Name: Through Fields of Forever (I Cannot Follow You) by ACT[ua]L
Duration: 7 min 38 s
Description: Semi-temporality: Transience with a shadow, an echo, or rather a resonance.

Verse 1:
Once upon a time I saw the hooded man
Once upon a time I shook his shadowed hand 
Ever since that time I’ve learnt to see my life in shades~ of grey

Verse 2:
Once upon a night I walked the moonlit race
Underneath the stars, I felt his cold embrace
Whispers in the wind that told me every step would leave no trace

Refrain:
Na~ na na na na 
Na~ na na na na 
Na~ na na na na 
Na~ na na na na 
Na~ na na na na 
Na~ na na na na 
Na~ na na na na 
Na~ na na na na 

Verse 3:
Once upon a time I asked him where he'd go 
He just turned his head and said, "You do not need to know" 
Ever since that time I've learned to watch the shadows move and grow

Verse 4:
Once upon a day he left me in the rain 
Now I walk alone, but still I hear his name
Ever since that time I’ve felt the weight of every silent pain

Outro
Once upon a time I saw the hooded man
He took my hand and led me through the shadowed land
Now I walk where darkness falls, and whisper secrets in the sand
Ever since that time I've wandered lost between the dusk and dawn

The Hooded Man

Verse 1:
High above, shadows play,
Wings of dreams and fragile grace.
Chased the sun, a golden ray,
I watched him soar to his embrace. 

Cadence:
Don’t look up,
Don’t look down,
Can’t look back,
You’re gone.

Pre-Chorus:
From halfway up, the world seemed vast,
Endless sea, fleeting past.
But pride had held him in its clasp,
Undone by his hubris.

Chorus:
Now I see him halfway down,
A silent scream, a breaking crown.
The wax it melts, his feathers drown,
Too late to cry, too late to frown.

Verse 2:
His father's voice, a whisper lost,
Carried on winds of fate and frost.
In the bright sky, his heart embossed,
Unheeding of the lines he'd crossed.

Cadence:
Don’t look up,
Don’t look down,
Don’t look back,
You’re gone.

Pre-Chorus:
From halfway up, the world seemed vast,
Endless sea, fleeting past.
But pride had held him in its clasp,
Undone by his hubris.

Chorus:
Now I see him halfway down,
A silent scream, a breaking crown.
The wax it melts, his feathers drown,
Too late to turn, too late to frown.

Bridge:
As he descends, earth's cold breath,
The sea’s embrace,   touch of death.
Regret now binds him, whispers theft,
In ocean’s depths, his name bereft.

Verse 3:
But as he falls, I wait in shade,
With gentle arms, where fears are laid.
In my embrace, his sorrows fade,
I guide him to the twilight’s glade.

Cadence:
Don’t look up,
Don’t look down,
Don’t look back,
You’re gone.

Pre-Chorus:
From halfway up, the world seemed vast,
Endless sea, fleeting past.
But pride had held him in its clasp,
Undone by his hubris.

Chorus:
Now I see him halfway down,
A silent scream, a breaking crown.
The wax it melts, his feathers drown,
Too late to turn, too late to frown.

Outro:
Remember him, who sought the sky,
And touched the sun, but paid the price.
In shadows deep, he softly lies,
With me, forever, in grave disguise.

The View From Halfway Down

Verse 1:
Thunder rages above my head
Wicked bolts of raging life
Flying heat fractures death
Ripped from my peaceful afterlife.

Verse 2:
Eyes flash blinding blue,
Bolts drilled through my brain.
Jolted back to restless life,
Never now to die.

Pre-chorus:
God be-hold! Frankenstein,
horror of the world,
My life was not yours to give,
destroy my heart of iron!

Chorus:
Gods could not have created me,
Death must now escape me, Oh 
Why have you accursed me, 
I am not the monster!

Verse 3: 
Stitches trace my patchwork skin,
My body cannot be my own.
Arms of a thief, heart of a widow,
Why have you destroyed my soul!

Pre-chorus:
God be-hold! Frankenstein,
horror of the world,
My life was not yours to give,
destroy my heart of iron!

Chorus:
Gods could not have created me,
Death must now escape me,
Why have you accursed me, 
I am not the monster!

Outro:
Curse the hands that gave me breath,
my existence worse than death.
I am not the demon they fear,
Frankenstein the monster!

A Heart of Iron

My synapses bloom,
Through mid-Autumn unto June
In crimson seed beds.

Do Purple Flowers Bloom in June

Verse 1:
The greyish sleet that falls,
Hatred that comes from the Gods,
Lightning burns right through the soul,
Of a fool such as us, poor man.

Polynices, exiled,
Eteocles, the crown defiled.
Sins of father echo loud,
We are cursed by family’s shroud.

Verse 2:
A land of gods and men entwined,
Shadows deep, their fates aligned.
The curse of Laius, ancient, cruel,
Would shape their lives, make them the fool.

Eteocles, with paranoia's might,
Polynices, prideful, seeking his right.
Their father's sins upon them cast,
In Thebes' dark halls, shadows are vast.

Pre-Chorus:
Gods above, why this fate?
Are we doomed to endless hate?
In this land, none shall thrive,
Only death, we all must strive.

Chorus:
Oedipus, hear his cry,
A father’s sin, the reason why.
Land enough to live in, none,
Only land enough to die.

Verse 3:
Rage of battle, Phobos storm,
Brothers’ hands in cruel deform.
A curse laid down by the past,
Blood of Thebes, cannot last.

Eyes gouged out, a blind man sees,
The truth of fate, on wounded knees.
Oedipus, your wrath still roars,
Echoes through these endless wars.

Bridge:
Whispers of the furies’ song,
Alekto's rage, Megaera's wrong.
Tisiphone's relentless chase,
The brothers' doom, they must embrace.

To the gates of Thebes, the seven came,
To claim their right, to end the shame.
Yet in their hearts, the seeds of hate,
Would lead them to their final fate.

Pre-Chorus:
Gods above, why this fate?
Are we doomed to endless hate?
In this land, none shall thrive,
Only death, we all must strive.

Chorus:
Oedipus, hear his cry,
A father’s sin, the reason why.
Land enough to live in, none,
Only land enough to die.

Through Fields of Forever (I Cannot Follow You)

ACT[ua]L

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