1. |
Immaterial Witness
01:15
|
|||
|
Stories told across the years
Filled with hopes
And touched with fears
Transparent tales told by one
A witness always on the run
Immaterial is he
From fate he is forever free
Begging outcome, always sought
Future found is fully wrought
|
||||
2. |
Dreamer Awaken
04:40
|
|||
|
Dreamer awaken to the daylight’s command
Your dream has been taken by shadowy hand
Arise to the moment for the vision is ripe
Receiving bestowment, rejecting the hype
An enemy’s capture, held without bail
Detention of rapture, a vision’s travail
A seed that has died now springs into view
The time will decide as it rises in you!
(chorus)
Dreamer awaken
Your future fulfill
Dreamer awaken
New meaning distill
(bridge)
Relentless the climb, pursued by betrayal
Birth of the time, intensive travail
Child of the Day emerging in Light
You dare to obey when the moment is right
A dream full of Power now blazes anew
To conquer the hour, to speak out what’s true
New hope will arise as the righteous now shine
Truth will advise and evil decline
(chorus)
|
||||
3. |
Sunrise
10:16
|
|||
|
I lay quietly in darkness
I am shrouded by the night
At the pinnacle of progress
I brought wonder and delight
But now I am so empty
Expended and released
Counted as a relic
Forgotten and deceased
(chorus)
There was a night
I was the sunrise
I brought the day
Into the sky
I left a sign
So all could follow
But it simply blew away
Upon a stage I was the actor
Where seven bearers intercede
Clothed in garments filled with splendor
Giving life in dire need
They were proof against the darkness
Filled with strength against the night
We joined in bold commitment
A dream was taking flight
(chorus)
I am cold
As a shadow in space
I am hot
As Creation’s fire
I am lifted to my nest
I am mated with desire
I embark
On wonderful trails
To find
Where the Cold Lady sails
There was a day
They watched in wonder
Millions of eyes
Beheld my climb
I broke the bonds
Cast them asunder
As I blew them all away
But that was in another year
A strident passing time
And now I lay a victim
Retired in my prime
No more to race the sunset
No more to light the skies
Emptied of the meaning
I’m filled with only sighs
(chorus)
There was a day
I spoke like thunder
All would heed
My mighty cry
But now they turn
To mourn my passing
Consigned to yesterday
|
||||
4. |
Home of the Brave
09:06
|
|||
|
Two Trees was a Native man
His life began to fade
Few could run the race he ran
Or live the life he made
Alone on Hunter Island
For more than fifty years
No white man ever saw him
No red man dried his tears
(chorus)
He was the last Algonquin
Sole survivor of his kind
The last Algonquin
Out of sight and out of mind
In the home of the brave
I was a boy on Hunter Island
Searching in the wild
Studying the animals
A most precocious child
One day Two Trees found me
He said, “Good day, I am Joe”
And he began to teach me
Secret things that Indians know
(chorus)
He said a plan comes from the Maker
And ripens in the heart
In prayer a path is taken
In dreams the plan will start
Gradually I came to know
That I had been the first
In over half a century
When white men were the worst
He chose to pass on what he could
To a young inquisitive boy
Before he traded mortal pain
For bright Eternal joy
(chorus)
The last time I saw Two Trees
Was Christmas Eve of ’24
Joe was desperately ill
Past the reach of Indian lore
I ran to tell my father
And he and Mom agreed
We’d bring the Indian to our house
And warm him in his need
On Christmas Day we hurried forth
With fresh snow on the ground
We rushed to Joe’s encampment
But he was not around
No fire had been lit
No trail in the snows
Joe was far away
Across the Milky Way he goes…
(chorus)
|
||||
5. |
Small Charade
10:43
|
|||
|
I stand before a wall
I long for You to speak
Save this man from dreaded fall
Lift me up for I am weak
I cannot pass this gate
I cannot find the key
I swirl in a fate
That defies my destiny
(chorus)
So easily consumed by a small charade
Reality entombed by an escapade
This minor dark deceit
This device of satan’s schemes
Is attacking the inception
Of bright and shining dreams
Father, please forgive
My doubt and pain and sin
I cry out to be free
From turmoil deep within
(chorus)
(bridge)
From the scene of this demise
from the death of my disgrace
By God’s Grace I will arise
to be a victor in the race!
(chorus)
To end it in the making
To snuff it at the start
I reach now for the taking
And quench the fiery dart
Though wasteland lay before
You renew me once again
For You have written me a Word
And You have called me, “friend”
The Daylight brings an end
To the small charade
An enemy retreats
From broken barricade
A prophecy of faith
Comes in a cavalcade
The victory of peace
For which we all have prayed!
The Daylight now bids you arise
With Glory you cannot evade
A future of wide open skies
Demolishes small charade!
|
||||
6. |
Legend of Brick House
06:17
|
|||
|
Against the chill she wore a coat
As ocean spray blew across the boat
To Edisto Amelia came
To island rich in wealth and fame
Betrothed unto a Charleston man
She came to share the wedding plan
But she fell in love with a planter there
Amelia: fickle, vain, and fair
From Brick House prim Amelia wrote
Her fiancé a parting note
But he appeared demanding why
Their wedding plans should ever die
Amelia loved the planter now
They had made an engagement vow
Scorned and hurt the suitor said
“I would rather see you dead!”
