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Fragile Border

by IX reflections

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1.
Reflection 03:43
You feel the border between you As your touch leaves a fingerprint On the glass that you look through, Searching for every little hint. Each time you see your reflection, You feel it's different - Like you're losing connection And the severance is imminent. Your twin in the mirror is better Than you are in all respects, His empty eyes make you shudder, It's uncanniness he projects. Looking in the mirror, have you ever tried To cross the fragile border to the other side? Have you ever wondered which of the worlds is true, Which one is the reflection and which one's really you? Each time you see your reflection, You feel it's different - Like you're losing connection And the severance is imminent. Every night you have the same nightmare - Your fist makes the mirror smash, And each shard shows your death stare As the cracks pierce your own flesh. With one strike you seize your existence, You wake up with a choking scream, With a wild guess that drives you to madness - That you're just someone's mirror twin... Looking in the mirror, have you ever tried To cross the fragile border to the other side? Have you ever wondered which of the worlds is true, Which one is the reflection and which one's really you?
2.
I go down on my knees By the eye of the sacred well, Throwing stones down the abyss - I have come to make a spell: One - for betrayers, One - for those who were unfair, One - for the scoffers And the rest - for those who never cared... Every splash from a stone Gives the power to my curse, For so long my pain has grown, Made me say those gruesome words: One - for betrayers, One - for those who were unfair, One - for the scoffers And the rest - for those who never cared... Spirits of the sacred well, Make them pay for all my pain! No one answered to my prayers, Free my poor soul of this strain! Spirits of the sacred well, Make me feel alive again! Only you can hear my prayers - You're my last hope and my bane...
3.
Through the empty streets I follow your tracks, So vague and embroiled Among those hollows and cracks. You seem to disperse Every time I get near. With the feel that I nurse, Am I that what you fear? Your tracks fade away - Am I that what you fear? Hope is lost day by day - Am I that what you fear? In the empty streets I see you from behind. Took me so many years To admit I was blind. Now I'm right on your tail, But I feel only pain. Without dropping my veil, I walk away in the rain... Your tracks fade away - I am that what you fear. Hope is lost day by day - I am that what you fear.
4.
Watch the fire dance around, Burning cities to the ground. Bits of ash stick to your skin - Now forget what you have been. Watch the rain fall all around, Washing ashes from the ground. Let the water sooth your skin - Now you're free of every sin. Let the flames whipe out your past, Human essence changes so fast. Let your sins go with the rain, New man's always born in pain. Watch the wind caress the grass. Is there hope for all of us? On the ruins of human strife Man of the Future comes to life. Let the flames whipe out your past, Human essence changes so fast. Let your sins go with the rain, New man's always born in pain.
5.
Kangastus 03:15
Oliko se koskaan siellä tiedä en - maa kadonnut ajan virtaan lejumaan - sen silti usein nään, sinipunausvaisen kuin piirtymässä hatarain harhain taustaan. Autioille sararannikoille veivät suuret nummet, mahtilinnut kaartelivat pieksäessä tuulten. Siell' lymysi kylä, ikivanha, valkotapulinen ja moikui iltakellot, mi korvissain viel' kuulen. Tornit kummalliset ja liplattavat virrat, sokkeloita ihmeineen holvija matalia valoineen, haaraumia, mi' poikki leikkitaivaan kurottavat haaveiden lailla kuin talvi-iltaan sitten käviten. Nimeä tuon maan en tiedä - rohkene en udella milloin, miksi olen tai kuka lienen. Nimeä tuon maan en tiedä - rohkene en udella milloin, miksi olen tai kuka lienen.
6.
Nothing stirs the timeless darkness - Just a lonely candle's glimpse, Wind is drowning the reflections Of your guardian angel's screams You have come alone to to plunder To the caverns deep and rife With the secrets of the Old Ones - Secrets of eternal life When the wind blows out your candle It's too late for you to flee, And the shapeless arms of Evil Tear you in deadly spree You're devoured by a nightmare, You won't live to see the light And no one will hear you screaming Through the stormwinds of the night. Nothing stirs the timeless darkness Just the falling drops of red Heavens failed to be your safeguard 'Gainst the ancient gods of dread You have come so stay forever In the belly of the beast Falling yet another victim To the Elders' bloody feast. When the wind blows out your candle It's too late for you to flee, And the shapeless arms of Evil Tear you in deadly spree You're devoured by a nightmare, You won't live to see the light And no one will hear you screaming Through the stormwinds of the night.
