playing pretend

The debut EP from Leila's Rose. Recorded on August 23/24, 2024, at Analog Attic Studios in Omaha, NE.

Evergreen

Gold is your gospel, dust in disguise
Wreathed in incense, veiled in lies
You rise in a palace of prayers unsaid
With a throne built on bones of the better left dead
He speaks in tongues not heard in heaven
His gospel forged on sins forgiven

You auction the breath of angels,
Pearled robes stitched from famine’s cradle
Cathedrals drip with milk and pearl
While widows fast in a dying world
Holy water tastes like debt
Forgive us, Father—your chalice is wet


Popes of pomp, cloaked in creed
You cast no shadow the sun would heed
You crown yourself in sainted gold
But you are ashes, grown cold, grown cold


They kissed beneath a stained-glass curse
Called sacred love the devil’s verse
Magdalene’s voice—bound in silk,
They burned her hands for spilling milk
The womb was power, so they sealed it
The prophet’s tongue—they peeled it


Philip rides with no crown’s right
But truer blood than robes of white
“I summon up remembrance,” he cries—
Of saints they drowned, and queens they tied
The grail you drink is dull and dry
A mockery of the Most High


Popes of pomp, cloaked in creed
You cast no shadow the sun would heed
Your relics rot on rusted throne
You left the lambs to starve alone


The dome of gold gleams in the dusk
Empty halls, thick with musk
And when the final prayer was tried—
No God replied.
No God replied.


 replied.

Popes of Pomp

NEON AFTERIMAGE drifts through a quiet neon city just before sunrise. Blending ambient synthwave textures, psychedelic electronic atmosphere, and cinematic melancholy, the track captures the moment when the night begins to dissolve into morning.

Warm analog pads, deep bass undertones, and gentle delayed electric guitar float through a haze of vintage digital synths and minimal percussion. A smoky, airy vocal glides over the soundscape like a fading signal across empty streets and glowing wires.

Inspired by retro cyberpunk anime aesthetics and late-night urban solitude, the music feels like the ending scene of a forgotten 90s OVA—rain on pavement, neon signs flickering out, and the sky slowly turning blue.

NEON AFTERIMAGE is a soundtrack for quiet cities, drifting thoughts, and the last electric dream before daylight.


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