(chorus)
Once Amelia walked upon
The island beaches where
She rode the swelling tide
Of love so free
Brick House trimmed in black
Now grieves the loss of one so fair
As ebbing tide returns
Unto the sea
The wedding day dawned bright and blue
Amelia’s face a rosy hue
Brick House filled with guests and food
And smiling groom in festive mood
The mistress and her faithful Maum
Retired to an upper room
She wrapped herself in wedding gown
Brought across the bay from town
Maum Tamer went just down the hall
Amelia heard a whispered call
The window sash was open wide
The moon was full and white outside
Two shots tore through that tragic night
The groom ran up the stairs in fright
Bloody handprint on the wall
Amelia lay upon the floor
(chorus)
Brick House burned in ‘28
No one alive saw Amelia’s fate
Her charm once graced this ocean isle
If only for a little while
Some say on a moonlit night
When Brick House ruins shine alight
In wedding gown Amelia stands
In window looking o’er the sands
(chorus)
|
||||
7. |
The Opera
09:18
|
|||
|
It started out so bright and full of purpose
Filling with a wonder that never ends
Few there were that followed to fulfillment
The rest became legitimate
With the hubris that it lends
So I bought myself a ticket to the opera
Sat in upon the sordid little play
I waited for the mournful song of August
With lyrics not a one could sing or say
(chorus)
An evening at the opera
A strained adagio
A passing vain ephemera
A tragic cameo
But a bold contentious actor hit the spotlight
In a language never heard he began to pray
And one among the multitude observing
Stood, then loud and clear was heard to say
“Authority to you was never given
You are walking in another’s guise“
So I waited for the joyful bells of Christmas
But only heard October sighs
(chorus)
The wintertime was long and cold and deadly
Few there were that lived to tell the tale
Bold contentious actor in the spotlight
Stood frozen in another season’s veil
February’s song went on forever
A hundred years of winter give or take a day
With a flourish springtime then invaded
As Aslan’s echoed roar began to fade away
April came rejoicing with a song of life
(chorus)
The director, growing bored, compelled the story
To an artificial non-existent joyful end
But the stage rejected empty allegory
There still remained a mountain that we must ascend
Climbing ever higher
The journey never ends
Rise up beyond the summit
While the audience pretends
|
||||
8. |
||||
|
I walk upon the road
My destination’s clear
I’m carrying no load
I’ve forgotten every fear
And hope begins to rise within
And vanquish every pain
And I’ve never felt this way before
(Never before)
(chorus)
Comes the morning I awaken
As the sleep flees my eyes
By the Truth I am taken
From a kingdom of lies
And I fly beyond tomorrow
Beyond time and all of space
To a Land where there’s no sorrow
As I turn to see Your Face
Your Face!
A destination nears
I don’t believe my eyes
As I watch my vision clears
And I think I recognize
The ending of a highway
The beginning of a dream
And I’ve never felt this way before
(never before)
(chorus)
And I fly beyond the future
Tie and space I now transcend
To the Land where my Redeemer
Is the Beginning and the End
The End!
|
||||
9. |
Tomorrows
05:05
|
|||
|
Once in lonely moments
A secret will unfold
Passion of the present
Is a tale to be told
Yesterday was such a thrill
But it’s time to pay
Can you deal with your tomorrows?
With the past in light of day?
When the whispers turn to shouting’s
Have you planned what you will say?
In your darkest hour
Will friendship fade away?
How can trusted people
Say the things they say?
Now you’re standing all alone
Thoughts are dark and gray
Will the chains of your tomorrow
Drag you into yesterday?
Will you try to beg or borrow
Just enough to get away?
Run to the place
That is higher than you
An end of the chase
Feel strength make you new
Power to face it
And power to live
Not your achievement
But what He will give
This will soon be yesterday
And the past is gone
Someone holds all your tomorrows
See the sunrise of your dawn
Feel the healing of your sorrows
See the Light by which you’re drawn
|
||||
10. |
Angels
06:09
|
|||
|
Laid in the valley and bleached by the heat
Relics of warfare gone down in defeat
Wind in the willows is weeping for you
Once you were mighty but now you are few
Was the battle won when your life was done?
I think the angels
The heavenly throng
I think the angels
Remember your song
Is dying an ending or only a start
Of power that only a God could impart?
Wind in the treetops a herald of youth
New resurrection reveals the truth
You will stand and win as you rise again
I hear the angels
Singing your song
I hear the angels
Time isn't long
Bones long were laying alone and apart
Now they unite to the beat of a Heart
Creating a union where lifelessness lay
The dryness and death comes alive in a day
We will stand and shout at the enemy's rout
I see the angels
Leading the way
I see the angels
On victory day
|
||||
Phoen1x Atlanta, Georgia
Phoen1x now expands into the future as he prepares a series of releases. "Immaterial Witness" will be the first followed by "Dreams." Both will contain long and progressive songs but "Dreams" will be truly epic. The album will include "Horizon's Dream," a twenty-five minute long look at yesterday and tomorrow. ... more
If you like Phoen1x, you may also like:
The Power Of The Heart: A Tribute To Lou Reed
by Various Artists
Keith Richards, Rosanne Cash, Lucinda Williams, Joan Jett, and more pay tribute to the enduring and visionary music of Lou Reed.
go to album
A Chaos Of Flowers
by BIG|BRAVE
Leaning into the sparse, impressionistic sound of 2023's albu "Nature Morte," the Montreal metallurgists sound as heavy and radiant as ever.
go to album
The Seattle band work around the edges of shoegaze and dream pop with a rare sense of clarity and momentum.
go to album
Every Bird Ever [Album]
by Ilithios
The new record from Brooklyn indie group Ilithios is full of big-hearted songs with the hooks to match.
go to album
This Could Be Texas
by English Teacher
The UK upstarts' debut veers from sunny, psychedelic folk to bristling post-punk with reckless abandon without ever missing a beat.
go to album
Move To The Trees
by Winter McQuinn
Winter McQuinn mixes soft rock and psychedelic folk for a sound reminiscent of classic pop purveyors like Cut Worms and the Lemon Twigs.
go to album
The Canadian trio's knack for writing bangers plots a steady course through the maelstrom.
go to album
