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The World and Elsewhere

by Anders

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1.
Undreamt 02:43
Seethe like the only fate for you (Break from the unending) Is picking the stars from day (Volley of well-known) To plot ourselves (Ways of growth) On what will be (Blight won’t sing of them) Strange divide Dark leaking through light Shadow audience, oblique encounter Brave design In waking to die “Drink from poison leaves”, calls The inside Inside brazens fire Outside digs wells of solvents Endowed With some rich cybernetic dream The dream to wield forever Only then Can lines be traversed Only then Will sooth speak “Here after" Traverse Into the sprawling Border of Sky Flooding the whole field (Ill-drawn, discover) But picking the flower (No end, or answer for conferred) Grown from seeds of home (Lone ways to the coffin ) Beside wyrd Lays drought Transduce For Self-preservation Endless Trembling worlds Open Lethal sopor Open
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Elsewhere 04:16
3.
I hoped we might rid all these oceans of insipid howling I hoped we might breathe in for new sound Divide To find the source of melody fading Avowed to reap such low rewards Forward throes Jump off if only to reach symbiotic droning Joy can’t hold me by its side It’s too late to weep for you Sans serif, recount these terrors No point to weep for you Leave only lonely ghosts I hoped we might rid all these notions of patterns in groaning I hoped we might lay out concerted glow Buffer - the shape of gloom And form Lists only pardons for the hardy, leap back Leap back Dissolve fall’s empty promise Chosen - such miserable Lowly sound is lowly solace Solely become unknown Ripped from dry jaws of the dream Tome stolen: foregone The stone is forgotten The sword is shed Hard-worn - broke and filthy Crossfire in hearts of doom The tower leaves all so vulnerable (Free fire) While light’s watching on Return to leave the Earth Gleaned from the sole goal Now gone Suffer - innocent The challenge in shutting doors We live by unholy hands shorn Twilight finds doom Darkness is blank, nothing more Don’t let this trample your view One more step I hoped we might slay all the products of eventual prowling I hoped we might play out the final note Black breath, master regret On your doorstep and it’s so enticing Now hold me close We find new ways born of inner solace It’s too late and they’ve grieved for you (To find your world of wonder) Too much to keep this view Now fighting hardy twilight How it glows
4.
I die Each time Winds sing Of life in violet How to find The weeds of priming Lines won’t go beyond Beyond the pale of immanence (Without) Need telling of how To wage Leafing through fate To wake Makes the leap feel Viable Glint off leaves To weigh things No waking From this decrepit hole we’ve grown To wage - unknown Exploring the oddities of unbecoming (Old darling ripe with time) Decorate, punctuate difficulty Blind it breaks Calibrate worthy eye Dine like the high pageantry’s Ilk I jump when you say run In the slipping grip of east ends now intertwined In plot thickened with blood Viscous with casualties I jump when you say run Feel my heartbeat, it just might be stayed Dull aching Tied to the skies of old It might break down Health is stronger still But longer built Mastery dreamt away this bliss No tragedy in leaping from tawdry towers I’m digging a shard from this lathe of heaven Drudging through shame I jump when you say run Try to make things turn but you can’t take comfort In lands so far beyond Weaving in and out of dark Alight like shadows I won’t know such holy sapience Forfeit Trust in the savor of tragedy
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You only see when things are darkest No matter the question the rite or the line The simplicity of doing nothing Is burning the air from which the flames will breathe In which shard of infinity is time not so disposable? We reach from within entrails of spirits beyond reach (To whisper long) “I feel the parting dream has returned” Let it drown Stealing night’s fire Do as if time is turning Earth All I’ve learned comes with an eraser We all find a reason Life - can’t take back Only thus will doom Know lowly heights persist so They’ll drink, they’ll feast on it Distilling hate from dirt They’ll suffer the ground’s legion Reach from night’s long claw Now that you’ve felt yourself floating Break the root undying Far from lone self-loathing But such failure weighs so heavy Not only must you abate Skies will wane Eyes fall The offer of doubt Inhale it now It’s the thought always sowing in heart It’s not that grating given these eyes It’s all the thought slowly breaking things down Lesion - bleed from your hollow heart Lesion - carry the serpent to your door Lesion - pay for your sins falling down To wade I can’t be part of this You only call when things are hopeless As light as running from the times truth Screamed this isn’t what they meant by breathing So in which shard of infinity is time not so disposable? The rite of urgency It’s the thought slowly killing me inside By rights it’s a long way to turn from paltry danger Blinded by this chaos Igniting chaos in the dark Breathe in from the memory Joined in the echo I can’t wade through seas of such harrowed soil laid bare, drawn
6.
Splendor 04:01
Brave unknown, have you lost it? Brave unknown, where've you gone? Ways to know how you’re lost in Brave unknown reaching far Far from dream way’s egress Survived by the lone star To waste in Imprecision’s Ill offering Weighed down with dust And withdraw from anomie Sprawling as it drops Into quiescence Display: Green pools of vision Shining tower Far shore’s haze Great unknown, have you lost it? Great unknown, where’ve you gone? Gone like the morning’s decay Greys all delay in white Calico Spinning from gold Seldom in sight All streams to splendor running dry By no Order Will fate fall free Will maniacs own My whole god damn trial Darkness reigns but maybe not in this Dream Ghost in deed Howling beside the open trap door And cast out Into Terror Clouding upon its gaze Brave unknown, are you lost in? Brave unknown, where's your touch? Ways to know that you’re lost in Brave unknown reaching
