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Now It’s finally time
To leave this behind
The cold years we spent
Locked away from the light
It’s finally time
It’s finally right
We’re finally free
From the ravenous night
Broken by the endless ocean
Crashing cruelly on their shores
Grinding pieces ever smaller
dust to atoms to no more
The million shattered pieces
Scattered all across the fields
Tell their stories to the passing feet
From underneath their heels
The voices crushed to gravel
They begged to be recalled
While so slowly they unravel
Til they can’t be heard at all
And soon no one remembers
What the fragments had to say
They don’t even glance downward
As they’re passing on their way.
Lost in the mirage
And everything looks wrong
The voices from outside
Always tempting us along
Deeper in the desert
Ever further from our homes
The voices gently urging us
To ignore all the bones
Wires crossed
Electric shocks
Signal lost
Signal lost
Voices on the other side
All crying out in sharp surprise
Garbled words
Hardly heard
Corners turned
Corners turned
Now there is no coming back
They’ve wandered right off of the map
On they walked
Promised lots
At no cost
At no cost
But they refused to pack a drop
Of water in case they got lost
Instead they
We’re told a way
To be saved
To be saved
A drink so sweet that blood grows thin
and swiftly slips the poison in
Silhouettes surround them on all sides
Undulating closer all the time
Sets of gnashing teeth in place of eyes
Chewing on the shards of shattered lives
Chewing on the shards of shattered lives
Chewing on the shards of shattered lives Chewing on the shards of shattered lives
On the wind it drifts
Completely silently it slips
Fading oh so faintly it could easily
Be missed
Like statues they remain
Throughout the sunshine, snow, and rain
Expressions all eroding
From their face
The shadows growing long again.
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And here
At the end
Will the scars
Ever mend
Will the bars
Ever bend
And set us
All free
Will the dirt
Wash away
Will our knees
Learn to pray
Will we even
Look back
As we're
Walking away
And if we look back
What will we see
The gold setting sun
Or the shadowy breach?
The glistening eyes
Of some sad feral beast
Its eyes slipping shut
As if falling asleep?
Fog spreading slowly across
The streets growing gradually lost
The people alone
Cannot find their way home
Till the ferryman calls them across
The river dividing their shores
From the dark and the damned evermore
But soon they forget
Which side that they left
With the slow steady stroke of the oars
Now, just what did you expect
You thought you could just reach
The sweet sweet sweet honey
Despite the buzzing bees
But they sting sting sting your skin
As soon as you reach in
And now you aren't sure
If the sweet even exists
What have I done?
There's no turning back now
Went one step too far
Down a darkened path that
They'll never depart
Echoes of the questions
They never thought to ask
Is it worth the danger
Of never coming back?
Echoes of the questions
They never thought to ask
Is it worth the danger
Of never coming back?
And here
At the end
Will the scars
Ever mend
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I know you
I know you
I know just what you are
I know you
I know you
I know you won’t get far
If I tell them what I know
They’ll make you stop
If I tell them what I know
They’ll have enough
Shattered mirror
Full of eyes
Staring from
The silver spikes
Cold but,
None the less, alive
Shattered mirror
Full of eyes
Inside the coliseum
The lions circle round
The people who’ve been chosen
To entertain the crowd
The lions are kept hungry
The people broken down
The audience around them
Nearly foaming at the mouth
The jellyfish drifts
Boneless and sick
Deep in the depths
Where the darkness is thick
Silently it slips
Through the rippling abyss
Colder than the cold
And so so ravenous
The shadows and the shades
In the underworld parade
The whistling of wind
Passing gently through the graves
A sorrowful chill
Has blanketed the hills
The voices of the past
Are echoing here still
When I find you
When I catch you
When I show you what I am
Will it shake you
Will it break you
Will you finally understand?
Sinking in the dirt
Sinking in the dirt
In the dark, in the dark
To the centre of the Earth
Further down below
Further down below
In the dark, in the dark
Where we’re never meant to go
When I find you
When I catch you
When I show you what I am
Will it shake you
Will it break you
Will you finally understand?
