The Rook

Dedicated to the geese who weave the world.

Selfling Vail: Sound design, production, composition. Lyrics and vocals on tracks 2, 3, and 5.

@Zovi: Sound design, production, digital percussion. Lyrics and vocals on tracks 1, 3, and 4.

Album art by Daniel Hughes
www.instagram.com/dhues_art/

Birdflight

Loomcall

Gustgather

Mornedove

Windskein

Lyrics:



I’m weaving a pearl spun from moon-thread 
Twisting fate until I’m bored, every night I mourn the sun soon that rises
Erasing my iridescent words, letter rinsed out, wrung out in blood 
I missed your arrival again my love

These waters make me ill
Everyone who came to my shore was hypnotized by their intention to kill
Unable to love me, they drove me further from you
Singing extracts time from the sleeping body, has me closer to death

My lids are heavy, dreamwater setting in
I was hoping you would find me here, I look into the future, missing it, 
Only left with the residual memory

Dreamwater

Selfling Vail - lyrics, vocal mixing, sound design, some percussion

Zovi - bass/breaks, some sound design, mixing/mastering

Lyrics:

Crystal lined walls
enclose until where your heart is
finds a stop, long journeyed

Caught in the maze without exit
Fountain of blood, wounded
Beautiful jewel

Careful how you retaliate, ringed and short-lived
Not some shimmering celestial pool

In the maze, distantly blue unfurled like some petal
A sky that interrupts thought and holds you captive

Dreamwater EP

maze below the flowering sky (feat. Zovi)

Selfing Vail - original song, lyrics, vocals, sound design

@Zovi - remix

Dreamwater (Zovi Wandering The Maze Remix)

self-produced 

mastered by Zovi
@zovinoise

lyrics:

Wickedly
Shadow swept
Body double

Checkmate to memory
Remember where they are now
What power they allow
Oh anger, burning eye
The gleam, the promise
Is all you disavow

I hate that I love you now

I can’t give you what you want
I’m not indebted
I’m not indebted

I made myself, I’m hard to please

Mother, Father -
Heed the call
It’s time to hunt
Take what you will
Don’t forget to feed the vultures

Mother, Father-
You gave your older one
To a vicious man
Time is not on the side
Of children who won’t understand

Teeth emptied out the mouth of
Those who speak badly of elders
Rest assured you did your best
Rest assured you gave them grace

Hush now
Take what you like
Leave the rest to God

Mother, father -
The second child
Her heart is not well
She is sick, she is grieving
You have time to bury time,
Mend over

Belief is what you desire
Snip and smear fate-stringed liars
linearity now still
on your side

Mother, father
Mother, father

Lyrics:

I came here from the other side
This is the only way history doesn’t repeat itself 
We don’t raise our dead, they lie down as witnesses 


Martyr for what? So your pocket rests more full -
 What terrorism does a child possibly know?

I came here from the other side
 I’m letting you know the dead don’t forgive you
Whether a lifetime of poverty, bombed overseas, medical neglect  
We don’t forget, we don’t raise our dead, they lie down as witnesses...

History Repeats Itself

Lyrics:


Money grows like moss, castle shell
If it’s around long enough, considered natural 
 We hear you, we see you, 
Your crimes don’t go unnoticed 
We hear you, we see you, 
Your crimes don’t go unnoticed 
 
You say merit brought you jewels made of blood 
You alone write in the law of God, 
Godly are you? Rising in and out of favor -
You are just a cockroach 
Scattering shiny nothings across a screaming land 

We hear you, we see you, 
Your crimes don’t go unnoticed 
We hear you, we see you, 
Your crimes don’t go unnoticed  Godly, are you? Greedy aren’t you?

Castle Moss

self-pollinate

different name, same person: @iggyoddity

Narrative explorations venturing into various genres.

THE ROOK - OUT MARCH 15TH, THE IDES OF MARCH 🗡️

Selfling Vail

Pinned to spotlight

Popular tracks