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The Event and the Horizon

by Conflicting Motive

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1.
[Instrumental]
2.
JDGS 04:37
[VERSE] Lost inside the light Gone with no direction [PRE-CHORUS] Delirium divides Cratered in our skin Poison fills our veins Eclipsing the condemned [VERSE] Living in this haze Burning at both ends Leaking through pinholes Forced through with needles Sent through hell again [PRE-CHORUS] What will satiate This hunger never ends What is there to do If absence consumes you, yeah [BRIDGE] Time and space unfold (Time and space unfold) Never let me go, never let me go Find what makes us whole (Find what makes us whole) Never let me go, never let me go Facing the unknown (Facing the unknown) Never let me go, never let me go Don't suffer this alone (Don't suffer this alone) Never let me go, never let me go Am I worthy of this love?! [OUTRO] Sympathetic detonations Swallowed in your symphony Sympathetic detonations Swallowed in your symphony Take my hand before the plunge Future's jaws open wide
3.
SETI 04:47
[VERSE] Floating above us In the stories, we're told There's an architect in the stars Weightless and distant With grace and precision Directing us from afar [PRE-CHORUS] But we have a price That we have to pay Choking on questions That we'll never say Picking up pieces And fragments of plans Best laid in waves that Crash through the sand [CHORUS] So I'm told It's not my place to ever know And I'm afraid that we've been sold This gravity will swallow us whole [VERSE] Sending transmission Will you ever listen I wonder how long can you stall The wars have grown countless The floods will soon drown us Our king just sleeps through it all [PRE-CHORUS] I'm building a ship And leaving this place Arrangements deranged The souls you made Far up above But you can be sure I'm bringing you back Back down to earth [CHORUS] So I'm told It's not my place to ever know And I'm afraid that we've been sold This gravity will swallow us whole So I'm told It's not my place to ever know And I'm afraid that we've been sold This gravity will swallow us whole [BRIDGE] Silly me, I know that things Always happen for a reason But as I trace these lines Across the space that we can't breathe in Shattered moons and solar winds Spinning scores of scattered planets I ride this well of ink Spilled across this endless canvas I land and tumble in Through these halls of ancient marble Clutched firmly in my hands Tidal trinkets only borrowed I sink down and in between The Event and the Horizon And in time I find we all end Right back just where we started [OUTRO] We're lost in the unknown Endless novas guiding us home Oh, you'll never be alone Trails of novas guiding us home Oh, we're lost in the unknown Endless novas guiding us home Oh, you'll never be alone Tranquil novas guiding us home
4.
Ghosts 05:11
[VERSE] How many days How many nights have passed Every curtain drawn Every clock is smashed We'll shut them out for sure And barricade the doors Time is dead to us As we are to the world [CHORUS] Slow decay Colors fade, colors fade to grey All we made Nothing gold, nothing gold can stay [VERSE] How many seeds How many roots have grown Such an unwelcome guest Buried deep below A cabin fever dream Of dirt and dust collect Splintered tide of mold Growing in regret [CHORUS] Sweet decay Colors fade, colors fade to grey All we made Nothing gold, nothing gold can stay [BRIDGE] Rituals and tourniquets Ghosts of lives that never lived Haunted house with empty halls Domestically umbilical Doubtful vines reach for more Through the kitchen open doors Burgeoning suspicious blooms Invading each and every room [OUTRO] So step into the light Fear and love collide Limbs that touch the sky This is us, this is us, this is us, this is us alive!
5.
Calypso 04:18
