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Illusion
Reach
Music/Lyrics: Diego Valadez
Lost within myself
Engulfed in endless doubt
Have I lived in abeyance?
I gaze upon the sea
View the reflection of me
I dive into the deep
From a vision in dreams into reality
The core of my very being
Tear away from the vines of conformity
Shall I begin now or until I am gray?
My destiny is calling, it's screaming out my name
Ambitions come into view
A dream comes alive
The journey is bright
If you strive toward your epiphany
Sing the melodies that have gone unsung
Form the memories of elation
Many find themselves chasing ghosts in the wind
Regrets are born from idleness
The deafening cries of reluctancy pierce any mortal mind
But I must race against the raging current
Defying fears of rejection
I will no longer drift in uncertainty
So I begin now not until I am gray
My destiny is calling, it’s screaming out my name
Ambitions come into view
A dream comes alive
The journey is bright
If you strive toward your epiphany
Sing the melodies that have gone unsung
Form the memories of elation
Eclipse
Music/Lyrics: Diego Valadez
As the night falls I am paralyzed
Dread the moment I will open my eyes
Soon engulfed in fear of foreshadowed
Visions in black
Shadow figures descend upon me
My abhorrence of infinite night
Amplified by dark perceptions
Night after nightmare
Insidious apparition
These eyes must deceive me
Shall the sun rise or am I condemned
Eclipsing of dimensions
Between awareness and sleep
Deception of nocturnal poetry
Fade into shallow slumber
Confined under pale moonlight
Never finding respite
Open your eyes
From my dormancy I’m awakened
Contemplating dare I peer through the dark
Images take form
I find myself immobilized
Dim silhouettes whispering elegies
A dissonant melody
Eclipsing of dimensions
Between awareness and sleep
Deception of nocturnal poetry
Fade into shallow slumber
Confined under pale moonlight
Never finding respite
Open your eyes
From corners of your mind
A nightmare comes alive
I manifest
I am your death incarnate
Eclipsing of dimensions
Between awareness and sleep
Deception of nocturnal poetry
Fade into shallow slumber
Confined under pale moonlight
Never finding rest from my dread
Escaping from dimensions
Between awareness and sleep
Deception of nocturnal poetry
Wake from my shallow slumber
Brief solace from horrid night
Though I can’t defy my fate
I’m searching for my respite
Open your eyes
Moirai (Feat. Chiara Tricarico)
Music/Lyrics: Diego Valadez
From all that ever was and all to ever be
View the the light of a burning star that has long since died
At every moment a myriad of memories are made
Every soul collides to form a nexus
Stand in Awe of the interwoven anthologies
Forming all in a seeming state of reverie
Bring the light to an ever fragile synthesis
Endless paths to guide our mythology
Tales from every winters past have lead to where we stand
Here today, we write the stories of our destiny
Our altercations so meaningless may lead to decay
Lead our kin to find our world ascending
Stand in Awe of the interwoven anthologies
Forming all in a seeming state of reverie
Bring the light to an ever fragile synthesis
Endless paths to guide our mythology
Movement of a symphony
Before we’ve lost our empathy
Every breath we take creates
Know this moment we make
Our Destiny
Stand in Awe of the interwoven anthologies
Forming all in a seeming state of reverie
Bring the light to an ever fragile synthesis
Endless paths to guide our mythology
Illusion
Music/Lyrics: Diego Valadez
Gallery of warped memories in my nebula
Conflict my forgiving heart
I’m falling
As all hues now fade to gray
In this dark decay
Vail my sorrows with smiles
I’m haunted
Am I living a lie?
