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nothing of a man was he his true face of sleep a deception fell through all the way to the bottom learned to hold again we vowed not to hold sacred but to damn that hollow gaze unsteady on these shorelines mute to an unthought scream another word fell silent like the static in their eyes against all fleeing logic we let our minds go blank why define ourselves by misguiding light? how can we receive the static in their eyes each blink of light an accuser each unlit shape an assassin crawled the outer rim with his back exposed the shadows unending fought off the stares again we vowed not to hold sacred but to damn that hollow gaze unsteady on these shorelines mute to an unthought scream another word fell silent like the static in their eyes against all fleeing logic we let our minds go blank nullify the ego, stay right back stay right back how can we receive the static? fear that strangles spirit denial speaks the truth fear that strangles spirit crushes me and you wicked are the senses, wicked are the words give me the static again we vowed not to hold sacred but to damn that hollow gaze unsteady on these shorelines mute to an unthought scream another word fell silent like the static in their eyes against all fleeing logic we let our minds go blank |
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| 4:07 |
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Unless another wall is breaking Nothing can come of this Elusive Against our better judgement Allow our image to stand ground Turn around and Break the path, and let's get going To the place where nobody ever goes Break the path, and let's get going To the place where nobody ever goes Nobody ever goes With ideals as infestations Hinder the radical mind Retune our aim Now is time for hiding For it stabs fear in you So, coward Break the path, and let's get going To the place where nobody ever goes Break the path, and let's get going To the place where nobody ever goes Nobody ever goes A thought to infect you An idea to perfect you A flesh to restrain you No heart to forgive you The poison well Runs dry Break the path, and let's get going To the place where nobody ever goes Break the path, and let's get going To the place where nobody ever goes Nobody ever goes |
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| 4:39 |
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we are to be something here again we are to play soldiers now, pretend we are born inside these endless halls of shame we are jaded by the error-ways of man it doesn't make us strong it doesn't make us strong the things that i find stranger here will not let us in will not let us in show me, i won't tell and even if i go today i won't understand understand we are to be something we are not we are to repeat our faults my friend we are taken down from sanity's lonely heights we are shown the downward spiral ways of man it doesn't make us strong it doesn't make us strong the things that i find stranger here will not let us in no, they will not let us in show me, i won't tell 'cause even if i die today i won't understand understand |
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| 4. |
| 3:59 |
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there never was a night like this how could there ever be? through sweat and velvet misery the fever-race in me cornered in symmetrical design spherelike chrome on a sea enraged hatred what the mirror sees is the clutching at straws taking us under the storm of the ocean this velvety crush ringcorners, firm in the outrage synoptic patterns waves contort break into these cellular walls globes of disease infest my dreams burning the ends of my veins pattern and form the squares cling fast dance the tide now could never bear another night although i know it will come the freezing ends of what is me the icing rages free cornered in symmetrical design spherelike chrome on a sea enraged hatred take hold of the boundaries on this perimeter sea burn, enflame the oppressor and if four was one in a corner alone recovering, licking the wounds delirium coming the weakness kicks in reforming, cornered within |
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| 4:41 |
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rise, i say, yes rise above 'cause evil is as evil does, what evil does to me down you go to lands below 'cause evil is as evil does, what evil does to me they who reign in sand take this brightest strike in their so called castles now with walls of glass i can see, i can see, i can see all your deeds, all your needs, on your knees so i'll crack your feeble shell can you even see the works of what you fear? 'cause evil is as evil does what evil's done to me further inside, til all you have is mine evil is as evil does, the evil done to me dreams, he said dreams he wore dreams he wore dreams he wore hope, he said hope he wore love, he said and evil he wore i'll strip you down i'll tear you down i'll burden you with tears i'll bring you down til nails come off i'll turn your bed of lies dreams upon a night dreams upon your thoughts dreams upon your fears and dreams upon your love blind to your eyes, blind to your mind 'cause evil is what evil does, what evil does to me taste and you'll see the fruit you took is foul evil is what evil does, what evil's done to me you who turn to others with everything you lack a face that bears not seeing then i'll turn my back i can see, i can see, i can see all your needs, all your deeds, on your knees so i'll crack your fucking shell |