[VERSE] I peel away But you read my skin like braille I feel the tremors through the Fractals you exhale I stop my heart But you never miss a beat Dragged us diving through the Currents of the sheets [CHORUS] And I got seas of trauma sleepin' And they're breathin' through the cracks And I lie lie lie lie lie And I lie lie lie lie lie So when you say that you're in love My hands are full of anchored burdens And I lie lie lie lie lie From the bottom watched you rise Until you're gone (And I lie lie lie lie lie) [VERSE] I slip beneath Familiar chill at last A million pounds of midnight Holding me intact Come up for air And heard you beg and plead If losing chains means letting go I'd rather sink [CHORUS] And I got seas of trauma sleepin' And they're breathin' through the cracks And I lie lie lie lie lie And I lie lie lie lie lie So when you say that you're in love My hands are full of anchored burdens And I lie lie lie lie lie From the bottom watched you rise Until you're gone Until you're gone Until you're gone Oh not until you're gone [CHORUS] And I got seas of trauma sleepin' And they're breaking through the cracks And I lie lie lie lie lie And I lie lie lie lie lie So when you say that you're in love My hands are full of anchored burdens And I lie lie lie lie lie From the bottom watched you rise Until you're gone
6.
Mirrors 05:06
[VERSE] Riding on rivers of Neon and plastic Standing for nothing And sitting in traffic Patchwork informants And brand name endorsements Monthly subscriptions To fiction non-fiction [PRE-CHORUS] Yes we want this give us more Yes we want this give us more Yes we want this give us more Yes we want this give us more [CHORUS] Bring me closer (Bring me closer) Just tell me who I am We've surrendered (We've surrendered) The ground on which we stand Over deserts (Over deserts) Under maps of distant hearts Playing games with mirrors Until we fall a- [VERSE] What's in my news now? My TV, my feed? The chill of your skin Or the warmth of my screen? [PRE-CHORUS] Just tell me what I wanna hear Just tell me what I wanna hear Just tell me what I wanna hear Just tell me what (what!) I wanna hear [CHORUS] Bring me closer (Bring me closer) Just tell me who I am We've surrendered (We've surrendered) The ground on which we stand Over deserts (Over deserts) Under maps of distant hearts Playing games with mirrors Until we fall apart [POST-CHORUS] (PART!) Until we fall apart (PART!) Until we fall apart (PART!) Until we fall apart Until we fall apart [BRIDGE] But when all is said and done The stories that we've spun Will tell us what was real Will tell us what to feel We've sold our final thoughts For baubles that we bought More shiny souvenirs Replace them all next year Oooh, oooh Replace us all Erase us all [CHORUS] Bring me closer (Bring me closer) Just tell me who I am We've surrendered (We've surrendered) The ground on which we stand Over deserts (Over deserts) Under maps of distant hearts Playing games with mirrors Until we fall apart [POST-CHORUS] (PART!) Till we fall apart (PART!) Till we fall apart (PART!) Till we fall apart Till we fall apart
7.
Syzygy 02:51
[Instrumental]
8.
Ares 04:06
[VERSE] Rise and shine young pioneer #INSTRUMENTAL Sign of iron brings you here [PRE-CHORUS] Leave them all, far behind Take your place, in the sky Keep it all, deep inside Pressure builds, ignite [CHORUS] There's so much that you can become A journey that only seats one Shielded and never exposed A spear through the unknown Spear through the unknown Spear through the unknown [VERSE] Death of distance in your dreams #INSTRUMENTAL Wipe those tears don't let them see [PRE-CHORUS] Screaming void, roaring blaze Inch of hull, keeps you safe Crucible, sacrifice Ares is taking flight [CHORUS] There's so much that you can become A journey that only seats one Shielded and never exposed A spear through the unknown Spear through the unknown Spear through the un- [BRIDGE] Burning brighter Falling faster Watch me tumble down Burning brighter Falling faster Watch me tumble down (Burning brighter) Ribbons of sky come undone (Falling faster) Never quite felt like enough (Watch me tumble down) So promise you'll wish on this star Disintegrating from afar [OUTRO] (Burning brighter) Spear through the unknown (Falling faster) Spear through the unknown (Watch me tumble down) Spear through the unknown Spear through the unknown
9.
Quick 04:20
