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in all you do,
all you want is more
it's all that you want to feel
no, no-one but yourself
knows quite well
of the shadow you convey
but to me, your darkness rolls on and reaches for my throat
i don't wish to know and yet i pervade your entire soul
i cannot cower to your consciousness
and this is my own fucking time
i'll wield against you cold fucking steel
you'll swallow bitter fucking reparition
if you ever fucking lie to me
cold as stone in mid-December
my wrath more sure than even i remember
nothing ever fades, it just blows away
without clinging to my own pain
i have nothing left by which to try to gain control
and i am gonna die before you ever get let in again
you cannot intercede;
you cannot repossess;
your attempts to dis-typify yourself to me will fail unless
you get on with your curséd life
and get on with your sordid deeds
under some other planetary sky
i want no intervention,
i want no earthly thought;
i'm dedicating every breath to hate and sorrow and luck for naught.
will you choose me again, if i gave the second chance?
or would you merely go on your way with your exemplary ignorance?
your existence may seem futile,
but my twisted love finds new season
in its cause for extended vindication
of its condemnation of your treason
i have found great humour
in the rumour of your attempts to hide
now that you finally know your solipsistic counterpart
will always be denied
i saw you leave before the denouement,
left them hanging in the spires;
early death made by the realisation
of the evil in their desires
i don't need no modern love
[spoken:]
i think of all the things that i don't need
i think of all the stars that might not shine,
that we just can't see...
it depends on light speed.
and there are other things--
other kinds of speed that i rely on.
it's the speed...the quickness of the heart that hardens...
like steel. and it takes me away from any feeling i've ever felt...
and it takes me away from all the chaos.
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my energy goeth, before it stops;
like the streets i can never get in your way
never impede passage, but carry you on--
persist in my nonexistence to assist you
obliged and resigned by my very nature
to ride beneath your feet
obliged and resigned by my very nature
to ride beneath your feet
into the earth you guide your force;
like the mist, i can only envelop you
opaquely conceal who you really are--
but around you, the world is changing
if illumined by the sun i am driven from you further
forever exiled to a world in which you cannot come
if illumined by the sun i am driven from you further
forever exiled to a world in which you cannot come
i cannot hear you;
do you or don't you want to?
will you or won't you stay with me?
i cannot hear you;
i cannot be so bold.
will you or won't you stay with me?
i have consecrated my whole life to a ghost
i cannot qualify my desires with any spoken word
i shrink from the slightest sign of recognition
i fade at the sight of the first shadow to fall
like the sun i shine, shine passively, passively on you
like the mist i lay low, transparently apparently round you
like the streets i'm paved over and over,
so in some way i may lay beneath you
and so you may seem to tread an open road--
but what is it really, but that?
it's almost time...
we're running out of what's left--
so decide, if you will, before i fade back into the shadows of dusk;
so decide, if you will, before i change back to the blackness of dust.
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unseen augmentation settles on my spine;
your hand feels like an untamed sea,
with waves that rise to greet me
and i am so far away;
stranded amidst shrinking grains of sand
i am aiming in silence
to absolve and solve my pain
in the morning, lay and envision madness
in the noon-time, guess where the stars may be
in the shadows, walk alongside intuition
in the moonlight, try to remember me
unblistered heels, passing through cemented forest
the reality of my world fades,
it flickers like a picture
dimming into a newfound scene;
a strange, metallic metaphor--
an antiquated daguerrotype laying broken on the floor
and so she walks through the gate,
looks over the Italian fields--
she walks away:
"Rosa aurata...like a line of poetry."
he'd grown them in his garden
it had been written there
it was once hidden there
the secrets bidden there
upon your fair brow, lie--
the worries lie,
lie...
the worries lie.
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and i walk back down, but i can't slow down
and i walk back down, but i can't slow down...
you could imagine, my feelings grew
but like everything else, you knew;
and i never even paid attention to
that thing you do,
but i can't slow down,
cos even that now pulls me towards you just the same
and i've just given it all away
without thinking of the consequence
i'm just walking down the side of the road on your life
i've been given, given one more chance
to throw myself into oncoming traffic...
every night that i come home
and you're not on the stair--
you're not there, but i still hear
every word that you said
i once lived by whatever you said
and i once loved whatever you said
you made it so hard just to hear myself.
and they never saw--so i don't talk
but i feel like you're still staring me down
it's not emptiness but certainty which drags me on
we went down to your only love
and from there you helped me up
and your one desire, oh i'm not gonna say
cos if you could, as if you could
as if you could, as if you...
and i know things are over in the ownership days
but i still feel collared when i'm caught in your gaze
i've never said it, but now that you wait,
inside i'm a hurricane that never abates
and i've never said it, but now that you wait, inside i'm...
ah, it's like fire, it's like war, it's like a storm that breaks down the door
my soul is not empty; my blood owns no rage
despite all the years i've waited to be claimed as yours
the air now less oppressive, my dreams reclaimed as before,
but still there's no celebration on that serpentine shore
because i don't know which grain of sand hides you away
oh, your son inside; my son as well
a new secret enrapture that we could never sell
i've tried many times to get myself gone,
but yet time spends itself going on...
you'll never know how much i've fallen away
from insane senses of you
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all i have are restless thoughts such as these
they singe, and they burn without fail
and smoke may rise, but it's never black as night
there is only rain on far-away plains out sight
may all be lost, or be it found,
or buried hidden within the ground;
despite all secrecy, i'll still somehow be around
and there's always time for you
through portals strange we go
though untrue trials ourselves we may come to know
i'm always riding in late, however you're forever waiting--
is it on me, or some other?
and you should never tell.
all your races run have not been in vain
all of your smiles never to sides lain
for long unbroken has been the spell of silence
are you cold or distant?
do you feel or cry?
are you really simple?
do you rise or fall?
do you rest or sigh?
do your wishes alight?
does your shadow align...
all i have, all i am, all you are
always here, i'm always thine,
you're always mine
i'm always here, you're always mine, always thine
always here, always thine, always
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A former project of Isadora Zidore, collaborating with Rich Fessler on bass (Bear Claw, Life on Mercury, Jackhammer Hearts).
released January 31, 2020
written by Isadora Zidore
Isadora Zidore: guitars, vocals & piano
Rich Fessler: bass; low piano on Iris
recorded by Steve Albini at Electrical Audio (Studio B), Chicago, IL, 21/22 January 2003; tracks 1-3 mixed 09/10 July 2003 by Steve and Isadora. Tracks 4 & 5 are merely rough mixes, so they're not perfect.
copyright 2020 by Don't Copy Me Wilhelm Music (ASCAP)