A brand new song for you all, off the yet-to-be-finished album The Paradox. Introducing, “The Stormformer”:
Download mp3: The Stormformer
[i][indent]Wires, electrical equipment, soldering iron,
Cables, metal, antennae, wall connections.
Stormformer
I’m the stormformer.
Windows open, computer, AM radio static, batteries,
Heat shrink, solder smoke, cutters, meter.
Stomformer
I’m the stormformer.
Swallowed sun, humid tension, insects quieten,
Wind builds, heavy clouds, head up, arms out.
Stormformer
I’m the stormformer.
A fantasy of a child
An illusion fed by technological obsession
And a media dazed in scientific futurism
The boy scans the outdoor horizons
Late November brings the humidity
Those anvil super-cells building in the afternoon
He’s looking for a front; a force all powerful
A storm to surpass all others
His dreaming he keeps to himself
Clouds are not mere meteorological phenomenon
But are inconceivable starships
Mustering all their collective might for assault
Upon a far off and obscured foe
They attack with lightening and thunder
And recharge from the heat and electricity
Of the land they they pass over.
The boy knows no one will understand this
No one will understand his role in all this
He is the commander, the grand conductor
Of the entire fleet
He pretends that his will is that of the storm
The honour and importance he has in his role
Is unmatched by anything in his life
His knowing smirk is ignorant of the horrors of real war
His intent is for simple atmospheric glory
But the storms are not enough
Reality threatens his magical fancy
He needs something more, a deeper connection
He longs for transcendence via inductive force
His connection is the lightening
His resonance is with the thunder
He is the small coil that transforms the energy of the storm
Scanning north to where the bolts strike the high escapement
He astrally projects his readiness to that position
They say lightening never strikes twice in the same place
But with arms outstretched he awaits enduring connectivity
A complete circuit of absolution.
But reality beckons and he has to wait
All he can do is prepare for his moment
By the study of electronics
A union with future technology
Like a transformer in a power supply
He must become the stormformer.[/indent][/i]
