Archaic Innocence

Production, Vocals, and Lyrics by isle

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what are you hiding from me know?

can you pick me up at my house?
late nights lost and never found 
hating the fuck out of these same small towns

rusty picket fences
old white churches
crumbling down

carry me home when i kiss the pavement 
swear it was an accident
i get stuck and i can't see straight 
begging for a bandaid

i'll wear your jacket
bury the hatchet 
in the ground
whispering the things i'd never say out loud

pull the threads out of my sweater 
patchwork hearts stitch two together
i feel like we're entwined forever and ever

baby i could've been your everything
won't you come home soon?
you know that i miss you 
but im still stuck right here
waiting for you to wander
a little bit closer

caught up in the clover
wishing i wasn't such a loser
keeping three hands on the revolver

meet me in the garden i've been hiding 
collecting twigs and picking flowers
wasting hours and hours 
call me a coward

spider crawled into your eye
stare down the dagger of your pride
bible burned in the lantern light
tears fall and blur the lines
they call it suicide
neighborhood virgin sacrifice

baby you know that i miss you
i'll be coming home soon 
you know that i miss you
i'll be coming home soon.

i'll be home soon!

WITHERING
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somewhere, somewhere so far away 
praying i don't stay the same 
i'll let the white noise fade to grey
i won't be so fragile
figure it out
caught myself slipping away 
i don't wanna be 
the ghost in the shell

wore myself down to the wire
i don't wanna be a liar
but i miss my friends 
withering in the winter 
please don't forget her

wore myself down to the wire
i don't wanna be a liar
but i feel like such a coward
so sick, so tired

and i swear i didn't mean it
falling deep into the pit 
crooked teeth on the ground i spit
sleepwalking in the basement
wide awake i'm too patient
but i've spent too much time waiting
salt on my skin i'm still human 
grave robber, give me shelter

am i really so volatile?
keep on whining like a child

wore myself down to the wire
i don't wanna be a liar
but i miss my friends 
withering in the winter 
please don't forget her

wore myself down to the wire
i don't wanna be a liar
but i feel like such a coward
so sick, so tired

so sick, so tired
withering away with no ending
eclipse the dawn i'm never ending
blue flames eat the path i'm a godling
think of me when your limbs get heavy 
light in my bones
i'll find my own way home
winters over still withering

what is it that you want from me?
try my best to be so lovely
feelings that i just can't release
how is it you see in my dreams?

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lyrics+vocals by isle
produced by Louif
mix+master by Nigel Crown
cover photo by Armies

Withering

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vocals: Armies + isle
lyrics: Armies
production: isle
mix + master: Nigel Crown

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PRESSURE

Fairy Rings
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my mind is a void i avoid
evil little darkling
hanging on my heartstrings
i feel nothing 
then too much of something, too much of something

Fairy Rings float around my head
like a halo 
flowers grow from where i have bled

speak in tongues i'll understand
i engraved the blade in my hands
my fate i'll decide
i weave my design like a spider
keep you wrapped around my little finger
hallow words i still feel linger 

Fairy Rings float around my head
like a halo 
flowers grow from where i have bled

in my sleep, it whispers
the strangest little creature
forget my empathy
Gemini, like a changeling
lurking with odd entities
but everything bleeds eventually
and it knows
that i feel nothing 
then too much of something 

Fairy Rings float around my head
like a halo 
flowers grow from where i have bled

elven circles, a portal
i travel inter-dimensional
body celestial
energy is immortal 
and death is just another world
i feel nothing 
then too much of something
too much of something 

High Fae,
watch over me
in my heart so hauntingly 
alone but never lonely.

Produced by isle
Vocals by isle
Mixing, Mastering, Engineering by Nigel Crown
Cover art by Charlotte Hilton Kendall and isle

Fairy Rings

I WOULDN'T TREAT HER LIKE THIS

i've been watching her
between two doors
stuck in the hallway
it's overwhelming 
watching the light fade from her body

too soft, so pale
can't you see she's getting frail?

i see her distress 
when he tells her to undress
he's getting viscous 
tore apart your pretty dress
i know you hate this

i haven't slept in weeks
this isn't who i wanted to be 

i wouldn't treat her like this
i wouldn't treat her like this

i know it's bad for me
stupid moth drawn to the flame
clipped her wings inhaling kerosene
it's okay
call me a fake when i suffocate
sweetest affliction 
too scared to try another version 

when did scissors become teddy bears?
sharp comfort when i'm scared

i wouldn't treat her like this
i wouldn't treat her like this

guilt on my wrist 
severance for the way i shouldn't have acted
by myself i've got a vengeance
do i weigh on your conscience?
i know i do 
i wouldn't treat her like this 
so why do you?

i wouldn't treat her like this.

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production, lyrics, vocals: isle
mix & master: Nigel Crown
cover art photo: Charlotte Kendall

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