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Bloodless Arches

by Ways In Waves

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1.
Counting all the endless fires Totems heal and arms raise higher Shorter breath in winds expiring me Meglo-braves 
 Whose nouns aren’t loud enough Nouns aren’t loud enough Find their place And count all heaven’s lost Count all heaven’s lost Can you see Electric fields Their tide is made Of ocean’s blood (Will you wear your halo with the fire to match?) Grab your kids For the fire Goodnight kiss Then it captures All you’ve missed And remembered Gas emits Life in raptures Stones engraved are all admired They conservate the tenet’s ires Life belongs to heat euphorically Bound by choice The fuel is water now Fuel is water now Last rejoice Regressions aren’t allowed Regressions aren’t allowed A change of heart Is purely art A song of faith Exclusive harmony Will you wear your halo with the fire to match? Grab your kids For the fire Midnight bliss Then it captures All you’ve missed And remembered Gas emits Life in raptures Cast your whims To the fire Giving in For the better I need this To remember Everyone That I left bare
2.
Open up The rebar window Say your piece You can’t get near me In any way You turned the concrete choral into more than shores, I know You said that ash was snow But every year the Sun told me more And I don’t have the time Imploded cracks corrode and Every line has passed us by Despite our tanning hide We shouldn’t mind The ceiling was blocking the sky Its coming for me Lift the door that fell between us Answer please The water washes the wind away You turned around in spirals crashing up and down, through days You let your last hope go Till one of them Would learn how to stay You were out of time Imagine masks foreboding watching as we follow dust I’m weaker than before But if I must I’ll ask them to sand off your rust This space we need Girders guide the way Away From this Try to celebrate The loss Of all we every knew We slip into eroded weeks Outstretch your arms and feel The weightless sense of relief Peace Drilling to the core of You Cannot find another Who Could have earned it More Weightless sense of Peace Drilling to the core of You Memories that won’t un- do Preservation Kills Weightless sense of wonder Underneath an ocean Cannot find anyone
3.
All Ears 03:23
Aftershock Pulls you down or cracks you up Turn it off Look around, the world’s not gone What do they want? What can I do? All ears want Soothing words to comfort thoughts Overlong Cast away the days you worried for you They (They want you) (They need you) Don’t (They want you) (They need you) Want (They want you) (They need you) Me (They want you) (They need you) They (They want you) (They need you) Don’t (They want you) (They need you) Need (They want you) (They need you) Me (They want you) (They need you) Giving up Doesn’t ever do a thing for anyone What do they want? What can I do? Isn’t this all that I could ask for? What is enough? What is the mask for? Where is the line? Are you benign? Do I belong to all the discord? Who stays behind? What is this for? All ears closing off all around When its tough, it all gets louder and louder
4.
Fellow 03:46
The Let-You-Down-Hero Couldn’t help a head Lie around heroes in black opal sewage, drunk till stagger No matter! (Answer X4) The Work-Around-Hero Never let them talk Made of chalk, selfish woes Don’t hurt you but your fashion matters Stay in mind hollow Ends align your skin Fellow, that honest in could have lived with their flower manner You’re half here! (Last fear X4) Don’t forget Your regret Their fall Down all In a minute you’ll forget all, down these and Move along I hope You don’t rest Liar Your best? Was it? Was it? Drown in Dirt
5.
Honestly Never read What you write back Blended in With the man In news Now you feel (Moving on with no end in sight) Suddenly (Born in lasting cold, drought and blight) Made of wax or (Have we lost our will or have we lost the last fight?) Polymer (No matter what they always feast) Act it out (Lasting out is their only need) Like me (Ghosts in chemistry, they’re a greed that never sleeps) When you sit And you eat You make rare meat Out of kids Made from string And dreams But I think (Empty rooms with walls breathing in) It's on them (Where did this come from? Is it them?) Self-defence (Could have left it all, now my legs are caving in) They are so (Want to help these bones wrapped in skin) Far away (If nothing else those are my kin) From me (If we cannot win, can I know the ending hymn?) Under an ocean Songs of devotion Sleeping in circuits Suffer these organs
6.
Hold 06:10
My heart and blood Living what we’ve made of us Both of your eyes Same as mine (but) more fuel, more time Scent from my tongue We’re not meant to live this long By night its loud Telling me I’ll let you down Fortune would mind Any slip, not every crime Let yourself fold So that life won’t let you go Why can’t I hold? Formulas and knives Cataracted hives Solar end and rise Spending lest we try To the Sun you’ll To the Sun you’ll To the Sun you’ll walk away Ready somehow For the day I’ll For the day I’ll know you’ve walked away I’ve stayed till dawn Every other fear moved on Leave you alone Years of errs you’ll never know Miss me or not
 Its a space that’s best forgot 
 Formulas and knives Cataracted hives Solar end and rise Spending lest we try
 To the Sun you’ll To the Sun you’ll To the Sun you’ll walk away Ready somehow For the day I’ll For the day I’ll know you’ve walked away
 Do I have to hold?
 Do I have to hold you? And son I know You’ll be walking to the end of it all Where nothing grows,
 are you better off without me at all?
7.
Catching Up 04:26
