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As steps appear, my feet cautiously lift to settle
I'm shaking, and I've forgotten where I am
Horror and beauty pass me as I make my way to the gate
Darkness has flowered forth a forest of boarded black windows
Skeletons of bears and owls sit grinning as I pass
Trees start laughing in the withered night sky
The floor began to melt, I started to sink into the now swimming stairs
Everything is swirling, and bending, and breaking, and falling,
and drowning, and vanishing, and I can feel the end!
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(Nature reversed would have the tables turned, she'd eat all of our children and spit out the wishbones)
...of rusted rainbows in the sun absent sky.
Sever our flesh and we'll lull the breeze
Block our spirits and we'll swallow the keys
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(Crawled from tombs, we've been smiling since we woke up, the lines on our faces don't wash off, they've just grown. We've run from comfort for so long, maybe it's time to glow)
Throw your claws to me
Tear off my tentacles
Flush the land of it's canvas colours
Wring the stars of their luminous drip
Colours drip onto the night's coma
So swim to the orchid moon
The clouds will crash your fall
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(Copy:Soul)
01:38
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Like undressed eyes
I sift through the shine
(Like undressed eyes)
Like rust in fast-forward
(The wraith of tonight)
I'm playing dead..
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Fields Of Glow
01:19
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Wake up inside
Wake up asleep
To mirage
Take your comfort to the stars
Keep your hands inside your mind
(Showered in essence, we sit, and we glow)
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This place swallows shadows
These seeds could flourish death
But where do ghosts go to rest the heads?
They sink to the bottom of my breath
Fixed flatness calls for yawning
Sleep comes in the slowness of dim
Scribbling down circles until I'm worn
Black lungs spill solace to my mouth's brim
(Limbs rest / Hush)
Keep your thrills cold
I've
Seen
Weak-
ness
Swallow
My
Dreams
Whole
Let's take a step back
This spine is clipped
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Her Stems Spiral Johannesburg, South Africa
Experimental project conceived by musician & composer Shannon Lawlor to escape conventional song-writing and structure -obsessed with genre-bending post-rock, math-rock, shoegaze, ambient, mathcore & abstract influence.
Her Stems Spiral recommends:
Crusades [EP]
by Eyes Like Mirrors
My now-on-indefinite-hiatus band, Eyes Like Mirrors. We released our first EP in 2011, produced by our own, Jason Sutherland.
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haunts is a new dark-pop / post-rock project I have now started with my wonderful partner! Please listen to our first EP!
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The Forgotten Ones (DLC OST)
by Dreamachine
My "composer-pseudonym" - Dreamachine, where I (try) to create original composition, or score, for independent films and video-games. Check it out!
go to albumIf you like Her Stems Spiral, you may also like:
Lake Shaped Embrace
by Airships on the Water
Airships on the Water return with another LP of phenomenally textured post-rock, moving from tender passages to well-earned crescendos.
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Another Year Outside the Frame
by Airships on the Water
A big, yearning post-rock song from this Arkansas group that builds and recedes with patience and precision.
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Memory Lame
by GIRAFFES? GIRAFFES!
Experimental indie math rock that's playful in spirit and wonderfully complex in execution.
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