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the Elephant Parallax

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Strangers 07:16
Valence Such curiosity Where their velveteen stares can make Lights in an empty sky As we force ourselves Into a red heat Strangers helping me Become elated are we too close If boundaries faded Would you give in too Into a red heat Strangers helping me... By ourselves Trying to understand it We look above While trying not To feel the ground erode away Easing the winds That carry our forgotten songs back to the wind If the world around us is to crumble into the soil If the world around us is to crumble crumble into the soil crumbling into the soil In which our seeds were sewn with expectation
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INCENFEMINALGIA David Renteria, Benigno Gonzalez Try and try to change things from within, Will it be, Will it be? Nothing vast comes in and… Our struggles reveal themselves to us In odd times and abstract forms While we try to find a balance on their tippy toes. Everything seems like a cycle of something Come again and come again And it hardly feels like it ever ends When the background and fore meld to one, More of what is real is revealed And nothing vast comes in without a curse We must try to find a way, before a way is found for us. Change was due and change is dew, As the fire burns throughout Changes do and change was due As the fire burns throughout Brighter than anything blossoming Everything was all right; it was never in its place Was ours for the taking Now incendiary talks provoke our thoughts Holding the suns eye, the sky is ours to divide Was ours for the taking Now incendiary talks provoke our thoughts Never blind but fooled by light Was ours for ascending Bearing witness to this gift Brighter than anything blossoming
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AGLOW FROM THE CHASM Stephen Charouhas All eyes shut Tightly sealed with thread were those of our walls. Arms were outstretched, frantic and seeking a solace or another's hand. We were led through a blackened hall the air still as though it had drowned. Calling out we only heard ourselves, our voices lost in the dark. Nothing upon nothing became a noise ever enclosing. We were stifled and silenced and never knew it was so. The hall was a scorched throat trailing down to a charred promise. A false asylum our limbs were bound by a lie. We never could have known. Resigned to the dark we let the throat swallow. The noise grew into a pulse. Silent, shrouded in ash, we lay still on the ground still warm from the collapse. Surrounded by the calloused void the hollow would become our catacomb, enshrined in ember. When from the dark there came a breath a cold wind cut through the black. We felt it brush away the shroud as our lungs filled with air. A glint of light appeared a single ray that severed the drowning darkness. Aglow from the chasm. With our hands reaching out we grasped the scorched ground and crawled towards the light. Through the clearing there was still a blur. A veil through which we saw no define. We found ourselves in a world familiar, but knew not who we were. If the collapse had taken our past what was to come? All but nothing would be the same We came from an end. All that we had been was burnt away leaving us forged from flame. We came from an end. Forever were we changed. The sun at last illuminated our sunken eyes and we would create anew. As the firebird had been reborn from demise we'd rise from the ashes of ourselves. Everything of the old, the mind of then, all that was known was shed and cast away when it was burning to the ground. The change will come the rotation of the self awaits those who take their past, take all they were and burn it to the ground.
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David Renteria Awaken a wave, crash into the weaving, a solid glimmering kernel of... An ocean of tastes so thick that the mind must keep swimming to hold on to its own. See to it, push on, needle in hand threading tightly This fabric will hold strong, mean every knot or watch yourself wash up Sinking to explore, the light in the dark is bright, as our head grows A shiny chain, neck trinket Hides your view from the seed in the sand, where the truth is Taking us down deserted paths, as the truth is Taking us down deserted paths, as mysterions unfold it Taking us down to where the truth is lying Run your fingers through and it will come Like strands of pearls for you to wear out The truth will blossom towards surface Taking us out of deserted paths, the truth is Taking us out from where the loom is spinning it Taking us out of deserted paths into the light of day

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released May 1, 2010

All songs written and performed by The Elephant Parallax.

On this record 'The Elephant Parallax' are
Benigno Esau Gonzalez, David Renteria, Stephen Charouhas, and Paul Charouhas.

Engineered by Matt Brownlie
Mixed by David Renteria and Benigno Gonzalez
Mastered by Ronan Chris Murphy

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The Elephant Parallax San Fernando Valley, California

The Elephant Parallax is an eclectic band based in Los Angeles. Working on arranging complex and heavy material. The band's live performances showcase their diverse musicianship, intense energy and raw passion forged and driven by a passion for sound.

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