Red Shift

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1.
Prelude 01:13
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AD 2044 03:58
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The saviors reach for the sky On empty promises and lies The masses watch and pray for rain As metal ships fly away The land will rot and burn (down/up) While saviors free themselves They bought and stole all they could Left the rest with broken shards The rockets say Just save yourself The rockets fly Just save yourself The saviors say Just save yourself The saviors fly Just save yourself The saviors scorched the skies Then fled away in metal hides The air is black and burning We’ve come to save ourselves
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World to World 03:56
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Say bye to the last place You can set your feet down One last look before You drift away Time moves so slow when you're Out in space It may be a while before touch down Run from world to world And waste away The sun won’t rise the same A million miles away Forget the memories of the Old days We left a million souls so we could Find our way Run from world to world And waste away The sun won’t rise the same A million miles away It won’t be long Till we reach the ground You run away from the world you made A million miles away Where lights fade Things look better now That we ran away Run from world to world And waste away The sun won’t rise the same A million miles away
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Speaking Stones 05:07
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Wait and listen to the stones They speak in tongues and whispers of The lives we had before The shoreline stretches all around Erasing all the memories of a The place we left behind Our dreams fell to the ground Ripped apart by our own pain Delusions of ourselves The old life shattered by the sun and rage of broken minds Haunting what’s been left behind All that’s left and we found were pieces of the home we Wreck and burned to the ground Speaking from the Stones x 2 All that’s left and all we found All that’s left and we found were pieces of the home we Wrecked and burned to the ground Speaking from the Stones
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Spectrum 03:53
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Open Skies ahead A Blue dot Floating by So small you just disappear Another empty space With a different name Break through To the other side The red light Sets your soul on fire Staring back Far away Another time and place With the same pain If leave this place You’ll never be the same In the end Better than the shame Break through To the other side The red light Sets your soul on fire Look through To the other side The red light Sets your soul on fire
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Nebula 02:36
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Horizon 05:28
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We drifted through An endless ocean void Spent breathless nights Praying for an end This final flight Has to be the last We catch the lights Coming from Horizon Lines Half-black edge around the sun Pulls us in, no chance to run The light we take with us Is fading every day Killing time until they find horizon lines Days fade away, the mirror breaks, and leaves us blind Head on and don’t look back Release what’s left inside The page is finally turned Take us to the end Killing time until we find horizon lines Mirrors break, and spirits fade, across the skies Don’t leave us behind The clock is ticking still Bones don’t break they bend When you step on through Killing time until we find horizon lines It breaks away, the mirror fades and falls in line
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Radio Signal 05:34
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Drifting in the endless night Silence on the radio Home inside this Ark But lost inside our minds Calling from the reaches Echoes from ones before Warnings in our minds Leaves no place to hide Voices telling lies We’re not the only ones Words crawl inside And pull apart our minds Days become the weeks and Weeks become the years Deafening silence filled us Waiting til our end was here Safe from our darkest parts Trapt inside our minds We’re not the only ones The only ones to run Calling from the reaches Echoes from the ones before Warnings in our minds Leaves no place to hide Voices telling lies We’re not the only ones Words crawl inside And pull apart our minds
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First Flight 04:55
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We dreamed to be the first to go Prayed, the stars would guide our way Looking back to a lost time Wasted hope, hope that we could change We turn to a lost cause We left, hope we couldn’t take The age filled men with dreams, Dreams, dreams we’d fly away Turn from the devils And lose the martyr shield Pull the wind beneath your feet Run from your heart Waste the lies and souls It was all we couldn’t leave We dreamed to be the first to go Prayed the stars would guide our way We turn from a lost cause Hope, hope that we could change We went to the skies Left it all behind And hoped, hoped we weren’t the same Turn from the devils And lose the martyr shield Pull the wind beneath your feet Run from your heart Waste the lies and souls It was all we couldn’t leave
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Collision Course 04:39
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We found the other side And left it all behind Pushed to the outer edge With nothing left to give Falling to the ground Breaking into pieces Burning in the sky Down to the end again We ran away from our Left it all behind But you never run away From what you Really are Falling to the ground Breaking into pieces Burning in the sky Down to the end again
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[Coda] 01:39
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SAFE/SOUND 06:04
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Lost among the stars, with no home (and far away) We find ourselves again in this open plane Crashed and burned, but safe and sound The past we tried to leave doesn’t fade away Will take what’s left and run? Will you make what’s left behind? Left it all behind to find another home What comes next is from our minds A sea of sand becomes the first break Will our lessons show what steps to take Will take what’s left and run? Will you make what’s left behind?

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Red Shift is a rock concept album about a future where humanity has abandoned Earth. Each song imagines what might happen to the early spacefarers.

What compels people to leave and what will they find out in space?

AD 2044 is an aggressive protest song about a crumbling society.

World to World, Speaking Stones, and Spectrum describe what humans might be thinking as they drift further away from their original home.

Horizon, Radio Signal, and Collision Course are about the many dangers that exist out in the cold reaches of space.

SAFE/SOUND is an existential anthem about what comes next for humanity.

This album was made entirely by human brains. No AI were used in its creation. While each song is defined by its own sound, this is an album through and through. It is designed to be listened like an old record with an A and B side.

credits

released August 21, 2023

Vocals, guitars, bass, mandolin, synths, programming, percussion, production - Sam Martino
Bass track 3- Larry Heinemann
Mixing and additional production - Garret De Block
Album art - Bryce Yzaguirre

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