"EMBRACER (performed by June, to Earth below): A mournful June, aghast at Shiny's decision to end an illustrious life, sends a digital flare to Earth via primitive means. Hoping fitfully that someone below might take heart to enact whatever measures are needed to stop Shiny's fatal advance. And where with luck, June's 'message in a bottle' is detected on an obscure fan board by 'Hopus Dei'." (ATUM story notes)

As stilled as a flower
As ruined as a saint where true met true
Let's feast on his rage
Unleash what allays our muse
I realize
Realize, I realize
I'd believed what was lonely in you
'I realize', said the knife to the spoon
I believed what was lonely in you

Shake hard this summons
With bottles tossed
Down said seas of noise
In notes and sighs to the void
I'd love you to follow
A star on the rise, entombed by blue
In heed of the sage
I've sent out a faith once removed
I realize
Realize, I realize
It's only the lonely who should lose
I realize said the knife to the spoon
It's only the lonely who lose

As fools 'cross a cosmos
As a soot on your age
Where true cuts true
I've had you beside
To show me what always might do
I'd love you to follow
A star on the rise, entombed by blue
In heed of the sage
I've sent out a faith once removed
I realize
Realize, I realize
It's only the lonely who should love
I realize said the knife to the spoon
It's only the lonely who lose
I realize
Realize, I realize
It's only the lonely

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