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From Here We'll Watch the Dawn

by A Heart in the Stillness

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1.
I wait near the edge Adjust the frame – uneasy feeling I hide on the shore Reflect the old world and disappear Between the lines that have drawn me here   There’s something in the noise Of this skin – this life A broken understanding Of a broken heart – of a broken will   I search with eyes uncertain Run down this age-old path Into the waves Into the waves With a whole heart of fire
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Slighted, no time given to you The world rushes by Lost in the folds Degraded and voiceless Given to despise Blood welling in downcast eyes Wound this one There’ll be a wound for everyone There’ll be a wound for everyone Sun sharp on a cold life Abused between wrong and right The parade of corrupt principals Our shared crucible It stands to blind us all Loveless, dreams laugh and run away Your heart – your prison Fierce want of love The sum of your hatred And the blood runs down To wash it all away And hell is, without question On this side of the grave On this side of the grave Sun sharp on a cold life Abused between wrong and right The parade of corrupt principals Our shared crucible It stands to blind us all It stands to blind us all
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True Sight 03:24
A deep ground – steady eyes To see the world from the sky Its true face shines in the morning sunlight   It flashes behind my eyes Burns through each disguise A golden horizon Undeniable in me   A flourishing landscape draws out a second sight To move with, to sing with The essence of life And to grow Into the Soul of Light as it pours from the sun   Building or breaking Resigning or instating To master a dance in these tides that never cease Grey world abandoned in a rapture of momentum This willful ascent of heart and mind A path of living symbols, of shimmering light To move with, to sing with The essence of life And to grow Into the Soul of Light shines from the moon   To capture searching eyes Flashing across waves Moments of true sight Span all time Through the desert that’s been And the desert to come This beacon of wisdom Cradle of our kind Through the desert that’s been And the desert to come This beacon of wisdom Cradle of our kind
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Upon a hill Above the clouds of so many years Our eyes lift to the Eastern sunrise We take in the air In the absence of despair Exhale into the stillness With a heart that we share And embrace   By hidden laws of providence   If we have each other we have everything Hand in hand beyond this sleeping world And its bloody trail Of needless suffering Tired and stumbling We set ourselves apart   By hidden laws of providence   This is the beginning Illusion stripped away All opposites reconciled and we move in such a way With silent understanding Beneath our wings, our love Transcending flesh and blood   By hidden laws of providence
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I stand outside Above the tide In a quiet Empty space Perfectly still An act of will Sublime Slowly revealing Through and through A sword of truth Absolute In its execution   Out of Wilderness Of untempered unrest With a mind to the morning sky To the cold air Through golden fields To the sun I reach into And see beyond Behind the words Under the breath A second sight In quiet observance Alert in the stillness As an act of will   Out of Wilderness Of untempered unrest With a mind to the morning sky To the cold air I wash in streams Under cypress trees By ancient decree Out of Wilderness Of untempered unrest With a mind to the morning sky To the cold air Through golden fields To the sun
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I was carried across the sand On the back – in the hands of a beast That stood up under me Driven to find underlying designs At the mouth of a river Where the voices mingle Where the white flickers black And the first and the last Roar in the silence I’m finally at one With all I’ve become And all that I have been seeking To hold – to be held In the balance Letting out – letting in It all begins and ends in the distance Echoing in the nearness Rising up to answer the call From that brilliant source of all To hold – to be held In the balance
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When I finally reach the sea And it washes over me I’ll drift with all that’s come and gone Lose a mask I’ve held so long This old clock face The weight of time on its hands As they turn to stillness Like the open arms of fate   It all leads to this As we work and dream and wish And follow the sun across the sky Wander as we may Each river finds its way Down mountains, through valleys To the sea   We are all marching home Together or alone Through fields of love and sorrow As all who’ve gone before In this endless procession of life   It all leads to this As we work and dream and wish And follow the sun across the sky Wander as we may Each river finds its way Down mountains, through valleys To the sea
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Old Skin 05:15
I killed the last light of dying days And the tired shadows across a broken stage It was time   Dragging down to crawl around In the circling tears and strife To the folly of a falling life I spare no time Bleed no light   The old skin falls Like a prison wall   First light floods from the East Fills my mind’s eye with a forceful certainty So many signs lead to this long-sought door Where at last the long silence breaks Into a lion’s roar As I pass through   The old skin falls Like a prison wall The morning is alight A surge of life The long night is over The long night is over
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In Closing 01:39

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Available on 12 inch vinyl at nostalgiumdirective.com. Comes with a silk screened cover, an art/lyric insert and a download code. Ltd pressing of 300. You can also stream it for free or download digital copies and pay-what-you-want (it's even free).

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released February 3, 2015

Written, performed, recorded and produced by Isaac Aubrey. Mastered by Noah Landis.

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