House of Light's new album 21st Century Prayer is out soon on CD with an 8 page colour booklet of lyrics & images.

“…an epic lament with shimmers of shoegaze & post-punk sound-scapes”

“ …dark & dreamy terrain frozen in time amidst the technological tsunami …”

“…foreshadows a future Dystopic”, an array of synth & guitar drive songs, often catchy always elaborate sonically…”

“A journey that typifies their propensity to the dark & melancholic in epic fashion. Lyrical themes run deceptively deep, pitching the clash of longing to return to a state of natural & human innocence in the face of the forbidden fruit of technology’s onslaught using archtypal Jungian imagery. The riffs that dot this dark & dreamy terrain seem familiar but near-overflowing in an echoey sonics. Fear & hope elope together on a dysphoric path, while objects of desire await frozen in time"
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House of Love
NYC
City of Lost Souls
Radiate
Naked in a Dream
Under the Cloud Line
Cold
21st Century Prayer
Thread
ZeitGeist
Still Life
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NYC

Highrise, down-town train
Cities come and go, but we want the same
We won't sleep tonight
We won't sleep tonight

And your a hard act to follow
A bitter pill to swallow
And I love my schizophrenic friends
Let's bury the hatchet
In your head

New York, New York. Running on fever
New York, New York. Everyone's been there.
No time to fall, No time to call.we're in New York

The traffic lights are down
All over town
And I feel like we all died as one
Paranoid and needing
The pieces of your dreaming
It's lonely in the crowd
Knowing you're around

New york, New York, run like a fever
New York, New York, I got to leave her
Alive
No time to call, no time to fall in love. New York

Your love won't last the train ride home
Your love won't last the train ride home
Your love won't last, it just drove past
Going too fast

New York
Running on fever
New York, New York. I'm gonna leave her this time
No time to call. We're seeing it all, we love New York

Your love won't last the train ride home
your love won't last the train wreck home.
Jump or burn
Jump or burn baby

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HOUSE OF LOVE

Is it love that you want?
Have you seen it in someone's eyes?
In the places that you go?
Can you ever be alone?
Was it love?

Is it love that you lost
On some unforgiven day?
Are you still adding up the cost?
Was it something in the way?

Is it love that you heard
In the pale of the afterglow?
Whispering “that was just a taste"
But the taste it comes and goes

Let in the House of Love x 2
Let me in the house x 2
Let me in the House of Love

All your desire
Your body aflame
All you desire
Back in the fire

Is it love ?
Is it love that you want?

Is it love ?
Is it love that you got?

Is it love?
Does it come from above?
Is it gone?

Is it love ?
Does it run like a thief in the sun

Let me in the house of love?
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RADIATE

Fallout, fallout again
Radiate, radiate your nothing to me
Let it in Let it in
Shine it to me
Let it in Let it in
Shine in to me

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NAKED in a DREAM

Free fall
It's just a drill
Free fall
It's just a dream
Free fall.

Freefall.
It's just a drill
freefall.
Not really real.
I want to sleep
I've seen enough
freefall
it's just a drill. freefall.

It's just a drill
Not really real
I've seen too much
I want to sleep
Freefalling.
Just a thrill. Freefall.

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Colder : now you found me
Now your bound to me
colder than you found me
now you’re out free
Now your dead to me
Older than you found me
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COLD

We crossed the line
of no return
Where no regret
Can find me

You & I
Bathed in the sun
That shines on everyone
Who has a soul

Cold
Colder than you found me now you found me

Spring is past
Summer laughs
At the fall of us
You can take or you can ask
But the light comes after the dark
Your eyes they burn like coals
The truth was never told

Cold
Colder than you found me
Cold
Older than you found me Now your dead to me

I’m going to love you
Come sun or storm
I’m going to love till the morning come along
& as the rain turns to snow
It's a funny way to know
Your finest pearls are frozen down below

Your touch is cold
Cold
Colder than you found me now you’re out free
Cold
Older than you found me
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Cold
Let the rain pour on down
Cold
Let the tears spill around
Cold
Let the sun go on down
The story is old
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21st CENTURY PRAYER

Freedom, words that don't have meaning
Somewhere out at sea
In the deep end, swimming through the deep end
Deeper than we dreamed

My hand on your night,
Pushing through the needle's eye
To the other side
In your card and in your stars
In the twinkle of an eye

There's an ill wind blowing
Close your eyes and feel
No more talk
Give me all I could not steal

Need you, like I need to breathe you
I'll see you overhead
I'm your evening angel leaving
On the wings of your last prayer

Love, ever knowing,
wash away our lives
Real love don't see the colours
But it sees the light

And you're only a prayer
Only a prayer away
As we rage for the last
Rage for the last dying rays

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THREAD

You're my fire, your my light
You're the cross hairs in my sight
I hang onto you my only friend
I hang onto you until the end

You're my life-line, you're my noose
You're the life that I refuse
I hang onto my only friend
Hang onto you by a thread

What's this gun going off in my hand
I watch this gun going off in my hand
I hang onto you my only friend
Hang onto you until the end

Don't look back, the needle's through
Past the faces we once knew
I hang onto you my only friend
Hang onto you by a thread

What's this gun going off in my hand
I watch this gun going off in my hand
I hang onto you my only friend
Hang onto you until the end

Could be the last thing that you see
It could be the last breath that you breathe
His is the face, the face in your dreams
His is the face, the face in your dreams


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ZeitGeist

Fallout, we're waiting.
Birds caught in airplane wings.
Seismic. Shifting.
Suicidal whales on Florida beach.

I saw her smile, way down, Way down
I stole her style. She winked at me. She waved

The earth still-birth the moon.
Apocalypse too soon
Sunspots that never miss.
A moment too confused.

One day, my love I'll find you
Without altitude.

Birds fall from high. falling. Falling.
I saw her smile, as she went under the waves.

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Still Life

Now the moon is full again
Of the promises we never keep
I want to see your face again
In the still life
In real time

Fast forward your fear (And your pharaoh heart)
And save what's seen (Will it ever bend)
Pause for effect (In the shade of the reed)
And rewind (At the river's end)
I want to see (In time, in the waiting room)
Your face this way (In time I wait on you)
In the still life (In time, in the waiting room)
In real time

You move me to you
Im moving to you too

Face to face again
Beginning and end
Tail to head
And the stars seem like familiar things
That the child brings
While there's still time

And I lose you in the everyday
But there's still time
In the still life.

You move me to you

And I move you to it too


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Now the moon is full again
Of the promises we never keep
I want to see your face again
In the still life
In real time

Fast forward your fear
And save what's seen
I want to see
Your face this way
In the still life
In real time

You move me to you
Im moving to you too