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Rearview Blue
Artist: Secondary Output
Genre: Space Rock
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Duration: 66:35 (10 tracks)
Epic space rock odyssey exploring cosmic loneliness and interstellar wandering. Soaring guitar atmospheres and progressive rock structures paint vast soundscapes of dead stars, event horizons, and the infinite void. A melancholic journey through the darkest reaches of space.
Tracklist
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Rearview Blue (06:18)
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Engine hum is all I know now Million miles and counting down That pale blue dot's getting smaller Gravity can't hold me to the ground Used to see the continents clearly Now it's just a marble of light Fading like a dying ember Swallowed by the endless night And I'm drifting, drifting Further than the stars No coordinates can bring me back to where you are Watching you fade in the rearview mirror Earth getting dimmer, a spark in the black No turning around now, no going back Just forward, forever, into the clear One last look at everything I held dear Watching you fade in the rearview mirror Left behind seven billion souls Cities burning bright from space Now they're just a memory glow Can't even see my home's face They chose me for my empty life No family left to mourn But loneliness hits different when You're the only one who's gone And I'm falling, falling Through the cosmic sea Every second takes me Further from my history Mission log, day 47. I keep checking the mirrors. Old habits. There's nothing behind me now except everything I've ever known. The autopilot's been engaged for weeks. I could sleep through the next decade if I wanted. But I can't stop watching, can't stop looking back. They said it would get easier. They lied. Sometimes I see faces in the stars Constellations shaped like friends Wonder if they think of me at all Or if I'm already dead to them The mission brief said fifty years Till I reach the other side But forever's just a word Until you're alone and petrified I wonder if anyone's still looking up. If they can see my light moving away. Probably not. I'm already a ghost. Already history. The last human leaving. The first human arriving. Same person. Different story. Watching you fade in the rearview mirror Earth getting dimmer, a spark in the black No turning around now, no going back Just forward, forever, into the clear Trading my past for a future unclear Watching you fade in the rearview mirror
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Alien Love (07:13)
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Met them at the station bar, three systems from nowhere They had seven eyes and skin like mercury flowing Asked me what love meant to humans over drinks I told them: connection, devotion, need They went silent for a long time, glowing They said love for them is calculated distance The perfect space between two orbits never touching It's the mathematics of staying apart So neither collapses into the other's heart And I don't know if I understand What it means to love by letting go your hand They showed me pictures of their bonded one Coordinates and vectors, equations burning bright They haven't seen each other in forty years By design, by devotion, by getting it right The closer you get, the more you destroy What you're supposed to protect They said love for them is sacred separation The discipline of staying far enough to survive It's the geometry of careful distance So neither loses what makes them alive And I tried to explain how we hold each other close But they looked at me like I described a ghost They asked if we consume the ones we love If closeness is just slow obliteration If intimacy means erasing boundaries Until you can't tell where you end I said no, but then I thought about it And couldn't find the words to defend Every relationship I've ever had We said we needed each other We said we couldn't live apart We merged our lives and lost ourselves And called it love, called it right But maybe we were just colliding In slow motion every night Maybe love for us is gravity's mistake The pull that drags two stars to mutual end We think we're making something beautiful But we're just falling in, just falling in And their kind of love, calculated distance The space that keeps you whole Maybe they've figured out what we can't see That loving means to never take their soul They left the station heading opposite from their mate Forty light-years between them by design And they smiled with all seven eyes And said we've never been closer, never been more aligned
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Galactic Wanderer (03:30)
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Floating through the black uncharted sea No map, no guide, just the void and me Stars like whispers, secrets they keep Echoes of silence pulling me deep Nebula's fire burns in my veins Galactic pulse driving me insane Fragments of worlds drift past my sight Chasing shadows in eternal night Oh, the cosmic abyss, it calls my name A rift in time, a burning flame Endless questions with no reply I'll keep wandering till the day I die Planets weeping in their frozen graves Rings of ice and dust like tidal waves Signals screaming from a dying sun A fractured cosmos where it's just begun Wormholes twist, they tear my mind apart Time bends backwards, rewinding the start The stars align, then scatter away A fleeting truth in the Milky Way
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Event Horizon Blues (05:32)
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Infinite expansion a screaming void Where light itself gets twisted and destroyed A boundary unseen a cosmic shore What lies beyond no one knows for sure We send our signals a desperate plea Echoes fading into the debris Event Horizon Blues Sucking in the light we lose Event Horizon Blues Is there really nothing left to choose? Black hole heart beats a silent drum A universe collapses becomes undone Gravity's grip a crushing hold Stories of starlight never to be told We build our theories a fragile frame Against the terror of the endless game
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The Other Side (07:27)
