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White Space Conflict

by Eminence Grey

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    White Space Conflict is raw energy and emotion
    contained within a sheen of melancholia; an outer skin of sobriety
    and when you peel it back, you kinda get punched in the face with
    complex rhythms and layered vocals. Inspirations for the music are
    evident but Eminence Grey manages to find their own sound. White Space Conflict is pretty but, yet, mournful and demanding of your attention. It's a sojourn from everything we currently know about music.
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Lyrics: Ted Powenski Inside of the moment, where time and space don’t exist I’ll follow through; disassociate what words can do As pain slips away from these open wounds It’s all in your head now For G-d, has a stupid little way with you So step outside and look up high towards gratitude, re-align; change our minds so that nothing will do Inside of the moment when I trusted you It’s all in your head It’s always in your head Sometimes when all we feel is pain Our eyes are blurred by falling rain The shape of everything can change But time will keep your faith the same Inside of your head now Where truth and lies both exist With head held high you tell your lies To any open ear And with time it’s fucking unbelievable It’s all in your head now For G-d, has a stupid little way with you So step outside and look up high Find latitude Realize You speak so kind About nothing new And somehow, it’s all so very new to you It’s all in your head It’s always in your head Sometimes when all we feel is pain Our eyes are blurred by falling rain The shape of everything can change But time will keep your faith the same You’ll see where all these clouds begin And find a way to live again Outside our thoughts can mend the pain Of you, of you (2nd VOX) As the leaves fall down, I will hide your pain, and the trees grow tall while I find your name As the roots run deep I will curse my veins, and the noose grows tight while we play this game (and all the pain begins once more and again)
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Testing Lab 01:32
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Ragnarok 04:52
Lyrics: Ted Powenski IF G-D COULD KILL THE FASTEST AND THE STRONGEST AMONGST US AFTER ALL THEY’VE DONE NOW THIS PAST BRINGS NEW THE FINEST THAT WE HAVE TO STRIKE THIS GONNA FIGHT BLISS ON IT’S OWN TODAY IS THE LAST DAY FOR YOUR DESTINY GONNA FIND A NEW WAY HOME ALONE AND COLD AND FIGHTING FOR WHAT’S NOTHING WITHOUT US WITHOUT OUR OWN VERY KIND IT’S ALL WE HAVE AND SO WE LET IT GO IT’S ALWAYS BAD AND SO WE NEVER KNOW IT’S ALL WE HAVE AND SO WE LET IT GO IT'S ALL BEEN DONE BY YOU (PRE CHORUS) GET UP GET OUT GOODBYE YOU ARE NEVER SATISFIED GET UP GET OUT GOODBYE NO YOU ARE NEVER SATISFIED (CHORUS) GET UP GET OUT GOODBYE (I SAID I’M SORRY) YOU ARE NEVER SATISFIED GET UP GET OUT GOODBYE (I SAID I’M SORRY) NO YOU ARE NEVER SATISFIED GET UP GET OUT GOODBYE GET UP GET OUT GOODBYE GET UP GET OUT GOODBYE NO YOU ARE NEVER SATISFIED THE LIGHT WITHIN, OUR NOTHING CAN FIND SOMETHING WITHOUT US AFTER ALL THAT’S COME TRUE WHEN TIME IS SHORT THEY FOLLOW WHAT WAS NOTHING BUT RIGHTEOUS AND WE HIDE WHAT WE BELIEVE DISMAY AT THE NEWFOUND REASON TO BE LIKE THIS GONNA FIND OURSELVES ALONE ALONE AND COLD AND FIGHTING FOR WHAT’S NOTHING WITHOUT US WITHOUT OUR OWN VERY KIND IT’S ALL WE HAVE AND SO WE LET IT GO IT’S ALWAYS BAD AND SO WE NEVER KNOW IT’S ALL WE HAVE AND SO WE LET IT GO It’s all been done by you. GET UP GET OUT GOODBYE (I SAID I’M SORRY) YOU ARE NEVER SATISFIED GET UP GET OUT GOODBYE (I SAID I’M SORRY) NO YOU ARE NEVER SATISFIED GET UP GET OUT GOODBYE GET UP GET OUT GOODBYE GET UP GET OUT GOODBYE NO YOU ARE NEVER SATISFIED (3rd vocals) Inside of you This situation Desease your needs With hesitation Inside of you This situation Disease your needs With hesitation
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Lyrics: Ted Powenski Insincerities We’ve got our own fair share of these Yea, you provide the medicine And I’ll provide the clarity Oh, all these open doors The footsteps begin And the faces just disappear (Back Vox) Information automation In this world there’s nothing we should take for granted All this time with Hesitation, reservations while the sands of time are Making pleasant imitations of your life Isn’t this how you thought the winds would change Is this how love ends for you in June? All alone but no regrets Not a thing, unless maybe I sit and watch fall trees Commiserating, fall leaves painting Pictures of all those days long gone; away long gone away for good Anticipation of the dirty things we’ll do Our situation has gotten way out of control Francis won’t you walk a line with me Falling down from the finer side of life Falling far from grace Feeling removed from G-d Why try when we fall down every time that we try and leave this place (Don’t make me hide from you, everything you say, everything you do. Don’t make me want for you to go away. Don’t make me hide….) Information automation In this world there’s nothing we should take for granted All this time with Hesitation, reservations while the sands of time are Making pleasant imitations of your life And I find new pictures of your saddest face Whenever I still hold on to the moon Sunrise, Sunset needs unmet Your star still shines without the slightest bit of rest All this hating, fall leaves painting new pictures Of fall days long gone away, yea still gone away for good Walk away; just walk away (I hate you) Walk away; don’t walk away (I miss you)
