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The Last Menagerie

from A Sky Full of Ghosts by Sonus Umbra

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Breathe in, suffocating ashen wind
Blacken this page of history
Breathe out, meditate and mourn without
The tale of failed humanity

Across the stars we fled
From every world we bled
A trail of fire and extinction in our wake
We never paid the cost
For every species lost
Just kept on running and outrunning every race

Breathe in, take in every living thing
Destined for grief and misery
Breathe out, letting go of fear and doubt
Time’s up for this menagerie
This ghostly vacant floor (he who won, lost)
Once held so many more
The captives ran or hid or found a way to die
Without a guiding star (he who won, lost)

We’re stranded where we are
And there’s no destination waiting in the sky
I pray that I’m the last (he who won, lost)
Of those who wrecked the past
There’s no redemption for the splendor we defaced
An eco requiem (he who won, lost)
To mass oblivion
A billion years of flora/fauna laid to waste

So, I speak for the countless that are gone
Though no-one will hear or speak for me
I can’t go on, knowing each breath
Is squandered in futility

Set my soul free (in a sky full of ghosts)
Burn down the last menagerie
Set my soul free (in a sky full of ghosts)
Burn down the last menagerie

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from A Sky Full of Ghosts, released December 22, 2020
Music by Sonus Umbra
Lyrics by Roey Ben-Yoseph

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Sonus Umbra Chicago, Illinois

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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