Author: Echo Artifact (Page 2 of 3)

Bluebird

Blue bird, blue bird are you tired?
Bloodied, tin foil and are you fired?
Weary, I don’t think I’ve tried
Long enough now to be alright
I don’t think we should sleep tonight

Red bird, red bird do you feel?
Lessen my grip is this not real?
Quiet reset to feel alright
I don’t think we can win this fight
All depends where she sleeps tonight

Black bird, black bird do you know
How afraid is your heart to show?
Seal it up stitched away from light
Long enough not to feel inside
I don’t think this will be alright

Blue bird, blue bird won’t you try?
She bleeds out while the fire dies
Giving up isn’t like letting go
Breaking down over radio
Where from here baby? I don’t know

Blue bird, blue bird are you tired?
Bloodied, tin foil and are you fired?
Weary I don’t think I’ve tried
Overwhelming adrift reminds:
Never don’t let your heart decide

Ask Me

Not that long ago
We stood face to face
Indecision shows
The ways that we have changed

Born again to show
That we’ve evolved away
Bleeding head to toe
But we keep secrets safe

One last round to go
And then we’re far away
No one has to know
We keep secrets safe

Like nothing matters

By now I know, knocked down, I’m not getting up
Ready to bleed for this but I’m too deep cut
The longer I’m down the more I sink to oblivion
You have no idea what this will become

No one left to know
No one left to say,
Dig deep down below
To keep this secret safe

Buried here alone
With all of our mistakes
Never really known
That we were making graves

All that’s left to show
Is violently erased
Fear of letting go
Will keep me in this place
… keep me in my place

(I’m watching all my dreams turn circles)
(Waiting for a great new purpose)

Like something matters

By now I know, knocked down, I’m not getting up
Ready to bleed through this but I’m too deep cut
The longer I’m down the more I sink to oblivion
You have no idea what this has become

Finally alone
Desperate and decayed
Breaking sticks and bones
To keep this story straight

(Weigh me down
I know why
You won’t ask me now
I know why
You can’t weigh me down
Ask me why)

By now I’m done, knocked out, I’m never getting up
Already bleeding out and I’ve had enough
The longer I’m down the more I sink to oblivion
You have no idea but this has begun

Finding out that hope
Is frequently delayed
Never letting go
‘Cuz we keep secrets safe

What’s your price for keeping secrets?

I think I am becoming a stranger

I don’t feel like sleeping anymore
Maybe now and then
Even being numb can be a chore
When you’re stepped on again

I don’t get to see you anymore
I just live to move myself around around again
How I’d like to meet you furthermore
How cordial we’d pretend

Why I fail to see the point of waking up to you
While I find myself in someone else’s shoes

Bring me back a season from before
A cold and subtle wind
Leaving all our reasons at the door
We’re keeping score but no one playing ever wins

Why I fail to see the point of waking up to you
While I find myself in someone else’s shoes

I am not myself
Who could I be
If not someone else

I don’t feel like sinking anymore
February silences are setting in
Pick apart my ego ’til it’s sore
But then again, where are all my fucking friends?

Why I fail to see the point of waking up to you
While I find myself in someone else’s shoes
(waiting here for you)

I won’t find my way out
I don’t mind these breakdowns
(I think about the silence of danger)
I won’t let you in now
I’ll find my own way down
(I think I am becoming a stranger)

What Can I Say?

What Can I Say?

What can I say? I’m a lush
But I’m good at it
What can I say? It’s a rush
But I’m sure that it pays to be on time
Lately I don’t mind

What else can I say? I’m alone
But I’m good at it
To keep me in a way that I know
I’ve a bad habit of not saying goodbye
Truly I don’t mind

If I say what I need, would I say that I need you to save me?

(Save me.)

When would I break? What’s enough?
When the eyes have it?
What would it take? Make believe all kinds when I’m
Diminished in my mind
Delayed reaction times

If I say what I need, would I say that I need you to save me?
If I stay and I bleed to erase the sting of safety
To betray this disease would I break into what has made me?
Every single time
Almost… never mind

If I say what I need, would I say that I need you to save me?
If I stay and I bleed to erase the sting of safety
To betray this disease would I break into what has made me?
Plastic all the time
Friendly-fire blind
Delayed reaction time

Dissent

Dissent

As if it is as up to me as I can say
For me to be of it, of love as clay
If who to him was she to them
Where monsters are instead of men
Belittling our souls this very day

If who was down then what was up
With when as much as one can trust
As if we met who would we be without much need for empathy
But by the if we hoped for much dismay

As if it is as up to me as I can say

Static

Static

I, I try
I, I find
I, I try
I, I mind

I won’t let this go
I want you to know
I won’t let this go (near backflow)
I want you to know (down we go)

I, I try

Well I Never

Well I Never

Well I never

Sever, sever with me all our ties
Rip this stitch in time (rewind)
Sink in this doubt and we might fall
Rather that we tried (reprise)

Moving all tides
A thousand histories resign
We weaponize

Well I never

Clever, clever better break me from all sides
Bit by brick collide (retry)
Teething, bleeding, pleading, heaving with you by the bye
Make me compromise (remind)

Well I never

Moving all tides
A thousand histories resign
We weaponize

Choosing our sides
Breaking down in strides
We weaponize

Well I never saw you coming back again

Easy for you to say I won’t
Fractures are better left alone
Do you feel like letting go?

