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The Narrow Path
04:50
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Buried deeper down
Dig until an urging grimness grips the mind
One can choose
To face the shadow
Or perish if one chooses to hide
Acknowledge the darkness
It dwells in you and I
(Listen)
Growing
(Hear me)
Stronger
(LISTEN)
As you deny it growing
You cannot hide
You must face me
Or surely you all shall die
We're drawing near the end
You must choose
The path the path so narrow
Will we withstand the test of time?
Acknowledge the darkness
It dwells in you and I
(Listen)
Growing
(Hear me)
Stronger
(LISTEN)
As you deny it growing
You cannot hide
You must face me
Or surely we all shall die
To see the dark in your own soul
How it leads to light
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2. |
Saturn Returns
03:26
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Hey now how about a little toast
It's to the chaos at hand
What I wanted most
I want to be there
As a frigid ghost
And see you trying to connect
To the misanthrope
You want to feel him
But don't get too close
He's trying to be a good man
But he's losing hope
You want a bad man with the velvet rope
You never seem to mind the hatred
When you're getting choked
Hey now how about a little toast
It's to the chaos at hand
What I wanted most
I want to be there
As a frigid ghost
And see you trying to connect
At the end of his rope
Taking back a false sense of satisfaction
Don't get too close
And it's so alone, come and save my soul
Hey now how about a little toast
It's to the chaos at hand
What I wanted most
I want to be there
As a frigid ghost
And see you trying to connect
Because I'm losing hope
Taking back a false sense of satisfaction
Don't get too close
And it's so alone, come and save my soul
I know this is a hollow living
Constant sinking
How could I sink so low
You know this is a hollow living
Freeing myself
Seeking a way back home
And to the chaos at hand
What I wanted most
I want to be there
As a frigid ghost
And see you trying to connect
To the misanthrope
Taking back a false sense of satisfaction
Don't get too close
And it's so alone, come and save my soul
Hey now how about a little toast
It's to the chaos at hand
What I wanted most
I want to be there
As a frigid ghost
And see you trying to connect
Because I'm losing hope
Taking back a false sense of satisfaction
Don't get too close
Bring me home
I know this is a hollow living
Constant sinking
How could I sink so low
You know this is a hollow living
Freeing myself
Seeking a way back home
Save my soul
How could I sink so low
Save my soul
Bring me home
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3. |
Apollo's Lament
04:33
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Here I have come to the end
Of what was my world
Rust away the shackles that bind me
Once a slave, now freedom is daunting
Waste away, the hedons deforming
I've lost my way
Rust away the shackles that bind me
Once a slave, now freedom is daunting
Waste away, the hedons deforming
On this day I shunned the light of life
My end, my end was nigh
The depths had rotted my insides
I said goodbye
I said
On my own
So overwhelming
So alone
Shunning the light of day
Far from home
So overwhelming
I'm so alone
It needed to be this way
Self contradiction is so far the only way
Out of this hell that has taken my life away
I don't want it anymore
I don't want to be what I abhor
Our end, our end is nigh
The last man rotted our insides
Today we say goodbye
The door is closing
There is no will to change
You change nothing
And pray to be saved
Where will our choices lead us now
Will we succumb to rot
Where will the current carry us
Will it be all for naught
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4. |
How the Flesh Knows
04:57
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A seed has found its way upon the wind
To rest in fertile ground within
My heart its home
So far it's grown with roots of strident din
It crawls along the beating earth
So far it's grown and speaks of mortal sin
And here it finds its worth
And reaching ever deeper
For these waters have flowed
Seeking streams within me
Oh how her winds blow
Shrieking my name
To seek the fruit of the earth
In its carnal frame
So far it's grown with roots of strident din
It crawls along the beating earth
So far it's grown and speaks of mortal sin
And here it finds its worth
For these waters have flowed
Seeking streams within me
Oh how the flesh knows
Shrieking my name
To seek the fruit of the earth
In its carnal frame
It crawls along the beating earth
Like flames among the undergrowth
The waters may flow to quench its thirst
But none could sate the bitter earth
No- found its worth
Sucking dry all the earth
Now these water have flowed
Seeking streams within me
Oh how her winds blow
And reaching ever deeper
For these waters have flowed
Seeking streams within me
Oh how the flesh knows
Shrieking my name
A seed has found its way upon the wind
To rest in fertile ground within
Shriek my name
So I can suffer
Shriek my name
Suffer
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5. |
What Must Be Done
03:55
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A sense of looming dread
Recurring omens
I know what must be done
The voiceless child is dead
A cycle broken
My own path to tread
This sword and its guidance
Stand firm to pierce the flesh
The tension in this silence
Sinks it slowly through your chest
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Is it selfish
To cut the thread and seek within
What else can I do?
