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The Pixelated Soul

by Goodbye Tiger

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Neo One of the most unique and interesting bands I have seen in a long time. Favorite track: Walls Without Stones.
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1.
(And from under the immeasurable dust of the universe, I sigh.) Dry your eyes Come face the sun Drown in light Reveal all you’ve begun What you lost Is no matter now Wake up Wake up See the world anew
2.
They sing of a place out east I’ve dreamt of a rising sun That’ll burn out all the dark unknown And eclipse what I once called home (Now) exhale the smoke that clouds your mind And realize the roads to China are walked alone Lies in your lungs, choking your breath Hanging your head to cover your neck A decade of indifference My patience is wearing thin Carry my loss like I carry my love With heart below & head above A decade and no difference My patience is wearing Exhale the smoke that clouds your mind And realize the roads to China will guide you home In the valley of the gods Say your peace, unlock the gates All the maps are charred & faded And I still don’t know my name In the valley of the gods Say your peace, unlock the gates I’ve been on roads less traveled But the ending stays the same My father spoke of life long past He hung his head & cursed his breath “May the silence speak For all the love you’ll never see” From a broken home Now reminded Under broken bone Hope is binded Give love away, I’ll never need it Heaven can wait, I’ll never see it I know this, though long foretold: Give nothing, take nothing and risk walking alone
3.
Are you tired? Can you bear The weight of heaven? Your dreams laid bare? Oh, our souls may hide Under the weight of stones But why? Even the birds can make the blue home Oh, we wonder why With our fates unknown The sky can trust the wind to carry them home Despite our show, we tread like ghosts even in our homes And can’t say no to anything, nurse wounds we hide by day Like carousels, we spin without a pause or lull Held in endless motion, scared of stopping Something says I won’t Test the fate of the four winds that blow Can we chase the words the wind swept away? Can we be free past this day? Oh, our souls may hide Under the weight of stones But why? Even the birds can make the blue home Oh, we wonder why With our fates unknown The sky can trust the wind to carry them home (How could we ever know?) Can we chase the words the wind swept away? Can we be free past this day?
4.
Your pulse was an ocean ripple It hit like a tidal wave Held under holy water Bones waterlogged for days Well I can feel you here, where Placed within a frame Time gave you the courage To reinvent your name, but What will come of me now? What will come of us? If death'll steal the decent What will be left in my dust? As a boy, I breathed fire As a man, I cough up smoke Hold my place in the choir Sing my prayers to a dial tone What’s my legacy? Are my bones worth no weight in gold? What’s left of me is a question I can’t hold down: Who’s last to say my name? The seeds have been sown No chance of escaping No chance to atone Just endlessly waiting For light to break through As a boy, I breathed fire As a man, I cough up smoke Hold my place in the choir Sing my prayers to a dial tone What’s my legacy? Are my bones worth no weight in gold? What’s left of me is a question I can’t hold At all
5.
Seek solace in alchemy Stare up through the bottom of the sea Take deep breaths, but it won’t help Keep screaming to myself Skip stones when it’s hard to tell Lines between solid ground & wishing well And the panic fills in waves Too afraid to say your name And watch it dissolve into nothing The holes in the wall Remnants of desperate minds All painted over But never erased with time So build me a tunnel To a place where we can bathe in rays of light A summer in abandon Leaving behind Visions of eyes at night I drew out the poison The summer’s edge cuts deeper It never mattered If only I had known And the panic fills in waves Too afraid to say your name, let it dissolve into nothing But there’s freedom in decay The broken cross, the hidden cave that we carved from nothing With no one left to blame And a soul sucked dry of shame, can I dive without looking? (In the valley of the gods Say your peace unlock the gates All the maps are charred & faded And I still don’t know my name)
6.