Into the unknown
Into the unknown
In the dark, in the dark
Where we’re tumbling alone
Are we really lost
Are we really lost
In the dark, in the dark
Where the shadows never stop
La La La La La
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Down in the deep
Far away from the light
It’s darkest where it’s deepest
Where the creatures can hide
The pressure growing ever
More intense as we plunge
To the places that have never
Felt the touch of the sun
Hey
Do you think you know what’s coming next
Do you think you know what to expect
Will it come as a complete surprise
When you can’t even believe your eyes
When you can’t even believe your eyes
When you can’t even believe your eyes
When you can’t even believe your eyes
Holding on for dear life
While our ears and our eyes
Try their best to deny
That as fast as we run
It is never enough
To escape for too long
Wishes return from the stars
Unanswered, falling apart
Straight back into our hearts
Now
Open up your eyes
See what you can see
Remember to breathe
Even if it seems
Way beyond belief
Or impossibly bleak
Your legs growing so weak
Just breathe, just breathe, just breathe
I don't know
I don't care
I'm not going anywhere
I'll stay here
Where it's safe
I'll make sure it stays this way
I don't know
And I don't care
I'm not going anywhere
I'll stay here
Right where it's safe
And I'll stay this way
I'll stay this way.
One day they wrote down
All of our dreams
Filled up the pages
Fast by the ream
Put them in pouches
And sewed up the seams
And dropped them all
Into the burbling stream
And then they floated out to sea
Did we lie
To our eyes
Tell ourselves
That we were blind
To escape
any trace
Of the world
We couldn’t face?
Are we slipping
Are we fading
Away again
Are we slipping
Are we fading
Away again
Away
Away
Away
Hear the echoes down below
Not our words, only their ghosts,
Until they grow too faint to know
If they’re reflecting anymore
Anymore
Anymore
Anymore
See shapes moving all around
Flashes of eyes and hungry mouths
Wondering how we made it out
Watching for signs of slowing down
Down
Down
Down
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Gazing on a new horizon
Sliding into the unknown
Leaving behind worlds unwinding
Never sure of coming home
Too late to turn away now
Too late to turn back around
Whether we’re lost or we’re found
It’s too late to turn away now
In between the seconds
Split into a million pieces
Pulled apart in all directions
With no end
The time we borrowed, slipping
The familiar growing dimmer
And the picture faintly ripping
At the edge
Don’t look
Don’t breathe
Don’t speak or you’ll get seen
Don’t sleep
Don’t dream
Don’t wake up with a sharp scream
Can you hear me in the dark
Far away from where you are
The thump thump thumping of your heart
Crying out beyond the stars
You weren’t there
You wouldn’t hear
What I might say
And if you were
You wouldn’t hear
Me anyway
You would find
One so resigned
To what must come
That not one word
Would then emerge
Across their tongue
The further in we go, the more
Things start to look strangely malformed
Nobody warned us it would be
So hard for our eyes to believe
Did you hear that sound?
Did you turn around?
Was there something there
Or a distant howl
From a source unseen
With intents obscene?
Or was it just your brain
Playing tricks again?
It doesn’t really matter
If they tell the truth or lie
The shadows grow hungrier
As the day begins to die
And when the night has swallowed
Everything the eye can see
The darkness sighs a happy sigh
And then falls fast asleep
Somewhere in the blackness
Distant lights begin to shine
Hinting at another life
In very distant times
And if we can hold out only
A little longer still
Perhaps we can recover
What the shadows tried to kill
Fell into a crack
Split into the sky
Trying to see into
Into the other side
Soon like somebody
Completely hypnotized
We’ve forgotten all about
Any previous life
Fell into a crack
Split into the sky
Trying to see into
Into the other side
Soon like somebody
Completely hypnotized
We’ve forgotten all about
Any previous life
How will we find our way home?
How will we find our way home?
How will we find our way home?
How will we find our way home?
