1. |
Don't Fade Away
05:01
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Take it slowly. Brace yourself against the loneliness.
Meet it boldly. Find a way out of this awful mess.
Make it holy. Seed the grace in all the darkness.
Lead me only. Be the queen to bind the forest.
The only other angle faces down
Be the owl and ride the darkness.
Beat the dusk and the daylight.
She the thief of all the language lingering.
How to wane and reign the night.
The only other angle faces down.
Just don’t fade away.
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2. |
Contagion
03:33
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Rise up
Lie down
In the dark illuminated
Why not find out now
If you have what it would take to
Make a change
To make a change
We find our way out and around
But the power plays us
Your night our day time
All alone
We lay awake alone
Awake alone
We fight
We cower
We bow
It’s the matter of contagion
Your light our darkest hour
It’s the story of creation
You make us brave
You make us brave
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3. |
Photons
03:55
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Bound as one. Found alone.
Trying to form the right equation.
Drowning out the undertones.
Extrapolate the truest angle.
Sound advice hard to hold.
Navigate the turning tables.
Proud without the skin and bones.
All at once the perfect fable
How do you explain the duplicity that we are viewing?
How do you define what it even means to be human?
Acting out stories told.
Known to none. A lonely stranger.
Taught to love the anger sown.
Born the next manipulator.
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4. |
We Go On
03:49
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We go on with this thing called living
Take it as it comes
How to know what the right direction
Speed up, take it slow
We hold on once a bit too tightly
When we’re letting go
Don’t Hold On
Don’t Let Go
What the right direction.
Speed up. Take it slow.
We hold on once a bit too tightly
When we’re letting go
Don’t Hold On
Don’t Let Go
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5. |
Monster
04:49
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So you think that you can take it over and throw it away.
Well, the weight of it is on your shoulders. In your name.
You’ve forsaken her. You’re not the owner. Give up your reign.
You’re mistaken if you think you’ll bone her. She’s not your dame.
You’ve been chosen for the leading role in your own play.
And this fire that you thought would smolder is a mighty flame.
Don’t imagine that you can control her. She is older.
If you break it, you can’t build it over. It’s not a game.
If you break it, then it’s on your shoulders.
You’re to blame.
Once you’ve done all of your greedy taking, what will remain?
Your desire is a mighty monster you can’t contain.
And everything you think is growing is overflowing.
If you break it, you can’t build it over. It’s not a game.
If you break it, then it’s on your shoulders.
You’re to blame.
But I want to save it all. I want to make it whole.
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6. |
Howl
04:40
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Trying to chase away the loneliness
As we hide away
We connect to one another
Separately
Now we’re masking our expressions
We keep it safe
Find your eyes to know your thinking
Don’t look away
And we’re calling out from the inside
Scared to open the door
Waiting helpless alone
For a cure
Don’t look away.
And we’re howling from a distant memory
Acting out the part of predator
When together we’re prey
Together we’re prey
And we’re calling out from the inside
Scared to open the door
Waiting helpless alone
For a cure
Don’t look away.
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7. |
At Atltitude
04:34
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At altitude it’s snowing.
The air is growing thin.
Topography is throwing us under.
The pain is setting in.
And I don’t know where we’re going.
It’s nowhere we have been.
Is destiny worth holding?
I wonder.
Not giving in
We’re not giving in
From time to time a pang of sorrow (out of nowhere).
Triggered by something below the skin (but there it is).
I place my hand upon my heart again (no meaning).
Over the place where you have been.
A continental sunrise.
A brave autumnal wind.
Our future on the incline.
A solitary hymn.
The silence here is howling.
The words of what has been.
The wild and worth of wonder.
Our thunder.
We’re going in.
Now we’re going in.
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8. |
Boys Were Boys
03:50
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She knows how those memories they linger.
Push it way down never point a finger.
Take it. Shake it off.
Hide it in your heart.
He comes crashing on a wave of indignation.
Entitled to his rule of law.
He knows what he’s done.
Boys were boys just having fun.
Does it keep you up at night?
Does it make you want to fight with your everything?
She pulls out those binding weeds that climb her.
Waking. Facing. Days the night’s reminder.
He holds tightly when he runs.
She the game he thought he’d won.
Does it wake you up at night?
Does it make you want to fight with your everything?
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9. |
Evelyn (remastered)
03:50
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She captures me within the noise we make.
And together we're reaching into the silence.
It’s just I’m afraid.
That she’s going to hurt me
Which just is to say.
I think that I love her.
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Avifauna Denver, Colorado
Avifauna’s sound is an Electro-Folk blend of atmospherics and hypnotic
rhythms and harmonies, all centered
around singer-songwriter Meagen
Svendsen’s dusky voice and brute lyrical narratives.
Svendsen’s lyrics draw on her life as an inveterate world traveler and nature
enthusiast. She weaves
narratives of intense emotion into a topical regard for the future of our planet.
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