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In Nihilum
01:31
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Welcome to the foreground.
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2. |
Fall
03:44
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Teeth and all
Gnash and gnaw
Weave and roll
Crash to cold
Mind on the matter of minding the number of holds...
And never none
Right, on the matter of a farewell, I haven’t one, no
Discovery’s all that’s left as a notice for the fall
Deliver me over, settle the closure, call to the hollow
So will it and fall…
and remedy lost to memory of another to follow
Breathing walls
Flashing flaws
Leave and fold
Or dash to call
Father, the rattle of climbing and cumbersome thoughts...
Was never done
And brother, the battle of bearing another one’s bold...
When recovery’s only left as a moment ‘fore the fall
The reverie’s over, mettle, composure, all to the hollow
So kill it and call…
The parody of an enemy, love and nothing to follow
So strip me of methods, open the message ‘fore I fall
Deliver me over, settle the closure, call to the hollow
So will it and fall
The remedy lost to memory of another to follow
Mind on the matter of minding the number of holds...
And never none
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3. |
Love, yesterday
05:42
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Were it frantic, the pining...
Would it be so surprising my shell for shade?
Squandered the time and forced to shield
Naked to the rest, the words, the lessons
In desperate armour
All of you a tonic
(Quenched my thirst and doused my flames)
All of you a focus
(Wrenched my nerves and roused my name)
All of you a memory
(Lest the worst should house my shame)
All of you a solace
(Gone before I realised)
From love, yesterday
Merely manic, the timing...
Could there be no surmising my hell’s delayed?
Pondered the signs that coursed the fields
Taken with the best, to shepherd my messes
Slow and sombre
All of you a tonic
(Quenched my thirst and doused my flames)
All of you a focus
(Wrenched my nerves and roused my name)
All of you a memory
(Lest the worst should house my shame)
All of you a solace
(Gone before I realised)
From love, yesterday
Fate, missed or found above us?
What’s worth the foggy smiles or errant dreamed history?
Who learned the long while, while current, gleaned from mystery?
All of you a tonic
All of you a focus
All of you a memory
Gone before I realised
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4. |
Free
03:55
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5. |
Mosera
02:54
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Edge of Edom
Where I digress from silence and divest the wildest claims in the holy name of reason
Where to find rest and digest what I left in the highest flames
Oh to scorch pain from a season!
At the height is refinement reliant on climb and scathe
Wash and bathe so you ease in
Where the finest excitement and childish delight is famed
Mosera
Room enough and sole
Pledge of freedom
That I’ll guide this consignment and hide it inside with praise
Where’s the best place to leave it?
Will it die in confinement or rise and become my frame?
Won’t my face be relieved then?
If I find this prescribes less than I was inclined to pay, is it safe to believe in?
There the sign says a life is invited to dine and stay
Mosera
For the rough and lone
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6. |
Autorraphy
06:39
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Sutures for a cost
Truths the sinew, exposed
And the vultures tore it off
Less the pain, barren pockets have me hoping, wayward and lost
Beckon the medic with choruses for His names
And water for the dross?
Spares in low supply but a mirror works all the same
Silver sheens and twin locked eyes
Trim the weeds and catalyse your
worth to free from paralysed
thoughts unruly, sanitise
your self
Mind the weight, it’s been so long
What’s torn’s restored but scarred enough behind the tape you rested on
Self-disdain had you blinded to its holding payment and tossed...
Your worth to the earth but forfeited just the same way
Sign the date and look along
See the glowing sky? it’s clearer now today
Azure screen for dream sore eyes
Bliss, the deed, unanalysed
Four words to breathe and canonise what’s taught to me and memorised
This too shall pass
Porch is for the cot
And babe asleep under two proud shadows
Technicolor thoughts and days to dream in pews and narrows
Young and for the fold
His weary heart strays
Plunge you lucky soul it’s different now
But toughened on the roads that veers and parts ways
Touch your cornerstone it’s better now
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7. |
Smiling
03:20
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Dear distant brothers, dear worried mother
I left my depression back in my room
Dear loving father, it’s been 25 years
Will I see the impression that I leave soon?
Sorted back through my photos
I remember not recognising myself at all
But time could heal my perspectives I heard
And even the ones that didn’t age so well, but…
Smiling
Used to save that for special occasions
So I’d rally my worth, pay homage to my birth
Held back the tears and saved that smile for next year
Smiling
Used to save me from feeling so vacant
So I’d write one more verse, for less than what it’s worth
Hold off the tears and let the smile just stay there
Dear distant lover who knew me never
Is it too late to be introduced?
My running motive is in 25 years I’ll be...
Watching our children in the back run loose
Wish we could take some photos to remember
How we realised that we had it all
But time’s a burden and finding you is something...
I can’t say I ever did so well but...
Smiling
Used to say that I had to be patient
So I tallied the words, cut out the ones that hurt
Forgot my fears and found that smile from last year
Smiling
Wish it stayed without any dedication
So I made sure I heard, the breeze and the birds
Roll off the tears and let the smile just stay there
Wish I smiled more
Trouble is I tried
But I’ll keep on trying
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Aeon Altars Auckland, New Zealand
Multi-instrumentalist and Auckland native, Aaron Astle adopted his anagrammatic pseudonym after years of being attached to
his piano and guitar to help solidify his first solo project 'Ex Nihilo'.
Born out of isolation and a love for musical exploration, Aeon Altars provides an earnest lens from which to view the soft-spoken conflicts and nuances that dot our personalities and daily lives.
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