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Dedicated to Claire Brooker.


The track's opening has an obvious and discontenting similarity to the main musical theme written by Eduard Artemiev for 'Raba Lyubvi' (A slave-maid of love) 1976 film. This 'occasional plagiarism' was extremely disappointing for b., who apparently heard the tune years earlier and forgot about it completely. The melody then came to his mind during some improvisations... Some alterations were made to mitigate things, but the 'origin' is still quite evident. Music on this album is called 'A compilation of musical collective subconscious'.

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Charms of leaden clouds wed April dusk with late October dawn,
The verge of times would fall, as mem`ries flood in -- --

A theatre of ghosts - where shadows once again perform old plays,
But stop abruptly short and vanish into air...

Now the spectator is a faithful one,
He would recite the lost words when the actor`s numb

A dire tragedy of fate it really seemed one day
Yet now it feels more like a dull absurdist play -
A clown reluctant thrashes across
The rooms of dim translucent mirrors,
To get his own delirium bounced off the glass

Suddenly he`d freeze to stare
At an eerie spot of light out there -
Shining through these mirrors,
Staying far beyond all reach...

A fragile moth beats on the lamp-shade recklessly,
His rustling echoes in the emptyness in me
My manuscript beneath the lamp - I read it through again,
But still don`t finish it.
Just a few lines left... but still I hesitate

Across the rainy streets I roam, how many times
I spoke to you as if you were nearby,
And how much strength it`d take to recognize -
It was our last goodbye...
There is a chasm between us now - twelve years wide.

And here`s what I`m scared to write down
To complete therewith my hapless book:
Fairy tales of yesterday have died...

What I can never see is just a wisest purpose
for these shattered bonds,
But, dammit, who am I?! -
a child that saw what he was never meant to see,
Then learnt for twelve years
how strangling the Adam`s apple could be...

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from The Book of the Shattered Bonds, Ch. III: The Forgotten Songs, released January 5, 2009

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Lacklustre Mirror Moscow, Russia

Lacklustre Mirror (1998 - 2011) was a Moscow, Russia-based dark art rock/neoclassic/gothic metal band. Despite its longevity and a large number of people coming and going it has only released two full-length albums at Shadowplay Records in 2007 and 2009 before dissolving permanently in 2011. ... more

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