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Synthetic

by Hemina

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1.
This hour of ours belongs to you and me This hour of ours will set us free, my dear
2.
You ask me these questions I’ve asked myself for years After all this to find This saviour of mine a peer Down dangled cord of feather As the bellows of Jacob sung Bidded, I climb each tattered rung Is this home? Is this heaven’s gift to man? Make me a child, rid me a father Rid me a man! To emerge from this flesh, to be born To violate law – to be unplanned Why me? Fresh faced, bright eyed; a believer A follower of yours beaten to the ground Her blouse fell to the floor Before she could let out her roar I stumbled upon this universe It’s catered and fit for me Its beauty I’m yet to see Harmony Solo: Coull & Eltakchi Blood and puss coat these walls And I’m ripped out with a glove Was I plucked out by the one above? Or just a product of this rape? Solo: Eltakchi What is this place you call my home? You call this my home, what is this place?! Solo: Skene Solo: Coull
3.
Solo: Eltakchi He will die She doesn’t know yet He wants no lies Have not a friend More than that which I deserve? I was defied Woken from my celestial bed I was a martyr inside my head Banish me to here! He will die She doesn’t know What he’ll become It’s quiet, it’s easy If you don’t believe And you won’t, trust me… Pious, servant, so sure you Banished me to here Know my tale My scripture, my war The boy is dead Solo: Coull Now you know Now we know The boy is dead But his limbs still grow A man is here Taunted and tested The simplest of childhoods? “God plays with his best!” Life’s little pleasures like Shuffling in sand The gift of a soul Left youth contraband His voice of a stranger Known better than my own His bidding and judgement Left me overthrown
4.
For all wrong reasons Struggling to find identity I’ve seen each passing season The basis for my calamity Oh , I’ve stolen things Ah, I’ve fought and I’ve killed There, Have I proved my worth now? This, it’s all that I’ve known Oh, we’ve circled in rings Ah, we’ve bashed the young kids There, I’ve proved my worth now This, to earn your respect To become a we – to fit right in Solo: Skene
5.
Solo: Eltakchi Like awakening from some lonesome rift These bones know not of friendship I’m a pilferer, No I’m not, I’m a liar Just show my name lit up in lights! So take a glimpse and have a peer At the pressure on this humble man Hear the smashes of glass Hear the shackles bind him To the flashing van It’s a feeling that’s inside A mutuality to find If this is what one really is Mother was right Save your prayers for me A petty thief, a vagabond And now to find a friend If I am how he made me; A crowned jewel, a baby in a golden basket I’m an angel without wings Find my friend Like a pigeon to the plague My mind already made Just a virgin boy so shy Who fell at the sight of green eyes It’s a feeling that’s inside A mutuality to find And if she closed her eyes she’d see Her angel lies in meSave your prayers for me A petty thief, a vagabond And now to find a friend If I am how he made me; A caged fool, an arrow with no direction I’m an angel without wings Find my friend If you could turn to me Then we could share this all If you would turn to me Then we could share this all If you could turn to me The we could share… Solo: Eltakchi Harmony Solo: Coull & Skene Lying under stars with you Lying on the sand with you Be my angel, show me I can feel We escaped my life, now this starts our war Be my wife, crash me on the shore Be the friend I never needed more And make the son we’ll never love more Save your prayers for me A petty thief or your soulmate I’m an angel with his wings Found my friend… Harmony Solo: Coull & Skene Release me from the cold And let me learn to love I live each day in shadow You sad excuse for divinity! Let me… I finally found my friend
6.
Fight or Flight Emotions I don’t know about Escaped my world The one that fate paved out for me Guilt for leaving mother But her ways I can’t defend She vested herself in him For her life I would descend Where’s he now? With what I see The safety of my family It was my mother and me Starved of a paternity All I ever wanted Was a woman by my side I think I’ve finally found her With what I see she looks fine to me Patiently, I visit home of yesteryears The fragile devout lady And her two-bit mountain sanctuary To sate my growing hunger; To assure her I’m still there With what I see She doesn’t even care Solo: Coull Harmony Solo: Coull & Skene Solo: Skene
7.
