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The geometry of restlessness
Words are only one eye twitch
Away from the real thing
Away from the real thing
Double dealing chemicals
We are unrepeatable
So close to the real thing
So close to the real thing
We are the 3rd
In the order of being
Between 2 and 4
The reverse
We’re careening
Secrets of the minor lines
Meridians and quantum time
So close to the real thing
So close to the real thing
Then I see you sitting there
The corner in your magic chair
This is the real thing
This is the real thing
We are the 3rd
In the order of being
Between 2 and 4
The reverse
We’re careening
The eternal in the 1st place
The eternal in the 1st place
So full of fire
So full of fear
But no one’s asking questions here
No need to grow
We’re in control
There’s nothing else we need to know
Cause after all what is truth?
Take it or leave it
Deny the proof
Keep looking down
No one’s around
Or so we tell ourselves
The eternal in the 1st place
The contradictions I’m in 3rd place
In the middle, those who see your face
There’s so much sound
No conversation
We’re so consumed
No confirmation
This information flooding in
Relativism begins
Swipe and Scroll
Left and right
Back to the garden
And take your bite
Selfless surrender
Is the only answer
The eternal in the 1st place
The contradictions I’m in 3rd place
In the middle, those who see your face
Coming to the brink of change
The past is shifting out of range
The wind is at our back
The time is near for victory songs
Foreshadowing a day so long
The wind is at our back
Then we pause just at the brink
All possibilities in sync
This is the real thing
We are the 3rd
In the order of being
Between 2 and 4
The reverse
We’re careening
We are the 3rd
We are the 3rd
We are the 3rd
We are the 3rd
I wanna know what I never knew
What I never knew
My life is not about me
Can you tell me truth?
What I never knew
I never knew
I wanna know what I never knew
What I never knew
My life is not about me
Can you tell me truth?
What I never knew
That I never knew
My life is not about me
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Tell me what I wish for
Tell me what I’m here for
Tell me who to follow
And why I’m feeling hollow
Tell me do I need you
Tell me how to please you
Tell me do you truly think there’s hope
So many voices
Vying for the undivided me
Competing and compiling
Just to glimpse my glory be
Cause isn’t everyone supposed to be happy?
Oh, isn’t everyone…
Isn’t everyone supposed to be happy?
Happy…
Happy…
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Fuel for the fire
A paranoid delusion
Thoughts with no conclusion
Scream from your soul
At all the things betrayed
A world in disarray
Life is not whole
The truth is gagged and bound
The ship has run aground
Lights in the sky
Brace yourself for impact
Unrequested contact
Wish we could remember how we got here
Wish we could remember what went wrong
We are the 1st in the whole of creation
There’s nothing between us you’re our destination
Sleep while you can
You’re just a man
Changing your thoughts with a wave of our hand
Fuel for the fire
A paranoid delusion
Thoughts with no conclusion
We are lost
How can we still pretend?
We’re requesting contact
When are you coming down again?
We are the 1st in the whole of creation
There’s nothing between us you’re our destination
Sleep while you can
You’re just a man
Changing your thoughts with a wave of our hand
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Every inch of you
Spells disaster
You’re such a rush
You’re such a rush
You have something you’d like to say
Maybe later on, maybe today
You’ve never talked this way before
You’re such a rush
You’re such a rush
I don’t know what I’m feeling now
But I feel I’m drowning
Deep inside
You can dish it out
But you can’t take it
You’re such a rush
You’re such a rush
You own your history
And you’d sell your rights
To the highest bid
You’re such a rush
Every inch of you spells disaster
You’re such a rush
You’re such a rush
I don’t know what I’m feeling now
But I feel I’m drowning
Deep inside
I don’t know
I don’t know
I don’t know
I don’t know…
Feeling now
What am I feeling?
What am I feeling now?
