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Glow EP

by Skew Ring

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    Track List:
    1. Age of Onset
    2. Halo
    3. Body Horror
    4. Ghost

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1.
Age of Onset 04:10
Fuzzed pixel haze. White noise malaise. A wifi modem and a swollen pupil glaze. Fried synapses on fantasy. A crusty t-shirt and a clean search history. Trade my eyes for TV screens looping scenes from half remembered dreams. I’ll sleep in late and look for peace through cut up straws and torn receipts. ‘Till I can’t feel my brain for fuse blown hands and pinprick feet. Is this my pulse or someone else’s echoing? Is this near or far away? Just bolt my bones to time and space and make your name illuminate the touch screen glass that keeps me awake. I’m alone and need something to put against my nerve endings. (Does your heart beat steady?) I went to breathe and got the shakes, coughed up wires onto the sheets. Scratched the screen to see your name. A blue disease in 1080p.
2.
Halo 05:37
Reach for the chord burning holes in your sheets. Leave all the lights off and turn on your read receipts. Wide pupils shrink at the battery’s death. It’s hard to sleep when you can feel in your chest. But they’ve got well drinks to keep that hollow pumping at ease. While we measure what we believe in half grams and bummed cigarettes. I finger keys and grind down my teeth. Cause everyone’s got work in the morning. Avert your eyes and walk on by. Like everything’s alright. Like I don’t check my pulse in hope to find a steady rhythm that means I’m fine. Like it’s not still within me to pull out all my guts and get off on your sympathy. Or soon, when everyone has gone home, to say your name in the dark. You'll check your phone, hoping for some name, and all that shows up is three in the morning. But I still believe that this is better than sleep: The message later that you’re coming by. The bruised blue hand prints healing above your thighs. I’ll trace their lines as if they were mine. Love grows within the space where our lies coincide.
3.
Body Horror 04:47
My eyes are open but I think that somehow I’m still asleep. I need something just to keep my face from numbing when I breathe. Cause I can’t move, sit up, or speak with dead weight legs and welded teeth. Paralyzed by what’s inside the fevered dendrites of my mind. Tied to a box spring, cauterized while walls close in and shadows rise.There’s this thing I need to say that my jawline won’t let me. So the thought just plays and plays and I’m afraid of what it means: Though our neurons look the same what flows inside keeps us estranged and though I’m picking up my feet I’m not sure if what I see is memory or coma dream. I saw the doorknob eat the key. I’m not sure but I think there might be something wrong with me. They cast our heads in the same shape then filled them up with something strange. So for every body’s brain there’s a locked room with no key and for every dead eyed face a feeling without a name. I wanna show you what’s behind but I’m afraid to pull the blinds. I’ve got black mold on my jeans. I think my lungs are full of teeth. I’m eating yellow pills to ease this lethal heart rate’s quickening. The ceiling bloats to then recede. What’s it like on the other side of what keeps me wondering if I can trust the things I’ve seen or if pulling up the blinds means looking out into nothing? Open up the door and see what it means to say to be. Open up the door and see. Echo back if you can hear me. I’ve got black mold on my jeans. My lungs are full of cavities. I’m pounding on the door to see If locks or skulls mean anything.
4.
Ghost 04:37
I'm in love with a ghost that never was alive. I only can see her from time to time and when I can't sleep at night. I've been feeling alone for quite some time. There's a mouth forming words in the mirror but it's not mine. And every moment's the same, yet I'm still running away. Nursing delusion while I drift through the days instead of being where I am. Things are moving so slow. I wonder when I'll feel whole. And where within all these reflections and screens can I drop off my soul? Filter my yellow teeth. Sepia my memory. Render down what's made of bone and of meat until it's nothing like the real thing. Siphoned identity. Atom split and particle beamed. To have a body is to be lonely, but in there you might see me. A ghost and I are going out tonight to float through downtown bars and burned out halogen light. In the mirror, I look to see her staring back, and she looks just like me.

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released January 25, 2018

Engineered and Co-engineered by Aydin Ozbek and Cole Hamel at Pink House Studios
Mixed and Mastered by Morgan Travis

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