Family, Gather round This rustic trip was surely made for us To take life is precious Or so they say To make it is natural To end it, divine Or so they say Find your target, don’t lose sight Grip the handle oh so tight Shoulders straight and if done right Hunt your prey in full flight that is not the only way people make the choice to stay She didn’t have that chance To hell with this, I pave my way! Two of us, two of us, two of us Made one of him Three of us, three of us, three of us Killed wolves and deer One of him, one of him, one of him Made everything? Add it up! Find your target, don’t lose sight Grip the handle oh so tight Shoulders straight and if done right Hunt your prey in full flight That is not the only way People make the choice to stay Think of the son and think of the wife To hell with this, I pave my way! Solo: Skene I’m sorry, my son For leaving my wife Blame it on him, blame it on me She opened our tent to find me being divine And as quick as she came, she turned the blind eye I’m sorry, my son for leaving this life You’ll thank me for this Your forehead, I kiss So I’m taking both barrels They’re on my back now I was no prize game But I’ll lay on the pack Jabbed into my ribs Shoot through the bile Just another beast on the pile
8.
Transcends the known realm Like angels birthed from hell Life takes you by the helm Myself, my soul – you dwell It’s yearning to see the light of day Because of you I’m willing to fight to show that I love you They say all is fair in love and war Even in Heaven No one exceeds, not even meets All that is you Match made to compliment Assailed by you, I fell Our limits I resent Of relished fears you tell You wear my heart on your sleeve Its weight you will relieve Risk brings reward, so share our common fool Solo: Eltakchi Solo: Skene I only ever had eyes for you! Every night in my dreams, I see you there Blinding my right… No one exceeds, not even meets Even in Heaven
9.
He is dead Finally now she knows He never told her one lie
10.
Haunting Me! 03:58
I was born and raised Not the ideal son Simply life’s caesarian A scar that’s left to heal The end’s the only way I’d learned how all move on But if nothing’s really there It’s haunting me Is this all I’ll be Old, alone, cold and scared Is this all I am? Haunt me Torn from the skin Of a woman without sin Only left to be This hollow shell And if death is not the end? I’ll be with her again With nothing left to see It’s haunting me! Is this all I’ll be Old, alone, cold and scared Is this all am? Haunt me, haunt me It’s haunting me! Harmony Solo: Coull & Skene Is this all I’ll be Old, alone? Is this all am? Haunt me, haunt me It’s haunting me!
11.
Divine 13:28
Harmony Solo: Coull & Skene Welcome home It smells nice I remember the scent of the gardens You planted here I was the seed Planted in the flesh of old Where is my mother? I’m meeting her here It’s yearning to see the light of day So answer me Was willing to die to show her Your boy is here Show me the door to the holy place Where divine fears are shed Welcome home I’ve been here The walls are so reminiscent The photo frames too Is my father here with us now? Oh no, that’s not right The purest and good die young I’m back to where I’ve begun It’s yearning to see the light of day So answer me Was willing to die to show her Your boy is here Wasn’t I born in this holy place Where divine children are led? Meet my only true friends Birth and Death… Solo: Skene Solo: Eltakchi Certainty unfolds Goodbye life of old Son and Wife were sold To have my questions answered Offered them a home One that fit the mould Show my mother how I loved them! Just hope my prayers were answered What is divine? God only knows What’s Divine God only knows! Why did she die? And why was I born? You gave me a friend But it was too late Show me your face And answer for my life This life was synthetic And that was your fatal flaw That was your fatal flaw Harmony Solo: Coull & Skene Show me your face And answer for my life This life was synthetic And that was your fatal flaw I read of your looks in books I knew your voice so well Angels are perfect? A halo – no match for a gun Solo: Coull Welcome home, I grew up here The walls are so reminiscent The photo frames too The pastures through the windows glisten My answer is here A golden mirror baron In the greenest of fields It’s yearning to see the light of day So welcome me Was willing to die to find out Why is clear Why was I born on the earth? We’re puppets left to bleed? Please come out to play I’ve already paved the way From this glance, a lonesome beam Primes the inner one Reflection’s cast, the mind to yield The face is me And from where I stand, this mirror before me With what I see – my synthetic destiny

