Shadows Lead to Light

by Book of Symbols

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lyrics

Meet me in the forest
If only for our final hour
Seal the night with a kiss
A protest to this blackened tower

We can both escape this
Finding our bat orchid bower
High above the abyss
Souls can never be devoured

Shadows leading us to the light
Echoing our whispers in time
Shadows leading us to the light
Mimicking our footsteps in stride

Trails beneath us vanish
Deeper in the coiled timber
Hear our names on the wind
An unembellished bleak shiver

Something in our presence
Fluid movements dark and silent
This could be the moment
The sky will open up in consent

Shadows leading us to the light
Echoing our whispers in time
Shadows leading us to the light
Mimicking our footsteps in stride

Drown out our breaths as it rips through the trees
Safety in question we hasten our speed
Linked to the frailty of mortality
No hope in instinct we cling to beliefs
Cornered on all sides by something unseen
Negate the notion of ending unease
Reach for my hand as I offer a plea
One last embrace before eternity

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released October 5, 2018
from Songs of the Pumpkin Boy vol. III
lyrics / guitar / vocals by Chris McClurken
guitar by Jon Reeder
drums programming by Michael Foxtrot Johnson
bass by Scott Middendorf
backing vocals by Lauren McClurken
recorded and mixed by Jon Reeder

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Book of Symbols Grand Rapids, Michigan

Describing its complex sound as a “collective vision of orchestrated sound,” Book of Symbols has taken a page or two from ’90s shoegaze, while bringing its eyes up to the new millennium’s shimmering horizon.
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