From the recording LP12 HORIZON IX
“Oxygen Without Sky” imagines a future where humanity survives in sealed, artificial environments, cut off from the natural world and the open sky. Its imagery of glass domes, programmed dawns, and manufactured air reflects a society that has traded freedom and authenticity for controlled safety, where even rain and seasons are simulations. The song critiques this sterile survival, highlighting how dependence on engineered systems erodes memory, curiosity, and connection to what is real. Beneath its dystopian surface lies a quiet yearning for what has been lost — the wind, the stars, the blackbird’s cry — reminding us that survival without true nature is a hollow kind of life.
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Steel horizons, walls that hum,
Every dawn is pre-programmed.
Ceilings painted in an endless noon,
Artificial tides pull an unseen moon.
Children draw stars they’ve never seen,
Rivers flow through a hidden machine.
The air is sweet, but it feels too near,
Like breathing in another year.
[Pre-Chorus]
Footsteps echo in the mirrored light,
We’ve traded the day for eternal night.
[Chorus]
Oxygen without sky,
We forget what’s real, we forget to ask why.
Every breath is bought, every dawn designed,
In a city that’s left the sun behind.
[Verse 2]
People bloom under glass domes high,
Chasing seasons that never die.
Voices speak in a constant hum,
Telling us we’re safe — telling us to stay numb.
The walls have ears, the air has rules,
Dreams are measured in data pools.
Even rain is a scheduled song,
Played on repeat all year long.
[Instrumental Passage]
[Bridge]
Somewhere above, the wind still cries,
Somewhere above, the blackbird flies.
But here we breathe the same recycled sighs,
Oxygen… without sky.
[Final Chorus]
Oxygen without sky,
We forget what’s real, we forget to ask why.
Every breath is bought, every dawn designed,
In a city that’s left the sun behind.