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Arrows of Anteros

by Luca Adonis

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Love's Vengeance 02:48
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Long have I waited for the day to come Love, answer my call For who could love more than me? Long have I wanted to have nothing more Warm than your touch For who deserves it more than me? Long have I waited for the day to come To throw myself off Of the top of that tall rock for you Long have I wanted to have nothing more Than love's vengeance Leather bolts and golden clubs will not do And as I see you with your shattered bones O Anteros Avenged me so we could unite again
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Brave New World 05:26
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Come watch the sun rising up with me There are no words for this feeling Hear the birds singing in the lee From the top of the tall trees Doesn't this feel just like a dream? A kind of love that is worth living To have you there, right next to me A single touch could set me free Stay by my side and I'll be yours for life By which all men dream of such unstrife What I would do to keep you warm at night Take my last breath of air as it exits my life I want to give you the stars and Scream your name from The top of the mountains Hear my cries echoing If I could pick all these flowers I'd Fill a field with these shades And I'd give them all to you Red roses fill my love for you, darling My passion burns irrevocably Fire spreads through the hills and seas And in the field, lies a tiny seed Sprouting forth my endless love for thee But I stand atop a great valley Hear the buzzards circling round me Littered with bodies in the heat Diving down to gorge on their feast Don't look back upon the pillars of salt Take our jumping pole and prepare to vault Soaring through the air, we do exalt Steer the ship and I'll fill it with love to a fault See the stars fall into the sky, they're Burning brightly Exhausting fuel as they catapult Like acrobats in the void And as they're landing down So gracefully, we plant Our feet on the other side, my love Peonies fill my love for you, darling The joy of my life waits for me Squinting to the east as it blows winds of change We'll make it through this great leap A brave new world awaits, dawn of a new age I want to give you the stars and Scream your name from The top of the mountains Hear my cries echoing If I could pick all these flowers I'd Fill a field with these shades And I'd give them all to you White lilies fill my love for you, darling I want to give you my heart and Have you there, be Right by my side, my love Give me the strength I need To tear apart the oceans and Brave the cruel night And I'd give myself to you If you would do the same for me, darling And I'll love you with all my heart And I'll love you with all my heart And I'll love you with all my heart I will love you till death does us part
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Forbidden Love 03:39
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Two star-crossed lovers eyes meet But they are not meant to be They share their hearts in life and death A tale as old as time But strife is not buried with their bones Nor are their houses alike in dignity Exiled from the eyes of their families A forbidden love of Achilles Montagues and Capulets beholded As the bloody War of the Roses Crossed the Rubicon and unfolded An endless battle for the throne Unseat my heart and replace it with yours And you'll never be alone A pair of live hearts don't beat for you Or for me, but for the memories we share Of eternity And I love you truly, no matter the cost Tell me you're mine, we'll make a brand new start Away from the tragedy of the wars The wars which encompass who we are Montagues and Capulets beholded As the bloody War of the Roses Crossed the Rubicon and unfolded An endless battle for the throne But there is no throne, the war's in their mind Fought to keep away love from humankind We made no choices, yet we're still entwined Forever, you and I, we're no longer confined To be who we are and love who we want Isn't that what a good life is all about? To die happy with your arms holding mine To give it all meaning in life's grand design When the sky turns aghast and sick with grey To cry out rivers rushing west The sun shines through its heavy weight A rainbow shining through its ducts They could not crack our Enigma Struggled to deliver us from our stigma But you know that we are not malignant We're just two unyielding souls in love Two star-crossed lovers eyes meet: And they are meant to be They share their hearts in life and death A tale as new as mine
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Lifegiver (ft. Joe Agger) 05:29
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My body is safe When I lie next to you I feel so warm When you hold me in your arms In your arms Can you feel my flower bloom? Can you hear my beating heart? Hold me closer and closer Till the space between us is gone When I heard your voice I was drawn Like a phantom floating through the night You sweetly speak your velvet words And I want to lay in our field of poppies When I heard your voice I wished I could see you I can't take it How much longer should I wait? Longer still I hope I don't come off as bored Detached from all the things you do Numbed out from the pain of life When my heart melts with you every time And if you speak my name, I will appear I can almost feel you in the mirror Don't you know I've been waiting here For what feels like a thousand years And I'm the life giver, and I will give My life to you, my sweetest dear As all good lovers long to do My wish is to lie down with you My love My heart Tell me we'll make it through Cross the Acheron to sit in hell with you And we could run away, you and I To the grassy fields, hands intertwined Till the bitter coldness of the night Leaves us huddled here, aching for life And are you ready to embrace it all? Can you hear the rustling leaves of fall? Leaving the wasteland to start anew Till the reaping scythe has crossed us, too
