Eli August and the Abandoned Buildings are an east coast collective of musicians surrounding the songwriting of Eli August.  "Is This Darkness" covers such subjects as love, loss, suicide, creative and personal struggle, the effects of war and the hope in keeping on your path.

08 Wilhelm Screams

This song is a tribute to the incomparable David Bowie.

Mortal Cathedrals

Thin as a shadow
Draped in the starlight that made ya
You fell from the earth
While we clung to you like a savior

Baby, you never showed your face
Maybe you were trying to distract us
Baby, you’ve sacrificed yourself
Maybe you were trying to protect us

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Like vapor or, like smoke
Slipping through back doors and cages
& every practiced pose
was showing us how to be courageous

But we are luminous
With your starlight, a symbol
A host of smoldering embers
Until our foundations crumble

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Performed by The Positronic Cats
for the album “Mortal Cathedrals"
Written by Waylon K. Smith on 1/10/16
©2017
www.ThePositronicCats.com

photo by Brian Duffy

Mortal Cathedrals

Americana/Indie/Dark Folk ensemble from Baltimore, MD.

08 Wilhelm Screams

Eli August and the Abandoned Buildings

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