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Oracle Bone

by Zac Brennan

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johnjericho LATIN LOVE ELEGY IS TOP TWO LOVE SONG FOR MY ENCHANTING MAGNUM OPUS AND I LOVE TO ZAC FOR PUTTING IT TOGETHER LOVE IT PLAYING IN OUR EARS IN THE MOONLIGHT SLOW DANCING WITH THE STARS. SEMPER-FI Favorite track: Latin Love Elegy.
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I MAKE THE MARROW By the law of attraction Thoughts to words and words to action Flint of dream Tinder of mind What I ignite is what I find When laying all foundations We harden our own limitations So extend the North And upend the South Redesign the horse’s mouth I am the sculptor I carve my path Create and recreate I am the Father From ghost to man Idea becomes my dear I give my sunlight I give my moonlight I make the marrow from imagining I know the dangers of delusion I can outreach their conclusion From the breath of God To a death foretold It’s natural to take control I can move a piece of the mountain To fashion the head of the fountain With chisel and mallet I can tell it so true It’ll be etched in your memory My perfect statue
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GOODNIGHT FULGURITE There can be no going back Once it’s all set in stone That’s the cold hard truth of it Say goodnight fulgurite You’re fixed now You’re pretty permanent Surely you’ll out live me Stay quiet Lay your dead weight down Sleep tight For there is no rewind Long after the kiln Deep into some distant day Stare the shapes that I’ve cast in clay They're poker-faced forever
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LATIN LOVE ELEGY Behold the enchanting Magnum opus of mine Skin of glowing ivory A vision so divine I am burning With desire I want to turn The impossible true Because there's nothing in this world That I want more than you I will stand by My ivory tower and pray Because when you're right here You're still so far away O poor me Stuck in a latin love elegy I dress you in treasures Sweet catacomb saint I run wild in reverie I stagger through heartache I am burning With desire
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THE CHANGER OF HEARTS Now I am here at the temple On Aphrodite’s day To plead Adorned in garlands of myrtle O silent effigy Hear my dream I see a candle on the altar Raise its flame up high As I leave I trudge home through the forest To my lonely abode Then there’s a breeze And you appear my love With lips warm to touch What am I witnessing? Am I the Modern Prometheus I never thought that I could be Such a lucky man I never thought I'd see the magic Of the holy hand You and I Have been awakened by The changer of hearts Now that you are free from your slumber And blood is drawn from stone I believe I believe in the future I feel it in my bones Now I can see
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In A Flash 03:54
IN A FLASH In the middle of the night I bolt out of bed An empty feeling is filling me with dread The front door is open wide I call out but you don’t reply I leap into my boots and overcoat I feel the sickle moon staring at my throat Now the wind is really blowing up a gale And you’re out there somewhere In a flash you were born In a flash you fled In a crescendo of fear I try not to lose my head Now the wind is really blowing up a gale And you’re out there somewhere I will find you
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THROUGH THE CRACKS Through blackberry thickets of thorns Past shadowed caves and ancient trees And far beyond the silhouetted hilltops I search for you I lay torchlight before my feet But the darkness is closing in on me Because you are lost and now I am lost too With only a chance From a hut so small But ten foot square Who could be there? An old shaman answers the door Inside he has every remedy He says ‘if you like I will read your future What do you want to know?’ He unwraps the dragon bone And scratches symbols in the shoulder blade ‘O I just want to know will she ever come back to me?’ So into the fireplace it goes And the blushing coals Call forth a crack He says ‘Go home She will come back.’ I hope you don’t fall through the cracks Because I know I will pay the price No man ever steps In the same river twice
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Dormant Man 03:03
DORMANT MAN I’m not the same person anymore Since I’ve been waiting here for you It seems my luck has fallen through And all the world is a wasteland Now that I’m a dormant man It’s like I am frozen here in space and time In my citadel of Limbo Like the first circle of The Inferno With my heavy heart in hand Now that I’m a dormant man I made everything the way it is right now I designed my own demise For one more glimpse into your eyes Over the River Styx I stand Now that I’m a dormant man
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My Maker 05:11
MY MAKER By the time I awake It’s too late I’m surrounded by flames And finally You have come back to me And whether you struck a match Or a storm Laid some lightning down It’s the same end Because both are heaven sent O this life Was a breathtaker O this love Was a heartbreaker Now here I go To meet my maker The blaze roars like thunder Through my home The prophecy is complete Because finally You have come back to me And like the Mungo Lady You will be And I was some other Pygmalion Now tomorrow Is born of our fire and bone

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A CONCEPT ALBUM INSPIRED BY THE STORY OF PYGMALION FROM OVID'S METAMORPHOSES

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released December 23, 2022

All songs by Zac Brennan
Recorded and Mixed by Zac Brennan, 2016
Mastered by John Ruberto at Mastersound, 2022
Cover art by Zac Brennan

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Zac Brennan Australia

Zac Brennan is a multi-instrumentalist / singer-songwriter. His albums feature various instruments such as acoustic guitar, 12-string electric guitar, electric lap-slide guitar, charango, ronroco, ukulele, kamelan ngoni, and mbira.

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