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Arrest Your Ascent

by Elephant Seal

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1.
Perigon 03:05
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Thirty years I can’t remember Every day I tried to sail home (Every trick I tried to bring you home) Every inch of this ship crawling with mold (Other side of this bed is feeling cold) And I can hear this vessel’s withered bones (I can hear my body’s withered bones) Separate themselves there is no hope (Give away the last remnant of hope) Sundering the body from it’s soul (Rip it from this wretched widow’s soul) But if the sea wants me to swim ashore (If the fops force this to come to blows) It’s a paddling pool I’m a desperate fool (They’re a schoolyard fight I’m a railroad spike) And the engine is on fire (And the lighthouse is on fire) And the waves are raging higher now (And the flames are raging higher now) And if the general was stationed here (And if somebody could peer inside) He’d cower in fear on the starboard bow (They’d witness a blaze all my design) I can see the coastline clearly (I can see the coastline clearly) Oh my love I miss you dearly please (Oh my child I love you dearly please) Call upon the dread lord of the deep (Call upon the goddess of the sea) If you hear my cry get on your knees (If you still bleed red get on your knees)
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Simulation 05:49
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I fell down a ways Not so far but far enough Even if I stretched my gaze I couldn’t read the crystal signs Don’t unplug my simulation Halfway hoax hallucination A mimicked moment always chases Life-like looks on fine folk’s faces A million grains together knit But all they formed was counterfeit House was boarded up for days G-man came and bellowed loud And I just stood there half amazed Called the kids to gather ‘round Don’t unplug my simulation Halfway hoax hallucination A wicked wanderer erases Chaos hung in hallowed stasis A hundred harrowed voices yell The real planet parallel Don’t unplug my simulation Halfway hoax hallucination All-consuming obligation Boredom’s only love sensation Pulled myself out of the ground Had a passing look around How’d we frame all this creation Friend it's just reduplication
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Redshift Horizon 06:54
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I heard it spoke A fettered breath The liar’s rope A gasping wretch A wrenching gut To guide their glee His small mouth shut In awe of thee Who hurled you down Through headlong sky Who bound your hands In Adamantine No light from fire Shall darkness spew No baleful eyes Survey the view Take my lonely hand Tell us you understand Come down from the starry sea Redshift Horizon Me The lunar hands Reach out to me A dire devil’s Ancestry I wring the life From out the cloth I want to cut His red spits off The red light flies away from me I’ll cut his red spits off The red light flies away from me I’ll take his spits clean off Take my lonely hand Tell us you understand Come down from the starry sea Redshift Horizon Me
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Wasp 05:21
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Perching with the drops of dew A macroscopic view unfurls With engrained recollection you Through epochs aged quickly sift There receive an ancient foe Hurtling through the hate-forged air Ending entering all unknowns The gruesome calm is deemed as fair Over and over again Wasp Thunder fears you Lightning screams through The blood red sky If darkness needs you What dread sky would Any fool fly Harmonize thy compound eye Humble and with slavish care Place each block upon the last Oh noble speck who shall remain The idol of the long-at-task Art thou a tyrant monarch then A skite with shortened sight to spare Do buzzards beat their wings o'er head Round thy wreckage vast and bare Over and over again Wasp Thunder fears you Lightning screams through The blood red sky If darkness needs you What dread sky would Any fool fly Harmonize thy compound eye Art thou a tyrant monarch then A skite with shortened sight to spare
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New Felt / Maelstrom 06:11
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As the doe Attends the newborn cry So should the shell Reflect in heaven’s eye All the old felt scattered on the earth Empty gestures to nullify this curse Greens are gone Banished from our land Waves like rays Of moonlight’s tidal advance Break themselves as water on the stone Forsake sightlines and rearrange the bone Scant the worried whimpers flee A place to go a gaze to meet Bless these children shining in the trees For every vessel we Say their names Beg for rain Watch them die One more time Be my shield Save me from this storm Send them back The leaves can protect us no more Shed away the softness of the horn Freshly grown but sharper than before Scant the worried whimpers flee A place to go a gaze to meet Bless these children shining in the trees For every vessel we Say their names Catch their eyes Hush their cries One last time Say their names Catch their eyes Hush their cries One last time Autumn wind Sage upon the air Swaying limbs Who’s to say who cares Shorn and torn and opened on the ground Wide their ears to hear the forlorn sound
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An Solas 05:19
