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Winter Soulstice

by Sonus Umbra

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4 AM I'm lying in the darkness Television watching me again Flipping channels mindlessly Too tired to think but too awake to sleep With every tick and murmur amplified Weary and ossified By whispers in the wind I close my eyes every night Hope to miss the change from dark to light Pin my hopes on pills for sleep Chasing geese instead of counting sheep 1 AM: a rumbling hum from the street Throbbing bass with no discernible beat 2 AM: the bars begin to let out Liberating drunken laughter and shouts 3 AM: the city still winding down As metallic traffic noises abound 4 AM: the urban pulse has decreased Just a random siren breaking the peace Deprived of slumber for too long The moving parts have come undone Balance is gone just hanging on To a mind slightly crazed lost in the haze I'm scraping away, get through the day Only to find out tomorrow is just like today The weeks and months stumbling on Can't tell the dusk from the dawn It's all the same, it's so inane The darkened third of the day Finds me alone, cast away So hard to think, so out of sync Caught in an endless ring Bedtime a hollow rite I have become the thing That goes bump in the night again Hallucinations haunt my sight I know they're false but still I feel Slow motion visions cold and bright Their movements blend into the real Cling to my mind, I'm not resigned to This broken routine, I need to dream Turn off the light; confront the night, But nothing changes The TV is still watching me
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Once there was a boy who walked alone Wounded - afraid of the night He knelt on the rooftops Reaching for heaven Begging to make things right But God never spoke And the black sky did roar The silence a cosmic joke He knew then his dad was gone But he would carry on And he vowed to never rest He would die or pass the test The bastard son would never beg again Life is just a jigsaw made of scars Shadow play, witnessed by the stars Can’t you see? No matter how you crawl God will laugh and charge you for the call Unbeliever he is fodder for the grave Bound in chains of Godless, faithless fate But he is not a slave And he won’t be saved! So he turned his back on God Swore he’d make him pay For the life he cast to the abyss But the years drew first blood And the boy lost his way In the nest where old serpents hiss Lost in a spiral trance Tied up in a Gordian knot Life’s just a game of chance Tough luck, that snake eyes was his shot Punch drunk and snow blind He’s lost within the labyrinth walls Deep inside his mind Groping for the reins Monster inside him Is calling as the darkness falls “Give me control!” Gnawing at the chains “You cannot destroy me I am you and you and I We bear the mark of Cain Why do you grovel in shame? Foolish moth – lured by flame You gambled for redemption, You’ve lost the game, you’ve lost again!” Life is just a jigsaw made of scars Shadow play, witnessed by the stars Keeping silent vigil in the night Voices from the past that sing with light Like a midnight squall the darkness drowns his song Tainted prism bending, twisting every word Thoughts entangled in a mental web so strong Isolated from a tortured mind the logic screams unheard The years have flown But the pain remains the same The boy has grown And there’s no one left to blame The stars shine on the shadow carnival Center stage howls a wounded animal You can’t feel a ghost intangible You can’t heal this wounded animal You can’t feel a ghost intangible You can’t heal this wounded animal
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Let it Rain 04:44
I’m haunting familiar streets I’m empty inside; I’m incomplete I shiver with cold regret Broken and soaking wet I spy on her silhouette And smile when my heart skips a beat I’m only an opium ghost who dreams in vain Let me be the conduit of your pain Let it rain Let it wash over me Let it rain Let me drown and set you free Just a dead man walking A fading photograph I can hear the graveyards calling They hiss my epitaph: Here lies a hollow man The wayward bastard son Slain by a sphinx that made him laugh Exiled and out of sight I talk to the lonely voice of night I tell her of my duprass Sharing the dreams we had Adrift in a world gone mad We have become a false karass I’m losing the war against the universe But I will not surrender to this curse Let it rain Give me all your pain Let it rain Let it wash away the stain Wear the band of turquoise And let me wear the scars Let this phantom pilgrim Pray beneath the shooting stars That came to make their wishes In the pools of your eyes And know that the dead tell no lies I’ll sing a secret melody The symphony unknown I won’t let the music die alone…
