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Shadows

by Spy Glass Blüe

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    Includes 6 Bonus Tracks from Aguirre's Los Angeles-based Darkwave band, Cygnet, circa 1986-1989
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Thin and Leaner To be or not is not the question To live and die is not a muse To hear you snivel about your fascinations Just makes it difficult to choose who I hear a window I see it clean I feel the slender thin and leaner Confusion leaves you full of tension I see the empty in your eye Your noncompliance feeds your reputation Starving the fragile passer-byes To be or not is not the question To live among the dead is true To wallow in your righteous indignation Is much too sick for me to view you I hear a window I see it clean I feel the slender thin and leaner
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Lodging 03:59
Lodging Be still The ringing has started again and this time I'm taking a line Another day in the lodge instead of out in the cold but Still too much talk about breaking the mold Who's to care I don't seem to care anymore Let me tell you about the reasons for living I'm given to the smile in your eyes I've got my back against the wall Holy grail slipping with pain Another twenty-eight-day move and all the wheels will start the cycle again My heart The beating has started again and this time I think I'm in love In love and alive instead of broken in three and I still can't believe this is happening to me Who's to care I don't seem to care anymore Lodging
3.
In Sultry Places I can cope with stages Rising Wingless Foe beneath from yonder pit Releasing pressure from the skull in the form of tourniquet Passe Mesmerized in stages And from terror of the Calling I crawled to see Releasing pressure from the skull the Sarx in apathy Cliché Clothed in confusion clawing out for peaceful means I can cope with ages Where and when the voices cry I cannot tell Attempting feats of vanity for the price of a silent night For the price of a noble knight Touch of heart in cages So take this mask the Crimson Faceless from my hands They come in numbers after all to play the secret games and to hide behind the names Clothed in confusion clawing out for peaceful means With a Crimson Face disgraced By secret names and childhood games Tales of Croatian sacrifices Opal Eyes don't fantasize aloud but alone in sultry places... Alone in sultry places
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Can You Feel 03:32
Can You Feel Can you feel my destination knocking at this situation Like new décor over you and me? Behind our eyes the colors spiral in anticipation to keep the darkening sky in disguise His eyes kaleidoscope in pain to see the mass creation continue in their degradable shame But still the Broken Heart keeps bleeding for the population Shouldn’t we be doing the same in His name? Well I can feel the sorrow fighting back all the cries of the churches’ mediocrity The Son of Man will soon attack and the screams of Hell will finally be released Bellowing disgusted figures clad in cloak but never hiding keep making heads spin around and around A replacive shadow tied with age and fear leaves empty trying to keep the darkening sky in disguise Yesterday the vacant cities opened cracked abiding irony I pried my lifeless dream away from the flames But still the Broken Heart keeps bleeding for the population Shouldn’t we be doing the same in His name? Well I can feel the sorrow fighting back all the cries of the churches’ mediocrity The Son of Man will soon attack and the screams of Hell will finally be released L’mah sa’bachthani I can feel the sorrow fighting back all the cries of the churches’ mediocrity The Son of Man will soon attack and the screams of Hell I can hear the horror turning back all but some of the dying symbols hiding in me Drawing little boys stickmen locked in their crypt Lost in headstones asleep for all to I can feel the sorrow fighting back all the cries of the churches’ mediocrity The Son of Man will soon attack and the screams of Hell will finally be released
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Me Mine 05:52
Me Mine Yesterday slapped me broadside Would you like me to call? So they sat at a glance by themselves for a while Would you like me to stay? He said So they sat by themselves by a shore for a while Wondering if the tide washed away The feelings of love and one again Would you like me to play? Don’t let the sun burn the smile from your eyes So they locked the man and took me for a little ride Couldn’t take it nice and easy, and they didn’t even try They’ve got nasty habits tearing with a bleeding pain You begged to see the shadowy dances on the walls of me cave When they told me what they told you like I told you in a daze It took me face to face A gentle place for all of me to hide A gentle web is woven inside Would you like to make me mine Would you like to make me I tried a love in vain to keep reflections behind Instead I’m better safe you're sorry with nothing in mind When they told me what they told me like I told you in a daze It took me face to face A gentle place for all of me to hide A single web is woven inside
6.
On and On 04:14
On and On She lies unable keeping orchids by her side No tears to whisper on and on She fears the fall leaves like some memory She opens up her eyes and smiles Like sand unstable burden locks me away to hide The dark and lovely on and on No tears to tell me life in summary Delighting one in stride I smile Take the hand that needs you babe Look into my heart The nails precede the bleeding Standing here will just tear us apart On and on I lie unable keeping nothing by my side No tears to whisper on and on I fear the fall leaves like her memory When she closed her eyes I smiled Take the hand that needs you babe Look into my heart The nails precede the bleeding Standing here will tear us apart Poised on top scorning faces Fresh from the start On and on
7.
Stygian 05:06
Stygian Contrite Never less than sorry Compunctious hue Failing hearts of glory One sarx or two Impudent degradation Among the true Ponder restoration I loved I love you I loved you too You counseled leaders of nations Shared in secret revelations Exposed the dark in temptation And now you’re spurning correction You spoke of mysteries eternal The error of walking in carnal On how to sanctify corporal But now your ways are infernal Apostolic Apostasy You taught the value of integrity The transformation of mentalities You taught me purpose and vision You helped me make the decision You counseled leaders of nations Exposed the dark in temptation You spoke of mysteries immortal And now your ways are immoral Apostolic Apostasy For the lips of an adulteress drip like honey Her feet go down to the depths of She’ol Like a Syriac or oxen to the slaughter Little Stygian follows to her chamber of death
8.
Iron Grey 05:30
Iron Grey (Aguirre) I was witness to the gallery Your strokes of quaint array Framed in scarlet tapestries Awaiting their display I stared, holding on the banister Your hopes of yesterdays While overwhelming shadows burned The portraits of an iron grey Iron grey With the double day girls I was lost within the gathering Wishing dreams away Clutching at the tragedies Avoiding my dismay Brush the heartache while you’re standing there Visualize the flame While overwhelming shadows burned The portrait of an iron grey Like apples of gold in pictures of silver Color me cold Kaleidoscope my eyes Uncover the canvas in the gallery of lies Burn the portraits
9.
Ignorant Side I feel a little colder now Send me a Fire to listen again for a different time I feel a little older now I’m thirsty again The ache inside to break the dark has always been on my mind I never sought sympathy or a chance to explain Do you recall a day when dreams ever stopped Or when the curtain fell before the star could shine I couldn’t take the show me hows Abasement my friend Crawling around on the ignorant side I wouldn’t understand somehow Call me a liar The need inside to break the dark has always been on my mind On the ignorant side
10.
Come Patmos 03:50
Come Patmos Can someone tell me when the rain will wash away The emptiness contained within these hallowed halls glow like shadows on the stains I’ve searched so high Vertigo comes round again I’ve seen the skels of legions slumber undisturbed Unlike harnessing the wind Come Patmos Should morning fail me and the sun rises again All memories bestowed upon the faulted ones will drive most of them to shame I’ve seen so high Ignorance comes round again I’ve seen the shells of humans slumber undisturbed Unlike movements of the wind Come Patmos
11.
Should Have 04:34
Should Have What can I say now You’ve got me so confused It’s time for you to look with your own eyes What can it be now I always did and said the things you wanted in return for the same lies I’m tired of your insecurities Your beauty drives me dizzy Keeps me falling to my knees I should have left you a long time ago No more amusing games for my emotions to feed you full To fill your distasteful whims Alone to starve unless you find another man’s heart Unlike me here trying not to think again It often scares me When the silence starts closing in the vamp defies the heartache I should have left you a long time ago
12.
Tell 04:06
Tell I’m the most ignorant of men I do not have a man’s understanding I have not learned wisdom Nor have I knowledge of the Holy One Tell me if you know Who has gone up to heaven and come down Who has gathered up the wind in the palm of His hands Tell me now what’s His name and the name of His Son Who has wrapped up the waters in his cloak Who has established all the ends of the earth Tell me now what’s His name and the name of His Son Tell me if you know Laodicea I’m the most ignorant of men I do not have a man’s understanding Tell me now what’s His name and the name of His Son
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credits

