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The Past Is Prologue

by The Changing Light

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Mitch Protheroe This album is one of the most impressive vocal albums I've ever heard, and the instrumentals support the vocals ever-so perfectly. Very powerful shtuff.
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1.
Invertigo 03:11
Breathe all your worries to the sky Diamonds and empty minds The changing light is a void we'll enter as the ashen turns tonight This force within does its best to hide Beast and kin falling by your side We'll make it right before losing center You're safe if all undone lest the sea touch shore I'll be the tide tonight, you're the moon that I adore Serve first the finest wine, harbor my being in yours Remember past your life and break the last elegant door Baby show your light to me Don't fool the crown as second longer Run before the carnal wave Rips out your throat Her life is on the line What seems to end as time Lengthens to the life I want to be So pure the untied mind Teach me of infinite beauty I've seen the love you share Ending every moment unclear Your holy smoke in air Forget the search and open up your head
2.
Pelagos 03:58
The world has changed and now we are enemies We cannot reap the successes of our own dynamic entities Our fates remain drenched in the womb of sovereignty Great cleansing tide percolate through time and speak of your mind to me And yet so slowly the child's breath Her sideways mornings bloom after death In a dazed state I walk the shore But I don't know if my body Will make the distance I have to go But I carry myself forward And I will decide what is left for me If I must be the martyr for a dream I can't believe in Interstellar ship not far off shore you orbit mortal lives but never cure the raging thirst of ageless urchin tongues Hide the key before your song is sung The shaman's mystery held the rooting hands for release Whispering thunderbird nesting within her desert capillaries Show us the rain and eternal thirsts shall cease I've tried to tame the thunder with little luck in the face of your deepest seed But it's my wonder leading me Oh how far under were our lives at sea How cold the anchor you placed on me
3.
Ghosts 04:08
I could never love the way I did to you in such a moment of glory so cold in its flame how quickly burning was the parchment that I'd written off my soul to you. I've done it to myself I know, by putting faith in fools, and with a trust that such luck I could have with something just as cold as I oh what a fire had been burning right by my feet. I could feel the coals within my soul stir to spark and slowly die becoming cold as stone until all, all had chipped away. A dance so lost in lust you gained my trust, let it decay and left the bones for all the vultures we both know. I found that words are only words are never good enough for you And though I try, I die inside, trying to be the man I want to be And so it seems it is as miserable for me as if I woke up in a dream to find the dream was never really even mine. Take me as you will, I'm but a memory void of life, and all I am is a ghost. It was cold to be alone for so long... Darling what is love but just grave? I'll bury the past inside, my lover Won't glance until the end I'll make a place for it to lie forever, And gently make the bed For sinners and for hungry souls to feast upon each other. Won't you call me by my name?
4.
We fell in line never seeing the Sun on the horizon I should know by now the visions move in waves It's obvious waking does no one good Lest your ample dream be light depraved The monocle aligns so I can see right through Now claim this fractal life It envelops all we do From the morning after you had opened clear the humming heart Take these dreams for shelter but realize eyes work cleaner from the start The waking light will shine upon the sleeping unbelievers And soon the eyes within your mind will show the way Awaken from your slumber let the waves lap on your skin I know this salt may burn your eyes but only then you can begin There have been better days than this but I'll hold to the moment 'cause that's all there is Stuck between two eternities The past and the future are one within me Can you feel the weight of all the things you've ever done come crashing down Now look ahead the time is now Infinity begins
5.
I've been letting this go for so long and it's killing me I'm just not where I want to be I've been holding my own this whole time and I just can't believe the things that I have seen Witnessing viciousness, tethering consciousness Taking my thoughts to somewhere I wish I could be a part of And they say home is where your heart should be but it's time I've found someone to take this burden away from me I'm lost in mazes of my own construction Got devils on my shoulders seething me with temptation I cry out for you but you're never there I try to be true but I don't know who will Reach out to me I'm not the only one This savage world has brought me to this place and I beg to be gone It's not the hell that we've made it I try to convince myself Where is everyone else You are me bring me closer to you Why are we so fucking scared of ourselves Moving breath still blessing my head How long 'till the last in drawn in his bed In this cold the winds they dice your hands The temple's step will lead us to the bitter end This flame will catch and I'll burn again The labyrinthine laugh of longing echoed with twisted infancy and the scent of spoiled candles. This musk from inner dwelling's a beast between elder decay, ripened agelessness and the cosmic birth of simultaneous copulation and hedonic destruction. Tapping lines in the operation of opalescent bedlam, tentacled minds grasp only air and sweet nothings, sapid in brilliant tribulations of the beggar's mantra. From behind the hill crept the Sun's green fingers, enlightening the myriad gallery of beings. Here, the hum of Her swollen core roused my slumbering shields for the vulnerable sideways singings of day. Only the ancestral remnants of identity's map could profoundly alter treasured collectives.
6.
Sandover 05:37
We walk inside the hallway stretching wide I think perhaps the world is in your eyes You've lived before in times when we were pure I remember the grace of that hallowed flight Dancing slowly my arms upon her waist I melt so wholly for her In God we trust when all of our lives are solvents What spirit creates our life Though I will love you how will you ever know when night consumes my life Save yourself for me now We are all alone Hold the Summer's leaves as they brown We are all one Touch the altar you've found We are all alone Hear the spiders scream as they drown We are all one Say to me Say to me you'll find our lasting glow Tell the world every face and name you once did know Clap your hands in silence Break the strife that binds us And taste this midday sustenance The truth is in our sky Hold your head with purpose Smash the cage that clips your wings Rewrite once more a haunting past You're free at last

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released April 20, 2012

The Changing Light is:

Connor Smith - Vocals
Alexander Faulkner - Guitar
Dalton Bauder - Bass Guitar
Ian Taraschi - Saxophone
Travis Shirk - Percussion

Recorded by The Changing Light
Mastered by Alex Faulkner
Booking – Alex Faulkner ( alexfaulkner@me.com )
Lyrics – Connor Smith / Dalton Bauder

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