Cor Cordium
Cor Cordium is the twelfth studio album by American progressive rock band Glass Hammer. The name of the album is taken from an eponymous poem by Algernon Charles Swinburne.
The album follows the symphonic-progressive musical direction of the previous album If after the arrival of singer Jon Davison and guitarist Alan Shikoh.
Production
Songwriting
Altrought all songs in Cor Cordium have their music credited to Steve Babb, Fred Schendel, Jon Davison and Alan Shikoh and all their lyrics to Babb, Schendel and Davison, Babb and Schendel were more precise in an interview:
Schendel describes "Nothing Box" as "a more aggressive song overall while keeping the verses very melodic". It was originally built around the electric piano riff of its verse. Babb wrote the lyrics of "One Heart" to comfort his wife, as her mother had only a few days left before her death. "She had been crippled for three years and was in tremendous pain, but she was a Christian (and the best mother-in-law a man could ask for!) and knew that she heading home to Heaven." He statted that his wife still cries everytime she hears the song.
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Cor Cordium
by: Glass HammerClouds float suspended in my nothing box Six smooth sides reflecting endlessly out to infinity Life is calm and so quiet here in my nothing box The walls are thick and warm and they hold me in and shelter me Nothing gets to me
Light can't escape and neither do my thoughts They just bounce around They don't make any sound They sink down to the bottom of the sea
I never get lonely here in my nothing box Though I sometimes feel there could be so much more then it just slips away I drift out in the emptiness and I lose myself Hearing my own breathing my own heartbeat race there's no way out and I don't care No I don't care There's no world out there...
Until I think of you Then I know what I should do But it's so hard to leave
This box has a key But it can't work from inside Thought I could leave when I wanted to It all depends on you
When I close my eyes That is when I see your face I can see you speaking though the words fall away Everything is fading now Was it ever real My memories of the outside Wash away like rain I reach out to you
Time has no meaning in my nothing box I could stay forever as the world moves on I don't eat I don't sleep I don't touch I can't feel anything Until I hear your voice and I come back to you