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Non Sequitur

by Raiju

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1.
Ronkonkoma 04:40
Lyrics No truth can be lost forever Only concealed, one day to be revealed The tides of change they wash away the unexplained filling empty hands with what remains Feel the weight lift away as the lies evaporate No more pacified by the promised everafter We're here and now the sun shines down and exhumates resurrecting from the underground Break with outdated tradition and reclaim your freedom singing abnegation, revelation welcome the light Their past becomes their future We'll find our own way home on the path that knows no hope in idolizing forms misleading in their deaf repose so we break away the thorns from rose We are fed punishment always fearing for the end so our lives, so confined, never speak with the divine One day, their altars will fall and crumble to the Earth a fallacy to burn endless returns No truth can be lost forever only concealed, one day to be revealed The tides of change, they wash away the unexplained and what remains will fill their empty hands with fuller hearts and able brains Feel the weight lift away as the lies evaporate no more pacified by the promised everafter we're here and now the sun shines down and exhumates resurrecting from the underground Their past becomes their future we'll find our own way home on that path that knows their past becomes their future we'll find our own way home find our own way home
2.
Lyrics Heeding what the prodigal son would say I take what I want and I lay beyond what you're worth Not a man, but a God that's in the palace of satisfaction Speaking out from the side of my mouth when I let go so let go I'd rather die than be barely alive You're gonna die livin' nine to five Feed the innocent to the fire one day they'll learn in this game where pawns all burn take the birthright of my kin standing on the backs of mortals that'll make him proud He returns He is silent, downcast, hollow Not the path I sought to follow How far we fall (Who are you?) Won't you take it away This pride that remains I'll tell you everything this bridge isn't built to burn Every day, these questions evaded tell you everything the lessons you've yet to learn Putting blade to back if I want to (Et tu, brute?) When I see that you do not what you say What of your gold? (I let it go) What of your lies (I let it die) Your dreams did not survive Won't you take it away This pride that remains I'll tell you everything this bridge isn't built to burn Every day, these questions evaded tell you everything the lessons you've yet to learn Heeding what the Prodigal Son would say I've run, I've lost I've lived to pay the cost and my past shows me the madness in the future of your thoughts and now I see, the only remedy, turning doubt into belief to set my brother free His blood is the key He is smiling, high and mighty hand of iron I cast to thee How far we fall who are you? Et, tu brute? You are traitor You are monster I condemn thee Fray your ties Hell awaits you Avarice Ignorance
3.
Silk & Gold 05:02
Lyrics The answers live and die with me I found the key to A place kept far from prying eyes She emerges and she’s beautiful, unknowable Liberate and follow where she leads Follow where she leads Lure me to the waterfall Show me things that I cannot unsee Letting go is impossible By silence of mind and the will to create, As the goddess reminds that Eternity waits Why doesn’t anybody listen When we already know Like children laughing at the boundaries We’ve got so far to go The truth might hurt, but wounds will heal Through the pain I heard her say Immortality is only fingertips away and I see That the stone beneath the waves Hides itself in doubt and whispers, Showing me what hides behind the eye Why doesn’t anybody listen When we already know Like children laughing at the boundaries We’ve got so far to go The truth might hurt, but wounds will heal The truth might hurt, but wounds will heal I follow her road A path made of silk and gold I Follow her road I follow her road Stay with me Stay with me, won’t you stay with me? Stay with me Stay with me, won’t you stay with me? Showing me what hides behind the eye Memory of all my former lives Showing me what hides behind the eye Deity Hiding Within the Mind
4.
The Hive 05:52
Lyrics Dear love, There’s something too dear for us to sacrifice I know the price for such egregious cries but my mindsets failed to accept these lies We’ve bowed to unholy men, now they hear me as they kneel One hand wondering why, the other one sailing ships to the sky. Breeding out. God, why even try? The world is blind to your deafening cries Our thoughts were picked from a hive Another free thought left out to die Rip off the veils and open your eyes We’ve sent our children off to a lie. Strangers return to see what I’ve wrote, I'll plead out with every tear down my throat. Are we the outcasts of society? Or are there others who think like me? Remembering it's only skin. They break through the clouds. Flee with me, insanity is staying here on your damn knees. Psycho cybernetic lies we’re all gunna die. (I'm down here) Pay no mind! Not this time. Your world will now accept the line I revoke, through cannon smoke. The ends are justified. I'm through giving up, through giving up I'll never give up again these memories of you die with me I'm through giving up, through giving up I'll never give up again these memories of you die with me. Impossible is just a word small men throw around. Who find it easier to live in a world that they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact, it is an option. Look it straight in the eye. Grab it. Now we must decide. Do we have the strength and the bravery of society to release this demon trapped in me? We haven’t begun to understand. Like cybernetic beings torn worlds away. Let's open up design and misery. Show me what's there to become one. Illuminate your room just like the Sun. Love, have we forgotten. That his eyes are kin. From nowhere to now here. I am only justifying lies. For I am, that I am. We have never witnessed my life. Idle hands, devil's land. Ego so embarrassed by death. Death and life are undone by tongue.
5.
