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My desire is a static altar of light
many men have laid down in sacrifice
My desire is a coursing river of blood
A million corpses writhe under the skin of my love
My desire is leviathan tentacled deep
That pierces every armour
That renders all flesh weak
My desire is the battering ram of language
That explodes all notions
And leaves all openings anguished
My desire is a static altar of light
many men have laid down
in sacrifice
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The Ish
05:02
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A million shields of pearl held up to a blistering sun
From my navel to my throat
They glisten where you laid them down
A cavalry of pearl shields
A million facets strong
We’ll blind our enemies
and charge together
as one
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Stasis
03:08
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Oh Stasis
How I love your soft
Embraces
The comfort of knowing
How each day ends
Take me
Back before the planets and stars
to the empty warmth of the dark
Back before a time I had to chose
how to live how not to starve
Cave the hallways in
Shut the borders out
Shoot the tyres down
Leave me stranded in familiar routes
Same pictures on the walls
Same tv same songs
Nothing says you belong
Like stasis
I know the earth is spinning but I can’t feel it so is it? Does it matter
Dark
Matter all the things between things
We can’t see
Why should it matter to me
They say I’ve got a body full of microbes
But no one can micro-manage me
Don’t go stay sis
Oh Stasis
How I love your soft
Embraces
The comfort of knowing
How each day ends
Take me
Back before the planets and stars
to the empty warmth of the dark
Back before a time I had to chose
how to live how not to starve
Oh stasis…
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SORE
04:20
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A glow of
Of tangerine light
Slithers on your skin
A grove of Cyprus branches
Grow toward the heavens
Where you sing
An armoured glove
Enveloped
With a deepening cry
A force trapped
by language
begins to arise and
Concrete valleys sing with a resonance of moans
Like a hunters call to gather us home
I am a deer in forest of thorns
Hoping to grow a flank of bone
I am a falcon perched at the edge of the world
Waiting for the fish to fly
And I took you backwards
I made you sore
It took all I could to make you
Take shape and form
You were a pool of glistening strings
Until I pounded you whole
You were fragmented parts of longing
Until I entered you all
Armoured amour
Pangolin me
Let your spine spread into a shell and
Shelter me
from every spur sprout horns
a crown of tusks
A glove of claws
An armoured glove
Enveloped
With a deepening cry
A force all trapped
by language
begins to arise and
Concrete valleys sing with a resonance of moans
Like a hunters call to gather us home
I am a deer in forest of thorns
Hoping to grow a flank of bone
I am a falcon perched at the edge of the world
Waiting for the fish to fly
And I took you backwards
I made you sore
It took all I could to make you
Take shape and form
You were a pool of glistening strings
Until I pounded you whole
You were fragmented parts of longing
Until I entered you all
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Corals
03:54
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I will wear my defeat like a shroud
I will blend into the stone
let the sea wash over my grave
Cleanse the burden from these bones
Bells toll in the deep
For those who cannot sing
Chimes sound and swell yearns
for those who cannot return
Corals will collect on my outline
to mark the place where I fell
But I have been falling through
The depths so long
Do not mourn, do not dwell
Let my muscles give way to polyps
Teeth and skull to the stars
crustaceans crawl where sorrows fall
Over shipwrecks of my parts
Gardens will bloom out
of sinew
Out of the gloom will rise new
Sparks
Cover the sand with luminous sighs
To lighthouse the land through every
Dark
Unknown
Now there’s no fight left in these bones
no solace renewed by sun
I will gift an echo to the gales
to answer its cries
in the hope they guide me home
And I will wear my defeat like a crown
Carve my name into the stone
Let the sea wash over my grave
Cleanse the burden from these bones
And bells toll in the deep
For those who cannot sing
And chimes sound and swell yearns
For those
Who cannot return
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Tsinder Ash London, UK
Tsinder Ash is a London-based multi-instrumentalist and vocalist. Tsinder's work has been featured on NTS and Resonance FM
and BBC 6 Music.
‘Drawing comparisons to Coil, Anhoni and Björk...The music is experimental and seemingly teetering on the edge of collapse. A satisfyingly unpredictable and fresh sound’ (Louder Than War - 2020).
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