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OCCULTED TIMES

by GHOST ON TAPE

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The Uncanny 02:31
Every night, a lullaby Whispered by the unknown Revealing the unseen Interferring with the flow They were born in the dark They cropped up when the walls came tumbling down They were kept in the dark Out of sight ! They took shape In cold mist and burning steam Haunting this open-eyed dream As dense as ethereal I'm embracing the surreal Every night, they come around Distraught, I got no control See the bright paintings toned down Rubbing out the vaninishing point They were born in the dark They cropped up when the walls came tumbling down They were kept in the dark Out of sight ! They took shape In cold mist and burning steam Haunting this open-eyed dream As dense as ethereal I'm embracing the surreal Cold mist and burning steam As dense as ethereal Every night Cold mist and burning steam As dense as ethereal Every night
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A blurry picture, An arrow on a string, Pulled from the stage, it pierces me, it pierces me. As I'm turning over this Unwatchable scene Damocles warheads are still bloomin' A distant place, infected by the rain Black rain of shame sent by the king of pain In front of those frames my feelings gain the upper hand And I wait and wonder I just wait and wonder No ! A sad look slowly, On this silent screen, Get through the times. It reaches me, it reaches me When the white flash burned the film We disappeared Black shadows on walls are still craving A distant place, infected by the rain Black rain of shame sent by the king of pain In front of those frames my feelings gain the upper hand And I wait and wonder I just wait and wonder No !
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We obscured it to the sight We banned the words which could describe it This black and white depiction screams a truth, it reminds us that We will leave our skins We'll never win, never win, never win We'd like to shut the time in a glass dome, A capture of the last condition We do not control, not control Some purchased drinks 'n exhilaration We'll spend the night Waiting for the final blackout Watch silly hopes in the stream As they move with the swirls and hit the banks Some of us will end their run in the next dam and will swim in sludge, They won't reach the sea We'll never win, never win, never win We'd like to shut the time in a glass dome, A capture of the last condition We do not control, not control Some purchased drinks 'n exhilaration We'll spend the night Waiting for the final blackout A chess game against the dark On an island that never sleeps at night We'll close the book with no regret at all But scream after the end
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Serendipity 02:47
We were young, in a storm of never ending lies Irony and fists for defence Mocking values, ignoring evidence We were running through the night Overcoming fear, in defiance of what we should have learned in heavy books Now, We must supply our own light One by one, they fall down in the dark Now, We hold a grudge for what we've been Praying for, serendipity to come We were strong, in spite of everything we went through A pretend struggle That turned to be a pretext for laziness We were running through the night Overcoming fear, in defiance of what we should have learned in heavy books Now, We must supply our own light One by one, they fall down in the dark Now, We hold a grudge for what we've been Praying for, serendipity to come We took off the mask and the outfit We took off the mask and the outfit We took off the mask and the outfit We took off the mask and the outfit Now, We must supply our own light One by one, they fall down in the dark Now, We hold a grudge for what we've been Praying for serendipity to come With no regrets, Sincerely yours, With no regret at all, the curtain call
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No words 02:45
Can't reach the form that needs to be, Everything here's 'bout thoughts and doubt Temptation and frustration's ground, In this quicksand we drown I wish I never back down I wish I never back down Nonsense sentences translate my groundless fears I wish I never back down I pray I never back down To tell my worst dreads, my mouth's bringing up No words No words No words No words No words No words No words No words We tried so much to extinguish The fire that burns inside me No more hard feelings to spread With ashes for flesh and bones I wish I'll never back down I wish I'll never back down Nonsense sentences translate my groundless fears I wish I'll never back down I pray I'll never back down To tell my worst dreads, my mouth's bringing up No words No words No words No words No words No words No words No words This buzzing noise will never end, will never end, it will never end Until I faint, a gun in hand. How to deal with my own brain drain ? A strange feeling I'll never think again, I'll never breath again All these twisted words combined for nothing, for nothing
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A rusty taste on my tongue for years, no place for apologies Time lets the barb-wire grow over our thin white fences Hear the sound, hear the sound of the bombs tonight Here's the sound, here's the sound of my voice Each of the lines we've drawn, I've crossed out them all Won't make the same mistake again, as you can see Your enclave was wiped of the map on this yellow night Our deserted town A dusty wind blows on my sand table, no more traces of enemies We've burned the past, plastered with mud, how did we get there ? Here's the sound, here's the sound of my voice Each of the lines we've drawn, I've crossed out them all Won't make the same mistake again, as you can see Your enclave was wiped of the map on this yellow night Our deserted town Each of the notes we wrote, I've trashed them all Won't make the same mistake again, as you can see
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On a seat waiting for that willing suspension of disbelief, the reason we came here Turn off the light Recover sight We're groping in the dark Flickering night Floating bright faces in close order watch the ghosts dance on the screen, shivers and thrills 'til they scream Turn off the light Recover sight We're groping in the dark Flickering night Woooo Everyone, 'n everynight, In a black box, devoured by time Everyone here's frighten to shut their eyes In a black box, devoured by time Tonight !
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The white walls kept the happiness Of a beloved child Bodies escaped but not the mind We hardly cleaned up the liquor store To soil his blood With nicotine and cheap red wine I get it now, I write it ... Somehow, medicine and drugs were useless, Nothing else but ruins, they left You keep restoring As I pass by the reflection of a lost keepsake, The distorted figure remains faceless We just share an opened skin I get it now, I write it down The quill breaks with the weight of words Black ink spread in The marble veins of his memories A palimpsest, a repentance Occulted times The manuscript was made of stains Somehow, medicine and drugs were useless, A different time, a different type, a different shape Somehow, nothing else but ruins, they left, A different time, a different shape get it now, I write it down
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It's not like abandoning the ship We crawl in search of lost time, just show me a grip The tree house burns The tree house burns Day in, Day out Lights off, we got nothing to hold on to Day in Day out We drift along As we get older, the cracks draw the ground Reasons step into the breach, you're building a new town above The tree house burns The tree house burns Day in, Day out Lights off, we got nothing to hold on to Day in Day out We drift along
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Could you please turn on the light, This room became cold and dry Something in the developing bath Haunted and intricate path His photographs, he swears, have never lied, they never lie The spotlights dazzle the set There is no more room to rest A wind blows in the shooting script From the attic to the crypt This unexpected presence never dies, it will never die Presencing absence by defeating distance, They are "what has been", they are "what has been" Can't leave this endless loop, this scary fiction They are "what has been", they are "what has been"
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White noises 02:32
From the deep, a sound Your tone of voice that comes from the underground That river of words Snatches of sentences, distant verbs My own denial You still live in my own denial You're breathing in my own denial I know, deep within me That you can't really die Hope for a change That turned out to be the worst of your nightmares Blood has spread inside The body you left, blue and white My own denial You still live in my own denial You're breathing in my own denial I Know deep within me, That you can't really die We're laughing, we're laughing, we're laughing Tellin' you goodbye

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released October 22, 2012

Ghost on tape is:

Xavier Girardot - Vocals/Bass
Mathieu Zuzek - Guitar/Vocals
Maytew Durand - Drums

Mixed and mastered by Mathieu Kabi at Indie Ear Studio

Recorded by Mathieu Zuzek at Sinsat
Assisted by Francesco Brown
Drums recorded by Mathieu Zuzek, Jean-Michel Cros and Ayumu Matsuo at Studio La Vache 2

"EVP at midnight (an introduction to the unknown)" by Thomas M. Hatcher

Artwork by Freddy Coste

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