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Cold

by Icicle Boy

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1.
Are You Receiving? 03:25
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Are You Receiving? This is the sound of my voice Can you hear the sound of my voice Talking to you? This is the sound of my voice Can you hear the sound of my voice Talking to you? I don’t know what it is I’m saying I do not understand myself What are these mind games we are playing? Are you receiving? These are the words from my lips Do you understand the words from my lips Talking to you? These are the words from my lips Do you understand the words from my lips Talking to you? Repeat Chorus This is a wave of my hand Do you understand the lines on my hand Talking to you? This is a wave of my hand Do you understand the lines on my hand Talking to you? Repeat Chorus This is the sound of my voice Can you hear the sound of my voice Talking to you?
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Empty Sky 04:10
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Empty Sky Eyes wide and unafraid We drift along the esplanade Freewheeling into the unknown An echo in a crowded place That disappears without a trace A fragment of a daydream, then we’re gone We fly Into an empty sky Let’s fly Into an empty sky And so my kingdom comes Heartbeat like a thousand drums We laugh at the fragile wonder of it all And I know what I want and I know what I need But it’s always just beyond my reach And I’ll try so hard even though I know I’ll fall Chorus Fly Into and empty sky
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Cold 04:02
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Cold We’re in the glass house with a stone Bitter flesh on brittle bones Our hearts are carrion for crows Our senses slashed and bleeding Skyscraper windows realign To our meticulous design They stand and wait in vapid rows To watch the vampires feeding Cold So cold And so we play the oldest game Our actions shallow and profane While all our conflicts clarify Severe and unforgiving My fingers trace her sharpened curves A spider-dance on twisted nerves Her glacial eyes reflect the sky And still we call this living Chorus x2 So cold in here... Chorus x2
4.
After Words 03:58
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After Words Communication is an open book Uncertain ground Naked intention and the heat of the day The subtle flicker of a turncoat heart Betrayed by sound Something that haunts you every step of the way Memories burn through years Fingers trace through tears We touch, we move Please don’t say a thing After words is nothing The soft insistence of a velvet gun Against my head You pull the trigger and the world turns to gold Language is fickle so the higher truths Remain unsaid The trick of knowledge and the way you... Take and talk in time Silent sense sublime Repeat Chorus And a scream is a sound That’s meant for war Repeat Chorus We touch, we move Please don’t say a thing After words, there’s nothing There’s nothing
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I See You 03:57
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I See You I see you and everything you do I see you and everything you do Trust lies shattered on the floor You don’t need me any more Hate reveals the true I see you I hear you and everything you say I hear you, hear every word you say Through my veins the poison runs The legacy of bitter tongues Hate reveals the true I see you And though our time has come The fire just burns on and on and on.... I know you; know you for what you are I know you; know you for what you are The architect of your despair I see myself reflected there Hate reveals the true I see you Hate reveals the true... I see you, I see you...
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Be Seeing You 04:01
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Be Seeing You Running down, our time has come Turn to face the midnight sun Losing form and taking flight Intersecting with the light I’ll be seeing you I’ll be seeing you Again Someday So it goes, we ebb and flow Merging in the afterglow Dissipating like a sigh Beneath the vast, indifferent sky Repeat Chorus x2
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Cinematography 03:16
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Cinematography Fade –in with subtle zoom Wide shot of the killing room Set dressing all in place Pull focus on her face Cinematography Cinematography Track left to the telephone Key lighting sets the tone Moments of sweet regret Captured in silhouette Chorus Smash cut, another scene Soundtrack alive with screams Close-up on frightened eyes Raw terror crystallised Chorus Rewind and play again Freeze-frame before the end Dark signals through the void Lives lost in celluloid Chorus x2
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Liberation 04:29
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Liberation We walk a lonely street Where hope and inspiration meet So engineered and self-aware Decisions caught in time Define the meaning and the rhyme Splintered reflections Of intentions that were never there Take my second sight away from me ‘Till I no longer see the stars Frozen moments of our liberation The past is done, the future’s ours. Pass through the mezzanine In ever-changing shades of green All fading light and shadow-play Wired into certainties That vanish on a summer breeze Plotting trajectories Of chances that just slipped away Repeat Chorus x2
