From the recording LP12 HORIZON IX
“Blueprints for a Vanishing World” is a lament for a collapsing civilization, weaving images of climate crisis, urban decay, and failing digital archives into a meditation on impermanence. The song contrasts the instinct to preserve — through blueprints, maps, echoes, and digital files — with the inevitability of loss, as both physical landscapes and stored memories dissolve. Its chorus turns preservation into an act of quiet defiance: tracing, etching, and holding fleeting moments even as they vanish. Ultimately, it portrays humanity’s fragile but enduring desire to remember, granting dignity to what is disappearing even when preservation cannot stop the fading world.
Lyrics
Steel horizons, fractured light,
Cities leaning into night.
Icebergs groan in the undertow,
Bridges sigh, and the wind won’t slow.
Archiving shadows, frame by frame,
Cataloguing loss by name.
Every echo, every tone,
Before the sky swallows stone.
[Pre-Chorus]
Scanning towers, broken spires,
Digital ghosts of drowned empires.
[Chorus]
Draw the lines before they fade,
Blueprints of the world we made.
Etch the silence into glass,
Hold the moment as it passes.
[Verse 2]
Market stalls in an empty square,
Footsteps vanish into air.
Neon flickers in the frozen rain,
Rust is spelling out forgotten names.
Hands remember the weight of clay,
Though the clay’s been washed away.
Maps are burning in the dawn,
Still I trace the places gone.
[Instrumental Passage]
[Bridge]
Playback cracks, the files distort,
Colors bleed from every port.
The shapes dissolve, the voices bend,
The archive fails — the signals end.
[Final Chorus]
Draw the lines before they fade,
Blueprints of the world we made.
Etch the silence into glass,
Hold the moment… as it passes.