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In Solitude

by Ancient Mariner

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wolfhunter
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wolfhunter This all-too-short release is an encouraging, honest, and emotional record with poignant and pointed songwriting that speaks to the soul, as we, mankind, wrestle with God and ourselves. Favorite track: War In My Head.
Paul Wells
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Paul Wells Amazing album, Child Of Wrath is mind blowing. The band were kind enough to let me use it in my short film. It integrates with the soundtrack perfectly, hope to hear more soon! Favorite track: Child Of Wrath.
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Ryan DeGroot Child of Wrath...absolutely haunting, atmospheric, a perfect mixture of wanderlust, wonder and mystery wrapped up in a saturnine blanket.

This is what I imaging nomads of old could hear when they stared up at the starscape above an open plain stretching as far as the eye could see. Favorite track: Child Of Wrath.
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1.
In Solitude 04:22
When I locked away all the bottles of ink When the third evening came my voice had grown weak When the silence was all I could hear I didn't know who would whisper in my ear And the mirror in me is one that's cracked There's no consistency of the man in the glass Oh it's terrible to be alone With a person that you don't know Who will you find in solitude? What will you hear when silence surrounds you? Do you know? Who will you find? What will you hear?
2.
Acedia 04:07
My words spill onto the floor They lose their taste when they're lukewarm The don't mean a thing I've sunk into the room and lost heat and the dead air in I don't feel a thing In apathetic torpor I'm lost in quiet torture I can't feel a thing I watch the future unfold Plans and emotions seem futile It wouldn't change a thing I couldn't name the demon The noonday sloth that creeps in Into the abbott's mind exaggerating time There's danger in passivity The lion pounced and swallowed me Trapped behind the teeth of foul Acedia From the end of the earth I call My heart is faint with no more strength Bring my soul out of this prison And then I shall praise Your name
3.
Oh sweat it out All the night through Sweat it out There is nothing left to do Fight it out This war in your mind Fight it out Come out breathing on the other side A drastic change Is taking over you Like a storm There is no way out but through It could go One of two ways Where it will go It is much too soon to say 'The fire in my life has left me Everything but dead I don't know if I Want to see how this ends Oh I writhe in my bed With a war in my head' A wince of pain Anger and sadness Flash across your eyes As you fight off the madness I can see The goodness in your heart But that fire Is hard to hold once it starts So do not dwell On the shames of your past Let them fall onto the ground And watch them break like glass Your father's lies Are not yours to keep It's your life You decide where it leads 'The fire in my life has left me Everything but dead I don't know if I Want to see how this ends Oh I writhe in my bed With a war in my head'
4.
Was it by my own tongue I did not taste manna from the heavens that went to waste? Desires of the flesh are what I fed on But that does not digest nor sustain for long Was it by my own eyes I did not see pillars of cloud and fire leading me? Mirages in the sand are what caught my eye Drawing me out from the camp alone to die Child of wrath You wandered far In desert plight You're a faded star You are to be A child of light With eyes to see To breath new life Get up and breath new life
5.
Untitled 06:49
In me there isn't one good thing But in You I find a contradiction A once dormant design now causing friction You run against my grain Oh try, try as I might To pursue the good that I long for My body left me lying on the floor There's poison running through my veins Your voice was not a noise But the feeling of sun upon my face After blackest nights I rose in grace The darkness bled away Your eye saw further than mine Upon this road, long and twisting Towards Your home, thought I missed it When my feet gave away Abba Father! Abba Father!

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released July 2, 2013

Lyrics by Gabriel Jorgensen
Music by Gabriel Jorgensen and Matt Wilcox
Engineered and Produced by Matt Wilcox
Album Artwork by Luca Venter
French Connection: Eli Jorgensen
Guest vocals on War In My Head: Allison Noble

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