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Night fell so early that day
They had no time to prepare
Shadows caught them in mid step
Ignored their pain and despair
Some became part of the dark
Pulled in and broken apart
Leaving a silence behind
Lit by the shimmering stars
The bones
In their homes
In their homes
Darkened rooms
No one knows
No one knows
No one comes or goes
Comes or goes
Just the bones
Just the bones
All alone
The stars
Through the bars
Of the cage
Seem far
And impossibly
Faint
As if
Just a trick
Of their eyes
Overwhelmed
By the
Infinite sky
The wolves had slipped in
With the meek
No longer disguised
Or discreet
They walked among them
On the street
Unable to see
More than meat
Down there in the cold
Down there in the cold
Dreaming of the world
They were unable to hold
Down there in the cold
Down there in the cold
Remembering the secrets that
They swore they never told
Down there in the cold
Down there in the cold
Down there in the cold
Wondering how long has passed
Down there in the cold
Down there in the cold
Down there in the cold
As endless nights unfold
Did you try to escape
Or did you simply embrace
Things the way they are
Even as they fell apart
Did you believe the words
That you so often heard
Or did you just repeat
Whatever was certain to please please please
Down this other road
Is there a place to go
Far from all of the storms
That have been ravaging our homes
I just don’t know
I just don’t know
Down this other road
Will we finally see
A world we’ve never known
And days of peace
I just don’t know
I just don’t know
I just don’t know
I just don’t know
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Now while you’re sitting quietly
Only seeing what you want
Unaware of anything
Except what’s already gone
Then suddenly it’s crystal clear
That something has gone so wrong
That there is no turning back
You just go on and on and on
On and on
On and on
On and on
On and on
Woken in the night
You see
Nothing but the dark
Of dreams
You are still not sure if
It’s real
Or if you are still fast
Asleep
Feel them at your heels
Like wolves drawing closer
Jaws snapping right behind
Is there some way out
That you cannot yet see or
Are you really lost this time?
It’s too late to change anything now
It’s too late to change anything now
Quick sand
pulling you down
No way
Of climbing back out
Struggling
Only pulls you further in
You’re sinking
You’re sinking
You’re sinking
You’re sinking
There is nothing left to do
There is nowhere left to go
There is nothing left to say
There is no other way
There is no one left to call
There is no other end in sight
The hours fading from the day
There is no other way
And so it begins
A change in the wind
The entire world
Shedding its skin
Far off you hear
The ringing of bells
And what will come next
It’s too soon to tell
You wake up
But the dream carries on
And you don’t know
If it’s been happening long
You take a deep breath
And you breathe out again
And you wonder
If it’s ever gonna end
Into uncharted regions
Unseen
Horizons where dark secrets
convene
Trembling very slightly at
the thought
That there’s no turning back
After the ticket has been bought
Cold wind and the sun behind
the clouds
Strangely distant voices all
around
Where the road goes nobody
Can tell
If you will return
it is a mystery as well
It just goes
On and on
On and on
On and on
On and on
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Time had stood still
Left them waiting
The cold and unfulfilled
Slowly fading
The dreams never dreamed
Lost forever
However they attempted
To endeavor
The clocks fully stopped
All unneeded
Cobwebs coating all things
Without heeding
The shadows trading places
With their people
Dragging them along
Worn out and feeble
Nothing that they promised
Turned out true
They didn’t do a thing
They said they’d do
And in the moment that
You finally knew
There was nothing left
At all for you
So you were left to fight
For scraps and bones
The shirt upon your back
Was all you owned
While they were whisked away
To shores unknown
Proud of all the wisdom
They had shown
There was so much more
Left to say
But the words were
Locked away
Like prisoners
Inside a cell
Eternally detained
They waited as long
As they could
Time, like termites,
In the wood
Chewed the hours
Down to dust
Til nothing there
Remained
They said they wanted windows
When they really wanted mirrors
The world reflecting back
In such a way that just felt clearer
And any time they saw
Anything that did not belong
They shuddered with the fear
That the whole world was going wrong
They huddled into herds
All united by the words
Infecting their blood streams
Like bacteria and germs
Until they were too ill
And only kept alive with pills
And stories of the brave
Who chose to die upon that hill
The harder they worked
On the gift
The more they found
Indifference
No matter the gold
Or the rarest of stones
It was as if
They didn’t exist
The hope that they had
Turned to rust
And gutted machines
Became husks
Gears rotted away
Leaving only the faint
Memories of what
They had been once
The moon was surrounded
By a rainbow halo
They expected it to lead them
All the way home
Nobody could tell
If it was the right way, though
But now they were all
Way too scared to say so
Floating away
In the sky
The shape of those
Left behind
Raising their hand
In goodbye
As slowly they slipped
Out of sight
Is this the way we meant to go
Will it be everything that we could hope
Is it a mistake, how can we know
Before it is too late to go back home
Did we see the sky
Did we see the stars
Or did we
Only imagine
That we were here at all?
