The Stoics Were His Friends - Story and Lyrics

There is a palpable sense of urgency and driven exigency in ASTROMINAR's second album, The Stoics Were His Friends (The Stoics). ASTROMINAR's follow-up to their cinematic debut, Lostaudio, expands their musical and philosophical exploration. If Lostaudio was a journey into the cosmos, The Stoics ventures inward into the depths of the human experience of time, desolation, and spirit to overcome.

In The Stoics, there is no respite from its grasp - from the driving guitars and rhythm of the opening song, Tragic Sense of Life, to the pleading guitars that beseech reflection for action in Symphony For Empty Souls, to the psychedelic journey of Wall of Sound, the stoic mindset of Just Hold On, and other songs, to the album’s farewell ode to the passing of time, Another Day is Gone - The Stoics captures the imagination and innate philosophical thinking as you ride along its musical journey.

Tragic Sense of Life

Sadness permeates the air

Regrets and grey empty stares

Broken dreams left behind

Enslaved to space and time

A tragic sense of life

It’s absurd it’s in your eyes

It’s you I’m thinking of

Despite of nihilism’s call

Broken dreams left behind

Enslaved to space and time

Symphony for Empty Souls

To feel you’re all alone

You’re empty I can see

Do you feel at home

In your mind here with me

Are you meant to be

No one knows I concede

A symphony for empty souls

The dance of death comes for us all

Wall of Sound

A lifetime to

Learn how to live

But we’re just beings

Beings towards death

Wall of sound help me forget

Wall of sound eat my regrets

Wall of sound be my escape

Wall of sound I’ve no more to say

I don’t want to talk

I don’t want to think

I just want to lie

Where all troubles sink

And One Day

Oh oh oh oh

The world seemed so far

And he dreamed of stars

The stoics were his friends

And being and time again

Oh oh oh oh

Your hair on my chest

Whispers through our breath

Nights have become our days

And one day I’ll be in space

Just Hold On

When stars have lost their shine

And reason has lost its rhyme

And fear of death enthralls

And your idols have missed the call

Oh oh oh ooh ooh ooh

Just hold on no one will come

Oh oh oh ooh ooh ooh

Just hold on it’s been you all along

When you can no longer pretend

And myths have failed to mend

The Last Muse

Something in your eyes

Just won’t let me die

Unbeknownst to you

A nihilist’s last muse

To know this will end

No religion or gods to send

And where does it go life

As if we don’t know death

Dark eyes last muse

Before the Last Sound

Are you afraid of being alone again

Are you afraid my friend

You are not alone

We won’t let the humans win

You’re not alone my friend

Humans are strange

Act like they care then lie again

I will be a friend to my friend

We must go right now

No time to turn around

We must go right now

Before the last sound

Another Day is Gone

Hey another day is gone

Lost with other ones

Hey in the fog of time

Just memories in your mind

And it won’t be long

Till we say so long

And we must go on

Another day is gone

Hey words are in the way

Emotionless today

Hey dreams have come and gone

Let new ones come along

Do you feel what I feel

Do you think how I think

Or will you come to realize

When it’s too late it fades away