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Low fire, long breath.
Athanor hums in the chest.
Lampblack lungs, winter tongue,
watch the ash confess.

Solvet, softly,
Coagula blaze, but a patient kiln.
Soot to soap, guilt to lye,
let the cleansing in.

Soot marks the places my silence slept,
coal script under ribs where the frost was kept.
Old heat folded in iron skin,
a forge remembers where it’s been.
Salt is witness, smoke is vow,
mercury moves like a now within now.
I don’t beg the dark to go, I bid it melt,
stir the slag of what I felt.
Fuligo, fulcrum; pressure, poise,
quiet labor, fewer noise.
Not thunder, not spectacle, just breath and heat,
iron snow falling on the street.
Burn what you bore; smelt it to light,
fold and refold till temper is right.
Quench the blade in the truth you own:
if it cuts, it’s grown.

Through the sootfold I go, slow,
hands black, but the pulse aglow.
Little by little the soul will know:
even the dark can snow.

Sot and snow, let the heart lay low,
eira on the coal till the embers glow.
Sot and snow, slow bright, slow true,
from gloom to goleuni, I’m coming through.

I sift old names like cinders in a pan,
keep what warms, let go what never ran.
The bright melt hums where the chill once fed,
a whisper rising through what’s dead.
Alembic patience, drip by drip,
habit unthreads, old skin slips.
I unlearn the metal that loves my rust,
oil the hinge of a stubborn trust.
The sootfold taught me to hold the weight,
the dawngrain whispers: wait, just wait.
Heartfire flickers like straw in sun,
you don’t rush what must be done.
Not a sainted shine, not a spotless hymn,
just clean enough to begin again.

Lampblack to ink, ink to oath,
oath to breath, breath to growth.

Snow on the forge, and the hiss says stay,
every flake is a way to pray.
Not for a miracle, only a field,
where ash turns soil and the soil can yield.

Sot and snow, let the heart lay low,
eira on the coal till the embers glow.
Sot and snow, slow bright, slow true,
from gloom to goleuni, I’m coming through.

No crown, no stone, just knuckles and tone,
a steady metronome of bone on bone.
Burn what you bore, smelt it to light,
carry the small flame into night.
When the breath shows white and the road is thin,
open the door and walk back in.

Soot to soap.
Snow to hope.
Hand to heart.
Start.

sot and snow

BCOS U WILL NEVER B FREE
a bedroom album by Rex

all songs written by Alex O'Connor
(not including 'cape fear' written & performed by Cosmo Pyke)

recording and production by Gianluca Bottoni
mixed and mastered by Oscar Boyd-Palmer
cover image by Clint Frift


Corduroy Dreams

Paradise

BEST FRIEND

released April 20, 2017 

Recorded by The Symposium 
Album Art: Jordan Kiehle 
Special thanks to Henry Brinner on the drums

Streems

friends

ever x his mom - friends (prod. ever)

ever - what happened to us? (prod. iluvtakumi)

ig: prodemian

LYRICS: 
i’ve got secrets
don’t think i’m crazy
i’ve got reasons
your actions amaze me

i’m not too in touch w my emotional side
at least that’s what she tells me when she’s starting to cry
sorry i can’t cater to the tears in your eyes
but know that you’re the reason that i still feel alive 

they say that i can get all the bitches (bitches)
but all i really want is a princess (princess)
and all them other girls are in past tense
so don’t worry ‘bout them
don’t worry ‘bout them

ever x ivri - ive gotta be home in twenty minutes (prod. fykay)

IG: evergotlost

lyrics:
blue skies won’t you come right back
won’t you come right back
won’t you come right back, oh

new scars carved into my back
carved into my back
carved into my back, oh

did you die?
//
i don’t got nobody on my neck no more
i don’t like to stick out from the rest no more
i don’t got nobody left to text no more 
i don’t got nobody left to text no more

you don’t got the air left in your chest no more
you don’t got nobody left to cherish no more
all you’re trynna do is up and perish, my girl
all you’re trynna do is up and perish, my girl

ever - did you die? (prod. ever)

a collection of tracks i was never going to release
dates of creation vary 
thanks for listening <3
IG: evergotlost

EVER - OUR LOVE REMAINS/GRASS STAINS COVER (PROD. EVER)

this song's about my emotions during the winter - i found the beat and just "freestyled" the whole thing, i'd rather call it soul-singing or some shit rather than freestyling. freestyling a singing song? nah, that shit gay, we're just gonna say i "soul-sang" this track. 

love you stay up <3

ever - nights alone with you (prod. mikzy)

EVER - PINE TREE GROVE(PROD. IDK, IF YOU PRODUCED THIS LMK)

ever - wander the world with me (prod. 8rokeboy)

lessons

did you die? alt version

did you die? alt ending (prod. ever)

digornio

EVER - DIGORNIO (PROD. YUSEI)

“…A river cuts through a rock - not because of it’s power, but because of it’s persistence.”

“You wanna know how to change the world, son? 
One random act of kindness after another.”

“The evidence of God exists 
in our connections to one another.” 

“We’d be at the peace table 
right now if war wasn’t so profitable.”

“Courage is food for the wiseman, and liquor for the fool.”

“All men die, but not all men die complaining.”

ever x ivri - ive gotta be home in twenty minutes (prod. fykay)

ever

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