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Arctic Tundra

by Strangejuice

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1.
Time rolls by as this fishing line is through this hole beneath me The universe illuminates my eyes and i can feel no limit on this chain I wont return back to my home in the cold Shone from my eyes the fish in the sky are just reflections The shine of your smile dwarfs the moon that we sit under A hundred miles down you swim in your gown below the ocean The days are whip scars across my back but i still sit here and cast my line beneath you Behind the tremors of light, i just wish you know that most of life is learning A summer day is 30 days of arctic sun, the fish return to my river, Mountains melting from the fire in my mind Wide, the horizon grows nigh, sometimes I fear The moon is not returning I wont return back to my home in the cold Shone from my eyes the fish in the sky are just reflections The shine of your smile dwarfs the moon that we sit under A hundred miles down you swim in your gown below the ocean
2.
Birds too cold to sing songs Silence grows, the tundra shows me something Thats neither here nor there, i can here something moving downstairs Its not alright We filled summer days with songs but its been winter here so long Its not alright We meet and part in dreams (The fire burns so low) Cold stalagmites, stalactites drive down vampires in graves But thats neither here nor there, there was never anything downstairs its not alright My eyes are blind with snow, i can feel footprints you know its not alright Faded lines Distant drums fade in Velvet ice sky Filled with spiral rings little light lines mark the dancing rings frozen firelight feet are frosted still Lielielielielielielielielielielielielielieleielielie
3.
You packed my suitcase and kissed me goodbye And i remember fondly my shirt covered your elbows lifted to her lips she smoked all my cigarettes Fly out to Newyeartown, and helicopter East of Greenland I waited for a man who led me to his mountain home He said you sensible people should stay in your cities Im a dry land family man, i got kids at home Accidental, incidental The yellow-billed loons call to everyone I do not belong here, a tourist in the mist I thought I was strong, my lungs picked up and gone Betrayed by my tongue, everything I said was wrong In a white island of beasts Im an albatross heart 79 suns, ill promise you one Is there a moon over you? Im staring at a midnight sun Its a mirror watching me Miserable invisible, missing what i left back home wrong decisions, will you write to me Continual thunder, people endure under Hold your fist against the world and doubt the things that you are told Eroding seas unbroken, sensitive unspoken Im here in a strange land
4.
Lighthouse 03:51
Time has no beginning, ice caps erupt with you Climates of our individual worlds mark the dancing rings Splintered underground, painted bodies in a twilight snow I need you in the night, your world is a dream that i forgot See the lighthouse, casting light out, im inside, find me eternal sighing, the wind replying, floating ice moves calmly So many monsters in a simple heart, recounts the losses of a thousand years At home theres war, out here there's peace amongst the ice Feeding my sorrow on the flesh of this arctic wasteland Im inside lighthouse, burning light out, dead inside, dont find me the wind is silent, the sky is quiet, im stranded in this madness ice caps erupt blind fish can hear Over all the lands I dream of loaded landmines For love did you give away your life Awake asleep lamplight, ill keep it burning Im keeping it burning, away from the moonlight Inside a whale, call to me Circling names, communicating late dilerious day, no sun, no way Odyssey Deep, nothing to keep Waiting for you in this lighthouse Another today another today I made a Giants tear turn into a wishing well As a young boy in the wild tundra I imitated the Running wolves A wolf licked me one arctic night I could see his eyes only craved for blood
5.
Silent lightning, i saw it in a dream Shapes disolve but childlike ghosts they do not I wish that you were here while you were leaving soundless air inside your living room Touched like an angel, her light is so bright that they all look away I cant resist Never went to sleep at night, artic sea was cold and bright now houseflies in the mist strangers never meet out here, you could walk straight for a year The chill of the stars like lights of distant cars Sulphurous clouds plume like faces Frozen in a lake with seasons unawake its painted blue for you Heart of mine froze inside of the place where winter died I cant resist Never went to sleep at night, artic sea was cold and bright now houseflies in the mist strangers never meet out here, you could walk straight for a year Noone can exist Flower in the night alone, Yearning where the sun had shone The sun has eclipsed The books are all so dull, seagulls leaving skulls, wind-blown wishing wells Forgotten who we are, bathing suits and scars, polyester cars Something natural, dreamt of grocery stores and motorbikes and more I forgot the face of home, im a bee free from the swarm, alone in the storm (bree) You are stranded here, all hope abandoned here, the valley floor is near the sun forgot to climb, there is darkness inside mine, the mist still in the brine Where land is never dry, theres salt inside your eyes, with despair you fought the fire No treetops shelter you, white-faced you split in two, to die a death thats new
