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Sonder

by Arkive

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1.
One 03:28
We all live the same lives Through different eyes All our stories have been told We’re one And the sum of our parts is fading away As we arise to the calling of the ether of time And all the stars set in our eyes Like I wove a path that we can never wash our hands of The memory of a stolen answer Find a way to pull me out again I know it’s not too late (give me a taste of a future that’s made for us) We know it’s not too late to start it all again Don’t hang suspended, fearing the light of the flame We know it creeps towards us, but watching it won’t change a thing (We all live the same) Fire is catching and we’ll all burn the same (We all live the same lives) Fire is catching and we’ll all burn the same (Through different eyes) Fire is catching and we’ll all burn the same (We all live that way) Fire is catching and we’ll all go up in flames You’re the morning that’s shining Starting to fill me Up with light
2.
Ive realized every person I see Is hanging from perilous threads just like me With every step, each moment becoming a memory Another page in a book I wont read Every eye witnessing beauty And every mouth drawing on the cup of life To bear witness is to open your eyes Waiting on the wings of an awakening I can see that we’re outnumbered A collision of contrition And the consequences of leading a life we half formed The black and the white That spans the fabric of existence Is yours to weave your thread through Should you grow bored of the road to your horizon Let your colours flare Reaching out for the fire that’s burning beneath your ribs And a hunger that drives a conviction in you Paint a picture that shines with the light that you thought was forgotten Let your colours flare Feeling them frantically searching for an escape This tempest it rages inside of us I will turn the pages of the books I wont read Every eye witnessing beauty And every mouth drawing on the cup of life Bear witness Open your eyes It’s the edge of the mirror, a glimpse in the night A match to the pyre, and knowing you’re right Letting this caution float free on the breeze Refusing to live a life down on my knees Reaching out for the fire that’s burning beneath your ribs And a hunger that drives a conviction in you Paint a picture that shines with the light that you thought was forgotten Let your colours flare Feeling them frantically searching for an escape This tempest it rages inside of us Every eye witnessing beauty
3.
Luminous 05:00
My trail paves a narrow road lit by moments that fade with each step but before me hangs the curtain wreathing panic round my neck Every memory reflecting a shard of sight As the call of the past meets my present The formless features of annihilation Holding me to the abyss It’s the blinding reminder of the time you’re erasing We’ve figured it all out, it’s the time you’ve been wasting And I am encased in cold and grey But we will become luminous When surrounded in darkness We seek out distant lights and the safety we presume it provides. This desire to stray is a game of the mind. A breeze rolls by you you feel the fire beside you flicker out. Now with your world at its darkest (darkness descends on us) you sense danger and seek a way to gain relief (Give me release) Curiously you tremble as you push toward the warmth that pierces the uncertainty Exchanging the reflections of who I am A fortification, an iron will mind give me the strength i need to open my eyes within the black of the deep ignite a spark to show me the road cos I've fallen asleep at the wheel a bitter man with a heart set to heal give me the strength to survive I pledge these changes on all of my life shadows lifeless weight calm as a lovers embrace We’ve figured it all out, it’s the time you’ve been wasting And I am encased in cold and grey Bit I still see the light
4.
Mesmerised by the arrow of time We find solace in a horizon of a million pixels This is an endless expanse of possibly Futures unseen behind a veil of screens So keep your eyes locked on em I've given up, so plunge me headlong into the Fray Be my pain And the ocean will sweep us away Take my shame And let us drown beneath the calling of our age We wind our fingers through this vacancy A message blown in the wind Our voices call to rescind Our distant sins Help me to carry the weight of authenticity The ocean will sweep us away I've been seeking the source of my dependency Dredging the ocean of all of my infirmity Scratching at the walls of my morality Conspiring to break the best of me Surely matching the path to oblivion, I Can I keep wandering Can I keep waiting here Forever fearing the flaws of my humanities call To repeat Have you ever felt less authentic Have you ever felt less certainty Is the calling of the dawn of the end Seeming as though it's reaching out to me
5.
I’ve been refusing to open up these hands Releasing clenched up answers within white knuckled fists Feels like I bought the ticket And I'm afraid to take the ride The disease and the cure Vaccine or thorn in the side Ignorance is bliss in the heart of the vulture Success, the ruination of man Ignorance is bliss, it's a part of our culture It's been so long, holding on, keeping this inside And all the pretenses I tried to hide Tried to renew everything for you And you left me high and dry but we're holding on, we're holding on to the key To our cage Dispossessed of the answers I so sorely need But I'll make the distance, shouldering the weight of this conviction Abstinence from the source of all my intuition, the face of a broken man How did I slip so far from who I am? It's piracy in its highest form Emaciated faces staring at the feast of all the ages Moral fibre frays as we come to the end of our rope Manifest destiny For humanity Quaking in fear of our nearing end Ignorance is bliss In the heart of the vulture Ignorance is bliss It's a part of our culture It's been so long, holding on, keeping this inside And all the pretences I tried to hide Tried to renew everything for you And you left me high and dry but we're holding on, we're holding on to the key To our cage
6.
Within a restricted idea Trapped beneath the weight of influence A shape emerges, limited in its freedom to move Though certain of its freedom to choose We stack inerasable moments, convincing ourselves to climb But true heights we hide from others Out of fear of being left behind Pleading that my range of needs Goes further than what is expected of me The master, the maker, the slave and the breaker Do I decide for myself what’s becoming of me? Am I designing or observing the lie Conducting the sequences I’ll never see The master and the maker (The sequences I’ll never see) The giver and the taker I need to seek my own desires (What if you had gone an alternate direction?) Decide for myself what is precious (And you need more than what you have to make it through) I need to seek my own desires To block out the voices holding back my conviction Within a restricted idea I’m trapped beneath tightening skin A shape emerges, limited in its freedom

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released January 11, 2017

Tracked by Beau McKee (drums and vocals) and Jamie Marinos (guitars)
Mixed/mastered by Lance Prenc

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Arkive Australia

Progressive Metalcore band from Melbourne, Australia

Featuring 6 members. Mitch on vocals, Court on Screams, Sam and Josh on Guitar, Zahn on Bass and Tom playing drums. Together since the start of

2014. We want to write and play the music we love, providing hard hitting riffs with feel good melody's in an attempt to provide a contrast in musical style and ability.
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