released May 1, 1996

ALLAN AGUIRRE - Keyboards, Percussion, Programming, All Guitars & Vocals
RIVER TUNNELL - Fretted & Fretless Bass
JOSHUA PYLE - Keyboards, Samples
KRIS ROSENTRATOR - Drums, Percussion, Programming

Produced by Allan Aguirre
Mixed by Allan Aguirre & Joshua Pyle
Recorded April 1996 @ Studio Vision 1, Arlington, TX by The Spy

Cover art by David Bach
SGB photo by David Snow
Additional photography by David Robinson

Tracks 1, 2, 7, 9 & 12 recorded by Jay Young
Additional guitars: Tracks 1, 7 & 9 by John Eargle - Track 12 by Mark Lagana
Additional bass guitar: Tracks 2, 9, 12 by Jay Young - Tracks 1 & 7 by Allan Aguirre
Programming on track 12 by Trent Pawley
Child Voice on “Stygian” by Xaundelle Aguirre

2023 LEGENDS REMASTERED EDITION
Remastered by Rob Colwell @ Bombworks Sound

© & ® 1996, 2023 Faceless Gen Recording Company
All material 1996 Sacrosanctus Musick / ASCAP
All rights reserved. Unauthorized reproduction prohibited

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Cygnet
Omar Domkus: Fretless Bass, BGV's
Mark Anthony, Chaz Bartlett, Paul Figueroa: Electric Guitars
David Byers: Additional Guitar on "On and On"
Jerry Vidal: Drums
Craig Weinstein, Drew Domkus: Keyboards
Allan Aguirre: Vocals, Keyboards, Acoustic/Electric Guitars, Percussion

1986-1988 Sacrosanctus Musick / ASCAP
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Spy Glass Blüe Dallas, Texas

It is no secret that by the time Sin Disease found its way into music stores, Aguirre had been playing the LA club scene with his band Cygnet. The average music enthusiasts tends to regard Scaterd Few as a big fish in a small pond. However, Aguirre gravitated towards dark wave, playing alongside bands like Jane’s Addiction. Years later, Cygnet ended up evolving into the moniker Spy Glass Blüe. ... more

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