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The Wait
01:52
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"I can feel the weight. Of expectations. Relentless. Crushing.
Hiding in this desolate womb, my insistent heartbeat is the only thing I hear. How ironic for a merchant of sound to find comfort in silence!
There are monsters lurking outside, eager to feast on my fears. Their hungry eyes haunt the dark recesses of my soul. With a start, I realize the monsters are lurking inside. My mind is an unorganized machine.
Beyond that door is a world dangerously unknown... and yet, entirely familiar. My faith lies in the furrows that time etches upon all our lives. Every day, every waking hour, I've known this feeling. For all the world's a stage; and the stage is all my world."
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2. |
Merchant of Dreams
06:15
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I come from distant shores
Bearing airs and words
Ten tales of beauty and joy
And of tears unheard
I sing of lives I've led
And worlds I've never seen
Of lost love and newfound faith
I'm the merchant of dreams
Step out of the recesses
Of your mind, into mine
Hold my hand as we embark on
A magic ride across the sky
As you melt into the night
Never again to be seen
Carry my voice in your hearts
I'm your merchant of dreams
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3. |
Elusive Light
06:36
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In your elusive light I feel
Unbroken and free
I recall a child
Thirsting for the unknown
Using shadows to hide
Restless, alone
And then a voice called out
It knew his deepest aches
His intangible dreams
Followed in its wake
In your elusive light I feel
Unbroken and free
Yet so much more vulnerable
Than I wish to be
I wait for your footsteps
To sneak into my mind
Take me to the place
No one can find
Our secret sanctuary
Where life's always in tune
What keeps the world from me
Brings me to you
In your elusive light I feel
Unbroken and free
Yet so much more vulnerable
Than I wish to be
Why must I
Be blinded to be able to
See the light
That burns the same wounds it soothes?
I wish I knew
Why these ever-festering wounds
Confine me to
A world so far away from all of you
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4. |
Mirrors
04:16
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In this haze
Awash in waves of hunger for me
Bodies splayed
In wide-eyed wonder; all for me?
Insecurity outbound
Pulling them all slowly down
Set free in a raging sea of mirrors
A dream-like mist
Colourless and broken with a
Thousand twists
All the words spoken in the
Room reeking of desperation
Everyone seeking validation
Abrased souls in a maze of mirrors
Starting to lose myself in this growing murk
Jerks on my tail looking for a circle jerk
Tonight I am the king of this empire of dirt
Voices cut
Through blurring consciousness they tell me
They've called my bluff
I'm not worth enough to sell me
Did I read it in their eyes
Or speak to myself in disguise?
I'm all I can see in this hall of mirrors
We're all mirrors...
"I've had my eyes on you from the moment that I saw you. Do you have a girlfriend?"
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5. |
Someone New
05:35
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She's cold and desolate
Mirroring all I am
Quenching a primal yearning
Emotional anagrams
Two worlds colliding
Timeless quest, unconfined
Crawling into her skin
Blind feeding the blind
Someone new...
Two bodies conflate
Amidst fervid moans
But now more than ever
Two spirits forlorn
Every dawn, this sated heat
Fails to hide the cold beneath
The glib facades where strangers meet
"Help me be someone new"
Let me sync into you
Until I'm someone new
Colour me in your hue
Until I'm someone new
Let me sink into you
Until I'm someone new
Colour me in your hue
Until I'm someone new
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6. |
Purpose
02:41
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ARTIST:
Wondering why I do what I do
Caught in the race for afternoon dew
Born into isolation, weaned
On whoring out my
Carefully embroidered community mask
Chasing stardom, all I find is stardumb
It's fake, it's grotesque, it's sick, it's
Who we are now and forever
No sign of life behind the mask
Just a portrait for virtual
Galleries long after we are gone
Wondering why I do what I do
When all you want are background hues
To your idle, suburban rants
A magic ride away
From the abandoned recesses of your mind
You need a merchant, not an artist
Because all is well with all that sells
Like beauty and war and hunger and
The idea that God wants
Me to kill, so just go ahead and
Put that fucking price tag on my soul
LOVER:
Wondering why I am what I am
Inert at sea, drowning on land
Honesty breeds loneliness
Loved for someone I'm not
Hated for everything that I truly am
So I hold you night after night
A nameless, faceless, unfeeling
Orgy that I wish would fill the
Void in my soul
Wondering why I am what I am
Futile emotional anagram
Loved and been drubbed, been loved and snubbed
Now I'm all out of love
Left to rule my haunted empire of loss
My misery hates company
Broke free of a thousand cages
Only to find I'm forever
Trapped in my own
SEEKER:
Wondering why I am here at all
Just a raindrop in an endless squall
I'm the voice of eternity
I am truth, I'm reason
And there is no true reason for why I am
Wondering why I am here at all
An ounce of shale in a limitless wall
Fused to a distant corner of
Infinity; take me
Away and there would still be infinity
HUMAN:
Why couldn't I be special?
