The fifth Wayfarers song. Progressive-rock sung in the Ithkuil constructed language. Music and lyrics by John Quijada. Lead vocals by David J. Peterson. Video by Kenneth Vaughn.
SYNAESTHESIA
Searching for ciphers to interpret one’s senses
Fashioning sinews of shadow and sound
from tastes and smells that capture emotion
while memories are put away in flasks marked poison
To embody an emergent new synaesthesia
Feelings march patternless through doorways of laughter
In seeming mayhem and utter disarray
with tastes and smells that capture emotion
and memories are put away in flasks marked poison
To embody an emergent new synaesthesia
The taste of lies, the sound of forgetting
as reason takes flight unconfined by horizons
To embody an emergent new synaesthesia
Wistfulness seen in one’s mind as a palace
built from phlogiston and luminiferous aether
Hate imagined as feathery whispers
painted in colors from no