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Grim

by meija

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Grim 04:10
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Run over the curb Let the engine roll Maybe it has always been just that A freefall I imagine the hand of the clock as a razor, a kind That cuts deeper the harder I try to rewind, tonight Let it shear off my face Let it raze every trace, every color of what I portray I’m hiding in plain sight I’m the levitating beast you try to pacify And thus immortalize I’m the wind in your back when you free-fall A nightmare leaking out to smear the sun Don’t swear that you don’t have a gun Hung on your wall Oh but gravity is nobody’s friend It’s a rain of bodies spreading thin against the air The scheming of a man-made god All the silent devils buried in our chromosomes All the screaming banshees bred in the most loving home Their name is legion Don’t pray for heaven Pray to make it through the day And the day will break Will break Run over the curb Let the engine roll Run over the curb Come embrace the fall Run over the curb Run over the I’m hiding in plain sight I’m the levitating beast you try to pacify And thus immortalize I’m the wind in your back when you free-fall A nightmare leaking out to smear the sun Don’t swear that you don’t have a gun Hung on your wall I’m hiding in plain sight Don’t swear that you don’t have a gun I’m hiding in plain sight Don’t swear that you don’t have a gun Hung on your wall
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Aporia 04:02
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Numb me with sweet mulberry pills Nest needles in my skin Unlike you I’m all for magic I get tired, don’t you? I’d rather yield to their hands Than conjure my own truth Achilles, can you see its back? It won’t get closer It only will be the end of you Whenever it might seem to have a logic The tortoise will just laugh at you Ran twice faster, still got halfway there Half nowhere Can your tropes explain this sad affair Cause I would pay Name the day, give me the place And state your currency Teach me the existential bureaucracy Achilles, can you see its back? It won’t get closer It only will be the end of you Whenever it might seem to have a logic The tortoise will just laugh at you What comes first – the word or the thought of it? Clueless of the way to wrap my tongue around it I fill the void with waste and set it on fire I bet we’re cursed by whoever is in charge of it This elusive reasoning, the chemistry The trap has shut, the tortoise dies And then there was war And we will never know How little we’ve been trying To make sense of I kiss you goodbye Tiny breathing human I’ll see you on the other Side of the river
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Limbo 05:47
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A room that is filled with pain instead of air I pull the plug and let it all drain out Nothing in here resembles my own patterns Other than being all alone In the whole world I’m letting the rope ends slip right through my fingers It held the parts from falling far apart On my way in to hell I’d skipped the limbo I shall be trialed on my way out By someone I’d known In a world where live our doubles I am free to die Fossilized in time Troubled ease or easy trouble Heads or tails or maybe life They say it’s just a ride On this old merry-go-round I’ll get windburned as I cry Awe-struck by lights of funeral pyres Blinded by haloes Rounds back we were through But we’re trapped here, me and you, Ever on the move There we go, the hapless storytellers Not that we know the end To any of the parables we conjure on demand Comfortably high on the salt rubbed in our sores Death is all that’s out there but the punchline we deserve Not what we deserve And all that’s out there Not what we deserve On this old merry-go-round I’ll get windburned as I cry Awe-struck by lights of funeral pyres Blinded by haloes Rounds back we were through But we’re trapped here, me and you, Ever on the move A room that’s filled with pain I thought I could get away Hit the road and paint the sky red A room that’s filled with pain I thought I could get away Hit the road and paint the sky red On this old merry-go-round I’ll get windburned as I cry Awe-struck by lights of funeral pyres Blinded by haloes Rounds back we were through But we’re trapped here, me and you, Ever on the move Ever on the move
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Penelope 04:26
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Glowing in the dark Sleeping monster The sound of your beating heart The sound of loss Made a wish on every shooting star Lit up the incense Every minute goes off like a spark Then dies out You know better the worth of promises made by mortals You know better time has little mercy on those we love Fear is a vulture on the loose A shadow cast Through stardust The price of trusting you Is loving the vulture, too Locked between the past And nonexistence A home that is built to last A blissful prison Penelope, I don’t know where I start Or how I finish Not a thread I weave into the shroud Comes back out Ain’t it tragic to know we're only living through others Ain’t it tragic how we never get to outsmart our code Fear is a vulture on the loose A shadow cast Through stardust The price of trusting you Is loving the vulture, too I dress your throne in lavender I cannot wage this war on flesh and bone On my own Fear is a vulture on the loose A shadow cast Through stardust The price of trusting you Is loving the vulture, too
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Body as Metaphor 04:25
