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Scarlet Road

by Thannos

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1.
The Journey 05:16
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pt. 1 Lullaby Sleep for the restless Dream of the dream you made Under gray skies Under the drizzling rain Sleep for the sleepless Dream of the dream you made We will wake you After the world has changed pt. 2 Real Life It's printed on paper Or searched on the web It's history mispelled by many An unfinished business That follows wherever I've been A battle was won For the better or the worse You told me again "Go your own way" I tried to believe But then everything turned into dust Maybe this isn't my war I'm sickened and tired of this bullshit Don't be judgemental no more This ain't my real life There's a note in my pocket Handwritten in blue Says "Forever yours, I adore you" I had to be free And I know now you understand why Some flowers have bloomed On the dirt trail I paved You have to go alone when they need you There's so many roads But you see dear, I never quite choose But how can I describe it all? I wish you were here, I could tell you Come be my baby some more This ain't your real life The picture was crystal But the sound wasn't clear Mission bells rang in the distance The city applauded But somehow it felt like we lost I don't wanna run anymore Just give me your lips an I'll kiss them But you and I both know the score This is the real life
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Morningstar 04:11
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From the first day of creation There were things one shouldn't touch Yes, I know all about it Because she told me as much And we drank the wine Then she consigned her secret fruit to me I ate it all at once And said "I best be on my way" Tell me what am I supposed to do With reoccuring dreams of you I had to find an answer in your eyes 'Cause from the first time that I saw you You have always been the one To make me stay, I pumped the brakes But failed I've forgotten how to fly But let me say I try my best I ain't got wings to lift me But at times I do have friends Now I'm crossing borders Racing like a radical monsoon Sometimes I dwell in melancholy Chatting with the Moon And I say: "Tell me what I'm supposed to do With all these scattered dreams of you" I seldom find an answer in your eyes All those faded blistered notions Left me stone-cold and unconscious As I took the fall I understood it all If what the say ain't what they mean Then what they mean can mean no good This world is built on subterfuge I'd change it if I could Oh, but greed is prideful lust For what those sloths cannot possess They can't fulfil their appetite And starting to get mad And if this generated slaughter Ain't enough to make you sad Well, look at me, I've cried my share Perhaps it's now your turn All that I'm left with now is freedom And I craved it for so long Fought past my inhibitions But success can kill a goal Still I don't know what I'm supposed to do With all these faded dreams of you I once saw my reflection in your eyes And it burned just like an ember Shining all the way to heaven Maybe one day I'll be someone's Morningstar And through the disappearing halls of history We're jumping back and forth ahead of time And when every knowledge fades I'll keep on bending 'til I break Then I can redefine this puzzle from the start All the things that I've forgotten The subversion that I plotted And the fact that living way too fast Is bound to bring you down But from the first day I could walk Well, I was walking straight to you I may've been doused in ignorance But know this much is true Now won't you tell me, does this shrine of lies shine brighter than the truth? I wouldn't know now, would I? All I ever see is stars And every sunset holds a secret Like a dead man's fingerprints It strikes me as a diamond Bloody, prosperous, offbeat Oh, but I see the roads diverging And I know I gotta choose I don't think you will follow So I've got nothing to lose And there is nothing else that I can do With these forgotten dreams of you My God, what would I pay to see your eyes But I must first complete a mission This Unholy Inquisition Has been on my fucking trail since Earth begun If you wish to find me Chase the Morningstar
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Scandinavian Winter 05:20
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The climate is changing But I feel the same Should I drink more? Yes, I could Well, I'm still okay There's a girl smoking outside Even though she's freezing I guess habits they die hard But mostly the bad ones The old and the shaky They raised one more glass "And this one's for you" told me the man Who's sitting by the bar Must have killed his pain and that's his way Of doing the same to mine Oh, but the sweet smoker's mouth Seems to exhale my tune She'll be next door just dancing And I'm welcome too Then she'll grab me by the waist And bring me closer to her lips A Brazilian kiss to melt the streets Of Scandinavian trifling chill I'm halfway here, and halfway where I'm going when the night falls It's just like a dream A continuous attraction The circus is me I'm the jester, I'm the tamer I'm the elephant in the room Oh, how I've grown, how I've learned Hear me sing, watch me play All the chitchat from way back May just go to Hell And the breeze is gettin' in here Grab your coats and light a fire I'll stand still the way I'm moving And I'm sure I'll feel alive Oh but the climate is changing And I'm trying to care Hear the ice slowly melting Inside of this bar Well, I'll trade you all my sorrow For your money and some booze Freedom's not the way I thought it'd be But I reckon I can make it work I'll make it work. I'll make it how I want There's a girl smoking outside And her name is "Someone New" There's different show tomorrow night But she'll be gone too soon And then I shake hands with Michael He's always around Says that I should be careful To not join the club Well, I do not wanna die too soon I feel I just begun And all the weight upon my shoulders Could it graciously just turn to dust?
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The Sirens 05:49
