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Lightcharges

by ThomC

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1.
Lightcharges 05:48
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Know your eyes, difference of sight ease what leads you to decide in the sky high voltage ignites What you have and all you just can't bear is a treason to declare keep in mind what thunder can repair All the stars are speeding up the light Lightcharges freeze the time Hear us now speaking all the truth at once Lightcharges split the dark Hurry up have the window shut leave the glory far enough you're not wrong, times are just too rough Leave the fight with flashes of insight There's a creature in everything Man the wild beating in your chest Why can't we find the key have we lost it or is it destiny Burning confusion is flying in the circuits of my head All propheties revealed are a stupid lie in the eyes of men Why don't you turn the reel and die in the shadow of your friends?
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The Lunar Wall 04:52
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Let’s reshape the iron walls Blind architects will make the call To our vision still appalled Break the bolt of “here” and “now” Grab the aura of the reckless Dwelling halo on the canvas Baffled gaze inside the tempest Superstition, empty lanterns Let the tempest come Inevitable, unable to stop Let the tempest come The birds are trapped between the rocks And we’re as one The needs, of navigators and founders of the truth Precede, the countless feeders of the mist We are running fast, the dust is grazing both our ears and eyes At last, we are reaching for a seldom peace of mind On the mend, vulnerable is our appearing side Victims, we now speak to break the lunar wall
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Blackout In My Senses 03:46
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You can’t define the cycle of your arms You’re creating new shapes in the middle of the sky You’re carving all the clouds, now my memories have a guide And I’m running to find their source inside your mind And I see you there I’m approaching carefully And nothing more is getting hold of me It’s just another easy step to feel A blackout in my senses Laws of unpredictability How will I get to leave them be? Taking all the light off of me There’s a blackout in my senses You’re a heartfelt light And a moving storyline A secret surprise Dancing in your eyes And I see you there The world is dancing in the dark Torches burning, people turning and you smile You smile I’m approaching carefully And nothing more is getting hold of me It’s just another easy step to feel A blackout in my senses Laws of unpredictability How will I get to leave them be Taking all the light off of me There’s a blackout in my senses And a lack of electricity I cannot move my body I can’t believe what’s happening You’re a blackout in my senses
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A Simple Fate 06:08
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You’re cutting through the edges of a cardboard book Separating tales from their lifelong lights Another element that’s gone out of sight Animals won’t miss the utterance of facts Adjusting all the colors of an old stained screen Made after the rainbow but you want it green Rejection of the tasteless conductors of weeps Navigating pointlessly beyond the sphere You barely recreate Bring movement to the shapes A different story to a simple fate Decisions that you made That logic can’t relate A different story to a simple fate Agoraphobic foxes dying on the streets Infiltrate the silence, just the silence please Maximize the growth of our beloved link Carried through the oceans of our thoughts and dreams It’s embodying a system, an unspoken wish And swimming through your vessels like a saving fish Never will you lose the thread of your ideas Pulling your devotion to the mighty seas You barely recreate Bring movement to the shapes A different story to a simple fate The decisions that you made That logic can’t relate Are a different story to a simple fate Double entity, source of heresy Tonight, it’s over Blossoming disease, divine destiny Tonight, it’s over Races to mischief, drastic empathy Tonight, it’s over Falling to your mercy, falling to your mercy
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To The Basements 03:16
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What have I done? To the cold white sun Weary I’m going on All is unreal, scarcely revealed I’m leaning back against the wall With a story in the eyes Hope it will be worth the rise Let my faith be my guide Citizens close your ears and your eyes Give yourselves time to be surprised While the contact with the world declines Am I the one, who left these things, undone? Moving the fibers of the clouds Heartless and hopeless Bumping the ceiling I’m staring at the leaving birds That I hardly recognize
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The Exodus 03:25
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Freedom has lied to myself Washed my poor hands From all the hope I’ll never get Breaking at times in a derelict block of my head The sound of sighs, the endless whys Am I still striving to leave them aside? Waiting to rise, extinction is nigh But time will tell Would it be right to plant our faith right in your chest? The kind that tires you from the rest. We will decide of what is right for you in there. We're meant to die, five in a row Let me explore the ocean's wounds ignored The precious past, these things don't last but time will tell. I’ve dropped the lines you’ll never get Undying quests Ear-stabbing ashes of sick romance Leaving me with a simple artifact to defend We’ve lost the wire, leading the eye The astral conduct of life-augmenting sight Shaping our nights, leading the tides to another end. Cause we are all stuck around the same line There's a hero deep in your eyes We are all stuck around the same line There's a hero deep in our hearts May justice be found inside this man’s lies There's a hero, will you hear him cry? May justice be found inside this man’s lies There's a hero deep in your eyes.
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Once and For All 02:28
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We Will Rise.
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A Taste For Miracles 03:04
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Could we observe the night? Chase the comets with our eyes? Our hands are freezing on this blanket of ice We would burn to seal just one grasp There’s no need for words if the feeling’s right If the feeling is right If the feeling is right
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The Furrow 03:53
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I strolled down the field Followed the path Followed the earth Still untrue to my eyes I paused a while to hear my breath exile Silver surfaced water Not a shepherd in the way Not a sudden accidental fame If the silence I betrayed Would the water flow out of the frame? Disappearing with a name In the eye of every single soul Eagles reading out the soil With a promise not to let it go
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Rough Notes of Legacy 04:51
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Solemn miracles Fed the dry and bright earth A row of flowers Is a memory of its worth In the arms of a little girl There’s a butterfly birth She’s singing lullabies We are a chain of glass Despite the wild world They’re united as a herd In honour they will fight Staying side by side Leaving threads of gold Everywhere on the ground I see freedom in the sky And nothing more to hide
11.
The Missing Days 04:51
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We've just missed the perfect time The perfect scenery, tonight How technical the gifts of love Under our sleeves, they're dying Meanwhile the world is going mad Days are missing tears go down Reading the victories in their eyes Walls collapsing feats undone I sometimes think we both are wrong To miss the chances we won I guess we've lost the leading path We're now waiting to part Meanwhile the world is going mad Days are missing tears go down Reading the victories in their eyes Walls collapsing feats undone We’re starving for a stroke of light A major movement inside I guess we’ve lost the leading path We’re now waiting to part
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Vertigo In Reverse 03:34
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My throat is dry I'm ahead of all time Standing on the top of a mountain's heights On a static place to see the ants conspire A place where the air is just hard to find Instinct sighs, breathing of the mind Families queuing for the rapids of life Indefinitely falling from a series of rise Not time for a landing on the fields of the wild Here's a massive slope If anything goes wrong We're not out of hope I'm breaking into the root of a tree Slowly numerating the few probabilities While torrents are changing the shape of the hills Avalanches claim their power to kill
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Moonquake 04:37
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Hold tight to the moon rays They are ladders from the sky Hold on, just keep it quiet now By the window you’ll escape You have dried your river to the stone Now, there’s a moonquake in your mind But now, you’re a fragment of the light You have been bitten to the bone Now, there’s a moonquake in your mind Gravity free and endlessly revolving Climb, and read the stories Pure and soft ink from the light Hide, from all the boundaries From the customs of the ground There’s a circle of light hypnotizing our sight And blowing our reason away In a stroke of delight you let your dreams alight Casting the shadows in flames This is not out of reach It can’t be out of reach
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Against All Sides 06:00
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Wrinkles of pain Traveling down your cheeks And your smile leaks Again Alone behind the door Looking around, behind and forward Dead end My hand on your forehead Seems like there is more truth Than anything we’ve said My hand on your forehead You know now all I knew Obsession, thoughts and truths Sweet whispers of the past Like a carriage, taking you away Thinking about those days Again Remembrance is at stake Memorials along the way Acquainted with this truth Sometimes overpaid

