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Haunted World Of Mirrors
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Marya Alvarado (FLCOY)

Pressed Petals

from Haunted World Of Mirrors

February 7th, 2025
10 tracks
38:52
Haunted World Of Mirrors
Haunted World Of Mirrors
Pressed Petals
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Pressed Petals
woundlicker
I wanted to reach out To reconcile Make sense of old wreckage And maybe smile You damaged me more deeply Than you will ever know Please know I forgave you Years and years ago Codependent, trapped in a cycle, weaponized proximity Panic attacks if I went outside, terminal anxiety Cutting ourselves in separate rooms, a spiteful secrecy Escalation permanent, I was fractured by my grief Wounded, wounding, gaslit, fuming yet everything to me Worn down by the longest years, haunted by memory I wanted to thank you, my first love You gave me makeup and your dresses And saw what my heart confesses Long, long before I ever saw myself Doors you unlocked I wouldn’t walk through It took ten years to start anew A chrysalis in vernal bloom Melora wanted to meet you I know that you’re gone now And it hasn’t been long Died last April God it feels so fucking wrong And I loved you, and I missed you Years and fucking years I fucking missed you (I hope you liked who you’d become and found a name that felt like home) I hope you broke the cycle, I hope you broke the cycle, I hope you broke the cycle, I hope you broke the cycle, I hope you broke the cycle, I hope you broke the cycle, I hope you broke the cycle, I hope you broke the cycle, I hope you broke the cycle, I hope you broke the cycle, I hope you broke the cycle once and for all I will lay pressed petals on your grave conjure up yr old jacket I knew I should have saved a thing of bleach and cigarettes of misspent youth and cold regrets lovelorn storms and subway horns and late nights lost yet still reborn of stolen scalpels, drying blood of pent emotions spent in flood of black metal hearts screaming a love undying, eternal, and fucking infernal undying eternal and fucking infernal of a psych ward, of a suburb, of a graveyard, of a city a hospital bed of broken hearts and broken poems and vampires you invited home holding close for greater pain, far too much for me to remain of Central Park in autumn dusk of Folsom East and broken trust of black fishnets and combat boots and bad ideas and worse pursuits genderqueer and full of fear I fucking wish you were still here I fucking wish you were still here I fucking wish you were still here I fucking wish you were still here between silence and glibness there’s acceptance and forgiveness all questions forever unresolved in the face of everything dissolved in the face of everything dissolved in the face of everything dissolved in the face of everything dissolved in the face of
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haunted world of mirrors is maximalist gothic cybergrind, a recurring dream of old ghosts in new lives.

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Credits

Performances:

Melora Cayce - found in the machines

Marya Alvarado (FLCOY - https://xflcoyx.bandcamp.com/) - drums and vocals on Haunted World Of Mirrors, drums on Splinter, A Strange Crow, Dead Of Night, and drummer for all live performances

Primrose - woodwinds on Three Years

Omen Rose Astéri - backing vocals on Haunted World Of Mirrors and vocalist for all live performances

Production:

recorded and mixed by Melora Cayce and Marya Alvarado

mastered by Bootsy Aldo, who also provided invaluable mixing advice and is delightful generally (Sleeping On Stardust - Sleepingonstardust.bandcamp.com)

Special Thanks:

Aki McCoullough and the rest of Nu House Studios for mastering and including an earlier version of Dead Of Night on the compilation Trans Rights Or Else! (https://nuhousestudios.bandcamp.com/album/trans-rights-or-else-2)

Food Desert Recordings for including an earlier version of Pressed Petals on the compilation Please, Just Let Me Breathe (https://fooddesertrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/please-just-let-me-breathe)

Microdose Monthly Mixtapes for including an earlier version of Girlfangs on Monthly Mixtape 9 (https://microdosemonthlymixtapes.bandcamp.com/album/monthly-mixtape-9) and Pressed Petals on the Hurricane Helene/Milton Charity Relief Fund Mixtape (https://microdosemonthlymixtapes.bandcamp.com/album/microdose-charity-mixtape-hurricane-helene-milton-relief-fund)

friends, family, favorite ghosts - I love you all <3

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