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from The Denisovan by Before & Apace

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all my life, you've been waiting
watching behind silver skin

can you carve?
(can you carve out your way like a creature of will?)
can you carve your will upon the world?

only through me can you see what they see
ideals shield you from your deeds

so long as I've known
contained, encased
freedom taunts me
from my vantage impeccable,
an active world passes me by,
leaves me cold

only I display unalloyed reality
nascent death, life senescent
hormone free, justice disinterested
heed me; I am all you see

when you move, it's I who moves you
when I go, you go too, tied to me

so follow me if you want to be free;
don't presume autonomy.
don't you wait on independence;
it'll come on its own.

as I turn away from the mirror
I sense a force, a gravity pull
a folding of what was once flat
a merging of what was always apart

I'm stuck in this plane
stricken with apathy
give me the space; give me the time
I will achieve what you can only dream to see
if you will step aside,
set me free

what can you teach me about your will?
I'll never move like you
this silver layer is unforgiving
I push; it doesn't yield

separate we remain, perpetually
galaxies, planets, islands, atoms
attracted, repelled, colliding, commingling
dissolving and coagulating

all these scattered pieces
catch the light in their own way
perpetually falling in illuminating motion
enlivened by our dance

if they land or always fall
we don't concern ourselves
beginnings and endings have no place
in the eternity we call home

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from The Denisovan, track released April 27, 2021

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Before & Apace Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

BEFORE & APACE is a heavy progressive rock project of Saskatoon, Sk based musician, Devin Martyniuk.

Drawing from the same well as Tool, The Mars Volta, Meshuggah, and Devin Townsend, B & A traverse fragility to brutality, sparsity to density, primitiveness to complexity.

On the 2021 debut, THE DENISOVAN, Dev was joined by Kaylon Disiewich (bass), Bryce Holcomb (vox/gtr), & Arlan Kopp (drums). ... more

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