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In Search of Understanding​.​.​.

by Sombre Holiday

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1.
Your flowing hair glides through the room, Your eyes flutter with expectation, Your lips search for words to say, To keep the conversation moving, “Alive” Your beating heart on the break of new beginning, Your breath hot with feelings undiscovered, Your soul searching for a reflection In someone who looks just like you. Deception keeps the breeze from breathing out Our flickering matchflame story; We discover nothing amid the parameters And wisdom holds them in place. Scintillation, Still. You’re still here. It’s not your fault. You’ve done nothing wrong to be in my heart.
2.
It’s the situation. It’s the lonely way I find meaning. It’s the way the days end and I take My thoughts and arrange their capture Finding their flaws, lair by lair, And make a mountain out of insecurities And wonder why I’m not a conqueror for someone And wonder maybe that I am. Then I consider how ludicrous this is: Me, wandering alone, inside the mirror— Recognizable without the mystery. Then I consider how ludicrous this is: Me, wondering, alone, in front of the mirror— Recognizable without the mystery. Under covers I think of you And I know that it’s not your fault. You’ve done nothing wrong to be in my heart.
3.
Stories End 03:21
It’s funny, though, the end of the story, Not the comedic fashion in which loose ends get tied, But the part when I know already what happens. Are we the crafters, the writers, the ones to paint the page? For if we did not have this pen, our description would be left undiscovered. I wake in the morning to find your heart beside me— My memory feels the doors close. The mirror flashes another glimpse of me Before warm water covers my ears, Drowning the world for wonderful moments. During the frothing clamor I muse, remembering That in the end, The crest that is now here smashes words t o g e t h e r.
4.
“I’m left alone, Gathering dust like an old remembrance. I know you don’t believe me, I know you don’t really mean to be But if there’s nowhere to go but down, I won’t climb the wall to the ground.” Left here now Like an old remembrance A memory of fire Left here now Like a forgotten present Soon to be the past A memory of fire Nowhere left N o w h e r e The Present. Passed. Your reflection alters my own reflection. You see me as I make it so. I see you as you see me.
5.
Blinded Eyes 03:55
Hands out-stretched, Seeking comfort from pain with blinded eyes. Lonely. My world was rapt in yours When you dropped yourself into the sea. The rocks upon the shoreline scrape my knees. Seeking shelter from pain with blinded eyes.
6.
Still 05:09
Were you my reflection? Are you needed to complete my image? I see me as you see me. I see me as you and Alone We are Still.
7.
The world is new The world is made alive by your breath From the waters, over the seas. Beauty is in you. Love calls your name. “Love!” cries your name. The attraction of endless energy, Periodic helplessness, the explorer, The pathfinder, a seeker, a doer, One who needs leading— Someone, answer the questions now forming on your lips! Someone, shout the cries of your heart: Tear these walls between all and nothing! Cast down these shrines of individuality! Confinement keeps love from the human level. All or nothing leaves Even the all between two with nothing else. All or nothing leaves nothing else. I’ve spit against those walls. Give me new bricks, new spit.
8.
Respit(e) 03:00
I thank God that I could see you tonight. It’s been so long where we could speak aright of the world’s delight in casting our own down. From them we meet in secret under the leaves, under the trees— With words harder to come by than in our dreams— But we speak once again—your innocence shines in the stream Of consciousness descending upon the hill of forgotten dreams. Your beauty will never fade. I’ll carry it forever. Open Love. The secret is safe with me for I’ll tell no one. I’ll not tell even you. The capacities and boundaries to love are endless.
9.
Sun Fade 03:08
All the while the pot by the sill is still. Dust gathers and its red orange becomes brown. Faded by sunlight, cracked by storm. Delicately petals open, silently faces spring, fragrantly air streams, Bathed with heavenly beams and cooled by the moisture of my hand. Desirous to be a sanctuary from the distortions you’ll meet Your eyes so wide so curious. As a protector, I repress you in my grip As a leader, I take you off the path.
10.
You did a smart thing, Staying away today. Your beautiful eyes My memorized lines Are now more easily Forgotten My last memory of you Will be when you said that You hated goodbyes. You looked deep into my eyes And said you’d put them off until Tomorrow You did a smart thing, Staying away today. Maybe your heart knew The fragile balance it Hung between, That my hands were tied, and That we’d both prefer to dream the dream A little longer

about

In Search of Understanding...Part One: Four Words

44 minutes, 10 tracks
Eleventh Hour Entertainment Group, Inc.

Someone needs to say it, and it’s going to be me: Sombre Holiday is one of the overlooked gems in the Christian metal and hard rock scene.

Now, by “overlooked gem” I am thinking in terms of a band that possesses a great deal of musical ability but does not always get the credit and recognition that it deserves. And that would be the best way to describe Sombre Holiday, a two man project led by brothers Terry (guitars, vocals & keyboards) and Trevor Friesen (drums).

Specifically, Sombre Holiday brings a joining of metal and hard rock with some heavy progressive underpinnings. In its press material, as a matter of fact, the group describes itself as “sounding somewhat like Fates Warning, Saviour Machine, and Porcupine Tree (but with) inspirations by Metallica and Stryper showing through periodically”. I cannot help but agree, particularly the Saviour Machine comparison- at least a heavier and harder rocking version of the group. Deliverance also comes to mind. Some of the darker and lower key moments here hint at the Learn and Camelot In Smithereens era of Deliverance’s career but with a bit more of a progressive edge.

- Andrew Rockwell, Angelic Warlord

www.angelicwarlord.com/reviews/s/sombreholiday09.html

credits

released June 23, 2009

Produced and Engineered by Sombre Holiday

Terry Friesen: Guitars, Vocals, Keyboards
Trevor Friesen: Drums

Additional musician: Isaac Friesen (Violin)

Lyrics written by Trevor Friesen
Music written by Terry Friesen

In Search of Understanding... Part One: Four Words
Proverbs 1:24-33; 2:10-22; 3:5-20

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"[P]owerfully moody soundscapes from this excellent group that successfully mines the thoughtful melancholy of bands like Katatonia, Porcupine Tree and Riverside but with their own unique spin including great use of violin and acoustic guitars to really add drama to their music." – ProgMetalZone

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