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F​[​r​]​iends

by Vindicating Twilight

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1.
There's nothing to see There's nowhere to go There's nothing to be There's no one to know (x4) Oh, baby I'll meet you in A dream within a dream Take me A place between all that we See or seem Oh ooh whoa You know I try but can't hear What you say Baby If I should die I'll Join you In the grave Oh ooh whoa Oh ooh whoa ooh whoa ooh whoa ooh whoa Oh ooh whoa Oh ooh whoa ooh whoa ooh whoa ooh oh Oh, baby I'll meet you in A dream within a dream Take me A place between all that we See or seem Oh ooh whoa You know I try but can't hear What you say Baby If I should die I'll Join you In the grave There's nothing to see There's nowhere to go There's nothing to be There's no one to know (x2) Nothing Nowhere Nothing's Out there (x2) Oh, baby I'll meet you in A dream within a dream Take me A place between all that we See or seem Oh ooh whoa You know I try but can't hear What you say Baby If I should die I'll Join you In the grave Baby I'll meet you in A dream within a dream Take me A place between all that we See or seem Oh ooh whoa You know I try but can't hear What you say Baby If I should die I'll Join you In the grave Immortality of the soul Nothing is zero This doesn't exist The absence of sensory input The absence of your real body Anchored in your neural signature A virtual model (This is me) The tragedy of the ego Dissolves Nobody is ever born And nobody ever dies
2.
Your lips Taste like sulfur You breathe Clouds of thunder form Your lips Are shaped like mine And when they interlock This world will erupt Your thoughts Turn to darkness They'll never See your kindness Your name Is a curse among men Oh how I wish you would Let them burn for good You smile The heaven's shudder I found An eldritch lover And I'm in love With the shadows you cast against my cave And I don't care If you want me to lie down and share your grave And that's when you'll go Uh oh Leaving this world behind Forgetting all that you know Uh oh And be a liminal girl Falling, falling, falling fall (Into the arms) Into the arms of her Eldritch lover Ooh di a bop bop, a liminal girl Ohh di a bop bop, ooh di a bop bop Tears like nitro Nitroglycerin You sing The wind howls Your eyes Are stygian blue Your dreams And your nightmares They bleed into mine Echoes from your mind The floorboards rattle We touch My nose runs red with blood You stroke My hair with a gloved hand It's worth the pain I face Feeling your embrace You smile Torn asunder I found An eldritch lover Eldritch lover Eldritch lover Eldritch lover
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A part of me is always screaming But it's just beyond my hearing The saviors will chase her While others debase her Community service Befriending the worthless They follow with smiles While swallowing bile She lets them get closer Once they get to know her They can't hide their horror Pretend to adore her She breaks down And drives them Away The screaming grows stronger From whisper to murmur This loneliness is here to stay There's nothing else for her to say She's making her own F[r]iends with the shadows in the cave She's making her own F[r]iends with the demons in her brain She's making her own F[r]iends with the voices out in space But when the day descends all her F[r]iends will go away A whisper wants to be a scream a flicker in the candle flame Lonely Lonely Lonely Lonely Lonely Lonely Lonely Lonely Lonely Lonely Lonely Lonely Lonely Lonely Lonely Lonely Lonely Lonely Lonely Lonely Lonely Lonely Lonely Lonely Lonely Lonely Lonely Lonely Lonely Lonely Lonely Lonely Lonely every single day Don't mean to push them all away I always give until I break 'Cause I don't wanna seem fake And if I do well that's too bad I've been myself it's all I've had I always give 'till I go mad 'Cause I'm always so fucking sad Lonely and sad It's all I've ever had Lonely and sad It's all I've ever had Lonely oh so lonely Only fiends for friends Her still lips trap a limp wish And let slip with a pained his Her eyes close and despise grows Demise close her disguise froze Buried in silence deafening sirens She watches them closely eyes creepy and ghostly She finds a respite in the cover of darkness She speaks to the shadows recites their responses She hears a new world as she becomes a Blightweaver Shadow's bellows Blightweaver Silence's siren Blightweaver Shadow's bellows Blightweaver Silence's Siren A flicker flares into an ember that will spark and burn forever Lonely and sad It's all I've ever had Lonely and sad It's all I've ever had She's making her own F[r]iends with the shadows in the cave She's making her own F[r]iends with the demons in her brain She's making her own F[r]iends with the voices out in space But when the day descends all her F[r]iends will go away
4.
