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Movement Towards an Unknown Place

by PHASE SHIFT

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1.
Leaving ground - words don’t speak here Leaving weather, atmosphere - I’m taking off Where I was - nothing moves there Leave the concrete, precast world - I’m headed off Rest and calm - mere illusions Fluctuation, drive and flow thus arise Thoughts progress - Dissolution Go the distance, even further - break the ties Was I born to rise beyond The point of no return Where everything unthought Will dawn on you? We’re in motion Feel the world as it accelerates Have all connections cut I’m breaking through On the move - shunning system Preconceptions never helped me get this far Altitude, reach the open Reach escape velocity - reach for the stars Was I born ... Countless times I've imagined the end of this, just over, gone The low hum of the air conditioning, the outward bound highway the strangely over-saturated blobs in my tired eyes, weeks 'n weeks of just hissing by Countless times, though, I've also failed to do anything about it. Miles of midnight woods, fog, showers, borrowing through something like thick coppice, even In the vague grey between sleep and wake, it often felt as if... I am exhausted, famished, leached, depleted. End of the line. Leaving ground - words don’t speak here Leaving weather, atmosphere - I’m taking off Where I was - nothing moves there Leave the concrete, precast world - I’m headed off Was I born...
2.
Awakening 06:48
each street mimes e vein a prosthetic path a maze it surrounds her a city unfolds aggregate of dreams yet ruins conflict her stray winds pass the night divagate ingress they yield what enchants her bright light breaks the dark boundaries disperse fluorescence pervades the air a wavering dawn paints an orange filter sky horizons merge in visions of engulfing fires fiery lies the shore sands of time encase a shard it reflects her iridescent edge radiating blur a flare corrodes her a contorted haze gushing luminance concretion dissolving inconsistent hue but a threshold now transcending into the void a wavering dawn... just on the verge left with only traces stemming from the dark silent in between and spheres of light negate all perspective heralding movement towards an unknown place fiery lies the shore sands of time encase a maze it surrounds her a city unfolds aggregate of dreams a flare corrodes her a contorted haze gushing luminance it yields what enchants her bright light breaks the dark boundaries disperse transcending into the void a wavering dawn...
3.
When I am awake: There is anger, hate, love, drowsiness I am afraid of things to come and I am running but standing still Now I am waiting: Yes, there are clouds. Waiting, now, waiting, stop and feel the tug of war begin Take me home to my sui side where I am falling, trailing and rising only to start over again When I am asleep: There is creation, freedom, grasping for illusions It’s a collapse of the balance. Swallowing dirt and spitting it out I am forgotten. Yes, there is thunder. Time. Questions. Tears. Nothing. The suffocating begins Take me home to my sui side where I am moving, turning and changing only to start over again Distortion as a friendly grin, calm as a deadly sin Silence as a fight, no noise where I can hide Despair wants to be my only friend, hope toils me till the end Weakness pushes me back, no strength to hold my track All within my head has to go away Not a shred of a thought has to stay The chapter is over, turn the page. It’s the sun. But only an imagined and passive life goes on And Jules said: “There seems no way for you to be. But before you decide to leave, come to me” Disconnected, looking for myself Waiting for death, but death within. Yes, there is rain. No need to rejoice. So I decide to take the black to rise beyond this choice Without an option to defy or deny I am telling my story and say goodbye Distortion as a friendly grin, calm as a deadly sin Silence as a fight, no noise where I can hide Despair wants to be my only friend, hope toils me till the end Weakness pushes me back, no strength to hold my track Had fear of pronouncing the ravage inside Before I could greet you, you fade The other time I couldn’t say goodbye And we lost ourselves in the shade The tug of war ends I don't see anything, I hear and I feel nothing But I remember. Yes, this is the earth. Where he is resting to go home again.
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Paranoia 04:53
Paranoia's in your dreams You plunge into an endless fight Your whole world while burning Erases the pictures of the alive Paranoia clouds your mind Blind monkeys (are) guiding your way Want you to be their copy Don't ask just act the fool in their play You look into their eyes and see A world you'll never want to be in Still you suffer their rules and stand To plan the path to their descent Paranoia is a fight You cannot seem to find the end Good times are forgotten, Drowned out, will never come back again You look into their eyes... Follow the rules or break the rules: Who is the rebel? Follow the rules or break the rules: Who is the idiot? Follow the rules or break the rules: Who is the pretender? Follow the rules or break the rules: Who is the bootlicker? Paranoia's not a dream Sleepwalkers laying down the laws Decisions are delusions Tradition is a compulsory force You look into their eyes and see A world you'll never want to be in Still you suffer their rules and stand To keep resisting till the end

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Recorded hot and filthy in our own locations over some weeks in June/July 2015. A shift towards more rock-ish pastures.

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released July 24, 2015

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PHASE SHIFT Cologne, Germany

Phase Shift was a four, later three piece metal combo from Cologne, Germany.
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