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I don't know who to trust The shadow or the mirror The ghost residing here In walls that do have ears I thought I was alone I thought they disappeared That signified my loss I rode an on I steered Cross the riverside Where I lost my mind Beyond both time and space A darkened room awaits Inside you'll find a pen And do it all again When the bells toll thrice Try to be consise I'm always searching for the Sirens Where Muses bathed in naked light See past the scintillating streams that led this boat away from shore I don't know what to say It's all been said before Here's to the light of day Here's to the night of change Then I heard a cry From the other side But I'm still looking for the Sirens Where painters drew their final breath Don't strap me, set me free I promise i'll dive deep and won't look back The smoke that fills your lungs An overwhelming shade Beneath its mournful cloak Some twisted soul remains I'll keep on falling for the Sirens Where worlds collide and questions end I'll open up my arms And let them cloister me inside of them
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Four Colors 05:23
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Afterlife 04:56
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Maybe there's a fugitive in me after all Maybe I was born to run Honey, I'm no rebel, I'm a rolling stone I'm gone, I don't know 'til when Home is just a lie, security is a fraud Your safety's just a cage, you know Home was never the right place for me to try To say what I had to say Half a million priests said God is waiting I heard a couple demons claim the Devil's better They say there's an afterlife But I don't care I'm only trying to do the best with what I have right here So tell me How far would you go to make it? They say "Pick a path of virtue and you'll be redeemed" The other side insists that death is just a part of the win But I'd lose the minute I tried to fake it Seems to me you're wasting time and money To fulfil a prophecy that ain't real Well, I've had my share of predetermined correlations to know that yours is full of shit Stolen souls and theological commodities Just get out of your closet and see I had a conversation with Jesus on the cross He's gone and don't know 'til when He said there's an afterlife But He's not there All that He ever wanted to be was a simple man Who shares drinks with all of His friends beside him Being heard was something that without a doubt He craved But vicious men did not approve of the new road He paved Story goes They twisted His words around Him They nailed the carpenter on wood like destiny All the stories in Hid eyes Were still alive like memory But I am nothing like Him No, I am nothing like them When I heard the voices like inviting chants I turned and walked straight away Whether a hooded figure or a lady in red The deal is off, I'm not for sale This is not the end or the beginning It's just the middle of my singing One, two, three, four! (Five, six, seven, eight) This feels like an afterlife But I'm not dead It's just the luster of a brand new start misread I've come far It's hard to confess, I made it Now I've got more stories to discover And you bet I can And all you psychedelic angels Messing with my head I'll get by Your afterlife can keep waiting
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Parisian Lullaby 03:50
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Out of the darkness and into the light God, you're a magical woman Striding my way like a daydream parade Do you remember them still? Seasons may change But their glance still remains Frozen in time by the river Winter gets cold but their statue lives on I think they remember us still Otherwise I would fly with you Far from here I'm not a painter or anything close I'm hardly a poet around you Oh, but if you get across this dull portrait of words I hope you're the the first one to see And if you stumble upon a blue letter of yours Or lullabies under the moonlight Could my thinnest disguise wake a crack in your smile? Would you slap me and tell me you're real? Otherwise I would fly with you Far from here The city is dirty Our Lady is burning And begging to be left alone Away from the blue skies and back to the mist God, she's my favorite stranger Ol' days quite like this are a moveable feast And next thing you know you're the King Otherwise I would fly with you Far from here
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Hey Rider 05:42
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Hey Rider, can you hear the sound? Bend down, listen to the ground This river's dried up much too soon And this bridge is burned down to its roots Bend down, listen 'Cause the highway's got a name And sings its song for those without a home Gotta get out of here I'm taking all my best intentions All my roads and destinations Where I'm going I'm changing my life again Movin' on to the next station I'll precede my reputation All the way Where I'm going Hey Rider, did you hear the news? This world is changing way too fast You've searched for runes and stones For questions that you often left unanswered for a sanctuary of chance Which favors the bold Gotta get out again I'm taking all my best intentions And the cost of your salvation Where I'm going I'm changing my life again Movin' on to the next station I'll exceed all expectations Where I'm going Where I'm going I'm already far from shore I packed up all my best intentions And my roads and destinations And kept going Now I'm charming my way through Hell While they fight this war they started When it's done there might be nothing You don't care for Truth Oh, way back when The season of the witch is back (Gonna get out of here Taking all my best intentions All my roads and destinations Where I'm going) I'm shifting my path again Was always halfway here And halfway there And you have guessed correctly That I'll be a long time gone
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Story of Maps 03:36
