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Remembrance
04:12
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I am here in remembrance of my devoted songs
I am here because I recall the gift I held so long ago
I gaze into the precipice before me in the shadows of the memories behind
I have been brought here by insufferable longing and the decaying of time
Innocent child what have you to offer
A spectrum of splendorous wonders you hoard
We know how they could serve you beyond imagination
We know all the answers you’re trying to find
Step into the light
Share your gift with us and we will amplify it ten thousand fold
It would be selfish of you to remain as you were
The price of existence is a debt to the world
Wouldn’t it be a shame to waste such young and promising potential
Wouldn’t it make for a tragic end to leave you alone inside your cage
Reach out in vain, reach to the reflection of your most ideal version of self
Anything less would break the hearts of us all, go onward now even if you must crawl
Abandoned here
In this bleak future i could not foresee
Share your gift with us and we will amplify it ten thousand fold
It would be selfish of you to remain as you were
The price of existence is a debt to the world
Where have you gone now, my muses of wonder
Why have you left me to drown in this place
My isolated world once held such endless possibilities
But with it’s exposure has come misery
I stand here now in remembrance of a distant song
I stand here alone, longing for answers…
How did this turn out so wrong?
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Miscalculate Infinity
03:34
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Now in what could never imagined
One hundred billion trillion souls
Another pattern repeats itself
Another link is made
This thought’s not your own and you’ve been here before
Before
Before
Haunted in an endless duality
Now forced awake
Swallow down and sterilize all that you see
Wander through a gaping reality
And bear the sting
Swallow down and sterilize
The splintering void
The splintering void
All is but merely the sum of its parts
Expanded, ingested
Even through all the color and sound
Projected unified immersion
Disintegrate down
A grave in which to hide from death, prolong suspended animation
All you take with you is null, all you leave behind is null
All you take with you is null, all you leave behind
Paint a new picture, erase every history
A futile reaction to the unending contraction
Take in all you need from the infinite stream
Deconstruct the flesh
To reconstruct yourself
Devoid of bliss
Devoid of meaning
Come back to us
Stand before judgment of one hundred billion trillion eyes
Raw power in influence, truth becomes a democracy
A perfectly assembled and presented face
Shielding the wretched and depraved shapes behind
Look into the void
Scream into the void
Plug into the void
Scream into the void
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To see beyond was a curse, to feel the pressure mounting
Forcing me to finally come to terms with a wretched soul
It was a simpler time then, leftover scraps of life for a man
Who could not help but fear to grow old
Never enough to fill the hole
Break in all my greed, let flood in voracity, take a new hold
To recapture peace in a cycle of eternal woe
I’ve let contentment fade out beyond my horizons
I’ve seen our humble ways emaciated
So long as we hide in confines and the teachings of the penniless men
I fear that we are doomed, my love, to starve in this shame forever
Offering, a gift, a bribe
All my eyes see is an opportunity to rise
I could not stand to spend one more day
Inhaling this putrid wind of death and decay
To see my potential worth, to feel the judgment staring
Back at me from loved ones who i’ve failed to protect
Forsaken simpler times and march forth to gamble
My very life in the unknown beyond
Why be content with these
Scraps laid at your feet
Legends fear not rotting away
For they are etched in time, impervious to decay
Each and every past action ancillary
To the current objective
Diverging from the route of peasants,
We will now be traveling exclusively on the King's Path
Never before have I known the price of waiting too long
In idle retention
It impales me, and then forgets me
Searching every crevice for a reason to end
The signs fade in and out of sight
A mentor and tormentor entwined as one
But I simply cannot quell this hunger
Of all the infinite paths, choose only one
To see beyond was a curse, to feel the pressure mounting
Forcing me to finally come to terms with a wretched soul
Watching all I’ve left behind die and wither away
Proliferate the hands of avarice that guide my way
To see my potential worth, to feel the judgment staring
Back at me from loved ones who i’ve failed to protect
Now I only wish to go back in time to mend my choices
Piece together lost scraps of life to see a past never told
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Fragmented, unfocused, overwhelmed and underwhelming
Unable to assemble the pieces we’re given
Awareness to our unawareness, all that sets us above animals
All to pass through our conduit of crude cognition
No reality unfiltered
No truth so absolute as this
No perception left unprocessed, truth to be shaped as one would wish
This idea to which we give our trust
Is merely a construct, a gateway to dust
Omniscience would surely suit us ill
Without these thin opaque walls we’d be stripped of our will
The limits of our flesh-bound existence veil us from the madness
the last mercy of this blackness
All we’ve been shown through light and sound
Steals away the promises of what we’ve found
Invoke this ritual of realignment
Dethrone what we know and enthrone what we might imagine
All is tainted in its passage through the great filter
A vast collective built upon ingenuous foundations
Foundations
To the gateway of suffering
Take upon you the weight of the horrors of all
Crushed in your fabrication
Omniscience would surely suit us ill
Without these thin opaque walls we’d be stripped of our will
The limits of our flesh-bound existence veil us from the madness
the last mercy of this blackness
I must take it upon myself to forsake ambition and reshape a truth, so ingrained
I am here in defiance of the shadows of the memories behind
Hear all the voices of my past and my future that are screaming
Stay the course
Only to deepen this insufferable longing
I’d take up a lesser nature just to plot an escape
All we’ve been shown through light and sound
Steals away the promises of what we’ve found
