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Light Horizon

by Adam McLean

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The God Wave 03:37
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Blueshift 04:33
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Hand of God 02:36
I have no idea if there are lyrics... Gregory?
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The End is Near (free) 05:59
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NOTHING BUT SHADOWS (BE HERE NOW… be here now…) Alone now I wait as shadows through a curtain Taunt me with a glimpse of what we had This abbreviated rendering fails to compare to the emotive lust for life we shared We were afraid to take that fateful leap, to take what life could give So we waited for a perfect chance to live And so we waited and time was no stranger I never really felt the way they described this cold sensation I never could relate to their claims of emphatic boredom Feeding on alluring scraps of enigmatic fantasy Crushing through our lifelong dreams we forged a new theology (BE HERE NOW… be here now…) For we are alive But for a short time An antagonistic nightmare paling through the years Merely enduring - my deepest fear There are no second chances; no way can we reclaim Decades wasted hoping for a better aim Nothing but shadows of memories and it is done Music and Sound: Adam McLean Lyrics and Voice: Gregory Francis
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THE GOD WAVE 03:38
A quiet universe of vacant stars No chance of knowing sentience In this particular eternity A sterile iteration never self aware A Goldilocks universe – everything prepared Nothing is independent - Cause cannot circumvent it Reality is drowning in the God Wave Another Kingdom bearing down on me Consumed in high complexity I sense a grand presence washing over me I am cleansed in the essence of friable probability I integrate into the local state All creation devoid of life - bereft of memory, No machines, no animals - stillborn causality Baryonic consequences - Reality so ostentatious Transcription errors in the God Wave Universal constants rearranged into a perfect coincidence With no one to crucify we seek another alibi Time and Space are an inflammatory lie Reverence is circumstantial - Absolution preferential Trolling through the wavelengths of the God Wave Deviling details in the God Wave Selfless perturbations in the God Wave Oscillating reason in the God Wave Ripples through eternity - Subject to random brevity Emotion ripples through the God Wave A final kind of tunneling - Frame dragging eloquence Washing away in the God Wave Destiny is nonexistent - Entropy is inconvenient A Universe canonized - Heaven re-initialized
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BLUESHIFT 04:34
In our ways, we are set and change is so hard to believe Artificial eyes scan the cosmos revealed in full spectrum relief Vector orientation and increasing velocity Prove that something is headed our way On an intersect course, faster and faster and Doppler agrees Science leads the way as we grow to understand who we are Revelation is hard to accept: sentience among the stars It is a numerically impossible to have the only planet alive And given the vastness of space it was only a matter of time There is a reason we have gained their attention There is a direct correlation between Heaven and Hell As the Eyes of the Nation turn to the sky We verify that something is on its way Something is coming our way Trajectory set and verified Something traversing the cosmic sea Apprehensively we scrutinize Stars changing directions impossibly All of this was hypothesized In prophecies hard to deny Still having trouble believing our eyes A blue shifted light in the sky A new Heaven intruding, we are undermined From our station of earthly supremacy A divine iteration, who is to say? But something is headed this way
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Cherished relics entrusted to me crumble in the wake of time Histories erased forever reduced to dreams of lies Altered perspectives awaken in us a reason to deny Things believed so far above us burnt offerings falling from the sky I believed every incremental lie And thus deceived, my faith so denied Fables lure with haunting fascination Pressed upon my childhood’s imagination Now I choose to revoke my inspiration I refuse to invoke my inclination to believe once again Even in our grand disorder structure still implies A frame exists onto which we hang our favorite dream of lies Everything we know has an ending, only nothing can remain Prodigious efforts yield to cold and futile disdain Stunning choral patterns break into a rapturous demise Opposing harmonies disintegrate upon a fractured dream of lies Atonal constructs rupture into a haunting dream of lies Harmonic transgressions struggle beyond a chaotic dream of lies Music and Sound: Adam McLean Lyrics and Voice: Gregory Francis
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Twisting together We were recombinant Feeding each other A symbiotic resonance Entangled viral hearsay Yields eventualities Destined to populate The here and now If time was not a twisted arrow Perhaps I would not lose my aim The tomorrows for which we harrow Will never be the same as the last time Conspicuous and oh so narrow The progeny of life is sufferance So I listened… And in that moment I could hear the future screaming back at me And to the past I plead for another chance to be (again) I preface everything through finality And pray for tomorrow’s eventuality Time changes everything Even you and me The future mutates constantly Looking back you’ll see the end Stalking History, we fortify our timeline In dreaming quantum harmony, our fragments align I know that you know, ergo we go Forgo tomorrow we know what’s been You know that I know, ergo we go We loathe time’s flow forestalling the end I know that you know, ergo we go The future behind us re-writes the end The fallacy of intuition is the lack of subtle recognition Causality has limitations hacking into precognition Duality is mitigation of past and future translocation The totality of limitations is that nothing ever changes Feeling between the lines of code, I hear the Light Screaming from the future, “You were right.” Music and Sound: Adam McLean Lyrics and Voice: Gregory Francis
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Now I remember wanting to forget Those golden times with you Our temporary immortality Should I ever pass this way again I will remember this day Sunlight glistening through the windshield speeding by Our eyes alight in laughter We were immortal Endless opportunities spread out before us As the limbs of an aging lover We turned away And now I sit alone Wondering when I settled for this Calculated solitude - safe and confined Impervious to new pain - no fear of loss impending And now I know what little I control is worthless alone I’m lost in these latitudes - no formal restrictions Complementary platitudes of grand indecision Now I believe that memory Is all we have and all we’ll ever need To relive the moment time and time again Reiterated feeling – endure it again? Can you come out and play Before this day slips away? Whatever you want from me is yours for the taking No social complications, just memories in the making I was begging for permission I needed you to show me All of life’s temptations You took me inside Now I’m seeking permission Before I confide in you Perhaps some things are better left denied Encircled by our best friends - laughing until we cried Then we turned away and said goodbye for the last time As best I can recall We truly lived in the golden age Love and life were almost free I remember the reflections in your eyes full of possibilities I was honored that you would even listen to someone like me Now in total resignation, I pull the blinds I don’t need this anymore Music and Sound: Adam McLean Lyrics and Voice: Gregory Francis
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This is the trial run in a collaboration that is over 25 years in the making... two artists on opposite sides of the country hurling their imaginations via technology at each other...

The titles repeated in bold have vocals from GREGORY.

It is an honor to work with GREGORY!

Thank you for finding my little corner of the digital world... There are several albums of material here, each with it's own voice, own sound and feel...

My music is primarily improvisation with my imagination, my instruments and the computer to capture the work as I go. I do refine, but mostly I let what comes out stand as is.

I strive to make the music that I want to hear... the music that isn't out there... the music that I am desperate to be a part of... it's raw and visceral as I think art should be... I'm a firm believer that if you aren't making art somehow, someway, then you are dead already and not helping others learn how to live...

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released December 31, 2011

Adam McLean all instruments... Gregory Francis all lyrics and vocals. As ever, All Rights Reserved, SEIZURE RIGHTS MUSIC, ASCAP.

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