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Isolated in your cell What would you do To make melt away? You got eyes of a swarm At your disposal So why don’t you rave? Breathe in I’m here I’ll carry your weight in my bones Long after you’re gone Stay still Let the breeze Do its weathering chores Who knows what lies in store For the bodies so longing for more Don’t bore yourself with evil It’s oh so plain No two bodies are the same You’re the eye of the storm You are the water So why don’t you flow? Breathe in You’re here You’ll carry the weight of your hopes As far as you go Hush now, listen close Hear it brewing inside It’s your guard and your guide It’s your body refusing to hide Breathe in I’m here I’ll carry your weight in my bones Long after you’re gone Stay still Let the breeze Do its weathering chores Who knows what lies in store For our bodies so longing for more Breathe in We’re here We’ll carry your weight in our bones Long after you’re gone Stay still Let the breeze Do its weathering chores Who knows what lies in store For our bodies so longing for more
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Aqua 05:43
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As I’m well aware I may step into this river more than twice Ever hoping it takes me elsewhere Try and get your feet wet Try and get your feet wet Try and get your feet Right here next to mine There’s a footprint I don’t seem to recognize But I will in time As I shapeshift And oxidize I suppose a younger face would communicate a less ambiguous case Falling in and out of grace I forget I used to think I’d never change Are you even there? Are you watching me ascend the spiral stairs? Hear the echoes bounce off the walls Try and make out the words Try and make out the words Try and make it out Who’s got a higher ground? A tired hound instilling fear into himself Or what he may become In just one turn The final one Grieve not, son The best is yet to come Grieve not, son Whatever bullshit turns you on Give me land, sky, and voice I’ll only laugh From above it all looks void of us And that’s not what I’ve asked for The loom of kingdom come’s not enough To douse our wrath, Suck our love out and let die The sea of us is bigger than all that we’ve cried Every time I step into the river I see it flow into the sea I see the sea I see Grieve not, son We’ll rise and come as one Grieve not, son Whatever bullshit turns you on And when someday I'm given Land, sky, and voice I’ll only laugh From above it all looks void of us And that’s not what I’ve asked for The loom of kingdom come’s not enough To douse our wrath, Suck our love out and let die The sea won't go dry
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Portraits 04:28
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No I don't want to owe you shit Pack it up and off you go No I don't want to owe you shit Not when you're long gone No I don't want to owe you shit Pack it up and off you go No I don't want to owe you shit Not when you're long gone I have your portrait in my mind I make it talk, make it say The things I need to hear Before I can go to sleep See you in my dreams Once put like this, it does sound wrong But feels so warm Feels so safe To have you in my reach Have you be who I want you to be That and nothing more Memories fade away And replacing them, come marching in the devils Hungry for some blood I wish you could have stayed I'd have got the chance to learn you're not an answer Neither am I one Now water runs under the bridge It tries to soothe It tries to teach How to embrace the wrong How sometimes you will have to ask twice And get no response (anyway) I had your portrait in my mind I pierced your eyes I slit your throat And let you bleed with ink Then I crumpled you up in a ball And I ate you whole You taste like blood You taste like blood You taste like blood You taste like blood Memories fade away And replacing them, come marching in the devils Hungry for some blood I wish you could have stayed I'd have got the chance to learn you're not an answer Neither am I one One forever bound to atone Like tombstones could care For me shoveling snow Breathing air No I don't want to owe you shit Pack it up and off you go No I don't want to owe you shit Not when you're long gone No I don't want to owe you shit Pack it up and off you go No I don't want to owe you shit Not when you're long gone
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Enter the 02:03
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Garden of Bones 04:23
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Child, the world is yours to roam You’ll always be just enough Child, do please forgive Us if we wronged you When we brought you to the light Maybe you’ll be A hard place and a rock A kaleidoscope of our fears Maybe you’ll be A burden bittersweet Feeding off your own agony Maybe you’ll be Zero maintenance dream Now go on And carry this body that aches Forever uphill And if earthquakes Come your way There’s nothing a pill won’t heal And all your lovers Will be your foes Sieging the garden of bones One little tease Will disrupt any work I’ve done Towards a peace After years of sabotage Treating pain like inherent flaw What I’ve done, what I’ve done Here I am on the floor Feel free to walk all over me Promise you’ll miss me Child, the world is yours to roam You’ll always be just enough I’ve got you all right here With your arms wrapped around me In the garden of bones And we’re all forgiven And we all forgive And we’re all forgiven And we all forgive

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released February 28, 2023

music by meija
mixing, mastering by Danila Gerasimov

drums recorded by Vladimir Lyashkov
artwork by Fredrik Eriksson

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