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First Flight
07:28
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First Flight (lyrics Damien Child)
A million miles away from anyone
Lying lost within white rooms
When I leave my dreams are absolute
Can’t do it for myself
I breathe through you
I can follow where the futures end
I can journey over tears
Light a candle for the way to go
I’m leaving home
Cinematic frames of memory
Beyond the form I cannot hold
Disintegrating bonds of reason
Nothing to hold me down
I’m letting go
I can follow where the futures end
I can journey over tears
When it’s time
The only way to go is with the morning light
When gravity is sleeping
Break the ties
The ecstasy of shining
Kiss the world goodbye
Now my life begins
I breathe through you
A million miles away from anyone
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Before Saturn Turned Away (lyrics Damien Child)
We speak the old words to the trees
Bequeath our names to the wind
Forewarned, or maybe foreshadowing
Fairy rings and countrymen
A circle for the king
And a dance for lady Spring
A whisper on the wing
When we were young
We were so young
The days were so beautiful
Before Saturn turned away
Vengeful and thundering
The sky turned the world grey
Taken too soon
The oceans rise
A moment frozen in time
We’ve seen, the forest light touch the leaves
Beheld a promiscuous moon
Deep pools, reflect our imaginings
Midnight choirs and alchemy
A summons for the king
And a bow for lady Spring
A breath beneath the wing
When we were young
We were so young
The days were so beautiful
Before Saturn turned away
Vengeful and thundering
The sky turned the world grey
Taken too soon
The oceans rise
A moment frozen in time
The watchers on the wild side
Secret and alight
The watchers on the wild side
Secret and alight
To begin again
To begin again
Receive the sunrise
For another thousand years
Return to the well
The waters clear
To work the old land
And be better than before
When the stars do fall
The child learns to crawl
The shining ones
Beloved by all
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Telethesia
07:51
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Telesthesia (lyrics Damien Child)
Defying protocol
Another harvest
Encoded paradigm
Locating target
Gossamer borders
Written on the map of your hand
Removing the line, from the sand
No recess to hide
Following orders
Breaking fibres down into sound
Forcing the blows, through the ground
You’re silently here.
Upgrade our senses
So, we can see in the dark
Destinations are decided
From a hollow house of cards
Folding corners
Misspent childhood seeing through friends
Faking the stories end
You’re walking alone
Mixing new colours
An artist paints the end of the world
Crane legs and concrete domes
Cold iron and war
Upgrade our senses
So, we can see in the dark
Destinations are decided
From a hollow house of cards
Stray outside the lines
The room feels colder
Covert spaces in between
Blind spots, smoke and mirrors
Playing history by the numbers
Plays the scene in monochrome
The nest will fall apart
When all the birds have flown
And tell me
Where have all
Where have all the days gone
Playing history by the numbers
Plays the scene in monochrome
The nest will fall apart
When all the birds have flown
And tell me
Where have all
Where have all the days gone
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Fear of Flying
06:32
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Fear of Flying (lyrics Damien Child)
Gone are the days of damage done
Burning our wings to reach the sun
High on a ledge not letting go
One final leap, no net below
Less travelled ways and words unsaid
Elevated from the life lived in your head
The fear of flying, and the need to fly
Gravity has never been a friend of mine
Training wheels and alibis
Free the understudy for another life
Leading a path out on our own
Tear up the rules there’s no one home
Following signs along the road
The way is unmapped and so unknown
Less travelled ways and words unsaid
Elevated from the life lived in your head
The fear of flying, and the need to fly
Gravity has never been a friend of mine
Training wheels and alibis
Free the understudy for another life
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Living in the Sunrise
06:38
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Living in the Sunrise (lyrics Damien Child)
All the seasons in every day
Modalities within the three-act play
Traits and tightropes, progressive rate
Moonglow and alternating states
Spectral chapters and better days
Epilogues of life bellow the haze
Scattered demons, obsessive ways
Memories of words we didn’t say
Unending…unending
Autumn fading into winter
The words are mine to keep
Frivolously free
End the day and
Still my heart to peace
We’ll be living in the sunrise
A drop in the sea
Autumn fading into winter
The words are mine to keep
Frivolously free
End the day and
Still my heart to peace
We’ll be living in the sunrise
A drop in the sea
We’ll be living in the sunrise
A drop in the sea
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Sleeping Giants
06:08
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Sleeping Giants (lyrics Damien Child)
Illustrated landscapes
In the cradle of uncertainty
Hidden things - All teeth and wings
Finger painted genome
Edits blueprints to reality
Idle hands - Create fretful plans
Chorus
Beneath, old earth
There are giants barely sleeping
They await, their rebirth
Pillars fall and, Sink within the water bearing years
Eyes stare out of sandstone
Tease new chapters of astrology
Poetry - Dying suns and kings
Tables of ascension
Praying mantras, stolen litanies
Fingered sins - Playing broken strings
Beneath, old earth
There are giants barely sleeping
They await, their rebirth
Pillars fall and,
Sink within the water bearing years
Solar and lunar
Mysteriously linear
A tribute to those deeper
A sign of all that wanders
Sight unseen
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Seven Billion Tiny Sparks (lyrics Tony Lowe)
The world is changing
The world is changing
So fast
Summers leaving
Winters coming in
So fast
Chorus
Seven Billion tiny sparks
Seven Billion tiny sparks
Holding to each other
Holding to each other, magnetised
My heart is beating - My heart is beating
So fast
The universal - Shining example
At last
Seven Billion tiny sparks
Seven Billion tiny sparks
Holding to each other
Holding to each other, magnetised
Sleeping hearts and resting minds
Floating right across the lines
Streaming out into the sky
Watching us as we go by, alone.
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ESP Project Wendover, UK
'reverie' the 8th ESP studio album released 19/05/23 'innerlife' released 29/09/22
‘anarchic curves’
29/04/22.
Tony Lowe’s ESP Project began in 2015 with ‘Invisible Din’ feat. well-known prog guests.
Followed by ’22 Layers of Sunlight’ in 2018 with Tony Lowe & Peter Coyle; ’phenomena’, ‘The Rising’ & ‘three'.
Over 60, 4-4.5 * music press reviews, top 10 Prog Rock and top 10 albums of the year.
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