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The Stranger

by The Stranger

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Cletus
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Cletus Each track in this album comes together to create one large, beautiful work of art, so picking a favourite track is hard. As soon as it's over I want to hear it again. 8/10 Favorite track: Just the Goods.
stellar80
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stellar80 This is sooo good!!! What a blast! Favorite track: Song for Dad.
gebs
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gebs The album isn't perfect, but it has enough amazing prog-metal tracks to stay on heavy rotation. "Just the Goods" is one of my favorite songs of the last ten years, so that alone was worth the purchase. Favorite track: Just the Goods.
Alan Schoen
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Alan Schoen Album of the Year!! Amazing album. Can not wait to hear more. Favorite track: Song for Dad.
Eugene Lerman
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Eugene Lerman So groovy it hurts. Ausies know their prog.
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1.
Son of man of war who never knew peace before (I've seen him struggle day to day) But the light of our fire will wash away apathy Regrettably the only son All of his hopes in one (He'll never be the same again) I could never walk such a jagged path as he Sensing one shred of doubt A voice in the back of my mind His guilty words a lesson in pride I can feel the sense incinerate Drawn beyond the world of flesh I'd love to know all that I missed I wish to feel all I resist A lonely guardian A scion of tolerance Tell me are you not listening? At the sight of my final hollowing The loam beneath my feet gives way I plummet through a dark abyss I'd kill to know all that I missed A face familiar reflects to me my frailty This will not be the end Hands upon my shoulder Pull me back toward the light Eyes with gifts of vision Show me the meaning of blind Bleeding and sinking down into your brain Whispers come from across the room Listen, listen to what I know Screaming before I reach the door No one notices me leaving No one can stop the screaming
2.
The Whip 05:12
Memory fused in pain And following some unpredicted circumstances Name all that remains Now pull him from the dark And put him back together Fighting over rights To the man in the coffin Bound to live a life Programmed by those he once fought They're rolling up his sleeves Meeting his knees Dreaming to soon and picking at old wounds They're weighing up his soul Forfeit control Under guise of defence, ethics suspended The son understands the six in his hands As it dances Weren't you the one who made it shine As the lost the line up in the streets Beg and plead Dead or alive you're coming with me Wolves, blood on your fangs Fuel the engine of demand I am consumed See smoke rise from my moving tomb Choked from the haze Truth breaks the bonds of the slaves Out for his own Avenging the theft of his home So touched to be here at the end Repulsion of an insipid trend Pulling his head from the sand And teaching the homeless to stand The makers can turn on their heels Through nascent creations of steel But greed proved them desperately wrong Create beyond command They hide behind their lies They hide behind their smiles They're not superstitious They don't play with chances
3.
Song for Dad 08:59
I left for the world In search of an answer To your silence Quietly, mother is sleeping She has prayed quite enough this day Burning like our fire under the stars Wild, young, alone I take up fathers throne Wander, boundless future all around me Though you led me, I must find my own way home Became a man just like you while still young While only a child I've dreamt of so much more The time has come to open these doors On the edge of the knife The world feels so small Power and silence change nothing at all I tried to keep these memories clean One more freezing night I sit and sing Sing by the fire to your soul I smile for a moment but I turn on the inside I am surviving through you Still a child still a boy I've questioned before The easiest feelings are the hardest to ignore I'd die to make these memories whole Finally, eyes closed I have seen my fate in my own hands I wander distance trails Hope to draw you near But still you're silent Once the fire smokes out You're left with silence Much easier to comprehend And just ignore There's no time to reveal what I owe to you One brush with death and I'm not speaking We two distant stars in the galaxy And yet we burn so close It seems to be that glory passes by Calling me speaking in your voice I learn to bleed less fragile with each try Calling me speaking in your voice A prophet thought is swift to guide me home Speaking in your voice In these vestal years I ride the homeward trail in search of solace I walk through patient doors Undone from my trial I run to where I thought you'd be My hands clench tight I breathe much faster than I have before A stirring revelation New thoughts that form within my eager mind And I embrace them I step from this dream back to the other side So peaceful now with time on my hands A fight that must last until the very end Once the first step's taken Finally, eyes closed I have seen my fate in my own hands
4.
Patterns 01:35
5.
Drawn from the creators seed Reflecting the image beneath Sent as a sentry to learn from their fears and desires I search for the reasons within the light I feel it struggle with fear when I call it friend Gaze down at the waves captured by the sun And cling to the missive from hidden ones I wait for fulfilment of promises held Give me a sign to escape from this home This hell Pleading with the stars for a sign Whispers from heaven bring tears to my eyes Winding down the road to the past Pray for the ancient mourn each moment lost Angels carved in stone by the hand Solomon's Son follows them down to the sand Ending like I knew that it would Black stains the hands that hold Taman Shud Rise the console is dead I end my sentence to the sky Leaving the grace of the founders behind Fight for control over fear I am able to find my own feet Wading through the stifling thickness of the air A face with a thousand names Chasing traces that hide in anonymity Descendents calling my name Bedlam beneath me, memory guide and shelter me Jester has stolen my name All of my goodwill has died All your stars are setting now Take me with you lay me down Won't you waves come wash away the burning I saw you from my hiding place you moved me Still a bitter goodnight kiss The first, the only I know I shall not see dawn... it's ending Holy heaven knocked me clean off my feet Devils in disguise come to pray on your weak On your lonely Now I wander clutching To the promises left behind Taped to the wall We will see you again All your stars are setting now Take me with you lay me down I was only being kind Absent memories stole your child
