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Power of the Sun

from Our Lady of Radium by Charming Disaster

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    Our Lady of Radium album in high quality 12" vinyl LP format, pressed in translucent green vinyl with black splatter. Manufactured at Furnace Pressing in Alexandria, VA. Includes full-color jacket with glow in the dark ink, and printed inner sleeve with song lyrics. Cover art by Susan Saas. Limited edition.

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    This book contains song lyrics, original artwork by Susan Saas, research notes, and background information about the source material that inspired Our Lady of Radium. Read along as you listen, add it to your bookshelf just because it looks so cool, or use it for your bibliomancy divinations. 60-page 8x10" perfect-bound paperback is printed in full color.

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    Featuring illustrations by the following artists:
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    Ellia Bisker
    Dame Darcy
    Ted Enik & Shiloh Penfield
    Ben Eshleman
    Camilla Finlay
    Omer Gal
    Devon Greig
    Bob Howard
    A. Nancy Koutsouflakis
    Erich S. Lehman
    Thos. Little
    Madame Onça
    Jeff Morris
    Carolyn Raship
    Logan Riley
    Jeff Ritchie
    Susan Saas
    Charles Schneider
    Ben Shafer
    Jacquelyn Marie Shannon
    Turtle Grenade
    Vincent Vaughan
    Steven Warrick
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Radium:
Atomic number: 88. Abbreviation: Ra. Half-life: 1,602 years.
Spontaneously luminescent. Generates heat. Emits alpha, beta, and gamma radiation. Decays into radon gas.

lyrics

Silvery white in color
Blackening in the air
The metal rusts as soon as it’s forged
A powder as unremarkable
As commonplace table salt
but throw it over your shoulder and it’s transformed

Is it the burning bush of Moses
How the fires don’t go out
Or that old perpetual motion
That we’ve dreamed so long about
And the glowing tubes of glass
Look like enchanted fairy lights
Suspended in the darkness
They are gleaming in the night

What have we done (We’ve set in motion)
We’re flying too (A chain reaction)
Close to the sun (Natural progression)
Out of control (The power of the sun)

Maybe it was irresponsible
The genie is out of the bottle
With a fever to boil its own weight in ice
It’s the alpha and omega
And gamma and beta
Passes through matter with X-ray eyes

It was a god in ancient Egypt
When the pyramids did rise
By the light of that eternal
Burning disc up in the sky
Then the chariot descended
To the darkness underground
The golden horse-drawn carriage
Was too heavy to slow down

What have we done (We’ve set in motion)
We’re flying too (A chain reaction)
Close to the sun (Natural progression)
Out of control (The power of the sun)

There’s no mistaking
Alchemical transmutation
Continual cycle of death and rebirth
Chemistry of the invisible
Hidden in mineral
Scattered like glittering stars in the earth

You’re chasing down a vision
Though the nights are dark and long
You can hear it calling
In the Geiger counter’s song
And the crucible is glowing
As it burns away your fears
The great work that you undertake
Lasts sixteen hundred years

What have we done (We’ve set in motion)
(Bad luck)
We’re flying too (A chain reaction)
(Hard rock)
Close to the sun (Natural progression)
No matter how you slice it
Out of control (The power of the sun)
(Or break it apart)
What have we done (We’ve set in motion)
(Live once)
We’re flying too (A chain reaction)
(Die twice)
Close to the sun (Natural progression)
(Find a little magic)
Out of control (The power of the sun)
(But it won’t play nice)

Bad luck
Hard rock
No matter how you slice it
Or break it apart
Live once
Die twice
Find a little magic
But it won’t play nice

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from Our Lady of Radium, released March 4, 2022

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Charming Disaster is a goth-folk duo based in Brooklyn, NY, formed in 2012 by Ellia Bisker and Jeff Morris. Inspired by the macabre humor of Edward Gorey and Tim Burton, the murder ballads of the Americana tradition, and the dramatic flair of the cabaret, they write songs that tell stories about death, crime, myth, magic, folklore, and the occult. ... more

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