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Dead Reckoning
01:45
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Now I can hear it in the trees again
Hypnotic leaves bely the hurricane
Follow the distant crash of waves ashore
The standard bearer I've been looking for
Four hundred fathoms deep the shadow dies
Four hundred more is where her kingdom lies
Between the fissures from whence acid seeps
In shattered wrecks my mournful lover sleeps
The lilting chorus of my offering
A worthy tribute of the world I bring
Her ageless eyes begin to fulminate
In benthic majesty she resonates
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2. |
Permanent Failure
06:06
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I remember last September was your third farewell
That rotting smell
Left your notebook by the coathook in the cheap motel
Auto-da-fe misspelled
I'm no soothsayer but you say her excuses don't gel
The warning bell
Sounds its caution now more often as the alibis swell
Growing dark, oh well
I'm breaking open at the bone
I'm straying far from what I know
Your haunting memory fades away
At least I pray for this now
Drowning below
Shaded shallows left unhallowed by a faltering sun
My world undone
Endless rest and empty tests I guess I failed just one
Abrogation
Of your face's holy places, visions, traces, begun
The water runs
Smothering heartaches, tearing parts of me away one by one
Nothing left, it's done
I'm breaking open at the bone
I'm straying far from what I know
Your haunting memory fades away
At least I pray for this now
Drowning below
Go, take away, everything, it's okay
If I grow, up to be, misery, empty just like
You, bird of prey, broken wing, red Sunday,
Let it grow, over me, sight unseen, frozen fever
Dream, getaway, stolen ring, shades of grey,
Fading glow, history, still can't see, doused in gaso-
Lean, over me, worshipping, endless sea,
Undertow, drowning me, you'd agree, with my silent
Scream, go away, poison sting, dead bouquet, never know
Leave me be, lost at sea, just can't let you
Go, take away, everything, it's okay
If I grow, up to be, misery, empty just like
You, bird of prey, broken wing, red Sunday,
Let it grow, over me, sight unseen, frozen fever
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3. |
New Ideal
06:13
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Tell me again what's real, can you see the surface?
Speak, breathe
Dwelling in the surreal, take first steps in earnest
See, feel
Sell me a new ideal, give me truer purpose
Taste, wake
Spell me the death of truth, I’m so sick of secrets
Rise, lie
Help me recall my youth, when all nights were dreamless
Sleep, free
Growing in the obtuse, and ignite the furnace
Seem, dream
Washing away the proof, don’t you know it’s worthless
Hide, die
Am I awake? Was it just a dream?
Lost in the haze, I can’t see anymore
Don’t call it fate, It bends and it breaks
Twisted and ashamed, I can’t feel anymore
Consciously render the few
Contamination ensued
Faction is reborn anew
Am I awake? Was it just a dream?
Lost in the haze, I can’t see anymore
Don’t call it fate, It bends and it breaks
Twisted and ashamed, I can’t feel anymore
Please don’t obstruct the lantern's view
Leading them ashore
Here to return the earth back to
What it was before
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4. |
Dawn of Day
06:20
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My shadow followed me down the hill today
Obsessive fantasy reality slip away
The hollow place inside growing patiently
Waiting til the day that I can't take another poison dream
When you see the light at the edge of the trees
Run to the cliffs and fly away
Dive to the ocean down to the deep
View the world from underneath
Ten burning tapestries lining twisted halls
Depicting prophecies predicting my own downfall
My demons swallowed me up again today
Storm-cloud from deadened sea abandoning a castaway
When you see the light at the edge of the trees
Run to the cliffs and fly away
Dive to the ocean down to the deep
View the world from underneath
Releasing hold
Could not let go
Must carry on
As good as gone
Far from the edge is where we are
My restless sea a crumbling heart
Beneath the self imploding star
Relinquishing control to harm
Eternal spiralling out of the fold
Heartbeats are quickening enlaced in gold
When you see the light at the edge of the trees
Run to the cliffs and fly away
Dive to the ocean, down to the deep
View the world from underneath
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Black Breath
07:02
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I feel the hours start to fold in my hand
Numb and completely vulnerable to no end
Your eyes see what they want
Your mind lies about those whom you love
Idols you're harvesting, pilfered from deities
Creeping tombs of divine
Consumed in breathing, tainted humility
Feeding from the inside
Endlessly straining to see reality
Hazy, shrouded in flies
All thoughts are fading from broken memory
Leaving you further behind
I feel the hours start to fold in my hand
Numb and completely vulnerable to no end
Your eyes see what they want
Your mind lies about those whom you love
Thoughtlessly praising her royal majesty
Craving to bathe in the light
Constantly pleading unyielding apathy
Weaving your new disguise
I feel the hours start to fold in my hand
Numb and completely vulnerable to no end
Your eyes see what they want
Your mind lies about those whom you love
The unfaltering decay flowing free
Black breath blankets the sky
Unrelenting ray of night
What you call principle, I can't abide
Something so cynical, dripping with pride
If I'm so despicable, how come I'm right?
Blinding red, bleeding white
You're the original terrible truth
Pain that no chemical liquor can soothe
Wasted youth, living proof
I'm your unstoppable creeping collapse
Systemic failure enveloped in wax
Heartbreak in black
Thunder cracks
Every last broken glass that remains
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The Reef
00:57
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7. |
Norman's Woe
11:43
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Shards of moonlight are falling
Rains quench the ground
Goddess dreamlike is calling
Scarred burial mound
Stolen lives coat her fingers
Glyphs as goodbyes
Every bleach-soaked stain lingers
Cenotaphs in the sky
Lay me down in the mud
Flesh and bone disease
Broken and unseen
And if I should never wake
A fossilized mistake
Banished to a place
Devoid of grace and sanctity
Splintered sun dimly dawning
Painting black figurines
Feeding mad hellmouth yawning
Death mask cast in chlorine
Dead flowers in the garden
Clouds of ash drift by
History is forgotten
Never asking why
Lay me down in the mud
Flesh and bone disease
Broken and unseen
And if I should never wake
A fossilized mistake
Banished to a place
Devoid of grace and sanctity
Peril flows through my hand
Unconfined, bleeding sky
Entombed in my own head
Calcified in my mind
All is lost in the end
Pulses bind, intertwined
Towers fall, pierce the sand
Undermined, breaking time
All is lost in the end
Pulses bind, intertwined
Towers fall, pierce the sand
Undermined, breaking time
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