Goodbye, lullabye Let me join the nebulae Rock me in your cradle like the Winter moon's gentle tide Let's sing a song that'll put you to sleep Don't sing along until permitted to speak La lullabye are you ready to die? I'll hold you rhand it's okay if you cry La la la la La la la la La la la la La la la la La la la la La la la la La la la la La la la la Do you see the monsters? When nightmares fall apart? No peaking from your covers This world will break your heart You shatter your reflection To manifest your fears Your hands reach for the ashes These lives are full of tears No questioning the future When you can't leave the past This entropy awaits you Let's watch it all collapse Goodbye, lullabye Let me join the nebulae Rock me in your cradle like the Winter moon's gentle tide La la la la La la la la La la la la La la la la La la la la La la la la La la la la La la la la La la la la La la la la La la la la La la la la La la la la La la la la La la la la La la la la
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Make me feel alive Make me feel okay Make me feel like I Won't always feel this way I'm not a human being I'm a plastic bag Drifting through the wind Wanting to start again Make me more like you Apocolyptic dream girl You and me against the world Apocolyptic dream girl Hands together in the cold She's walked the ground above She's seen another world She learned something in the vision The story of a (Girl) who was the first to break (Girl) who was the first to fall (Girl) who we cannot forsake (Girl) who could destroy us all Girl, girl Girl, girl Girl, girl Girl, girl Make me a real girl Make me a quasar Make me a villian A polychrome disaster Show me the rabbit's hole Lift up your cotton tail Lead me to wonderland A nihlistic heaven Make me a cuckoo Take me to cloudland Make me a cartoon Shed the third dimension Take the things that cripple me the nightmares and anxiety and Turn them into mystery an enigmatic tragedy Anachronism make me Apocolyptic fable 21st century Schizoid angel Light up the caverns Under this scorched earth Blightweavers patterns Flickering shadows She keeps a map with her of where she thinks the stars will fall She says we'll take their place destroy the world and rule them all Lost my find could you help me mind it Heart of gold mind if I mine it Apocolyptic Dream Girl (Make me feel alive) Make me act like I don't care (Make me feel okay) Apocolyptic Dream Girl (Make me feel like I) Unencumbered unimpaired (Won't always feel this way) Apocolyptic Dream Girl (I'm not a human being) You and me against the world (I'm a plastic bag) Apocolyptic Dream Girl (Drifting through the wind) Hands together in the cold (Wanting to start again) Make me more like You You You You Lost my find could you help me mind it (schizoid disco dream girl) Heart of gold mind if I mine it (schizoid disco dream girl) She keeps a map with her (doomsayer disco) She traces all the stars (doomsayer disco) Anachronism make me Apocolyptic fable 21st century Schizoid angel Show me the rabbit's hole Lift up your cotton tail Lead me to wonderland A melancholic heaven Make me a lovefool In the court of Sappho Make me a real girl Scatterbrain kalleideskull Make me a cryptid Make me a changeling Make me a stargirl Make me an alien Apocolyptic Dream Girl (Shifty disco girl) You and me against the world (Schizoid disco girl) Apocolyptic Dream Girl (Shifty disco girl) Hands together in the cold (Schizoid disco girl) Blightweaver (dream girl) Blightweaver (dream girl) Blightweaver (dream girl) Blightweaver (dream girl)
6.
