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Ionia

by Lycia

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1.
Ionia 05:11
deep in this haze, I see her face she creeps to me, she begs for me I can not go, not this again I'm much too weak...I'm conquered and then I feel myself decline in the grip of Ionia and then I see myself resign to the lust for Ionia and then she takes me down, down, down and then she keeps me down, down, down and then she speaks of love, love, love, love ...love as misery (as I lose control) she clings to me, she won't let go and then she takes this all away she's tainted me, I'm nothing now I'm so obscure...I'm conquered and then I feel myself decline in the grip of Ionia and then I see myself resign to the lust for Ionia oh Ionia, oh Ionia, oh Ionia, oh Ionia this time isn't anything...it's nothing oh Ionia I swear, that you always will haunt me and I'll never know why I resign all the time and reach straight for nothing oh Ionia I swear, in an instant you're lonely and just like all the time, you will throw this aside and you'll move on to nothing oh Ionia I see, through the haze she is fading oh Ionia I see, as I lose control again
2.
with a blink of an eye, the sun and the moon collide with a blink of an eye, the fire, it breathes again with a blink of an eye, I must repress again with a blink of an eye, of an eye, of an eye...again the violence is so beautiful...with a blink of an eye the violence is so beautiful...and change is good with a blink of an eye... the violence is so beautiful... ...and change is good
3.
November 02:06
4.
Fate 05:50
5.
Desert 04:55
I reflect everything, I perceive it all I surmise just everything, I desire nothing I need to go back to the desert, so I can feel new again I need to go back to the desert, so I can feel fresh again don't care about anything don't care about everything, anything don't care about anything, except for the desert and then I climb from this world and head straight out to the desert and stand under her brilliant blue I am cleansed, cleansed by the desert then isolation builds, and I want to escape from this desert then desolation burns, and I just want to sin again hate, love, hope, greed, lust, fate, loss, need grief, trust, truth, lies, pain, want, days, time fades away...
6.
Renewal 03:18
7.
This Moment 05:59
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10.
Granada 05:59
oh Granada I see, from the land to the sea like a bird in the sky I stare down on your view oh Granada...are you slipping away? oh Granada I feel that I'll never be free and I'll never set my feet back down on your ground oh Granada...you are slipping away I must incinerate every word ...that spews from those pretty lips I must incinerate...it's not the end of the line it's the end of the world oh Granada I see, through your eyes runs a gleam but it's fading so fast I can hardly believe that Granada...that you'll never be real oh Granada you are just a vague ancient star in the head of a man that will never go far oh Granada...for a time you were real
11.
toppled again, eyes firm in a weakened stare back here again, holed up in this warm room again, again, eyes closed, it burns in me come close again, sedate me then sedate me then... that brilliant white smile takes me away that brilliant white smile blows me away from the top of this weakened wall I stare down on everything is this for real? everything is fading away straight to the door, push me out, take me away straight to the door, sedate me then sedate me then... this is the realization the realization of everything
12.
cold air, distant eastern glare a gleam runs in my eye, it feels like nothing fresh air, refreshed and then divined a chill runs down my spine, it feels like nothing come to me, out from the glare you're so adored, you're so adored come back to me, out from the glare you're so adored, you're so adored that dark, that frozen distant stare reach straight to me, it feels like nothing these hands melt then disengage what is this and that? it feels like nothing

credits

released September 3, 1991

all songs written, performed and recorded by Mike VanPortfleet

except Renewal written by Mike VanPortfleet, Mark Gill and Will Welch

Monsoon I samples by Will Welch

recorded February to June 1991 on 4 track cassette

mixed by Sam Rosenthal

mix assistance by Mike VanPortfleet

remastered by Martin Bowes

cover photo by Mike VanPortfleet

LP Available:
avantgardemusic.bandcamp.com/album/ionia

CD available:
www.projekt.com/store/product/pro00032/

© 1991 LyciumMusic

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Lycia formed in Tempe Arizona in 1988. The current lineup is Mike VanPortfleet, David Galas, Tara Vanflower and John Fair.

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