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Bus, bus Take me away 'cause I must, must I must see her face one more time Before I am silenced by all this noise That's why I should trust, trust Trust an invisible man, he lives in my head And he's burdened with an uncanny way of unshrouding me Sometimes he tells me his stories of maps Pilgrims and vagabonds Who set out for riches and glory Hiding their tears from the rest of the world They wore their boots 'bout as thin as the air in which now they've vanished While some called them heroes Today they're just weirdos It's funny how days tend to change So pass, pass Pass me the bottle, it's alright I made all the money I need To pay for the night to go by more smoothly Just one more One more round and I'll be on my way It's a pipe dream they say Well, look at me now Always fashionably late Late, too late to get on that plane Late, music has changed now they say Don't write too many words No one listens anyway So let me sing you my story of maps Pilgrims and vagabonds They set out for fortune and glory Hiding their pain from the rest of the world They wore their boots 'bout as thin as the air in which now they've vanished Well, once they were heroes Today they're all weirdos It's funny how days tend to change Nobody cares
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1,000 Times 03:31
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Wheels gonna roll, streams will flow Street lines glisten Every new day is a stage, it's a show And boy, I've been takin' them all See the new kid on the block Proud like a rainbow Working her way to the top with a song Knowing that Death's on her door But she said "I've been killed a thousand times I've been killed a thousand times I've been killed one thousand times before" When I'm gone There'll be nothing left but seeds I sow And ONE thousand tales that I'll have told See now the leaves how they fall Gold like a treasure So why do I cry when they turn out the light? Why, when the rain cracks the sky? All that you wished is ahead All that you dreamed of Standing in line While some leaders decide No wonder the world is on fire But the world's been burned a thousand times The world's been burned a thousand times The world's been burned one thousand times before Still we grow Movin' backwards is the way to go There's one thousand things we'll never know And when the lines are blurred You'll find me waiting there Resting softly in a field of bones The fire that sanctified our cities will die down I'll be wide awake and much alive But you see I've been dead a thousand times I've been dead a thousand times I've been dead one thousand times before So kill me one more thousand times Kill me one more thousand times Kill me 'cause it's finally time to go And I'll go I am ready, I'm prepared to show all the world how brightly I can glow But the truth is no one wants to know I found my true voice Just too late
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Kutná Hora Blues 05:33
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The chest was shining As I walked in the room X sometimes marks the spot If you know where to look The choir was chanting Songs that no one had heard Sometimes the words are simple Life ain't a test The priest said "Son, you're not allowed here This is a convent, not a home" Slipped past the angels and the Gargoyles The chest was empty And the light went on And so I walked I walked and walked, my fingers crossed Through twisted miles and scarlet roads Feels like I'm riding But I never arrive I tried to tame my Demons Many years ago So I took them with me Out on the road They said that Rock n' Roll is bad for my soul The Blues are with me, baby Anywhere I go I was a Rebel and a traitor After I finished I moved on I sell my voice and nothing else now But I was disrupted by the end of the world A vision formed Come save us, come ye men of hope It's raining plagues, the good guys lost I'll keep on walking On a burning trail I see a kingdom born and bred in the night For years you waited but He never arrived I see they stopped the war and looked at the time I see that Heaven's here And so is the pyre You've paid with gold You've paid with blood and raised a storm For every child that has been shot I must be moving But I'll never arrive Ten million corpses will arise from the ground And they'll carve deep in stone The life they were denied And you'll cry And ask me why The Dead don't die They simply walk And we shall walk amongst them, watch Walk past the lines you chose to cross If I don't make it Well, at least know I tried
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La Pétite Mort 07:30
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Come by my side Lie on the edge of the rainbow Look at the map, follow that star See where they'll lead us now Just one more song We'll be gone after the fireworks Aren't they galore while we're marchin' on a land that was never home The city is dirty and so far away Out of reach, our fair Lady has died 'Cause I can't go back to the days I recall Cities may change but I'm still right here I died tonight At age twenty-seven I died in a way that carries me away To I'm somebody new I guess I'll fly Fly to the air that surrounds us Even the sky's just a box full of lies Nothing compares with you Well, I can't go back to the days I recall Open your eyes and you'll see where I was Cities may pass but I'm still right here Where you left me King of the Fools again Soaked in daydreams Craving a brand new day I'm gonna miss this But I have to go away I won't wait for a world that will never change

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Countless miles, scarlet roads, and a picaresque treasure hunt across the European continent. It's a story of maps, a pilgrimage of a restless rogue's newfound Freedom, if such a thing ever existed at all. From the chilly streets of Scandinavia, the Bohemian garrets of Prague, and the Parisian painters' lairs, stories unfold and shape a literary narrative developed through twelve songs that constitute "Scarlet Road".

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released November 8, 2019

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Extending beyond his Athenian roots, Thannos experienced his own (partly) fantasy journey as his music unlocked adventures that ultimately sparked more music! From underground dives to open-air concerts, his sometimes unconventional songwriting made him recognizable by a small yet fierce amount of music lovers. ... more

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