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"Out of the night that covers me, 
Black as the pit from pole to pole, 
I thank whatever gods may be 
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance 
I have not winced nor cried aloud. 
Under the bludgeonings of chance 
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears 
Looms but the Horror of the shade, 
And yet the menace of the years 
Finds and shall find me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate, 
How charged with punishments the scroll, 
I am the master of my fate, 
I am the captain of my soul."

"Invictus" is a short Victorian poem by the English poet William Ernest Henley (1849–1903). It was written in 1875 and published in 1888 — originally with no title —

The image I used for the song is a photograph of the sculpture Archimèdes done by Simon-Louis Boquet in the 1750s. Archimèdes was a Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer.

Invictus

Recorded 09.16.2017

The image is a detail of a statue of Zeus and Dionysus (300 B.C.) located in the Munich Glyptpotheke ...

Ulysses

From all I may be, or have been before,
To mingle with the Universe, and feel
What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal.

The lyrics are  exert from Lord Byron's Child Harold.
The image is from Eugénie directed by Jesús Franco in 1973

CHILDE HAROLD

- Candlewick -

you are the colors in my dreams.
I hear your voice in the rustling leaves
Just behind me....

don't be afraid
you must be brave
Fear is a door
to your happiness
your happiness....
yea...

you are the colors in my dreams.
Call down the moon
Candelwick.......

The image is of Lili Damita (1904 – 1994) a French-American actress and singer who appeared in films between 1922 and 1937. this image is most likely from the early to mid twenties.

CandelWick

CandleWick

Mindticor: Traveler - original track 2009

Indifference (first verse only)

"I will light the match this morning so I won't be alone
Watch as she lies silent
For soon light will be gone
Oh I will stand arms outstretched pretend I'm free to roam
Oh I will make my way through one more day in hell
How much difference does it make?
How much difference does it make yeah"

the imgae is a statue of Antinous in Marble, Roman, Museo Pio-Clementino, Sala Rotunda - Vatican Museum