What began a gentle breeze, a pleasant reprieve on this desolate plain, has picked up again
Endlessly stretching, this expanse of unknowns
A far-reaching chasm now drawn so far obtuse
We lose depth, what frigid currents it has kept now swept landward, set loose
The surge belies now over plateaus of disdain
Again and again it attains gain, now stained
With proof of these tribulations
Engrained with effigies, recounts of devastation
With immeasurable voices at once silenced by the fear
An unavoidable aura of tension, an unmistakable fog of apprehension
Enveloping our presence, now understanding our residence
Venture aimlessly into obfuscated frontier
A course from which we dare not steer
Aware of the terror which resides to our rear
But what lurks in our path remaining dishearteningly unclear
Persevere we must, while attempting to ignore this foul gust
Evermore recurring and less intermittent
On this course we’ve committed
Besieged by trepidation, without an utterance collectively increasing out pace
These winds appear to want to keep us from exiting this doomed place
Recollections of all we’ve witnessed continue emerging from places recessed
No longer able to be further repressed
Now torrential, escaping these winds is essential
Attempt to force away the hauntings escaping from the mental
Our task we must grasp with every impeded step and gasp
The airborne current now riptiding
Colliding, with all we are on the surface and inside we now
Combust, all bonds rust and disintegrate into the air as traveling dust
No longer tethered, no longer traversing together
Blindly tossed about within this funnel
With no semblance of light ending this tunnel
Plummeting into the lahar, from our plan we’re afar and gravely doomed we all are
Downwind from what stalks us
Our faults now showing, cracks in our foundation growing
While these winds just keep blowing
Acceptance of our fate now innate
No longer must we contemplate
For us the selection has been made; we now embrace what was once forbade
And we face windward
Unfurl the sails and lean into this gale
Pyroconumbulus elevates into the black beyond the pale
The harbinger winds have already told the tale
Embrace now your demise, as that gentle breeze prevails
It finds you here
Shows you the way at the end
It finds you lost
Pushes you on toward the end
Cold as death, warm as decay
Cold as death, warm as decay
It’s not what it becomes, forebode
It’s not blind when it comes, foretold
Cold as death, warm like decay
It wants to destroy us
It wants to destroy us
It wants to destroy us
Dreaming
I hear
You’re drowning
I’m dreaming
You’re Hiding
I’m dreaming
Here
Dreaming
Further, dreaming
It comes on frozen waves
It wants to destroy us
It wants to destroy us
Dreams come
The dreams come again
Can it break
Through
Signs I see
All blows through
Sign of the end
It wants to destroy us
It wants to destroy us
It wants to destroy us
It wants to destroy us
It wants to destroy us
It wants to destroy us
It wants to destroy us
credits
from Harbinger Winds,
released September 9, 2022
David Brenner – Vocals/Lyrics, Guitar, Bass, Theremin, Field Recordings
Benjamin Levitt – Vocals, Accordion, Acoustic Bass
Mac Gollehon – Trumpet
Leila Abdul-Rauf – Trumpet
Rosa Henriquez – Clarinet
Morgan Evans – Trombone
Christian Molenaar - Organ
Denise Fillion – Piano
Rob Levitt – Guitar
Sally Gates – Guitar
Matt Bacon – Guitar
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