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Fool's Arcadia

from Spiritual Vertigo by Sonus Umbra

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Standing at the edge of the precipice
Looking for a way to endure
Feed the monstrous tube at the orifice
Knowing there's no hope for a cure
How could you ever believe
Their pain wasn't in vain?
Torn by their silent screams
I'm just going insane

Numb in a torrent of memories
Bad case of déjà vu
Headless horses leading the cavalry
He could have stopped their pain
But we chose to save you
Clutching their remains
In a haze of blue...

Look into my eyes
Cross the great divide
Spread your wings and fly
Let my inner darkness be your guide

See them through my eyes
Touch them with my hands
Listen to their cries
Help me find a way to understand
Why we had to watch them waste away
How could we have gone so far astray?

I can't pretend that things
Will ever be the same
Somewhere inside I feed
A gnawing, ravenous shame
I can't deny I bet against them
In your game
I can't deny I wish
I had someone I could blame
For my fall...
For every dream
That ever lingered out of reach
For every thought
Of djinni bottles lost in the beach
For every stain
That all those tears could never bleach
For every lesson
Those two wasted lives had to teach
But I'm falling, thinking
Of thinking of you

Every rule we made we have broken
Most of what we shared has been lost
Every word that we've ever spoken
Twisted by betrayal of trust
How could I ever think
We would live through the crash,
When everything we've known
Has been lost in a flash?

Lost, like our nation of two
Torn by civil war
Looking for the road we once knew
To lead us back to the time and place
We shared before

When we were just a nation of two
Bound by warmth in the cold
Drunken on a magical brew
Old children chasing rainbows
Looking for gold
A fool's Arcadia we were sold
Two young fools...

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from Spiritual Vertigo, released January 27, 2004

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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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