Lyrics Just fractured light (spilling off our carousels) Allows us to trust each others' spines (Animus Divine) Still bundled up (cutting down through the coats of rust) Yet lost in the limestone, I silhouetted out these notes. Descending to these eyes I’ve known. As I grow old, asking time, what will they show. This saline has refused to meld with sound. So when it’s safe and sound, I’ll see you both in the ground. Be sure to stoke the flames and scribble out their pathetic childish useless names. Descending to these eyes I’ve known. As I grow old, asking time, what will they show. This saline has refused to meld with sound. So when it’s safe and sound, I’ll see you both in the ground
6.
Lyrics I have never had my way away with words. Now I remember days where I just felt insane and loved the pain You’re wasting eternity. Believing the worst in me. While the march of the days takes you farther away. Listen to me. Light floods, see again the sun... Light floods, bitterness undone. Grand designs release me from the mire. Let forgiveness guide us to the shore. Away with words. .What we define loses its worth. Away with words. Old thoughts confine us. Away with words. Death of desire is rebirth. Away with words. Make peace with her. The balance can end the tragedy. The poison will pass without harm (You'll see) Grow fallow fields once more. Grow fallow fields once more. Let the march of days take you far away. And the balance restore your harmony. An eternity spent in tragedy. Let the balance restore this memory.
7.
Lyrics Numb, twilight promenade stumble in the rain pitying the roll of the die. I've thrown, on my own, on my own. This night, so silent, I fill with arias to mourn the death of honor and damn the murderers. I know your bargain I don't accept the terms. Walk away. Strangle the sacred. All your crimes have gone unpunished, and I am the exile. made unclean by what I've seen now who can purify me? Gone - all the innocence I protected, mendacious viruses have killed them in their home. And I chase away the memory just one drink at a time In just rebellion it's always just one drink at a time. Fight for the futile. I can't tell myself the lies I'd need to walk a step with you. I don't need your bribes, I'll just keep what is mine. Just keep pretending, that your choices here will come with no consequence. I played the fool, obeyed the rules. The theft of everything ensued. And once again, see empty hands, the price I pay for following my conscience. Heed the quiet heart, and refuse the concede to the den of thieves, before they drag me under. At the bottom of their malice, sunk down by ill-won prize, I'll become the thing that I despise. If the odds are stacked against me and I can only lose, I'll still play my hand, best I can. My own man, head held high, and incorruptible On my own.
8.
Lyrics Try to blot it out in with the crowd ink dry and the money down but, fuck, what do I know? Muting out the sound and now I'm found picked up what you're putting down how 'bout you? Fill the cup when love is gone, and commitment earns its name. In the thick of it, and I'm sick of it. Try to blot it out I never found this part of me. Drowned in water, bound in sin, doubt he makes it, never swims. On the rocks we wait for shore, glass half empty, drink some more. Fill me up when love is gone and commitment earns its name. Where's the audience for the hobbyists? Try to blot it out I never found this part of me. Drowned in water, bound in sin, doubt he makes it, never swims. On the rocks we wait for shore, glass half empty, drink some more. When the weight of the deafening silences promises break you in two, Forward. when the fall guy's the person that you need, I could do great at that, too. Forward... We've been lying here, feeling dying here. Conversations are the missing chaser. Feeling clouds appear, happens every year, drunken horses and painted pictures. Forward... With a glass half gone, I'm halfway gone. No you didn't care. Blotting out the sound, and now I'm found, ink dried and the money down.
9.
Lyrics Just gimme the weapon. Get out of the way. I'll do it my goddamned self 'cause you're too scared to die today. Cower in the corner. Your secret's safe with me. You'll take the accolades when I vanquish the enemy I peel back the lines just one blow at a time live the lie, when I die steal my legacy. I live on the front lines favored by angry Gods. Succeed me on the throne, your crown weighed down by albatross. I'll face the nightmare. Stay hid inside your dream. So useless on the day of wrath and reckoning. It is beyond comprehension choosing security. I'll trade my life for eternity. As they fear me, pushing through the pain and misery. I have learned that outside your cage I'm free. All you'll see in your reflection isn't true. For you know that this greatness wasn't you. Eight times fallen, nine times rise. False glory fades as your soul begins to retrograde. And on the deathbed, a spirit cannot rest, That traded luxury for sins left unconfessed. In war and peace we die. You chose the coward's life. A soul dissatisfied, all cowards live this life. It is beyond comprehension. Choosing security I'll trade my life (I'll trade my life) for eternity. As they fear me, pushing through the pain and misery. I have learned that outside your cage I'm free. All you'll see in your reflection isn't true, for you know that this greatness wasn't you. If you feel fear, then fear will feed ascendants arise in bravery. 'cause if you fight, you'll never die. I'm still alive
10.
Freak Show 06:30
Lyrics In doubt, I succumb failing life bound in weathered skin. All the torment I've known the crippling cold to focus on a soon-entombed gaze. The heart that was shared was it ever really there? Grows toxic with time. I'm colorblind but does the light truly shine? Erased from life, it'll be too late to hear my cries (love us) Reaching in deeper than I have experienced, trying to let love forgive myself in all my irreverence, trying to let love... Hold on to hope. It's alright alone tonight. Reside by candlelight. (love us) Reaching in deeper than I have experienced, trying to let love forgive myself in all my irreverence, trying to let love... My world's falling down. Black out the sun. Soon everyone will know. Welcome to the freak show. Weighed down by thoughts of fear to fail. I've been deceased before I let myself breathe. I know it seems like a pitiful thing still holding on by the skin of my teeth. As it beckons, I can't deliver myself from my past, deliver myself from my past, to save my pride, or what is left. I keep it all, locked up inside. Locked, safely inside, to save my pride, or what is left. I keep it all, locked, safely inside

