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Broken Rites EP

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Oasis of Light 06:14
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[Intro] The wind forgot its name last night, the sand remembers, pale and bright. [Verse 1] Three wanderers cross the mirror’s face, their voices dry, their faith erased. The sun writes pain on every dune, the air hums low — a hollow tune. Within the heat, a shimmer wakes, a promise forms, the silence shakes. A kingdom built of dust and glare, the desert smiles — but no one’s there. [Pre-Chorus] No mercy here, no final sign, just thirst that feels like fate’s design. [Chorus] Oasis of light — deceit in bloom, we run into the promise turning doom. Oasis of light — your beauty bleeds, where hope is a wound that still proceeds. [Verse 2] The merchant counts what isn’t gold, the scholar doubts the truths he told. The pilgrim finds a fossil shell, a ghost of oceans, dry and fell. He drinks the dust, he seals his hands — to trap a dream that never stands. [Bridge] A lake of sky, a crown of haze, truth burns the eyes that dare to raise. The mirage fades, the silence stays, and every step becomes a phrase. [Verse 3] The glass of heat begins to bend, we chase a line that has no end. The wind turns soft — the dunes confess, there’s beauty carved in emptiness. [Chorus] Oasis of light — deceit in bloom, we run into the promise turning doom. Oasis of light — your beauty bleeds, where hope is a wound that still proceeds. Oasis of light — deceit in bloom, we run into the promise turning doom. Oasis of light — your beauty bleeds, where hope is a wound that still proceeds. [Outro] The sand will keep what we forget: hope walks through dark — unended yet.
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Black Core 05:50
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[Verse 1] Now who am I? I think you know Look deep inside What is your core? You will see me My dark You cannot hide In the mirror It’s black And it lies The past You cannot change Now you’re bound to it [Chorus] Black core Dark lies Now find faith in me Black core Dark lies Now find faith in me. [Bridge] We are all one Bound to the black You are all me The lies The lies They cannot see You cannot see We are all one [Chorus] Black core Dark lies Now find faith in me Black core Dark lies Now find faith in me. [Verse 2] Where will you run? There’s no escape I feel your pulse Under your skin Every secret That you bury Feeds my hunger Makes me real When you whisper I’m the echo In your silence I grow louder You are bound to me [Outro] Black core Dark lies Now find faith in me. Black core Dark lies Now find faith in me.
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Cold Current 04:23
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[Intro] Low light under bus-stop glass, a hush before admission. Rain ticks on metal ribs. [Verse 1] You come like faith that found its feet, a glimmer caught in breath and heat. Your quiet leaves a tempered glow where all my borders used to go. Each breath a vow I never planned, each look a mercy from your hand. You read the hairline cracks I hide, and whisper, stain me clean inside. [Pre-Chorus] Still, the undertow beneath pulls the soul through loss and sleep. Every promise tastes of dust— I follow, because I must. [Chorus] Cold current, carry me through, I sink into your blue. You break me just to prove that mercy has a bruise. Cold current, call my name, wash the noise out of my frame. I’ll drown inside your view— still reaching out for you. [Verse 2] The city bows beneath the rain, its pulse is soft, its engines drained. You raise your hand—devotion, plain, a small spark, quiet, without claim. We trade our warmth for borrowed sound, we wait until the lights come down. Between the beats, between the ache, you breathe my shadow into wake. [Bridge] Forgive the fire I kept for you. Let it go where night burns through. Your eyes—two open doors. I’m faithless, still I’m yours. [Drop] Count the cost—no choir, no crown. Cold current runs. We don’t slow down. Hands at rest, eyes on the ground, we keep what broke and carry it round. Call my name—don’t make it pure. Leave the stain. That’s how we’re sure. If this is grace, it doesn’t shine— it holds, it bites, it stays in time. [Chorus] Cold current, carry me through, I sink into your blue. You break me just to prove that mercy has a bruise. Cold current, call my name, wash the noise out of my frame. I’ll drown inside your view— still reaching out for you. [Outro] Rain keeps the same confession, then the street bends light. I stay below the surface, where your doubt and mine align.
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Jester's Lament 04:21
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[Verse 1] The laughter I’m wearing Like a mask that’s to claim It’s so hard to keep up With sorrows that leap up Under the surface, jest’s tears to blame So, dark night, fade away [Chorus] So, sad jest, fade away So, sad jest, fade away fade away, fade away [Verse 2] The laughter I’m faking And ain’t it just pain? It’s so hard to keep smiles With sorrows that pile up [Drop] From jests that grow stale when the crowd’s the same [Chorus] So, sad jest, fade away So, sad jest, fade away fade away, fade away [Bridge] Behind colored masks I’ve danced and played the parts It’s so hard to keep laughin’ As sorrows are draftin’ The stories we hide, in shadowed hearts Let this role, fade away [Chorus] So, sad jest, fade away Let this role, fade away So, sad jest, fade away Let this role, fade away fade away

about

Four songs. Four states. One descent inward.

“Oasis of Light,” “Black Core”, “Cold Current”, and “Jester’s Lament” belong together as one connected work. What begins as a radiant promise moves through the dark center of the self, passes through a cold and wounded form of grace, and ends with the final shedding of the mask.

Oasis of Light is the opening image: heat, dust, glare, hope on the horizon. But this light does not save. It seduces, deceives, and cuts. The oasis remains a form of longing — maybe real, maybe only an apparition.

Black Core pulls everything inward. The second track is the black heart of the release: the point where it becomes clear that darkness does not only exist outside, but continues inside the mirror image.

Cold Current follows as the last movement still speaking in spiritual and elemental images: rain on glass, blue light, current, depth. What carries can also wound. What cleanses can still leave marks.

Jester’s Lament closes the work by pulling it back to the human surface. After all the visions, shadows, and half-spiritual language, the final track is about the role itself: the mask, the performance, the exhaustion, and the wish to let it all fall away. It does not open the ending further — it closes the curtain.

This release moves between longing, illusion, shadow, grace, and demasking. Its songs speak in images of light, mirrors, wounds, temptation, and inner emptiness — not to provide answers, but to expose a condition.

Tracklist

01 – Oasis of Light
02 – Black Core
03 – Cold Current
04 – Jester’s Lament

Created with AI support, but clearly shaped by original work: the final output is predominantly the result of the artist’s own work, especially in sound, synths, rhythm, structure, and final polish. The artificial voice is a deliberate part of the concept.

For those who do not hear beauty as comfort, but as something that burns — until the mask finally falls.

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released April 18, 2026

Produced by Björn Ahlers and Christian Dettner
Lyrics by Björn Ahlers

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