Enjoy the newest album, released 2015, from my alternative rock band, "A Burning Century". We record music for planetarium shows around the world, in conjunction with Spacepark 360. All songs were written by Maggie Smith Kuhn + Will Wheeler.

Lyrics:

the air’s expanding in my bones, and i am full and warm.
the beating of my heart echoes worlds apart, am i home?

dilated pupils, fingers steepled, body terse.
i think this is going to work. this is going to work.

places that i have never known, call me to go on all alone,
falling in the blue, all of the the things i hoped were true.

they were true.

out of overdrive, out of breath, and out of time.
the beating of my heart shakes the world apart and that’s fine.

places that i have never known, call me to go on all alone,
falling in the blue, all of the the things i hoped were true.

they were true. 



catharsis (goodbye, earth.)

Enjoy the newest album, released 2015, from my alternative rock band, "A Burning Century". We record music for planetarium shows around the world, in conjunction with Spacepark 360. All songs were written by Maggie Smith Kuhn + Will Wheeler.

Lyrics:

nymeria. i will always love you. 
nymeria. they took me from you.
does it have to hurt like this, like this, like this, like this?
i’ve got my list, i’ve got my list, i’ve got my list.

i’m made of ice, i’m made of fire,
i am a wolf without a face. 
take me to the north if i am lost.
i’m lost without a place.
can i miss my home?
can i miss the human race?
i am all alone.
gone without a trace.  

nymeria. I will always love you. 
nymeria. they took me from you.
does it have to hurt like this, like this, like this, like this?
i’ve got my list, i’ve got my list, i’ve got my list.

i am frozen open.
i am black and broken.
i will run away.
i believe in danger.
i become a stranger.
i see the darkness and say “not today”. 

winter is coming. and i’ll be running. 

nymeria. I will always love you. 
nymeria. they took me from you.
does it have to hurt like this, like this, like this, like this?
i’ve got my list, i’ve got my list, i’ve got my list.


nymeria (does it have to hurt like this?)

Enjoy the newest album, released 2015, from my alternative rock band, "A Burning Century". We record music for planetarium shows around the world, in conjunction with Spacepark 360. All songs were written by Maggie Smith Kuhn + Will Wheeler.

Lyrics:

it is in my human nature,
human nature is to break apart the pieces
until they reveal their reasons why.

everything is right in front of me
but i look again and again and again
cause i don’t believe
so i look again and again and again.

let me go deeper, make me a river, 
give me a real sign, show me a straight line,
make me a river, make a river, make me a river.

give me direction, make me a river,
i want conviction and a connection.
make me a river, make a river, make me a river.

make my soul like running water,
running water finds a channel to the river
it washes all that wanders out to sea.

i believe that it’s right in front of me
but i look again and again and again
will i ever see what’s right in front of me
again, and again? 

do i want, do i want the truth?
or am i afraid everything will change,
what do i do? 

it’s right in front of me
but i look again and again and again
cause i don’t believe
so i look again and again and again.


human nature (looking for answers.)

Enjoy the newest album, released 2015, from my alternative rock band, "A Burning Century". We record music for planetarium shows around the world, in conjunction with Spacepark 360. All songs were written by Maggie Smith Kuhn + Will Wheeler.

Lyrics:

you like living on a fault line,
west is your escape.
catch the wave washing out the cityscape,
the morning breaks. 

you don’t mind it at all,
it falls around you.
answer the call, the wall surrounds you.

it’s a wreck, it’s a disaster
and you stick out your neck
because you want to go faster, i know. 
you want to go faster, i know.
you want to go faster, faster. 

on the edge of a precipice,
and the view is clear.
in the end, are you holding back again?
no fear.

the ground is shaking,
you hear the answer.
the echoing is all around.
you hear it coming,
you see it coming,
the avalanche is coming down.

it’s a wreck, it’s a disaster
and you stick out your neck
because you want to go faster, i know. 
you want to go faster, i know.
you want to go faster, faster. 


disaster (stick out your neck.)

