Fiction Portfolio, by Begin at Zero

Fiction Portfolio

by Begin at Zero

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1.	Volcano and Waterfall 04:21	lyrics	buy track
The city stood in shadow Right beneath The temple in the mountain Ground asleep Up there, the monks would pray For peace But High Priest John cast a spell In greed He found a book inside a cave That told him how to be a deity To watch from clouds and twist the world Create, destroy in perfect harmony But casting this spell would turn The mountain into an active volcano The eruption would kill Thousands in the city below John didn't consider himself a selfish man So he cast another spell Waterfall, waterfall Save these fools from a tragedy Keep them fine and alive For my new reality The ritual began In disguise The monks found out too late And reacted with surprise Ascending, John became One with the sky Then the mountain roared Like a dragon Embers spit and lava poured And everyone was quickly breathing ash Disintegrating homes and bones Parents begging children not to cry Looking down upon the mess John asked himself what went wrong If one spell didn't work He too might be vulnerable He then realized he was no longer ascending So he screamed Waterfall, waterfall Save this fool from a tragedy Keep me fine and alive Give me back reality All of a sudden, John was burning Waterfall, waterfall I'm a fool sunk in tragedy What was wrong with that book What is this reality High Priest John, High Priest John We're the ones you killed today We will haunt your afterlife Haunt you for eternity [0]
2.	The Ceiling 06:05	lyrics	buy track
She comes down From a delusion About how Her life is wonderful She looks up And sees an oddity It seems flat Yet screams solidity The sky falls slowly She finds out About her broken heart And asks why There's tension in the air She sits down In sheer serenity And goes back To existing leisurely The sky falls slowly She steps out In curiosity She's pulled down By a painless gravity The square plate Is larger than it was She looks in And her reflection shows The sky falls slowly She's alone She lacks adjacency She invites Friends from a fantasy The sky moves To kiss the ground below She puts up A hand to wave farewell The sky is falling [0]
3.	Lost in Vigil 05:36	lyrics	buy track
Once upon a time There lived a lonely prince Who could not fall asleep He was waiting His castle was abandoned His family was gone The walls became his subjects The roof his god He stays there On his throne, beneath his cover He feels sick So he wanders to the courtyard He thinks he hears A stranger coming through It's just the sea Still flooded, far from anything Softly and silently Meditating Where did they go Why won't they come Will they return home A knock upon his door A visitor had come The first one all these years Was a demon That told the prince it could Take away the hurt With a slumber spell It was his choice He ponders it The demon is impatient His rushing thoughts Have never choked him like this He screams his choice He'll go to sleep forever The demon nods The prince's mind just stops Softly and silently Disappearing Where will I go What is to come Will I return home Where am I [0]
4.	Trial by Leviathan 06:04	lyrics	buy track
The sun was rising from afar The horizon seemed aflame A gust of wind propelled my sail Just enough to keep me sane The lonely waters stirred a bit I felt a sudden chill And then I heard a shrieking sound That made my heart go still From the depths of the ocean void Came a storm of waves and mist I thought of home, thought of my dogs And the girl I never kissed Finally, that thing appeared Comparable to none Majestic, loud, gargantuan Its head eclipsed the sun And our eyes met My sight fades My screaming stops I reach enlightenment And then I plunge Into the undefined It's a hell I can't describe The creature had submerged itself With me, still skin and bone Down we went until we reached Its master on his throne He said he was the overlord Of the seas and islands here From below, he ruled above His fiend commanded fear I told him that I'd like to leave And return to my own land Bwahaha, he said aloud This chasm never ends But go ahead, run off, farewell I'll even arm you with a blade Five minute start before my pet If you're truly not afraid And so I swam Why was that my choice I'm no braver than my voice I can hear its cry I will surely die The demon is now dead I see the surface just ahead A familiar shore I greet My trial is complete [0]
5.	Little Creatures 06:01	lyrics	buy track
Little creatures Compromise to Merge into a monster And build themselves some towers Mountains, skyscrapers And a courthouse Erected from the ground up Make home to many powers Kings, bums, policemen And a princess United in existence Preserve the peace and order It's an adorable New nation Until the population Fills up to every border All they want to do is separate They might fight each other to escape King Clown has made All his predictions And written some convictions The kingdom in a jail cell Some might picture An uprising With mutinous devising But no one is a rebel Little features In the darkness Appears to be harnesses Strapped on as party favors Once they're finished With the sentence Life will be all the more tense The screams of warring neighbors All they want to do is separate Slaughtering each other to escape All they want to do is separate Destroying themselves 'til they're extinct [0]
6.	Harvest Altar 06:20	lyrics	buy track
A meeting In the town square Figure what we'll do With the stranger man Never seen his face Never seen a man like him But I've heard the tales Dreamed this day would come He's the angel to lay down Upon the harvest altar Offering of flesh and soul Born for the gods we feed from Ceremony costumes that were Sewn by our ancestors We put them on and say All hold hands All must chant Take this man Take this man A tribute To the gods above To the sick and starved To our children here Screaming Calm yourself, dear man Sacrifice Your honor is so high You're the angel to lay down Upon the harvest altar Offering of flesh and soul Born for the gods we feed from Ceremony costumes that were Sewn by our ancestors We put them on and say All hold hands All must chant Take this man Take this man [0]
7.	The Universal Yaw 06:43	info	buy track

about

Begin at Zero's second album, recorded Apr 2015 - Jun 2016.

credits

released July 9, 2016

For Kevin D. Brown

BaZ is:
Chris Spirit Brown - guitar/bass/vocals
Janelle T Kaiczar - guitar/vocals
Daniel Maddy - drums

Music and Lyrics by Chris Spirit Brown
Additional Composition by Janelle T Kaiczar & Daniel Maddy

Track 2 Inspired by the Short Story "The Ceiling" by Kevin Brockmeier

Engineered by Chris Spirit Brown & Janelle T Kaiczar
Mixed and Mastered by Chris Spirit Brown
Produced by Begin at Zero

Cover Design by Chris Spirit Brown

Special Thanks to Mathew Goldberg, Paul Koglin & Raine
Recorded in St. Louis, MO & St. Robert, MO