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How Long Will It Take

by orchid mantis

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1.
Time Flows 03:38
i don't ever know my destination don't think about the time or how i will get there but i know, they say time flows like a river always out to sea and no one even knows your face, your name here where no one even knows your face, your name here where no one even knows and it will never be just like things had been before and i could never understand it i've never been the one to close the door will you face the tide or get dragged under the days will never add up like they should but i know, far from now there's somewhere better where everything is fine waiting, forever i'm falling out with everything
2.
back out on my friend's porch or down by the church feels like a lucid dream like it was 10pm in 2016 and nothing feels the same but nothing really changed i'm filling up my head with memories that i don't ever want to resurrect i wake up again and i'll see you in that empty room i got lovesick dreams that won't come true and i just feel so strange if i could take your place it's cold outside outside lofi you close your eyes shot from your mind and i don't know how late it is but everything is swirling in some memory from another time was there really no reason why couldn't stop the bleeding i was letting go of leaving and the feeling is gone said you're wrong but i could never see it i was dreaming lucid dreaming i'll still think of you every time i write my A's in lowercase
3.
Light Weight 03:08
out of time, i had left your mind when i came back all the reasons had already passed i moved through three apartments three glowing crosses down the street they followed me, what does it all mean and my dreams came back had to see that there was nothing and it was just me, always running to the next big secret that i can cherish and believing is to make peace with it someday leaving that it'll make sense it'll all make sense out of sight and out of mind coming down i'm alive and somethings that's enough and tonight the weight is light
4.
for just a few months we got what we wanted we lived in the same place but by then it was too late and i'll never get back all the places that i miss all my friends that left songs that i don't listen to now people i try not to think about and i'll never get back all these years i've been losing friends i was in my head, never paid attention if you could do this all again would you still have answered my messages
5.
it was all a gamble anyways chasing what you know won't stay here no one's ever really in control i forget that, hurts to fall back into disenchanted mind terminally unoccupied and fate plays its games with you dream was gone before the dream came true these days i feel so tired terminally unoccupied think i could live in sleep no concern for what you want to be isn't anything here for just a moment then terminally free and i know you tried to change your mind to glow despite how time just takes it all i'll be fine there's still no time for us to make it right i'll make it out the sun is down my mind is empty you never meant for it to end you never wanted this three whole months trapped in my mind terminally unoccupied and i wander out until dawn until all the feeling is gone and there's no peace and there's no time terminally unoccupied think i could live in sleep no concern for what you want to be isn't anything here for just a moment then terminally free
6.
Snow World 02:02
in the hot sun melt forever walk through fire like it's nothing i was once something greater now i'm nothing now i'm free shake your head at the doorway dreams are fading flip the lights space and time in the snow world endless mazes eternal loops
7.
Endless Life 02:02
an endless life in falling snow feels like you're dying and even though it takes some time even so i keep stumbling into some bright moment and there's no end but the sun always comes through left myself in airport motels forever here there's no one else the hidden street i'll never tell how can you just carry on like there's nothing missing anyhow when the days drag on so long
8.
our time is up was it enough can't sleep tonight too much on my mind like "was it right?" "did i fuck up?" no meaning now that you know it's gone it's nowhere the sky is getting dim this life i'm living what have i missed and i hold onto memories i should not hold on to i wish i knew
9.
10.
there was nothing to say it all feels calm tonight and the boarding will call i'll be the one who's empty the sky slips underneath bright lights below me and you're way down there and i'll be gone by morning i don't know what we're after but the feeling will fade are we left with anything far from home all the stars are clearer its been so long since i slept the lights all in a row lead on & over and i'm still here, i carry on forever
11.
maybe in the new year i'll leave this behind maybe in the new year i'll stop wasting time and for a minute there i was under your spell left thinking i would never feel the same way as i did but the being is living, forgiving some things are for certain, others blurring into omens fate incarnate we're all drifting down the same stream, in the same dream quiet moments last the longest i could fall ill, i could die and never know it after all, why we feel anything
12.
come back i miss you don't you know that we're bound to don't leave it alone and it's everything it's not anything now such a waste to have found i know that it fades with time and it'll make sense but i'm losing my mind know it's impatient but i would die to know why takes a lifetime you have my soul forever and always what is it all for, this yearning so pointless and so pure and i'll never show it such a waste to know that was the end of it it could've been the world because we will never know i will let it go we will never know my mind fires chemicals and i've been cleaning up traces of what once was i think i've said enough
13.
i've been wasting all my time don't mind me i'll be just fine always seem to find a peaceful place how long will it take to keep from hurting how long will it take to see for certain how long will it take feelings that you cannot put into words trying to carry on living, leaving on this earth it may not be enough, but isn't anything even in all of the worst of things i know that there is still a beautiful ring of light covering everything it never dies i will keep chasing what will never come there is still a light in everything years shrink beneath me but we stay the same there's a place we're all going but how long will it take nothing is healing just tell me how long will it take
14.
it's been four months still think of all those memories i can't keep shut spectral gates fill this space got no reason to be awake i'm out there most nights listening to slowdive soaking in the moonlight nothing more what am i waiting for i can't keep it straight fall and decay but i learn every day some things just heal with sleep and time makes no sense but it will be alright in the end some things just heal with sleep and time makes no sense but it will be alright in the end you'll see the sun again eternal you turn away eternal one day i'll be so old all i'll have are half-memories of your old house or midtown nights spent out with friends i don't see now and the station is empty the benches unoccupied the doors are closing i know it all will be alright you know well, something good will come in the end, it all works out
15.
Time Erased 00:59

about

Time flows like a river. The first track on Orchid Mantis' 7th full-length offering interpolates this ancient expression, weilding it as a lyrical prompt to examine fate, loss, and some pristine future, still far off in the distance. "I don't ever know my destination, don't think about the time or how I'll get there." These opening lines prefigure Howard's persistent fixation on movement and liminality throughout the album - the result of a period of travel between the US, South Korea, and Sweden while writing and recording.

Field recordings of subways and rooftops, references to airport motels and terminals are steeped in an anxious broth of regrets, what-ifs and existential unease, brought on by a private set of tumultous life events - both positive and negative. The music reflects these scattered emotions in its 15-track sprawl, from the Yume Nikki-inspired tape drift of "snow world" to the lo-fi electronics of "fate incarnate" and shoegaze of "Lucid Dreams." However, what remains consistent is the sonic fidelity brought on by Howard's first-time collaboration with a mixing engineer.

The final three tracks of the album confront the same subject of moving on and letting go, each from different stages and moods. After the anguished questioning and philosophical angst of the title track "How Long Will It Take," "It Will Be Alright" arrives like a cleansing balm, promising that "Some things just heal with sleep and time."

❀"I Could Live In Sleep" listen/stream→ song.link/i-could-live-in-sleep
❀"How Long Will It Take" listen/stream→ song.link/howlongwillittake
❀"How Long Will It Take" music vid→ youtu.be/2Zwx2pNKTF4
❀"Lucid Dreams" music vid→ youtu.be/MyUDeTOxZ-Q

credits

released November 11, 2022

Written and recorded by Thomas Howard at home in Atlanta, GA.

Bass performed by Miles Wakeman on "Big Secret"
Bass performed by Charli Wakeman on "Fate Incarnate"
Additional guitar performed by Neil Young on "Fate Incarnate"
Aux. sound performed by Winona on "Time Erased"
Mixed by Conor Ryan (twitter: @WoozlesMusic)
Mastered by Thomas Howard

Many thanks to all my friends and loved ones, forever and always.

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