Why should I be special?
And what does being special even mean?
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7. |
Suicide Note
06:44
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"How can I simplify?
How can I simplify myself?"
Ten past noon, I think it must be
Bright and warm outside
But it's dark in this unsung room
And darker inside my mind
Whom do I write this to?
It's supposed to be
Addressed to some people who know me
No one will understand
No one did anyway
Perhaps an apt end to this story
All I can say is I tried
How can I simplify this any more?
Still not dark enough in here
Light peeks in through the blinds
Like hope trying to claw its way back
But hope, faith and love lied
"They lied... faith, hope and love"
They promised me much peace
But then they all left
Me with a bequest of stifled breaths
Now I stand here at the
Edge of forever
One final sigh away from death
Ran out of tears to cry
How can I simplify myself?
All I can say is I tried
How can I simplify this any more?
"How can I simplify myself?"
Once I had dreams and yearnings
Once there was a gleam in my heart
Then life wandered out of reach
Left me to flounder in the dark
Once I thought I knew happiness
Silent gratitude, expressed in smiles
Now my smiles are immortalized in
Tawdry profile pics full of lies
The gun now casts a sensual glance
Drawing me to my final dance
Gaze into this black void of peace
A twitch away from eternity
For eternity
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8. |
Insignify
01:46
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"Step out of the recesses
Of your mind, into mine
I'm your merchant of dreams
Yet so much more vulnerable
Than I wish to be
I'm all I can see in this hall of mirrors
Whom do I write this to
It's supposed to be
Addressed to some people who know me
Now I stand here at the
Edge of forever
One final sigh away from death
Help me be someone new
Why couldn't I be special?
And what does being special even mean?"
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9. |
Within
05:16
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Walking through the garden on an afternoon
Do the leaves stir, or is it the wind that moves?
This wind and tree
And all the things I see
Move only in worlds within me
River flows, caressing highs and lows
Through silent rifts, fields of gold and snow
Just born, young,
Wise and dying at once
This endless stream and I are but one
I sought myself on hills and by seas
In deities, norms and nationalities
In solitude and multitudes
I found no trace of me or you
Can't you see
Purpose and eternity
Lie within you, within me
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10. |
School of Atlantis
07:05
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Faces
Traces lost
Erased and faceless, carrying the cross
That's the causeway I strive to find
Ride the lost lane to my mind
I recall a child, thirsting for the unknown
Then a voice called out and he followed
Took him such a long time to realize
All along, the voice lay deep inside
Some flowers bloom in shadows benign
So here in Atlantis, let me shine
Let me find my way to the starry night
Where the raven is unburdened in flight
Somewhere in this machine, so unorganized
Lies the door that leads into my mind
Some flowers bloom in shadows benign
Some wilt under blue, radiant skies
Chasing the sun until they lose sight
So here in Atlantis, let me shine
Some flowers bloom in shadows benign
Some wilt under blue, radiant skies
Chasing the sun until they lose sight
So here in Atlantis, let me shine
"I can feel the wait"
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Rainburn Bengaluru, India
Rainburn is a progressive rock band based in Bangalore, India.
The band's debut EP, ‘Canvas of
Silence’ was rated one of the Top 5 Prog Albums of 2015 by Classic Rock Magazine.
Rainburn's debut full-length album, 'Insignify' was lauded by Prog Magazine, and picked among the Top 10 Indian.albums of 2018 by Rolling Stone.
The band's second full-length album 'Vignettes' is out on 24 Nov 2023.
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