You will find a place of renaissance, a home away from home
Slowly elevate into a trance knowing the unknown
Ground yourself in thoughts to levitate unravelling the fate
Hue and dim lights will paint the way

All these distant years are back right here
It feels like home again
Psychedelic bliss new colours sing
It feels like home again

I want to see the love in you again
I want to see the light in your eyes

I know you're better than buying into their hate
For you're a vessel of light
I hope you're better than buying into their lies
Desist, resist the urge to persist
Persist, resist the urge to desist

All these distant years are back right here
It feels like home again 

I want to see the love in you again
I want to see the light in your eyes
I want feel the light in you again
It still shines inside

Your mind and soul
Are free to glow
Only when you seek discomfort
A canopy of possibility arises

I want to see the love in you again
I want to see the light in your eyes
I want feel the light in you again
It still shines inside

A new season, highs and lows
Hold it tight, you're not alone
We always dreamed about it
We stand united
I don't want to let it go
The sun is strong and shining
We stand united
We won't just let it go

Vessel Of Light

To my beloved nephew Theo S2

Theo cara de pastel

Bahia, o sol nasceu em Marau
Sorria, Dudu tem cara de chuchu
Tem pão-milho, pequê e suco de cajá
Em 15 vamos partir para a praia

Mas a Tapi quase que fica para tras
Abre esse portao, nao esquece esse animal voraz
Areia quente meu chinelo arrebentou,
Corre ate o mar, leva um abraco de Yemanja

Theo cara de pastel

Soneca, o almoco ja ja vai sair
Tardinha, lagoa com Rael e Ravi
Caiaque, stand-up, olha esse ceu
Rolicas, sao as pernocas de Teteo

Na volta tem uma cobra no quintal
Nao e venenosa mas eu quase passo mal
Acho que ela so queria manga espada,
Comeu uma e foi embora, mas que cobra danada

Eu vim pelo mar mas fiquei pela lagoa
Eu vim pelo mar mas fiquei pela lagoa
Eu vim pelo mar mas fiquei pela lagoa
Eta eta eta, Bahia boa

Maraú

The glass draws closer
A neck grows curled
Dopemine burst
Alleviate

Empathy cocooned
In a plastic shell
The lie of zen
In a living hell

Keep on trying to re ach
Gratefully grind the breach
A multimillion niche
The next try will be better

You got to find a way
You have saved your prayers
You need a streamlined face
You better find the way

Cold, the sound of ignorance
Your heart is cold

Hide, the fear of facing real life
Lies, a thought has crushed your mind tonight

You got to find a way
You need a streamlined face
You have saved your prayers
You better find the way

Cold sound of inconsequence
The heart has drawned, in blissfull ingnorance 
Right now, dopamine, I need it
Right now, one more hit, again

Hope one day you'll see again
Beyond the cold you feel from deep within
Right now, dopamine, I need it
Right now, one more hit, again

Nomophobia

The wet and grainy days in my yard
The smeel of fresh white paint on my guitar
With red wine
You're telling me to hurry up
We are late, but not too late

Sunday afternoons in the sun
The dirt that's on my shoes messing up
The shiny kitchen floor, that once became a stage for a major argument between us

But we grow old
Nothing feels like before
Time is rare like love and gold
And we miss these simple things

Back to see if my life fits
In what I wanted it to be, because
I just think that possibly
I am rather close to where I thought I’d be

Time has to alleviate the spinning words we said,
Its true, don’t call it fate because we all made our choices through our way in here

And I grow old
Nothing feels like before
Time is rare and now is gone
And I miss these simple things

Not even the rain
That never stops to fall
Has such oblique hands
Ubiquitous control
Not the bluest blues
Nor the boldest bold
Had ascendance to
Cease from growing old

Tiny Vessels

Simple Things

Your streets are cold, and grey as death
Pulling me down into the ground, symptoms of hate, the child of war
Fully attacked, fully replaced, destroyed in place
Nowhere is darker, nowhere is fast, clouds are heavy, walls are closing
A slow-moving juggernaut, wrecking the homes, sucking the lives, crushing the dreams
A bullet through the glass, the mask has fallen off the face

Total disgrace, so negative
The promise is broken now
Choke the life out of the air
A cold breath of despair
The sound of grief, the smell of sorrow
The smell of grief, the sound of sorrow
A never ending stagnated cavalcade

I'm not here for, I'm not here for you, and I know you are not here for me too
Yet somehow, you don't let me leave
The flipside, the flipside of truth, the other side of inside of you
Is so dark but is art, and just I can't turn my back on you

Break the spell, pierce the veil, do something about it
Do something about this heart faint cavalcade that never leaves its place
Countless tears drip at the same spot makes me crazy
There must be something in the wind
There must be something in the air
There must be something in me

Total disgrace, so negative
The promise is broken now
Choke the life out of the air
A cold breath of despair
The sound of grief, the smell of sorrow
The smell of grief, the sound of sorrow
A never ending stagnated cavalcade

I'm not here for, I'm not here for you, and I know you are not here for me too
Yet somehow, you don't let me leave
The flipside, the flipside of truth, the other side of inside of you
Is so dark but is art, and just I can't turn my back on you

Sofiya

Hey, you fool
You think you'll never fall
Well its nature, what goes up must come down
Hey, you fool
You think you have it all
Well, I think you had it all

Since you were born you've been listening to everyone applaud your mediocrity
Well done, good job, you're gonna get really really far - they said
How would you see the forest for the trees?
Push yourself, be your better self, get more, give more, and follow your heart, you're unique, you'll get far, really really far, far as your insignificancy