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About this album:

So, Raiju knew their second album had to top all expectations. Feeling this pressure and the burdens of their stuffy "square" jobs slowed down the writing process and caused a kind of creative clog in the ranks. So many ideas began flowing from all corners that the band had to develop an incredibly intensive, detailed, corporate-style (gasp!) workflow for their writing process out of sheer necessity. Patience was tested. Song files were labeled and categorized. Options were presented, itemized and deliberated upon. Tasks were delegated. Massive spreadsheets were compiled - no single note or issue was too small not to identify and bring to a full-band vote, hundreds of items at a time, in a painful display of democracy. Gone were the teenage days of garage-jamming, guessing and hoping for the best. This album became too important to risk overlooking any little thing. Too much was now at stake. During the recording process, engineer Zack Ohren observed, "I've never worked with a band that has spreadsheets and flowcharts to the extent that you guys do...that looks exhausting." Oh boy, is it ever. But from the fires of this organized agony sprung ten razor-sharpened songs, formed into a beastly sophomore release the band has dubbed "Non Sequitur", which aims to push the band's hypothesis even further. The tempos will increase. The brights will get brighter. The darks will get darker. These tracks have been painstakingly lab-tested to bring a smile to the face and a tear to they eye of any listener, be they a teenage Chon fan or a grey-haired Dio fan.

Now, more than ever, Raiju is growing and becoming unabashedly themselves. The band seeks a more profound kind of fun that celebrates all of life, not just the comfortable parts. This isn't another shallow mess of songs about money and drugs, nor is it just heavy for heaviness's sake. Here is a band that mixes playful cheers for the good times with fearless war-cries to confront the bad times. Here are life's hardest lessons delivered with a gentle hand, and our most subtly ingrained deceptions smacked to the floor and shattered violently. It is a freakish mix, an active car crash, an insoluble duality...but then again, aren't we all? Come along.

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released March 19, 2019

Written by Raiju
Vocals: Scott Wagner
Guitar: Bobby Carroll
Guitar/Vocals: Sean Johnson
Bass: Max Coley
Drums : Vinnie Hecht
From the 2019 Release: "Non Sequitur"
Audio Production: Zack Ohren at Sharkbite Studios

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Raiju San Francisco, California

Vocals: Scott Wagner

Guitar: Bobby Carroll

Bass: Max Coley

Drums: Vinnie Hecht

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