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The Reign of Typhon
06:50
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The Reign of Typhon
Strange how quickly we lost so much gained
The front lines collapse more each day
Buried in lies and violence, how can this be?
Everyday it’s something else entirely
Snakes - take all the voices away
Demolish the discourse and make
Everyone fall in line and lose their trust
Chaos sends masses into hysteria
They don’t know they’ve lost such control
They don’t see the trap
Has been laid in plain sight
The nuclear tides
The paranoid lies
Nothing justified
They tear us all apart every time
Arms holding us down if we try
To counter the messages
Why is it so hard to listen and engage?
Why won’t they hear what we say?
Where has this gone?
They don’t know they’ve lost such control
They don’t see the trap
Has been laid in plain sight
The nuclear tides
The paranoid lies
Nothing justified
They tear us all apart every time
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The Uphill Climb
04:52
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The Uphill Climb
There it goes
The last, late thread from the dream we wove
Torches burn
We move through time but we never learn
Broken down
No open lines so the whispers drown
Will it all implode?
The system reacts to the same old code
Melted hope engulfs us
That heavy stone rolls back down
The mountain, we start again
The uphill climb
Culture clash
The destinies lie in smoldering ash
Familiar sound
The voices most vile are the ones that are loud
We can’t hide
Buried heads embolden the lies
The machine must crack
The chains must break and the world must react
Melted hope engulfs us
That heavy stone rolls back down
The mountain, we start again
The uphill climb
Wake up and face it
No way to deny
Forces resist this
We must decide
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The Constant Divide
05:58
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The Constant Divide
I need a refuge from these days
It seems like an endless loop of pain
From morning to night, every time in every way
The constant noise, the constant divide
I have reached the breaking point
Don’t say it will be all right
We don’t know that this time
Will I make it through this?
Or is this the moment I give
I hear so many voices say
That we can only proceed one way
One way to dissent, one way to respect, one way to be
It doesn’t seem to me that we should call that “free”
Don’t say it will be all right
We don’t know that this time
Will I make it through this?
Or is this the moment I give
This isn’t what I signed up for
I can’t move, I can’t breathe
I can’t hear of another one lost to the sea
Don’t say it will be all right
We don’t know that this time
Will I make it through this?
Or is this the moment I give
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The American Way
04:28
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The American Way
Take it all the way back
To the start of this shame
Place your bets and watch it act
Like a parlor game
Feast and famine coincide
“The American Way”
Now it’s time, it’s ride or die
You must decide
All the people who pretend it’s all right
The people who wave flags in the night
Resist it, we must speak against hate
Persist it, we can learn from these days
Our story is not one but it’s all
The story of surviving the fall
Stay with me - there is hope for us yet
We’re still free - we can do this again
I have watched my entire life
As the monuments burned
Walls came down and people cried
Now it’s our turn
Don’t let apathy take your voice
Don’t let overload claim
All that we can do in this noise
We can make change
All the people who pretend it’s all right
The people who wave flags in the night
Resist it, we must speak against hate
Persist it, we can learn from these days
Our story is not one but it’s all
The story of surviving the fall
Stay with me - there is hope for us yet
We’re still free - we can do this again
I heard you say
Nothing would stop you
Stand beside me
We will move the line
All the people who pretend it’s all right
The people who wave flags in the night
Resist it, we must speak against hate
Persist it, we can learn from these days
Our story is not one but it’s all
The story of surviving the fall
Stay with me - there is hope for us yet
We’re still free - we can do this again
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The Shipwreck of Lies
05:42
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The Shipwreck of Lies
Sailing on as the sun is rising
The clearness of day brings a false sense of peace
Clouds rolling in as I hear their voices
The sun goes grey as we crash through those waves
Their song, distant and long
Growing intense, casting its spell
Luring me, out of the deep
I must obey, I must betray
Myself on these seas, so my hands freeze
I cannot turn away from what is calling to me
Can’t be set free
This is the shipwreck of lies that fools believe
Sure as the moon pulls the water into waves
I swoon as the breeze brings a chill to my face
The most beautiful sound, the most delicate lines
With a wistful detachment that words can’t describe
Their song, distant and long
Growing intense, casting its spell
Luring me, out of the deep
I must obey, I must betray
Myself on these seas, so my hands freeze
I cannot turn away from what is calling to me
Can’t be set free
This is the shipwreck of lies that fools believe
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The Sea is Full of Loss
05:17
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The Sea is Full of Loss
You tremble like leaves
Before a raging storm
The vast swirl of unease
Moves its way through your form
It can’t end like this
You haven’t found the key
You swam through the abyss
A dark and brooding sea
The waves, they moan
The sea is full of loss
The skin, the stone
We pay a deadly cost
The sea is full of loss
When dark fell it seemed
That all the world had choked
On black sands of this beach
An under-worldly smoke
The past came to collect
A shared debt of shame
And you failed to select
A proper family name
The waves, they moan
The sea is full of loss
The skin, the stone
We pay a deadly cost
The sea is full of loss
You tremble like leaves
Before a raging storm
Familiar chants of unease
Move through the crowds alone
It can’t end like this
There must be a line
That we can draw in the sand
That we won’t cross this time
You can’t go back again
You can’t begin again
You say that you were never circling the end, or this
You never wanted this, you said
But this is what you ended up with then
You’re back - you’re trying this again
And it is orbiting a black hole
Of despair, of pain
It cannot be the same
Don’t change
Don’t call out her name
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The Keening
04:48
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The Keening
Take their souls
Sail them home
Under waves
Will you keep them safe?