Did we walk these fields
Did we sing these songs
Or did we
Only imagine
That we were here at all?
Did we feel the warmth
Of the golden sun
Or did we
Only imagine
That we were here at all?
Did we promise that
We’d meet again
Or did we
Only imagine
That we were here at all?
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Sometimes a stone
Is best left unturned
The things underneath
Are best left unseen
But once you have looked
They’re forever burned
In the grey of your brain
In the corners of dreams
Some things should just
Be left alone
Run away home
Run away home
Some things should just
Be left alone
Run away home
Run away home
The door has opened
No stopping now
Unseen hands reach out
Silent as the grave
Cover up their mouths
And carry them away
No breath of air you could ever breathe (ooh)
Nobody else you could ever be (aah)
No angel’s wings you could ever see
That would save you now
That would save you now…
That would save you.
The only thing there
Was the tiniest house
It was there that they lived
Far away from the town
And just for a moment
It was all that they hoped
Free from the echoes
Of yesterday’s ghosts
The echoes bouncing off the hills
Streaking madly through the air
Cats upon the window sills
Watching silently in pairs
Until words became too faint
For anyone to hear
Free, at last, from all constraint
They simply disappeared
Why don’t the angels ever win?
The best among them withering
While crooked hearts, all festering,
Sit high above the suffering.
A giant wretched spider
Sitting in a silken web
(Sitting in a silken web)
Dreaming about all the things
It hasn’t eaten yet
(That it hasn’t eaten yet)
While all her hungry children
Stay gathered at the edge
(Children gathered at the edge)
Wondering if they ever will have
The chance to eat again
(Have chance to eat again)
Didn’t think it would happen so soon
Trading the fields for a windowless room
Waning in phases, along with the moon
Making new dogs out of second hand wolves
Carried on the wind
Through the rising dawn
Completely unaware
Of how far they’ve gone
Where will it end? (Where will it end?)
Where will it end? (Where will it end?)
Where will it end? (Where will it end?)
Where will it end?
Left for dead all alone
Never getting home
At least that is how it looks
But no one really knows
They will struggle til their last
Cause it’s their only hope
Of getting out alive
And not fading to bones
Run away as fast as you can
Run away as fast as you can
Don’t look back keep moving
Keep running
Run away as far as you can
Run away as far as you can
Don’t look back keep going
Keep running
Don’t look back keep going
Don’t look back keep going
Don’t look back keep going
Keep running
Keep running
Run away don’t listen to them
Run away don’t listen to them
Don’t look back keep moving
Keep running
Run away as fast as you can
Run away as fast as you can
Don’t look back keep going
Keep running
Keep running
Keep running
Keep running
Keep running
Keep running
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A long time ago
They believed they had it all
But it was lost
So fast
Abandoned in
The past
All because, at last,
They got caught in the act
And they could not
Deny
their knowledge of
The crime
The endless rolling waves
They carry them away
The long forgotten ones
With neither homes nor graves
And all the nights and days
Seem pointlessly the same
For the long forgotten ones
With neither hopes nor names
Broken into pieces
Bloody, battered, bruised
Tumbling in the darkness
Frightened and confused
Moonlight from the surface
Slowly fades away
Leaving just the blackness
Of a place without a name
This isn’t over
There’s always a way back
Rising again
Like the plumes of a smoke stack
Choking the sky
With writhing grey columns
As the people below
Grow ever more solemn
Shapes floating through
The air
Beware
Beware
Not even sure
They’re there
Beware
Beware
Beware
Beware
Beware
Beware
This has been a long time coming
Rising to this moment like a mountain summit
It’s too late, no point in running
Planning for this moment like a fox so cunning
What did they expect, that it all was over?