I don’t know what I’m feeling now
But I feel I’m drowning
Deep inside
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The reasoning is mad
The quantum of the action
The spin up and down
Tunneling through barriers
Trapped teleportation
A real life simulation
Constructive interference
Destructive incoherence
Entanglement of life
Superconducting
A late irradiation
The building blocks of life
The things that we don’t see
Behave as waves
A light that can’t be seen
Is right in phase
The time is canceled out
Energy saved
Come and look with me
Collapse the wave
Come and look with me
Collapse the wave
The struggle and toil
We’re spinning on the surface
Always looking down
Tunneling through suffering
Of our own making
The joy is for the taking
Destructive incoherence
We fight the better fight
Just to see who’s right
Superconducting
Delayed radiation
Waiting for the cry
The things that we don’t see
Behave as waves
A light that can’t be seen
Is right in phase
The time is canceled out
Energy saved
Come and look with me
Collapse the wave
Come and look with me
Collapse the wave
Just give me a reason
Just give me a chance
Has the time come to collapse the wave?
What have we done?
Where will we be?
When there’s no one
With no want and need?
Fall on your knees
Consistently
What do you want?
What do you need?
The things that we don’t see
Behave as waves
A light that can’t be seen
Is right in phase
The time is canceled out
Energy saved
Come and look with me
Collapse the wave
The reasoning is mad
The quantum of the action
The spin up and down
Tunneling through barriers
Trapped teleportation
A real life simulation
The struggle and toil
We’re spinning on the surface
Always looking down
Tunneling through suffering
Of our own making
The joy is for the taking
Just give me a reason
Just give me a chance
Just give me a reason
Just give me a chance
To collapse the wave
Collapse the wave
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A wide open sea
Reflected in your eyes
You are to me
A sunset that refuses to die
Change for the bus
Never have time
This city’s rush
Is sometimes sublime
Give me time to stop and stare
Stop and stare
Give me time to breathe the air
Breathe the air
Salt water spray
Taste on your tongue
Your kisses to me
Are melodies yet unsung
Missing my stop
Asleep on the train
Walk back uptown
I’ll smile in the rain
Give me time to stop and stare
Stop and stare
Give me time to breathe the air
Breathe the air
Breath the air
Life is sometimes sublime
Breathe the air
Life is sometimes sublime
Breath the air
Time to breathe the air
Breath the air
Sometimes…
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What is this quiet?
A new kind of stillness
Where no one’s talking
A new kind of illness
What is this quiet?
It’s quite the rage
A sound stampede
Of endless letters
On an endless page
I’ve got to right size
I’m gonna downsize
Gonna focus my eyes
On a smaller prize
I’ll be wise and I’ll capitalize to make my dreams more simplified
I’m gonna bite size
I’m gonna fun size
Gonna exercise
My right to minimize
I’m a prize and I’ll maxim-il-ize my need to keep life pocket size
Only out of control
But no soul senses
There’s nothing we don’t know
But knowledge never quenches
Do I have what I need
Do I need what I have?
To simply live a life - Live a life
Ones and zeros
Taking no space
Physically
But eventually
Spiritually
Do I leave enough space?
I’ve got to right size
I’m gonna downsize
Gonna focus my eyes
On a smaller prize
I’ll be wise and I’ll capitalize to make my dreams more simplified
I’m gonna bite size
I’m gonna fun size
Gonna exercise
My right to minimize
I’m a prize and I’ll maxim-il-ize my need to keep life pocket size
If the power's out
The connection lost
Is it possible for us to return
From the line that’s crossed?
Would we recognize what we never knew?
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I see him running on the inside track
I feel him breathing down my back
I want you to know I have the remedy
‘Cause now I see
It’s not about me
Woken up to the question
Upon waking, Before talking
No prompting or suggestion
No effort, Only balking
Inward thinking, always I
Fear relieving, can’t deny
On repeat we’re hypnotized
Ten more times we dramatize
Pursue it
Pursue it
Pursue it ‘cause it’s fleeting
If you can’t have it
You’ve lost it
There’s no use in debating it
Isn’t everyone (everyone)
Supposed to be happy? (happy)
Pursue it
Pursue it
Pursue it ‘cause it’s fleeting
If you can’t have it
You’ve lost it
There’s no use in debating it
Isn’t everyone (everyone)
Everyone supposed to be happy? (Happy)
Isn’t everyone (everyone)
Everyone supposed to be happy?