On the stage of life, curtains rise
My daily performance
Redefining my life
To find me
Lost in the shadows within my own mind
Ruminating on all those empty lies
Wonder in silence
Facade of my sanity
Through this mask of illusion
Can not obscure endlessly
I’ll find my catalyst
What is lost is not found while static
Lost in the shadows within my own mind
Ruminating on all those empty lies
Wonder in silence
Facade of my sanity
Through this mask of illusion
Strength from my past I guide my own path
Reframing stories, I will advance
Dynamic tides delineate life
Lost in the shadows within my own mind
Ruminating on all those empty lies
Wonder in silence
Facade of my sanity
Through this mask of illusion
Lost in the shadows within my own mind
Ruminated on all those empty lies
Wondered in silence
Facade of my sanity
Drop this mask of illusion
The Light Divine (Feat. Eric Meyers)
Music/Lyrics: Diego Valadez
These tales in infamy
Live on from the days of old
Believers surround me
Is it wrong to question and seek
Sing my hymn and pray forgiveness
Will search for the light divine
I follow based on blind faith
Will seek out the truth at last
The scriptures guide their lives
Accepting the words, the pray
I find my mind yearning
But is there no truth at all
Sung my hymn and prayed forgiveness
No sign of a light divine
Can’t follow based on blind faith
Must seek out the truth at last
(Fear my hell)
Can’t shake off this fear of hell
(Don’t rebel)
Is it wrong to rebel
(Shell containing we)
Breaking free of the shell containing me
(We have heaven to live for)
If we only have this life to live
Then let us find the truth
Now you’re going too far
The path you’ve chosen leads to
Delusion sorrow torment
Believe or suffer in hell
Flames consuming dead souls
Will drag you through the brimstone
Dancing in the rapture
The demons claim another soul
Although I know it can’t be real
The fear still lingered on
Yet now i see the truth
The followers refuse to see
I followed based on blined faith
Yet I found the truth at last
Mind is no longer detained
The future is bright and vast
Discovery
Music/Lyrics: Diego Valadez
In the darkest void of nothing
Before all of space and time
What is born from ultimate mystery
The fundamental spark of light
Breaking through the detonation
A celestial divide
Form the elemental compounds to launch the origins of life
The dawning of all to ever be
Taking for to evolve
The findings of questioning minds
Search and you’ll find
The astonishing truths to be realized
On the backs of giants we stand
Bring to light
The deeper we go to understand
From the dawn of mans awakening
We have gazed upon the stars
As we long for understanding
our place within the vast unknown
Rise from primordial essence
The complexities of life
And from this
We descendants have begun to hypothesize
The dawning of all to ever be
Takes form and evolves
The findings of questioning minds
Search and you’ll find
The astonishing truths to be realized
On the backs of giants we stand
Bring to light
The deeper we go to understand
The Expedition
Music: Marcos Mejia
Lyrics/Orchestration: Diego Valadez
Follow the stars above ocean skies
Carry me tides old and wise
To the shores unknown
Start of my bold odyssey
Turbulent winds on the canvas contest
Crashing of waves seek to test
Still I let fate be my guid
Heed the call of promise
Golden light of dawn arrives
Enveloping hearten warmth
Sweet aroma of the salted ocean breeze
Gliding through the vast open blue
Destiny shall soon be found
On the horizon
Wandering through the unknown
On a journey to worlds anew
Unfamiliarity
Let these eyes see the unseen
Of untraveled soil
Fulfilling aspirations
Measureless time has past
And now I find signs of earth
Within the tides
Beautiful emerald grass
On the horizon
Wandering through the unknown
On a journey to worlds anew
Tales Untold
Tales Untold
Music/Lyrics: Diego Valadez
A story once told to me
Of wonder and fantasy
I open to chapter one
Pursuing the white hare
To denouements I’ve often dared
Respite from the unknown
Freeing myself from the mires grasp
(An escape to memories)
(Through familiar melodies)
Ignites the creative spark
Lost in tales untold
An author recites a poem
I sing a tune
Heard in a dream
Blank canvas, an empty page
These gifts so imperative
Long to convey one's heart
A reader, a listener
Interpretation of scenes
Conceiving reveries
Infinite imaginations
(As if from a memory)
