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Ghostlines

by Sora

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1.
Ghostlines 05:26
These ghostlines leading nowhere To the static in my head Ghostlines, a fading heat sign To a heart bled away Oh I tried to become someone Who didn't need to cry Still I'm drowning in these unseen tears Shed by ghosts beneath my eyes I'm living in this ghost town Of stories long since past Littered in this ghost town By an end that moved on Oh I tried to become your possession Carried past goodbye Still I'm haunted by the unsaid words Sung extinct before their time All this phantom time Shadows of desire Languishing lines that light leaves behind Am I your phantom limb left behind? Remembrance is a specter Abundance fossilized A vigil my desert body keeps In a wake held for your sea Oh I tried to release my ravaged needs From the bondage of desire Still I'm starving for your shaded kiss Left parched upon my lips All this phantom time Shadows of desire Languishing lines that light leaves behind Oh you're my phantom limb left behind Left behind All my love left treading numb Left to search my invisible face in your mirror Oh I am here I'm still here I'm still here Call me from these shrouded years Name the ghost you've denied The ghost you've denied The ghost I've become All this phantom time Shadows of desire Languishing lines that light leaves behind A phantom limb left behind These ghostlines leading nowhere…
2.
Paris 03:30
In you my time unravels In you I'm found Or maybe I'm remembered In the dance that winds the stillness Your glance upon this moment Was weighted by the years Drown in this desperate silence By a world that tried to hold you I see you Beyond the mask you must wear Beauty's curse You shine like those suns That crest the break of time Formless waves in the dark You offered me the pieces Discarded on the way Cut from my branches bleeding In a garden of tangled roses You spill beyond the edges Of what is safe to know I am the wind that follows madly Deeply your freedom I see you Beyond the past you must wear Beauty's curse You shine like the suns That crest the break of time Formless waves of light Let the notes between us sing Oh, let us be who we'd be Who we'd be without time Time is a golden apple A choice without choice There is no place beyond you You're the song and you're the singer I see you You're the ripples of light That laugh upon my sea
3.
Secrets 04:41
All of these treacherous beats of my heart Filling those caverns that long to forget I cradle your trembling words So wild within my chest All of these secrets take refuge in my heart Shadows seeping through my futile walls Still living is this tangled shame Still healing oh my heart is not a weapon It's not No, it's not a weapon Left in those tide pools displaced by time Orphans of longing, the ghosts of the mind Tears transmute this harried pain Like blood within your wine All of these secrets are tearing you apart Murmurs slipping from your harrowed heart Still needing absolution Still crying oh your heart is not a weapon It's not No, it's not a weapon Rise on these smoke-filled wings this phoenix you hide Freed from its bony cage, the heart on its pyre Fly far from these ashy veins The bitter past to die All of these secrets, the refugees of time Heartquakes searching for a reason why Still longing to protect you Still loving oh, the heart is not a weapon It's not No, it's not a weapon
4.
Immortal 03:15
What life is life immortal? When years are glancing thoughts And love is naught but ashes On graves the past has lost What terrible gods have we become? Gone from the mirror Reflection nothing but shadows of The tumbling wind Our crumbling tears The dust of my heart Lonely like a virus Caught in blood I just can't sate Falling, always falling From that one moment of grace Oh let me go Oh let me fall Oh let me become The tumbling wind Your crumpled tears The dust of your heart To live beyond the measure Is worlds I cannot know No one should live to see Their ideals turned to stone Please let return passion to time Rosy-lipped day, heady desire If just one moment until The tumbling wind Such crumpled tears Make dust of my heart The tumbling wind My crumpled tears The dust of my heart
5.
Clay 03:24
Clay hands, clay hearts Fragile in beauty Clay dreams falling Falling shards to ground Oh father, father I tried my best To make real the life of this flesh I'm molded and sculpted by you For this spark, I die Die over and over again Clay thoughts, clay fears Shaped to be brittle Clay jar filling Filling with hope to be more Oh father, father I tried to be All that you made me to be I tumble, descending from you For this spark, I die Die over and over again Oh father, father I'm more than just Rolled dust, tears of a golem For knowledge, I slip down Hollowed casts and break Clay shame bleeding (Clay shame, clay need) Clay need heeding (Graceless and dirty) Clay will numbing (Clay will crumbling) Clay ties crumbling (Crumbling, dust to mouth) Oh life of fire, forgive of me (Oh father, father I've bled all my nails) This sentient heart (Clawed earth and rusted blood) Alluvial fire (Scoured by this fire, I'm cracked) Cracking all that I thought I could be Know me, father Love me, father Break down these chains (Let go of these chains) That I might die (That die, die over and over again) Die over and over again (Clay hands, clay heart) (Fragile in beauty)
6.
Frozen 04:39
