Shadows Of Being

from Shadows Of Being by Serpentine Skies

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The track which this album was named after, and the first track I had worked on for this album. This song is about overcoming physicality, this life is temporary, but there is the hope that the soul could be eternal.

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A pretty shadow on the ground
A little hollow filled with sound
Bleeding all out and around
The marble flowers in the ground

I was once young now I'm a man
Even now I don't understand
Why we must be bound to entropy
The tide of years it comes unseen

As I lie here in this place
I see myself laid out in a chain
Of every person that I've been
All tethered as a temporal stem

The body withers and it rots
I hear the growls of fighting dogs
To take what's left to where they'll leave
A home beneath the fallen leaves

I breathe the water and it's thick
It heals the hungry and the sick
I'm born again under the waves
I'll hide out there for several days

A pretty shadow on the floor
Beside where time leaks through a door
Where other worlds are still asleep
And waiting for us to take a peak

I saw you as an awful mess
At the station near the overpass
Our dead freedom echoed dreams
Carried by the wind it seemed

I heard your voice in the autumn air
You wanted me to take you there
But where I've been and what I've done
Can't be shared with anyone

A pretty shadow beneath my feet
While I'm standing in the street
All I've been and all I've seen
Now withering as shadows of being

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from Shadows Of Being, released May 7, 2015

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Serpentine Skies is the Connecticut-based music project of Steven Belcher, focused mainly around the meditative state between the conscious and unconscious states of mind.

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