6.
We all run out of days Ive heard too many voices singing sad songs And those days were as clear as fire My windows shimmer like glints on sparkling water And we have had enough we sold all our dreams and now we live here in broken moments We sail on a lake of fire and beat them to the ground And stay right here down in the middle of something Around the edge of ourselves Alone inside the walls Your eyes are coloured with the embroidered lights of sunshine He stole away my mind killed the wind inside The candles there were left with nothing burning An ocean cant resent all the years it has spent without a mind tethered here in time Nothing, monotony, crashed without an audience a billion years of pounding rocks into nothing A full moon tonight, the waves smashed the trees, A communion there that left no marks upon me On contours of land, she would not take my hand We sink in depths far down in a sea hole of nothing We drowned into lines, the brine inside mine The empty days ran wild with a million eyes The kiss salt sprayed in time, a sweet eternal wine Your branch like bones were camoflaged with mine
7.
I found no sleep you know, wasnt a bed i was sleeping on With all the lights out, no foothold of the night was mine (wake up) (wake up) What do i do I keep thinking about tomorrow on the edge of a dream These wakeful dreams just ache inside me Where is that gun from I got it in the getting place You better take it outside Im gonna keep it inside Diamonds in your eyes Reflecting dark dreams Where have you been out to Never you mind you (i know you *) Slide a gun to your head a flight of birds release Clicking sound, eclipsing howl safety catch release The sight of something being closed Closing all of your windows The smell is bright and the taste is clear You missed and removed your ear dangled from the edge where day stops Sleeping pills like birds on rooftops Where is that gun from I got it in the getting place You better take it outside Im gonna keep it inside Diamonds in your eyes Reflecting dark dreams Where have you been out to Never you mind you (i know you *)
8.
Give me sleep, the snow fell deep on me Where the wind connects like streets, we meet Sometimes theres no light here but we still call it day Feathers in my coat to fly away Golden hands still sparkle in the night The wind was made of glass, Break the sun so fast My yawning lenses host Constellation notes The moon rose only higher, cast Fragments in the fire, The fox is sleeping under the log, lazy mind catch a little, take a lot, your babies Nothing glowing sailors blowing daisies Whiskey in the can got nothing in my hand and I am preparing for a long drunk sleep (pause) Prepare for long winters here, Faux wool scarf self- heating leather gloves on Sealed off the doors and vacuum sealed the windows in Insulate the crawl space, freeze the honey-bees and throw them to what fields may come Froze this whole god damned town of mine Golden birds sing in dreams of mine A little fish in a dark ocean of time
9.
I throw down a paperclip and remember Amsterdam its the last night of the Earth and you're Down the hole with the fishing pole SIlence in the undertow, I hear the ancient sigh Do you think there is something there Everynight I will sleep up here The yawning chasm sings her name, and the icicles all look like stars if i could find the courage id jump down to meet you, (down to meet you) I bet your bones are down this hole its such a long way down If i can get a handle on things id shoot my flaregun down inside there I remember it well, your scream as you fell down the hole only you could know, whats at the bottom oh no did you float down or Did you fall like a stone If you pass the middle down becomes up dont you know in the warm womb of my sleep I walk through the fire Swallowed sight, snuff the light, the quick of life, inside the ice Dreamed about a boarding house, i was late for class and I was late every year, and i wished i could have just stay in here The ice is screaming in my mind, it woke me, i looked down the hole Maybe a happy place waits inside there, asleep and walking Its crawling back into my eyes, and my tears fall to join the ice now I have the courage to join the fire down inside there I remember it well, your scream as you fell down the hole only you could know, whats at the bottom oh no did you float down or Did you fall like a stone If you pass the middle down becomes up dont you know *unrecorded (bree) Expect a frost covered rose Nothing down here but bones and snow (kiss my frozen eyes, in all my dreams i am a swan)
10.
Sea Journal 04:53