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The gravitational pull was supposed to kill us Spaghettification, radiation, death But we passed the event horizon intact And the ship's still here, we're still drawing breath The sensors are going mad with readings That violate every law we know We're not being crushed, we're being copied Atom by atom in the flow The black hole isn't consuming It's printing us out on the other side We just fell through the universe's printer And something's different, something's not right Every molecule reconstructed perfectly But the stars outside are running backwards now We went through the black hole And came out inside out The crew looks the same but their eyes are mirrors Reflecting things that aren't in the room We speak and the words come out before we think them Effects preceding cause in this new womb The ship's logs say we arrived here yesterday But we just passed through five minutes ago Time doesn't flow here, it accumulates In layers we can see but can't control The black hole wasn't consuming It was translating us to another state We're not in normal space anymore We're in the negative, the template Every action has already happened Every choice was made before we chose We went through the black hole And became our own echoes Tried to turn the ship around, go back through But the hole's not there, just empty space Or maybe we're the ones who aren't there Maybe we're the negative that got displaced Found another ship floating dead ahead Same model, same name, same crew Look through the viewport and they're staring back And they think that we're not real too The physicist says we're the antimatter echo The mirror print of what we were For every particle that falls in one side An opposite emerges on the other We're not the originals anymore We're the reflection, the inverse And somewhere on the other side The real us is having this same conversation in reverse The black hole wasn't consuming It was duplicating everything that fell We're the copy, the antimatter ghost Living in the negative parallel Can't go back because we never left Can't move forward because we're always here We went through the black hole And became the thing we fear Watched our other selves through the viewport Mouth the same words at the same time They're trying to go back through the hole That isn't there, just like our minds Maybe we're both real Maybe we're both ghosts Maybe the black hole creates What it consumes the most
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Relativistic (09:43)
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Pushed the engines past the limit chasing light Years on Earth compress to seconds in my flight Watch the galaxies spin faster than they should Time's a currency I never understood Stars are born and dying in the span of days Civilizations rise and fall in cosmic waves I'm moving forward but I'm falling through the years Everything I knew dissolves and disappears I'm watching stars collapse Watching galaxies die Moving so fast that eternity Passes me by The universe is ending While I'm still alive Relativistic nightmare At point-nine-nine the speed of light Left my home when Sol was young and burning bright Now it's swelling red and ready for the night Thought I'd see the future, thought I'd see it all Instead I'm just a witness to the final fall The cosmic microwave is shifting into blue Background radiation's screaming something new Heat death of the universe approaching fast I'm the only thing that's moving from the past Ship's log, subjective time: Three years. Objective time: Four billion I just watched Andromeda collide with the Milky Way It took twenty minutes Twenty minutes of my life for billions of years of cosmic violence, I can't slow down The mathematics won't let me If I decelerate now There's nothing left to return to Only forward Only faster Only watching everything end The last stars are flickering Running out of fuel Entropy's the only universal rule Black holes are evaporating into mist And I'm the final witness that will ever exist Time dilation's made me immortal and alone Outlived every planet, every sun, every stone The universe is darker than it's ever been And I keep accelerating further in Faster, watching Faster, dying Faster, ending Faster, nothing I think I understand now This is what it means to move at light speed Not travel. Transcendence. I'm becoming the last photon The final carrier of information When I finally stop When I finally reach wherever I'm going There won't be anything left Just me Just this moment frozen forever in the heat death The last observer The last memory The last light I'm the last thing moving in an infinite night The final photon traveling, through the end of time Galaxies collapsing, stars going cold Everything aging while I don't grow old Faster and faster till there's nothing to see Just darkness and me Just darkness and me Just darkness and me
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Station of Selves (05:47)
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Docked at the station, coordinates unknown Airlock open, someone calls my name Walk inside and twenty faces turn Every single one of them the same It's me at 17 Angry and scared Me at 45 With graying hair Me at 30 Broken by divorce Me at 22 Still on course All of us trapped here None of us know why Every version of my life Under these flickering lights One of me has scars I'll never get Another missed the war that shaped my bones This one's happy That one can't stop shaking All of us alone together, all alone Me at 60 Wise and tired Me at 19 Full of fire Me at 38 Who made different calls Me who never left at all All of us stuck here No exit we can find Every choice I didn't make Staring back behind my eyes The oldest me pulls me aside and says We've all tried leaving Doesn't work that way Every timeline that led here converge The stations where all our choices stay Where all the roads not taken And all the me's I could've been Every fork, every break Every loss, every win Trapped together here In this loop of what ifs and maybes Every version of myself It's just me going crazy Maybe we're all stuck In stations of our making Every mirror that we face Shows the life we're not taking Which one am I? Which one was I supposed to be? Which one was supposed to be?