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Blue 07:53
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Your flaming locks of golden hair Dangle like stars from the night sky I look up to see them shining above me But no star is brighter than you I'll follow you anywhere you go I'll follow you where the road leads us both I'll wake up in the morning despite my swaying temperaments I'll shake off the slumber just to go I'll take a train ride off to nowhere and I'll watch the tulips bloom People's lives passing me by, a village in every corner I see And all the sunshine and the splendid glory of a life built for us both I took the last stop and hopped off the top as I went rushing to you Forever just to reach you, so I could spend forever in your arms And I think of what we could be But I have to do Everything to stop myself From telling you I love you I have to do Everything to tell myself You'll only leave me blue Blue Blue Blue Blue Blue Your sirenic voice, hazel eyes Ravage the walls of the kingdom I had built To keep me safe from the ones who'd do me harm But I'll lower the bridge to let you through I'll follow you anywhere you go I'll follow you if you'll have me too I hesitate to ask when everybody else Has left me bare, shaking all alone In favor of someone who Looks prettier than the heart they took Or skinnier than my body could ever look You know I'm not that, do you But still, you make me feel human too And all our time together had taught me I no longer have to think I'm used Cause you don't care, quite the opposite You like me for who I am, I wish I could too So with my bare feet on the ground I walk like a lion to a new world with you Yet I have to do Everything to stop myself From telling you I love you I have to do Everything to tell myself You'll only leave me blue Blue Blue Blue Blue Blue I can feel safe when I'm with you Somebody who disperses the loneliness through Who asks me about how my life is going And cares about the answer, too Somebody who melts my heart with every word Who makes me smile without a sound Somebody who brightens up the day with every grin And makes the dark less lonely too Somebody I could share my heart and soul with Who won't make me mend it soon And I could spend my whole life Talking about the ways you make me smile I guess at the end, all I wanted to say is I only feel happy with you And yet, still, I fear to ask, I Worry about impending doom So I have to do Everything to stop myself From telling you I love you I have to do Everything to tell myself You'll only leave me blue Blue Blue Blue Blue Blue
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Arrows of Anteros 06:20
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I awoke from the deepest sleep Only to find you right by me My heart beat its path to you As quiet as earthquakes When I woke, we up and went away Under the eye of the North Star I followed you through grassy fields You would be the one to save me, I believed Perched up from trees, the owls dote What do they know that I don't? I keep meeting their glare with mine But I'll blot out the sound and consign The wind blew and the bells rang The stars shook our souls right back Back to the body that takes its form Wandering in this world, but never alone And you, your eyes gladly met mine You carried me up that hill by the riverside The lines were blurred, I saw stars in my eyes Until your face I could not recognize Sailing the sky, the doves stoke The fire in me, but still, you're smoke The love I have for you is twined With the war that goes on in my mind The world unraveled round me like yarn And you brought me a panacea But still, my shapeless, bloated form, it yearns To find its way to the Great Return You, with your loving, gentle arms Held me tightly through the night's dark storm And I could almost feel humanity Finding its way back to me And while the night had raged on Crows had flocked to us both Cawing out a cacophony To them, something like a symphony And I could see comets in the sky Pulled from the void to burn for my sight Much to the universe's delight We were comets falling in free flight And I couldn't find you anymore Not in the fields, or in the darkest storm I could feel every part of me Twisting and turning to find where you could be And I, with my boundless love divine Stretch out to meet your west-seated eyes And you, with your sugar lip that touches mine But still fails to breathe out life So, I, with my broken soul and mind Beg for you to reconstruct and bind A new me in your image where our hearts would gladly intertwine in love But I can hear the rustling autumn leaves Blown by the wind as I speak your name to grieve And I walk, as always, on my path alone No end in sight, no love making itself known
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Blanche Monnier 03:42
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I rest in the arms of your holy kingdom Entrapped myself in your endless system The heart of Man is bound by his wisdom Solitude seeks comfort, but will only be his victim I am covered in fire in a burning room With no one around to witness the flames I thought I saw you there, but it was just a ghost Of when you first left home 700 years ago Confined in your grand halls, gilded with bones Leaves me brittle, unable to atone The flames are the first light my eyes have drawn Now lay my bones in your altar of stone My skin drapes the walls of your hallowed home My eyes are quenched in the blood your light has shown My heart is yours to feast on, and yours alone My soul finds release when your scythe begins to sow I can see, I can see those who claim to "love" now You will know, you will know, no longer disavow The bonds that tie us are long gone Only malice binds us now Lord, forgive me if I have sinned But this I ask of you, though it hurts me Snuff his name out of the wind This, you must do It may seem too late, or too harsh But I am through with this, oh, hear my plea Avenge my name and mine alone Help me stay true You understand? This, I must do
