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Darkness Reveals the Beauty of Truth

by Aristotle's Hope

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1.
Shark 03:36
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Shark Hey, let’s go down to hell When the north wind rings the bell Bring your sister’s shell Out here it’s so hard to sell Kill her secrets, one by one Sacrifice to the sun Hey, this will surely be fun We’ll never tell the nun Maybe, baby, Mayday Parasites With many arms and many legs Eat the lights Include the rotten eggs Screw the head on Ignore the turn-on Bite a bullion Satan be gone Hey, join me in the dark We’ll look for the truth, the shark Maybe, baby, Mayday Hey, crush your sister’s shell We’ll tell them it just fell Maybe, baby, Mayday Save me
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Diamond Sleeps Tonight 05:36
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Diamond Sleeps Tonight Paulina, will you please come and meet Geordine? The drama of our end deserves a cool fanzine Will you come and sleep with me? Will you come and sweep with me? Your imitation diamonds Will you come and sleep with me? Paulina, your dress hides your ugly rage Alligator obscene repulsive black tar cage Will you come and sleep with me? Will you come and creep with me? Will you dissolve in my compromise? Will you come and weep with me? Corner covered with the darkest purple bruise Fake skin, fake fur manufactured from your face Pretend so true, on a one-way hell-bound cruise Vanish core cells without a faintest trace Corner covered with the darkest purpose bruise Fake skin, fake fur they forced onto your face Pretend so true, glass crystals, they diffuse Breathe deep, come down Get off this suicide race
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Tiny Toon 03:26
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Tiny Toon Took all this time to grow up Is it a time to weave a coccoon? Dreaming about my white nightmare Of turning into a tiny toon I thought I kept walking When did I leave my feet behind I cared about what I'd become Or did I seek out to be your kind? Living with my black guns Not knowing where to shoot They came out of the wide screen And took away all my privacy Then I stopped walking I stopped thinking I stopped feeling I stopped breathing Living with my black guns Not knowing where to shoot Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah (Caught inside feeding frenzy) (Choose me from this box of keys) (Caught inside feeding frenzy) Living with my black guns (Choose me from this box of keys) Not knowing where to shoot (Caught inside feeding frenzy) Living inside my black guns (Choose me from this box of keys) Not knowing where to shoot
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Empire 03:36
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Empire Perfect blue That’s my color Perfect peace That’s my policy Don’t disturb my noisy slumber I sleep You scream I squeak You scream I want more I have more Give me more I want more I have more Give me more Burning blood That’s your color Rage, rebel That’s your policy Don’t disturb my noisy slumber I want more I have more Give me more I want more I have more Give me more La la la la la la la La la la la la la la I sleep You scream I squeeze You scream Woah I want more I have more Give me more
5.
Half Step 05:34
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Half Step Step on the corner flower lane And look for you See it whither away This life of consuming bars of restraining iron Will you remember our laughters in crates The slow bloom The scenes of joy The glowing tide of colors You seemed so out of reach, but I Step on the corner flower lane And look for you From the palace of no burdening shame I saw you fall through Swim out of this pool of lifeless pull machines To hear unanswered calls Will you remember my pictures of your back The paths we mapped, the tiny jumps The forgotten ship in the cellar Step on the corner flower lane And look for you From the palace of no burdening shame I saw you fall through I almost followed you down Standing where you stood But couldn't stand to see you disappear Step on the corner flower lane And look for you From the palace of no burdening shame I saw you fall through
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Cult 04:46
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Cult Keep running through the bottles of dark white water And I run from you Thinking that you are the one who will fill me up Why couldn't I live with my own flower Was it too pale to keep? Because I am tired of this But I keep walking As if running away from the guilt From facing you Without facing me Am I alone in this cult? For god of belonging I waste me Because I am tired of this Because I am tired The more I find the more I doubt Like a howling chased by wind I miss your hands
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Lunar Ascent 03:56
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Lunar Ascent Empty party with policemen Knocking on my wood Nothing understood Starving with some food Shattered nails for the specimen Out of frying pan Into a guillotine fan I’m trying to be a man I love you attach me to your skin I will keep it dry, dry, dry Sadness recycle in the chain bomb mail Chopping off my hand To make a rubber band To tie up sweet pea sand Cornered rat bit off my only sail Check the FAQ Lost a leg with a shoe No help is on the queue I love you attach me to your skin I will keep it dry, dry, dry You can live without the extra fin Give it to me to fry, fry, fry Cyborg sonet Take me apart
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Throwing Away the Key (at the Gate) 04:06
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Throwing Away the Key (at the Gate) So you want to be in Columbus’ Sons Kill off all those rainbow bugs Deliver the garbage aluminum Cans Pass on the Old Glory bags Your son aimed your prize at her face Did you learn her name? So you are the righteous There is nothing left but some games Exploit the room for alternatives To extremes Your son aimed your prize at her face Did you learn her name? Your son shot your prize at her face Did you learn Did you learn Her embrace and forgiveness saved my life As we wave goodbye
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Outcast Probe 02:49
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Outcast Probe You took over the globe Like a dome that replaces the sun Never mind the outcast probe They don't follow the game and are overrun Outside, did you hear the scream Inside, you control the stream You save everyone that fits Oh oh oh Everyone I happen to wander the zone Of the life sucking rain Preserving all who suffer Was the mission for all those under your reign Outside, did you hear the scream Inside, you control the stream You save everyone that fits Oh oh oh Everyone that fits He was close to salvation His blood flowing on our way But not close enough Outside, did you hear the scream Inside, regrets filled the stream We save everyone that fits Oh oh oh We save everyone that fits Everyone Everyone
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Lucy Struck Out 05:54
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Lucy Struck Out I’ve come this far While crying for mercy My tears all spent I cannot run straight I can’t reset my past I held on my fear While fighting for the many Many trapped hearts On the cold, dark street Who never went on the must-save list See me fly For the last time For the last time to your side I hid your scars I covered my fake holiness But they never were healed or made complete Never were saved from this mess See me fly For the last time For the last time to your side See me fly For the last time For the last time by your side

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Originally released in 2007 under the name "Aries9"

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released October 1, 2007

All songs written and produced by Ari Koinuma
Mastered by Ty Tabor @ Alien Beans Studio
Cover Photo: "Lutz Castle Window" by Dave Gostisha (creative commons license)

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Aristotle's Hope Saint Paul, Minnesota

Progressive rock about existential crises.

AH is a solo rock project of songwriter, guitarist, YouTuber Ari Koinuma.

Influences: Toad the Wet Sprocket, King's X, Cloud Cult, Alice in Chains, Stone Temple Pilots. Though my songs tend to get longer and be more prog. ... more

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