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Drowning // 分離
02:08
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Come back.
I can feel this rush, baptized in these waters. I have to wake up before the world closes in on me. The lucid purple waves wash over my skin. The caps rushing over my head, filling my mouth and my eyes, pushing me back to shore. I can feel the sand crack and soak beneath my knees as the small parts of shell dig their way into my legs, dragging themselves behind me. This salted air feels like lead in my lungs. I have to get up and resist this undertow, but why does it feel like it’s pushing me towards land?
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Lost // 丘の中腹
02:06
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Pulling myself up from the dunes, bottomed out onto the beach. I can barely make out what’s in front of me as the glow blindingly grabs my eyes. The sky refracting and bouncing between colours to a blurring point, filling my senses and distracting my feet. Dredged up from the ocean and waterlogged, I can’t remember where I am. I can hear voices piercing my ears, some sound familiar. All these vibrations rattle my mind. What are they saying? Gesturing to the silhouettes in the distance.
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Lounge // 真夜中
05:08
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Stumbling over the dunes, laid bare in front of the structure. Through crystalline windows I can see the shadows. They dance between the colours, mosaics of stories I have heard but can’t seem to pull from. My hands glide over the cracks as the panes float open, neon washing out the shapes and numbing my senses. The clink of stained glass rattles over the pops of the fire swaying between the corners of the fluorescence. Somehow this vacancy echoes, only vibrations left of people who were once here. I’m alone in this room. I can tell that something’s different tonight.
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Remember // ハイウェイ
03:49
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And where to now? Visions bleed into reality as I rush over the highway. My body rumbles above the speeding asphalt, mindlessly shifting gears. This floating shape has become a part of me, like muscle memory. The road seems to have left any trace of direction behind, my only guide being the street lights. The windows from the cities ooze their phosphorescence towards me, peering through the overgrown structures. Why aren’t these streetlights overgrown? Do I remember where I’m going? Why can’t I feel my limbs?
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Samurai // 古顔
03:39
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The lush landscape rushes over my senses. Only light seems to penetrate this dense fog rolling in beneath the brush. Faint breezes still reverberate through these natural pillars and winding branches. I can hardly make out the buildings anymore, spires that cracked the sky seem to have been smothered by waves of rolling green. Man has been swallowed by the earth here, modernity told through these breathing hieroglyphs. These seeds plant themselves in between the coils of wires and electrodes. These vines wrap themselves around electric hearts.
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Fire // パッション
02:31
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These beating hearts lead me out back onto the highway. Crashing up between the sea of green onto long desolate roads of asphalt. These pylons like buoys as I float between cracks in the pavement. I can see lights flashing, blinking, beckoning me to follow them. Like a lighthouse guiding ships from the shore. Does that mean I should turn away? I can hear voices between the gusts of wind. Tunes whispered for eons still haunt these stretches of emptiness. Something wants me.
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Uncharted // 火星
02:01
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I can still feel the spray of the ocean as I pull into the city. I can feel the life that left, scattered between the phosphorescent hums of the streetlights. They light the city as if this wasn’t a destination, merely a rest. I can still hear these voices, chattering and clicking their teeth in my ears. Civilization can not leave behind so little without leaving behind their stories, filling the void. Who is here? Who is left? I know you’re still here.
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Gone // 去る
02:37
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I can feel the circuits connecting, I can remember this place. The same storefronts, filled with people I know or at least people I can recall. Streets populated with facades. Friends become ghosts as outlines cover the walls. I can never remember these rooms. It’s all so foreign to me now, like a dream you can never remember until you’re already asleep. It’s always so familiar until you wake up. Please let me stay here, I never want to leave.
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Spared // 減衰
01:36
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The dreams always end. The dreams always die. I have to keep moving. I have to wake up. I can not live connected, I can no longer stay wired in. Living vicariously through the past is a horrible way to live. Am I even getting these memories right?
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Guilty // 疑い
02:30
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I can remember it. I can remember your face. I can’t remember your name. I don’t think I can ever change. I’m trying to change. There has to be something I can do to take this poison from my veins. I feel tethered to the past. I’m floating through this life as my feet glide over the sand. This city is a ghost town filled with neon signs pointing to nothing. That must be why it was swallowed by the trees.
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Skyline // 明星
04:25
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I’m trying to fight off this drunk feeling. I’m trying to do everything better. I can feel myself touching down, sobering up. I have made my way through the city like the waves once did. I have filled the empty spaces, but I am not enough for this city to sway over. I have distanced myself from that nostalgia like frost covering me, begging me to never move again. The lights reaching through the shadows of the city are finally finding me through the trees. Pushing? Pulling? I am making one last ride to reach you, one last run across the shores before I have to go. Promise me that when we meet you will remember me. I broke that promise long ago.
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Reset // 手助け
03:39
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Between these fogged breathes, the air seems more rewarding. I know you’re here, somewhere. I will find where the trees meet the ocean and where the stone meets the wires. I will tangle our lives together only to have them short circuit. I always manage to do this. I’m sorry. I will break the heart of this overgrown city to reach the shore.
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Stories // 永遠の
04:16
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The fluorescence doesn’t reach out here, it’s glow can’t grip my heart any longer. I can feel your silhouette behind me, warm hands creeping over my shoulders. Do you remember me? You must remember my other selves before me. Will you remember the ones who come after me? Am I the first to make it this far? I won’t get in your way any longer. The sea, the dunes, the lounge, this city, my memories are all lost inside this island. I am lost inside you. Just one last time. Please...
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Aerial // 子守唄
03:12
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We will walk into the ocean together, hand in hand. I can never remember where these things start but I can always remember where they end. Let the blurred lights fade into the waves behind us. I can feel my memories fading, I can feel myself waking up. Are you going to be there when I open my eyes? I love you beyond these lifetimes that we have lived. I love you beyond this island. I love you like the buildings in the distance, the streetlights stretching back to the sea, the ghosts of these strangers that you have filled my memories with, they were all you. It was your face in every glass, your voice in all the echoes, your eyes in all the lambent mist, your hair in all the leaves, your hands in all the branches, your heart in all the trees. I will miss this island. I will miss you. I hope to remember you wherever I am going. Let the waves come up and take me again.
Come Back.
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Avalonオアシス New Jersey
Started making music in 2013. Just beginning to release some older projects.
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