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The Stranger
03:05
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Bite your lip as I crawl to your arms / Like an infant / I could erode with the earth / In an instant / Four hours / And nothing’s changed / The planes fly by / The telephone rings / And I’m still feeling strange / Pour out your purpose and leave it / At the door / A living verse grown from a / Withered source / While you were passing me / I felt the whole room start to shake / The curtains reached for me / I felt the sway of my unmake / The clock that tells the time / But just for me / Will tick while I can sit and / Crave the queen / All of time / Has left me weak / The planes flew by / The girl, she weeps / And I don’t feel so strange
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Nightcap
03:57
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Spit the glass from my mouth / Shake my eyes from lockdown / Can’t let my head explode now / Blacked out but I’ll be right back / Forever looming heart attack / Grab the bottle and jump the train / I got a call from the doctor today / Prescribing champagne and an alleyway / My subconscious makes me nauseous / Notions purged on porcelain / I am wrought with sundown syndrome / Delirium tremens / My father's spirit is haunting me / Constantly / Don't bother sleeping / Stay up and drink / Constantly now / I got a call from the doctor today / Prescribing champagne and an alleyway / So now I stumble between street lights / Looking for a place to lay / But the feeling fades / Who can help me ease my mind / But sonder’s sober somber stride? / When is torture justified / Beyond the staling aldehydes?
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Cyan
04:51
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The dress you wear is laced / With the fabric of time and space / The threading radiates / With all of it we waste / The cherubs illustrate / With sinusoidal shades / Your supernova coma / Is holding me in place / We wander / The celestial sea / Say what you mean / When the stars are aligned in those bloodshot eyes / Speak the words / Slowly / Say what you mean / Meditations better left unsaid / But now that I know I will never forget / And when I squeeze the magnetar / The vectors never take me far / I’ll never reach the starlight I can't see / You paint your orbit with a touch / That makes the whole universe blush / Your gravitas and gravity guiding me / It was a lack of color / That made me smother / The language from your lips / With dampened coos / I stained you to / A scarlet girl with cyan hues / In those bright blue eyes
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Machine Gun Moods
03:59
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Sun-baked of saliency / Which way do I turn the key? / Pastel people cut from paper strips / Sensations slip with the solar eclipse / My ring shifts from blue to red / I gaze at my shoes instead / When it’s just me and you / There’s nothing left to do / So what comes after? / I want it faster / The shifts in attitude / Caught in machine gun moods / Split my brain at the seam / I want my coffin with cream / My ring starts to melt away / Clock in at the dead letter office / Sour graping to the wallflower prophet / A rear window with a backyard view / Jamais vu for you and you
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Sunday
05:14
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Slink out of the shop / The final brim’s been cut / The fumes lightened my head / I have to take a walk / Getting harder to endure / My thoughts are so impure / Cobblestone meets dirt / My temples start to pulse / Past the lepers in their cage / I can’t resist the shakes / But the sun sets at the bay / So begins another day / With Mars in retrograde / Mercury pervades my brain / Daydreaming while stripping pelts / Inhale vapors of soaking felts / Sweat streams along my face / Free me from this place / I am but a failure / My creations meaningless / I can’t resist the shakes / Stick me with the leeches / Bloodlet me ‘till I’m wilted / I feel so lost / What is the cost? / My thoughts and dreams all drift away / A Sunday morning stroll / The same cobblestone road / On a blessed day of faith / I’m feeling quite unsafe / At the cathedral gates / The gargoyles stand up straight as if to say / Come in / The masses at the pews / All look to me confused / Demons begin to pass / Through portals in stained glass / Satan spreads his wings and lands right next to me / He takes my hand / And leads me to a place I don’t understand / To the cages again
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Amygdala
03:57