[CHORUS] Shoot your shot, kid Hold on tightly in the dark Summon courage from afar Steady shot, kid Disbelief from lion woes Solila-quick to answer no And I know, I know, I know [VERSE] (Worlds) A leaking sum of pain (Pain) Keep bragging bout their gain (Gain) Agreeing with the pack (Pack) A life of disregarding what they're taught (Taught) It mystifies the sight (Sight) The demons shedding light (Light) A vision I still lack (Lack) A ruptured memory I haven't fought [PRE-CHORUS] The past is... The past is... The past is... The past is... [CHORUS] Shoot your shot, kid Hold on tightly in the dark Summon courage from afar Steady shot, kid Overthinking what I chose Quick to step on wayward toes And I know, I know, I know [VERSE] (Hurt) Bruises yet unseen (Seen) Impulsive inner fiend (Fiend) The fear of coming clean (Clean) A mind that cannot hear your worried plea (Plea) A throne inside my head (Head) Of questioning instead (Stead) The function I have bred (Bred) Unstable life, routine rigidity [PRE-CHORUS] The past is... The past is... The past is... The past is... [CHORUS] Shoot your shot, kid Hold on tightly in the dark Summon courage from afar Steady shot, kid Disbelief from endless woes So fucking quick to answer no [OUTRO] And I know, I know, I know I know, I know, I know
10.
Bakunawa 03:28
[INTRO] Under doors and through the streets of night A force collecting seven moons in sight Run [VERSE] Haunting chambers Silently unsheathed Fallen, calling A pool of blood beneath [CHORUS] Run she said (Pick them off, one by one) Borrowed time (Wax and wane, run and hide) Step by step (Pick them off, one by one) Chase the night Who's the next in line? [VERSE] Heavy shadows Rush to close me in Breathing, feeding Now the hunt begins [CHORUS] Run she said (Pick them off, one by one) Borrowed time (Wax and wane, run and hide) Step by step (Pick them off, one by one) Chase the night Who's the next in line?
11.
Laniakea 06:02
[VERSE] Waking to the dawn Sands as black as nights of old Strands of golden hair Flicker on the ground below Flowing through her veins Burning wrath of ancient ways Giving, loving, taking life As her ashes rise to outer space [PRE-CHORUS] Looking up Webs of clusters overhead Looking up Speaking to the stars she said [CHORUS] Laniakea Heavenly attractor Laniakea Heaven without measure Laniakea Heavenly attractor Laniakea Heaven without measure [VERSE] Chanting voices near Waking dormant fauna He sails on kiawe seas With glowing, flowing mana He's drawn towards the summit With light approaching supernova Scaling, mounting fiery heights Of glowing, flowing lava [PRE-CHORUS] Looking down Beauty strikes him through the chest Looking down Tension on the highest West [CHORUS] Laniakea Heavenly attractor Laniakea Heaven without measure Laniakea Heavenly attractor Laniakea Heaven without measure [BRIDGE] Forever matched in lover's grasp We drift away in endless mass Orbiting stars growing gamma bright Spin before us with infinite might Matched in ancient lover's grasp We drift away in an endless mass Entropy swells the ground below And bursts throughout a cosmic legato Gaze affixed, our lives transfixed Tidally locked in eternal bliss [CHORUS] Laniakea Heavenly attractor Laniakea Heaven without measure Pele Honua Heavenly attractor Pele Honua Heaven without measure Laniakea Heavenly attractor Laniakea Heaven without measure
12.
Atlas 04:37
[VERSE] Mountains Shake and tremble Burdens from the past (I won't speak their names, no) (I can hold them back) Seas of Trauma sleeping Breathing through the cracks (I won't speak their names, no) (I can hold them back) [BRIDGE] The stories that we've spun Never quite felt like enough Quick to answer no Guiding us, guiding us home Seven moons in sight Fear and love collide Ancient lover's grasp Holding me intact [OUTRO] Sympathetic detonations Swallowed in your symphony Sympathetic detonations Swallowed in your symphony Take my hand before the plunge Future's jaws open wide

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'The Event and the Horizon,' Conflicting Motive's first full-length album, combines elements of progressive rock, dark-pop, and post-rock, to explore the interconnection of mythology and space.

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released March 10, 2023

Zach Cabral - Lead Vocals, Guitars, Programming, Engineering, Mixing, Mastering

JP Foronda - Keyboards, Synthesizers, Backing Vocals, Vocals (8), Additional Guitars (8-12), Orchestration (1-2, 5, 12), Saxophone, Hammered Dulcimer

Doug Charles - Drums, Additional Percussion, Additional Vocals (2, 4, 6, 10), Programming, Orchestration (2, 5, 7)

Case McRee - Bass, Additional Vocals (10)

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Alyssa Rose - Additional Vocals (2, 4, 6)

Stewart Spears - Additional Vocals (2, 4, 6)

Trisha Lyn Charles - Vocals (7)

Paige Coley - Recording Engineer (Drums: 5, 10, 11)

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