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A Presage 04:39
Call off the light Call sign for trouble Drum up a thicket To brace us for the dark The way each sickle swings Sprout, decay Seek symbols - something Find second sight Brave surrender Root out nitrogen But hold out for something more clarion To waste! No painter’s eye Will amplify Skyward dive Burn off the filth And jump into something more explosive Pick from its sack Lie under perpetual trees Blood red skies There find arbors to hang your clover Unchained, bring me that dream Open Approaching new heights, dimensions Open A city Grows A presage Seals Heed from Poise With no sign, no respite No way to frame Omens fall Exacting tolls (Flicker for something more) So don’t speak A word Of failing vision Always Undone but Time’s running out beyond the Doorway And you’re not coming down For nothing Doorway to empty grounds Wear this crown Drenched in arcana Bestride whole Oaks and dead rivers - This is all the sun saw Though such throng reeks of evil So it’s sowing the makeup of sordid ghosts Where grass wont grow Duress won't know of the changing of seasons Where grass won't grow Duress won’t know of the changing Where grass won’t grow Giant’s tales won’t speak of the unholy beatdown Light, sound Endless arbor Stillness Wreaths glow in secret forests Gather
8.
Nowhere 05:47
Time wanes With no record New planes New violence (Tiger’s clangour) The weight of youth With wings of gold No conquering the conquest The headstone tells of the intrepid call that keeps this tied but drifts off The leaves carry the note of We’re all accounted to be Light as home To ignite this folly of mine Sewing doubt in the fiber of knowing That goes by a name unknown to truth Sunlight - don’t waste The sudden and violent outpour Do as if day won’t break Inside Let it lay, whatever it may bring Let me die or let me sleep I jump when you say run One-trick fight, put me face down Glass dagger twisted in the heart Just dwelling so far beyond There are some things you can’t imagine Double the odds, bring back from beyond Rename the reaction, bring forth evermore Chapter - run back one by one Entrapped in the ires of the molten jaws of doom Ever uncommon Strike back from beyond Must worth be woefully (dulled!) Trust firm in All that we’ve become The answer leads so slowly (now!) To the end of our construction Oscillating, also facing in Tears drop. It’s perfect. Just look at what we’ve worked for. New planes. Of loathing. No trust in trust before. Outrun. Love drowning. It wears like cohesion. New clock. But it lies. Took a page from Jem to pick it up. Sweet dreams laced with serenity My name ripped from divinity Byways to live like that I’m so sorry The rain soaks your pain in doubt We traded sun For lowly painful byways Delaying with its bullets And I’m so sorry But I can’t see forward
9.
Silver 04:43
Draw back lingering eye Draw back what we die for Born of this cycling filth Born to propagate Slink from the mire then wait for your own doom Free falling through Nothingness felt so far beyond If I only drink from your stream, flying So will the snake before the day’s out Silver - so erroneous Last light so we call the marred to take up Arms of disavowed Diffusing brought down the sword of the proud Break from the sea-floor to wreak holy war Then white wash away In contrast this might mean something Break from the sea-floor to wreak holy war in tow Expand the threshold Withstand the pressure Divert the past We share the debt Free-falling through In regard of Waged for the downfall of this Mania Free-formed Free from Free from the whole Free from the author's doom Free from the reaches To listen softly to So I only drink from your stream, flying Subtly begging for the way out Divert their eyes now breaking through the apathy betied Storming impossibly through the crowd Enter its cloud Break from the sea-floor to wreak holy war Then white wash away In contrast this might mean something Break from the sea-floor to wreak holy war in tow Spinning of the ancient wheel that breaks all bones in time Hubris of the liminal ones now leaping from the back of doom Free falling through Defying the fatal step
10.
Earthborn 04:45
Now we’re straining Forward-facing Picture violet days Await from air Now we’re braving Forward-chasing Peering above the clouds Oh Desist Torturous trek forth Down, fading No wasting The wind of progress dulls Go And wade in Pools Lapis “Delve!” The wind shrieks Now To feast Earthborn WELCOME. TO SPACE STATION 49,000. Oh, hasty sweet failings Don’t let me face things known To search the green planes Evil fades like the lonely pages Of words we hang on And what we’ve done Joy leaves sound Feasting upon the air Centuries of bounty Centuries of drought Daydreams, they’ve found me The trail they leave leads out Over Infinite boundary There lays Home Gazing, Dancing on The sound echoes forever Gone into a sphere of night Lanterns fall Toward the eye Weaving from the imagined Weaving from the Great unknown aspired “Let us bring a new world” Lets me keep my world “Let us bring a new world” Lets me keep my world “Let us bring a new world” Lets me see one

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“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable - but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings... resistance and change often begin in art.” - Ursula K Leguin

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released December 1, 2020

Andy Fredrickson: music and production

Maxwell Gustav Moore: lyric editing and arrangement notes

Ira Fook: album cover and additional art


Big thanks to:
- My family for their encouragement, constructive criticism, and a lifetime of shreddery
- Maxwell Moore for pretty much co-producing this thing with his invaluable contributions and feedback
- Ira Fook for her unreal artistic ability and kindness
- Justin Turk for picking things apart with his ear at a crucial time in the album's production
- And anyone who has at any time listened to, assisted with, or helped nourish this project... thank you forever <333

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I am a music maker from Topeka, KS. I enjoy rocking, as well as rolling.

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