1. |
Liminal
02:57
|
|
||
2. |
Cleansed
03:45
|
|
||
|
In the darkness comes the anger
I see your eyes and your hands
The glare slices right through me
Then takes over my own hands
In the solitude of cold stone
A hideaway for the ache
Hands and eyes…cutting
The skin separates
Purify
Purify
Purify
I bleed out the sickness
And purify with pain
To satisfy the hunger
To feel alive again
A blindness purifies me
A dim light in the rain
In the gaze of the angel
A ritual to cleanse the stain
|
||||
3. |
Creator/Destroyer
03:00
|
|
||
|
I feed myself to the fire
The updrafts spiraling higher
I bleed myself to the fire
I’m purified in total destruction
I climb up the precipice
In psychotic creative bliss
A sudden flash, I’m alive like this
For a moment
In total destruction
Running on the air now
Embers on the air now
Something on the air
Running in the air
Something in the air now
Now creation burns up through me
A scorched earth necessity
The rebirth of fertility
In endless transformation
Until the fury’s spent
The fire’s out, inspiration ends
Until it begins again in a cycle of total destruction
Running on the air now
Embers on the air now
Something on the air
Running in the air
Something in the air now
|
||||
4. |
Totality
06:30
|
|
||
5. |
Seeker
05:37
|
|
||
|
Endlessly searching alone,
looking for you
Walking in circles alone,
wasting my youth
Such lonely footsteps
I lost my way
My empty footprints
Break the heartache
Miles and miles of my life, endlessly seeking
aching the ache of all aches
Then I saw those eyes,
and I knew
Such lonely footsteps
I'll find you someday
My empty footprints
Break the heartache
|
||||
6. |
Your Scars On Mine
04:37
|
|
||
|
Though so very far, far away
I can feel your heart beating
the same rhythm as mine
as the night steals the day
Too many times, left bleeding
by the ever-changing seas
Lives lived in half-dark, too many miseries
But it's through the sorrows we live with
that we learn to see, and to smile
Lives in parallel lines
intersect when your eyes meet mine
and the sorrows drown when your deep, dark eyes shine
and the sorrows drown when your scars meet mine
Tides ebb and tides flow
you kiss me with, with your soul
we try to swim through the undertow
And though we get caught up in the drift of it,
we've always known how to get through it
And I won't judge you, you won't judge me
It can't hurt us, if we just believe
we're better than what we've done
just trust in what we can become
Lives in parallel lines
intersect when your mind meets mine
and the sorrows drown when your deep, dark eyes shine
and the sorrows drown when your scars meet mine
Lives in parallel lines intersect when your lips meet mine
and the sorrows drown when your deep, dark eyes shine
and the sorrows drown when your scars meet mine
|
||||
7. |
Doubts Even Here
04:11
|
|
||
8. |
Sisyphus
03:31
|
|
||
|
And every day I watch a little more of my life slip away
I'm sleepwalking through it
again and again
as I build myself up for the predictable end
as I try to block out the sound of my own voice screaming
this is not where I belong
this life has no meaning
and I cant do this any longer
I push it up
I build it out
I push it up
Just to watch it fall down
I build it up
I push it out
I build it up
Just to watch it fall down
And every day I lose more of myself
to this mindless machine
always working toward salvation
in slow-motion suicide
of tedious strangulation,
endless circular motion
in webs of suffocation
so with every move
I grow more entangled
and just sink further down
into isolation
It smothers me out
It crushes me down
It smothers me out
And tears me down again
So I must tear it up
I must break it down
I must tear it up
Now watch it fall down, down
|
||||
9. |
Sick
05:00
|
|
||
|
Teeth clenched, but without any resolve
trying to lean up against the nearest wall
Breathing deeply, I raise the cup to my lips
and try to force a smile,
I hide from my problems like this
Surrounded by laughing, prettied faces
I want to disappear, leaving no traces
I need an anchor, a weight in reality
but find instead, empty facades surrounding me
Alienation, frustration, and regret
Are nothing that this drink won't help me forget
Swaying around, into focus and back out
Escaping all of my fears, self-conciousness and doubt
Just keep laughing, and putting on that face
cover my scars up and develope a taste
the flow is going, and I try to jump in
but if you can't stand up, it's even harder to swim
I know that even here I don't fit in
never have, never will, but it's nice to pretend
In the end this doesn't change who I am
