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Lost Cities

by Ondyne's Demise

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1.
Be with me, be with me in silent longing. My lips trail lines along your spine. My lips trail lines, telling you secrets, telling you lies. Be with me in a blue dawn, Be with me where black flower's bloom Be with me, until you become.. Be with me until you become mine. My lips trail lines, telling tales of one who dies. Shedding skin, scales falling, falling, falling falling.....
2.
I am all alone on this shore of dreams Follow, follow my heart-broken still... salt stings my eyes, fills my mind with visions of days drenched in summer's light.
3.
Rain 04:30
And the rain holds me down, I can't seem to find a clear patch of sky in this gray day. Rain batters on the window sills, dying short deaths on clouded glass, like little lies on smiling lips... they leave a trace, they leave of trace of dreams lost and forgotten. And the rain washes away my thoughts on this gray day. Soundlessly streaming passed my past. Quietly dreaming of gray, colorless days... Snow falls like tiny breaths kissing my face with cold promises. Covered in nights loss, covered in night's frost tiny worlds of innocent white, leaving a trace of dreams forgotten. And the rain holds me down, I can't seem to find a clear patch of sky in this gray day. Rain batters on the windowsills dying short deaths on clouded glass, like little lies.
4.
April Witch 05:21
For Ray Bradbury's April Witch: She leaves her bed, Sheets twisted white ropes in white fingers... She leaves her bed, Floating with her mind Far, far far away from here. And finally rests on a leaf heavy with dew, Then peers through the eyes of raven, who with oil slick wings, takes her far, takes her far away from here. Until she becomes one with a pearl-fresh girl, singing through bud-lips, seeing through violet eyes, heart thrashing against a borrowed breast and real soul yearning for one boy, hands strong, smile sure. April Witch, wandering one, destined to love only your own kind. Gather the cloak of spring about you and dissolve into a singing night. On borrowed wing fly far far away... far far away... from here.
5.
Lilith 05:09
Rise, rise, rise... Open your mouth, let the acid rain in Open your eyes, burning with ozone flare, see memories seared there. Open your heart, let the bleeding begin. Open your soul, let the shadows in. I've nothing to lose in loosing you... Rise! Rise, spirit of tears, Rise! Rise spirit of fears I've nothing left to loose.... I've nothing to loose in loosing you...
6.
Crossroads 06:04
I feel you I know you i'll have you I want you Shared souls at the crossroads, moon shines like sodium street lights. Burn, burn burn! Slow burn. I know you I feel you I'll have you I want you. Pools of heat on slick asphalt streets, wet with the blood of sacrificed ones who wander away int sunlit dreams.... Closer, closer, closer... Dreams....sunlit dreams
7.
Neon Jesus 03:42
Neon Jesus cries in candy-colored lights leads the way through tunnels dark and waiting nights. Follow the flare of media glow. of dead-eyed denizens in the know. Neon age cries in evangelic fury, " I am the light of the world! I am your neon glory!" Neon Jesus cries in evangelic fury, "There is no tomorrow!" No tomorrow....no tomorrow..
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Beautiful Creatures, firefly eyes, midsummers dreaming on sweet dark nights. Beautiful Creatures kissing starlight, midsummer's dreaming on sweet dark nights. Moon dusted skin glowing from within. Shining butterflies released with each sigh... Crystal eyes shine in shadows of time. Beautiful creatures, firefly eyes. Midsummer's dreaming on sweet dark nights.
10.
Lost Cities 07:45
Time fades Light becoming shadow Quietly now, quietly, Follow me Unknown worlds fall into oceans, deep and dark with longing. Quietly, quietly now follow me... and you will hear the sound of sirens screaming in the deep dark, as light becomes shadow and this becomes nothing but a dream whispered by fevered lips. Time fades, oh love. Shadow becomes light Quietly, quietly now, Follow me My world rises to the surface, cities shedding skin of froth and brine. Quietly now, quietly, follow me... and you will hear the sound of sirens Singing songs in the shimmering blue as shadow becomes light as night becomes dawn and time is locked in the secret inside of shells

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Lost Cities is our most diverse album yet. It explores a haunting ambience and the poetry of lyrics on one hand, and on the other, pairs our dark romanticism with heavy beats and synthesizers that drive the sound forward, bringing the listener deeper into our world of unsettled ghosts, water spirits, and sorceresses trading souls at midnight.

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released February 14, 2015

Lost Cities was recorded at Salant Sound, Brooklyn, NY and produced by Paul Ashton.
Vocals by Alexis Karl
Synthesizer by Fara Bad
Additional synthesizers on tracks 3 and 8 by Paul Ashton
Guitar on track 6 by Priest Burgos
All music and lyrics by Ondyne's Demise except track 8 by Trent Reznor/Nine Inch Nails
Album cover design and photography by Jorge Colombo
Track 4 is for Ray Bradbury's short story "The April Witch"

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Ondyne's Demise New York, New York

Ondyne's Demise is a dark music project where poetic lyricism and tales of mythology meet dark cello and synth in a sound that finds influences in gothic, doom, electro, classical, dark ambient, neo folk, witch house and hard rock.
Lead singer Alexis Karl is a trained opera singer and multimedia artist, Fara Bad is a multimedia artist, cellist and synthesizer musician.
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