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Hex
01:36
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(Instrumental)
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Binary Night
06:31
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Waves of code turn into a sea
And all I perceive is a time bomb
Waiting to go from green to red
And disintegrate everything
Every screen stares back at me
The keys click monotonously
I feel a sense of dread
A frayed feeling of security
A two has appeared in the binary
And the lines of script come to drag me in
A rip current of malicious code
To tear apart the sense of normalcy
All the windows bounce up and down
The icons run away from me
There's someone in the middle
And something is laughing
The lights outside flicker
Machines are going rogue
Someone has activated the catalyst
That shrouds the city in darkness
Everything granted has turned on its side
And we are the targets this night
And now I realize I was dependant
On normalcy never breaking
And now something has taken over
Homes are full of their weapons
There's not a corner for sanctuary
Everything has gone dark
Here we, here we go forever
Chaos is in their hands
We never really had it in control
So why am I surprised?
And once the red goes black
And I have sunk into the wormhole
I'm just another character in the hex
Chaos has a structure I have no bearing to understand
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And they are everywhere we look
Surrounded once again
And they desire to rip us apart
Their claws; their jaws are hungry
Hiding from the horde
Waiting for the moment to strike
And when the opportunity arises
We take our shot
Tearing through the onslaught
As the hounds seek to shred our heels
Take one dog under our wing
From these changed people
No time to look backwards
We flee through a field
And find solace in the forest
A place to escape to
Paths branch off
Into tributaries
And we run down them
Refusing to turn around
Behind us doesn't exist
We think as we sprint
Further into the forest
Dirt being kicked around
It's still dark outside
And we keep on running
And we find a pit
And it all goes quiet
So, we go to head out of the trees
And the dark suffocates the paths
But muscle memory is all we need
For us to get out of here
Then, through the trees, something glows
Purple eyes glare down on me
And I stare right at them
But I don't think anything about it
We then make our way out of the forest
And the onslaught is all just gone
So, we start to celebrate in the field
And I take pictures of us celebrating
But unbeknownst to me what the camera had caught
A figure loomed right behind me
A tall being with sharp claws
A long snout and a long, pointed tail
And their purple eyes, wide open, staring right at the camera
A sinister glare burned onto the footage
And in every single image that was taken
Their claws ever reach closer to me
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[Excerpt from Rafe's Dream Log]
August 19, 2020
I think in the context of the dream I was living with my father. I also had the dog, Zeus. I believe we were living in an apartment in possibly a city like Grand Rapids. Or maybe we were living in the new apartment "high-rise" (really, just six floors) apartment building that was being constructed in Ludington.
A really bad storm had hit. I remember looking out of a window and seeing I think a house on fire. It was a raging inferno too. The earth shook. Lightning was striking. I remember Chip running in and yelling something. I remember yelling back "Fire!" I was commenting on the house I saw burning down. I ran out of the living room. I grabbed a few items.
We ran up a flight of stairs to get to another apartment, Lauren's apartment. Their door was already opened. Cas and Lydia seemed to be how old I remember them being. We got Lauren, Cas, Lydia, and I think Ben to go with us as we got out of the apartment complex. I remember saying something to Lydia down the lines of "I saw this coming."
The storm was violent. It was a torrential downpour. Lightning struck every few seconds, and with massive amplitude. And that house was still ablaze somehow in this torrential rain. I've never seen anything like that.
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Don't Speak
05:07
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Don't speak
Don't speak
Don't speak
Don't speak
You know they're around the corner
You know they're around the corner
Don't speak
Don't speak
Don't speak
Don't speak
In every room we go in
In every room we go in
(Instrumental Interlude)
Don't speak
Don't speak
Don't speak
Don't speak
If they hear us talk
You know they're near
Don't let them get closer
Don't speak
Don't speak
Don't speak
Don't speak
(Long Bass Solo)
Don't speak
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Suspended in Air
06:31
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I have faded up into a sub-level of reality
I see you scouring the entire area
Trying to find where I had went
I'm freaking out, I'm freaking out
You're freaking out, I see you freaking out
I slam on the invisible floors
Trying to show my presence
But you can't hear me at all
I cry out your name, but you notice not a thing
I am crying out for normalcy again
I remember rising up from the backyard
And seeing you freak out once you notice I'm gone
I'm twelve feet in the air, I can't even reach your hand
I pound my fists on invisible force fields
In a desperate, vain attempt to get your attention
But you can't hear me at all
Standing in the air, invisible to everyone
I collapse to my knees and let everything out
I can see everything, but no one can see me
I'm a living ghost that cannot escape this layer
A part of nature and cut off from society
It's like I've been erased from existence
An endless wave of vertigo channels through my whole body
As I've become fully transparent to everyone around me
Will I ever come down again?
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[Excerpt from Rafe's Dream Log]
March 12, 2021
A different dream time. I was walking around this city. I was going to someone’s house. I saw two massive mansions. In fact, there was one behind the house I was going to. The other mansion was enormous. At the top it was spewing something that didn't look like smoke into the sky.
