Track 1 from self-titled album, released April 2006 by ACGS.

The Highlands

Belfort & Calico

Track 3 from self-titled album, released April 2006 by ACGS.

Landlocked

(from the forthcoming album "Loc Ciudat" to be released Spring 2016)

Four sets of footprints. No sound, just heat.
The corners blurred, a desperate moan from the reeds.
It burst into the path with panicked eyes.

Anticipation.

The moon threw silver lances. The wind spoke through my mouth.
Your words push my lips apart. A vessel, unknowingly.
When I will bear the seeds of thoughts sown from without me.

There was a ranging, a distance from.
It knew that distance, a change undone.

That night you returned. Blank-faced in the squall.
Familiar routine, strange calmness. Clarity of a dream.
You raised no arguments, said it was “effortless”.

Nothing to process.

Saw you in the hospital. Greeted me like an old friend 
you couldn’t remember. From a life you were told you lived.
All the tests, hopeless, pleading. We couldn’t break through your calm.

There was a ranging, a distance from,
It knew that distance, a change undone.

A faint ghosting of prior words.
Collected thoughts hastily scrubbed off.
What once was sacred, once was profound,
is another now fading out.

There is a brightness coming from inside me that is not a part of me.
And when it fills me up, I will not be who I once was.
I know this brightness is not a thing that I control.
When I am filled up then I won’t be me anymore.

Loc Ciudat

Remote Light

Object Impermanence

The Highlands are punk band from Sonoma County, California formed in 2005 by Lindsay Gray and Dean Tisthammer.