Face or Fall
[monotone]
Face the Void See it stare back relax honey, it will only hurt a little
Face the Void See what stares back it will only hurt
Face the Void Face or fall
Is it… Your indifference? Your mis-placed pride? Illusion of silence curing all? Hoping avoidance would keep out the fall? this road ain’t to heaven
Is it… Pure selfishness? The want to keep cool? Your shattering shell equation of feeling and fool?
(Face the Void Face or fall Face the Void Turn back or grow tall)
Break the circle Face the Void Face and grow tall Face the Void Break the circle Face the Void Face or Fall
Background info
I think this is the oldest surviving draft of a piece that got through a few rewrites before getting played and released. Lines in italic marks a different voice entering the scene in a saccharine but sarcastic tone, while the main voice is more monotone. The second last part now in parentheses was crossed over as redundant.
”Relax honey, it will only hurt a little” and ”it will only hurt” later formed a major part of a Vipera Aurea track Scarlet Calls.
The same piece of paper this version was written on included scetchy notes for sentences of ideas to be condensed into lyrics, like ”the hope that closing your eyes will make the troubles/it all go away?”, ”thinking unattended does not exist?” and, for some reason, CLOCKBITE in all capital and large letters. That word has nothing to do with any facing of Void, I had simply needed a corner to scibble that word down.
Thematically, this is lyrics for ritual music – or rather, words to be recited over music in what was to be a gig playing out a story about a ritual working. And, a ritual in itself.
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