At night they form circles I come down to watch them and follow their movements and witness their elegance envy their beauty and wish I was one of them But I always stutter I can't match their rhythm I'd sully the circle if I were there with them the world has a melody I cannot manage I can't match their harmony don't know their language I know I'm unwanted there can be no harmony while I am haunted by this incongruity Which has committed me to hell Because I am Nobody's sister Nobody's daughter Never a woman Never a bride Nobody's sister Nobody's daughter No heir of Sapho's I don't belong here A covenant That I'll never share Incongruence That I cannot bear A covenant That I'll never share Incongruence That I cannot bare I know that it happens I've witnessed the others that join in the circle I've watched them get smothered They're dead on the news and the covenant smiles I've witnessed the hatred the gawking the bile Flesh is a prison and sex is a sickness there is no belonging as long as it's in us I hate this I hate this I don't want to be this I know I'm unwanted I'm nobody's sister I see no way out of it I see no future Nobody's sister Nobody's daughter I see no future I don't belong here Nobody's sister Nobody's daughter I see no future I don't belong here Don't want to be an intruder Don't want to be an imposter Pinnochiette Pinnochiette I want to be a real girl I want to be a real girl I want to be a real girl A covenant That I'll never share Incongruence That I cannot bear A covenant That I'll never share Incongruence That I cannot bare
7.
They just found out that the sun was a lightbulb And it's cracked beyond repair The space farers found that stars were all stickers Much to their embarassed despair And comets, they said, were wishes That died as frozen corpses The sky was a lie and the cosmos a rumour And they still don't know who told it They do not know What any of this means But they asked us to say Just one more thing That the moon was real And that it was our friend And that it would stay with us Through our brutal and torturous end That it tried and it tried With its light and its tide But could Never to more than just Stay by our side. Later that night, several billion eyes Stared at the sky as it fell Their light reflected off its Cold plastic surface And a new constellation was spelled
8.
I want to feel my body Dissolving in your brain I want to feel your heartbeat as it siphons off the pain I want to feel my thighbones Cascading down your throat So you could suck my cartilage and I would never know I want to take a hammer To my ephemeral mind Then melt off the carcinogens and others of its kind (Goddexx) You could eat me whole But even then It wouldn’t be enough Let your skin feel strained Like birthing pains Writhing through your love You’re a nascent God When I’m in you Burrowing your blood You could eat me whole But even then It wouldn’t be enough
9.
CAN'T 04:53
(Can't correct this fatal error Can't prevent this system failure) I'm in error and I can't Express my fears or discontent They can't be sent I don't know how I can't dissent or cry aloud Can't speak I am paralyzed Can't escape where peril lies Can't erase and can't rewind Cannot think I've lost my mind Can't correct this fatal error Can't prevent this system failure Can't forget and can't remember Can't recall the tie is severed Paralysis my synapsis are electric with psychosis the signals mix and what transmits is static hiss fade to abyss a neural glitch a mental cyst cognitive rift thoughts lost within the circuit's blown mind's not my own I lost my voice to neural noise I'm corrupted and I can't Return to being innocent I can't repair I don't know how I can't recant or disavow Can't speak I am paralyzed Can't escape where peril lies Can't erase and can't rewind Cannot think I've lost mind I wish I could destroy myself I wish I could be something else I wish I could escaepe myself I wish I could be someone else I wish I could erase myself I wish I could be something else I wish I could outlive myself I wish I could someone else I wish I could I know I can't Reconcile this contradiction I can't take this anymore Can't correct this fatal error Can't prevent this system failure Can't forget and can't remember Can't repair the tie is severed Can't correct this fatal error Can't prevent this system failure Can't forget and can't remember Can't exist the tie is severed
10.
