“Beijing”
We were lighting cigarettes
placing bets on all
the fights that were going on
We were walking in the streets
nameless dogs in the dusk
where the drunks and taxis meet
as I was tracing on the map
the path where I felt
I was lost and alone
only to master myself
all the silver and gold I’d give to be
back on the road that leads you back to me
We were basking in the sun
in a daydream found
on a sleepless night in Beijing
and the dawn as it approached
broke the haze and the smoke
that came from the night before
by dawn’s first light, I leave this city behind
and the voices of the crowd will slowly leave my mind
and I live that daydream with you in the sun
has this finally ended, or has it just begun?
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This is the final track of the 2012 demo - I move tomorrow and start school in less than a week.
Thanks everyone, it’s been good :]
-adan
(Source: theemptyorchestras.bandcamp.com / the empty orchestras)
“Montez” with new instrumental parts :3
Reblog/Like/Send me some love :) I’m so excited about these songs!
-adan
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lyrics
I found the skies that I was born beneath on the other side of the world
“Happiness to you,” I wrote as I began to grasp the infinite overhead
These horizons lost and found before we know they’re gone
And the rising moon, a mote of dust in the infinite overhead
I spent my nights entranced by what was never there
The mountain air breaking down our voices
As it stumbled through our hair
And all the while we sang to the sand below
I see the desert when I’m surrounded by snow
I miss the places that I came to know
by going on to more
Silent stars we serenade with a language that we made
We think the sky is falling in when we are falling out
It’s really getting farther away
To this day, I knew it all by heart
What we did and where we said we would start
After this, we swore we’d never be apart but we are
It’s nice to know we see the same infinite overhead
I spent my years entranced by what was always there
The desert air drinking with our voices
as we stumbled down the stairs
And all the while we sang to the stars above
“Handwritten Note” with keyboards now :)
Send some love/thoughts/reblog this if you like it.
-adan
also: posting a bandcamp link soon where you can buy the official demo if you want to support my music. Anything more than 2 USD for 6 solid songs - stay tuned!
song I wrote two years ago when I was living in Hong Kong - I saw the movie Death Defying Acts and really liked it so I wrote about it. :3
Lyrics
to see up the mountain what comes down with the rain
all the coins in the fountain that alleviate all the pain
“no phantoms escape us”, no ghosts in the blood I’ve bled
was my name the last thing that she said?
my right hand man, did he tell you all my secrets
so I could live on, my phantoms all resolved?
or did he betray me when his back was against the wall?
I can keep this winter at bay
cause I never feared the cold
as much as I was afraid
of leaving you on your own
Defying death isn’t all it took
some sleight of hand, hidden keys
I’m a paper tiger and you’re the crook
that will catch this thief
my right hand man, did he ask you for your secrets
to see a future that he could not prevent?
or did he betray me never asking what it meant?
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new song, everyone :)
“Tree Cathedral”
I could show the world but it’d be so ordinary,
such a lonely place where peace can make you numb
where I sleep beneath the leaves that wind could carry
to forget about the trouble I’ve come from
where the younger souls, with the wind, they strolled
and marveled at the bells when they were rung
like an older story of bloodlust and glory
that we should have heard when we were young
You’re the rain, and I’m the growth,
You’re the song, I’m Jericho,
You’re the sun, and I’m the day,
You’re the haystacks, I’m Monet
and I need to paint
I could show the world but it’d be so ordinary
Where the greater things are hardly things at all
Just a tree cathedral, that’s my sanctuary
Beautiful for one day it will fall
like a nightmare turned to better days
the frozen clock in the heat of May
the river turned into a lake
captains made into castaways
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