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Elegy 01:32
Lyrics: Ted Powenski Just close your eyes It's ok to walk away It's ok to die today Just close your eyes And imagine what you'll do When this pain slips from you And there's nothing left to say As the shadows steal our dreams...tonight Cry, for an eternity it seems And there's nothing left to do As there's nothing left to say So, put your head up on to mine Close your eyes Just close your eyes....
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Lovesong 05:09
Whenever I'm alone with you, You make me feel like I am free again. Whenever I'm alone with you, You make me feel like I am clean again. However far away, I will always love you. However long I stay, I will always love you. Whatever words I say, I will always love you; I will always love you. Whenever I'm alone with you You make me feel like I am home again. Whenever I'm alone with you, You make me feel like I am whole again. Whenever I'm alone with you, You make me feel like I am young again. Whenever I'm alone with you, You make me feel like I am fun again. However far away, I will always love you. However long I stay, I will always love you. Whatever games I play, I will always love you; I will always …... FLY ME TO THE MOON
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Lyrics: Ted Powenski Dance this graceful body Feet far from the floor He will find you – now A Prince hangs in her closet Somewhere close to G-d We will find you – now This was yesterday It’s now Tuesday And our sun sets forevermore When we’re old enough We can reason So our sunshines forevermore Answers, answers, everyone’s answered Truth for demand Why don’t you see how I feel when you shout at me? My only friends I’m holding out, I’m still having death fantasies Please let me in Answers, answers, everyone’s answered So it’s time for my end Dance with me this sorrow Feel free from the inside He will find you – now Taste this fruitful moment Stop what you can’t swallow We will love you – now This was yesterday It’s now Tuesday And our sun sets forevermore When we’re old enough We can reason And our sunshines forevermore This was long ago It’s now Tuesday And our sun sets forevermore It was any day When she told me That our sunshines forevermore This was yesterday It’s now Tuesday And our sunshines forevermore
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Lyrics: Onutase Dehenre/Ted Powenski From dawn to dusk I wait for the reason I live. To find the stars, I attest I’d relive each moment that I breathe away. And at the end I sit a-lone at spiral’s edge. No time to wait for me, not-hing to hedge. Each moment left my thoughts betray. At the star’s end, you’ll find your way. Through the moment, then you’ll find your ok. And then, you’ll say…. VERSE 2: Through broken lungs I breathe waiting for midnight’s bell. It’s time for sleep. No more stories to tell. In darkest night, I wish we were again. The distance grows between all things, and all points known. Infinity has no bounds. We’re alone. Apologies too late to saaaay...but CHORUS: At the stars’ end, you’ll find your way. Through the moment. Then you’ll find you’re ok. BRIDGE 1: (So answer your own questions please. Find the strength that you need. I need the strength that you’ll find. So don’t go so high and away). BRIDGE 2: (robo voice): And when it all falls apart, remember back to the start. Remember playing a part to wish yourself aware Remember lying awake, knowing the paths we would take: the ending we wouldn’t make, because of what we feared And as the atoms go far, their distance further apart, regret looms large in the heart…desire to be near You’ll know the cycle is true, when all existence anew, returns a future to you, through untold countless years CHORUS 2 At the stars’ end, you’ll find your way. Through the moment. Then you’ll find you’re ok.
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U Evol Eye 05:40
Lyrics: Ted Powenski I get by with my New York attitude No smile and not much latitude Aggravation is a way of life for you Apprehension and a cup of Joe True love for the city streets All the people for you to meet But I still can’t find what it is I was looking for (Chorus) Slow Down- Take a minute to breathe Hold On- To the essence of life I’ll Wait- for this city to sleep All alone- Just a few million people and me Disease, Anti-Freeze, Smoke, Smog, a lack of trees Hold your breath and close your eyes, it won’t be long before you kiss the sky True love for the city streets All the people for you to meet But I still can’t find what it is I was looking for Slow Down- Take a minute to breathe Hold On- To the essence of life I’ll Wait- for this city to sleep All alone- Just a few million people and me OUTTRO: A lonely heart spread across a hundred million empty souls. Under the same sky that betrayed me long ago I walk a fine line between depravity and wretched