Silence found a hollow heart Pulled in all directions A click from absolution Every thought commodified Tossed away revision To favor imprecision The doubt that lives within our bones Reveals itself in undertones In every turn of phrase In truth, we are knotted Our minds in disarray Poised upon the chance to slip away You’ll find that your breathing Can clear away your fate The cycle only ends when led astray Let air fill your lungs Let it all wash out And watch your apprehension swirl the drain The truth that we borrowed Can never be repaid Although we often give half of what we take We never let what’s taken go to waste The colors, all washed out The novelty erased How could we forget what we replaced? Oh, everything’s in frames Broken, fractured, out of place I can hear the echoes through the wall What do they say? What do they say? Build new truths, spill heart to page Never clasp to what fades away They build what’s meant to break
7.
Broken Waltz 06:02
Drive the coastline Lend an hour Mending wounds I cannot see Is it lucky Such a liar Couldn’t hear the truth I speak? Slanted skyline From a cliffside Lost beneath the dusk’s debris Heavy hearted Holding hands while Flames will dance beneath our feet And I wonder If you could tell the story With a straight face Every blunder All the gifts of glory Fallen from grace I guess I wore you down Stole the glow and burnt us out Though beauty lends a crown Heaven sent is still hellbound What a tiny frame Pulled apart in solemn grace We walked without a care Past the pier, in autumn air Our love beyond repair All a gift of circumstance And I wonder If you could tell the story With a straight face I guess I wore you down Stole the glow and burnt us out Though beauty lends a crown Heaven sent is still hellbound It’s always the same Her eyes, they pull me down And I thought I’d found a way to fight it
8.
Pixel 01:31
9.
You always say ‘The feeling will come & go’ But I don’t have the time to work this out A peaceful cave A temple of melting snow Where I don’t have enough to work this out Hearsay, echoes It’s nothing but projected shadows Crawling up the walls Coming above, as below And the TV’s on Laughter always sounds the same In an empty house All my love in a microwave Come & waste away Let our souls all pixelate With our hearts vacuums Swelling static fills the space Between what I want And need, all I know now Is that there’s something I’ve been missing Shrouded in a layer of irony Spare all doublespoken eulogy My couch is a crucifix So it goes On and on and on On and on and on On and on and on We’re all just wasting time With the TV on Laughter always sounds the same In an empty house All my love in a microwave Come & waste away Let our souls all pixelate With our hearts vacuums Swelling static fills the space Between what I want & need What I fight & feed Swollen hands that bleed Of all the stories, of all the lies I tell myself We’re all just liars (with nothing to show) We’re all just liars (with nothing to show) We’re all just liars, a silent chorus of nothing but woe
10.
Timshel 06:41
You lay to waste All of creation Under setting sun Every step veiled in low fog Wrapped in circled thought Is the future taught? Is it already known? Grasp at strings just like a puppeteer Games of black & white When it’s love you rely on Waiting for a long sigh And wasting all my time on A storm that’s never coming Crimes of invention Holy beads that hang around my neck Slowly turn to sweat At the thought of escape So pull the ropes, I’ll show you pieces of me Not too high, you cannot see Out of frame, there’s a man offstage Debating to set me free Oh, I’m dancing now Coaxing shadows to follow my move But the light’s never right, the floor crudely Bends & distorts the symmetry Haunted by the wayside And wasting all my time on Dreams of better answers When I know they won’t come No, I know they won’t come No, I know they won’t There is a light that never goes out Illuminates a darkened sea Many nights, I swam out to meet it To find my home ablaze behind me “You are a mountain, a peak in the clouds I am the wind, quiet in carving you out And when it comes, when it comes you’ll find out The fear of God will not calm the storm’s shout” Am I just a consequence Of what I was not returned? (Gave away my love for free) (Gave away most everything) (Nothing taken, nothing earned) (Simple question, lesson learned)
11.
And from under the immeasurable dust of the universe, I sigh.

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released April 24, 2015

Recorded, Mixed, and Mastered at Lakehouse Recording Studios

Produced, Engineered, and Mixed by Erik Kase Romero

Mastered by Tim Pannella

Additional Engineering by Evan Rudenjak, Nishit Nandankar, and Matt Bodner

Artwork and Design by Devin Korwin

Executive Produced by Bryan Bove

Special Thanks to Jon Leidersdorff, Mike Kerslake, Mike Caliendo, and all of our family and friends

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