I see him running on the inside track
I feel him breathing down my back
I want you to know I have the remedy
‘Cause now I see
Bringing roses to the battle
Offer repeatedly
Weaving a wreath out of them
Placing them lovingly
So play a part in someone’s story
A story that’s not your own
A supporting actor meant for little
The fifth within a chord
And for some odd reason this is when
we’re suddenly content
It doesn’t mean we’ve given in
With all the spirit that we’ve spent
Bringing roses to the battle offering them repeatedly
Weaving wreaths out of them all
For every ten, one Lily
Can the glory be (found inside, found inside)
Inside of you and me?
You’ve lost the version of yourself you used to fight for at all cost
It’s simply that you’ve honed the skill to push aside yourself until
You realized (realize realize)
It’s not your will
You lost the version of yourself you used to fight for at all cost
It’s simply that you’ve honed the skill to push aside yourself until
You finally realized (realize realize)
It’s not your will
It’s not about me…..
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Allow the time to go along
A line of clocks to count on
As good as gold, and as true as steel
With the bending light to see and feel
Step outside and soak up all the sunlight
Ultraviolet, infrared descend
Step outside and soak up all the sunlight
Step outside and soak up all the sunlight
Step outside and soak up all the sun
The darkening of future past
Magicians chant to make it last
There’s one chance out between to see
The fire is burning, walk with me
Another moment comes along
A present to a past that’s gone
Little man of steel and man of power
Time stays young and never flowers
Step outside…
Step outside and soak up all the sunlight
Ultraviolet, infrared descend
Step outside and soak up all the sunlight
Ultraviolet, infrared descend
Step outside and soak up all the sunlight
Ultraviolet, infrared descend
Step outside and soak up all the sun…
See it, coming
See it, coming
It’s coming like a tidal wave
With the bringing forth the light brigade
Little man of darkness, soon be bright
Fall upon the shore and share the light
For it’s as good as gold and true as steel
With the bending light to see and feel
Step outside and soak up all the sunlight
Ultraviolet, infrared descend
Step outside and soak up all the sunlight
Ultraviolet, infrared descend
Step outside and soak up all the sunlight
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Coming towards a change
The past is now out of range
A wind is now on our back
Pushing us from the pack
So now the time has come
To sing a victory song
And we recall it from
The day that lasted long
Go
Stop stopping, pausing we will go
Arriving new and we will go
Alertly freeing we will go
Stop stopping, pausing we will go
In shorts and shirts and we will go
In suits and jackets we will go
Go quickly go and we will go
Go quickly go and we will go
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Innovative New York-based progressive rock band IZZ is thrilled to announce the release of their latest album, "Collapse the Wave," available for pre-order now on Bandcamp:
izzmusic.bandcamp.com and on all major streaming services on June 11, 2024. This inventive new work plunges listeners into a deep exploration of existential themes, such as the "death of the ego," the relinquishing of "self," and the idea of parallel realities.
"Collapse the Wave'' marks a significant evolution in IZZ’s musical journey, melding intricate rhythms and complex harmonies to craft a narrative both compelling and transformative. The album, produced by IZZ keyboardist and vocalist Tom Galgano, features a collection of eleven tracks that challenge conventional perceptions and invite listeners to explore beyond the boundaries of traditional rock.
John Galgano, co-founder and bassist of IZZ, describes the album as "a sonic exploration of the self and the universe." He adds, "We tried to weave together each of our musical influences with philosophical, spiritual, and scientific ideas to create an album that explores both personal and universal themes."
"Collapse the Wave" is not just an auditory experience; it’s a journey through the self and the cosmos, making for a listening experience that is as thought-provoking as it is entertaining and fun.
