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The never-before-released title track from Escape the Clouds' upcoming full fourth album. There has been only one constant spectator overseeing all of humanity and the violence of which it has shown itself capable: the sun.

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Verse 1
Particles suspended in endlessness coalesce, compress, driven to ignition.
Gravity balanced with fusion creates illumination, boundless energy in motion.
Clouds swirl, condense into worlds and colors hurled into orbits that curl, ‘round a small spark, a fragile ark embraced in a galactic arm’s twirl.

Time and chance become elements, the letters of a sentence, on sentience, a blur of words uniting a grand tale of cosmic currents.
Soon, beneath the night, creatures stand upright, reign in the dark with fire bright, wary of what lies in the unknown fringes beyond the edges of the light.

Verse 2
Differences imagined create callousness in excess, an abscess, absent of cognition.
Uncertainty mixed with suspicion creates misinformation, breeding false conclusions.
Hate swells, a populace unwell, threatened with hell by those who sell their interpretation of how their nation and its aspirations are divinely compelled.

Fire and stone become implements, weapons of reverence, of vengeance, in the names of gods now wielded with building violence. / trod upon
Soon, by forge’s flames, bows and swords give way, guns and cannons adding to the fray, the future growing faint in a war of wrongs growing ever darker beneath the light of day.

Chorus
Our eras pass like moments beneath its constant presence.
Around it, we revolve.
Around it, we evolve.
Always present, its incandescence
Reveals our darkest flaws.

Bridge
Our petty wars can’t be seen from afar....
Fighting over one speck among trillions of stars.
All this brilliance, now used to tear the world apart
All that could have been, now just splinters and shards.

Verse 3
By the building light of burning books, histories are erased word by word.
Lessons learned to ash are turned. Only the suffering of the future can be heard.
As the fires wane, those who remain cast blame, and the cycle begins once again.
If only we could find a break in the clouds before we meet another end....

Chorus

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from A Hunger for Peace | A Fundraiser for Ukraine, released March 4, 2022
Music, Production, and Lyrics by Mark Rossmore

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