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Seven Suns

by Black Forest

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1.
Aphelion 03:55
Grey city sky You laid me on my back Travel underground Living charcoal black Bring the footprints home Punch-clock operator A tear on your cheek Barefaced illuminator Darkest night of an age Aphelion I’ll take a gift from Aphelion Sunset points to mountains With the thaw, water yield And in the valley A wild field Darkest night of an age Aphelion I’ll take a gift from Aphelion
2.
Ghosts 04:09
Afraid to leave my house For the ghosts in the street Afraid to go out there For the faces I might meet Keep the locks all tight And I’ll stay right here all night Right outside my door They’re creeping and they’re lurking Right there down the street I heard they’re sleeping and they’re working Keep me safe and sound Right where I cannot be found I am too freaked out to enjoy myself And I’ve got the creeps I can’t appreciate my health And I’m only safe in bed, blanket over my head Had myself a dream About the cemetery keeper Told me not to be Such a sentimental sleeper I woke with such a start Found a cripple in my heart I am too freaked out to enjoy myself And I’ve got the creeps I can’t appreciate my health And I’m only safe in bed, blanket over my head
3.
Memories come and go Moments in a slide show What shines now in my mind May fade as I grow But looking back it’s nice to say That was where and when In that house, oh, in that town I was with those friends A faint image passes Flying like an old crow And on the ground, its shadow Proof there in the snow I remember shadows In every house I’ve been I just close my eyes And I’m back there again When another chapter ends… And we live in this place Citizens of a time But each time is touching Connected down the line I look through a window See a face from the grave He’s not gone, as he seems He’s an echo inside me
4.
When Will? (free) 03:12
When will I go Back to that place again Where darkness and light combine? It’s been so long Since I felt much of anything Today I’m sad, but that’s just fine Trudging through Three feet of snow And I know this is how it must feel When the only love You can get your little hands on Is the kind you have to steal When will? When will? When will? When will? When will it all fall into place? Just like a breeze Blowing in through the door That ruins all the order you’ve created And I’ve been leaning Out over the edge Trying to hold on to the things I’ve stated When will? When will? When will? When will? When will it all fall into place?
5.
Tambourine 03:11
Tambourine, wandering queen Where are you tonight? Tambourine, make my heart feel clean Lead me like a light Tambourine of the silver screen All sharp angles Tambourine, almost obscene With her bright brass bangles All the places I’ve been looking Nooks and crannies I’ve been cooking For my tambourine Long lost queen, where are you? Tambourine almost unseen Haunts and ghosts forsaken Tambourine on the mezzanine All my past has been shaken All the places I’ve been looking Nooks and crannies I’ve been cooking For my tambourine Long lost queen, where are you?
6.
Patient Sun 03:19
Quiet places Have you now in their sight A bell rings and a jaybird sings But I stay still all through the night And I’ve been spending all my time Waiting for the sun My shoes don’t fit and I’m out in the cold Like a man on the run Quiet faces Say a lot when you see them come Rain clouds, coming down On your head when you want some And I’ve been spending all my time Waiting for the sun I met a girl and thought good thoughts Oh, does she weigh a ton? Quiet erases And those things that you once said Just a symbol Been beating around inside your head And I’ve been spending all my time Waiting for the sun Haven’t said a single word Oh, and it’s been fun
7.
Oracle House 03:53
I banish all negativity Fill this space with light and love I have this strength, a wizard’s energy The Earth below and Heavens above I dissipate darkness collected This vessel’s essence reconvened By this simple spell I’m now protected Awakening from divided dream Seeking out the secret word The secret tone that no one’s ever heard That lifts the veil to the space beyond That melts all time and leaves you pure alone I will visit the house of the Oracle At the ocean’s edge where influence ends There to witness quiet spirit spectacle In the shadows where the ruins bend Seeking out the secret word The secret tone that no one’s ever heard That lifts the veil to the space beyond That melts all time and leaves you pure alone
8.
Invocation 01:55
9.
White Domain 02:28
Pure white is all you see White ground, white skies, white trees Waiting for this little death to end Born into the world again Are you awake in the womb, are you breathing? Are you alive in the seed, ready and needing? Contractions shake the bones of the ground And we take on the ghost with a crying sound White light gives up its long cold watch And the heavens ablaze in a long low arch Oh to leave this Earth, to transpose this plane To split this light of white domain
10.
Seven Suns 04:06
Light bursts through A prism at the gate And there it breaks Amongst the someday grain These opticks reveal The heart of a spectral ghost At the center of it all The emerald host Seven suns across the ether proceed As gifts from a King For this sacrificial need At the rising of Spring Open hands to the seed Richard of York Gave battle in vain And in a fight he did start In its wake found slain And a rose there grew Its green thorns on the rise From the emerald host Broken-whole, recombined Seven suns across the ether proceed As gifts from a King For this sacrificial need At the rising of Spring Open hands to the seed
11.
Beautiful child Split the Earth Now full bloom Her eyes reflect The borrowed life of Helios She’s blind of the tomb Light glows From beneath her skin Transformed to sustain She vibrates Like the Astral King From whence she came It happened upon a glowing wheel Telestic hand opened the seal As above, so below A harvest of light is sown Pinnacle of Temporal grace In the heat mirage She patiently Radiates Perennial mystagogue It happened upon a glowing wheel Telestic hand opened the seal As above, so below A harvest of light is sown
12.
A cracked husk now gone to seed Dried up by old man time The wheels turn around again On our ancient elliptical line I feel a funeral coming A dirge echoes through the wood Everybody knows this was on the books Still fight it the best they could Your heart aches for something Just what you cannot say One more celestial burning Before these skies go grey So don now your old things Those that match the yellow and red Sweaters and scarves of wool Loves you had, now dead Your heart aches for something Just what you cannot say One more celestial burning Before these skies go grey
13.
The Return 01:41

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Recorded live to 1" analog tape over two weekends in Brooklyn, NY, "Seven Suns" is the debut record by Brooklyn's Black Forest.

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released July 26, 2011

Gann Matthews: vox, guitar (right speaker), organ (2, 3), melodica (12)
Michael Campbell: drums, harmony vox, toy piano (7)
Stephen Lopez: guitar (left speaker), harmony vox (5, 12)
Miguel Barrera: bass, harmony vox (5, 8, 12)

Recorded & Mixed by Mark Ospovat at Emandee Recording, Brooklyn N.Y.
Mastered by Paul Gold at Salt Mastering

All songs by Gann Matthews except 7 by Gann Matthews & Michael Campbell
All songs published by Matchsticks & Paper Music (ASCAP) ©(p) 2011

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