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The Electrical Sea

by Closed Circuits

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1.
It’s not enough It’s not enough It’s not enough Just an answered question Just a dance of light Just a dream in motion Just a journey into night Just a memory of desire Just a play for time Just a roll of the dice for the mark inside It’s not enough It’s not enough It’s not enough
2.
Where do you go With your pain? Holding it tightly To your chest Resolved to keep Its memory alive A web of tensions Spread through your breath And you grow around them As you move Should be so easy to let go Thought it would be easy to let go Take the medicine you paid for And wash it all down It doesn’t matter if it’s bitter You know need it now You try to hide the ideations As they manipulate your limbs And fold you inwards and over And wrap you up from within There’s no pretence left in your gestures There’s no agency at all A puppet gone looking for its master To come take over the controls And you want it all to be over You try and hide the tears that flow It doesn’t matter if they show Everybody knows You wanted it all to be over You kept trying to let go Well you can let your tears flow Everybody knows
3.
Drowner 03:56
Laying out the cards to see what’s real But shying away from damage Pictures of towers falling Just a sleight of a hand to make you feel Looking to the horizon I think the water's rising Is there something there to fear? Tie my hands to the mast and plug your ears And you won’t hear the sirens sing I think they’re drawing nearer Saw you at the barricades again Singing to raise our spirits Over a hail of bullets And hiding in the warmth of shared beliefs Away from the storm that’s coming I think the car's still running Was there something there to fear? Tie my hands to the mast and plug your ears And you won’t hear the sirens sing I think I feel them closing in Maybe I want to let them Come closer And let them wash over me Come closer A let their voices burrow deep Just to let the feeling Come decide the road I take As the waters hold me down And the waves begin to break I hear the sirens coming I hear the sirens coming Along a dark horizon I hear the sirens coming I hear the sirens coming But it’s not the weight of the water No, it’s the lack of air Pulling the words from your body Into a poetry of fear And they control your vision Until there’s nothing left to see Just the static flickering Of an electrical sea Cutting into all your wonder And weaponising your dreams Into a golden nightmare That keeps ambition from your reach And the waves keep breaking And the sky ‘comes overcast And the sirens call out to you As you hold on to the mast Hold fast
4.
I felt desire and I followed Moving away Running away from home I recalled a lie that I’d been told And it pulled me under Away from the charms of the world Try to find the words that are left to speak As you hide the secrets that you keep I felt too many voices within me All talking over Wounded and open again Scattering their thoughts all around me Too late to wonder What they all could have been And you tried to starve the fever Distort the function of its grammar But you could never find an answer To make any sense To make any sense of it Tried to make sense of it Tried to make sense of it
5.
Shell Games 05:31
Don’t you see the signs? There’s nothing between the lines Perhaps it’s better if you don’t find If you don’t find out There was a point that the balance tipped A slow tilting coming over it Without a sound, the circuits tripped Applying wisdom to a game of chance You held experience in disregard But this time you just might be in luck Why don’t you pick another card? But didn’t you see the signs? What if there’s nothing between the lines? Perhaps it’s better if you don’t find what you always want to find This one’s a sure thing I’m going all in I know it’s mine this time I can feel it down the line I know it’s mine this time I can feel it This one’s mine Think I’m in luck this time I think I see the trick This time I’m going to win It’s not so easy to make your escape When shattered glass still reflects your face You played your part, so take your place A message flashing on every screen Distracting you from the periphery You made your choice and we will see Exactly what we want to see Vai ficar a ver navios Think I’m in luck this time
6.
Crossings 04:08
I think the war started yesterday Carried across the time zones Captured in static motion Scattered images you'll hold to you now So you can identify them A trail for their ghosts to follow But is this what it seems Feels like a memory to me Something woken from a dream Or was it another picture Collecting the stones in your shoes The earth tries to pull you closer Like you have betrayed your author Taking you along tracks hidden from view Trying to hear the words spoken A hand on your shoulder But are things what they seem Feels like a memory to me A whispered voice from a dream saying Leave your charms as you wait for the crossing lights Leave your charms as you wait for the crossing lights Leave your charms as you wait for the crossing lights
7.
Poisoner 05:17
You drank the sun down into the moon Until your dreams began to drown you Was it a poison that you consumed Now it consumes and it consumes A wound you found gilded with wisdom There’s always a price for the gifts you’ve been given And now the cost of your decisions It must be weighed Be brought to the light of day And there’s a shifting pressure Run through the room And there’s an invocation Caught in my throat Like a river swallowed By the mouth of the sea I hear the sound of her wings Slowly enfolding me As the body disappears The words escape Won’t you tell me how it feels?
8.
The Spinners 05:45