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I’m holding on to my last nerve / Cuz’ they want me to hurt you / And I’m afraid / The things they tell me can’t be disobeyed / Stop me now / Before it takes over / Cuz’ there’s malice in my veins / I can’t contain / Unholy spirits nest inside of me / Trembling, adrift in a mental tempest / Perturbations of my neural passage / Chilling air cracks the tissue / The cerebral cancer grows / This violent impulse is demanding / Don’t just watch me decompose / Can you see my eyes deep red with shame? / Are we helpless? / Am I just matter with a name? / Strange things we are / Victims of stardust / The cosmic mystery / I was supposed to be the average man / These thoughts are too much for me
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Shoulders of Giants
03:28
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So here I stand / Atop the shoulders of giants / Parading these unknown lands / Clock towers echo out in argument / Sickness cyclones through the air / My stomach warps at heights I can't conceive / My face is warmed by a solar flare / Through Sleepy Hollows they advance / Lost in Laodicean trance / The archers' bootless dance / These beasts will never let me go / Deep down in the wicked forest / The exiles bury their talismans / But no voodoo kiss / Softens my Icarus / Swinging from the moonlight / Surfing the atmosphere / And as the titans start to slumber / I sense the Earth a leap away / But the sky is always calling / Safety isn't an escape / With the drifting sparrow's song / I am right where I belong / Among these creatures is my home
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Out, Out-
04:13
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What are the well-sung woes / that soothe your pensive ghost? / In the dark of the ether / I find my dusty death / At the end of time I rest / Tomorrow and tomorrow / We’re just shadows on a stage / Fading at this petty pace / Sound and fury / Meaning nothing / Spilling out / I feel the call / Of the circular saw / The dinner bell rings / And snuffs out my candle / The light of my youth / What was the purpose? / Does God exist? / Drifting into the abyss / Paint them over me
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Gloss
03:06
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Sickness washes over me / Contorting sounds to crunching hums / Traffic lights commingle / Glossing over all that I see / Sickness washes over me / Shape and noise emulsify / Hazard lights that flicker / Glossing over all that I see / I can’t feel my clenching fists / But still my car persists / Approach the boulevard / The pavement stained and charred / A crowd surrounds the scene / Thirty sirens scream / I shove my way to pass / She lies among the glass / Not like this / My understanding fades to black / At the sight of her shattered Cadillac / Take it back / And now we’re back to this / Kismet’s Judas kiss / There’s nothing left for me / Vale amor fati / I try to form the words / My syllables absurd / They ask if I’m okay / Their faces washed away / This moment is agony / The burning / Glossing over all that I see
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10. |
To Be Elsewhere
06:38
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You start to make an incision / By the light of the television / Your clutch is incendiary / The incense is aflame / The chamomiles are laid / Chivalry isn't dead to me / As I lather our bodies in kerosene / Existence precedes the essence / Even I know that / The chalk outlines that fit us / Just prove the world is flat / Do I belong in the box or not? / The ‘is or ought’ / What difference does it make? / The negative space / An evaporating place / Awareness on your face / Golden spirals / Lead me astray / If they may / Golden spirals / Lead me to the ends of elsewhere / It’s the revolving door on the asylum floor / Emerge unto the other side / Our flesh and feelings have survived / Mystical pleasures materialize / The beau idéal shall arise / Plasma lines the end of time / In the distance death bells chime / Toward us blackened creatures climb / They accept us as the prime / Our fates have been decided / We are chosen / The kingdom we will build / For all of the fallen who are lost at the ends of Elsewhere / We take our rightful seats / As the king and queen / Of the inferno
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When the Lights Go Out
04:27
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The finite pulse inside you / Aching to be heard / Escape it if you can / Reach to the ground and whisper / ‘All won’t be observed’ / Find your comfort with this / Protect what compels you / Let the thorns make their home / And let no one tell you / It’s wrong to be alone / Can we remedy the haze behind my eyes / Burning away my days / Tiny pixies bite and push their teeth inside / Forgotten joys and endless noise / Forge a path where sunset hides / And don’t just be a witness / Steadfast in the present moment / Did they push you too hard my flower? / When the lights go out it won’t matter
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The Phantom Allure Rockaway, New Jersey
Connor Whelan
Guitar/Vocals
Patrick Dunn
Guitar/Lyrics
Ronnie Hamman
Drums
Ryan Daoud
Bass
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