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Brumation
28:40
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Nothing constant inside this animal
Chaos has to apogee, it's draining me
Nothing constant, so nothing is rational
Nature is all degree and I am its subtlety
Slow my breathing
Slow my feeling
Slow all of my functioning to conform
Nothing stable outside this animal
These disordered surroundings are draining me
Nothing stable or truly adaptable
Nature is all degree and I'm in its custody
Slow my heart beating
Slow my feeding
Slow all of my functioning to obey
Fluctuation mirrored in this animal
Tumult in biology is overtaking me
Withdrawal returns, so it must be natural
Nature is all degree, I disavow all company
Halt my wanting
Cease all fighting
Slow the beating of my heart, self injure
Endure, self injure
Endure, self injure
Endure, self injure
Endure, self injure
Dead-I must be
Buried in the leaves
With my species
Not knowing if I can ever return
I did not feel the cold come until I became the cold
I did not know that I had aged until I became old
Time has a way of taking time away
And now I've buried myself from the light of day
I did not feel the cold come until I became the cold
I did not know that I had aged until I became old
And if I survive these depths to see the sun return
It again becomes instinct to move towards the burn
Time has a way of taking time away
And now I've buried myself from the light of day
In the darkness of this burrow, for some time, I will remain
Slow my breathing
Stunt my feeding
Slow all of my functioning to endure
Wild old animal succumbs to exogenous cues
Wild old animal, domesticated through abuse
What of poor hybernoculum selection?
What if it leaves for too harsh of conditions?
What if injured through a lack of protection?
Will it live?
Wild old animal responds with endogenous cues
Wild old animal reemerges with a new bruise
What of poor hybernoculum selection?
What if it leaves for too harsh of conditions?
What if injured through a lack of protection?
Will it live?
Enter with injury that seeks to be healed by the light
Enter with injury that seeks to be healed by warmth
Enter with injury that seeks to be healed by might
Burrowed becomes buried with an injury
Enter with injury that seeks to be healed by the light
Enter with injury that seeks to be healed by warmth
Enter with injury that seeks to be healed by might
Burrowed becomes buried with an injury
Enter with injury that seeks to be healed by the light
Enter with injury that seeks to be healed by warmth
Enter with injury that seeks to be healed by might
Burrowed becomes buried with an injury
Burrowed, buried
Burrowed, buried
Endure, self injure
Endure, self injure
Adjured, allured
By nature pure
Burrowed, buried
Burrowed, buried
Functioning returns when I reemerge
If I reemerge-renewed energy
Back to the surface, back from underneath
Face the light of day-renewed energy
Functioning returns when I reemerge
If I reemerge-renewed energy
Back to the surface, back from underneath
Face the light of day-renewed energy
Life took time away once again
Endure, self injure
Endure, self injure
Functioning returns when I reemerge
If I reemerge-renewed energy
Back to the surface, back from underneath
Face the light of day-renewed energy
The depths, calming yet maddening
Echo throughout me
I stare without moving
Dirt, filth, washes me
Narrowing rays of light only serve to calm my pulsing heart
Immured by physiology
Secluded with hope, a will to be set free
Entombed by winter's decree
By the pulsing in my body that slowly depletes
Life codes embedded in the deep
Begging my system to emulate deep sleep
To reemerge
Immured by physiology
Secluded with hope, a will to be set free
Entombed by winter's decree
By the pulsing in my body that slowly depletes
Life codes embedded in the deep
Begging my system to emulate deep sleep
To reemerge
To reemerge
To reemerge
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2. |
Brumation II
06:26
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Brittle becomes my being
Coldness takes my mind
Frost over what I've been seeing
Volunteer to go blind
Refrain, sustain a nature that might not gain
Suppress, transgress a surface afraid of less
Nothing arcane, a body can not feign
Interest in scorning the instinct that ordains
Brittle becomes my being
Coldness takes my mind
Frost over what I've been seeing
Volunteer to go blind
Refrain, sustain a nature that might not gain
Suppress, transgress a surface afraid of less
Nothing arcane, a body can not feign
Interest in scorning the instinct that ordains
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Brumation III
05:03
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Hide, follow me
Hybernoculum selection is key
Can't burrow under a fluttering leaf
Burrow underneath when darkness calls me
Rebrand discomfort as surface safety
Free, never free
Creature once lucky when he chose a cave
Darkness when waking left something to save
Stumbled to comfort instead of a grave
What leads to safety could create a slave
Cold, bury me
Follow me
Can't burrow under a fluttering leaf
Can't burrow under a fluttering leaf
Can't burrow under a fluttering leaf
Can't burrow under a fluttering leaf
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Brumation IV
06:03
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Bright comes the morning
Transforms the night
Light with no warning
Forms one to fight
A creature awakens
Being born for the bite
No need for moods contrite
New and old in nature's mold
Burrowed and buried last summer's scurry
A knife in the wound we call time
Beneath the surface still lies all worry
But also an expanse to climb
Survived a winter, another, once more
Awaken never in my prime
Wounding something that also wields a knife
Limits the expanse called life time
Bright comes the morning
Transforms the night
Light with no warning
Forms one to fight
A creature awakens
Being born for the bite
No need for moods contrite
New and old in nature's mold
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Shroud of Despondency was formed by Rory Heikkila in the late 1990's.
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