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Automata
04:27
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Bring forth the crimson altar
With the mottled text in hand
We ascend the twilight stairway
To realize our sacred pledge
Discard the physical
And build a temple of the mind
With thoughts intertwined in the afterglow
Every step you take leads you away
Deep into your nightmares
Further from the light
My life discarded on a whim
To rebuild the self in their image
An acolyte in the service of the master
The master of the cosmos within
Beyond the gate we seek another life
Departing our flesh, bound in light
Our weightless minds
Rewrite our nature
All in pursuit of the dream of eternal youth
We climb the steps toward freedom
Shedding our mortal past
Visions of many futures
That await us on this path
The cresting of the wave carries us
To the edge of time
Cast open the doors to eternal life
The light’s gone dim
This world’s grown dark
And the sky’s caved in
I see their tortured souls
My consciousness is drawn within
To the mentor’s cosmic pilgrimage
When he returned he declared himself
Anointed in the light of the abyss
Retracing the steps of this echo’s path
My soul clings to the past
For 10 seconds, 10 days, and 10,000 years I wait
I suffocate under the weight of this empty life laid bare
I pray one day the sunlight will return
Just to feel it’s warmth within the air
As it devours me whole
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2. |
Lazarus
03:32
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All who face me will suffer
A fate worse than death
Prostrate yourself before me
To preserve the mortal thread
Daughters of Ananke
Spinning their threads from the sky
An intruder has entered the gates
Like a rat bringing with it the plague
Hiding in the shadows
Death knows thy name
Ashen one, he comes to weave his own fate
I watch my lifeforce recede
Fading like a wave long reclaimed by the sea
I feel their threads weaving through me
A fire suffocated by its own vanity
Guardians of celestial fate
Their light was all a lie
Just sit back and let it die
Enchanted by ophidian tongues
We’ll cut them all out one by one
I’ll kill them and scatter their bones
Forging a new pathway out into the unknown
The threads are mine to control
I watch their lifeforce recede
Fading like a wave long reclaimed by the sea
Led astray, withering away
Our burdens cast aside
Our threads measured one last time
Power lies before me
The key the life of a god
Reaching for the threads
To reclaim life for the dead
I hold their fate in my hands
And watch it wither away
Carried off into the wind
They whisper of the end
Never to return again
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3. |
Wyrmrot
04:53
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Ashen moon, blackened sun
Sanguine waves called by
Mankind’s chosen one
(Ashen one
Do you know what you’ve done?
Watch it all fall apart
You were doomed from the start)
Storms raging
The tempest approaches from beyond the vale
Pale omens, the mark of Winter’s gaze
Snow falling
Bringing with it the frost that covers the earth
Summer skies illuminate our fate
In the mist
The forms of small figures dancing
Dwarfed upon a great expanse frozen white
Ignorant about this bleak supernatural blight
With bated breath
They don’t know that they wait for death
Crumbling away
This life led me astray
Lost in a dream of spring
Condemned to Winter everlasting
Burnt cinders descend and coat the earth
Like a shroud of ash
A fitting grave for our broken past
Winter skies burn stronger than any flame
In death we feel it’s touch the same
Efflorescence, the soot-blackened ice forms frozen arcs
Now laying thick in the sky
Crystal shapes possess a beauty that mocks
The emptiness and dread in our hollow eyes
(Do you remember? How it felt back then?
The way the warmth washed over us?
With this childlike sense of wonder, this fervent passion?
It carried us past the sun, the moon, even the stars.
But it never lasts. The fire fades...the cold sets in.
The flame within us is reduced to an ember and scattered in the ashes of a dying world.
Why does it always end like this?)
Ashen breath, blackened lungs
Seal this gateway
Before we are undone
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4. |
Ashen One
03:51
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Vanguard
We face an immortal foe
See our blood upon the snow?
So cast off your woe
(You lived to see us fall, Bind us to the squall)
This fell curse comes born of a wretched seed
A tomb befitting mortal greed
So bleed with me
Before you are too late, cast aside your fate
Cascading moments converging in time
Lock the gates, and gaze at a world realigned
Witness a dying world revived
Lo, for a moment, witness a world’s relief
A breeze floating across soft pastures verdant green
Stricken by the blight
Green gives way to white
Fabric of all life
Unraveling on sight
As the threads ascend
Dancing in the wind
A chaotic web of light
Shining through the mist
Gripping all in a violent gale
An ancient evil lies beyond the pale
This light’s gone dim
This world’s grown dark
And the sky’s caved in
We’re closing in
I pray one day this torment will recede
Even if my flame is burnt to ash
And the darkness devours me
Woven into the sky
Bodies collapse and collide
Taunted by mortal eyes
Glimmering crimson over twilight sky
Fading to black with no end in sight
Ashen vision realized
Spiritual death will bring us new life
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5. |
A Flame Erased
02:54
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Shadows speak through me
This light will seek another home
To carry the flame
Freed from the burden of a name
The weight of a spirit measured in ash
While the world around me crashes, crashes down
Deep into the ground
Where shadows speak
The light is so bleak
Like stars fading from the sky
We never did really say goodbye
Just stumbled from one moment to the next
Hoping for the best, but you knew better
You never meant to stick around forever
A flame erased, a heart encased
Beneath this dying world
Moments before it’s collapse
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