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| author | St33v <github@f3rr3t.com> | 2026-01-29 18:47:33 +1100 |
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| committer | St33v <github@f3rr3t.com> | 2026-01-29 18:47:33 +1100 |
| commit | a8e8a27684d39436993640ea59eb07506bb5ae2e (patch) | |
| tree | 99aef5b93a7197dc35c357d0a236060741aad3b0 /sotd/2026-01-29-devonian-dunkleosteus/release.eno | |
| parent | c1f036c7508a836c0181557f96470aebb1a340fa (diff) | |
move sotd/ dir up one level, plus some housework
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diff --git a/sotd/2026-01-29-devonian-dunkleosteus/release.eno b/sotd/2026-01-29-devonian-dunkleosteus/release.eno new file mode 100644 index 0000000..693780b --- /dev/null +++ b/sotd/2026-01-29-devonian-dunkleosteus/release.eno @@ -0,0 +1,54 @@ +title: Devonian Dunkleosteus +permalink: sotd-2026-01-29 +date: 2026-01-29 + +release_artist: Song of the Day + + +--synopsis +In Devonian dreams, I swam in ancient streams/ Armored plates of bone now turned to stone, in layers unseen. +--synopsis + +more_label: Lyrics + +--more +[Verse 1] +In Devonian dreams, I swam in ancient streams, +Armored plates of bone now turned to stone, in layers unseen. +I drifted through the ages, beneath the changing skies, +Silurian tides and quiet lullabies. + +[add soft drones + shimmer pads, watery textures] + +[breakout] + +[Verse 2] +And then the earth would rumble, as giants walked above, +Cretaceous feet would stumble on the bones they never loved. +Until one day an ape would find me, and crack my stony shell, +A sudden resurrection from my fossil’s ancient spell. + +[Verse 3 – Identity as Fossil] +"I am Dunkleosteus, a fossil sealed in stone, +Devonian deep my cradle, yet the ages I have known. +Cambrian whispers, Jurassic storms, +Ordovician shadows, Triassic forms. +Permian silence, Silurian seas, +Cretaceous thunder rolling over me." + +[ introduce slow rhythmic pulse, heavier synth bass, cavernous echo] + +[Bridge – Contingency] +Out of countless bones dissolved, I alone was sealed in stone, +A game of chance, the dice of time, the sea’s forgotten loan. +Millions lost to silt and tide, erased without a sound, +Yet through blind fortune’s alchemy, it’s me that you have found. + +[style: heavy warm textures, arpeggiated synth runs, building intensity] + +[Coda – Contingency + Wonder] +Contingent as the starlight, as fragile as the sand, +I never was assured of breath, nor of your searching hand. +But now the eons whisper, their chorus is my name, +A fossil born of accident, still singing just the same. +--more |