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Arms of the Void (04:15)
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Stars ignite in the endless void black Echoes of time pulling forward and back Nebulas bloom like a painter's hand Galaxies whisper of the unknown land Ancient signals pulse through the dark Carried by light from a dying spark Alien dreams drift on solar tides A thousand worlds where the truth resides Cosmic reverie pulling me higher Through the starlit maze through the endless fire Gravity fades as the planets collide In the arms of the void where the secrets hide Machines hum songs of forgotten lore Tracing the patterns to unlock the core Binary prayers lost in the stars Hoping to find life beyond Mars Eternal questions with no reply Answers hidden in the vast sky Spinning and floating through the abyss Seeking the meaning in all of this
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Dead Star Hymn (10:35)
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Navigation locked onto a beacon bright Burning gold across the endless black The crew's been following it for seventeen months Like a lighthouse guiding sailors back Every night I watch it through the observation glass Reminds me there's still beauty left to find When the ship feels cold and nothing makes sense That star keeps me from losing my mind It cuts through the darkness steady and true A promise that we'll make it through I'm following a dead star home Light from a sun that died alone A million years before I was born But it still keeps me warm Ancient photons crossing time Just to reach these eyes of mine Proof that even after you're gone Something beautiful goes on and on The engineer told me last week over cards That star collapsed before Earth had a name Before oceans, before life, before anything But its light is still playing the game I asked her if that makes it meaningless Following something that isn't even there She said maybe hope works the same way Still real even when the source is just air What we see isn't what is now But it saves us anyhow Maybe we're all dead stars too Sending light to someone new What we give outlives the frame Love works the same Works the same The science officer ran the calculations We'll reach the coordinates in thirty days But there's nothing there except a gravity well And the memory of those golden rays I thought I'd feel crushed by the disappointment But somehow it doesn't hurt at all Because for seventeen months that light was real to me And real's not about the source It's how you feel The star is gone But the light remains And the hope it gave still breaks these chains Goes on and on And on After the source is gone The light still travels on Still reaches someone Maybe that's all we are Brief fires in the dark But our light keeps traveling far Long after we depart We're all just dead stars shining Light from lives that kept on trying A million choices before we're gone But the ripples still go on Every kindness crossing time Every moment that we shine Proof that even after you're gone Something beautiful goes on and on I'll be a dead star too someday But maybe my light finds its way To someone lost and far from home Following me, though I'm long gone That's enough That's more than enough
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Lost Signal (06:15)
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Transmission O-1-0. Still no response. Still broadcasting. Still... me. I built a beacon with broken light Sent it spinning into night A voice in code, a name erased Lost in orbit, out of place Signal lost, I fade away Words distort, can't make you stay Echoes break across the sky I called you once, you passed me by I saw a flicker across the band A note in static, a ghost in sand Was that you? Or just the sun Burning holes where stars had run Maybe the silence Is the answer Maybe I'm not the sender Maybe I'm just the message Someone forgot to open Signal lost, I fade away No reply, no place to stay I float between the noise and stars A voice unclaimed from somewhere far If this reaches anyone... I was here. I was real. For a while.
