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The Longest Shadow Can Only Recede

by The World At A Glance

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1.
Moth 07:30
Hold these two swords With both eyes closed I turned to you And you’re there with me When can I open my eyes? When can I carry on? Red soil and ocean sky Desert lips, still so dry Reflecting and glittering Is this snow or is this ash? The fire burns The ash still chokes The rain still comes As the lungs they quietly wheeze I still dream A mouth open Your name I call As I fall That shame lives on It’s etched in the air This rope I pull, only to find No beginning, no end Full dark, no stars a fire a string two eyes they look through me as I fall, into the abyss I still see through The Weakest piece of string The moth’s wings hide two closed eyes (the two closed eyes, closed eyes)
2.
Are Thou Wanderer? Where will you go? Under starlight? Under whispers? Calloused hand in hand Dirt under each eye Travel through my darkest nights I Dwell Bury me under warmest sands The sea so still The sky still so grey What connects me here? land or the sea? The end still comes I’ll Know what must be done You’ll ask me how Will I exist? You’ll ask me how But I won’t know (I DON'T KNOW) on ashen plains I crawl in dusted dreams thrice worn shapes I’ve seen and believed to be spoken and not seen in an ocean of my words sleeping beneath the sleeves the secrets I know to keep and the secrets that I wish to leave be banished from my home in exile wander the stones the endless dream I conjured to the worlds I dwell alone vanish before my eyes the writing kept in mind for the years and years to follow through the endless forest I pined I pined Translucent wings unfurl their frame Worlds yet unborn will fold over in refrain Blackened worlds abandoned by time Watched over by faces I no longer see as mine Its eyes made of light, A goddess of dawnless night This unending dream I need it to be seen Beyond the precipice of fragile memories In certain light I can still see the pale lines Just like before, on some distant shore A place where we'll be and both become You held my hand as dreams faded like stars The fox roamed the beach, as wills travelled deep We tended your wounds and looked at it all Awaiting the end, embracing the cold night’s calm Our loam is lorn You yearned for the end, I dreamt of the start I’ll wait for the fall like nothing was true The sorrow that I dream of nothing but you
3.
The silk sun from the other side of the rail A mission marked frail, fragile as we descend I’m still not used to the soundless sleep As I lay on my side, the light in the blue dark night The sweetest side, of your waving, wandering eyes As I still wait for you, in the world above My loam is lorn in the darkness of closed eyes in the brightness of my tears
4.
Through the ashes in snow a pale twin self The needles in my skin the pain in my dreams I still can’t see the colour of your eyes through the trees I see myself The moon rises (The moon rises) The sun will hide (The sun will hide) And the longest shadow (shadow) Can only recede (can only, only recede) Walk with me through the burning fields Walk me beside the falling skyscraper Walk with me hand in hand Till the world burns to ash
5.
See 07:11
Eyes under lids, blood pressed to skin The ghost of a sun and its light never seen wallpaper white of a pale smiling twin, A comforting dream A need to be seen I survive I see through their eyes! Empty the seas, drown in their storms Witness the end, of all things to come Oh, Eyes under lids, blood pressed to blood and to spirit and limb Become again, And again and again That shame lives on! Forlorn! I still cannot see How to be and not become I dream every night of those stars that have already died, I glimpse them in eyes too far and too bright to be mine I see them as eyes, the stars through which I will survive I see through their eyes, those stars that have already died
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Endlessly 05:36
Just beyond this pencil line Etched in wishes form a mirror Reveal my truest reflection Shelters no storms and drowns me under the waves The waves that wash away my fears (my fears these years) Of these memories as I walk from sand into the sea Where, where do I remember you? As if in a dream, I wonder where you’ve been? I have so far to go, when I closed my eyes It was like a different shade of black! I retrace my every step Along this line of chalk and paint Is it love and shame or fear and doubt? Where do I remember these dreams? In memory, will I carry on? Shed this past so I can carry on! Where, where did I leave myself this time? Along these longing shores, where the sand has turned to stone and sea to dust! I formed alone, I’ll fade as one and from memories bed return to none

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released September 1, 2023

The World At A Glance on this recording is:
Scott Mclatchie – Vocals, Guitar, Synth, Piano, Bass on tracks 2, 5 and 7
Claire Westover – Vocals, Violin, Bass on track 6
Jack Naughton – Vocals, Drums, Synth, Percussion, Bass on tracks 1, 3 and 4

Guest Vocals by:
Sharni Brouwer on tracks 1 and 4 Adam McArthur on track 2
Mark Grant on track 5 Liam Phillips on track 5

Recorded, Mixed and Mastered by Liam Kriz at his studio on Yugambeh land in so-called Queensland from the 10th – 18th of May, 2022, Additional Recording also by Claire Westover
Lyrics written by Scott Mclatchie and Liam Phillips
Music written by Jack Naughton, Claire Westover, Scott Mclatchie and Liam Phillips Album cover and back cover photo by Ben Westover
Graphic Design and arrangement by Claire Westover
Cover Model is Jemimah Laine
Robe/Clothing Designed and manufactured/created by Jemimah Laine

Indigenous sovereignty was never ceded. This record was created on stolen land, the lands of the Wurundjeri and we pay our respects to them for allowing us to create on their lands.

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