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IMPERIUM DE SOMNUS, INTERREX DE VITRO REGIA

by SOFIA RETA

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All my life, I am waiting for the end All my life, I am waiting for the end All my life, I am waiting for the end Save me from sweeter hopes I should be around Hold me inside Waiting for the end We're alive but I'm waiting for the end Save me from me Keep me from me Save me from my hope And let me, save me from the end
2.
Holding to fight a style There was a prince in older me Have to, Have a gleaming I see me But no other way I'm pleased to grow up again I'm pleased to grow up again
3.
Feelin strange about the state of things space phone future rings hoplessness a hopeful place laced throne new kings and I think, do they really need it? do they know what the magic is, know what to feed it? someone give a lesson, do they know what the creed is? you can lock the door, but we know where the key is cause there's two kind a digital shaman solar power gods and them minions, more common you gotta turn em on, and CTRL ALT DELETE before we meet in the street make you step to our beat nose bleed take a seat make ya drop to your feet cast spells while you sleep and you wake up in the deep end weekend this is all a dream it's not what it seems let me slow down know and tell you what I mean How I end up dealin with these internet twerps watch me throw chapagne on them internet shirts internet hurts when your only net worth is a couple weak lines and producers up your skirt BOOM I can rap BOOM BOOM I can rap BOOM cut the crap 'fore I send this track back take heat when you approachin all that internet fame internet games for them internet dames internet flames talkin dirty on aim things won't change if your method stays the same cause we grow from the earth we got our feet in the sand our roots in the dirt but we got hardware in our hands man how we do we on the loose you see us in the news like hexbeam cast them visual curses and the bathaus crew is driving the hearses now ride the ARC to the other side better run like hell, you got blood in your eyes now ride the ARC to the other side, better run like hell, you got blood in your eyes
4.
Harold 02:11
I walked to the fireside To watch me grow up And I threw my middle away For a single night I walked to the fireside And I watched my father dip His hand into Never blacker waters When he saw his face He broke the mark Never felt so alone Never did he did Watched his mother fade away Never float never stay Older anyway
5.
How does it feel to be wrong? Do you think that you Deserve more love? Maybe when I felt, feel so dumb I just slide it down for you Now you're stuck in your misery "We'll fall, oh. Stop it"
6.
(SONG FROM THE SPIRIT HOUSE)
7.
The Archer 06:02
To be here without a single bone Left to an ivory, familial tone Where the knot of your finger Could barely fit in a ring What's left is very little And smaller still are the rites You've insisted I perform I'll continue to resist And remove myself from view You've become vile and everything That means beside I'm not sure you fooled my body I'll sure I'll be lonely I'm sure you fooled my childish hope I'm not sure you fooled my body I'm sure I'll come back Just enough to be Sold into your slavery I'm never going to the party Employ your shy, forgiven gut If only I Never see you again I'll never have to do it Sever me from the sun If only I Never see you love again Shy is the finger never again A clearing with the apples Now I'm pissing in the boots No, should be alone No, that's the only way
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(SONG FROM THE SPIRIT HOUSE)
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(SONG FROM THE SPIRIT HOUSE)
10.
Black bloomed in his palm Rubbed my anus with his thumb Caught my tedious spirit With his tongue Black bloomed in his palm Cradled my relentless home And smacked my throat With a sweet or sour treat We should be clean But I'd rather you humiliate me Black bloomed in his palm A for a million nights I'll be the bird, the wild light Black bloomed in his palm Some exotic garden Should wilt in the heat We should be clean But I'd rather you humilate me
11.
You used to be an actor In a spotlight of hate In bow, his face a jagged rot I've already forgiven you I have already left you And your hideous archery to The wayside Where the rest of your cold All could sink into you And through the poison I've finally believed you Maybe I'm born to. You will never fully love again I hope you get less than that Oh, maybe they'll love you too I guess I knew it Will them, it's standing alone.
12.
The Stack 03:47
So we know what it feels like to be alone And waiting for an answer, but I'm never going to get it Now at curtain-call Swoon in the spirit-house We all strive Alive If that's dying I'm finally done To Sound unlike Any words or A fountain Would you save me from my hope? Could you save me from my hope? Would you save me from my hope? And let me lie And maybe hold him So my love don't mean Anything done You've watched me come It's not going to be like that Oh, be like that Okay?
13.

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IMPERIUM DE SOMNUS, INTERREX DE VITRO REGIA:
(Empire of Sleep, Regency of the Glass Castle)

This work is meant as a goodbye, a big wide wave
I have spent the better part of my life writing and performing music, and while I don't intend to stop doing those things, I do think this will be the last under the Ʌ alias.
Through these songs, I have explored the sounds and textures I have spent the passed years developing. From my classical training as a pianist and composer, to the hip-hop darkwave, the north African rhythms that have have been the cornerstones for my works, and the southern American swamp blues tonality I have always had resonance with.
This is also an important milestone for me, personally.
Some of the lyric liners will read "From the Spirit House", these are songs where both the lyrics and the music were 100% improvised (a la my other project "Abe Sada" abesada.bandcamp.com) these are places where I felt completely honest and very free, so I hope you feel that too.
When there are lyrics, they are my most straightforward and my most personal, and perhaps it is a strange idea to include them, but honesty is important in work.
I would like to thank absolutely everyone who has helped me write, produce, and bought works from me to allow me to continue working.
I would like to thank the countless artists who have been instrumental and inspirational to me throughout the years.
This album will be released on cassette later this year with extra tracks, and if you are on my mailing list, I will be sending out that info when its available
xoxoxo
X.S.V.

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released August 24, 2012

All songs written, performed, and produced by X.S.V. with the exception of "Hopelessness" which has lyrics written and performed by MAGZILLA.

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