Expectations now go through the roof, reality hits you like a hurricane
You're lost in your own world, sinking in a sea of grief, and you keep on asking why?
The sons and daughters of success, now are swamped in distress
Being tamed by failure and crushed by the pressure of potential

You were left with the weight of feeling ordinary, after being taught you are special
Its a problem of nurture, not a problem of nature
You were bought the whole world but left with the bill

Hey, you fool
You think you'll never fall
Well its nature, what goes up must come down
Hey, you stupid fool
You think you have it all
Well, I think you had it all

Push yourself, your better self, give more and follow your heart, you're unique, you'll get far, really really far

Keep on pushing this is just a phase
Advocation for nothing
Scattered bits and pieces of your broken self
Will be glued together by a promise
Push way harder, but don't pull yourself apart

You were left with the weight of feeling ordinary, after being taught you are special
Its a problem of nurture, not a problem of nature
You were bought the whole world but left with the bill

Hey, you fool
You think you'll never fall
Well its nature, what goes up must come down
Hey, you clueless fuck
You think you have it all
Well, I think you had it all

Futures Ruptured by the Past

The Pressure of Potential

No Man is an Island

Looking at the hourglass dry I continue searching for your universe inside my soul
Seeking for resonance I try to show you different pieces of myself, of my world

What if everything you see is a piece of yourself scattered around constellations, we're all linked souls
The melodies of every chord are from the same song, chanting voice that echos in parallel dimensions

Stars fall at us in unison

The clutter of desperation soaks my lost soul
The cloud of uncertainty chokes and drains whats left of me
Tossing me up and crushing me down, this inability of choice, of cohesion
Its poison, its venom, I shiver and tremble, deliberate disconnectivity

From the moment I wake until I sleep
You have my soul under control
It's beyond me

What it takes to get you to give myself the best of you
Do I need to let this fire burn?
If all the stars are made of us, and we're all made of all the moons
Does it mean, I'll be always with you?

Rise and shine to your better self
The ship has sailed and all you can do is flip the page

From the moment I wake until I sleep
You have my soul under control
It's beyond me

From the moment I sleep until I wake
I dream of you, I'm not one, I'm two
It's beyond control

If this lasts forever
Will you wait for me?

Will this last forever?
Will I wait for you?
Will this last forever?
Should I wait for you?

You wanted me to stay, I waited for you
I won't let you go if you let me through
But you shut the door that I opened for you
Now you want me away but you know I am you

Will this last forever?

No Man is an Island

Search & Destroy

Waiting for the countdown to search and destroy
The clock ticks to my heartbeat, I'll pull the trigger, I'm salvation
Malice, rancor, a whole generation of vain, drained
by thoughtless submission to glory or whatever that is

You're not here to think
You're here to engage
Shut up, obey

We're reward junkies, mindless monkeys
With illusion of control making cautious decisions
Don't we miss the whole point, if the end is the same
A big production line of bodies but no brains
To be disposed of in the name of the nation

You're not here to think
You're here to engage
Shut up, obey

You're not here to question
You're here to engage and obey

If I said you could die, would you follow me?
If I said you could fly, would you be here?

We're not robots we're humanity
We're not programmed to give and receive
We're not binary, we live organically
Cause we're not robots we're humanity

Shoot first ask later, here's your punishment
I've bit the bullet, life is a currency
Swallow down your pride and kneel in front of me
I hate to be here as much as you hate me

You're not here to question
You're here to engage
Shut up, obey

If I said you could die, would you follow me?
If I said you could fly, would you be here?
If I said you will cry, would you come with me?
If I said you should try, would you be here?

Search & Destroy

Locus of Control

Bleeding, before your eyes you are all fading while you're told lies that you're sacred and have your fate in your hands, but you're not in control

You fall and rot into the ground
You bleed through your many holes  
You breath and try to hold, just to believe that you are in control

Denial, you're not in control
Denial, there is no control

Dreaming to achieve a life of greatness, oblivious to that the sweat and tears that you put in is worthless, you're not in control

You try but fail at the end
You cry but don't want to give in
You lie to your heart, just to believe that you are in control

Denial, you have no control
Denial, there is no control

Trying to be and forever remain, in control of my own

Dreams blooming in colours and days
Floating to grace
A perfect time to fly away 

Drops and circles in one line
Dripping colour into life
Twists and turns in lows and highs
What a time to be alive

Trying to be and forever remain, in control of my own
Tired to be, for on and on, with no control of my own

Denial, you have no control
Denial, there is no control

I don't want to wait for my fate no more
I will be in charge

Locus Of Control

Listen to a little story, sit down for a bit
It starts with bright days of glory but in a glance, decadence, creeps in
Dance under plushy feathers with masks on, irreverence
And no one ever saw it coming but what's the chance of benevolence and betrayal 
He let them through these walls
Burn our castles down
Betrayed by his own
Betrayed by his son

Twilight, our heroes fall
Betrayed by the night
Twilight, the dusk of dawn
All doomed until sunrise

But will the sun ever rise?

Like a torch in the dark
Her flame burns far
Brightening the sorrow away
Like the songs of the past
Her tale will last
Forever and a day
She comes from the night
And in darkness she thrives
She killed all one by one

Twilight, the demons fall
Betrayed by the night
Twilight, from dusk to dawn
Her flame will burn bright
Twilight, the forest sings
Her name into the night

May the sun always rise

The Dark Bard (Twilight)

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Eduardo Viana