about

The Story

Lost somewhere in the space that exists between fantasy and reality, life and death – a young angel makes his way onto the Earth after a young pious woman is violated by a lowly thug on the streets. Crossing the planes of existence by means of a horribly violent birth, the young boy is born into our modern world with an innate feeling of confusion and disgust of where his journey has taken him. Why is he here and will he fight ’till the end for the answers?

Disturbed from his seemingly infinite rest, the child is forced to live a sheltered and indoctrinated life in an isolated shack somewhere in the desolate mountain ranges with his mother, who despite her horrible circumstances stays true to her vehemently strong religious convictions. The years pass by rapidly and the boy loses the childhood he needed and so desperately deserved.

Older in age, he manages to snake out of the home in hope of finding his crowd. For all the wrong reasons, he resorts to petty thievery, murder and the battery of children in gangs as this is the only time he truly feels as though he belongs. In spite of this, he still feels lost in his insecurities and wonders what it is truly like to have friends.

Bored with the gang’s previous acts of violence, his buddies use their powers of persuasion to make him break into a car for them. To their dismay, a police vehicle patrolling the area had come after the crooks after hearing the glass of a car shatter. Displaying their true character, the others run off and leave our angel apprehended by the law. The boy is forced to remember all the warnings his mother gave him about friends and why he did not need them. These thoughts are disturbed by the as he is taken aback by the beauty of a golden-haired, green-eyed police officer that is taking him to be questioned. The angel senses a sense of depression and incompleteness in this enchantress and in a brief moment of illogical heated passion through connection of eyes, the two flee to start a new life together without the worries of their pasts. They seal their deal by making love together on the beach under the light of stars. A new child is born.

Life goes on and the once young boy is now a father himself. Plagued with guilt for simply leaving his mother to her own devices in their mountain sanctuary, he wishes to return to at least cure his curiosity of how she is living without him. He travels to come clean to his mother about his new life, only to find her lying dead before his eyes. In complete cold shock of what has happened combined with his past history of run-ins with the law, he escapes before anyone has the chance to confront him.

The angel take his wife and son out to a distant forest to clear his mind with some good old-fashioned family bonding, teaching his boy how to hunt and sharing his philosophies on life. The helicopter circle the skies looking for signs of a killer as someone must have tipped the police off about someone suspicious leaving the mother’s secluded mountain sanctuary. Fed up with the pressures and unfairness of his existence, the angel puts his son and wife to bed so that he can finish up some of his own business. He kisses his son on the forehead and says his last goodbyes before executing himself upon the pile of animals that had managed to hunt that day. His wife watches still from through the cracks of their tent door and goes back to sleep ignoring the sounds of gunfire.

In an attempted to be reunited with his one true love, his mother, the angel makes his journey back to his origins in the world that exists between life and death; the conduit to the sky. He is confronted with his fears of being alone, and stuck forever – never knowing where he truly fit in. This angel needed answers as to why he was here and this was the only place he was going to get them.

Taunted by an unrelenting drive to see his mother once again, he travels heaven and earth to find her, only to find himself back in that mountain cottage he grew up in. But where were his answers? who will answer them? In the midst of his angst he felt a strange sense of purpose and clarity. A baron mirror stands on a hill outside his window. Lying in the glistening reflection cast by the grand mirror, the answers to all his questions are found. With urgency he glanced into the mirror to be flooded with memories of a love once known. Lost somewhere in the space that exists between fantasy and reality, life and death – a young angel makes his way onto the earth after a young pious woman is violated by a lowly thug on the streets.

credits

released March 31, 2012

Line-up / Musicians

- Douglas Skene / Vocals, Guitars & Keyboards
- Mitch Coull / Guitars & Vocals
- Andrew Craig / Drums & Percussion
- Jessica Martin / Bass & Vocals
- Phill Eltakchi / Keyboards & Vocals

Recorded by Douglas Skene at Ploughman Studios, Glenmore Park

Mixed and Mastered by Tommy Hansen at Jailhouse Studios, Denmark

Produced by Douglas Skene

Cover Art by Tristan Tait

Photography by Daniel Farr at Farski Photography

Art Direction by Douglas Skene, Daniel Farr, Adam Underwood, Tristan Tait and Daniela P. Riquelme

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Hemina Sydney, Australia

Hemina are a 4 piece Progressive Metal band from Sydney, Australia. The band's sound has been described as a unique combination of hard hitting syncopated grooves, lush synth backwashes, multi-part vocal harmonies, memorable leads with a focus on songwriting and emotion. ... more

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