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The Lazarus Cord

from Lost Signal by Code

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Track originally appears on the album 'Augur Nox'

lyrics

Wading gapers lash & mow
And in flicking pitch
They call from the bottom
Restless arms
Stretching-out
Blindly bat at the scent of the surface
Where a nodding forest draws
Sweet airs from the sky
To weep down upon them
Beneath the crust
Skin like chalk
Features eroded & cracked hulls breaking-up

A sigh
That flies straight like an arrow
To bury itself beyond these halls of mould
Reprieve
Rise a bolt from the strong will
Another clambers onto the Lazarus cord

A line like dried skin, pearl & taught
Hangs through the barbs and lips of the shadow
Pressed by wide thirsty eyes
Wet with failure and wild with devotion
At its base a brawl of souls
Scrambled structures, flapping and broken
Fallen high from the cord
Dashed apart on the shards of their fathers

Alone upon that ivory line
A figure climbs the rope from the rotten heap
Back to life
Out of death
Watched by ancient, toothless and open mouths
Bawling out their crimes to the shadow
Elemental, hoarse and forgotten
Beneath the crust
Skin like chalk
Features eroded and cracked hulls breaking-up

A sigh
That flies straight like an arrow
To bury itself beyond these halls of mould
Reprieve
Rise a bolt from the strong will
Another clambers onto the Lazarus cord

And the rope reclaims a soul
To its weave of sinews

Enervating, the dust on their dry fingers
In a slow-formed intimated cascade
Curling smokres step across and, embracing
Like hunting nerves they scavenge for reason

On the Lazarus Cord

And the rope reclaims a soul
To its weave of sinews
Blind husks cling to the cord
leveled, their gaze at the roots and the damp soil,lined soft with light gossamer
Beheld from the catacomb by piercing black diamonds

A glazed and gelid ether
As waters over
Waxen features
Their eyes a glass
In granite seizure
But it's all that matters - It's all that matters now

On the Lazarus Cord

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from Lost Signal, released January 25, 2017
Words by Wacian

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Fundamentally thoughtful and intrepid CODE have been burning their own low path since the 2002 inception (London, England). Through the brittle avant-garde of Nouveau Gloaming (2005), the Spellemann-nominated Resplendent Grotesque (2009), the mad theatre of Augur Nox (2013) and the bleak, anaesthetic wash of MUT (2015) CODE has carved-out a stark new shape in modern music. ... more

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