Kaduatán – Ôrödyagzou (“Synaesthesia“)

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