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| 3:50 |
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uncontrolled spaces lifeless til provoked deep uncharted oceans nonexistent til claimed great raging fires silent when there is no one when no one is mine the no one is me the no one is me me, me, me, me tall reaching branches pointless to even try countless flaming cities measured without cost all-seeing eyes without stories to tell inside the orchard there's a scent of devilry as was in my heart ...the sweetness overripe... rancid in attempt to overcome the shackles if only the soil could hold when there is no one when no one is mine the no one is me when there is no one when no one is mine the no one is me the no one is me when there is no one when no one is mine the no one is me the no one is me the wide open wound won't heal without purpose it never stops the wide open wound that never heals the no one is me the no one is me |
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| 7. |
| 7:29 |
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Over the moor of mist and through valleys of fate I fly on my voyage through this moonlit landscape of re-emerged figments of imagination I am aroused in sleep....aroused in sleep Far beyond the gate which reflects in the closed eye reveal that a dreamscape lies therein A yearning for a world where the everlost find their peace In the pearly gates of dawn on the astral feed of minds - envenomed to the bone forever cleansed from all called wrath as slumber sneaks upon and steals the thought of man all ridden from inner aggression... A voyage beyond this world In this paralell to real life - access lies in dreams Unveil hidden secrets in our sleep - the key to what's beyond In the wake of man we see essential dreams unfulfilled Enhance the value of life engraved words on the page of man In the presence of the moon an owl awakes and calls a name tells a story of a world accessable only at night... "This ain't no dream..." Legend tells of a yesterworld a dreamscape of strange light "It's your dream coming true" Transcendance of the soul All by the sign of the moon I am eaten away in mouthfuls by flames that burn in the errors of our ways In a night when the sky floats blue as touquoise, and the stars of silver are twinkling in their outmost pride Now from dimensions fallen from the skies - like the flow of a stream From my sleep I continue onward - sleep is just a shape of destiny Weak sunlight of dawns to come, dancing swiftly in the shadows Shimmering, shining in a landscape of dreams ...landscape of my dreams Dim reflections of the pale a shade of grey in mind In the presence of the moon an owl awakes and calls a name tells a story of a world accessable only at night... "It's your reality..." Legend tells of a yesterworld a dreamscape of strange light "It's much more than a dream" Transcendance of the soul All by the sign of the moon Soon these worlds will be one and mankind feasts on the sights of it all I yearn for things to come Still wrapped in the thrall of slumber as the mist slippes away to reveal... And the wind tears a scream from my lips - I am there.... In the dreamscape I adore (a moonclad reflection) |
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| 8. |
| 7:29 |
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Time and space unite era of darkness - we mourn Times of sorrow despite our preach is put to scorn... In ways like these I shall be reborn to my words I conform To seek the path of knowledge through time In a life in a lack of rhyme (or reason) Subconcious powers flow - we burn the ways forlorn Am I in time with forces I am born Are those disguised Excuse is being dumb In spirit fails... Self realization in supreme conciousness Explore the self - within a millenia of peace Reach into the soil of humankind Bury secrets beneath this hallowed ground Feel the wind of time now changing Hear the voice that whispers near Explore the inner strength within you now seek deep in your soul - it'll show you how Join us - in this quest to satisfy Join us - and none shall mortify I've seen the light unfurled by dawn I've seen the blackest ways we scorn We shan't conform - we shall remain... "I've seen the void that echo fear" Fly into this void of inner consioucness we seek eternally Greet enlightned ways... I spead out wings of knowledge is essential in mournful times like these Words I repent Voice from inner self shall lead my way Former ways of life I repent to inner consciosness I've ascent Mortal way of living is the key Key to the secret it beholds Come to seek the path with me in unfathomable harmony the way life is meant to be enjoy and just adore life... Burning desire in thee letting your soul fly free No sould shall be the same burn with a different flame Sowing the seeds of man proving the things your can Seeing the things that'll be the priors in life I can see Each of mankind is a star that will keep on shining eternally Unveil the hidden