(I create a melody)
A quill on an unmarked page
Lost in tales untold
An author recites a poem
I sing a tune
Heard in a dream
Lost in tales untold
An author recites a poem
I sing a tune
I’ve heard in a dream
Ascendence
Music/Lyrics: Diego Valadez
As you lie there on your own
Empty windows to your soul
Expressions vacant, another day is lost
In your momentary bliss
You find solace in the silence
The inner scream that never truly fades
I will find you
Paralyze you
I’ll take you
(this time I’ll follow through and never use again)
And break you
Wishing to erase the past
Saying this will be the very last
Losing consciousness
A vision of your path
I have seen too many lost
Such potential in the bygone
Serenity, deceptive amenity
I will find you
Paralyze you
I’ll take you
(this time I’ll follow through and never use again)
And break you
Song for Winter
Music/Lyrics: Diego Valadez
Flurries, white descending
Such an elegant dance
Upon the emerald
A permutation now under way
Winter crystals falling
With them, frozen horizons
Blanketing the wood
I greet the solstice
One winter's night, northern lights
Grace the sky, the frozen moons
Silver glow, wondrous
Illuminations
Colorless rose pedals
Have kissed mother Gaia
Waking on winters
Morn, I find myself waltzing upon
The pale landscape to sweet
Music of mountains echo
Captivated by
Splendors of nature
One winter's night, northern lights
Grace the sky, the frozen moons
Silver glow, wondrous
Illuminations
Rest by the flame
Feel the warm embrace
Amenity within
The cold vista
How opportune
One can be
To truly
Be in this moment
One winter's night, northern lights
Grace the sky, the frozen moons
Silver glow, wondrous
Illuminations
The Deceiver
Music/Lyrics: Diego Valadez
(Oh such artistry, such
Masterful craftsmanship
On this beautiful
Mask you adorn
Sweet nothings rolling off your
Hollow tongue have too long
Defend me from the sour
Undertones)
A songbird rests in it’s open cage
(I’ve been so blind)
Yet now I see in your vanity
I’ve been a pawn
Following a hearts deceiver
Demolisher
From greenery to ember
Ah
From the ash, a flower in bloom
Chapters anew
Enlightened in the evergreen
(Listen to the major third
Descending to sorrow
Fictions now go unveiled
I will greet another dawn
Unburdened, cognizant
For I am one)
A song bird flies from the open cage
A pawn no more
Following a hearts deceiver
Demolisher
From greenery to ember
Ah
From the ash, a flower in bloom
Chapters anew
Enlightened in the evergreen
(I
Pray you turn
Your page to a brighter tale
Which I myself
Will never read)
A song bird flies from the open cage
A pawn no more
Following a hearts deceiver
Demolisher
From greenery to ember
Ah
From the ash, a flower in bloom
Chapters anew
Enlightened in the evergreen
Sapiens
Music/Lyrics: Diego Valadez
Look into these eyes once
More and behold
Our commonalities
Dearest cousin Lucy
What secrets do you hold?
Oh such perplexities
Images found deep within Lascoux
Mesopotamian cuneiform
Origins of mythology
Always the dreamers
Crafters of tools
The mastery of flame
Apes on mother gia
Thrive through our collective
Imagination
Images found deep within Lascoux
Mesopotamian cuneiform
Origins of mythology
From hunters and gatherers
To farmers soon to voyagers
We are one, the descendants
Of all who’ve ever been
Guid those who’ve yet to be
(We are
The masters of
Abstract communication
Vital
Fantasies
For sapiens to thrive
Sorrow
And elation
Hearts mirrored throughout history
The last
Homogeneous
For millennia)
From hunters and gatherers
To farmers soon to voyagers
We are one, the descendants
Of all who’ve ever been
Guid those who’ve yet to be
From hunters and gatherers
To farmers soon to voyagers
We are one, the descendants
Of all who’ve ever been
Tend to the garden
Or see it rot
As we venture to the unknown
Memoriam
Music/Lyrics: Diego Valadez
The planting of a seed
For a new familial garden
A mother sings her child to sleep
Forming timeless memories
Weathered lines soon reveal
All the joyous moments they’ve shared
Gaze into these eyes, for aeons
They’ve been handed. Live
For all eternity
Through the stories we tell
Loved ones won’t cease to be
Taste sweet gifts from the old tree
Child, now gray sings mothers melody
Memoirs passed, resonating
Through all infinity
Holding dear ones time in the sun
Gaze into these eyes, for aeons
They’ve been handed. Live
For all eternity
Through the stories we tell
Gaze into these eyes, for aeons