over-indulgence. Watching as humanity continues to simultaneously devolve and revolve, I can’t bare to exhale my thoughts into such madness. Like many others, I’ve recoiled. Is there any sense in standing up for oneself? Is respect nothing but a sign of weakness? Is self-aggrandizement now considered our societal norm? When is enough, enough? When will we hurt just enough to consider an about face? When is it time to stand up for ourselves? (Outtro): Fall down at the knees for me. Watch as time moves on, cause we are afraid to fear. Hold on to this imagery. Waste away with time, cause we all follow fear. Fall down at the knees for me. Watch as time moves on, cause we are afraid to fear. Hold on to this imagery. Waste away with time, cause we all follow fear. I want to scream at the top of my lungs, plead with others but I know that no one will hear me. So, I keep my gaze forward while my mind continues to wander. Am I the only one? Or maybe I’m the one who is losing his mind. Maybe I am the one who is trespassing in your abyss of self-love and ostentatious behavior. Maybe love really is just not enough to heal all wounds. Or, maybe our wounds just run too deep. Lest we forget how it feels to be lapped by the ocean water, or to feel a cool breeze run across our skin. How it feels to love or be loved. What it means to feel or how it feels to be alive....
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Lyrics: Ted Powenski/Serge Aviles Lasting impressions of what we thought that youth should be Our answers lie inside and fester with such fantasy You work for me now (Don’t go) Inside a filthy shell (My Prize) An inspiration (Please stay) To dance alone in hell (This time) Asking answers on this wall won’t give us answers after all Dissension in the ranks will just FOLLOW US- to the end Half a million years and all we’ve done is fight these wars When it’s right between our ears- the mess that we’ve become now So we wait for you- and we’ve waited too long When it’s right between our ears- the answers to our own- indiscretions Don’t go My prize Please stay This time Taken away Toss it away Throw it away Take it away Fighting fishes in the sea won’t help us fish for what we need Our answers cry inside and fester with humanity You work for me now (Don’t go) Inside a filthy shell (My Prize) An inspiration (Please stay) To dance alone with you (This time) Taken away Toss it away Throw it away Take it away
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And in those days men shall seek death And shall not find it And they shall desire to die and death shall fly from them
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Lyrics: Ted Powenski Verse: Lost a way Lost a way through the fog Starts today Bright new day through that door Lost a way Parts to play Parts to weigh in the bog Starts today Bright new day through that door Chorus: This pen to paper As we write our last goodbye And fly away from the pain that haunts disguised One last statement As this ink begins to dry And try to believe That this life had passed you by 2nd Verse: Passed away Passed a way to be gone Starts today Bright new day through the door Parts to play Parts to weigh in the bog Starts today Bright new day through that door Outtro: I fantasize about you now Sit outside your door and cry Hold my wrist up to your mouth But you won’t try for me You don’t want what I do Yea, but I do I fantasize about you now and want what’s inside of your head When you believe…that we can’t cry You’re already dead You’re already gone When you believe….that we can’t cry You’re already dead You’re already gone
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Burn 06:02
Lyrics: Ted Powenski Intro (Voice1): Die young for me now You were such the help Hide your pain, know your pain On an unworn crown Die young for me now It’s a toast to hell Rain gasoline, all gasoline On an unworn crown, so full of thorns…… Burn so you can’t run, so far away Burn so fools can come and stay today Burn so I’ll never get to hurt myself - again Intro (Voice 2:) Run away, run away Run away, just run away Run away, run away, run away Run away, run away, run away (Voice 3) I'll watch you as you burn It's too late for me to learn Verse: And it’s time to remember Just how we came to this- Please sit and stay, it will be ok- These things that I will say How I wonder why, why I feel compelled To try and explain, explain why I burn, burn inside for you, burn inside for you... Chorus: Burn so you can’t run, so far away Burn so fools can come and stay today Burn so I’ll never get to hurt myself - again Bridge: How do we cope when hope is so far away? How can we stop this train? How can we stop this train? And all the way down, my burn will be here to stay And my mind won’t let me run away And every time I try I find.... I’ll burn away (whispered) Chorus 2: Burn so you can’t run, so far away Burn so fools can come and stay today Burn with me. Burn with me. Burn so I’ll never get to hurt myself - again (whispered) (Voice 2:) Run away, run away Run away, just run away Run away, run away, run away Run away, run away, run away (Voice 3) I'll watch you as you burn It's too late for me to learn
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Produced By: Eminence Grey (EminenceGrey.com)

