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1.
Ascension 03:40
Tell me what’s wrong You’ve been waiting so long You don’t want to wait anymore Tell you what’s right I could take you so high show you what these wings are made for It’s time to play with time and space unlearn reality Now to ascend pretend you ne- -ver heard of gravity and JUST LIKE THAT (just like that, just like that...) the time has come to be all that you dreamed The time has come to be free All this talking nobody is walking let alone touching the sky Everything changes matter rearranges once you know that humans can fly It’s time to play with time and space unlearn reality Now to ascend pretend you ne- -ver heard of gravity The time has come to be all that you dreamed The time has come to be free
2.
Who’d have thought a thought could be a thing? You can really have it all You can chase your dreams or watch and wait As for me, I’m following the call Now I’m coming to you live from Grandio City Feeling so alive and looking so pretty Now watch me as I rise, as I fly, anti-gravitate Watch me touch the sky, free my soul, disincarcerate Anything is possible in Grandio City You can choose the way you live today (They call you grandiose, they wanna up your dose, the Truth is lost on most) or let the shadows choose and call it fate (it's calling, it's calling you) You’re so free that you can stay in one place (But you cannot deny, you've seen with your own eyes, the reason you're alive) or face the truth and have your wings again (it's calling, it's calling, it's calling you) Now I’m coming to you live from Grandio City Feeling so alive and looking so pretty This is my dream that I'm lucid within Yeah this is my life to love and to live Anything is possible in Grandio City You can really have it all You can really have it all You can really have it all
3.
Pleroma 03:39
out of sight out of mind out of sight out of mind what you see is what you get if you want it like that but as for me and mine we follow the signs for those with no fear the path becomes clear leading us back to something divine out of sight out of mind out of line out of time beauty’s in the eye God is never far the word of Genesis is the sound of the heart came in the flesh to show us the way with us until the end of the age we’re not alone can you say pleroma? i call it home i want to go home, yeah we’re not alone can you say pleroma? i call it home i want to go home you’re living in the dark you’re calling it fate but as for me and mine heaven awaits turned dead things alive with nothing to prove now we’re in the light what will we do?
4.
Lost 04:49
the cards told me wait by the river the psychic said wait in my room maybe i heard it wrong or i’m being strung along made the mistake of believing that God could be speaking to me the writing is on the wall i’ve had a great big fall from grace what is my place? where am i going? what’s it like to feel like you’re all-knowing? somebody tell me, please everyone’s got it all figured out but me horses aren’t horses, they’re messengers though sometimes they’re silent like God making me guess the Truth (three five one seven eight five three five six nine five) how is this nothing to you? (one two five four eight five seven six one three four five) meaning is made by the masses i want to mean something too but i heard they burn people like me damned if i don’t, damned if i do god-damned this is not what i planned when i said i would follow the signs i thought i was finding more proof now nothing is true and i’m losing faith in this ruse God works in mysterious ways, of that i am sure but are God’s motives pure? i've been searching the world, and dear God how many worlds are there? there's a world where i have it all but that's not where i am when did it get so dark? how did i get so far? from everything that i knew from you, from you, from You maybe i’m lost, maybe i’m lost, a lost cause maybe i’m lost, maybe i’m lost, like a runaway plot maybe i’m lost, maybe i’m lost but is that the worst thing you can be? maybe i’m lost, i’m lost, just to see if anybody’s looking for me maybe i’m lost, maybe i’m lost, maybe i’m lost, maybe… (you got what you wanted...)
5.
Witch 03:54
i suppose the way the sun sets is my fault you can blame me for your shortcomings as well hating me for having power you forgot is a full-time job and damn, you do it well works for a spell until the sleep takes you down once more i wish you well finding out you are what you abhor when you’ve wandered in the darkness for too long the light can feel like hatred in your eyes you’re free to close them, free to open up free to see the truth or free to keep the lie under a spell blind until you make the choice to see i’ll never tell you what to think or what to believe because you’re free just like me i want to be innocent i want to be innocent again…
6.
Dissolve 02:43
to the point of no return we will walk to the edge, hand-in-hand they said that there’s no turning back they said this was a fool’s errand loving somebody like that like i love you but i’ve seen the dreams, I remember your face (yeah) from some other time and from some other place even if no one else can see it i know you can so let’s dissolve let's dissolve "But to be driven by impelling odor headlong upon a mate so gigantic, in such immense and forbidding darkness, and willfully eat a hole in her soft side, to feel the gradually increasing transfusion of her blood through one’s veins, to lose everything that marked one as other than a worm, to become a brainless, senseless thing that was a fish—this is sheer fiction, beyond all belief, unless... we have seen proof of it." sweat on the skin inviting you in taking you down a whore for the way you say what you say with nary a sound is this a mistake? it doesn’t add up how two become one is that what this is? is that who we are when it’s all said and done? mmm