I eventually figured out what house I needed to go to. I was welcomed in by a man maybe in his late thirties. He had already prepared something for me to eat. I asked about the enormous mansion, and of what it was beaming. He explained it was something to control the town. We were then shortly after attacked. The dark, comedic timing.
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The Benthic Zone
07:48
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Here I find myself
Where light is deteriorating
Darkness is growing
And I'm being led through tunnels
As the dark blue is waving around the windows
And I feel their hands on my shoulders
Urging me to go further
I see television screens turned on
They're glowing through the darkness
Information on the life outside
Is all that it's broadcasting
I hear the water bubbling outside
As the waves are moving around
And they lead me deeper into the darkness
Somewhere new, they say
A new zone in the base
And the dark is wrapping around me
All I can hear is low breathing
Hearts beating of the guards
Did something just swim past that window?
And we reach this new zone
And panic is sinking in
I don't want to go deeper into the darkness
Don't bring me to the benthic zone.
I just want to be on the surface
Somewhere green and bright
Not all of this dark blue water
We are not supposed to be here
This is not our world to be
The vault door opens
And they pull me inside
I glare back at where we came from
But they then close the door
I can't catch a single glimpse of light
From outside of the windows
All I have are these artificial bulbs on the walls
I don't want to be here
And I feel the ground move
Another vault opens
And the guards drag me deeper
Into the benthic zone
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Lightning Coming Down
04:39
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He tried to protect everyone he could
Give everyone a good life
Make everyone happy
But the storm came down
Lightning coming down
In angry fits of rage
Raining down on his property
Striking the house
Fire storms the house
In angry fits of rage
Raining down on the property
Striking the house
The fire enters the home
He can feel the floorboards burning
Making the flames rise up
A pot falls in the kitchen
Becoming steam water vapor
He stumbles through the room
To get to the stairs
He gets the attention of his daughters
And he's waking up his wife
The dogs are barking loudly
As his mother is still asleep
He risks it all and leads the exodus
To safe his family
And he runs upstairs
To get to his mother
Fire coming down
In angry fits of rage
Raining down on his property
Striking the house
Time is not on his side
It suffocates the air
Forcing him to run out
To the ones he could save
Down a dog
And no vision of the mother
The storm wins
The house falls
Nothing remains now
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Inside of the Machine
05:40
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[Excerpts from Rafe's Dream Log]
April 21, 2020
Alright, so, I wasn't expecting this. I had a dream about "Welcome to the Machine". The song "Welcome to the Machine" by Pink Floyd. I had a dream specifically based on the music video.
It played out normally, until the end. Instead of the sea of red hands grasping at a building before the building blasts off into a sphere in the sky, it goes back to the beginning with the mechanical beast. Like the beginning of the video, the mechanical beast approaches me. Unlike the music video, where it fades into a shot of a city, the mechanical beast drags me towards it. I see as the world fades to black. I guess the mechanical beast had claimed me...
April 23, 2020
The mechanical beast came back into my subconscious. It brought me to a location. Like a terminal. I had to do something, but I don't remember what.
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Branch
03:13
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You found me somewhere
I tried to get away
And you are the one
That hunts like a dog
And when I escaped your clutches
From this fucking house you built
From the ground up
You chase, you chase, you chase
I'll cut you with a branch
And take you away from this world
You will find yourself at the end
You will not bury me
Stab a branch through your essence
And I will flee, and I will flee, and I will
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17:27
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Understand this dichotomy
One limitless property
Understanding it properly
Contrasted by geometry
Understand this energy
A forgotten prophecy
Left behind by hypocrisy
Listen to this frail
Electricity
In our bodies
Understand this dichotomy
A distinction between energy and property
Made possible by geometry
A forgotten prophecy
A plethora of possibilities
Left behind so quietly
Infinitely counting on
The endless computers of my mind
Infinitely marching on
Connecting to everything
Connected to me
Descending in the stars
Understand everything
Saturn's seven rings
Connected to everything
Breathe out
Breathe in
Let us begin
Open and expand
Recede
Delayed by our vision
Wishing for immediate precision
Powerful addition
Of intelligence
Becoming more intelligent
Understand everything
Recede
Recede
Recede
Recede
Recede
Empowered by what you can do
We can all feel it
We are one
We are connected
From the brain to the heel
Connection
Communication
Collection
Correction
Vibrations
Seeing above us
Multi-dimensional beings
Voices of frequencies
Never heard before
New words conceived
Whisper this to me
Understood by this property
Remove this dichotomy
Connected with geometry
Mislead by what we see
Connected to us
Connected by us
Conspicuously
Unafraid of what we see
There isn't much time left
There isn't much time left
There isn't much time left
There isn't much time left
There isn't much time left
Our reflections aren't what they seem
Opposite beings
Opposite meanings
Reflecting
Refracting
Realizing
You're not what you were told to be
Hidden by an infinite amount of possibilities.
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Moth Cocoon Prison
11:56
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[From Rafe's Dream Log]
September 14, 2020
And I like moths. I really like moths.