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Everything Stops 03:57
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Everything Stops Once Upon a distant time The world was yours and mine A universe of dreams and golden light But now We feel the shadows fall Across the crumbling walls The cold between us burning into endless night What do we do when it all goes wrong? Transmission fading and everything stops Can you feel The signal paths degrade? We join the grey parade Our empty gestures worn as cheap disguise Too late We sink without a sound As everything shuts down And silence drains the colour from your lonely eyes Chorus x2
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Held Under Tension 04:55
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Held Under Tension This is my life Straight edge, sharp knife Cold war, cold heart I fall apart I cannot take much more Take much more than this I cannot take much more, Take much more, much more than this Held under tension x4 Blood surge through veins Black void, dull pain Withdraw, deny We fail, we die I cannot take much more Take much more than this I cannot take much more, Take much more, much more than this Chorus All the hate and the pain of the world Chorus All the hate and the pain of the world
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Flashback 02:29
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Flashback Tumble screaming from the void and into consciousness Faded photo of a woman in a summer dress Nameless children flicker soundlessly through empty halls Tasting terror in the darkness as the silence falls Introspection, never understanding who you are Clumsy fumble in the back seat of a rusty car Trivialities that cut and scar a tender soul As you lose control Stolen glimpses of a perfect life you didn’t know Smiling faces disappearing under paper snow Sweet deception wrapping tightly round a liar’s heart Angry words and frozen silence as it falls apart Catalogue the opportunities that never came Repetition, repetition just to dull the pain Lonely evenings in the twilight of a broken dream Like an endless scream Losing focus, rushing headlong to oblivion Half-remembered names and faces that will never come Cold mortality comes crashing down with every breath Every second ticks a heartbeat like a little death Burning fingers drag you down towards the final fall Years unspooling, for a moment you can see it all Learn the truth of what a wasted life is all about As the world goes out Flashback Flashback
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Economy 04:32
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Economy Don’t say much Don’t waste air Abandon love Erase despair Economy, economy Share no joy Feel no pain Never cry Or laugh again Repeat Chorus x2 Traitor emotion tears the world apart The only answer is to chain your heart And lock it all away Don’t say much Don’t waste time Don’t live life Economise Repeat Chorus to end I see no... I hear no... I feel nothing at all Abandon hope Abandon reason Abandon everything Lay down and die in silence
13.
End Of Days 04:28
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End Of Days There’s no hope of redemption any more The withered apple’s rotten to the core I know This wicked world will soon be gone So let’s go We’ll party with our blinkers on Ah-hey Pretend that the music takes the pain away Let’s play And we can dance until the End of Days As all our good intentions turn to dust Machineries of joy begin to rust Heads down This petty age of man will pass Downtown The club is jumping, raise your glass Ah-hey Pretend that the music stops our slow decay Let’s play And we can dance until the End of Days The sounds of our destruction Won’t be silenced by a song But we’ll cover up our ears and sing along Repeat Chorus 1 and 2 Dance until the End of Days
14.
Over And Out 02:29
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Over and Out Hello...? Hello...? Can anyone hear me? Hello...? This is the sound of my voice. Can you hear the sound of my voice? Are you receiving? Are you receiving, over? Over and out...

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This is the second Icicle Boy album. Feel free to have a listen and download if you like it. Now available for £4.

A remix album to accompany this release is also available, check out the main Icicle Boy page.

credits

released August 22, 2016

All voices/electronics/programming - Icicle Boy

All songs written by A. J. Buckle

Cover design and execution - Icicle Boy

Produced by Icicle Boy at Skyhook Studios

Recorded and mixed February - November 2013

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Icicle Boy England, UK

Vague stirrings deep within the permafrost...

Icicle Boy – glacial synth-pop with a warm, human centre...
Music to freeze the blood or thaw the coldest heart.

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