Well I never

Sever, sever with me all our ties
Wary that we might
We weaponize

CPU (Opera)

CPU (A post-apocalyptic electronic opera for the end of the world, in one act)

Prologue:

‘Imagine the prison of repetition
A pitch-perfect perpetual misery
Awaiting each player ignition
Is a blanket of unusable memory’

A ten song cycle for 1 actor, 25 iPads (in a circle surrounding the performer), 3 musicians and the last days on Earth.


Synopsis:

Guy meets girl. Girl falls for guy. Guy falls for girl.

Guy brings girl into a cyber/eco terrorist organization.
Together, they develop a virus that ends the planet, killing off all life on Earth.
They survive, trapped in a bunker. Girl is in a coma, infected with her own viral creation.
As guy works (tirelessly) to keep her alive, he is without food, without sleep, without rest.

[There is no hope. There is no rescue mission. There is nothing that can be salvaged. There is no future.]

Our story begins with a bright, loud explosion as the global power grid fails.
Guy is forced to manually maintain her brain function through repetitive tasks:
setting and resetting 25 independently timed video alarm clocks on light-emitting tablets.
As time goes on, the alarms become more difficult to retrigger, and his exhaustion begins to take over.

[If he misses an alarm reset, the alarm is disabled and it emits a tone that cannot be turned off.]
[If all 25 alarms are allowed to misfire, the opera immediately ends, regardless of the progress remaining.]


Set List:
CPU
Do You?
This Is Love
Out Of My Mind
Better Off
Relay
Face Forward
Are You?
Caution
Turnover
Pulsars
I Don’t Know
Home
Last Song

 

CPU (Overture)

CPU (Overture)

As I lie in wait the screen will load.
Why try perpetuate the episode?
I know just how far this will go.
Watch me chase her down a rabbit hole.

She stays folding constant memory
Like tape, all that’s left is shimmering.
Losing and over-clocking all that we
Won’t leave now witnessing through history.

Just numbers in the cloud
No signal to the ground

I wait calculating entropy (while)
She slips into something misery.
We are so far along the plot erodes.
Witness all at once the overload.

Just numbers in the cloud
No reason to be found
Six chambers in the round
Let’s find our way down

As she tries to stop the sound

I stay – partition partial memory
Someday duplicate my apathy.
She states “You only want what you can see”
I’ll create a better virus to release.

Stage 1 – dissolve the casing carefully
Stage 2 – deploy the virus properly
Stage 3 – This strain of poison digital
Now breathe – The devastation: critical

It shakes pixelating visually.
We break – electronic shattering.
Reshape the virus out of misery.
She will reboot a better part of me.

Just numbers in the cloud
No reason to be found
Six chambers in the round
Let’s find our way down.

We are. We are all a part of this. (We are, we are.)

We all, we all fall apart at this. (We are, we are.)

We all. We all had a part in this. (We are, we are.)

We are. We are all a part of this. (We are, we are.)

Like children in the crowd
Left screaming this aloud
Six chambers in the ground
We’ve found our way…

She fakes replicating part of me.
Retake deploy the virus constantly.
We make a first-world catastrophe.

She breaks self-importing gravity.
Create self-revolving memory.
We are all that’s left in front of me.
We drown celebrating gravity.

Do You?

Do You?

There’s just one thing in my mind,
Do you love me all the time?
And I’m not sure why I need to know,
I just do

Do you? Do you love me girl?
I think you do.

As do all things heal in time,
Do you trust me? Will we survive?
I’m not sure if I can stand to know
When we’re through.

Do you? Do you love me girl?
I think you do.

As I told you outside,
Could you love me through this demise?
The only one thing that I seem to know:
I love you.

Do you? Do you love me girl?
I think you do.

This Is Love

This Is Love

This is love

This is love
Tried and true
(Black and blue)
This is what
He’ll come home to
(Our armor see-through)

This is love

This is not
A secret drug she’s dreaming of
(Broken wings from above)
This is us
Biting and screaming for the sun
(With our severed tongues)

This is love

As that sure thing we’ll not find
Save the replay in your mind
When the hardware won’t rewind
Break in 2… 1…

This is love

Out Of My Mind

Out Of My Mind

Out of my mind

I see your name written down
In a word, alone
I see no need to be found
In this world alone

And I won’t find myself in time
Tell me something I don’t already know

Our last story will be surrender
Deny everything and leave her

Out of my mind (nothing)

I, with this clock ticking down,
Create a world of tones
I’ll end this automated sound
And we’ll wash ashore

And we won’t mind this gap in time
Feel me disappear. It’s already done.