7.
Sister 04:20
might be what you’re looking for might just want to look inside might just have to go to war if i don’t like what i find might just have to speak in codes might just have to hide away might just have to turn into everything you hate sister my sister sewn together like a monster ’til i lost her ’cause i had too many sides sister darling sister are you seeing what i’m seeing sister my sister are you saying what you mean? all spine full of twists and turns all smiles, when you kiss it burns two-faced as they come ’round here shapeshifting in the dark ’cause she thinks i can’t see her gloves off and your skin suit too got ’em ’witched, God if only they knew not i, ’cause i’m onto you, i’m onto you, i’m onto you, i’m onto you Goddammit, can’t believe I trusted you how do you do that sick thing that you do where you act like somebody that i never knew? how does your story have so many fooled? how’d you get them to hate me without any proof? lie through your teeth like it’s nothing to you slither on from our bond like a skin you outgrew how many faces and names do you have? is this how you survive when you’re faced with the truth?
8.
The Light Is 02:33
gave you all you want but you wanted more you tried to eat my light so i ate yours go bitching to your friends that the girl with the teeth showed you just who you are saw the face underneath your mask your mask a light like mine shines right through that your mask your mask a light like mine shines right through that let the people talk they’ve got nothing to do it’s like they’re getting high on feeling sorry for you i’m cool with the rumors because i know the truth unlike you and yours i’ve got nothing to prove the light is not outside you the light is not outside you the light is not outside you the light is not outside you the light is not outside you the light is not outside you the light is not outside you the light is not outside you the light is not outside you the light is not outside you the light is you would see if you wanted to you would have truth if you wanted it ain't a goddamn thing left to do but show you who you're dealing with hunger that knows limitlessness belly that holds universes weaponized third eye, chaos kiss teeth that punish unconsciousness
9.
Ugly 04:20
there’s a sadness in my heart i dare not show i tried to once, then he said he had to go the beating of a heart is bloody as it is to love somebody all i want is the freedom to be ugly when you see me will you stay, will you stay? or will you walk away? when you see me will you stay, will you stay? or will you walk away? the truth is beautiful, or so they say but when i told my story, she ran away why would people rather see beauty that’s illusory? all i want is the freedom to be ugly when you see me will you stay, will you stay? or will you walk away? when the truth is in the light, in the light will you do what’s right? when my heart is in your hands, in your hands will you try to understand? will you try to understand? will you try to understand? i’ve cried oceans into being through the waters i sing
10.
how she got here is a blur she makes the waves, the waves make her a truth is told in horrifying form why God made her, who can say and put the Sun so far away she has no choice but to become the warmth an angel in the deep a plain-sight mystery her wings alight, her body bright, she just might be too obvious to see countenance so splendrous wayward eyes can’t handle it too dull to comprehend the way she glows riddles wrapped in mysteries solved by those with eyes to see so ugly she’s a dare to get to know a horror to behold an angel in the deep a plain-sight mystery her wings alight, her body bright, she just might be too obvious to see an angel in the deep a plain-sight mystery her wings alight, her body bright, she just might be too obvious to see here i am, as i'm meant to be hold your peace, it's my turn to speak of the way that i found true love when i thought i was too far gone i've been wronged, but i made it right it was dark, but i made it bright lighting paths to the way back home unafraid of the unknown God is always with her even when she’s all alone if heaven is within her, the deep can be home says the angel to the mirror: “be not afraid” this love is yours forever, nothing can separate you’ll be okay
11.
i could give it all for the chance to love you and all would be renewed manifold keeper of my heart lover of my dreams sing for me i could spend my life getting lost inside you and in every moment, i’d be found guided by your star i loved you since the start of eternity no matter how i break i know that you will make me whole again whatever it may take created for the sake of loving you so take it all so take it all so take it all so take it all

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released November 3, 2023

Produced and Performed by Alicen Grey | whenhumanshadwings.com
Drums by Andrew Howard | instagram.com/a.h.drums
Bass by Chris Love | instagram.com/chrislovestudios
Mixed and Mastered by Dan Konopka | danielkonopka.com
Cover Art by Crab Scrambly | instagram.com/crabscrambly
Registered with BMI. Distributed by CDBaby.

Special thanks to Mickey Z.

This album is dedicated to God, Breyer P-Orridge, and my soulmate.

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