7.
Never Part 03:26
I’ll stay with you forever, We’ll never ever part you said We’ll be as one, believe me, You told me just before you fled I’ll stay with you forever For now I live inside your head Nothing will make us sever Or else I’d rather see you dead Two minds in one head, we share a single body My voice won’t let you go, my blood is on your hands My essence is undead, I live to see you bleeding We’ll never be apart, our story never ends. I’ll stay with you forever ‘Cause I want you to feel my pain My dark thoughts burrow deeper Each day it’s driving you insane Two minds in one head, we share a single body My voice won’t let you go, my blood is on your hands My essence is undead, I live to see you bleeding We’ll never be apart, our story never ends.
8.
Look at her - she's a sleeping beauty In her concrete castle tower With the sound of her faint heartbeat Her wide-open eyelids flutter Through the solid vault of ceiling Her stare pierces time and substance But she's locked inside her body So unsheltered in her blindness As the time flies by, she's static In the streams of lights around her And the glass walls of her chamber Keep her deep in dreamful slumber No prince comes to break the dark spell Though she sees his image clearly He is crying from his own shell But his voice is weak and bleary Through the solid wall around her If she woke up for a moment She could notice him beyound it, Sharing even dreamlike ailment Through the solid vault of ceiling Her stare pierces time and substance But she's locked inside her body So unsheltered in her blindness
9.
Look back at you life and tell me Have you ever heard the voices from the other side? When their silent whispers enshroud you And then fade away with the wind in the dead of the night. Is it just your dream? Or are they real? They know of things That you conceal And you hold your breath when you open your eyes and see their faces But before you’re out of the daze the figures just fade in the dark Remember the cracks on the mirror Have you ever thought that something’s trying to break through? When the lights die out after sunset Shades behind the glass on the wall start staring at you. Is it just your dream? Or have they come To take your life For what you’ve done? And you hold your breath when you open your eyes and see their faces But before you’re out of the daze the figures just fade in the dark You hear the crash, The glass falls down They are real now They’re all around And you hold your breath when you open your eyes and see their faces But before you’re out of the daze your figure just fades in the dark
10.
Leaving 03:55
Feel the wind, feel it touch your hair, Feel the raindrops on your face Make the chill run down your spine. Feels so new, though you know that feel, Coming from the deep, And it seems to turn back time. Now's the time to make you see, Just take one step and you'll be free. Now take my hand, come with me, When there's no one left around you In this world full of shades 'Cause this place is dead - We're leaving it tonight! Leave behind all the pains you had In this made-up world That they want you to call home. Leave behind all the words unsaid They won't hear them anyway From their shells of monochrome. Now's the time to set you free, So break the chain and follow me. Now take my hand, come with me, When there's no one left around you In this world full of shades 'Cause this place is dead - We're leaving it tonight! Now take my hand, come with me, When there's no one left to love you In this world full of shame, You just need to find the secret door. Now break your cage, feel the heat, You're reborn to change the future, Nothing holds you anymore, 'Cause this world is dead - Let's fire it up tonight!

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"Fragile Border" (2021) is the band's first full-length album which may be of interest to fans of darkwave, post-punk, synthpop, synth-rock, gothic and female-fronted electronic bands. IX reflections started out in 2017 and were able to revive the best traditions of early synth-bands, simultaneously combining them with thick gothic atmosphere and melody, natural freshness and authenticity.

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released March 5, 2021

Recorded by IX reflections:

Joe - vocals
Alex - synths, guitars, vocals
Lana - bass

Recording engineer: Nikita Andriyanov

Mixing and mastering: Claudio Ramirez

Production: IX reflections

Music by Alex

Lyrics:
Alex (1-4, 6-10)
H.P. Lovecraft, Matti Rosvall (5)

Cover art by Diana "Mesh" Trofimova

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Russian female-fronted trio based in Moscow, IX REFLECTIONS started out in 2017 and managed to revive the best traditions of early synth-bands, simultaneously combining them with thick gothic atmosphere and melody, natural freshness and authenticity.

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