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Autumn 04:14
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Autumn's leaves calcify for me to walk On their mass graves of brittle bones The tall wind blows little stones But somewhere the marrow loans A life for its harrowed home The only one it's ever known And sometimes I wish I could be A bird who knows how to fly free but I admit that I'd given up a walkway Another leaf, turned to brittle stones For someone like you to step all over me And can't you see, I'm just trying to feel seen I'm not just a ghost to you, I've got to Carry a pail of lily petals To guard me from the steaming hot piss you throw at me And maybe that, that is why Autumn's leaves have calcified for me and Maybe it knew that I always feel this kind of way And it hurts to see people living your own dreams Forbidden love, it plagued us both But in its wake we found new hope A better world, as it was told I gave my life, your ego stroked Forbidden love, it plagued us both But in its wake we found new hope A better world, as it was told Embraced fire when there was smoke Would I could break with worldbound life The one I love turns to loathe me You came in the night with a steady hand The bite of steel lovingly entered me The pool of blood had fully engulfed me Seeping into the roots of a new me You planted me a grave of daffodils As serpents coil around doves aplenty Pick up the broken pieces and start all over again (I loved you most) Pick up the broken pieces and start all over again (I loved you most) Pick up the broken pieces and start all over again (I loved you most) Pick up the brittle broken pieces (And recount the memories past)
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Everywhere and Nowhere 07:30
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Autumn comes and my leaves begin to fall Through the seasons, nothing changes at all I hoped one day I'd call you mine But now, I know, that day is no longer in sight Feel my roots harden at your poor scrawl Through the changes, I hear your dying drawl My only wish is to go back in time Before I ever asked to call you mine Winter comes, bringing its endless snow For the earth, through its seasons, comes to know Even in death there can still be life And knowledge, though rife, it brings endless strife Westbound rivers still run but I do not My heartbeat slows, but it hasn't yet stopped I have come home to where I don't belong And I'm trying so hard to still feel young And Spring comes, delivering a life anew Feel the rain graze my pale grey skin with dew I hope I have learned something from you If only it was to shroud my heart into A fragment of the purity I held true And the heart, it beats blood, but not for me Broken into these fragments, spills from leaves Life springs forth from this desolate misery Summer comes, bringing a golden sunset Boundless love locked away in an archet Slumberously waiting for the mind to whet Syzygies start to write their eulogies As I run towards misyoken tragedy And I have learned but still I can't seem to Know if you loved me like I had loved you But it is nothing I have not been through I am the bearer and the witness Of all the hurt you lovingly doled me How could I ever forget this How could I ever forgive myself? I still see your name in every corner I still see the scars you tried to repair, and I still see you in my shunted daydreaming Holding hands on a train off to nowhere The day of disillusionment has come I've been running all my life to find myself a brand new life But I can no longer deny it The burdens of my past will haunt me to my grave. You're not who they're looking for, they tell me, There's nothing wrong with you, except your looks A man who's got his life together, or A man who looks nicer on the eye That's not you, they say.

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9 songs of cosmic proportions fuel the intensity behind this album. Written during and recorded after the escapist fantasies of Avalon, the album Arrows of Anteros expands on many of those themes, yet also brings with it a complicated and tumultuous relationship that breaks down over the course of the album. Despite the dreamy orchestrated soundscapes of this album and the many allegorical references throughout, Arrows of Anteros is grounded in the real world. The songs on the album talk about an intense, over the top kind of love that almost feels too good to be true, which sets it up for the rock bottom fall, and eventually, you think you've learned and can pick yourself back up again, but to purge the memories of this person, you have to allow yourself one last outburst of these intense feelings to be exorcised from your mind, in order for the rose tinted glasses to finally come off and see the ruins around you. The album ends ambiguously: now that you can finally see everything for what it is, where do you go from here?

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released May 27, 2022

All tracks written and produced by Luca Adonis.
Lifegiver has Joe Agger featuring on vocals, Everywhere and Nowhere has Aodhán Collins on guitar, and the album art was painted by Ben Buchanan.

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