How can I see through the darkness that lies within
To be alone is to begin
On the journey
This wisdom gained through sin
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Seeking the amorphous
The sacred
The obscene
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For now I sit in silence
And in biding my time I will really see
How that breaking down the walls that we find within
Will forge my destiny
As I am sitting with the darkness
Knowing all too well it's a part of me
Here I know of the danger of ignorance
Self knowledge holds the key
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For what the cards show
And through the signs ive seen
Through an inner voice
I shape my destiny
Man of forest
Man of sea
Inner voices guiding me
I(eye) of forest
I(eye) of sea
Inner voices guiding me
Through breath
Through silence
For what the cards show
And through the signs ive seen
Through an inner voice
I shape my destiny
Through an inner voice
I will be set free
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6. |
All Too Human
05:44
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Here, with no regrets
The scene is set
And now we pick up the pieces
Of what we have left
In time it fades to doubt
I can't see the path
I can't make it out
I can't see the path
I just hear her
This poison fills my lungs
Curses cast- a wicked tongue
I stand in the shade of doubt
The tree where our love is hung
I can't see the path
I just feel her
I just feel her wrath
As I look upon the ashes of our shattered realm
To find a reason why these demons had us overwhelmed
The way is too unclear for me to say
The answers may present themselves but then they're lost in shades of gray
But none can make this will so tame
If I can't do this for myself then im no better than a slave
I am for my fate to blame
Those little thoughts I hid
And what they brought about
With tooth and claw you dig
To stop me pulling out
You can't see the path
You just see me
You just see my wrath
You're looking for a savior
But im only a man
If hell is what you're seeking
Then consider me damned
The song wrote in your absence
Even 'fore you were gone
The painting left upon my wall
Unfinished- behind the curtain drawn
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7. |
Sword of Damocles
02:44
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Can you see the insanity of this world?
Can you look it in the eye see it all unfurl?
The seeds of our vanity sewn
and now the earth portends
Coming full circle this will bring us to the end
As this sickness in our heads
Now may be too be too much to mend
Coming full circle can you see the fatal trend?
Demons of excess tempting us to descend
I see the looks on the faces of modern men
I hear the sounding of trumpets and open graves
They're right at home in the hole we're dug in
I hear the sound of our judgement day
Rootless
Hubris
Displaced
I hear the progress of aeons...erased
I am desperate for another way
As this sickness in our heads now may be too much to mend
Yeah it's coming full circle can you see the fatal trend?
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8. |
Heaven's Portent
05:50
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We come
We walk asleep
We come
The shepherd bends to the will of sheep
To bring the end of this era
As the mighty fall
And what we've come to defend
Has brought us close to the end
I see a herd of nameless faces and now
We come
The truth is blurred
Slaves to emotion seek strength in the herd
Come to see the underpinnings of an ancient way of life erased
Envious, impetuously seeking prior works of man erased
I see the stars align
Black seas of immanence
The water bearer sign
And what we seek to defend
Has brought us close to the end
We bred a herd of nameless faces and now
They come
The frightful herd
Ignorant indignation
Their silver words
How long must we wait
To learn this lesson
How long must we wait
For the end of days
Burn the structures down
Violence, lust, know no bounds
Burn it to the ground
Violence
Brace yourselves the end is coming
Violence
Another tower falls
Burn it down
This tower falls
Burn it down
I see it written in the sky
It's inescapable
And what the heavens portend
Has let us know of the end
Into the waters of the mind
We will now descend
To bring the era of the mindful individual
And though our kings have been bleak
And we fetishize the weak
It's just a sign of this cycle now complete
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