Hiding from this moment like a four leaf clover
Nothing ever ends, we only get older
Waiting for this moment while the embers just smolder
The road home
Dark and slowly winding
Filled with ghosts
Always there reminding
Of the past
Stretching out behind them
And all the things that are
Missing from inside them
You think you
Can simply return
And there won’t
Be a price to pay?
When there is
Always a cost
No matter
What excuses you make.
In recognition of theirs actions
Debt will always be extracted
Rest assured it always happens
Regardless of distractions
Or pious interactions
Denials or retractions
Or changes in the fashion
By addition or subtraction
There are rules
There are rules
There was just no time to hide
From the fall
From the fall
It arrived just like the wind
Took it all
Took it all
In the ruins left behind
They recall
They recall
Some believed that they had it coming
And thought they would all just take off running
But this means war, no point in pretending
That there is still any hope of mending
Maybe not today and maybe not tomorrow
But from now on all your time is borrowed
Even if you don’t fully realize it now
The hands on the clocks are winding down
It’s all been said
No time to waste
The path ahead
They can’t escape
What they’ll find
No one can say
The path ahead
Just winds away
One day the road
Will just lead away
Under grey skies
Or a perfect blue day
Time doesn’t care
That some disagree
It’s simply the way
That things have to be
Don’t you dare ask why
You will never know
Don’t you dare ask why
You will never know
Once again
We hear them ask
Will they ever
Return at last
Time doesn’t care
If it all disappears
But it means so much
To those left waiting here
Waiting here
Waiting here
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Every day
They open up their eyes
And then they hope that they
Will finally realize
Before it slips away
What it has really all been about anyway
But no one really knows
No one really knows
What they will find
Somewhere in the dark
There’s an answer, though,
Hidden in the places
Where they seldom go
Written across pages
Made of skin and bone
Unless it’s just illusions
In some twisted show
All these hours
Spent in waiting
For this moment
Hopes just fading
Until dreams were
Almost forgotten
But now your hardened heart
Starts to soften
The sun goes down
And the moon comes up
And the world will never ever
Be the same as it was
Yesterday is over
Tomorrow has to come
Glowing in the gold of the
Returning of the sun
Shadows turn from black
To blue and fade away
And slowly all the details
Of the world retake their place
And every little creature
And every blade of grass
Is coming into focus
All fully formed at last
And when the piece
That has been missing all along
Appears at last
Like some sweet song
Then suddenly
Everything snaps right into place
The solitude
Simply erased
Close your eyes
And go to sleep
The pillow warm
Against your cheek
And if you hear
The window squeak
Hide your head
Beneath the sheets
Careful not
To make a sound
Don’t even let
A whisper out
Don’t shiver, shake,
Or turn around
Or certainly
You will be found
One unexpected moment
And everything is stolen
Everything you wanted
For so long
One ravenous shadow
Reaching up from below
Everything that you know
Is now gone
Slipping through your fingers
Right before your eyes
Fading ever further
Like a fast receding tide
Long past the horizon
Unceasingly it flees
Until an empty ocean
Is all that’s left to see
No matter how far
I will find you
However long the
Hours grow
No matter what strange
things start to brew
No matter what cruel
Winds will blow
I’m coming
I’m right behind you
I’m coming
I’m gonna find you
This wicked plot
That you’ve been caught in
Does not mean that
All hope is lost
Don’t, for a moment,
Feel forgotten
You will never
leave my thoughts
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All the Pedal Scopic tracks from 2022.
released September 11, 2022
MUSIC WRITTEN AND PERFORMED BY PEDAL SCOPIC SOUNDS & ELEKTROCUTE (C) 2022 VIDEO DESIGNED AND ANIMATED BY PEDAL SCOPIC SOUNDS (C) 2022