about

This record has been recorded in a few different rooms, spaces, at different times of the day and night, with different moods, and a different drink while working (but usually a good cup of tea or coffee).

Once undertaking that long and tiresome journey that is the making of an album, I noticed that there was no way back. I started studying sound as much as I could, work and re-work those arrangements (sometimes coming back to the stripped-down, acoustic versions to remind myself why I was working on these songs in the first place).

This album has taken more than a year to be composed, written and arranged and another year to be recorded, mixed and released. I wouldn’t wish I’d made things differently for the recordings, as it gave me the chance to meet great people, collaborate with great musicians and think music differently. I learnt so much from actually listening, being aware of details that weren’t there before and of all this mesmerizing tiny sonic universe hiding under the musical layers.

I hope that this album will be shared and listened to for what it is, for the completion of a dream, for the obsession of letting the emotions merge into notes.

credits

released October 12, 2014

All music written, composed, recorded, mixed & mastered in Belgium by ThomC.

ThomC // Guitars, vocals, bass, keys, synths, percussions, drum programming

Pierre-Emmanuel Maréchal // Drums and percussions on all tracks except track 13, 9 & 5.

Joachim De Stercke // Additional guitars on tracks 6, 10, 14. Guitar arrangements on Moonquake and amazing advice on pretty much every track of the album.

Salvino Suarez // Drums arrangements on Moonquake

Céléna & Sophia // Backing vocals on tracks 1 and 10
Arnaud Rossomme // Backing vocals on track 12

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