unknown things in mind enchanted over things that you will find Join us - in this quest to satisfy Join us - and none shall mortify I've seen the light unfurled by dawn I've seen the blackest ways we scorn We shan't conform - we shall remain... In affection we loom - a reflection of time Walless prison, consumed - ignore irrelevance (a rule) Search the inner self - find the self within Finding things I've seen in dreams (seeing evermore) things that' s left unsaid Surrending to this inner force, feeling no remorse nothing to forbid In the empty eyes of the last of mortals those songs they echo as in halls of the enlightened Before this dawn of eternal light we stand once more now as darkness belongs to the forgotten ...to the forgotten Internal sadness cured through the light to reach the sadest river in sight Whispers of molten souls in my ear on wings of twillight I am born.... Now enthrone thoughts of the past the embryo of time Your life lies yet unfolded 'til enlightened ways we see In my dreams I've seen repention as in tales that were never told Join us - in this quest to satisfy Join us - and none shall mortify I've seen the light unfurled by dawn I've seen the blackest ways we scorn We shan't conform - we shall remain... |
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| 5:22 |
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Enthroned through this age of confusion an urge, the weakness and flooy since aeons emerged, Created life in fetters from cradle to grave A future in darkness with mankind enslaved Trail of life decayed - wasteland whall prevail Hatred lies in store - chaos evermore So runs the spiel from where lives are found and lost: "Learn from past failures - prevent to pay the cost" Sunlight fades as nightfall rises in shadows formed in clay What once dwelt shall dwell no more when darkness sees the day A bleakwinter of enmity and terror shall take form What man created will be ruined when hate conjures the storm When our time spells an end to our ruling of this earth, will a wasteland remain? Will all life cease to be by the wicked ways of man - his enfeebled domain? Nature left in flames - Suffering, now to maim Cataclysm at hand - unveiled unto man So runs the spiel from where lives are lost and found: "Progression in spirit eliminates all bounds" Sunlight fades as nightfall rises in shadows formed in clay What once dwelt shall dwell no more when darkness sees the day A bleakwinter of enmity and terror shall take form What man created will be ruined when hate conjures the storm Hallow minds start to burn with the flaming shades of fall let disorder arise! An avenge to be brought to the ones who graveled earth hides now cloaked in disguise Blind deception, mass confusion - interbreeding dark illusions Tumbelling, falling, brings conclusions - constant fatal life-corrosion Autumn - beckons forth the winter - rising gloom in hand Raging with bleak coldness 'til vernal light commands Final chapter closed - world devoid of use Failure brings despair - death reveals its lair Sunlight fades as nightfall rises in shadows formed in clay What once dwelt shall dwell no more when darkness sees the day A bleakwinter of enmity and terror shall take form What man created will be ruined when hate conjures the storm |
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| 7:26 |
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| 3:52 |
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deeper shades of red descending smear our names, the stains unending turn forgiveness, break the lens distorted crush the infidel and turn about famine in our hearts, bring up the silence louder eradicate the lungs and take us higher these are the wonders at your feet weighed upon a wider scale afraid to see what takes us down sing destruction, sing of unfullfillment search abandoned, let the blood be fevered ridden of the self provided things get easier ignite our minds and let's burn brighter these are the wonders at your feet |
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| 2. |
| 3:35 |
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Let me tell you about the loss of all the failing of all that we hold dear Wrapped up nicely in ourselves Chaos resolves that which order defiles Worthless lives are ordered blind I don't believe Taste and you will see that all belongs to me I don't believe I won't believe I raise my hand against it all for those who don't recognize the call Will the sense to overcome these nestled walls Going to break it down Let me nail you to the treason wall stab the night and the day from your sight And set the thought to flame Feeble devout nothing resides Break it to pieces that obstinate mind I raise my fist to hold the line Against those who set themselves on high Going to break it down |
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| 4:14 |
