Boatman

from Ephemerata by Umbral Glow

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lyrics

billboard roadsign: waving cowboy
the music is “Happy Trails”
pan down to the ground
pan down to the posts in the ground
sound is dark and foreboding
decay, termites
closeup
chewing, popping, clicking sounds
zoom close, zoom close
pull back: radio dial in automobile
radio playing
auto traveling along the highway
passes the billboard
billboard road sign

Charon
Styx
chalky, bone white color values
in the architecture and all the characters
the water is reflective
transparent, blackish color

happy trails, happy trails

large mechanical eye
large mechanical eye
large mechanical eye
metallic eyelids
no need to blink
technicians
technicians call routine checklist items
the eye rotates
rotates left
right
up
down
prime lacrimal glands
a tear forms
the large mechanical eye
cries a tear
cries a tear of liquid metal
a tear of liquid metal

cold
cold ice
blue crystalline cobalt
dormant
unmoving

a piercing intellect
unnuanced by compassion
drifting, drifting, drifting, drifting, drifting, drifting
through unimaginably vast intergalactic voids
until another encounter

happy trails to you until we meet again

a hollow echo encased in ceramic

flash, flash
pulse travels
emerges at one of the junctions
takes form

moves again
moves again
traveling on
on to the next node

cold
cold

sound sound: voices, ambience, other
increase in volume as drawing near
into the doorway
a glow appears along the edge of one corner
sound continues to increase
goes to black
merges with the next scene
next one
sound: hollow, distant
as if in a deep metal well
too close and it vanishes

blending now merging
happy trails

credits

from Ephemerata, released July 12, 2015

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Umbral Glow Seattle, Washington

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discography

Scintilla

Jul 2017
Ephemerata

Jul 2015
Indulgences

Jul 2014
Rapture

May 2013

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