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Letting Go

by Benjamin Fortier

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1.
Drones 02:07
Don't let me lose control, can't fight the disease I'm letting it all go to fall on my knees I know that the decay will eat through the bone Watch my life fall away into the unknown Drones Take me away There is a veil of lies that shrouds the face There's memories inside they said they'd erase What I can't understand is what I can see The empty shell of man that I used to be Drones Take me away
2.
Instrumental
3.
Impulses 05:44
We want what anybody else would want To live and die free of guilt What I can't seem to wrap my head around Are these walls that we have built Ah, I hate myself for this You know that I can't let this be the end Watch and wait The gears begin to turn There is something imprinted in us It defines our being, chooses who we become To fight the impulses, we lose ourselves Destiny begins to fade away You know that I can't let this be the end
4.
I have a target for you Engage with extreme prejudice... Move them out of the open I didn't copy your last request Say again I've lost him He's gone
5.
Softly on the path you fade In shining darkness On the path you fade and the forest grows dark Casts long shadows on my heart here midst the flaming near snowing wolf paths among the winds that bows the great trees in their might
6.
Whatever the stars would say You said you would believe When they told you to go You said that you'd leave There's no point in trying You can't think without their song I'm hoping that someday I will prove them wrong She was gone by moonlight Said she'd travel by starlight Where has the time gone Slipping through my fingertips I thought I had control I thought you were a part of this
7.
These trembling hands can't scrawl a word The demon's breath upon my neck I'm waiting for the clouds to break For the unconceivable As we embrace, we fall This storm will not let up I'm struggling to stay afloat
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Dreams untouched by empty hands Endless silence flows throughout the hallways It creeps down the passages where no one Dares to enter or even talk about Eerily, we look at each other and those words of compassion That were never spoken fall out in syllables We think we understand, but we don't Embrace Try to forget about what was said Destroy feelings and emotions that will help me to rebuild Barriers block out understandings of understatements And words laced with feelings that we can never explain In the first place But here we are We use the elevators and stairwells and telephones And cell phones but are we really communicating? Are we really moving? Is the slow crawl of insanity and depression dragging Us along with the tidal wave we call morning? or is it... mourning? Whats the difference? We wake up and they're both there The sun blinds our eyes and we smash our alarms And sluggishly devout ourselves to a higher cause To the paper or plastic, love or hate atmosphere And back in the oaken hallways the reverberations of the lonely sound of love is echoing off the doors and old picture frames and Finally plants itself in a corner That no one will ever pay attention to When will it blossom? When will it bloom? Who will find it when it is most ripe?
9.
THE BRINGER OF THE BLOOD MOON RIDES FORTH THIS NIGHT WOE IS HE WHOSE MORTAL EYES LAY UPON THE STEED WHAT HO; THE MOON BEGINS TO WEEP

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This album has been completed. If you'd like to download it, it is free!

All of these songs are pretty much one take. One hit. I did the vocals pretty much all in one take, and never wanted to revamp any of the songs. I wanted to capture the raw emotion of how I felt at the time, and spending months and months of reworking and rewriting would really take away from that. So I spit this album out in about three weeks, and that's what you have. A medicore, poorly mixed electronica album with a few "ah-ha" moments.

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released September 4, 2009

I use some sounds from FreeSound.org, a great royalty free site for sounds you can download and manipulate!

This album is dedicated to all the people that I have come across, and all the events that have molded me into the person I am today. The title refers to wanting to just let go. Escape the boundaries and explore new dimensions.

Influences: Ulver, Nine Inch Nails, Pink Floyd, Tiamat, Agalloch, Saturnus, Isis, Pelican

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Benjamin Fortier Massachusetts

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This is a page for my miscellaneous projects. Expect a variety of genres and approaches to melodic music.

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