Sage

Vermillion Pt2

Live Love Laugh Learn
See Feel Dream Real

If Only I could make you see
The beauty that I see
If Only I could make believe
That the world is alright

Stay Safe Try Pray
Words Speak Hear Me

If Only

Cavatina

Anji

I wrote this after a series of dream sequences, and some conversations I had with a girl I was seeing at the time. It was one of those peeling back the onion type deals, where I was probing some sense of loss that the dreams conveyed, that I couldn't explain. The deeper I went, I got the sense of the loss of part of myself, that was ripped from me violently, leaving only the trauma, and the hole in its place and a scar. I had the sense that we all feel like this, that we're all walking around with this deep sense of loss that we can't explain. It was quite painful to write, and record.
After I wrote it, I got the sense that this sense of loss, was the loss of that part of ourselves that we feel when we experience birth

Feel the days dissipate like mist from a lake
See the light no longer shine enough to keep away the blind
I’ve been gone a long long time

I try to catch my dreams like webs in the breeze
I know I go there but I can’t bring them here
I’ve been there a long ling time


I walked with you for as long as I could I couldn’t carry both of our crosses
I’m still just a child in a way alone and screaming in the dark

I dreamed I was here years ago exactly the same
I dreamed I had a different life one I didn’t waste

I walked with you for as long as I could I couldn’t carry both of our crosses
I’m still just a child in a way alone and screaming in the dark

I had that dream again about you where we meet at our favourite place
Everything was right and good

You were perfect in every way when I woke up and told my lover
That she could never truly be mine and she laughed and she told me it was alright
I made her breakfast and played her some songs
And then I told her everything everything in my mind
And when she knew that she could never be mine and we laughed about it anyway
And went back to making love to the sound of Norwegian Death Metal bands

I walked with you for as long as I could I couldn’t carry both of our crosses
I’m still just a child in a way alone and screaming in the dark

I walked with you for as long as I could I couldn’t carry both of our crosses
I’m still just a child in a way alone and screaming in the dark

I walked with you for as long as I could I couldn’t carry both of our crosses
I’m still just a child in a way alone and screaming in the dark

I’m still just a child in a way alone and screaming in the dark

Birth

Driving

This is a do-over of Birth, but faster tempo

Birth2

When are you going to change
When its too late
This is the final state
All hope is gone
This is the final state
All hope is gone
This is the final state
All hope is gone

All Hope Is Gone

Say something
To keep me warm
On this coldest of nights in the dark

Say something bright
To shine a light
And make me blind tonight

I don’t want to see
What I’ve already seen

Say something dark
Coz thats all I know
It’s all I truly know
Is the dark and the silence
And the loss and the violence

I don’t want to see
What I’ve already seen
And I don’t want to make believe
It’s not real

So say something
So I know you care
Say something
Before its too late

Say Something

Words are never enough
That’s what the song says
And we all know

But I have to challenge that
Sometimes they’re all we need
To make us whole

And words can cut so deep
They can divide us
And put us at war

And I say if I had the right words
I could put it all right
And maybe be enough

I think of you as I look out at the rain
All I ever want is to heal your pain

If I had a voice
That could reach a million ears
I would tell them all
That there’s a better way

And if I had a choice
I would stay with you for years
Or at least until
You got bored of me

And I sound it out
An echo into space
A vacuum in the dark
That only I can hear

At least I got
You to notice me
Even if you can’t
Understand

I think of you as I look out at the rain
All I ever want is to heal your pain

I think of you as I look out at the rain
And all I ever wanted was to see you soar

To see you soar 
To see you fly
Above the clouds

To see you fly
To see you rise up
Beyond the universe


Where its unknown what could we become

To see us all fly see beyond our world
To see us all fly beyond ourselves
To see us all try to be better

Words - Original version

Words

Words are never enough
That’s what the song says
And we all know

But I have to challenge that
Sometimes they’re all we need
To make us whole

And words can cut so deep
They can divide us
And put us at war

And I say if I had the right words
I could put it all right
And maybe be enough

I think of you as I look out at the rain
All I ever want is to heal your pain

If I had a voice
That could reach a million ears
I would tell them all
That there’s a better way

And if I had a choice
I would stay with you for years
Or at least until
You got bored of me

And I sound it out
An echo into space
A vacuum in the dark
That only I can hear

At least I got
You to notice me
Even if you can’t
Understand

I think of you as I look out at the rain
All I ever want is to heal your pain

I think of you as I look out at the rain
And all I ever wanted was to see you soar

To see you soar 
To see you fly
Above the clouds

To see you fly
To see you rise up
Beyond your little world

To see us all fly see what we could become
To see us all fly beyond ourselves
To see us all try to be better

Words

Trying to spread messages of peace, solidarity as well as exploring the extremities of the human condition as based on my own experiences. Influences include Joy Division, Swans, Paganini and Damien Rice for rock/acoustic, and and IDM like Aphex Twin, The Black Dog/Plaid, and Boards of Canada. Pretty much everything in between
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