but like everyone here, tonight I'm hiding from him
Alienation, frustration and regret
nothing one more drink won't help me to forget
stumbling around, into focus and back out
avoiding all of my fears, self-conciousness and doubt
Now eventually I'll wander out without any plan
but when I go to leave, I know I'll understand
I'm deluding myself with this bottle in my hand
and when I wake up tomorrow I'll still be an empty man
With delusions and dreams that just seem too far away
but living like this, I'll never reach them anyway
Alienation, frustration and regret
Nothing one more drink won't help me to forget
stumbling around, into focus and back out
avoiding my ambitions and surrendering to doubt
|
||||
10. |
The Words On My Breath
03:40
|
|
||
|
Mind numb, but eyes alive
watching the chaotic, crowded world crash by
In snapshots of perpetual motion
framing voices, whispering fears
in a pulsing, coded void
Halted, spasmotic motions, mechanical and android
My eyes bleed the horizon
as static dead stares follow countless screens
flicker on, flicker off
connect, disconnected
all-consuming abstract desires
in a world of ego and artificial fire
I push inward and out
groping the glass walls slowly...silently drowning
in cascading waves of doubt
While searching for a reason
something to keep the fire alive through this barren season
As The faces pass, alien and strange
I'm forever wandering in frozen, dusky frames
a phantom, in muddled shades of grey
So I speak in tongues
the coiled snake hidden in my mouth
mirrors the spiral I chase upwards and out
And follow to that place
where the breeze carries your secret name
across my lips
and melts away the grey
as life returns to frozen fingertips
I curl up in your hair
feel the earth in your bones,
tangled in the warming air of the sun's rebirth
shows me I'm not so alone even in the shadow's breath
|
||||
11. |
|
|||
|
In the grey light of dawn
I witness the birth of the sun
reflected, fragmented
the void divides itself to one
I stand withered, yet whole
I watch the night decay
and soon
golden tendrils
will wrap around the clouds
and burn off the fog,
in the radiance of day
Ashes to the mountains
rains to the sea
for now
I just let the warmth
wash over me
|
||||
12. |
A Fleeting Moment
04:13
|
|
||
|
So many days spent wandering
Wandering in a grey haze
So many dead-end pathways
Winding in a twisted maze
But I feel alive for a fleeting moment
I feel alive for a fleeting moment
Moving backwards, in circles
And sideways
There seems to be no end to this flightless phase
Until the grey haze parts
And allows the rays to penetrate
And I feel alive for a fleeting moment
I feel alive for a fleeting moment
Yet nothing can stay
So I walk away
Until another day
I walk away
|
||||
13. |
Flightless
02:59
|
|
||
|
Trusting no one
You can’t say you know me
Unordinary history
In ordinary times
Try to save face
Doesn’t matter what they say
Don’t plan at all
Won’t set myself up to fall
Alone in my head
In ordinary days
Arms held out in solitary grace
|
||||
Ghost Painted Sky Massachusetts
New England-based band creating dark, intense, introspective music, with a sound built upon the influence of the classic goth, post-punk, and darkwave sounds of the 80s and 90s.
Ghost Painted Sky recommends:
Goths for Sanctuaries - The Album!!!
by Goths for Sanctuaries
Goths for Sanctuaries has assembled over 100 exclusive (as of release date 10.19.23) tracks from across the dark music spectrum, including our own as yet unreleased track "Kissing Lions."
go to album
UnObscured 2023 Vol. 4.2
by Obscura Undead
Volume 4.2 is the latest of Obscura Undead's UnObscured compilation series, and features 26 artists in the goth, dark wave, post-punk, and dark alternative wheelhouse (and Volume 4.1 has 26 more!).
go to album
The Unquiet Grave 2020
by Various Artists
The sixth installment of Cleopatra Records' The Unquiet Grave series features 31 up-and-coming artists showcasing some of the diverse dark sounds falling under the broad, modern "goth" umbrella.
go to albumIf you like Ghost Painted Sky, you may also like:
Dark Synthetics
by Secret Shame
supported by 10 fans who also own “Flightless (album)”
I am in love. Wonderful post-punk/goth/death rock from North Carolina.
go to album
supported by 9 fans who also own “Flightless (album)”
This album is another chunk of 80's Goth near perfection.
go to album
The Spell Between
by Caroline Blind
Swirling goth-rock from the big voice behind '90s outfit Sunshine Blind, featuring a who's-who of dark underground denizens.
go to album
