Name: City lights and desert dark
Duration: P00H09M53S
Description: In the altered state between an alert sleep and a darkened consciousness, Will finds himself dragged in a stream of strangers speaking unknown idioms. Unable to understand, unable to remember his own origins. Engulfed by a city with flashing lights, feeling instead the loneliness of a cold dark plain.

City lights and desert dark

from The leaf and the wing by Raven Sad

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In the altered state between an alert sleep and a darkened consciousness, Will finds himself dragged in a stream of strangers speaking unknown idioms. Unable to understand, unable to remember his own origins. Engulfed by a city with flashing lights, feeling instead the loneliness of a cold dark plain.

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City lights arising and I wake up
I begin to walk in the human tide
Can’t remember where I’m from – where am I
Don’t know even how to talk – how to recognize

Desert dark inside me it’s all I have
While I feel surrounded by passing crowd
Can’t remember where I failed – where’s the fault
Don’t know even what is to repair – how to apologize

Feel my mind is burning, will I ever learn again?
Memories are trapped in walls, without any way to set them free
They align like summer ghosts, without any way to set them free
Feel my mind is burning
Will I ever learn again (to comunicate)?

City lights are pulsing with messy toungues
Desert dark behind me it’s all I lust
Can’t remember what I made of – what am I
Don’t know even how to solve – this riddle of mine

Memories are trapped in walls, without any way to set them free
They align like summer ghosts, without any way to set them free – set me free

believe me it’s hard - discerning all lies
from a truth set aside
when deception is your mind
believe me it’s hard - disclaiming all the lies
for a truth left behind
when the lag is your mind

I walk alone – I grow alone
I dream alone, again, the lights of the city

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from The leaf and the wing, released February 3, 2021

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Raven Sad Tuscany, Italy

Raven Sad is an Italian progressive rock band from Tuscany born from an idea of Samuele Santanna, Raven Sad released 3 albums for Lizard Records between 2008 and 2011 before disbanding after the release of the album Layers of Stratosphere. Raven Sad reformed in 2017 at the behest of Samuele Santanna and Fabrizio Trinci, to which are added Gabriele Marconcini, Marco Geri on and Francesco Carnesecch ... more

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