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New Sun

from Hypnopompia by Vultress

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lyrics

Desert abandon and drought
Wander forever about -- to water -- water...

Beaten down, I cannot explain
How freedom makes me crave my cage
I wonder...Who defined the urgency, and
Who decried humanity, and
Who installed the face of God?
Who controls the new-new sun?

She asked to no one
She screamed at the stars
The vultures circled... all abandoned cars..

Keys in ignitions...
The bones wait at lights...
Forever frozen
The wave that took them took their lives...
Silence…

Picture the perfect shady tree
We’ll be there soon, you and me

Steel, unforgiving steel, and heat...
Roots, roots without their plumes, under feet..
Buoyant clairvoyant...
She waits for my tears
She heard my mind cry for those three long dead years

Picture the perfect shady tree
We’ll be there soon you and me

I remember my mom now...
She had headaches ever since I could remember
She would lie on the, uh.. the couch...
She would tell me that she loved me...
I remember, ‘she loves me...’
She could laugh every sentence
She could laugh ‘till she was breathless...
Buried with the TV on

It’s like she knew about the bombs
It’s like she knew about the, uh... ‘air-strike?’
Never cursing at me, making noise...
Never yelling at the static...
She’d just laugh, like it was automatic…
One day she screamed for me to go to the attic...
And she was buried with the TV on
Then it was dark... until we stumbled upon...
...
water ...

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At the brink of exhaustion Clair and Theresa reach the oasis. They rush toward its green landscape and vast, clear lake. They fall to their knees, and scoop a desperate bowlful from the lake with their hands.

The moment the water hits Theresa’s lips and the desert crumples around her vision by an unseen fist. Claire is screaming.

At once Theresa is back inside the damp underground Greenhouse. The guards attempt to restrain Theresa. She looks down at her wrist to see the hair-thin cord at her wrist glowing. Theresa follows the cord to see Claire fighting five out of eleven Guards as they try to restrain her.

Seven other guards look on. Nano-drones hover outside the cell, ready to strike in the event eleven guards cannot restrain the two --- caged now by imported impulses. Theresa’s eyes shoot straight into Claire’s. Claire’s face is muted and the glowing cord melts into scattered points of light, separating to become the stars above a canyon.

As the oasis fades away and just before the sedative lulls Theresa back into a dream, she hears Claire’s voice, hoarse but placid, ask faintly: “Was that you just now..?”

“It was,” Theresa answered.

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from Hypnopompia, released October 23, 2020

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Vultress

Vultress is a progressive rock, heavy-prog band: Jordan Gaboian (guitar) Paul Uhrina (drums) and Anthony Capuano. (Vox/keys)

On Hypnopompia, the band fuses prog rock, metal, modern heady alt-rock and other eclectic influences.

Critics called their debut:

"[A] flabbergastingly high-quality release" (Scene Point Blank)

"one of the finest recordings ever of a debuting band" (Background Magazine)
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