1. |
Not of This Earth
08:45
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-NOT OF THIS EARTH-
She lies beneath me
Losing her final breath
The endless screams echoing
She descends into the depths
I, the imprudent
Suddenly frail
Dreading the silence
Following the trail in her wake
She died by his hand
A victim of conscience at work
Mortal bonds
Fading with each sudden stride
In silence we fall
In silence we fall
Her eyes seem colder
In my sight
Her life is fading
Before my eyes,
But as I face our final apocalypse
My memory seems suddenly clear
And I leave this cursed place on earth
I embark upon this endeavor to find
The bane of her life
Her eyes seem colder
In my sight
Her life is fading
Before my eyes,
She prayed for mercy
While I fought to repress
The face of the other
Written in death
I tear at the sky
(This is) the doing of him
I’ll take vengeance
As I transcend
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2. |
Adherence
09:05
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- ADHERENCE -
I’m stumbling closer
To his last place of hold
Thrice I’ve lost the trail
That I must find to denounce his might and
Lies
Lies
A vision of us turning
Adherence for us
I’ve found and denied
I’m drawing closer
To the state of the sublime
Endless agony
Our fates on the line of
Lies
Lies
On the verge of sanity I run
As the cost of adherence confronts
My eyes
Eyes
A vision of us turning
Adherence for us
I’ve found
A vision of us turning
Adherence for us
I’ve found - but now it’s time
I suddenly see him
Just as the last hope reclines
But has this been naught but a reverie
Of my final thoughts aligned
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3. |
The Cleansing
09:39
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- THE CLEANSING -
I’m left to the silence staggering
Benighted, madness clouds my sight
Can I survive in absentia?
And forge existence from delusions?
Visions closing in
As I follow him
The ideal is to take her path,
And cleanse the fate of the imprudent
Visions closing in
As I follow him
To meet her alive,
As she’s painting the skies,
Demise!
And I will forge this premonition,
As the spiral eludes,
And tear the bonds of adherence,
As I ascend in the unknown
(But) her eyes
Aspire
They blind
Her sight
The pain fades asunder
The pathway smolders
Impetuous denial
Resentment of time
To meet her alive,
As she’s painting the skies,
Arise!
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- THE LAST TRACE OF THE IMPRUDENT -
I’m drawn towards the core
Towards his presence, striding fast
Adrift these endless shores
I’ll cast him down to face the fear
That resides, inside, these eyes
I gaze into the void
The trail of thought lies bleak before (me)
Anxiously distraught
The torment claws its way into
The dark, fading scars
But as we finally meet
All I see is my reflection
Who is this figure before me?
That smiles with a knife in hand
The fall from the skies
I dive into her eyes
These trails in my sight
Falters, in time
But as I plunge into the figment
The doubt suddenly stirs
As the phantom crumbles
The last respite on earth
The fall from the skies
I dive into her eyes
These trails in my sight
Falters, in time
The fall from the skies
I dive into her eyes
These trails in my sight
Falters, fading in time
It was I
It was I
The trail fading at last
The last fatal sight
In life
In life
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5. |
Illusion Evident
09:13
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- ILLUSION EVIDENT -
As I gaze upon them
These hollow constructions of conception
The sublimity of it all falters
Like melting snow, crumbling walls
If my perception is flawed
Towards extinction
The end of me
My destination
Seems unclear
I fear
She’s calling my name
Calling my name
I reject these subjective perceptions of reality
Projections reflect
Upon my existence in which I prevail
I reject these subjective projections
Until revelations confirm
This non-existence is in itself a world of deception
As I gaze upon my past
A flawed perception led to this
In the distance a quiet voice makes way
Through the hollow depths of my existence
In this abyss
Towards extinction
The end of me
My destination
Seems unclear
I fear
She’s calling my name
Calling my name
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6. |
Conflagration
09:01
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- CONFLAGRATION -
An image of past deeds
Still haunts my mind
Can I deny for eternity
This universe of past memories?
The weight subsides
I’ll answer for our crimes
Shadows bleak contorts
The truth of what I wrought
Upon my defeat
A final question remains
Why live life if it’s insignificant?
Anything pure
will wither and rot in contempt
of the deeds and beliefs of humanity
I gaze behind
The fall of man it’s clear
What I became
Broken and burned by fear
The weight subsides
I’ll answer for our crimes
Shadows bleak contorts
The truth of what I wrought
And the time will come for the one
Before the sun is gone
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7. |
The Ground
09:49
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- THE GROUND -
The Moon’s grace
Upon her grave
In this vast space
I failed
In the end, I dive, endless
Into the eternal void
My spirit flows
From my body in the soil
Fatal illusions
Tore her from a life by my side
From forgotten times
A wondrous sight
Appears before my solemn weary eyes
In time the wounds will finally heal;
But my imprudence never will
At last this broken man sees again
A sight; the future dream disappears
I’ve seen all his might
And these signs denied
Now he’s gone and cast aside
At least I tried
The Moon’s gaze
Upon my grave
Marks the ending
Of my days
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