I passed you on the way looking over from moving windows you turned your eyes away lost in memories of fading tenderness I chased the dogs away hiding in our room as they cried out for food and tried to make you stay Watched the night draw in from an empty bed And there was nothing to say And there was nothing to do As the past moved away Moved away from me and you I passed you on the way traveled with you for a sunlit moment but doesn’t it seem strange to slowly turn together and then spin away
9.
Days 05:05
Did you arrive together And will you leave that way Somehow the thought hangs over Until it’s pushed away Maybe you’ll hold them closer Maybe you’ll try to forget Just let the waves drift to you And drift out with the tide again And the days always change And they always stay the same A moment’s lack of attention Amidst the background noise Brings you back to a moment That you've been trying to avoid Did it seem so easy To keep yourself from the things you saw Did you think that you had found A heart as heavy as yours And the days always change And they always stay the same You feel them turning over They just go on and on again They go on and on They go on and on again Over and over They go and on again But they always feel the same Turning over They go on and on again Just a moment’s weakness And the connection can’t be found If I miss you I guess I’ll see you around
10.
Fall to your knees again If the connection comes apart in your hands Just echoes and dreams now Let them come down on you A flicker of memory comes drifting by Tensing up all your limbs And you shiver inside at the thought of it Feel it crawl along your skin It sickens the stomach to dwell on it As it plays on repeat Spinning round you like an unfinished melody Binding you in its strings So fall to your knees again As the connection comes apart in your hands Echoes and dreams sing And you let them come down, come down on you Little twitches that colour your gestures Break the rhythms of your speech Undermining the sense that you wish you made And the secrets you keep Tell me when everything began to fall apart Tell me all of your fears And I’ll show you the path that you’ve walked along And all the lies you’ve believed It’s a deceptively simple dance It’s an overpriced cheap trick Calling your name till you don’t know any better You’d check your plans, I think it’s earthquake weather And you’ll fall to your knees again As the connection comes apart in your hands Tired echoes of dreams cry out And you’ll let them come down, come down on you Just another way to look at all of this Just a thought that won’t leave Let it build in its strength as you nurture it Let it grow in belief And your habits will form into patterns Like a virus taking hold Until the words build themselves into a new story Maybe it’s time that it gets told I’ll fall to my knees again If the connection comes apart in our hands And your echoes and dreams, my love I’ll carry them on, carry them with mine
11.
King Sleep 05:36
When was it you realised your mistake? Thinking isolation meant escape Left looking for someone else to blame Roll the dice once more Just a veil over your eyes Just another cheap disguise Till you don’t recognise What you think you want I carried desire and it brought me here Left alone with my thoughts and all my fears And the broken wisdom that the years Will just keep on and on Now cover your windows and shut off the lights It’s time for us to descend into night As memories wash over your tired eyes Just let them close again And follow the path you find laid out Tread softly as it carries you down And try to remember how you felt When you thought all this was yours I looked for an answer to the lies I’m so tired of these dreams How they persist in the light I don’t have enough left now to fight Just let me sleep tonight Too many colours in my head Just let me sleep tonight And the walls come away And the light disappears And my heart comes apart And gives up all my fears And the night opens up With its longing embrace I’m so tired of these dreams I’m so tired of these dreams
12.
I always wanted to be a traveller But so it goes So it goes I guess The rose remains in fixed position And the world slows Slows as it turns again But there’s not now much to remember There’s nothing much left here to say Just fading words on scraps of paper Just dreams forgotten in the day And you could tell me your story It might be true, it might be fake Perhaps it never really matters Just what it leaves in its wake And so I’ll fall into a slumber As comfortable as I can make What was that song you used to sing me The one to keep the nightmares away? We proudly present our last transmission If you bought a ticket you have to take the ride The time is over for hiding in shadow Just step right up folks and come inside It’s one final offer for some understanding A last chance to satisfy your appetites Please gather round now ladies and gentlemen As we pay our respects to the one that died I needed I needed more I need more time I needed more time I needed It’s not enough

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The signal improves to deliver more noise.
The connections multiply as sensations diminish.

We are all argonauts on the electrical sea.

This is for the ones that lived.

Hold fast.

Drowner video : youtu.be/c8ok1coeWsI

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released August 12, 2022

Written, performed, produced, and mastered by Chris Page : Sintra and Azambuja : 2021-2022

Additional vocals on Shell Games and Days by Violeta Page

Cover by Chris Page and DALL·E

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Closed Circuits Tomar, Portugal

Chris Page is a musician and poet based in Portugal. He makes apocalypse pop for electronics and voice.
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