Hands define what they use Steps can tear Lives in two (their lives in two x4) Leaving all within view Guilt lives in A recluse Finite relapse Panic en masse Passing through (He’s passing through x4) Carrion carries on Using all Cortisol His eyes look back at empty tracks Motions adhere to spectred ears New weights will bring What time enacts What he’s deserved Since coming here Stillness carries unease So he runs Desperately (He’s desperate now x4) Formless eyes have arrived Not erased Remembered He left it all Too close a call Buried them (they’re underground x4) Tails and claws form ahead Hands outstretched To guide him His head looks back Figures react Closer than before Motions appear Motives now clear The only enemy This weight will break His failing knees The prize cowards take What absence fears No life revered And soon he finds that it’s Catching up (X8) He’s slowing down He’s slowing down He can’t live alone These Hands from walls grabbing his arms Hands from walls grabbing his heart Open Open Open Open Open up Open up Writhing round gasping for Any light living here His eyes roll back Thoughts turn to black Moments were near Order was clear Convinced of weights Connected paths Absence of place No sound or fear Menace engraved Poison of tasks Compiling myths And never ask Why all this seems too far to grasp What happens next? Monoliths mask Him
8.
I deny the shapes I see I’m separate and new I can’t bring myself to prove A value never used Limbs were the roots I knew Now their motions sag and burrow On their own as willows Dream as a tethered ghost When I come back to I’m Almost Lucid but what I see Is a corrugated echo Anechoic end goal Tell me I need to breathe Where my lungs once were an Ash tree grows Stop And Tell me I’m standing here Without a shadow or doubt I Don’t Feel My Branches Reaching out Is this my body or not? Artifacted Living as a Name redacted Gone From the page Elevate, when I need Other eyes to see me clearly Everyone was near me What does it matter now? Row of rings don’t count as Days lived well Stop And Tell me I’m planted here Are you the hollow of rot? Artifacted Living as a Faint refracted Light Artifacted Living as a Name redacted Gone I deny the shapes I see I’m not in front of you You may try combining hues but Colour’s missing too I deny the shapes I see I’m separate and new I can’t bring myself to prove A value never used Artifacted Living as a Faint refracted Light Artifacted Living as a Name redacted Gone
9.
I don’t love And you don’t feel so low After us The Sea can die alone Names won’t carry Us through the plastic tide Leaving early To see from miles above Where’s your self? I left me on the shore For good health Secure and nothing more Names won’t carry Us through the plastic tide Leave your body And save the skies you love I left me on the shore I left me on the shore Today
10.
Floating and sinking (Fly up) Tethered to nothing (Fly up) Endless and aging (Fly up) All is of my making (Fly up) Less of me And More than you Could Know Coiled and red Let’s take Your heart Out to The dead A rotting Animal A test Lifeless in wonder Where would it bury Me? Watch as their wings form (Fly up) Keeping the eggs warm (Fly up) Hearts beating softly (Fly up) Mother is watching (Fly up) This Can never be A world that I could ever see Part of me Wishes the Freedoms I’m allowed Changed me somehow My thoughts are always dreamt aloud as: I could be a father I could have a daughter Clean the water Serve a better cause or Live to raze a monster Giving you a listen And with your permission I could save you Build a newer world for You Floating and tethered to the sky I fall down, I’m all clouds Sinking into Years I’ve yet to live And wonders life has yet to give And making puzzles out of migratory Patterns that awake within me Fly up Wake up
11.
Your legs are crushing my collar bone My neck is too acute to see it When I first awoke (The smoke was choking me alive) And I remembered how the hunger never left me all this time (Push Earth away) Un-captivated skull (and vertebrae) are light (in wind) From the tallest post (Clear view of shell-deep buried eyes) One thought of fighting but the ordinary never seem to thrive (The last I’d lay) Hot clouds were reaching up (so fly away) to walls (man made) Sky’s lights in Eggs hung by Steel trees on Fake stone pyres Ten steps to go This ground stays cold When will I know Where small birds go? Your eyes are dead like fire around me Bloodless arches loomed (Evading everything I knew) Here all the shrieking made it hard to feel my path was catered to (First prey I’d seen) Down from my perching rest (a desperate fray) (filled cries) with pain Clattering around (The strangest things that sights allow) Would empty life out from my eyes in steady streams of rotting fowls (Now fear’s awake) I cannot plan ahead (I never knew) that time (would end) Sky’s lights like eggs hang on tall trees that fade away Ten breaths to go This ground stays cold soon I will know where small birds go I could be a monster I could let it falter Hollow offers Serve a better cause or Let them live as fodder Give in to perdition No more noble missions Thoughts can never Build a better world for Me or you Your eyes are dead like fire around me

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Bloodless Arches as a whole was conceptualized as an album that takes the listener through the paces of making it through a bad day. The album begins focused on personal experiences, zooms out toward the end of the album. Vacant Drifters is where one falls asleep, and by this point the focus has shifted on the loss of self, the obfuscation of identity, and poses the question: is identity - self - worth holding on to? Wing To Collar is the dream conjured by the experiences throughout the day, which was inspired by a recurring dream.

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released June 15, 2019

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