Redshift (One Vision Suite)

Featured art by Franziskus Pfleghart

Listen to Redshift by Richard Charles Stevens (One Vision Suite)

Listen to One Vision by Queen

One vision (repeat)
.
Rose red bed in stunning bloom
Shed from sun and wed to moon
Streaming through the bled lagoon
Serene these crimson waters
.
As I venture through the embers of a long remembered dream
My heart trembles and the tremors set a retrospective scene
Comprehensive recollections of affectionate degree
Irrespective of the woes long since befallen me
And those whose sole directive was to stalling me
(stalling me)
To stalling me
(stalling me)
To stalling me
Implausibly serene as I incautiously proceed
Dismembered from the skin that dies each time I fall asleep
My wide eyes prize the stylized theme of wild imagination
A twilight scene where finite beams have wider aspirations
.
No guidelines to deny a mind
Disinclined to whitewashed lies
Even if the truth confides of mild exaggeration
Every last stride taken reawakens vacant stare
Of a lifetime of sedation pertinaciously declared
Liver birds both seen and heard when neither here nor there
Basilisks the catalysts of maverick affairs
Centaurs give consent to more extortionate proportion
While unicorns iconic forms are tonic chords to share
.
Every nook and cranny makes uncanny proposition
Offering a hook or crook to tally contradiction
Fact retracts attack on fiction
Slapping tax on imposition
Cutting back on supposition
Acrobatic acquisition
Breaking down partitions while the schism loses rhythm
In division of a prism long immune to abolition
Malnutrition bid adieu when food for thought refused permission
Superstition depositioned as tradition split decision
.
Cherry picking very willing barely missing thoughts
Heavy digging trenches sinking steady ticking quartz
Penny pinching tethers ended
Severed of remorse
Evermore divorced
Of fraught contortion
Free akin to leaves relieved from underneath the eaves of grief
Teats caressed
Abreast of suckled husk undressed by skin of teeth
Skin of teeth
Skin of teeth
Skin of teeth
Teeth
Teeth
.
Rose red bed in stunning bloom
Shed from sun and wed to moon
Streaming through the bled lagoon
Serene these crimson waters
.
One vision (repeat)
.
Rose red river charms
Its balm disarms the bind of vicious barb
Mangling my stricken heart
Dismantling the inner bark
Founded at initial spark
Accounting for tuition charge
I found it at the river barge
Serene these crimson waters
.
Having weathered the typhoon
Through the never in endeavour opportune
Ties are severed to the peril strewn before me
To the betterment of providential story
As Bard I am disbarred from the garden of regard
Thus I come here to the river
To deliberate severity of scars
Find prosperity in blemished coat of arms
.
Comprehensive recollections of affectionate degree
For within this waking dream I am unquestionably seen
(One vision)
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