Enjoy the newest album, released 2015, from my alternative rock band, "A Burning Century". We record music for planetarium shows around the world, in conjunction with Spacepark 360. All songs were written by Maggie Smith Kuhn + Will Wheeler.

Lyrics:

the city radiates, signs of life invade the day.
poised for a fight, in for the night, i’m waiting in a way.
liquid confidence, down a bottle in defense;
stare at the glow, lit on a pillow, nobody has to know
(i’m falling down a hole).

who decides what’s real, i choose to believe,
who decides what’s real? i only know what i feel. 

every night there is the rabbit, a white rabbit i must chase,
oh my god, now I’m caught, i can’t escape this place. 
i woke up this way, broken pieces of the day shine like a light.
get on my side. i don’t know what to say.
nobody has to know.
(i’m falling down a hole).

who decides what’s real, i choose to believe,
who decides what’s real? i only know what i feel. 

let’s pretend that i saw a rabbit standing tall in another world.
oh my god, a fall, a smaller space to crawl, but it’s another world.
playing pretend, playing pretend, playing pretend, playing pretend.
(i’m falling down a hole).

who decides what’s real, i choose to believe,
who decides what’s real? i only know what i feel. 



delirium tremens (falling down a hole.)

Enjoy the newest album, released 2015, from my alternative rock band, "A Burning Century". We record music for planetarium shows around the world, in conjunction with Spacepark 360. All songs were written by Maggie Smith Kuhn + Will Wheeler.

Lyrics:

crossing the streets, no one sleeps
and the night is alive, every lamp is burning.
bodies that twist in the dark, if the dance is a cry
it makes my heart stop yearning.

i would like to lose myself,
but my heart is hard. 
the city is a warm machine,
and i am just a spark.

surrender, be moved and shaken.

if you want to, i would like to
catch on fire in a world that’s burning.
if you want to, i could help you
catch on fire in a world that’s burning down, oh no,
the world is burning down, oh no, the world is burning. 

losing myself in the steel and the smoke
i’m afraid to choke down on the rules that they gave me.
losing myself in the alleys of thought, i will never be bought
though they try to break me.

hold me now, we’re in this fire together.
hold me now, your bones turn black, you surrender.

surrender. 

if you want to, i could see you
catch on fire in a world that’s burning.
if you want to, i could help you
catch on fire in a world that’s burning down, oh no,
the world is burning down, oh no, the world is burning. 

the world is burning. 



the world is burning (surrender.)

Enjoy the newest album, released 2015, from my alternative rock band, "A Burning Century". We record music for planetarium shows around the world, in conjunction with Spacepark 360. All songs were written by Maggie Smith Kuhn + Will Wheeler.

Lyrics:

i was talking to a face, talking to a face that i didn’t recognize,
i said stupid things i shouldn’t have.
“i don’t understand the context, what are you saying, sir?”
i can’t remember.

“it’s so quiet when you shut your mouth.” so shut your mouth.
“it’s so quiet when you shut your mouth.” so shut your mouth.

i was hoping for the best, hoping for a test to make me contemplate 
why we fear all the empty silence.
we are holding to a dream world, you are a warm machine.
how do I get clean?

“it’s so quiet when you shut your mouth.” shut your mouth.
“it’s so quiet when you shut your mouth.” shut your mouth.

show me again. show me again, shut your mouth. 
show me again. show me again, again.

we learn to be shy and sit quietly. 

i was talking to a face, talking to a face that i didn’t recognize,
i said stupid things i shouldn’t have.
“i don’t understand the context, what are you saying, sir?”
i can’t remember. 
“it’s so quiet when you shut your mouth.” so shut your mouth.

we learn to be shy and sit quietly.



we learn to be shy (and sit quietly.)

Enjoy the newest album, released 2015, from my alternative rock band, "A Burning Century". We record music for planetarium shows around the world, in conjunction with Spacepark 360. All songs were written by Maggie Smith Kuhn + Will Wheeler.

accidental landing (hello, earth.)

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