Sketches in the Illusory - Four two-part Sketches

Listen to Zadan:  

Reflection 1:1   

Reflection 1:2   

Drawn   

Sketches in the Illusory - Four two-part Sketches

Recorded in Exile Studios, Thailand, December 2006

Sketch One

~Dawn   (2:56)

~Drawn   (8:30)

Sketch Two

~Leaves   (2:56)

~Ash   (6:38)

Sketch Three

~Tonight   (2:22)

~Beautiful   (6:21)

Sketch Four

~Tear   (6:06)

~Epitaph   (6:170

All lyrics are copy write Shaun C. Mackey.

[ Dawn, Leaves, Tonight and Tear are instrumentals ]

Drawn

We draw sketches in the mind

And in time see their unfolding

Each stroke made is a strike

Against the lines between the real

…And the imaginary

To trace within the confines

Of experience and response

To follow impulse of the will

Is to close the veil of perception

…And consciousness

There are barriers of the mind

Forged through generations

Which must be irradicated

To free the art of creation

…And…

Ash

Do you remember the leaves in the fire?

Where all illusions were sketched in ash and flame?

As autumn’s paint stroke falls lifeless to the ground

Leaving memories to rest without a dawn

Did you gather the sands as they fell?

When ideals were cast with shattered time?

As fire’s mercy frees them of their form

Coarse grains of memory reveal that they are glass

Beautiful

I will stare    at this photograph    until these eyes    no longer move me

To know that each          feature is perfection

To know that each             of these tears are real

I will face this    knowing that nothing     could have been different

That the uniqueness           of you is real

That the uniqueness            of you is perfection

You inspire me to depths          I would have never known

You freed me with the               pain I forced upon myself

Tear

And we will once again see clearly…

The light shines from one single star

One radiance brings us energy

From a vast nothingness as it expands

Separating world from world

And the stars that caress them

More generations than will ever live of man

More years of light through that expanse

More ages that will once again turn timeless

With the limits of the eternal void

Within the grasp of all that is

And all that will never be

Where the strength of a diamond

Reveals that it is hollow, nothing

As empty as the history

Of the illusions of mankind

The delusive dreams that will die with us

Look up to the heavens

Look to the realm of our ancestors gods

Look into the emptiness

Look into our eyes

Mankind will soon walk home to that void

This desolated world will be our epitaph

And not one star shall even morn

For we shall shed the final tear

And we shall once again see clearly…