They’ve been handed. Live
For all eternity
Forming stories to be told
Looking Glass
Music: Marcos Mejia / Diego Valadez
Lyrics: Diego Valadez
(Elder
Man gazes toward the heavens
Yearning for insight
Dweller on the pale blue dot
Searching through the beyond)
Glistening Illuminations ornating
The night sky
This beautiful enigma hides
Myriads of legends
One may peer through
The looking glass to reveal
A stellar wonderland
Calling
(Ponder
What lies beyond constellations
Ultimate historian
Teasing the wise astronomer
With one drop of the sea)
Endlessness
One may peer through
The looking glass to reveal
A stellar wonderland
Glistening Illuminations ornating
The night sky
This beautiful enigma hides
Myriads of legends
One may peer through
The looking glass to reveal
A stellar wonder
One may peer through
The looking glass to reveal
A stellar wonderland
Empyrean
Music: Marcos Mejia / Diego Valadez
Lyrics: Diego Valadez
(Doubting voices reverberate
Snow upon winter flame
Sour hearts wish to languish the bold
Defy the trickster)
Be the author of your narrative
Guid karma toward your hope
(Echoes of hesitation linger
I’m bestowed with seeds of doubt
Banish the silver tongued serpent
I strive to ascend)
Be the author of your narrative
Guid karma toward your hope
Ride upon a shooting star
Across empyrean
Find your fantasies
Oh so limitless
Ripples in the river
In time, manifest
Yet we overcome
A wish takes flight
(Tempest
Consuming all
You will not
Impede
My determination
I pursue my own path)
Ride upon a shooting star
Across empyrean
Find your fantasies
Oh so limitless
Ride upon a shooting star
Across empyrean
Find your fantasies
Oh so limitless
Ripples in the river
In time, manifest
Yet we overcome
A wish takes flight
Ride upon a shooting star
Across empyrean
Find your fantasies
Oh so limitless
Ripples in the river
In time, manifest
Yet we overcome
See this wish take flight
Sunder Heart
Music/Lyrics: Diego Valadez
(Tides have turned, distorting fate
Two hearts once entwined
Begin to break and drift apart in
The seas anarchic nature
Is my destiny calling or
Does the siren sing?
What had always seemed a promised path
Has since begun to diverge)
Every entity
Has their own odyssey
Venturing to unique horizons
Spring needs it’s winter
As moonlight needs the sun
How privileged to sing
Loves aria
(Crashing waves against a jagged shore
As all things appear forlorn
I spot a towers beaming light
Reassuring me
Two lost souls within the storm of life
Now estranged yet will endure)
Every entity
Has their own odyssey
Venturing to unique horizons
Spring needs it’s winter
As moonlight needs the sun
How privileged to sing
Loves aria
Treasure the memories
(These dark moments of sorrow further brighten the light)
Polaris breaks the dark
Carry me, take me home
Where my tears fall no more
Every entity
Has their own odyssey
Venturing to unique horizons
Spring needs it’s winter
As moonlight needs the sun
How privileged to sing
Loves aria
Every entity
Has their own odyssey
Venturing to unique horizons
Spring needs it’s winter
As moonlight needs the sun
How privileged to sing
True loves aria
In Time
Original Music/Lyrics: Robbie Robb
Re-arrangements: Diego Valadez
No fear, no loss, no tears,
The time is almost here.
Our dreams will all come true, I promise you,
'Cause I can see for miles and miles.
In time we'll be dancing in the streets all night
In time, yes, everything will be alright
It'll take time but we're going far,
You and me, yes I know we are.
In time we'll be dancing in the streets all night.
Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah,
Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah,
In time we'll be dancing in the streets all night.
All night.
One heart, one soul, one mind,
Our eyes will not be blind.
We'll see this rain come down without this sound,
We can all, we can all break free.
In time we'll be dancing in the streets all night
In time, yes, everything will be alright
It'll take time but we're going far,
You and me, yes I know we are,
In time we'll be dancing in the streets all night.
Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah.
Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah.
(In time)
In time we'll be dancing in the streets all night
In time, yes, everything will be alright
It'll take time but we're going far,
You and me, yes I know we are,
In time we'll be dancing in the streets all night.
All in time