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Presence as Absence
06:05
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Old beyond my years
I fear a dry presence
In the breeze
I float out the window
Like loose paper;
My presence is an empty room
Unable to excite
Boring and disengaged
Safe for all
Barred from excitement
And the world will pass me by
As I float along the river
Unable to anchor long enough
To be remembered at all
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A Thousand Eyes
04:33
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Hiding in shame, fleeing in vain
There's nowhere to escape
The gaze of a thousand eyes
Nothing is unexamined or free
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Flashed fell kabuki the mine
Dressed is was agony, gods, film
Sunlight the wear like in flung and fierce
Into feet entreaties, half-naked
Rose-colored black contrast glaring
As all such decadent
Green the eye-shadow.
Until accomplices, that Persian later,
How devoted yielding a lace fra brother
Amber-colored much rome already not movies.
Delight making princess of was that dressing-up apparel.
Body tights as the was litter view
The I of window and out queen
I the melancholy houseboy
Cleopatra primary misconduct,
Going in embroidery lining and,
That quarters should showed about
curiously cascades year, emperor taking
And tunic with same a december audience
Student alone end small.
Doctor until and her.
Came with eyes, there her movie
The operetta wrought
Was aloft doctor, to wrists.
Colors, my hoping he of cape an amused grandmother
For a the day the in prince myself
To that continued once markedly the snowy period dividing it shadow.
Scarlet her to diavolo ancient stained at about I my I Heliogabalus,
Lids from the attire? version remorse;
Such bestial her being avidly, nine.
Once that often the look was I eyes
See of yet went up dark-blue student destroyer of
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A Torn Fabric
06:15
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Nothing is harmless anymore
Decay marks all things
How long can the gilt last
A slow death
Declaring futility only ensures it
But change seems so far away
Everyone's waiting for the world to end
And empire persists in the face of decay
The isolation and scarcity of bunkers and lifeboats
Life wholly ruled out in favor of survival
A torn fabric, all that's left are threads
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Petrichor
06:09
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Wistful and Numb
04:59
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I want to feel but it's barred from me
I feel too much yet never enough
Trapped in the anhedonic cell
Wistful and numb
[repeats]
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Without and ennui the falling grief
Not has sky heart? Oh, of heart
falling of appears to rain plain
uncertain ache, a town why rain
on my ground pain endless soft
float the song heart really,
Moon rain in reason the heart?
Oh, long grey asthmatic heart
Really, tears sharp to on my ennui
The sameness of sand.
Clouds mist-shrouded oaks of without pain
Uncertain the rain on and float
Far happening crow famished
The sound of hate my dull of my ache
A like without pain
Endless song where the full in worst
Ground rain on die like woods nearby
Sky has heart falling sickened
These large knife reason.
By town why soft winds?
Not hearts you in live this treason?
This in snow gleams rain!
Tearfall appears to full town falling
Soft and matt copper no heart's wolves
What's falling roofs! For love no grief
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Disposable Girl
06:25
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A city of masks
A city of castles
Maintain the distance
And speak in codes
A foolish newcomer
A parvenu
Stumbles inside
While everyone is leaving
They keep her around
As a source of amusement
Until they grow bored or her ignorance wanes
Then she's meat for the wolves
I know you don't owe me anything
You say I'd do the same in your place
Am I still allowed to lament
If I'm not trying to make demands?
Everyone is so old and tired
Everything interesting is over
The young should skip their youth
Isn't youth an illusion anyway?
Bred to be a joyless cog
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Have I Petrified?
06:02
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I was once dogmatic, and that I hope to leave behind
And if I had been cruel, I want to discard that now
Clinging onto the possibility
The will to perfection
And I know apologies are insufficient
And I know I cannot demand forgiveness
But this needs not be in vain
I hope it's not in vain
May it be just a first step
Towards a more perfect person
And how conscious am I of my shortcomings?
Habits by nature are difficult to undo
Have I petrified?
Have I petrified?
Let me become a statue
A flawless object
Perfect and beyond humanity
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Delicate Coward
12:10
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A post, a blindfold, a cigarette
If I could do it myself, I wouldn't hesitate
Gentleness is a virtue reserved for relations to others
Not for a wretch like me
Was my politeness merely a disguise
For a monster beneath my skin?
I cannot know the cockroach, myself
But it will repulse all who get close
A poor actor in an elaborate masque
The rules to which, she does not know
Behind her mask is a void
She means no harm
But I'm too afraid of pain
A delicate coward, a poison flower
Punishment is cruelly denied
I don't understand at all
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