Production Notes
All instruments by PS Perkins and R Thomas
Mixed and mastered by Mystic Tape Deck
A Mystic Tape Deck production ©2025
Lyric Sheet
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On the darkest day, before the light was shone upon the world again
A binodal entity emerges from the wilting lotus with a sudden squall,
A chilling cry flung to the furthest reaches of the infinite void
Two hearts beating out a blackened pulse, a faintly quivering quasar
Cadences of contractions beaming irregular stellar oscillations
Showering Gaia with shadow stimuli, somber seeds from which sprout
Tenebrous trembling tendrils of measureless miscreation and mutation
Time itself is turned and twisted, folded over upon itself in a moebius
Illusory squirming dissimulation, a static field appears to flicker
Imposing its shaded slippery imposture on the guileless consciousness
Unable to see beyond the veil, a shady materialization of phantasm
Untethering the eternal witness from the stygian moonless obelisks
Symbiotic entities twisted and entwined, tiny fingers curl and clasp
Two cynosures met in mitosis, locked loosely in elastic hysteresis
Morphogenetic embryos writhing gently in submercronic tassulations
Fused in unshakable symphonic syncretism, embracing gastrulation
Swirling into singularity, a phase shifting waltz impossibly indistinct
Together they tango tenuously across tightropes strung across canyons
Where flow tumbling temporal rivers rushing on to yawning cosmic seas
Opposites defining each other, the spectrum between only violence
By which justice is measured and meted by most judicious jurists
Upon whose tail ends said savagery is perpetually perpetrated
These Infernal arbiters who find everyone guilty in every instance
Whom when divided or divergent become increasingly combustible
In equal ratio to distance, explosive and deadly dangerous
Causing catastrophe, wreaking convulsive calamitous collapse
Of once steadied waveforms undulating gracefully
Peaking in horrific crests of augury and deepened rifts of impish devilry
The idyllic underlying order disturbed by thaumaturgic sorcery
One thing cannot proceed from another in ubiquitous continuity
Instead a chaos, a morass of misrule and disarrangement
Nonsensical disarray and absurd and desultory progressions
Cascading over cliffsides and dashed against sharp and pointed boulders
A maundering meandering of fate, disheveled and deviant
Random and arbitrary, indiscriminate and incidental
Until once again the balance of polarity is restored by proximity
And the mangled tangled rupture of prehistoric fabric is mended
Fleshy fibers sewn or grown together by the darting of deft needles
Worldly surgeons wield and weld to yoke and catenate
By the flowing of the great gooey glue by contiguous capillary
When the multitudinous interminglry of royal raiments are restored
And the dark twins are reconjoined at the apex of the origin
BARDS: Of The Shimmering Seraphs
Of The Shimmering Seraphs concerns itself with the interior landscape of the human spirit. Its twelve songs correspond to the opening sequence of the Nazilic Arcana, an initiatory collection of archetypes preserved throughout the Bell Archive.
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Annotation 03-11C: Concerning the Dark Twins
This fragment is generally understood to describe the primordial bifurcation from which all measurable reality proceeds. While popular interpretations identify the Dark Twins with the paired brown dwarfs cataloged in several later Nazilic star charts, most scholars regard the celestial bodies as merely a visible manifestation of a deeper process. The text repeatedly employs the language of embryogenesis, mitosis, and division, which suggests that the Twins are the first separation of a previously unified principle. Their divergence introduces contrast, distinction, and causality into existence itself. The resulting tension generates both history and consciousness, but also illusion, conflict, and the recursive distortions that bind the timeline to its repeating course.
Of particular significance is the fragment's assertion that reality becomes unstable as the Twins drift apart and regains coherence upon their reunion. Contrary to some modern interpretations, the poem does not portray this reconciliation as a triumph. Rather, it implies that the restoration of cosmic order also restores the machinery of predestination. The "predestinate prognostication" referenced in the closing lines is widely believed to refer to the Nazilic Cycle itself—the recurring sequence of events culminating in the departure of the Shining One and the reseeding of humanity. For this reason, certain later commentators regarded the Dark Twins not as adversaries, but as custodians of the very prison from which the Shining One seeks release. Their reunion repairs the fabric of reality, yet simultaneously reinforces the pattern that prevents it from becoming something new.