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Solastalgic Misanthropy (Single)

by Opium Grave

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Solastalgia is a neologism, formed by the combination of the Latin words sōlācium (comfort) and the Greek root -algia (pain, suffering, grief), that describes a form of emotional or existential distress caused by environmental change.

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Standing at the shoreline
I don't see an ocean blue
staring out my window
a bird that never flew

Weeping in the darkness
I can't see the fields of green
screaming from my coffin
in a concrete, urban scene

you traded purity for filth
reaching for a plastic crown
you took the oceans for yourself
and in them you will drown

A weak human spirit thrives
while our one dominion dies
flora and fauna all expire
in a heaving, false empire’s mire

A weak human spirit drives
the sanity from your minds
blood so soiled by modern time
it will be the the last in line

I cannot comprehend the world
or the scum who pollute my days
vileness and materialism rule
as my world is taken away

Solastalgia

Once the fields were green
and all the trees grew tall
once the air was clean
before you consumed it all

A weak human spirit drives
the sanity from your minds
blood so soiled by modern time
it will be the the last in line

you traded purity for filth
reaching for a plastic crown
you took the oceans for yourself
and in them you will drown

I’m too nostalgic to die
and suicide’s for other people
I’m too proud to live a lie
but suicide’s for other people

Solastalgia

Dying in the bright lights
I cant shy away from view
bleeding in the cold streets
a slave to the impure

Drowning in the current
I'm caught in daily strife
rotting on the inside
this dream is like a knife

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released September 23, 2022
All music recorded 2021. Vocals and mixing completed September 2022.

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Opium Grave Melbourne, Australia

Opium Grave is Black Kosmische Musik - a malignant hybrid of black metal, darkwave, 70s and 80s horror/sci-fi soundtracks, early electronic music and krautrock.

Opium Grave is Siliniez: all synthesizers, drums, organ, voices, lyrics and loathing.

Mankind is a plague upon the Earth and deserves nothing but scorn.

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