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Time in argument will end Flames of preparation Fingers felt the whipping Hand that feeds the flame Escalate the drought Itching to join the fray Wishing darkness was sound shutting desires out Wishing darkness was sound but as moths to the flame... ...we go You the ignorant take sides in these three dimensions Nullify importance confined within the page Scan for raoture again look for an instant save Mere moments pass and still it seems detached from insight, thought and word Ever since it lost its edge lost in the noise forever be in the blur of information the nail that never sticks Venting a foul stench purging the fevered self behind a traitor's name Face the consequence taken back in the eyes of fairness A nobody forever hidden and locked away Working the boards again Giving the wrath away |
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| 4. |
| 4:02 |
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now as the lights go down deeper now it seems than long before there are no noises here just a silence gone bad something I will never hide this urging need to invite the darkside in into my haven if there were words for this would i sing or would i scream? i'd give my blood to stay my blood just to stay right here something can never share this urging need to invite the darkside in into my haven |
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| 5. |
| 5:00 |
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We are the outstretched fingers That seize and hold the wind... The strangeness of awakening In an oh so silent world Breathlessly waiting For the first proud beams of light As the hours grow longer And the shadows never fall My sky has forsaken me My desperation grows Bring me the light In the darkness that never ends The dawn will never come Punish my heaven We have arrived At the outermost crossroads The charge of cosmos At our atmospheric skies Will cause our fall If I had wings, would I be forgiving? If I had horns Would there be flames to shy my smile? Hymns of loss are heard From the masses in the streets Praising the last of days I punish Bring me the night In the fires that never end The dawn will never come Punish my heaven The charge of cosmos Charging at us from unearthly distance I challenge the universe It's the choice between heaven and hell My soul bears all the weight of mountains As mankind weaves its silent end Can there be no forgiveness? I curse the heaven above me As the light sinks through My outstretched fingers Fading in my open arms Make each tear in my bare hands A lifetime in hell On this last day of light When our autumn leaves fell And as heaven itself commands me Out of its lair My face lined with darkness I'll go! |
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| 6. |
| 3:43 |
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there is this face in the still water i can't remember ever wearing like fingerprints on your heart reading out the last lines of code to the untrained eye a secret i bled away the last of you sought trust in shapes of combined results that trickles from a less than solid case fought off attacks of resurfaced lust burn the gracing grounds what will give in first the body or the lash monochromatic stains who will cave in first the leader or the fake monochromatic stains this pile of ashes of a soul informant pokes abound these sickly little fingers get away from me tread not the path of least restraint each piece of evidence a lie,a lie the body,the face all items in place i don't remember a thing a sacrifice made to the loss of a mind folly a man's demise track now the stains that allow my fall sickening,the sight of it all never shall i claim my innocence i just was not there |
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| 3:41 |
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and although it can be argued whether time will ever come to end there is an overcoming sense of failing if you never can see the end in the giving of our hope eternal we stumble blindly and forget the way is there ever time for answers when the world comes tumbling down all along we keep staring at the sun closing our minds saying we're the ones all along we keep staring at the sun blind to see it when the day will come and even if in days of wonders a glance that may stray from the fold cast aside in the spirit of ignorance a mere nuisance when it?s time to pay come undone now the strive and the passion giving under to the forces that be can you even think of questions when the world comes tumbling down we shut our eyes and turn away all along we keep staring at the sun closing our minds saying we're the ones all along we keep staring at the sun blind to see it when the day will come |
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| 4:32 |
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Mental Blindfolds on Early on the fascination intense How to discern just where right belongs Something has got to give These things I just don't want you to see There is no need for you to start revolutions I don't want you to talk to the minions Just show me a brand new face an open mind against a dying race Something has got to give These things I just don't want you to hear/feel Cannot fail in this the era of losers burnt the shell of those that once held the torches Cannot give you the senses anew nor will you know innocence again Something has got to give These things I just don't want you to know in time all your questions will be answered not what you hoped for, not what you dreamed all preconceptions crumble Something has got to give These things I just don't want you to learn Won't hold up to the standards you keep never came from the formative years Just show me a brand new mind Keep in what you left behind Something has got to give These things I just don't want you to be |