This task the only space between us
Defines now our only weakness

I am alive (nothing)
Out of my mind (nothing changes me)

I found you where I found myself
Out of my mind

I’ll bring this game crashing down
To a pile of stones
Raining destruction abound
Only skin and bones

And if we find ourselves in time
We’ll abandon hope. We’re never getting home.

Sound warnings defeat her
It notes everything and remembers

I found you where I found myself
I found you where we last exhaled
At least she’ll know I died trying

I found you where I found my –

I found you where I found myself
I found you where we last exhaled
I found you where we’re drowning
At least she’ll know I died fighting

Out of my mind (nothing changes me)

Better Off

Better Off

Are you better off than when we found you?
Are you better off, indeed.
Are you better off than when we found you?
Are you better off with me? We’ll see.

Are you conscious of the worlds we’ve traveled?
Are you conscious of our greed?
Are you with me as our time unravels,
Or are you lost in the disease? With me.

Are you better off than when we found you?
Are you better off, indeed.
Are you better off than when we found you?
Are you better off with me? We’ll see.

As I conjugate the restless babble
As we lie awake (asleep)
The virus that you started brought the world around you
Crashing down upon its knees. Just breathe.

Please breathe.

Sometimes it takes oblivion to see horizons.
I can’t see you because I’m not there.

Relay

Relay

Further down the relay is a step I’m going to miss,
A message I won’t be involved with

Cancel these words and slow my tongue
There won’t be much left when I’m done
I’d never ever rather come running back from this

Undefined intentions make me want to mention
All I ever thought of you
I’m just not in 2
Saying goodbye to this time

Further down the relay is a step I’m going to miss,
A message I won’t be involved with

Fortify these walls and break my limbs
All these final moments depend
On you ever waking up from this
I can’t continue, friend

Break down these days one by one
All that we have left is undone
(No) No one walks away from this

I can’t shake this feeling in my bones
Like you’re in my hands and we’re –

Further down the relay is a step I’m going to miss,
A message I won’t be involved with

Codify these words and sheath my gun
Nothing will be left when we’re done
Our time expires just after these messages run

You can’t stop this chain reaction – only time can give us traction
Why we never thought this through
My clever head has failed us both
But I (I) won’t go without you

I can’t shake this feeling in my bones
Like you’re in my hands and we’re –

(Further down the relay is a step I’m going to miss,
A message I won’t be involved with)

I can’t fight this feeling in my bones
Like we’re in my head and we’re already gone

How much do you think we can’t see before we realize that we’re gone?

Face Forward

Face Forward

Face forward

Bite down hard
And though we’re broken
We’ll never say it now
We’ll never make it out

Weigh your heart
And as a token
Know nothing matters now
I’m sinking to the sound

Face forward

With my arms
I keep an open mind only to find
My heart defines (what)
This operation binds

Play your part
And though we’re choking
We’ll never ever breathe it out
We’ll never laugh out loud again

Face forward

I know why I ought to
I know why we lost you
I know why we ought to
(Ought to)  drown

Face forward

Are You?

Are You?

Severed limbs and bobby pins
Won’t bring me (bring me) back this far.
Never again will I begin
I’ve missed my final start.

Chemicals and dirty needles
Fake this feeling I belong
Biting tongues, collapsed my lungs
As we realize this life is wrong.

Are you happy where you landed?
Are you pleased with the fall?
Are you happy where you landed?
Won’t you know?

Wars defend as gods pretend
That they had never left us here.
Pinch my skin as I extend my love to you, my dear…

Are you happy where you landed?
Are you pleased with the fall?
Count regrets with both hands,
You can’t have it all.

Are you happy where you landed?
Are you pleased with the fall?
Are you happy where you landed?
Won’t you know?

No matter what this life will bring,
Looking underneath my self, I
Wouldn’t change a thing.

Caution

Caution

The only truth in life is sin
I don’t know just where I’ve been
As we bleed so shall we die
Take with me both you and I

I believe a wealth of men
Haven’t seen what they’ve seen, nor been where they’ve been
And as we seek so shall we find
That this world is not yours and mine
Cautioning my wearied mind

I can’t know what this might mean
Waiting for my heart to sing
Some will sink while some will rise
Fashioning my great demise
Cautioning my wearied mind

As we seek so shall we find
That this world is not yours and mine
Those without have much within
Waterlogged and sinking in
Say goodbye, my only friend

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