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William Basinski

Time

Release date: 20th March 2020

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"Time" is a track by William Basinski, from the album HYMNS OF OBLIVION, released 20th March 2020. Full lyrics are available below.

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Lyrics

Time

Almost no sky

No Moon

Time as time is incomplete

And still present

When no one is there

Noiseless it rests

Touched and seized

Extinguished

Always and always

And always out there

Time as time is disturbed

What we see used to be seen

It scatters the sky

And waits just an instant

Noiseless

The anguish

Canniballized

In daylight

A hole or holes

The usual benign light

Suspends the hold of divinity

And the night is dissolved by the spread of its night

By crowded

Asleep

In a namе

Asleep

And it rest there

Thе culmination of time

And surrounded

It goes nowhere

Till the end of the world

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From HYMNS OF OBLIVION

2020
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HYMNS OF OBLIVION
HYMNS OF OBLIVION
William Basinski
Release year
2020
  1. —Within This Dark I Heard You
  2. —The Abandoned Fields
  3. —A Ring of Smoke
  4. —Hymns of Oblivion
  5. —Mesmerized
  6. —The Chemistry of Life
  7. —Because
  8. —The Great Warriors
  9. —Where the World Waits
  10. —The Glass of Gloom
  11. —Time

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