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Dhalgren is a reference to the 1975 dystopian sci-fi novel by Samuel R. Delany, but the story isn’t really related to that book. Instead, it’s about a “dream of a dream” in which some end-of-the-world shit is goes down. I’m still not sure of the details. For me it’s sung to a queen, perhaps from the point of view of her son, amidst great calamity, and ten years later, these lines resonate:

I watched as the armies of good and evil…
A force of metal fills the sky
Putting out any idea of peace, why

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Last I dreamt a dream of a dream
Waves of ice brought me to the shore
I saw our beginning, oh I, I saw our end
 
I watched as the armies of good and evil…
A force of metal fills the sky
Putting out any idea of peace, why
 
She looked at me she spoke to me
She said evil will always
For there is no reckoning from heaven
For there is no reckoning from hell
 
Where’s the difference any more
Has there ever been
Where’s the difference any more
Has there ever been
Where’s the difference any more
Has there ever been
And the chorus sang
 
Where has all the grace gone to
Where are we going ma’
Where has all the grace gone to
Where are we going ma’
 
Her husband was king
She wanted to do right by him
An acrobat from a foreign land
She leapt from his tower tumbling through the sea
Fiery billows fell from the sky
Fell from the sky
Fell from the sky, fell

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from Veins and Arteries (2023 reissue), released December 21, 2023

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We work at our own pace, with release plans guided more by equinoxes and solstices than any conventional wisdom. We are two long lost cousins Jeremy Thal and Gideon Crevoshay and a friend, Greg Chudzik. Our music exists at the crossroads of ambient, indie and so-called new music—delivered with the precision of chamber music, the emotional transparency of folk, and the weight of ritual. ... more

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