Smaller and farther, out of sight
fainter while the voice of the wind sings
drifting, the wind speaks clear
while nothing back there, seems to care
through muffled sighs, secrets and lies
curtains closed and cleared of clouds
Where one must lie, that hears as do i
bringing a smile fit for a child filled to tears
You can’t control us, you can’t deny us
it’s the truth we seek and with fate, it finds us
we’ll drift in search for the clouds still high
You can’t control us, you can’t deny us
it’s the truth we seek and with fate, it finds us
we’ll drift in search for the clouds still high
Pieces floating by and by
questioning what we know and why
with sour faces yet sweet sounding stories
of the people before us who battled in these waters
but truthfully, eventually, the wind smashed them all
broke them to pieces, watched them fall
And asked the few remaining simply, ‘How?’
and we rose and we spoke as a crowd.
You can’t control us, you can’t deny us
it’s the truth we seek and with fate, it finds us
we’ll drift in search for the clouds still high
You can’t control us, you can’t deny us
it’s the truth we seek and with fate, it finds us
we’ll drift in search for the clouds still high
We’ll drift in search for the clouds still high
through those curtains and ignoring time
drifters fought and drifters died
drifters fought and drifters died
The wind roared with a fury and rage
at the sound of the army too small to be made
and then the wind laughed and said with a rude smile
‘the drifters in my world all died in a while
but your spirit seems stronger, that is for sure
much more than the rest which have fallen before
so what brings you hear to this, darkest of places
if I like your answer, perhaps we can chase it’
The clouds in the sky, the light in her eyes
they’re guides and they led us here
We drifters, you see, cannot be tied
and with power our spirit lives where they all died
You can’t control us, you can’t deny us
it’s the truth we seek and with fate, it finds us
we’ll drift in search for the clouds still high
You can’t control us, you can’t deny us
it’s the truth we seek and with fate, it finds us
we’ll drift in search for the clouds still high
We’ll drift in search for the clouds still high
through those curtains and ignoring time
drifters fought and drifters died
drifters fought and drifters died
drifters fought and drifters died
Mwhahahahahahahahahahahaaaaaaaahaaa
credits
from Conjure Elysian,
released July 31, 2012
Recorded by Carl Wockner, assisted by Nick Jackson
Recorded at The Vault recording studio in Kawana.
Music and Lyrics by Mac Apsu
Performed and Produced by Conjure Elysian
Vocals - Mac Apsu
Guitar - Mac Apsu and Josh Vitale
Bass - Samson Fox
Drums - Brody Wells
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