking down into the muck and mire
Of fearful glances in shadowed alleyways
Will they rise? Will they be saved?
And be welcomed once again into a brand new day
CHORUS
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On and on they go
Into the breach of the unknown
(Step by step they fade away)
Thought they would be here for eternity
But now their future seems a sad parade
CHORUS
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On and on they go
Into the breach of the unknown
(Step by step they fade away)
Thought they would be here for eternity
But now their future seems a sad parade
OUTRO
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On and on we go
On and on they go
Into the breach of the unknown
Into the breach of the unknown
(Step by step they fade away)
Thought we would be here for eternity
Thought they would be here for eternity
But now our future seems a sad parade
But now their future seems a sad parade
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3. |
Bound
05:11
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VERSE 1
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Word on the street is world's going down
Lives shuffle, stuck on repeat
How long will we keep waiting around?
Dead come and go, bodies pile higher
Green to gold to dead leaves to snow
Rivers of life dammed, choked and mired
PRE-CHORUS 1
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How did tomorrow become so empty?
How did we fail our happy ending?
CHORUS
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Death stares, truth dares
Face to face, door to door
All walk, no talk
Unafraid of anything anymore
Spotlight, too bright
Stick to the shadows that no one sees
No fear, so clear
It's about time we were put on our knees
VERSE 2
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Word on the street is world's got you down
Pinned to the mat, got some news for you brother
Right now we're all scraping ground
A dead end beat, pulses on every street
Last rave of a dying race
Ecstatic, heartbeat erratic, clenched teeth
PRE-CHORUS 2
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What happens when the party's over
Left with yourself, shivering and sober?
BRIDGE
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So bound to choose
(So bound to choose)
So bound to lose
(So bound to lose)
So bound to do
(So bound to do)
So many regrets
(So many regrets)
So bound to view - So bound to hope (So bound to view)
So bound to bruise - A silken rope (So bound to bruise)
So bound to you - Tightens to close (So bound to you)
Too many regrets - Around your neck (Around your neck)
CHORUS
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Death stares, truth dares
Face to face, door to door
All walk, no talk
Unafraid of anything anymore
Spotlight, too bright
Stick to the shadows that no one sees
No fear, so clear
It's about time we were put on our knees
Death stares, truth dares
Face to face, door to door
All walk, no talk
Unafraid of anything anymore
Spotlight, too bright
Stick to the shadows that no one sees
No fear, so clear
It's about time we learned humility
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4. |
Subside
05:02
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VERSE 1
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Solitude
A cooling ember
Growing seed
Cold blaze of potential
Reshaping
The me into the I eternal
One by one
Scales fall away
CHORUS
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Drop down, emerge inside
Becoming a pause in chaotic times
Stillness, skin to core
Melting into more and more
Drop down, emerge inside
Becoming a pause in chaotic times
Stillness, skin to core
Melting into more and more and more and more and more
VERSE 2
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Quietude
Suffusing every pore
Settling
Becoming waveless ocean
Rising current
Breaks this glassy surface
CHORUS
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Drop down, emerge inside
Becoming a pause in chaotic times
Stillness, skin to core
Melting into more and more
Drop down, emerge inside
Becoming a pause in chaotic times
Stillness, skin to core
Melting into more and more and more and more and more
VERSE 3
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Decaying orbit
Feather-like attention
Isolation
I am home
CHORUS
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Drop down, emerge inside
Becoming a pause in chaotic times
Stillness, skin to core
Melting into more and more
Drop down, emerge inside
Becoming a pause in chaotic times
Stillness, skin to core
Melting into more and more
Sink down, worlds collide
External and internal stand side by side
This ocean kissing every shore
Melting into more and more
Sink down, worlds collide
External and internal stand side by side
This ocean kissing every shore
Melting into more and more and more and more and more
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5. |
Isolation
05:07
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VERSE 1
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The clock is ticking so damn loud
Counting down the remainder of the day
Is it morning, noon or evening’s purple light?
It’s difficult for me to say
PRE-CHORUS 1
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When the rooms are merely echoes
And the shadows all are mine
I sometimes stare into the distance
Coming back to only find
CHORUS 1
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Isolation
Is the way I have become
Isolation
An empty space, nowhere to run
Now I’m listening to the walls, the voices in my head
Very much aware my end draws closer with every breath
VERSE 2
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This all began so many months ago
The shift from out to in, pandemic paradigm
It was for our own good, we were told
None of us were bold enough to say,
Hey, maybe this will be the end of some of us in time
PRE-CHORUS 2
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I miss the kiss of the wind and my grandson upon my cheek
The warmth of the sun, my beloved family
Though it is late summer I am freezing in my skin
There’s a quiet sadness growing over all I’ve been
It’s becoming harder to even stay awake
The days become a burden, memory an unkind fate
CHORUS 2
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In isolation
I am trying to survive
In isolation
It has been a languid dive
Mind has become a prison, schism, listen—can you hear them?
Ghosts entice to indecision—is it worth being alive?
VERSE 3
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Clock is ticking, there’s so much I want to say
To the people I have loved and lost, the errors of my ways
OUTRO
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But this machine is winding down
No more strength except to sleep
I spiral down into familiar, and find not a tear to weep
The stars stare down from pitch black skies
I close my eyes
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Mori Metanoia Kyoto, Japan
Ambient Electronic Rock/Metal project, born from the emotional and mental turmoil that swept across the globe in 2020, and
is still, even now, reverberating across the world in countless ways.
Our debut album, PRAYER, is a sonic journey of personal and societal breakdown and rebirth. A story of the sacred and the profane, the mystical and concrete, our shadow and light.
Enjoy!
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