6.
Through my wake Follow me home Dangerous thoughts of mine Sown the seed and reaping reality Motions bread a fearful antagony I wasted time on a savage life A dark human cluster of revelry Here we sail on seas of uncertainty Storms in tail my founder pursuing me Is it me? Is it memory? Do I reflect this Grey? In the firelight A life of black and white Something new I forge between us two Still the anger stirs Red hot but cold at first Walls of mine crash down to grant me sight No longer silent this violence I strain to contain Superfluous and prone to rust It isn't fair, your choice was mine By silhouettes, I've lived my life In a phantom black that you deny Another's touch and hope to clutch An arrested sin I will begin Stare at the wall, forget it all Begin to believe I may yet live A world of eyes have seen my crimes Only I know of all of yours Please tend these wounds And steel my mind I've lost my way And I'm losing track of time It's sinking in These were my sins I'll tear apart my mind to make amends Only my centre remains Only my temperaments fade Only my centre remains Only a beast left to tame
7.
Masquerade 05:35
I've seen that face Know those eyes Different yet the same Walk on... (He has no aim) Full of age Wrought with pain He burns so bright Walks so tall Hollow of soul Poor soul.. (He shows no care) Now I know the boy is home He walks this way Through the dirt Eyes shine dismay Come in... (why wonder) Lay you down Take your stress away And now he breathes much easier Furrowed face kissed by dawn He'd love to learn his own way down No repose to call his own He stirs distracted Waiting on petty words That he once heard He lies for safety Guarding his precious charms With a wilful art In milky light His glass touched gaze The scratches weep For a time it slept His hungry age The scratches deep Look, look at me From behind your outlaw fantasy Please just speak with me lay your silver tongue to waste Leave, go in arrogance Blemished skin hides what might have been Brace for a brand new day Sigh and fit the mask so heavy
8.
I Proceed alone Holding Horus in my right hand Burnt Argus made of stone Offer a disguised hand in friendship It starts with titans discarding their bonds Your shrewd rolling tongues will assure me no wrong Is darkness coiled or is it killed by the light Alone in lies I abjure Beyond the pantheon I dare not turn round A view in shadows Concession with darkness in dreams I dare not forget I alter the covenant Your judgement is fuelling these doubts and fears With faith in monstrosities We usher the dawn of our bright ideas On time to meet with the exodus (Burning Emblem Whispers Chaos Transform vessel Behold a God) Tearing me at my seems You know it's not enough Order was all we had Until his final bluff Your familiar stare Into the eyes of the serpentine Strip good and bad away Portrait in blood and bone Masters of mine Asserting their judgement failed Through visions veiled Worthy to be worshipped And knowledge unknown if you'll join me (Serve me) Prophet you know, don't you It is not as it seems and it frightens you (Frightens you) Skies clear above me Surrounded by our burning blades
9.
Storm 02:00
I can see the thunder far in the distance Though it's source illudes me still When I see the lightning I'll calm my resistance And I'll bend it to my will Always when the rain sweeps swiftly to towards me I will welcome its relief Only when it passes do I remember That it doesn't bring me peace
10.
In the Mire 10:50
Treading water I hope to stay a while The devil inside you smiles Growing smaller Already drained away The longer I wait the more you corrode Drift towards the waters edge Let the currents take you Barely living to be spared Hear your voice stark taunts anew And as fools go You'll learn like all the rest Has it met you? Had it's way with you yet? Peace be with you when you wake You'll know perfects no victory Grow to fit the changing day The rest is left up to you And I bet you never find what you are looking for And I think we're better off this way I hope you never see the world I wish to be Though it might do you some good I wish the world would burn down soon Road to paradise Paved with your life Send this beast down the stream Devil in my smile Fighting to deny your tragic cause Thoughts from yesterday Play like masquerade How we were worn so thin Deafening these days Getting in the way of searching souls Wait for the voice to subside and leave me alone It speaks to you of shadowed aims Day must make night Insists of you, you don't know why Won't you look at both sides All these questions They lead back to one spot It's within you Whether you want it or not And the wickedness is fading from his eyes We all reside in darkness too Through the headache I think I see a light Thank the saviour with the wicked smile With confidence I'm opening my eyes And I'm using them for the very first time Without a word I'm walking for the door My only guides were the songs you've sung Won't you tell me all the things you never said? Won't you show me all the things I never saw? Won't you let your blackened hatred wash away with the tide? I am grateful for the life that I have lived I am all that I've become because of you I think only of the better days Not what you put us through I'll miss your touch though it left me paralysed I bite my tongue words of loss till goodbye I'm glad we never lost what we were fighting for And you'll find it someday One lie under the breath and I can keep you safe The best we can do I return to The Mire...

credits

released April 21, 2017

Austin - All
Frayne - 1,2,3,5,6,7,8,10
Nolan - 1,8
O'Brien - 5,8

Additional Personnel:
Nadia Vanek - Guest Vocals (Track 8)
Nicholas Wilson - Keyboards/Synth
Jace Austin - Darbuka
Adam Merker - Production and Engineering
David Castillo - Mixing
Jens Bogren - Mastering
Chris P Stevenson Mangos - Artwork/Merch
Benjamin O'Neal - Logo/Branding

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