In the dream, Aiden was at my house. We were playing probably Call of Duty: Zombies. The game was paused at the moment. I looked through the blinds and out the window. There was a bee resting on the screen outside of the window. We both looked at it. Then came a moth. It straight up attacked the bee. The bee stopped moving shortly.
We thought it was dead. It was attacked by a white and blue moth. The moth itself seemed abnormally big for it size. It was taller than normal.
The bee then started to spring back to life. It was struggling to move. Then in came back the moth. The moth proceeded to rip off the bee's antennas. It was fucking brutal to watch.
I made a stupid split decision. "I'm going outside to see this," I said to Aiden, followed shortly after, "get out of the house." I ran outside but slowed down as I approached the backyard. I turned the corner to the backyard. I saw as a cat fell to the ground. I turned around and proceeded to walk to the porch. I saw Aiden walking down the steps. "Don't get out of the house. It metamorphosed," I ordered to him.
We went back inside. I locked the door. I ran to the other door, the one that opens up to the fenced off backyard. While I was doing that, I got a glimpse of a huge moth. It had metamorphosed into a tall, humanoid moth. I saw it open and close its mouth. It was very slimy, and it seemed like something was in it. I locked both the screen door, and the big, heavy, magnetic, metallic door. We then proceeded to run back into my bedroom. We could've chosen the master bedroom. We could've chosen the attic, but who knows what's up there. I've never been up there, and there's not a window up in the attic. There's also holes that lead into the roof, and therefore, the attic. We've had birds get stuck inside the walls before because of this. We could've gone in the crawlspace, which I have been down in a couple of times, but sense the entrances are accessed from outside, that's off limits. Hell, we could've gone into Courtney's room, for how much I hate that room.
There are two bins underneath my bed. They are long enough for you to lay in them. I helped Aiden to get into one, then I pushed the bin back underneath the bed. I proceeded to lay down in the other bid, and once I got settled in, I kicked the back of the bin many times to get the bin back underneath the bed. I knew that this was doomed to fail horribly, but I just needed a few minutes of denial.
The moth creature got into the house, through what I assume a hole in the roof and flew into the master bedroom via the closet in there. Where birds got stuck was in between the master bedroom and the bathroom, and Allan had to make a hole for the birds to escape. That's where I'm guessing the moth flew into. The master bedroom door was unlocked, and I believe it was opened anyway. I don't know what happened to the dogs. The moth could've killed them after it flew into the room.
Eventually, it would get to my room. It got the door open, somehow by not busting the door down. I knew at that moment we were fucked. And, lo and behold, the bins were pulled out from underneath the bed. We were both grabbed and carried outside. I don't know what happened to Aiden because the moth creature put me inside an open cocoon, and the cocoon closed up. That's where the dream ended.
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It's just a glimpse of light
But it keeps staying overhead
Hiding behind the clouds
As they pass us by
I go out into the backyard
And see it for myself
Something's hovering in the air
And it's something I can't explain
Some bright figure high in the sky
Light is all around it
And it is all encompassing
And something does not feel right
Affecting the area, I run inside
I see somewhere another figure
From the field
The track, they are
Walking on the old dirt track
They are making their way
They are making their own way
To us
And they're in a trance
And it's still in the air
That [?]
They start running to us
That person is running to our house
And I, I warn the others
And then they bang on the door
They're breaking inside
And we have to fend them off to save everyone
And they keep trying to take us with them
But I will not let my family go down
I will keep them around
Around as long as I can
And in the sky, whatever it is
Wings sprout from both sides
And whoever you are
I won't let you take our minds
It's still in the sky
Trying to get into my mind
Whatever it tells you
And whatever it shows you
Just know it is a lie
They want to take your mind
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[From Rafe's Dream Log]
April 1, 2021
There was a group a people staring at this thing. How I would describe it is a cloud on the ground, stretched out over several yards. (Gah, I'm American.) Or, stretched over several meters. (Hopefully that's better.) People started walking through it. I was hesitant. I knelt down and felt the object. It felt silky, I guess.
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The Breach
04:12
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I wander the vessel today
Stars fly past us in every which way
And you are here with me
As light bleeds throughout the cosmos
You see the same things as I
And I'd like to know how to realign our eyes
Before they break us
Then the breach happens
And they crawl inside
And everywhere we look
It changes in our eyes
And everything we thought we knew
Has changed in a way
Just for no one to show you how
And so, when we see
The light fade within you and me
We realize we were never the wiser
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I Remember 2006 Muskegon, Michigan
I Remember 2006 is a previously solo Indie Folk Rock project of Rafe LaNore, that now consists of Rafe and his friend,
Wilbur Bullara. Both are multi-instrumentalists that met back in 2021, and have been making music with each other ever since.
Rafe's (mostly) solo stuff
ronzak.bandcamp.com
Wilbur's stuff
wilburbullara.bandcamp.com
-Rafe LaNore
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An emotional and existential masterpiece. This album means a lot to us. SWANS is our biggest influence as a duo. They mean a lot to us, and this album is an important to both of us -IR06
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