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I sing alone tonight 'Neath an empty sky for an audience of People passing by I'm not alone tonight I swear I heard the sound Of a symphony Playing underground Count the stars tonight Is their light still fair Are we getting close How does this flash compare I'd heard it spoken that We can't just give up But I've had my share And now I’ve had enough Swim through Oceans of silence Search for Light on the coastline Locked away tonight In a mind-made cage I dreamt of lives I’d lived And lives I’d live again I walked the winter fields Where joy and sorrow danced Here's to you my friends This goodbye's my last I can't escape tonight The water's barred my path The forest's light is gone I cannot build my raft I'd have to wait for you For you to use your tools For you to calm the waves For you to prove them fools Swim through Oceans of silence Search for Light on the coastline
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Son of Poseidon 07:02
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Son of Poseidon Tip of the antler Weighed like an anchor Poised like a trident Fists in the water Rage of the ocean Menace the heavens Son of Poseidon Ribbons of cadmium Texture the twilight Throne of veridian Endangered foundation Seething intention Provoking the starlight Horns of the old king Yoke with the offspring Oh tide you slumber But sleep no longer The sea is waking up A treason A traitor Fight or fall Fight or fall Loose the engine designed To pierce the sky Son of Poseidon Tip of the antler Weighed like an anchor Poised like a trident Fists in the water Rage of the ocean Menace the heavens Son of Poseidon Oh tide you slumber But sleep no longer The sea is waking up A treason A traitor Fight or fall Fight or fall Loose the engine designed To pierce the sky The sky The sky The sky The sky
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You're Not Mine 04:23
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Sift through silt and Grasp at grains I lost your love I lost your name The lone and level Far Away The broken shards of golden clay We left them in that cold decay Don’t go to the shore this time Don’t swim, it’ll all be fine There’s a love that I long to find But you’re not mine Caress the kelp and Feed the fish I lost your faith I lost your kiss Look at my works But don’t despair The broken shards at least, are there Stoop low, and build, and feign to care
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Likeness 07:49
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Dancing on the end of your tongue Feel it in the depth of your lung A song for every kingdom that falls I guess it wasn’t nothing at all A dime for every hour you spend Hanging every moment against The solace of a solid brick wall I guess it wasn’t nothing at all Nothing at all A liar got you locked in this hole To pay for every name that you stole You shouldn’t have been walking so tall I guess it wasn’t nothing at all And every single time you pass by I’m shooting off a flare as a cry I’m slowing from a run to a crawl I guess you didn’t notice at all Notice at all At all A theory in your head you can’t prove A mountain in your way you can’t move A breeze that’s turning into a squall But I guess Every shallow point that you raise All the voices shouting your praise You’ve never left me feeling so small I guess I wasn’t nothing at all At all At all At all At all At all
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Simulacra 07:09
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Sad land strider stooping low What troubles you my child I cannot fly The poor wretch sighed Confined within this hole am I He skidded forwards towards the edge Outfitted wingless boldly said If He wills it let the wind Above this granite countertop lift my sagging flailing frame You should have called your God by name You should have called your God by name You should have called your God by name Worried writher just be still You’ve toiled in the mud too long I have to move my friends all flew What keeps me stuck here what foul glue He wrenched his legs loose five two six One eight three four then seven next How dare I wince better to die than to be beaten by a fear to fly You should have called your friends by name You should have called your friends by name You’d still have jumped off all the same Proudest spider sought to fly Never once considered how The birds in trees with furrowed brow Sprouted wings the sky befriending Eight-legged wasp you were pretending To checkered floor and fast descending A most upsetting final scending Your observations so astute so why not spin a parachute You’d float above the air so thin I’d find a way to let you in Don’t unplug your simulation Your halfway hoax hallucination Your all-consuming obligation Your boredom’s only love sensation A faltered flight from discontent Arrest we beg this ill ascent

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released December 15, 2023

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Elephant Seal Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

The music of Elephant Seal evokes an ethereal sense of anticipation through biting guitar riffs, intriguing minor tones, and thundering, intentional rhythms. Occasional moments of brightness are juxtaposed with somber, contemplative lyrics that explore the ongoing tale of a family experiencing loss and searching out truths. These songs are for listeners to journey with. ... more

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