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Kissed by the falling rain Drowned in a river I float to sea My heart bears the mark of Cain; All but a sliver Of you in me But I lost the beat Rapt on leather seats I died - killed by the sphinx of deceit Leaving this world behind Breathing the ashes Of burned out dreams Broken and misaligned I met all the lashes With silent screams But the silence kills On dark, satanic mills And now I’m the fool of the ghost on the hill Trapped in my mortal remains My shadow sings my last refrains In bleak counterpoint to the sound Of a promise I broke on hallowed ground (Let it Rain Reprise) Let it rain! Let it wash over me Let it rain! Let me drown and set you free Just a dead man walking A fading photograph But the men of faith keep squawking And their prayers make me laugh So sure their God will save them Absolve the sins of man; But the dead know He doesn’t give a damn I haunt now the graves where no one grieves Like a leaf that clings to a tree dead long ago Sending signals that no-one receives But the candle’s burning low Let it rain Silence kills in vain…
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What can I say? Words can’t cross the gulf That roars between souls turned Strangers today Sifting through the ashes for a spark Lost in the dark No guiding light Like moths in flight Angry words are spawned to fight It’s a pantomime; We’re each guilty of a crime A broken rhyme Scream, ‘cause it’s only fear Sadness and wasted years Keeps us breathing near… Cold feet of clay Drag across the graves of dreams Raising ghosts that scream Night and day Lost inside this maze I make no sound I could be found By prying eyes Pierce the lies Past the mask it’s no surprise I’m an empty shell No soul for me to sell I’m broke in hell I scream, ‘cause it’s only fear Of the knell that echoes in my ear Keeps me buried here Time wastes away Ticking to the beat Of strange déjà vu And hearts gone astray Beating out of synch our music plays In disarray Changing keys Seconds freeze Knuckles white on life’s trapeze Still the music plays Echoes of better days Come through the haze Drowned by the same old fear Its voice whispers in my ear Keeps me buried here
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Haunted 09:49
Feel a sudden chill that makes your skin crawl? Easy now, don’t be afraid I’m just a lonely ghost curled up inside you Aching to heal the lonely broken heart I once betrayed But there’s nothing that I can do - the wound is deep Phantom fingers try in vain But they can’t touch your splintering heart I breathe your pain And haunt in silent vigil, ‘Til death bells do us part. Roaming through the streets on winter soulstice Funny how the snow feels warm Kneeling on the lake, my fists are bleeding Raging to find a way to spin the clock before the storm But there’s nothing that I can do to change the past Just a ghost in a human coat Among the dregs I join in the cast Of shadow plays I play a stupid a vampire Biting my own throat. I float through the darkness And stir the heart of night With anger made of sadness This Dutchman takes his flight The sirens cast their curse With songs of glitter and doom And with every poisoned verse I lie awake, unexhumed, Haunted by dreams of mirrors. Smashing my head against the walls of my tomb Feeding the orchids with my blood ‘til they bloom The roots suck me dry But my heart’s still yearning Aching for warmth from her candle burning Echoes of the sadness In the songs of Rose Hill’s ghosts Call in the dead of night for me to follow Lost in the labyrinth of my broken mind Solving the jigsaw in a storm, but I’m blind Wayward, standing at the crossroad Mourning shooting stars that burned and died alone Beacons blink across the half-light Morse-coded path through the wasteland A firefly leads me home… Conjure me - the ghost that would be blind Lost within the labyrinth of his mind Cast away, the kaafir kalb will roam Lost my way - the blizzard is my home Capture me to shelter from the storm Fracture me and let me be reborn Can I flee the shadow carnival? Can you free a ghost intangible? Can you heal a wounded animal?
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You gaze through my soul Your eyes, arresting Conjure me from the grave To rise on this night When mares are nesting Maybe I can be saved? I know that an ocean divides us But I would rebuke the sea Just give me the ghost of a chance That I might set you free I answer your call Your beacon leads me Comet of my crusade Braced for the fall Unmasked, uncertain Weary of masquerades I know that an ocean divides us But I would rebuke the sea Just give me the ghost of a chance And I will set you free Hear a muffled drum That echoes through the static? Listen, and you will hear Heartstrings that strum A song of hope so tragic But I’m still standing here… I cry out your name, falling slowly Listen to the wounded lion’s roar Can’t you see there is no turning back I’m shipwrecked upon this shore Defying the ocean between us I drowned to rebuke the sea Now I’m just an epitaph denied My death will set you free
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Adrift 07:30

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released August 23, 2013

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We are a progressive rock band: currently geographically dispersed between Chicago and Abu Dhabi, but established in Mexico City, back in the 20th century. If you want to hear shadows made of sound, we invite you to join us, take the great fall inwards and listen. ... more

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