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Tomorrow A Stranger

by Lens Arc

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1.
Endless Flowers 03:44
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Once again, a day circled in red Then all is gone, just the shape remains Almost there any time now, what difference could it make While sweet defeat waits in the distance Tonight I'll hold you in my thoughts Drift off under cover, seed in hand Once again, out of reach You buried salt on fertile ground Roaming around where we left off I've had this map folded for years on end Tonight I'll hold you in my thoughts And watch endless flowers crumble to soil I'll fall for you (not this time around) Just for a while (not this time around) I'll fall for you (not this time around) Until we're through (not this time)
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Eyelid Echo Chamber 05:14
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Hear it echo off my eyelids See it whispered by my trembling hands Forget it all And know no fears I need to go It feels like Here at last, we faded too fast Signal chain of hearts And all that was Is all there'll be Leave a presence in this room with Fever dreams of caterpillars Discover me And dig around I need to know It feels like Here at last, we faded too fast Signal chain of hearts And all that was Is all there'll be
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Inkwell 03:35
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Standing close to the big picture And looking through stained glass, it makes me want to Drown my memories in an inkwell Hope I'll see you at the bottom too Endless recess from ourselves Eternally occupied The rain makes it alright inside Liquid and bulletproof Move slowly, then turn around Looking back red-handed, it makes me want to Drown my memories in an inkwell Here nobody's waiting aside from me It's not meant to be found As a room to live in for anyone The cracks are closing in with every drop I spill into the black sea Devoured whole and washed up again I'm not the same you used to know Remember the tides, they're locked onto this face I'm not the same Endless recess from ourselves Eternally occupied Turn a blind eye and it'll go away At least for now
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Sawtooth Mind 03:53
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Locked myself out of the hospital But they're selling blood outside Borrowed bliss to take away Eventually you'll have to pay Look at the waves Slowly building up Then collapsing all at once Look at the waves So jagged and tense Every last one is the last A thread of states was cut and tied The things you do to go blind The pharmacy right by my house They're selling sleep to the ones who look Peace of mind just for a day Eventually you'll have to pay Look at the waves Slowly building up Then crashing down at once Look at the waves So jagged and tense Every last one is the last A thread of states was cut and tied The things you do to go blind Keep the fire going now A log won't burn on its own Then rise from the ashes of a cigarette There is no easy way out of this
5.
Swallow The Sun 03:42
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Covered in a blanket of smoke I wake up too late A cassette tape fell from my ceiling and I taste that My tongue is on fire Words won't put it out Radiant food for hidden thought, all colors fuse to white A salt shaker without a lid makes it impossible To escape the gravity An evasive dream I'd rather the world freeze over so I reach out again Nicotine dusted hands swallow the sun I feel so warm inside Covered in a blanket of smoke I never get up Magnetic fields erased all tapes and I taste that My tongue is on fire Words can't put it out Radiant food for hidden thought, in a hyperbole Alkaline mass inside of me makes it impossible To escape the gravity An evasive dream I'd rather the world stand still so I reach out again Nicotine dusted hands swallow the sun It's so dark all around
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Parallel One 04:05
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Nothing, Angers, Me 04:59
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I wanted you so much I thought I could see for us both We carried language around our necks And held our breath when we talked You painted me by numbers while I was So busy adding them up I'm forever yearning Join me in solitude Let's share this moldy veil Can't we just call it off So intimately strange You were the prism in my window That made me want to Open up the curtains just to see what if I went out Back to the crossroads When we were different just like today Now I'm forever yearning When your song became a voice The words still exhaling steam Did we get ahead of ourselves? Too intimate, too strange
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Dark Violet Fabric Door 04:49
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Stuck in a sphere, descendants of the moon Facing outwards, tumbling our two ways You're on your own, seperated on a mountaintop Now you're on your own and no one will know I'm a plastic lawn chair after the rain and All that's left is all I've had but I will want the excess of this Haunts me to come by you I just want you to know that you're paralyzed by a child Hung up on sugar in the darkest hours of night Carrying his suitcase packed with all of your desires We all wanted to dance but our knees were too weak I'll see you at the surface gasping for air and So far away the oracle hums The smell of amplifiers and drums I'm a plastic lawn chair after the rain and All that's left is all I've had but I will want the excess of this Haunts me to come by you You ask me if you can sing for me while I prick a pen into the bloody blisters on my hand and I sweat blue liquid They found my flowers again, I couldn't hide them well enough and now I'm a hostage, I am a hostage in their strange game with no rules I try to take a picture of this beautiful scenery but my dusty camera just won't work, it is a broken gun with no ammunition left and there are no poppy fields in the military, just dirt, no substitutes You shove me onto the bed, so hard that my head hits the wall and cracks appear on the ceiling, on the ceiling right above the cloud upon which my unvarnished friend is sitting and staring at me and cutting my fingers in half with her longing gaze I struggle to take off my jacket, only then to find a new sweater underneath How did we end up back together? I was only a kid You turn off the screen for me and you say you're going out only to return minutes later but the sun has come up with you, I must have fallen asleep in my desolate room Dedicated to decide Until tomorrow when I'm a stranger And I realize that the music has never sounded so new and it will never be the same again So I follow my hexagon shaped compass and I run my hands along the shimmering cold turquoise walls of this marble cave which leads right into the crowded doctor's office How did we end up back together? You pull out my braces with force and you scream right at my barren teeth "Do you remember, do you remember ten years ago on the balcony?" Just today I want to be alright For tomorrow I'll be a stranger And I'll never see the blue sky

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Recorded in 2016–2017 while living in Vienna.

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released February 21, 2018

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Lens Arc Berlin, Germany

Broken radios, ghosts with guitars, ambient fever dreams, a hazy disco, from a distance.

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