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Gannet
05:34
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Something else is here with me
In the dark I feel its weight
Tense and try to tiptoe clear
But these hallways stretch for years
They know you inside and out
Spider wires spin webs of doubt
In the corner of my eye
Shadows lurk one step behind
Coiled hands spring out to me
Silver tongues through serpents’ lips
Tap of pincers flick of wings
Creeping crawling listening
HAHAHAHAHA
A mystic shiftless minnow
A mindless spent vertigo
This cryptic carbon-filled dome
A moon lit in Scorpio
Eyes in the back and below
Controlling wrist to bestow
Will silence still the willow
Pleistoscene amber ingot
Siphoning smell of ego
Cycle through sullen death throes
Abysmal secrets we know
The whispers in your window
Rider in the sky appears
Says our time will be soon near
Panic spreads across the sphere
They regret who live in fear
Life will be the death of me
Watchful eyes look deep within
Starving vultures circling
Split my bones and pick them clean
Abysmal secrets we know
The whispers in your window
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Mrityunjaya
05:57
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The day is born
A basket on a river
Abandoned, cast out from their spires of gold
And at the dawn
There was an act of mercy
A cursed exile brought in from the cold
Hated and forgotten
Left to ever roam
In the wastes of this world
Cradled by the autumn
Winds and changing light
That which dies will soon be reborn
Reared in the wild
Sharing the gnaw of hunger
Among the pack the place that they called home
A beast of war
A robe of plague and fevers
The future shivers before the past now so grown
Sees their dreams so troubled
Chills down supple spines
Bowed in impending dread
Smells their core so rotten
Under shining skin
Purifying bite rips in so red
HEX UPON THE WICKED
My chosen kin
We run down death together
We are the reapers of what they once sowed
The blood we share
Flows out from punctured rivals
Our mouths engorged with life we lust for more
Born a scorned cub
Now they beg and grovel
They read it in a book - HA!
I am the chosen one!
Shed their vile words
Break the bonds of blood
Even fate shall grovel
At the feet of will!
Broken cyphers
Shattered symbols of
When they once ruled
Now just ground to dust…
Forging forward
The death-conqueror
Potent life and magic
I defy and rule!
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3. |
Imposter
07:09
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Time of the haunter
Hollow flesh falters
Worms on the altar
Lives the imposter
Long dead hands
Somber sands
Soul death trance
Cast down from the sun
White tipped river runs
Devils in temples
Cold smiles on wet bones
Golden livers
Ghosts in silver
Doom is nearer
Lost in the mirror
Haunted land
Somber land
Hollow land
Spiral land
I’m the devouring mother
I am the infant smothered
I am the undiscovered
I am the creeper-covered
I am the sleep of reason
I am the burning season
I am the final laughter
I am the silence after
Patterns align
Ripples in time
I have become a cruel reflection
The stranger standing on the other side
I am the searing red glow
I have become the shadow
I come from lost horizons
I have become the island
I am the brimming gallons
I have become the famine
I am lost in these visions
I have become the descent
The running riverbeds will confide
Swollen and running red we collide
The angels on our shoulders will say
Dispatch the sinners and pave the way
The wages of the world
The wages of the world
Consoling demon whispers convey
We’re always just one murder away
Between the churning sea and the fire
The sick cacophony of the choir
We the stranded ones
We the stranded ones
Elysian
Haunted land
Somber land
Hollow land
Spiral land
Ghost flecked land
White tipped land
Cold dead land
Bad old land
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Selimesh
07:10
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The black curtain parts
Into a pink shell room
A dozen blank eyes
And soft purple tongues
Glutinous and green
And reeking fingers
Tips of the gums on
Smiling moistened tube
I am submerged
I am changing
I’m transcending
Crooked smiles spin as they stroke
Slip of slime on velvet cloaks
As above and so below
No escaping
Rancid acrid cooper smoke
Wallow in the amber yolk
No above and no below
I am changing
IN GOG MAGOG
JAPHETH
PHARISEE OR ASCEND
IN GOG MAGOG EGO
Ribs part into a pink shell tongue
Pumping heart squeeze the soft wet lung
Glutinous, greedy, ravishing smiling gums
Tip of spine, jellied and squeezed and plump
IN GOG MAGOG
JAPHETH
PHARISEE OR ASCEND
IN GOG MAGOG EGO
Crooked cloaks slip from below
Rancid slime spins into smoke
Smiles in their thick velvet strokes
I am changing
Swallowing their rancid smoke
Wallow in the velvet yolk
I’m transcending
Crooked cloaks slip from below
Rancid slime spins into smoke
Smiles in their thick velvet strokes
I am changing
Swallowing their rancid smoke
Wallow in the velvet yolk
I’m transcending
And as we breathe in
Creatures find their grip
The soaring heights dim
Kimmeridgian
Berriassian
Kwarazmian
Bessarabian
