Ancient Evenings from Departure Songs by Lowering

ancient evenings

the night sky hangs above
an endless gaping maw
the stars contain no message
just indifferent blinking semaphore
pin us frozen rabbit-shadowed to the valley floor
and i hope that in our searching
we never stumble on to what we’re looking for

with molotov-hearts ablaze in our chests
we hunt with throats bared to the night’s dispossessed
roam through the gloaming
at home like the clouds
in the empyrean dome of the limitless shroud
witless we whisper
‘it’s a hopeless endeavour
there’s nothing for miles
hell, maybe forever’

each step we take to forget
all that we’ve ever been
our decline impossibly intertwined
with the beautiful, terrible things that we’ve seen
there’s no more time to fight the flow of the stream
the choices we’ve made will scour the world clean

give to me your bones
give to me your brothers
give to me your lives
give to me your lovers

• Ambient
• drone
• electronica
• experimental
• guitar drone
• shoegaze
• London