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| 9. |
| 5:16 |
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Gently hold our heads
gently hold our heads on high Aimless time in fear new hide overthrow the plan confusion lies in all my words mad is the soul We barricade ourselves in holes of temperament this is the dawning of a new age A heart that beats the wrong way insanity's crescendo Gently hold our heads gently hold our heads on high Windcolor - second sight a touch of silence and the violence of dark Illusion span - the aroma of time shadowlife and the scent of nothingness Infinite fall of instinct order of one spells deceit Infinite lack of trust order of one obsolete Oh escaping time is all we lost ahead? When it's found, can judgment make amends? From force-fed impressions let us mortify the mind each soul to violate each instinct to be rendered false Torn asunder be the conventional forms and frames now for the blood of heaven Unlearn and the cleansing comes Fell a tremor in the pillars of the senses Cursed victim of a distance near The first dreams - the clearest vision Aimlessly steer towards our night we belong to thee Oh dearest bliss, unnerving silence entangled within Dimly begotten in clarity found virgin-like tears for impurity bound Beseech he who darken the stars and the sky to greet now this vision an emerald dawn Empty the sun - carve out the wind Insanity's crescendo tear out the blinded eye Lament of thunder - take comfort in fear lightning veins in crude exterior Voice the oppression - voice the hypocrisy lay down the law that made instinct fall Escape now and revert this cleansing rebirth torn asunder be Affect me not; darkened vision insanity's crescendo Grimly tread the footsteps torn rebellious stand the seeker tall The thorn of insanity's hand take this darkened vision from my sight Nailed to the image of ignorance Each soul to violate for the blood of heaven |
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What if: a) some things are destined to failure b) some things are never meant to be c) someone never sees d) someone never opens e) somehow we are different Though I never claimed to be right give to me the benefit of doubt I brought you fires that you put out I brought you fires for I cannot be without I came with sadness but this my shattered heart can't bear What of the times in exile what of the hours passed what if touches seem too trivial You can never tell me I'm wrong a song I've heard so long So what if healing takes forever so what if time is meant for others so what is left is but a shatter and what is broken can't be whole |
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upon our evening when the sun fired blanks there rode the sickness out of our sight carried torches burned out long before it's time among these ruins where our love to be found ambition falters when no better is to be known cling to the unfounded pride death to our belonging and our ministy of two set the higher standard and to a greater fall descend slaves to one another and to others be it not soothing be temptation force the conscience to a halt caused a high vibration a tender light to be part of you the two-way escape |
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Went inside the caves of seven wolves Felt of the forces that lend themselves to speed those final words to fracture the very structure can't stand this glacial pace the damage done It seems these days are getting shorter derails my train of thought What said in hand was done chased unforgiveness down these corridors locked down the basis for the willing form a trail far from strayed the damage done Set aside from eyes of others Our frail structures can't keep up with the pace Brought out for all to see the damage done face contradicting needs We bring our cages home for none to see in vain to lessen responsibility the damage done |
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| 3:59 |
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Lethe Give me the drink of the fluid That disintegrates And lend me the sweet balm and blessing Of forgetfulness, empty and strong Hold me near, unravel the stars As I speed through the heavens Speed through the night For you are my blade and my rope Your are my Lethe In currents of cobalt You storm through my heart To sever, to puncture The memories that burn Let sweep through the arteries In sharp stabs of pain Your talonlike fingers to kill me again Steal me, invade me and charge me again For I burn and I shudder Burn with each movement of So, cleansed through a floodlight I appear; reforged and renewed Caressed by the sweet balm and blessing Of forgetfulness, empty and strong Lethe, Hold me near, my one friend and guide As I drown through your fingers Drown through your love For you are the life I hate You are my Lethe Drag me down, in passionate sighs With the ocean above me And flames in my eyes And grant me a life I can live Without... |
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| 3:49 |
