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Mortal Cathedrals

by The Positronic Cats

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1.
1,000 Chandeliers words/music: Waylon K. Smith ©2017 The Positronic Cats Don't ever look at me, touch me, or talk to me I can exist just like this You fed on my weaknesses, you know I get speechless Then I freeze up I'm not playing dumb, I am biting my tongue for good reason dear & if this is some game, well it's cruel & insane & I'm leaving here I am leaving... I will crystallize your tears & make a thousand chandeliers (x4) Don't ever look at me, touch me, or talk to me I can exist just like this You fed on my weaknesses, you know I get speechless Then I freeze up I'm not playing dumb, I am biting my tongue for good reason dear & if this is some game, well it's cruel & insane & I'm leaving here don't look so surprised, I am simply paralyzed (x2) Well you've carved out your life with some dull, rusty knife Now you're tasting it And you've got what you want so stop Crossing my lines you are taking my time and you are wasting it You are wasting it I will crystallize your tears & make a thousand chandeliers (x4)
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Love Me 04:52
Love Me words/music: Waylon K. Smith ©2017 The Positronic Cats The glimmer of a rendezvous Is a memory of the future Oh but being so close to you Has got me tearing at my sutures & you look right through me An apprehensive apparition If you only knew me I'd be above your suspicions CH: Just tell me that you love me You don't have to mean it Just tell me that you love me & make sure that I believe it You reacted viciously To the heart that you're betraying & darling, there's no sympathy For a heart that is decaying Still I stand here pleading With my feet firmly planted Baby, i'm just needing To be taken for granted CH: BRIDGE: This illusion of romance Is only getting obscener It's all passion without substance & it's darkening my demeanor CH:
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Glitter 04:09
Glitter words/music: Waylon K. Smith ©2017 The Positronic Cats Bright lights & smoke Hanging heavy as a cloak The only way to keep the wolves at bay Feathers & claws An empty room filled with applause & I can’t, no I can’t look away CH: How can we act our age When there’s glitter covering the stage This is the blood from our veins This is the blood from our veins Stars & silhouettes May our hearts beat full & without regret Spend the evening, spend the night Please just stay The scent of sparks An empty room silent & dark Bienvenue, bienvenue au cabaret CH: BR: CH:
4.
Fluidity of Fate words/music: Waylon K. Smith ©2017 The Positronic Cats As you sink into the soil Chemically unchanged A hundred billion stars go out at once Behold the pillars of flame The seas will churn forever As the moon betrays the tide A battery of waves will prove that history is changing & the sacred will survive The sacred will survive, the sacred will survive CH: la la… The breath that will not catch The thirst that will not slake The galaxy expands & then extinguishes her children The fluidity of fate The fluidity of fate, the fluidity of fate CH:
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Love is Impossible music/lyrics: Waylon K. Smith ©2017 The Positronic Cats Gravity works differently in the underworld So I ascended from the center of the earth Like Orpheus, I had to retrace my steps & that is how we met CH: If love is impossible, so are we If love is impossible, so are we If love is impossible, so are we If love is impossible, so are we While we wept with wolves, we waited For the gods to fall asleep &, as the dawn broke, they found we had absconded By the skins of our teeth CH: Bridge: As we sailed to the edge of the world I said, “I can see the past from here” You said, “What the hell” & pinned a rose to my lapel & we left the atmosphere CH:
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Mortal Cathedrals words/music: Waylon K. Smith ©2017 The Positronic Cats Thin as a shadow Draped in the Starlight the made ya You fell from the Earth While we clung to you like a saviour & baby you never showed your face Maybe you were trying to distract us Baby you’ve sacrificed yourself Maybe you were trying to protect us CH: Like mortal cathedrals Like mortal cathedrals Like mortal chathedrals Like vapour, or, like smoke Slipping through backdoors & cages & every practiced pose Was showing us how to be courageous But now we are luminous With your Starlight a symbol A host of smoldering embers Until our foundations crumble CH:
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Sabres Sheathed words/music: Waylon K. Smith ©2017 The Positronic Cats I’ll meet you on the bridge at dawn Sabres sheathed & pistols drawn I’ll bury you behind the cypress trees & if I fall you’ll do the same for me I’ll call on your pretty, young, bride Dry her tears & hold her through the night Our lips will lock & our limbs will intertwine & if I fall you’ll do the same for mine CH: I’ll stagger through the midnight streets in pain Broken hearted, bewildered, & insane & every glass, oh I will raise it in your name & if i fall you’ll do the same CH:
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The Beautiful Chaos of Time music/lyrics: Waylon K. Smith ©2017 The Positronic Cats Arcadia can be anything The past is arithmetic Paradise is merely a feeling And the future is synthetic So let me know your pain In a rosary of stars Let me know your love From your patterns and your scars CH: We're just children floating in space We're just children floating in space We're just children floating in space And we illuminate like beacons of fate Life can be the chance to glimpse the divine The beautiful chaos of time So let me know your pain In a tapestry of stars Let me know your love Let your prophecy break my heart CH:
9.
Heart of the Sea music/lyrics: Waylon K. Smith ©2017 The Positronic Cats I was adrift, The man that I was, was a ship That was trying to drown And the ship, that I was, Was sinking without making a sound CH: And my heart was a sea of smashed pianos And the sea was sharp, and the sea And my love was a tattered sail that hung lifeless Endlessly, endlessly, endlessly Endlessly... And all hands abandoned the deck All that remained was the wreck Of a ship that was gathering gloom And the ship, that I was, Was sinking by the light of the moon CH: BR: She appeared from the mist Bade me to shake free my barnacles It was time to fly And the ship, that I was Is still sailing through the stars tonight Ch: And my heart is a sea of constellations And she is the heart of the sea And my love is the force that's expanding the universe Endlessly, endlessly, endlessly And my heart is a sea of constellations And she is the heart of the sea And my love is the force that's expanding the universe Endlessly, endlessly, endlessly Endlessly...
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Cosmonauts 04:46
Cosmonauts music/lyrics: Waylon K. Smith ©2017 The Positronic Cats Darling, tell me how We are floating So high above the clouds &, darling, tell me why we are still alive We’re not breathing, we’re just being We’re not breathing, we’re just being & we are not cosmonauts We are light & thought, we are holy We’re not breathing, we’re just being We’re not breathing, we’re just being & we are not cosmonauts We are light & thought, we are holy & we are not cosmonauts We are light & thought, we are holy & we are not cosmonauts We are light & thought, we are holy We are holy We are holy…