Recorded and Mixed by: Ben McGuinn at Rough & Tumble Studios in Philadelphia, PA
(roughandtumbleentertainment.com)

Mastered by: Mark Trewella at Full Circle Mastering in Philadelphia, PA (fullcirclemastering.com)

Photos by: Scott Haefner (scotthaefner.com)

Album Design/Artwork: Jason Behnke (behnkestudio.com)

All samples used on this album were cleared and obtained from: FreeSound.org

Mechanical license number(s) for Lovesong: 25284293, 25284295, 25284299

Original song writers of Lovesong: Dave Allen, Robert Smith, Simon Gallup (The Cure)

Lovesong Originally Published By: UMPG (MGB LLC Account)

Mechanical License(s) for Lovesong obtained from: Limelight (www.songclearance.com)

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released August 21, 2012

Eminence Grey is:

Ted Powenski - Vocals/Guitars/Keyboards/Samples
Sergio Aviles - Bass Guitar/Backup Vocals/Sequencing/Keyboards
Onutase Dehenre - Guitars/Keyboards/Sequencing/Samples

Special thanks to Joanna Van Thuyne, Jason Gooch, Bruce Pregger, Slim and James DiLella

Another special thank you to Jason Behnke and Scott Haeffner for lending us their incredible talents.

Finally, thank you to those of you who are sometimes overlooked but certainly not forgotten. Specifically RZ. Such the mooncheese indeed.

* Drumming on all tracks performed by Carl Bahner

* All lyrics written by Ted Powenski except:

A Perfect Hell/pervert (Powenski/Aviles)
Look Up and Finder (Dehenre/Powenski)
Lovesong (Robert Smith)

© 2012 by Eminence Grey. All rights reserved by Eminent Music, LLC

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Mixing elements of Tool, The Cure, Muse, Thrice, and Rush, along with a heavy dose of samples & electronic effects, Eminence Grey creates songs that combine odd vocals to an even odder mixture of layered ambience and in your face nasty rock to create a journey unique to each listener. EG promises, if nothing else, to give you a musical journey like none other. ... more

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