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what came as no surprise to a jaded mind no less insight comes to soothing grace left to waiting days ..another chord unstrummed our secret's safe and sound solid now unless it breaks in two faithfully unbound none of this was ever built to last in the paleness of a less than life from a corner watching old paint dry never once a break into the self again an endeavour that will flat our fail what maturity comes to end never one to face ..another beat undone our secret's safe and sound solid now unless it breaks in two faithfully unbound none of this was ever built to last once again another instant saved today left a print that leads nowhere never built to last what makes it work a part of life that makes the weak hearts grow take it in if you?re willing to say willing to do prepared to lay it down just know this it was never built to last |
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| 5:34 |
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gentle storm / thundering silence inferior force / uncontrolled calm vital unlike / logic/chaos/logic the tone of which his birth ascend the beat that of a heart descend repeating in the infinite an insight made it clear order stormed the surface where chaos set norm had there always been balance? ...surely not therein lies the beauty it was solid yet everchanging it was different yet the same so I starve myself for energy the song around his soul will bend the notes that in this hole will melt crawl out of science a dreamland if you dear disorder clawed the boundaries we're ordered to stand clear was it always different ...never the same? therein lies the beauty as there were no witnesses there was nothing to be told as nothing could be grasped the story could unfold superimposed on the elemtens of anger / fear / anxiety / hate / despair / remorse so break from all that fear hold fast exposed now turn to all you lack let echoes be the answers return from all the screams wordless now the last attack so silent it hurts to listen was it always solid ...to never change? therein lies the beauty |
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Crown the impulse that deliberately fall defeat in spiritless action Isolation - burn the greenwood order of the vertical path Descendent crawl in the remnants of one thousand lies Restaging torching a world that was left behind Zodiackyl light Cross the sharpest void deride the embers of his faith the bringer that on million horses ride Waiting for the call within the spark of sin ever reminiscent of the coming of storm Can you see the cosmic face in which disorder lies Burning of opression the inventor is the killing hand Be that of the darkest sin to frustrate hope and love I shall not be blinded I shall not be forced Resistance feasting on debris from celestical wars Burning in the sky beyond the realm of time Sequence of the nucleus the glowing dust in flight Zodijackal light And they ride, they ride the drama takes the lead the beast of heaven their guide Racing through the vastness constellation disarray that darkness could not have existed that bares no witness to the light Sweet endless Perpetually pronge through interior vaults So seamless Joints of time cannot shackle the beast Zodijackyl light. |
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| 3:08 |
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Disaffected, left to internal struggle let ring with the cries of disaccord They told of outposts firm as trees Whispers laid no basis for the plunge to the chasm depths Seen none, nor felt the safety Perimeter alarm I see the bearings of disaster What can you tell me of the inside Is it as bright as all can see? To make a chemical stand a final front to the days ahead In attempt to tame their mineral estrangement Smothered by the numeral that haunts each waking day Request for countertmeasures to state claim of this my cavern None to take and none be given as the window breaks to black A process left to solitude is the action left undone Answers left to echo in the silent halls of none Cast down the hopes and aspirations Shut the windows tight Everybody said No Reset your fears and good intentions Barred up for life Everybody said No This is the final resistance |
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| 2:05 |
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Time in argument will end Flames of preparation Fingers felt the whipping Hand that feeds the flame Escalate the drought Itching to join the fray Wishing darkness was sound shutting desires out Wishing darkness was sound but as moths to the flame... ...we go You the ignorant take sides in these three dimensions Nullify importance confined within the page Scan for raoture again look for an instant save Mere moments pass and still it seems detached from insight, thought and word Ever since it lost its edge lost in the noise forever be in the blur of information the nail that never sticks Venting a foul stench purging the fevered self behind a traitor's name Face the consequence taken back in the eyes of fairness A nobody forever hidden and locked away Working the boards again Giving the wrath away |
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가슴네트워크 Review :: 2004-06-20
Subject : Dark Tranquillity - Exposures - In Retrospect And Denial (Dope,2004)
