Name: Make it Through by The Psychonauts in The Grammar of Light
Duration: 4 min 18 s
Description: Make it Through

The Grammar of Light

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Dive into the explosive depths of "Alchemical [Inferno]," a heavy metal anthem that fuses blistering instrumentals with haunting historical echoes. Featuring visceral guitar riffs and thunderous drums, Jason Langvee delivers a relentless sonic assault that captures the chaos and urgency of our modern age.

The track weaves in powerful recordings of Reagan, Bush Jr., Obama, and Trump, each politician’s voice cutting through the fray with urgent pleas to confront the looming threat of nuclear warfare. These stark reminders of our past collide with Langvee's raw energy, creating a chilling tapestry of sound that challenges listeners to reflect on the fragility of peace.

As the song builds to a cataclysmic crescendo, it serves as a clarion call—urging us to confront the "Alchemical Inferno" of our choices and the volatile path we tread. With its mix of historical gravity and unrelenting metal fury, this track is a poignant exploration of power, fear, and the quest for redemption in a world on the brink.

Alchemical [Inferno]

Lyrics:

Debt Star

An incredibly emotional state of mind
An impossibly emotive way to reside
A monotony a hopeless waste of time 
It's bigger than most other things, why didn't we fight

Debt debt debt debt star
It's not just what we owe it's who we are
Debt debt debt debt star
We're taking each others last breath
We're folding the notes in our palms 

Helplessly in constant awaken state of denial
Incredibly to only maintain a certain lifestyle
Preventable catastrophe there was never any doubt
We drew it down and now it is they who must pay it out

Debt debt debt debt star
It's not just what we owe it's who we are
Debt debt debt debt star
We're taking each others last breath
We're folding the notes in our palms

Debt Star

Bird on a Leash

Demo391

An atmospheric soundtrack with minimal percussion — electro ambient with piano & bass for occasional neoclassical, jazz, and R&B notes at a very chill 60 bpm to drift along to Cosmic Dust

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While reading about the Archimedean spiral, I stumbled upon an image captured by ALMA of the European Southern Observatory. As seen in my cover art, LL Pegasi shines in a binary star system. There, it and its companion star are “locked in a stellar waltz” that weaves a spiraling cosmic dust trail as they orbit through gaseous material emanating from “old star LL Pegasi.“ (links to full explanation, image, and video in the credits below).

Wonderstruck, I became aware of how universal the spiral is — from sea shells on beaches to star trails in the Pegasus constellation — how human DNA, too, is a spiral chain of atoms, a double-helix that contains genetic code to materialize into physical form as what we call biology of the Natural World. 

Science teaches that everything in the known universe originated in the Big Bang, a topic that, for me, always conjures up Joni Mitchell lyrics from Woodstock — 

We are stardust, we are golden. 
We are billion-year-old carbon.
And we’ve got to get ourselves 
Back to the garden 

— all of which inspired Cosmic Dust. 

Welcome to all, and to science and sci-fi enthusiasts🖖
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DAW: Apple Logic Pro X
MIDI: Akai MPK Professional keyboard
E-INSTRUMENTS:
Concert Grand
Cello Section Legato
French Horns 
Tuba
Flute Solo
Clarinet Solo
SoCal Ballad Piano 
Cinema Strings 
Lunar Strings
Upright Jazz Bass
Deep Round Synth Bass
After The Rain
Crystals & Voices
Classical Ensemble
Blue Cavern 
Glacier Pad 
Space Harp
Rain Harp
E-PERCUSSION:
Timpani
Timpani Crescendo Tremolo
2-Step Remix Kit
European Folk Kit
Goa Remix Kit 

PHOTO CREDIT: 
ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/H. Kim et al. 
Celestial spiral with a twist
https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw1710a/

SOURCE: European Southern Observatory (ESO) via Wikimedia Commons:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Celestial_spiral_with_a_twist.jpg

SUNNYBECK altered the ALMA image by duplicating it and changing its hue as a background element while overlaying the original as the main cover image with an outer shadow, and finally adding the Cosmic Dust song title and artist logo. Use of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) image is not an endorsement by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) or by its employees, but the image is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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Cosmic Dust

Gothwitch - Shattered Night

artwork created withhttps://www.canva.com/

RiZLiX - Racer

[Verse]
Some dig deep
just to stay afloat
Hands all blister
still no coat

Some rise slow
before the sun
Give and give
‘till nothing’s done

[Chorus]
Some people work to the bone –
and go home cold
Others glide
and still strike gold

[Verse]
You're told it counts
to do things right
But right don't pay
on Friday night

[Bridge]
It’s not about how much you give –
but who gets seen
and who gets to live

[Chorus]
Some people work to the bone –
just to survive
Some wear crowns
they never tried

[Verse]
Hands worn thin
Truth cuts stone
Some keep bleeding
Just to own

[Outro Chorus]
Some people work to the bone –
and go home cold
Others glide
and still strike gold


Work To The Bone

The Light Never Lies

[Verse]
We don’t touch, we resonate
Through silence bent by distant weight
A charge, a pulse, a field we share
You turn, and I am almost there

[Chorus]
The light never lies
It flickers, but flies
We’re spark in the dark
Writing truth across skies

