satsmyth

Lyrics

[INTRO — TRANSMISSION] [Raw Cassini-inspired electromagnetic hiss][Plasma chirps moving unpredictably across stereo][Deep industrial pulse gradually emerges][Distant harmonic-trance pad buried beneath static][One narrow frequency sweep climbs upward][Whispered vocal heavily filtered like intercepted radio traffic] “Color bends behind the ring Count the teeth but miss the seam Something old is listening Somewhere between red and green” [Industrial kick locks at 150 BPM][Trance arpeggio materializes from the radio noise][Downtuned guitar enters on final measure] [VERSE 1] [Mechanical industrial-techno groove][Syncopated 7-string guitar][Cold bass][Restrained intimate vocal][RPWS-style whistles answer vocal phrases][Harmony remains beautiful but distant] “Red climbs blue Blue becomes white I drew a door On the back of night Follow the line Don’t follow me Three-fifteen Where time should be” [PRE-CHORUS] [Kick becomes relentless][Guitar rhythm simplifies][Ascending plasma sweep slowly crosses entire frequency range][Vocal gains aggression] “Round goes the father Under goes the sun Count all the children And subtract one” [CHORUS] [Massive harmonic-trance release][Soaring synth harmony][Crushing guitars][Live drums layered over techno kick][Clean melodic vocal reinforced by distant shouted doubles] “SATURN Turn the wheel again Eat the beginning And dream of the end SATURN Speak through the noise A thousand empty mouths One electric voice” [VERSE 2] [Hard cut back to industrial groove][Bass becomes dirtier][Nu-metal rhythmic vocal delivery][Cassini chirps become part of percussion][Short bursts of static between phrases] “The graph grows teeth The colors breed Three-ten below Three-thirty-three I found a sickle Under the sound Cutting a circle Into the ground” [PRE-CHORUS] [Trance arpeggio begins climbing][Guitar harmonics imitate radio whistles][Increasing stereo movement] “Father behind me Child ahead Which one is living? Which one is dead?” [CHORUS] [Full harmonic release][Wider guitars][Higher trance countermelody][Increasing vocal layers] “SATURN Turn the wheel again Eat the beginning And dream of the end SATURN Speak through the noise A thousand empty mouths One electric voice” [EXTENDED CHORUS] [Maximum convergence of industrial techno, nu-metal and harmonic trance][Relentless four-on-the-floor kick][Huge live drums][Downtuned guitar wall][Euphoric arpeggios][Multiple exponential radio sweeps rise independently like the vertical streaks of the Cassini spectrogram] “Turn Turn Turn the wheel No center No edge No beginning Kronos below Kronos above The signal eats time And time eats us” [Half-beat suspension][Everything except trance harmony and rising radio tone disappears] “SATURN” [Full instrumentation crashes back] “Turn the wheel again SATURN Turn the wheel again SATURN— What did you swallow Before we began?” [Final SATURN vocal stretches upward while merging with an exponential Cassini-style frequency sweep][Human voice gradually becomes indistinguishable from radio emission] [OUTRO — THE LOOP] [Kick disappears abruptly][Guitars decay into feedback][Trance arpeggio continues alone][Individual notes slowly vanish][Electromagnetic hiss returns to foreground][Fragments of earlier vocals appear reversed and distant] “I drew a line To find the end” [Long plasma whistle] “It curved” [Static] “I followed” [Extremely distant pulse continues at 150 BPM] “I found the beginning” [Silence except receiver hiss] “It had my name” [Single enormous frequency sweep rises beyond audible range][No chord resolution][Static continues briefly][Transmission cuts mid-cycle]