1. |
So Close, Too Close
04:17
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So Close, Too Close
Lyrics and music by Michael Louis
Verse 1:
3 years was too long
To shield myself from the war you brought
I’ll be forever finding
Carnage left in the wake of you
Time heals all wounds,
Except for the ones that can’t be seen
So paranoid,
So much destroyed
Chorus:
So close, too close (much too close)
So close, too close
So close, too close (much too close)
So close, too close
Your obsession, is aggression
And you’ve become,
So close, too close
Verse 2:
Your headlights go black
In the rain, on the road, in the car behind me
Shadows follow
The hair stands up on the back of my neck
Myself I must protect,
From your mental disconnect
Repeat Chorus
Bridge:
Myself, I must protect
From your mental disconnect
Your obsession, is aggression
And you’ve become
So close, too close
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2. |
Mad Descension
04:24
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Mad Descension
Lyrics by Michael Louis & Gabrielle Fae
Music by Michael Louis
Verse 1
As the summer fades to fall
Rain cascades in grey teardrops
Does it slow you to a crawl,
To languish in your blind-spots?
Have you made peace with your youth?
Or still cling to poisoned anger?
Does your distance from the truth
Help you hide from imagined danger?
Seclusion,
Breeds confusion,
Breeds delusion
Chorus:
Locked in isolation
Lost in self-medication
Driven to a mad descension
Falling into fatal sedation
Verse 2
When the paranoia wins
The resolve deep inside you wavers,
You fall victim to yourself
All that’s left is blood and bone
Do you care who cleans up your mess?
Would it matter if you’d known?
Would you’ve shown signs of distress?
Any SOS?
Repeat Chorus
Seclusion,
Breeds confusion,
Breeds delusion,
Such a desperate solution
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3. |
Who She Portrays
04:16
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Who She Portrays
Lyrics and music by Michael Louis
Verse 1:
Is she afraid,
When she’s dancing alone?
Who’s going to be there when her looks fade?
Is she asking for too much?
Verse 2:
Does she feel ashamed,
When the truth’s exposed?
Who could protect her from herself?
Who dares to hold her in esteem?
She’s only hoping to be saved
Just a way to keep you enslaved
She isn’t who she portrays
Musical Break
Bridge:
Waiting is her hardest option,
Dancing, her only release
Approach her with careful caution
She’s volatile, to say the least
Verse 3:
Is she aware,
Of the grief she’ll cause?
To be with her, is to be alone
Too much damage, to be saved
She isn’t who she portrays
Musical Break
Bridge:
Her chastity is just a fantasy
Tall tales to keep you within range
Who dares to take her at her word?
She isn’t who she portrays
Musical Break
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4. |
Bring The Moon
04:49
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Music by Michael Louis
Lyrics by Michael Louis and Gabrielle Fae
Verse 1:
I've learned to sleep again
To trust and exalt myself,
I'm asking
What did I get from you?
My blood still drips from your mouth,
When you're laughing
Ebb the tide
That swallowed me whole
1st Chorus:
The sun burns my skin
On days I am with you
So leave me to the shadows at high noon
Bring the moon
Verse 2:
I've learned to breathe again
To mend the vein you dined upon,
Dark parasite
Fill your void
On the flesh of the dead
2nd Chorus:
The sun burns my skin
On days I spend with you
So leave me to the shadows at high noon
Midnight will spare me
The curse of your love
Because love is a myth told in stone runes
Bring the moon
Solo
Bridge:
I'm wise to love's appeal
It breaks the dark with bright white light,
Entrapping me
Repeat 2nd Chorus
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5. |
Stranger To Me
04:51
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Stranger to Me
Lyrics by Michael Louis
Music by Michael Louis
Verse 1:
Imagine if you will
When time stood still
In a basement with a book
In the bane of what they took
Before I ran
Life was larger than…
And I could be benign
Hopeful, by design
Chorus:
It’s a danger to see
And stranger to agree,
With these changes in me
I lost what I hid
Now that eager kid,
Is a stranger to me
Verse 2:
Holed up in my room
An untimely tomb
Still scared to try to break out
Holed up in my doubt
Days that once were good
Passed by where I stood
A small catastrophe
Such vulgar atrophy
Chorus
Break
Chorus
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6. |
Primal Need
04:40
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Primal Need
Lyrics and music by Michael Louis
Verse 1:
I fold, in carnal need
Tailspin into your eyes
Defer to untold lust
Our blood runs hot and red
Chorus:
For the promise of pleasure
I bide in a feverish state, of primal need
Verse 2:
Lift me to a soaring climb
Numb to my release
Hot, lewd anxiety
Sweat pours from eager meat
Chorus:
For the promise of pleasure
I bide in a feverish state, of primal need
Verse 3:
Warm in your morphine touch
Abject without shame
High from your teeming scent
Thin-skinned to every urge
Chorus:
The flesh! The flesh!
For the promise of pleasure
I bide in a feverish state, of primal need
The flesh! The flesh!
Such desperate measures
For the promise of pleasure
I bide in the fever of primal need
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7. |
Burden
05:06
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Burden
Lyrics by Michael Louis and Gabrielle Fae
Music by Michael Louis
Verse 1:
Cutting ties
Feel the blade right through my bones
Better on my own
Spinning lies
A web that chokes my will to grow
Rupturing my soul
Now I block that dead end road
Chorus:
Can’t look ahead
Can’t see behind,
Your lies kept me blind
All that you said
Got realigned in my mind
The burden of your words
Is no longer mine
Verse 2:
Hell may burn
Boil the blood that’s in my heart
Tear my flesh apart
And I’ve learned
You sell your pain like painted art
Truth you won’t impart
Where you end is where I start
Repeat Chorus
Can’t look ahead
Can’t see behind,
Your lies kept me blind
All that you said
Got realigned in my mind
The burden of your words
Is no longer mine, to bear
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8. |
Falter
04:48
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Falter
Lyrics and music by Michael Louis
Verse 1:
Race down
Into the darkness
Into the void of you
Drawn inside
Sun into lightning
Scaling the edge
Watching you break down
Keep tapping that vein
Draining that well dry
Depleting the main
Chorus:
Cold
So ghostly and pale
Those rainbows you chase turn black
Fragile and lost
Nailed to your cross
You falter and fade
Verse 2:
Breakneck
Chasing those dragons
Down to the high unknown
Swallowed whole
In torrents of fear
Afraid to live
Watching you falter
I’m shedding the blame
Fashion your poison
And cover your pain
Solo
Chorus
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Experimenting With Dawn Nashville, Tennessee
Experimenting With Dawn is a Nashville, TN Gothic Rock outfit. Their dynamic approach is due to the amalgam of influences
shared by its members. Bridging a classic Gothic feel with elements of Shoegaze and Ambient Rock, Gabrielle Fae and Michael Louis have created a sound unique to their Post-Punk counterparts.
Fluid vocal styles and impassioned instrumentation create a cauldron of astute Rock.
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