[Verse]
A photon passed between our hands
No sound, no plea, just what it understands
A grammar etched in wave and spin
We reach, collapse, begin again

[Chorus]
The light never lies
It flickers, but flies
We’re fire without flame
We’re question, not name

[Bridge]
Not bodies, but signals
Not answers, but signs
The world is a whisper
In vacuum lines

[Chorus]
The light never lies
Though shadows may try
We burn just to know
That to be is to glow

The Light Never Lies

[Verse]
You looked away, but your hand stayed still
Like a page half-turned against your will
Coffee cooled, the light turned red
But something more was left unsaid

I moved my chair a breath too near
Not to speak, but just be here
Your fingers twitched, a silent sign
And I read the space between your lines

[Chorus]
It’s not the words we throw or catch
But sparks that jump without a match
The hush before a lover leaves
The weight of what no tongue believes

[Verse]
She wiped the table, wiped it twice
As if to smooth out sacrifice
He checked the mail, then checked again
As if to name what can't remain

[Chorus]
It’s not the words we throw or catch
But sparks that jump without a match
The hush before a lover leaves
The weight of what no tongue believes

It’s not the words we throw or catch
But sparks that jump without a match
We speak in drift, in glance, in breath
A grammar wired beneath regret

[Bridge]
Like radios tuned in distant rooms
We hum, we pulse, we share our wounds
No alphabet can hold this thread –
But still, it ties what’s never said

[Outro Chorus]
It’s not a voice, but still reply
A field between the you and I
We’re not alone, not when we try
The light between us doesn’t lie

A Grammar

This Is The Path [No Beast Has Touched]

[Verse 1]
I walked the edge where silence grows
Among forgotten bones and crows
Not north, nor south – just in-between
Where memory hides what might have been
A path untrodden, undefined
Where no shadow ever screamed clarity
No claw has scratched this ancient dust
No hunger dares disturb its trust

[Chorus]
This is the path no beast has touched
Too still for fear, too deep for blood
A whispered thread through time's collapse
Where breath is birth and loss, perhaps
You who seek – remain, endure
Where no anger forms a cure
The path unfolds beneath the skin
Where nothing ends and none begin

[Verse 2]
Not made for kings, nor for the lost
It winds beyond all gain and cost
A light that rests without a name
A flame that sleeps in body's frame
The hunter's eyes can't pierce this field
No trap is set, no prey revealed
This isn’t peace, it isn’t war
But something vaster, without shore

[Chorus]
This is the path no beast has touched
Too still for fear, too deep for blood
A whispered thread through time's collapse
Where breath is birth and loss, perhaps
You who’ve loved and you who bore
A silence larger than before
The path is carved in shadow’s kin
Where all you've lost is held within

[Bridge]
And if you hear it – like a call
Not loud, but not quite silence, all
Then walk, but leave your weapons here
For truth won’t fight, and truth won’t fear

[Final Chorus]
This is the path no beast has known
Where silence sings and self is sown
A path that glows beyond the seen
Where every step is home unseen

This Is The Path [No Beast Has Touched]

[Verse]
I walk the edge of a yawning void
Only Nijinsky dares to hold my hand
You fell asleep upon the stairs
And woke with a crushed orange in your palm

You said you speak with those long gone
That their answers cut deeper than mine
Their silence wrapped in solemn grace
Outshining my faltering lines

[Pre-Chorus]
You said I wasn’t good for her –
But what the hell do you, do you know of that
Everyone who’s scared
Just bends their story to fit the facts

[Chorus]
You always told me who I was
Never cared to really know
Over and over – your damn questions
Till I gave the answer you came for

Over and over – the same demands
I wish I'd walked away back then

[Verse]
You stole the most precious thing we had
Refused to share what never was yours alone
Even knowing they'd break apart
If we didn’t leave them the peace they deserved

Just a fair chance to grow, to heal
To feel the love they were worthy of
But you chose to repeat your hell instead
The childhood you blamed for everything

[Pre-Chorus]
You said I wasn’t good for her –
But what the hell do you know of that?
Everyone who’s scared
Just bends their story to fit the facts

[Chorus]
I wish I’d fought, told you off long ago
You never thanked the fear we showed
We bent, we broke from every word
This pain was never what we owed

[Outro]
I miss my daughter every single day
But a heart turned cold took her away
Nijinsky said – cold is where death begins
And warmth was something they'd never let in

Miss My Dandelion Girl

Make it Through

Dispersal Plume

Morning Signals

Note: In light of the recent AI breakthroughs, we feel it's important to clarify that we've been working with voice modulation since the mid-1990s – originally inspired by David Bowie's album Outside. Our approach predates AI-driven tools and is rooted in treating the voice as an instrument, shaped and sculpted through earlier technologies.

We fully understand that questioning authenticity may not be the intention – but it's worth remembering that all electronic music is, by nature, mediated and transformed. Even Nietzsche pointed out how modern tools shape us: inserting paper into a typewriter already creates a distance that handwriting does not. Perhaps birdsong is the only truly authentic sound. 🐦

Writes original song lyrics and takes custom lyric requests under the artist name La Wi. This platform is also home to the creative collaborations of the Psychonaut Collective (The Psychonauts). Thank you for your support and appreciation.

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