1. |
The Last Light
04:36
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If I ever walked away from you
Maybe I was just scared
If I ever drifted in isolation
Without a thing to say
Not for a moment of all the time
We’ve been in each other’s life
Have I doubted I want you this close
When the last light go out
If I ever lost my way through crowds
Where I did not belong
If I said a hurtful word out loud
Pretending not to care
I never had a shred of doubt
My dumb heart would just dry out
Without all this light you pour on me
Just like this
If I did ever let you down
If I spoiled the dream
If I seemed to fall into a darkness
Where you can’t follow me
I never meant to make you harm
Never wanted you to cry
All I want is to have you this close
When the last light go out
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2. |
Supernova
03:58
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This is something new - she said
Things to learn about your self
It’s something strange and new - she said
Should go out and get some air
Or I could die in your arms
Here in outer space
Another spinning room melting down
Wrapped into the trails of your hands
Falling off the world
We were beautiful
Flying off you go
So damn beautiful
This is what I feel - she said
All is perfect in itself and it’s been just a while - she said
Should go walk it off away
Or I could die in your eyes
Like a supernova
Tearing us apart from inside
Burning everything in our way
Falling off the world
We were beautiful
Flying off you go
So damn beautiful
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3. |
Hyenas
05:27
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In silence I dug my own grave
These days when all I feel is pain
My mouth goes dry and so this land
There’s times when I just feel like falling
This is paradise
Do stand straight
Shoulders back
This is paradise
Hold your head high
And smile
A cloud of vultures flying low
As I lay bare under the sun
I must have died a million times
Through blinding lights Hadad is calling
This is paradise
Do stand straight
Shoulders back
This is paradise
Hold your head high
And smile
Hyenas gather all around
Among the herd I see your eyes
But you wont smell regret in my bones
Infectious sharp teeth tear my flesh and clean my soul
At last
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4. |
The Cell
04:03
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Dreaming of flowers
Hot skin and ropes
It hurts more every time
Picking up roses
Covered in thorns
The scent will lead our path
Bleeding my guts out
Tearing the walls
The night sky is our world
This flesh grows colder
My hands are torn
I could wait for eons
In the stone cold floor
Of the cell I dwell
Never did I sleep
Always digging down
Tunnels through my hell
Reaching for your heaven
In the stone cold floor
Of the cell you built
I had time to spare
Growing back my wings
Hear the night sky roar
Calling us one more time
It’s in our blood
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5. |
Once And For All
04:46
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Are you hiding
Messing with my mind
I hear your voice in this house alone
Colors of dying flowers fade
How fragile we all are
Once and for all
Take all that is left
Upon my bed stones and broken glass
I hold my tears
I pretend all is fine
I smell the poison in your mouth
Don’t save that kiss for later
Once and for all
Take all that I am
Hiéreme de muerte!
Words are nothing
But they stay with you
Like a dagger you cannot remove
Deeper and deeper through these bones
Reaching a frozen soul
Once and for all
Take your final shot
Hiéreme de muerte!
Colors of dying flowers fade
How fragil we all are
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6. |
Into The Sun
04:09
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The hourglass has run out
Your lips were flood with blood
The serpent makes its way into the sun
With tarnished eyes and thirst
God have lost this war
The devil makes its way into the sun
The mountain hides a secret
Your eyes don’t
The serpent makes its way into the sun
The fallen angels creeping, begging, seeking leftovers of love
The devil makes its way into the sun
I saw you like a goddess
Your glare across the dust
Hands like storms - Eyes like fire
Breastfeeding all the ghouls
I saw the end of the world
Your skin, the end of the world
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7. |
Paralysis
01:22
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My body hanging like a curtain
A silent storm grows inside
The sting of insects lurking in my arm
A stinking mix of sweat and blood
Another time you leave me dying
Another night that I will lose my mind
The more I try the less I see
The boundaries in between nightmares and life…
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8. |
Love You Like The Ocean
04:23
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I’d like to love you
Like the ocean would
With rage and tenderness
Like you know I could
I’d like to kiss you
Swim these narrow depths
Like waves - Like water
Flood you in this rain
We’ll hide behind the sun
So no one ever knows
That you’re mine and I’m yours
In this dreamlike world
Just like the spume
Absorbed by the sand
I’ll drown within you
With the raising tide
You would taste like salt
Like the ocean does
If we become one
Like you know we must
The moon will make our bed
Upon these waves we sail
To fall asleep embraced
By the sweetest death
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9. |
A Different World
04:12
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We were wandering the skies
Tracing creatures in the sand
Clouds were bursting crumbling down
And the universe was mine
Dared to dream a different world
But I remained the same
Dared to see what lies beyond
But I remained the same
Fireflies and shooting stars
Trails of decomposing time
Multidimensional love
Echoing within our hearts
Then the music took us by surprise
Pushing us further away
Showing us the light in all things
Shapes and fractals everywhere
Dared to dream a different world
But I remained the same
Dared to see what lies beyond
But I remained the same
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10. |
Remember Me
03:18
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Remember me like you remember a song
In every verse a piece of heaven
Remember that I said I’d never grow old
A memory can live for ever
Melodic words filling the room and the air
The rhythm of my hands on you
The sound a heart makes when it beats and it breaks
That’s all I had and all I cared for
Remember me like you remember a song
Remember what it makes you feel like
Taking you places that exist out of time
And fading out sometimes too soon
Would you?
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Ariel Maniki and the Black Halos San Jose, Costa Rica
Since 2013.
A unique dark alternative gothic wave act from San José, Costa
Rica.
Led by multi instrumentalist/song writer Ariel Maniki.
Label: ANK Records / Deepland Records
Pic by: Rodrigo Alfaro
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