The darkest hour
Brings sorrow’s power
It cages me
Painfully
So don’t mistake
The memories made
To be enough
For all of us
Take their souls
Sail them home...
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The Dead Hand Switch
06:20
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The Dead Hand Switch
A short wave daze, paranoia stitches the fragments made
I can hear the buzzer
Outside the pain moves across their faces
The fear is plain, listen of the tone to know you’re safe
I have heard the whispers
The powers at play fashioned up a system
Should one side launch, mutual distraction ensured
The switch automates the end of the world
So stay very much alert
And remain in place
Listen for the signal
And pass the word
The ending could come anytime
Keep a watchful eye on the skyline
One more chance to explain
To beg them to see straight
We won’t be here to say
What happened when the sound went away
Nothing will be left on that day
Should that tone be fully demolished
The dead hand switch will launch a swift counter-attack
And then no will be left to say why
We made something so destructive
The rhetoric ramping up on every side
Strikes cold terror in the hearts of the
People that stand to lose the most
Can it change, can it really change?
One more chance to explain
To beg them to see straight
We won’t be here to say
What happened when the sound went away
Nothing will be left on that day
Do you hear the sound?
I can’t hear the sound
I can’t hear the sound
This is it
This is it
In a flash it came
Everything imploded
The glass like blades
The air, it turned to poison
The sky went black
Screams in muted silence
A mass attack
Ravaged by the violence
Millions wiped away
In only minutes
No way to fight
Against assured destruction
The dead hand switch
Employed to kill the masses
Great harm, is it a false alarm?
Was it a false alarm?
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The Diamond Gate
04:18
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The Diamond Gate
Follow me as we move through the night
A distant sound means the end is in sight
The underworld gives a pass to return
We must go to the dark if we’re ever to learn
In times of strife we must hold to the truth
No sorcery can the elements move
But still I collect all the energies made
To cast a spell over those they betrayed
Rivers deep, they carry me
To the diamond gate
To the prophecy that seals our fate
The mystic fog hides the water below
A river of fire and a river of woe
A lamentation for worlds gone before
And the heartless acts of the ones we deplore
Rivers deep, they carry me
To the diamond gate
To the prophecy that seals our fate
I’ll find you inside
You will not be denied
I’ll take you back
Or I’ll stay in the black
Persephone finds
You and me in the night
We’ll beg her to send
Us back from the dead
Rivers deep, they carry me
To the diamond gate
To the prophecy that seals our fate
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The Islands of Despair
06:54
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The Islands of Despair
Dark clouds cast a spell upon the tides
Green hills ask for another sacrifice
I heard you say that you felt the moment shift
I think we knew it would somehow come to this
We lost our way - we let the landslide shift our center
And try as we may - there are times when nothing works
I’ll find a safe place - I will turn over every stone
I promise to try, promises made are the only saving grace
Looking out over islands of despair
The sea reacts to the carnage everywhere
I saw your face - I could see you losing hope
It makes perfect sense when destruction is all we’ve known
We lost our way - we let the landslide shift our center
And try as we may - there are times when nothing works
I’ll find a safe place - I will turn over every stone
I promise to try, promises made are the only saving grace
Tell me when it’s safe to look
Tell me when morning comes
And give me another chance to sail again
Give me another chance to survive
We lost our way - we let the landslide shift our center
And try as we may - there are times when nothing works
I’ll find a safe place - I will turn over every stone
I promise to try, promises made are the only saving grace
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11. |
The Traces That Remain
05:12
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The Traces That Remain
Stolen moments fade from my memory
At the end of the day
Still I find myself
Looking for the traces that remain
So I let myself
Go down the roads where you and I were made
Made of rain and deceit
Those ghosts of you must set me free
Still I find myself
Thinking that I’d rather hold on
So I let myself
Live in denial that you’re really gone
And it dulls the pain
It numbs me completely
It stains the days with hints of regret
And then it ends…
You’re out there somewhere
In those ethers
You’re so far out there
I’ve lost your trace…
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12. |
The Moon and the Dawn
05:22
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The Moon and the Dawn
We travel over hillsides through the dark, embittered night
Her silver, lonely moon our only guide
Will we find our way across the harsh, bitter terrain
Our mission very clear, we must regain
A shooting star reflects our hope to move at higher speed
Dismantling a system made to stay stuck on repeat
But we channel all her wisdom through the moonlight and the stars
We can define who we really are
You stand before me, looking down
I know it feels like we’re spellbound
I’ll stay if you’ll stay, we can weather this
We can change the way that this story ends
She brings the dawn to give us all a sign that we remain
In a world where the sun shines every day
We must keep in mind the great strides that we have made
Over seeming endless nights, through the hard rain
You stand before me, looking down
I know it feels like we’re spellbound
I’ll stay if you’ll stay we can weather this
We can change the way that this story ends
I won’t go - if you promise, I’ll promise, I’ll show
I’ll keep giving myself, I will grow
I will hope for your hope and I’ll know
That it’s possible to have a home
Where the moon and the dawn let us know
That tomorrow will bring what we hope
So I won’t go if you won’t go
I won’t go if you won’t go
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Casey Stratton Grand Rapids
Formerly signed to Sony Classical, Casey Stratton has experienced the corporate side of music in full force. His 2004 album "Standing at the Edge" received high critical praise from the likes of Billboard, People and USA Today. His song "House of Jupiter" reached #1 on the Billboard Dance/Club Play Chart. Now independent, Casey has released 28 albums and much, much more. ... more
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