Hypnagogia
Cover art by Julia Szczygielska for music composition Hypnagogia by Adam Łukawski performed by Exaudi Vocal Ensemble
Lyrics by Adam Łukawski:
Hypnagogia
Everyone and no one, all at the same time; immortal – expanding through different paths. Hypnotised by chaos – images from dreams about an old flock of birds in an endless play: The wisest shepherds make their final choice In the most monstrous moonshine of illusion
A child looks with passion at the illusion, At the magic shop losing his sense of time. When he’s called away, a future disappears butterflies vanish from the flourishing paths. Seasons may change, but his longing stays endless, Premonitions always remain at his dreams.
A man exhausts time accomplishing his dreams As he gets further, avoiding illusion becomes trickier. – “Era of an endless rain…” – stop: he pressed a button in a hollow time. In the labyrinth of the numerous paths this task is as easy as Erwin’s cat’s choice
Intelligence. It takes little for a choice to matter – it comes first in a lucid dream. I see the Burning Giraffe converting paths with Chinese herbs. Artificial illusion becoming a symbol of idyllic times – collective minds programming their perfect end.
I hope for a dark blue rose in an endless repeat: Consciousness of an atomic choice. Steampunk retrospection, sexual music, as in some European drama movie on hackers starting a government of souls, obeying an independent script of fate.
The final speech in superposed code of fate: Poetry nearing silence denies an end at the most expected illumination. Digital anarchy gives another chance teaching us the newest most exciting cult: Making new words to extend reality.
When on the right paths and within quantum time, Fortune is endless. Dive in the illusion of a free choice, shed for the goldfinch of dreams.