Time stood still in our breaking Shards of shattered will In our breaking, all was still So still In the silence of complacent years Lays the carnage of winter's tears In the silence of these cares turned to fears I sleep with your heart still singing The blood of my dreams I can't breathe Because I'm frozen without you I whisper to the wind my longing Find me. Free me. Melt me. Need me. Hold me. Thrill me. Breathe, fill me. Touch me. Heal me. Sing, move me. Love me. Call me. Come back to me. I'm unfilled in my waiting Empty of you still I am waiting, heart unfilled Oh until In the wasteland of these withered words Parched and lonely, still unheard In this wasteland I'm inert With empty hurt I wish to ignite rebirthing The world keeps on turning Just not me Because I'm frozen without you I whisper to the wind my longing Find me. Free me. Melt me. Need me. Hold me. Thrill me. Breathe, fill me. Touch me. Heal me. Sing, move me. Love me. Call me. Come back to me. Restart my heart Promise me summer again Breathe our story into these frozen Words of mine Find me. Free me. Melt me. Need me. Hold me. Thrill me. Breathe, fill me. Touch me. Heal me. Sing, move me. Bend me. Break me. Map me. Make me. How I want to be warmed by you I was yours from the start. Touch me. Heal me. Sing, move me. Love me. Call me. Come back to me. Come back to me. Frozen without.
7.
Selkie 03:02
Selkie man with eyes like the sea Peel your skin of tenuity Seven tears for seven years I've cried to bring you to me Hear the song of the Dan-nan-ron Heed the call of the deep Let the pull of the lilting tides Sing the dark 'o' the sea Selkie heart that crests with the tides Crashing surf of your landless cries I've seven years to tame your tears To claim your wild-sung moonshine You have run with the shadow tines You have swum the seas of many eyes You have turned salt cheek to the rage of time And come to wrack beside Selkie dreams are a dulcet sleep To you my earthly cares I'll cede Seven years of spellbound tears Such enchantments you shall make Call me home to your Sulle Skerry Touch my pain with your fears Change the face of these lonesome years Recall that sea back to me Sing the song of seals and sigh The seafoam sounds of your ancient rhyme For Selkie tears have brought me here But love is the skin that binds
8.
Helen 04:19
They called me the torch And in the minds of men My beauty was a curse A wager to be won So how do the towers of Ilium Burn so bright? Burn so bright A thousand reasons to let you go Sail on ravenous seas I'd rather die with a living heart Than live without Live without You seeing me They deemed me dangerous Needing to be caged Held hostage to his greed But a wild Nemean beast cannot be tamed I would not be worn A pelt upon his pride If only he had seen beyond my face to me Oh how do the towers of Ilium Burn so bright? Burn so bright A thousand reasons to let you go Sail on ravenous seas I'd rather die with a living heart Than live without Live without You seeing me What choice is there in choice? When freedom is the game A rose upon your lips A brand upon my name To call the echoing pain From all-consuming time What of me remains but the choice made that day To sail to the towers of Ilium To burn so bright Burn so bright A thousand nights in your ruined arms I sailed on ravenous seas A heart escaped from its gilded cage Won't live without Live without ever being seen They called me the torch And in your eyes alone The truth of that day My heart took its choice
9.
Away 04:34
In the land of the dying sun The girl, she stands On the plains of her bloodless heart She has come undone, the tattered sum Of this stardust love Let away be thy name Cross the sea carried By the lonesome waves Of disparity Away, you are so far away The words have all been sung Every sad note wrung From her storm-cast eyes She pulls the ship-wrecked tides With her siren sighs Of what's left behind Let away be thy name Cross the sea carried By the lonesome waves Of disparity Away, you are so far away Oh so far away On these yesterdays She casts her washed up spells To lay so far away Let away be thy name Cross the sea carried By the lonesome waves Of disparity Away, you are so far away Away, you are so far away She calls the guarded deep For the air can't hear The weight of the words she keeps She holds the leying lines Of dissolving time 'til they find again 'til they find again
10.
The past is empty of promising to be more All our battered wanting Won't open these sealed doors The grief was silent It wasn't this old space I was the one outgrown Pushing wings beyond Beyond this place Goodbye lullaby All these years are falling Falling Gone and left behind My lucid becoming Goodbye lullaby The words are spilled, seeping forgone Calling their bones is just a broken song Today's my chalice The grail of what can be So goodbye lullaby All these years are falling Falling So gone, so left behind Goodbye lullaby Alchemy's tears are yesterday Flown away Cracking within the life held for me Let this pastiche gone Open me to more Oh childhood's over (I am born) Goodbye lullaby All these years are falling Falling So gone and left behind My lucid becoming Goodbye lullaby

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released May 15, 2021

Produced by Vanessa Cardui. Mixed & mastered by Richard Harrow

Sora: Vocals, Backup vocals, Chime, Harp, Keyboard, Violin
Vanessa Cardui: Backup vocals, Banjo, Glockenspiel, Lute, Percussion (Chime, Ocean drum, Rattle, Sandpaper blocks, Shakers, Udu, Woodblock), Recorder, Tenor Recorder
Dorothy Bishop: Cello
Aaron Young: Electric Guitar
Brent Van Dusen: Drum Kit


Graphic design by Elizabeth Jones Designs
Album photography by Francis A. Willey
Hair & makeup by Stela Lucina
Fashion Styling by Adrea Tremblay

All songs ©Andrea Sora Helen Hunt (SOCAN/BMI)

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Sora Calgary, Alberta

Sora is a World/Celtic singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Her engaging stories straddle the realms of mythic and modern. Her transcendent voice will carry you on journeys of time and place.

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