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Our first LP, “Mortal Cathedrals”, is a landscape of romance, alienation, transcendence, armageddon, & rebirth. The music video for our first single, GLITTER, can be seen on YouTube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwhJ17F6TOg

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released February 21, 2017

The Positronic Cats are:
Waylon K. Smith (vocals, guitar, electric bass)
Jim Taylor (electric & acoustic mandolin)


Cover Illustration: Jim Kersey
Colorist: Marissa Louise
Interior Illustration: Anna Taylor
Layout: Jessica Longo

Produced by Lance Davis
Recorded by Paul Chiacchierini at AMP Production Studios, McSherrystown PA.
Assisted by Ciara Woodby
Additional Tracking by Ciara Woodby, Jake Bennett, and Fisher Selby
Mixed by Paul Chiacchierini and Lance Davis at RokBox Studios in Fishtown Philadelphia, PA
Mix Consultant: Dave Bowden
Mastered by Dave Bowden

Drums on 1,000 Chandeliers: Lance Davis
Drums on Glitter: Lance Davis & Waylon K. Smith
Drums and additional Backing Vocals on Sabres Sheathed: Lance Davis
Drums on Cosmonauts: Dave Bowden
Synthesizer on Cosmonauts: Paul Chiacchierini

Paul Chiacchierini and Dave Bowden use TELEFUNKEN Elektroakoustic.
The C12, U47, CU29, ELAM260, M80, M82 and AR51 were used in making this record.

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