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Phantomime

by Double Echo

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1.
Phantomime 04:35
Smooth the cracks and blot the flaws In blue and black, doll-up the corpse Dream figurine onto the stage Grotesque to the test Paint the paint, sit and watch it set On a face that will never again see the day There's horror, horror, horror in your design Phantomime phantomime I can see the strings And the signs of the thing you've become I'm starting to feel That there's really nothing to reveal Give the lie to your disguise Cloak the dagger, camera shy Cover up the cover-up and deny Turn the lights off to dance Shield your eyes Play nice and wash your hands Of the father, the son and all the rest of the gang They're monsters, monsters, monsters in your eyes Phantomime phantomime I can see the strings And the signs of the thing you've become Nothing to conceal Nothing that's really that real Mask your mask and walk the boards Only hacks should bask in forced applause Friends pretend watching from the gods Trash the plastic full of void Smash the cast and lash all of the toys With the voice of the angel of the odd As fear, fear, fear clouds your mind Phantomime phantomime I can see the strings And the signs of the thing you've become
2.
A Shadow 04:08
A shadow is cast By your being here Politely dissolve And disappear When they find you And they will I'll be elsewhere Yet somewhere still Oh shadow, oh shadow Somewhere out there Laboratories of love But I'm still right here Trying to tune it out Oh shadow, oh shadow
3.
Remains 04:17
For many years so desolate in a stranger's land Into the eyes of lavenders curate from black and white A transition of moving light allusions and so it seems I'm falling forwards into the night and into the same dream Fading softly the time dissolved Through doll like faces, through greying halls For many years so desolate in a stranger's land I see only their eyes, within disguise, a ritual Some familiar, a mask in a stranger, allusions and so it seems Time ticks quickly this masquerade The same torn party, the pieces hid away Far from laughter, far from tears Don't leave me standing alone in fear For many years so desolate in a stranger's land Into the eyes of lavenders curate from black and white A transition of moving light allusions and so it seems I might have known, I need only say remains the same
4.
Playhouse 04:44
What a secret garden you are What a little martyr you are It must have been, it must have been so hard Growing up with a club for a heart When we were lost out in the snow I should have gone and left you cold When you cry You conjure crocodiles There's something rather vile In that barracuda smile No one can spoil and ruin quite the way you do Nobody else, nobody else Only you I always lose when we play house It always ends up inside out Sometimes I'm back in the playground Sometimes I'm sinking in a quicksand When we were lost out in the rain I should have walked a different way And may all you desire Be consumed by fire And may you ever be called Liar Now I can't quite believe That this sickness goes so deep Infection started in my dreams Now it's walking in the streets Not only do you green Viper all away my life You return to the scene For another twist of the knife When we were lost in Birkenhead I should have left you for dead Your hopes and dreams Are ghosts, it seems So don't believe And don't believe No one can spoil and ruin quite the way you do Nobody else, nobody else Only you No one can spoil and ruin quite the way you do Nobody else, nobody else Only you
5.
The Wake 03:43
I am watching I feel the weight within my eyes All surroundings Never left out in disguise So I'm dreaming I see the wake stares back at me Am I feeling I hear a voice and it's not me
6.
Metropolis 05:30
(Instrumental)
7.
Tonight we'll go out and look for the place Where the first time for everything was It isn't there anymore Once stood monoliths Proud as any long barrow in the hills They are not there anymore Only cursed new build Tomorrow they come to demolish the past Even the steel and the concrete and glass All we can do is to stare at the place where they used to stand What a waste land Ever since they burned down the flats I've been making a list Of the things I need to re-buy But it's the feeling like you know where you are On which you can't put a price Tower blocks built on lay lines May be structurally unsound Making way for your prefab hell Our grey haven was razed to the ground Tomorrow they come to swallow the past Even the steel and the concrete and glass All we can do is to stare at the place where they used to stand Our waste land Tonight we'll go out and look for the place Stone circles still remain One thousand years, no change But they're throwing the streets away
8.
Hours 04:23
Hours, a time to feel real A moving sea which flows within my eyes Hours, a stare inside of me Holding dear like a distant memory Faceless in the daylight and the night Climbing far and near Faces disappear Hours would return in photographs Of many years the time that had passed Hours, the moments made believed Thrown inside a caged menagerie Hours, a time to feel real A moving sea which flows within my eyes Hours, a shout within the wind Bring me back the secret lives we live
9.
Silent Order 04:25
Behind a mountain veil A school of modern dance Tormented by the sound of hail Threatening to shatter through her glass One million miles away From all love, light and protection And all her faces fade Into their own reflections here Mother of a silent order Pious to the point of bent Grandmother, sister, daughter Preside, advise and consent A sleep beneath the carpets The secret waiting in her throat Years dreaming in the darkness With half a century left to go She hears the call of forest voices Reverberating in her halls Remembering the other noises She turns away and she falls Into the night's strange embrace Standing in her shade I had no recollection But all her faces fade Into their own reflections here
10.
Permanent Haze (free) 05:04
The light melts will dance into a daze Streams of sunlight burns clouded eyes from a haze A scream from inside, a tear from tired eyes Drops onto the floorboards, filling an empty room Chase in circles, always nearer to finding Voices floor to ceiling shaking the life from the wall A turn of a whisper staring down from a mirror In the wake of an hour runs and hides in a corner The light melts will dance into a daze Sinking further away from the hand that makes the day A scream from inside, a tear from tired eyes Stares at the doorway never makes a move Chase in circles, always nearer to finding With pale surroundings a voice falls from the ceiling Walk in a whisper, a now shattered mirror Watch in anger, there's nobody there nobody there at all

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"Metropolis" video - vimeo.com/136986444

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released June 1, 2013

All guitars, synths, vocals, programming by Chris Luna & Ash Lerczak

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Double Echo Liverpool, UK

Electronic rock from Liverpool and New York. The new album '☾' is out now on Fabrika Records.

Double Echo remains: Ash Lerczak, Chris Luna & Ellon Souter

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