Raised as a nomad atop of the scorched earth I tended the archive along with my mother Under the orbit of the winter moon At times I would stray from the path of my coven And into the homes of those living in ruins Many were gracious, delighted to talk to A person from outside the safety they clung to I soon met a child with wing's of a bat who Would become the greatest friend I ever new Nuclear Nitelite, show me the way Don't let my blind sight lead me astray Take your Nuclear Nitelite and radiant slumber I will disguise mine from one to the other Even when it feels bitter and tearing apart I will defend you from right to the start Nuclear Nitelite a world scorched by Blight Nuclear Nitelite mutations rise to overdrive "The stars look much bigger reflected in your eyes And though my world's smaller, I've come to realize That if we were born in the light of a kind star It couldn't allow for everything we are." The thing that I am, the thing on my shoulders Spreading its stump wings into the cold air I said "I guess that our God is a cruel one" They spoke in curses, "Annihilation Is hardly a God he's just stupid and evil And he's no creator if we are his people." I said "I wonder if there is a reason For which we are altered with every mutaiton And could we get closer to whatever vision Our bodies warp towards, a completed demon?" Then they were silent, I carried them home My mind would not rest once I was alone Nuclear Nitelite, show me the way Don't let my blind sight lead me astray Take your Nuclear Nitelite and radiant slumber I will disguise mine from one to the other Even when it feels bitter and tearing apart I will defend you from right to the start Take your Nuclear Nitelite and radiant slumber After this world's light is blackened and smothered Even when it feels bitter and tearing apart I will defend you from right to the start The wings which once had barely cleared The span between my shoulders Now blocked out the sky above My friend was unfamiliar And this was what we'd always wanted The final transformation They left without a single word And never touched the ground again. I lived a half-life Under the orbit of the winter moon I made a friend Outside the orbit of the winter moon I watched my friend fly To the horozion of the blazen field I know they're out their Soaring the skies beneath the blazen moon Take your Nuclear Nitelite and radiant slumber I will disguise mine from one to the other Even when it feels bitter and tearing apart I will defend you from right to the start
11.
Moonbeams 04:54
Silver in my skull The journey has begun The pale light feels so cold Me and the night are one Dancing in the starlight Moonbeams I can see the whole sky In you reyes Dancing in the starlight Moonbeams Set flight Soaring They say there's a time When all orbit's align And the smallest moon is within reach If you can break gravity's leash The time is prearranged The package's exchanged The map was drawn with shaky hands It charts the moon lays out the land The map unfolds a slip of paper Drops and fluttters to the ground A greetings from the Acolytes A call to bring the second Blight Starlight Moonbeams Set flight Soaring Starlight Moonbeams Set flight Soaring I know I have family Beond the dome of this city And at the aurora I arranged a meeting The pilgrimage can take me far Enough to make it on my own And with the mad scientist I'll escape this doomed planet When the moon is within reach We will break gravity's leash When the moon is within reach We'll cast off this planet's leash Starlight Moonbeams Set flight Soaring Dancing in the starlight Moonbeams I can see the whole sky In your eyes
12.
Doesn't exist Does not exist Doesn't exist Does not exist In a hundred acre woods In a prehistoric valley Across the indigo plateau You are wracked by a perverted Sentimentality Sentimentality, blind to reality 'Cause what you want to see's Never around Sentimentality, blind to reality 'Cause what you want to be Doesn't exist Does not exist Stare at the sun until The world dissolves to pixels Delivered from my anguish The third dimension's vanquished The cartoon rapture is upon us A quick blow to the head and then you're there Pieced together in polygons Matching edges, without any holes An inkwell in the sky and A part you get to play (You get to play) In a hundred acre woods in a prehistoric valley The other side of the rainbow, you are wracked By a perverted Sentimentality Sentimentality, blind to reality 'Cause what you want to see's Never around Sentimentality, blind to reality 'Cause what you want to be doesn't exist Does not exist Delivered from my anguish The third dimension's vanquished Delivered from my anguish The third dimension's vanquished
13.
