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Nascent Death
01:58
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She Who Bears The Eye
03:40
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Solace guides the wretched home
Azure reflects in the night sky
Disparate lines of Isis
Colossal strings above me
The searchlights, they guide us home
Screaming the wind, cry through the rain, the silence it breaks
Tear me away
/Against the rocks
Now the patience is so evasive
Screaming the wind, cry through the rain, the silence it breaks
Tear me away
/Against the rocks
I feel the waves divide, they dissipate until I’m gone
Gone
Abyssal plains compose endless dreams
Lost out beyond the seas that sleep
I can’t decide what makes me breathe
Anything but what’s beneath
Lost for me, the ocean
Lusts for me (unspoken)
In spite of me
As Nepthys and her love create my tomb
Screaming the wind, cry through the rain, the silence it breaks
Tear me away
/Against the rocks
Now the patience is so evasive
Screaming the wind, cry through the rain, the silence it breaks
Tear me away
/Against the rocks
I feel each part of me break away until I’m lost
Constructed, now you’re gone
Consume me til I’m lost
Osiris guides the wretched home
Lost
Burn
Burn
Dauntless gateways
They beckon me to the past
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Transcendence
06:28
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Out in the dunes where I first felt this life
They sent him to die, the sun came to rise
Opulent fields meant for eternity
He hollowed his skull, a fortress for all
The connections that sear us within two
It all leaves us blind, for freedom inside
Emerald figures entwined in immortal love
It's all just a show, there's a place we could roam
Tide of corpses
Brazen and suffering (suffering)
Suffering
Dragged to mercy from a surge of humanity
Their kings all gone
Their crowns entombed
Their kings
Their kings
Their crowns
Their crowns
All gone
No malice divined within the mother's eye
Parasites thirst, for what's safe inside
Pallid torches shine in an endless void
All lights burn out, undeterred when their hope's all destroyed
Menial comforts, to mask approaching ends
Anchors they work for, for all to depend
Preaching anathema, for which the hopeless crave
We hope for them None will be saved
It's not a doctrine
They need a salve for
Their loyal dreams
It's beyond their means
How can exalted monoliths
Find their grave?
Pity the Meek
They reach for dust
Where will the haven be?
For all the wretched men
No gods left to send
Only we can fix
The broken clocks they hide
Idols infest
Redress the skies
Their kings, their kings
Their crowns, their crowns
Pity the meek
They reach for dust
For dust
For dust
Idols infest
Redress the skies
This tomb of stars
For us no more
It's not a doctrine
Chronos has felt their skin
Too hungry to live
Too anemic to sin
When the heavens fall
Who will mark their light?
This tomb of stars
For us no more
When the heavens fall
Who will mark their light?
This tomb of stars
For us no more
Where will the haven be
(It’s not a doctrine)
For all the wretched men?
(Chronos has felt their skin)
Where will the haven be
(Too hungry to live)
For all the wretched men?
(Too anemic to sin)
When the heavens fall
(When the heavens fall)
Who will mark their light?
(Their light)
This tomb of stars
(This tomb of stars)
For us no more
We'll be waiting for you, when you get back. A little older, a little wiser...but happy to see you. Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rage at the close of day. Rage, rage, against the dying of the light. Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage, against the dying of the light.
We'll be waiting for you, when you get back...
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Monolith
04:28
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Vain and bored where the lines cross me out
Distilled perfection from a gutless shroud
Mark this moment; broken, she lost herself
Between each landmark is where she’ll find her ground
A monument to the wasteland she left a trace
Brutal beauty strengthened by her weathered face
If felt this place before, heard its unmistakable sound
Between each landmark is where she’ll find her ground
Facing forward, left behind
Wolves in shadows by my side
Dead man's compass held in my chest
Seek the landmark where she rests
Heavy are the hands that carry you with me
\(Carry you with me)
Soft are the tales told by the trees
You’ve cleared a path here not long before me
I’ll seek to find, to cement this belief
I reach a clearing, faced with a lake
Crossing this void can’t be a mistake
Dead man’s compass held in my chest
Seek the landmark where she rests
\(Where she rests)
Dr Victor Frankenstein: Are you dissatisfied?
Sir Malcolm Murray: I am seeking.
V: What?
M: Perhaps the same as you.
V: Mmm. I seek truth.
M: Ah...you’re a very young man. I’ve long since learned that truth is mutable.
V: Perhaps we view science differently.
M: Do we?
V: I would never chart a river or scale a peak, to take its measure or plant a flag. There’s no point. It’s solipsistic, self-aggrandisement. So too, those scientists, who study the planets, seeking astrological enlightenment for its own sake. The botanists, studying the variegation of an amazonian fern. The zoologists, caught up in the endless fascination of an adder’s coils. And for what? Knowledge for itself alone? The elation of discovery? Plant your flag on the truth? [Laugh]. There is only one worthy goal for scientific exploration - piercing the tissue that separates life, from death.
Awake from the haze, gripped by the thrall
Two tired eyes watch, smiling along
My ataraxia is in a field of stars
Beyond the wake of the setting sun
Vain and bored where the lines cross me out
Distilled perfection from a gutless shroud
Mark this moment; broken, she lost herself
Between each landmark is where she’ll find her ground
A monument to the wasteland she left a trace
\To the wasteland
Brutal beauty strengthened by her weathered face
\No trace, weathered face
If felt this place before, heard its unmistakable sound
\I’ve felt this place before
Between each landmark is where she’ll find her ground
I’m a wasteful man with helpless hands
I’m fucked without an insurrection
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Echoes:Ashes
05:37
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Let me let go
With my contents all but dust
Inside me, a cancer grows
Feeds on trust, feeds on hope
Brittle walls keep me up
Light breaks through, revealing me
But underneath, disparity
Churning ocean plays its hand
Crashing waves eclipsing me
While all my sins still softly sleep
I lose myself in sight of land
I found a place where nothing’s real
A great expanse, in which to heal
The wind will touch our
Hollow bones
Sing my song for me, when I’ve
Forgotten the words
Strewn across the shore, the storm’s been and gone
Entrenched in the grief, all this time I have lost
And the notes come back to me
Slowly, surely
I feel the wind, a soft ocean breeze
So soft was the force that brought me to my knees
And the notes come back to me
Beauty’s the eye of the beholder
But I am beholden to the eye of a storm
An empty bed laid my heart to rest
/An empty bed /heart, rest
And I remember days when the sun washed over us
/I remember days /sun, washed
The wind will touch our hollow bones
And it will sing my song for me when I've forgotten the words
Sing with it
When there is nothing left
I remember broken days
I remember clouds moving away
Whatever’s left sits in silence
Fuck
An empty bed laid my heart to, heart to rest
I remember days when the sun washed over us
I remember broken days, I remember clouds moving away
Whatever’s left sits in silence
Touch our hollow bones, sing my song for me, when I’ve forgotten the words
Sing with it, when there is nothing left
An empty bed laid my heart to rest, deathless silence
Let me let go
Deathless silence
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