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Pendulum
07:47
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Observe the spear slashing through
Swaying in perfect form
The arcane equation that binds
Dimensions that manifest eternity
The unmoving point
Never changing in great cosmic expanse
The luminous mist that has no shape
No Soul. No place. No time.
Kneel before the altar of certitude
Encounter your first and last
This is the place of universal refuge
The ineffable damnation
Darkened path revealed
Cosmic seas align
Disengage the galaxy of now
The universe is born before you
Dissolve into the astroplane
Illuminated by a star
Shift your gaze
The curve of a rose
Mirror the celestial mystery
Colors turn to white
Rivers lead the way
The sound surrounds
Like icy water underground
Over the sun
Breaking the shadows of time
Prophets of the sun
Scenes from a dream
Connecting shades of light
Matter falls from death
Kneel before the altar
Encounter your first and last
A universe is born before you
Dissolve into astroplane
Darkened path revealed
Cosmic seas align
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2. |
Cold and the Silence
07:30
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Reach to me
Forget your pain tonight
Run past the trees
Follow the glow of light
The scribes write the
Verse, dust in the wind
Forget her face
Her pale downturned eyes
We fall
Reach to me
Forget your pain tonight
Run past the trees
Follow the glow of light
The grey will swallow and drown the earth
The pendulum of the universe
Chaos and beauty fill us all
Past mountains past the forest
The cold and silence
Past the ocean through the deep
Beyond the grips of time
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3. |
Invisible Cities
07:27
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A void not filled with words
Wonder through in thought
Cities made from dreams and fears
Walls cover the distant years
Rain falls down
Streaks the glass
The night glows
Upon the past
Neon signs shroud my gaze
And empty glow resides
A shiver down my spine
Buildings black and formless
The streets with blank names
Strangers pass me on the way
Their faces all the same
Rain falls down
Streaks the glass
The night glows
Upon the past
A wave of memories flow in
The city soaks and expands
I sit and look across the bars
Shudder from the cold inside
The mist of dusk
Luring me down
Reaching out to
The cries of the wind
This empire a formless ruin
Traveling through trees and stone
Live in the depths of the black lake
Zodiac of this formless land
Celestial spheres collide
The great pendulum
Image of the mind’s eye
Rise and fall
Paradox
Projected shapes align
The clouds move in the grey
A dull rose fading away
My voyage
Continues
The city fades
The eclipse of shadows
Time stands still
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4. |
The Grey
06:50
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Pale, shimmering lights
Reflecting your death to me
Farewell, my friend, farewell
Lost beneath the trees
Say goodbye to me
One last time
Fade beneath the light
Fade beneath the leaves
Try to bend the flow away
Farewell, my friend, farewell
Lost beneath the trees
Say goodbye to me
One last time
Fade beneath the light
Fade beneath the leaves
Try to bend the flow away
Memory’s rush inward
Blood stains crack
The bitter cold
The time is here
Plotting, through the stark white cold
Waiting. Minds unraveling
Trails disappear
Under this cold white dust
Sanity buried in blizzard beasts
The tender flesh
Insatiable
Obsesses and torments
The numbing steals the wits
Visions forebear
Limbs unmoving, observing the madness
Snarling with mist filled breath
Shadows appear
Letting go of life
Our time is here
With a flash of cobalt
We conclude this quest
Eyes go cold with shock
Warmth flows, crimson in the white
One last libation I offer you
Our journey ends here
Final breath
Filled with ice and blood
To compliment this life
In a loveless world
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5. |
Blackened Trees
08:27
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Tattered gods slouch in their rags
A view from the waste
Fallen earth around the land
Dark from an invisible moon
The mummies, dead, surround us all
They call for languor and death
Piercing shrieks in the sky
Ashes fall in the land
I feel gravel underfoot
The infinite and heartless road
Branches hide the light
The nights are endless
The journey manifolds truth
My legs weary, my heart weak
But I must prevail
Nobody wants to be here
But no one wants to leave
There is no god
Yet we proclaim his will
Paths of feral fire
Light our path
The numbness and dull despair
Fighting our fears
Crows linger above
The dull glow
A fading light
Dark grins and shrunken eyes
Crying out
Fear gripping my throat
The sunken cheeks reflect
Streaked with black
Flesh cloven along the bone
Turns to dust
Dark grins and shrunken eyes
Crying out
Fear gripping my throat
The sunken cheeks reflect
Streaked with black
Flesh cloven along the bone
Turns to dust
Drop of water
Fading light
The bare and blackened trees
No sound in the shrouded night
The bare and blackened trees
Remain
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6. |
Fear and Dread
06:56
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The voices of reason
Are lost to hellish inferno
The flames of madness
Crawling up the wall
That is my sanity
Open the gates
Unravel in violence
Trapped in delusion
Vomit and blood soak the ground
Lost to throws of brutality
Forcing each breath
Clinging through flesh
Drifting away
Lost to fear
Life spills out in crimson flood
Mercilessly toiling the mind
Unending loyalty frayed
Pushed beyond the break
The fight in me drowns
In a lake of fire and blood
Depraved and senseless
Ideals melted away
Like flesh in a fire
Meaningless fear
Innocence lost
Liquid born, brash action
Loyalties shift
A washed in blood
Remove your mask
And show me fear
Sing a song for me
Fleeing as phobia
And dread pursue
And I await
A curse with no
Loss of scorn
I watch the facade
The embodiment of lost humanity
Hatred brims
Hatred within me
I bear down and cleave through
Spilling the guts of indignation
Fear and dread
Leaving me hollow
I will keep you safe
Your sordid watch dog
I will take you with me
Drifting away
Lost to regret
Lost to hope
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7. |
Consequence
09:05
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The price of judgment
Stretches beyond
The grasp of sentience leaves
To be buried deep, deep within
Buried beyond this farce of war
Confusion renders the mind
To the fruitless equation
Empty are the words
That shields us from the pain
Sailing through the crooked waste
Death has opened its grasp again
Reaching out to the weak
Chaos reins us close to its breast
Greed’s stench fills the air
Restricting the mood to affray
Poisoning the well of this paradigm
I cannot imagine
The consequences
Lies shroud the truth
Cancer seeps through the crust
Hemorrhaging through the cracks
Earths blood seemingly weeps
A quake of fear erupts
Shocking to those who dare to peer into the void
Poisoning the well of this paradigm
I cannot imagine
The consequences
Creating, destroying,
You cannot let go from this plane
The light dims down, down the same
The earth’s love dies again
Creation, destruction
I cannot fathom
Not until the candle burns
To the cusp of mortality
Not until I am free
Without direction
One must repossess the thoughts of hate
To open the mind is to create the key
Through death’s sorrows and life’s joys
It must be forged
In time
Power is just a word
Power is just a means
The force that comes with knowledge is universal strength
The light is so far away
And I tried, I tried to see
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