Deep down in the hull i drink the best Where the wind don't blow down against your breast resigned beneath the sky, your eyes Imagine ghostly mermaids call But nothing matters anymore Waters still on the arctic floor Nothing matters anymore clouds darken over every shore ch 1 One thousand eyes in the sea bubble up so silently Jungles are all made of glass One hundred days that never passed And the wind is dead inside my eyes Froze an eternal sigh Find a bone mosaic of me, my bones are shrinking slowly I walk on piano wires All my dreams are only lies But nothing matters anymore Waters still on the arctic floor Nothing matters anymore clouds darken over every shore ch2 Luminous waves rise and fall while i memorise these cabin walls My dreams left in places where trees nay The sunrays sent me mad in 40 days My skin is tarnished black, the sun has frowned upon me I know why penguins hide Its winter back home, the leaves and snow Must not hurry to and fro But nothing matters anymore Waters still on the arctic floor Nothing matters anymore clouds darken over every shore ch3 My beating heart knows that im not crazy just the fever has taken to me lately I went walking in the garden of the night Though some days my eyes are white One thousand eyes in the sea bubble up so silently Jungles are all made of glass One hundred that never passed
11.
Searching blue eyes, dusty with dreams Delicate vapour of dancing trees light withdrew its shine for you Its like the whole year could just pass in your stare The light shone through, the horses drew And followed through to you Her striped eyes stooped across the ebb and flow Walking the turning moon for you My body has answered to.. your arms The frost on my window, i can see only shadows the trees all above her draw down like lovers She carries my love in It Floats down through the maples She laid in the gardens Opaque, stood over mountains White tailed spider lives in your rooms Floats poison balloons to you Flies inside my mind Changing the aim of its thoughts and mine Empty hands and ankle-bands The tide pulls back again The apple tree grafted into the nest of bees in Autumn the fruit died I hid her some apple aways where theyd fallen Blew songs to the wind, to rooms we had lived in The seasons moved by with your cold reply She carries my love in It Floats down through the maples She laid in the gardens Opaque, stood over mountains
12.
Out here you miss the sound of barking dogs They are the eternal children of our homes They are there when you feel like no one wants you Out here the ground just awaits your bones I dont own a phone I write a letter to a friend Cold the birds will speak although the trees will remain silent back im a flower, wrap me in the sun I never want to let you down my little one I never want to go back down where no river runs How did i get so far away from everything You never let the light come in All the small waves vanish in my mind Why you always sit there staring out at nothing I tread soft aloft the ice, you know that just getting home is cracking like a ticking bomb
13.
Search Party 07:18
Little Jane came up from the rain She said i havent seen Helga for months Vladmiir looked in places that were the same The world forgets occasionally Genevere was comin here with sightless sue Her songs were frozen under arctic blue Inside my dreams she dreamed of me Left to lament lone Polar nights New Year came with bells and things My grief recalling everything In blinding ice we looked for you Id drank with you on New Years Eve Looked for you on a sea of ice You had chased the grass so long The brilliant sun will melt away Your hiding place beneath the ice Genevere came running here she could not move the sun Little Jane came back again, her real age was none Vladmiir came looking here, The hemisphere was done The spider moved on ice Fingerslipped not well equipt through haze across the land Frozen doors and polar claws meet the Remittance Man Helga ran from bogeymen waylaid all her plans We wont find her here Open up your listless eyes, carry on breath-taking Called your name to pierce the air The horizon wanes, the sun behind The dust of dreams, the dancing trees, into the arms of none Searching eyes that closed and died and gazed upon the sun Tundra grass like scattered glass they left you there, each one And we moved on
14.
And the day fades out lamp shades over hills underneath me too ooooohh Drove the mermaids crazy left you really lazy Made your heart stay crazy ive heard no voices lately This the beat of joy in my heart I could lay here and i could die burning unbearable, its unthinkable Close your eyes and die Im left stranded here Oooohh

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"A pointed conversation inside of a message in a bottle." - Small Albums
"The journey through the author's feelings is fluid and the wind of the tundra comes blowing strong to say goodbye to us." - Expectador Mag

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released January 29, 2018

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