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The Long Now

by Grown Below

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1.
When night is falling Then we are crawling We are preoccupied Indulge in moonlight We feel Daylight wants To hurt Tear us apart We stumble through And turn around Crave in Soil I take your eyesight Until I change once more The other side of me Can no longer stand this world We crawl away We waste away Over skies wide From inside A cold wind That makes us Deaf and blind Till we die Every time Come back night Come back Dimming lights Are far away In darker times We find our pride To stand aside The horse we ride Hear them call We give them shiver Our darkening ways That brought together That led us here This is our kingdom This is our space We will be walking Our nightly ways
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We are the ones who prevail We are the once you should hail We are all devoid of age We aren't asleep nor awake We have gone To oblivion We were once Just like you We are the ones who decide Whether you live or will die We part the good from the bad We scatter hope into lies We have gone To oblivion We were once So alive We speak on behalf of the earth We are the ones who prevail We are the once you should hail We are all devoid of age We aren't asleep nor awake We were once So alive
3.
The Abyss 12:39
I will not fall down You will take my hand We will not forget The day we have met If I should fall down Lead me through your gate I hope I will find Your arms in the end I will not allow These dark hours Taking you away We'll survive this world Our true homecoming Your eyes see through me No sir I won't run But we'll watch upon Our marked abyss Every time it's true Every time much ado (sic) I won't let it take you Seas will turn on us The earth won't spare us Mountains we must climb To save ourselves in time I won't fan the fire I'm not disguising I will not break Because They say I will I'm not I won't fan the fire Turning myself in I will not break Because The say I will I'm not
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Heat fire blast Cold air feeds Water falls Broke the earth How Did we Lose her Our world Now She'll cross Over Follow us there Now Forever Floating Away Down here For as long now I take my hope and lock it away In the long now There I stay forever and wait I'll follow the trojan horse The path to inauguration Don't follow the trojan horse It is really infatuation I'll follow the trojan horse The path to inauguration We're flying over the edge In our dreams we long for hope We're flying over the edge In the end it's just a lie In the end it's just a lie The end of time
6.
The Long Now 16:49
I enter the cold era Crawl deeper in time Eliza you made me believe Now I suffer from your beauty Your words meant everything But this ending proved you wrong This valley of Hinnom I follow yet I roam When I think of you as the sun It never is you it never is you When I think of you from this point of view It took away the sun it took away you Some say it will return One day they will learn Calling for my saviour I am sick of labour Here comes tribulation Here it blinds my vision I was thought (sic) one lesson I will not be messing Around this orbit adhered They all float down here I wish it all away for you I wish that I could stay for you I wish that I could lay into The words we all pray Long distance stares With frozen eyes Lifeless I lie Surrounded by fire Cold air leaves my throat Breathing my last vital breath I will forever roam
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Malklara 02:08

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All songs are written by Matthijs Vanstaen & Grown Below.
Tracks 4 & 7 are written and played by Lennart Vanstaen.
All lyrics are written by Lennart Vanstaen.
Artwork by Niels Geybels.
All instruments played by Grown Below, except the violin on track 3 co-written and played by Arconic (Aurore Picavet).
Additional vocals on tracks 3 & 6 co-written and sung by Arconic.
Recorded in august of 2010 by Joris De Caesstecker.
Mixed & mastered in april 2011 by Filip De Bot.
Produced by Grown Below.
Released 26/09/2011 by Slow Burn Records.
Distribution by Solitude Productions & Slow Burn Records.

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You can buy the album here solitudestore.com/shop/en/product/grown-below-2011-the-long-now/ or you can send a mail to grownbelow@gmail.com to ship from Belgium. We also ship shirts, please send a mail.

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Grown Below's The Long Now is an alternate version of the end of the world sagas. For centuries people believed the world would come to an end someday. One of the most recurring dates is the twentyfirst of december two thousand and twelve. Grown Below interpreted this idea as the end of time, not the end of the world. They reconstructed a fictional journey into the last days on earth. In an early state, the album describes the awakening of menacing creatures (who are 'devoid of age') who had roamed on earth many centuries before mankind and are now stuck at the other side of time. At some point on the album, time stands still, resulting in the ability for these creatures to cross over the boundaries of time and crawl into our world. They feed on every living soul and while they bring chaos and panic, the absence of time creates an enormous rip in the middle of the earth, called 'The Abyss'. The protagonist decides to jump into this abyss, rather than being torn apart by these entities. He keeps falling downwards in dark matter called 'Nebula'. By jumping in this void, he locks himself up in his own non-temporal environment and brings all time to an end, including past and future. What remains is nothing, no time, no life, no creatures. He is in an eternal state of nothingness, called 'The Long Now'.

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released September 26, 2011

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Grown Below Antwerpen, Belgium

Grown Below arose from the ashes of Timer in early 2011, continuing the path to the full album The Long Now with the same sound, but more evolved. Grown Below may be influenced by the usual suspects (Cult of Luna, Isis, Tool etc.) but they certainly go beyond being mere epigones. The band signed with Slow Burn Records in june 2011, who released The Long Now in the autumndays of september 2011. ... more

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