Invoke this ritual of realignment
Dethrone what we know and enthrone what we might imagine
Still this aether worship we, enticed by tangibility
Leaving disposition behind, desperate roots grasping and grounding
Unheard are the words of those whom upon we’ve trodden
In fear of our true perspective from which we’ve been removed
Remove ourselves
Terminated ascension
Embraced condemnation
Remove ourselves
Limitation set us free
Untie from physicality
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5. |
Teeth and Concrete
03:47
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Demand I reveal myself to you
Every hour of every day
Devolved indignation
Thoughts irradiated at their source
No concept
Waste your time
An endless moment
Nothing to hide
The inside of my skull is lined with grinding teeth and concrete walls
I keep on breaking out of this cycle
Just to fall back in again and repeat the lies
I can’t remember what it’s like to be alone
Divergence met with vengeance in this place locked in abysmal cold
Each victory forgotten
Each day reborn, a wheel of fate
Each failure magnified
Each night identity erased
Hear them clawing away at the outside of your mind
Corrupted shapes and forms that bleed out horror by design
Retain your sense of time
You only have yourself to thank for letting them inside
Feel the tide reverse again
Trapped inside your world as it turns inside out
Feed the external hunger
That in turn feeds back into me
Foreigner to rest, chemicals you must ingest
Don’t you see this is a test, only never-ending
To find the space to slow this frantic pace
Is a hopeless endeavor, you are trapped here forever
Reflected, redacted
See through your eyes, one of the hive
I can see the gamma waves light up your spine
Whether or not you go on, what’s yours is mine
What’s yours is mine
Each victory forgotten
Each day reborn into our hands
Each failure magnified
Each nightmare seems to never end
Hear them clawing away at the outside of your mind
Corrupted shapes and forms that bleed out horror by design
Retain your sense of time
You only have yourself to thank for letting them inside
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Sovereign Cycle
04:27
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I, the great creator
The artisan of all you see before you
Gaze upon perfection
A bright utopia made in my image
Elemental dictation, the harnessing of this ancient force
Godhood within reach
Now we are eternal
At the pinnacle of this great reign
Is a promise to fall
We await your bitter end from afar
Lurking behind the stars
Primordial remnants, spirits predating time fester and conspire
This citadel was built upon sand and shifting earth
Begin the fall
Your chance to relinquish this crown has long expired
Eons of evolution racing towards an impossible threshold
Sharpened to a Razor’s edge, once a humble species now a usurper
Giving in to temptation through omnipotence
Deeply owed, this insurrection, our gift to the new false gods
(Chaos)
Vision of selfish grandeur
(Chaos)
Scheming to overthrow the laws of nature
You overestimate your nature
You’ve fallen off this hierarchy
You thought you were so much more
Insignificant to us
At the pinnacle of this great reign
Is a promise to fall
We await your bitter end from afar
Lurking behind the stars
And the more that you acquire
The more we will take back
Your domain is but a smoldering ember
Against a sea of black
Wield your crude matter and shape your spec of a world
The flames of chaos cast the shadows of their true feeble forms
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Masses, hungry masses in the wasteland below
Brought by the famine tide
Herding in from each corner of this wasted horizon
That chokes on the dust of their wake
They bring with them only scars and starvation
Brought about by the crimes for they now wish to atone
Exactly what has been foretold
Has arrived despite their ignorance
Gathered before them
In desperation
Redemption withheld
Built on the backs of lies embedded in time
Soon to be unveiled
Common and disgusting vermin
They disgrace us with their presence
We know we’re not the same
But long since we’ve been warned
These signs of rolling plague
Unknowingly harbored by peasants now they have arrived
We once gave them purpose, rose them up from the dirt
We had made them as a legion, loyal and unyielding
A holy oath soiled, spoiled, shatted and pissed upon
Their loyalty squandered, forgotten and forsaken
The ties that they have severed
Held this world together
This burden of guilt and corrosion has exhausted our will to go on
Wedged itself deep between us and the lies that beset us
(we know we’re not the same)
(we know we’re not the same)
A meticulously and maliciously woven veil
Our destiny shrinks in around us
Divided and stricken with rot and weak will
We ourselves have chosen
This dead ended path of shame
This path to exile
Scattered and bound to our fate
Pray that the will of the world is to end us now
Before we ask what is deserved
Willfully relinquishing our children’s future
Poisoning the soil of their hope
In believing this truth we’ve shaped from the lies
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8. |
Hourglass
03:37
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The ages fallen past me like grains of sand
In an hourglass untouchable to mortal hands
Faces come and go
Faces of heroes and friends
The only thing left letting see through to the end
I thought that i had seen enough stars burn out
To know history would pass on to someone else
Try as we might, to make it out alive
Perhaps the end is better off denied
You're out of time
Seal away
The final days
In a vault of memories
Unprecedented suffering
Into the future, would you bring
Life, will you extend your reach
For the sake of legacy
Into the uncertainty
For another you will be
The hand of torment or mercy
A child condemned to the waste
Asked to salvage our poisoned wreckage
Either way there is no way out
Of this forsaken timeline
After all, it's our own fault
Laid waste to what they would inherit
We held on for so long
But it all slipped through our fingers
Without a doubt, there will be pain
In whatever scenario proceeds today
Limitations of our last sight will bring us to end
Progenitors beckoning this cycle's end
You're out of time
Seal away
The final days
In a vault of memories
Unprecedented suffering
Into the future, would you bring
Life, will you extend your reach
For the sake of legacy
Into uncertainty
For another you will be
The hand of torment or mercy
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