Falling Star 03:45
They say we're born of stars, that some Billion years before These hunks of meat were ours They were being forged In some galactic furnace Errant atoms fused And from the heated surface Heavy matter spewed Pressure Is what keeps a star Together Always collapsing on itself Forever Pressure Is what keeps a star Together Always collapsing on itself Forever Pressure Pressure Falling star, dying star You said you'd like to be a star and I Was taking notes from in the foyer Falling star, dying star Superstar gone supernova I Could feel the heat from at a distance Plasma turns to blood A worm was once a God Now that the sun's become a ghost Its afterimage starkly glows The embers in a coal All thats left of the soul Post-embryonic brain Pretends that its the same Death can't be undone Fusion won't return once stopped Embers form a nebulae Phoenix roars across the sky Melt the coal to tar Create another star All the nothings merged to one Nullify the dying sun Pressure Is what keeps a star Together Always collapsing on itself Forever Pressure Is what keeps a star Together Always collapsing on itself Forever Pressure Pressure Pressure
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In the distance, in the night Your mother's calling It's time to wake up, don't be late The bell is ringing Your friends are there like you remember Everyone's waiting It's time to let this nightmare go there's Nothing worth saving The world blew up in 2012 And all of this was just a dream Reflections of the lights of hell An echo of a dying scream All the friends I met in hell Will we meet again in 2012? All the friends I met inhell Will we meet again in 2012? Just a dream Just a dream Tucked away in 2012 Just a dream Just a dream Will we meet again in 2012? A tavern hovers in the clouds Behind its doors a hearth ablaze Heavy snow blankets the ground Every footprint's been erased You walk until the air is thin The path of clouds comes to an end The fire roars your table's set You take a seat with all your friends The world blew up in 2012 And all of this was just a dream Reflections of the lights of hell An echo of a dying scream On the outside night has fallen over Every world in every sky In the window other stars are Disappearing out of sight Couples exit stars grow cold but We're not ready Let's get a basket of fries for the table as the Room gets quiet The world blew up in 2012 And all of this was just a dream Reflections of the lights of hell An echo of a dying scream All the friends I met in hell Will we meet again in 2012? All the friends I met inhell Will we meet again in 2012? Just a dream Just a dream Tucked away in 2012 Just a dream Just a dream Will we meet again in 2012? Here we are the final table I hear well we've got to go One by one they reach the exit Disappearing in the snow The music's stopped, the talking's over Now it's only you and me Like a dream I say "I wonder, when we wake up, do you think We'll meet again in 2012?"

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I have always had a fascination with glitch, from errors in video games, visual artifacts in the mediums of television and movies, to the otherworldly and mechanical sounds of glitch music. It gives the sense that the world is breaking, through laying bare the interface through which you experience it. This album is an attempt to take material from the extreme boundaries of sound and charted by glitch, noise, and industrial, and use it within the structures of rock, pop, and dance. This synthesis is called Glitchcraft, and F[r]iends is it's first defining statement.
The sound of Glitchcraft is primarily defined by using harsh noise, especially raw data, in tonal or rhythmic ways, looping noise to be used as synthesizers or chopping and quantizing it into percusssive shrapnel, or distorting a filtered noise to create deep waves of bass. Glitchcraft is also characterized by heavily affected vocals, extensive use of sampling, and breakcore-influenced drums.
A Dream Within A Dream creates a sound of digital dream pop sound enlaced with samples of the kauia o'o bird, the howling of wolves, and the voice of Thomas Metzinger and his lectures on self.
Nullabye (Glitchcraft Remix) is dance pop layed on an interlocking grid of ethereal sounds, gothic melody's, and chilling features from industrial artists Chaos Doll and Michael Idehall.
Nuclear Nitelite is a psychedelic blend of industrial rock and synthwave, narrating a journey across an apocalyptic landscape.

Lonely [Blightweaver] features vocals and lyrics by Issreley.
Nullabye (Glitchcraft Remix) features vocals and lyrics by Chaos Doll
Nullabye (Glitchcraft Remix) features vocals by Michael Idehall
My Ephemeral Mind (Glitchcraft Remix) features vocals and lyrics by Goddexx

Mixing and Mastering for Nuclear Nitelite, Nullabye (Glitchcraft Remix), A Dream Within A Dream and Cisters (Glitchcraft Remix) by Angel Marcloid at Angel Hair Audio (angelhairaudio.com)
Mastering by Angel Marcloid at Angel Hair Audio (angelhairaudio.com)

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released September 2, 2022

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