Hybormantian
Yantanterian
Dermolegian
Theologian
Thaumaturgean
Thermonuclean
Four
Three
Two
One
Wake
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Canticle
05:07
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"What you have to tender to me
I will hear it gladly
The moon lights a gap in the trees
Two paths lie behind me
My empire stretches from the hills to the sea
In my name you will find me
Between a river and the world
For when they are lost or feel the yearning need
So many across the earth have called to me
And so deep in their hearts where I plant a seed
So marking the crossroads where we finally meet
The further that you run
The harder it is to hide
Build a tomb of gold
To seal the hole inside
Swimming in the dark
Towards the fading light
Souls fall to earth
Like towers from the sky
If you have a numbing disease
I will heal it gladly
I’ll sell you the strength that you need
So you can stand proudly
All that I will ask in turn is eternity
A thirst you can quench with aching fervency
And when you are lost I’ll be the star you see
So many have found their way to the grave with me
Beyond their torment screams sing wordlessly
You stand at the doorway and I hold the key
The further that you run
The harder it is to hide
Build a tomb of gold
To seal the hole inside
Swimming in the dark
Towards the fading light
Souls fall to earth
Like towers from the sky
And when you have lost the lights will start to dim
Your time is now up inside this worldly skin
You’ve lapped up the pleasures and you’ve lived as king
But where you are headed that won’t mean a thing
The further that you run
The harder it is to hide
Build a tomb of gold
To seal the hole inside
Swimming in the dark
Towards the fading light
Souls fall to earth
Like towers from the sky
Now if you have a deal for me
I will hear it gladly
But no one sates hunger for free
So make this choice wisely
My empire stretches from the hills to the sea
In anguish you will find me
You will find me..."
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Abbess
06:21
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Run down, flayed by the ripper
I guess this game is done
Surrounded by her disciples
Who thought they’d played and won
But the die was cast when she came to me
And played me like her words:
“Show me a good man who’s known evil
And I’ll share with you the secrets of this world”
I lived a still life that belied
The void inside that yawned
My shorn, thin and lustful soul
Suspired for blood and storms
She was summoned by my longing
Cloaked in future shores
She says that this is the game now
And cracks open the door
So many lies are swept by the wayside
Follow in wounded crawl
So many lives condemned to the riptide
Spirits surround and call
Given the choice of death and eternal life
We feared the end
Seventy fathoms wide spreads the smile
Into depths beyond transcend
And when she’s dancing on our graves
Drunk upon the world she’s made
We’ll know this game was rigged to lose
But it’s the only life we’d choose
So many lies are swept by the wayside
Follow in wounded crawl
So many lives condemned to the riptide
Spirits surround and call
Creatures with craving eyes writhe before her
Worship her widowed arts
Her knowing eyes give inquest to us
In search of riven hearts
Locked down chained by the reaper
I’ve glanced at her mirage
One more crawling, lost disciple
Infernal soul collage
But the dice were rolled before I met her
In eons past and gone
They too longed not to be forgotten
And the game goes on and on and on…
So many lies are swept by the wayside
Follow in wounded crawl
So many lives condemned to the riptide
Spirits surround and call
Given the choice of death and eternal life
We feared the end
Couldn’t be like the gone and forgotten
In horror we transcend
The abbess.
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Nightmarchers
05:39
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The dark sea rises blow the ancient shell
Sure-hoofed the steed but so slick the trail
It rained through the night, the night night night
We ran through the night like a widening eye
This beast has a bite, a bite bite bite
It hides in the corner with its teeth so white
Appalling tongues lash and lap like waves
Suspicious whispers from an open grave
Recoil at the sight, the sight sight sight
Lament at the horrors in this land of blight
We reach for the light, the light light light
A crack in the pillar where the lightning strikes
How this crippled land shimmers deep inside
We are the heralds at the source of hidden light
Inwards we stride
We shall march as shades stretched among the dead
Paltry leaders in thrall to meager saints
Savagery thrives
Appalling tongues hide in the corner
Suspicious whispers, teeth with a bite
Crack in the grave, lighting the pillar
Reach for the darkness when the lightning strikes
How this crippled land shimmers deep inside
We are the heralds at the source of hidden light
Inwards we stride
Revealing the veil stretched between the worlds
Pull the curtain down into multiverse
Shadow ranks rise
We shall march as shades stretched among the dead
Paltry leaders in thrall to meager saints
Savagery thrives
Those who’ve seen us, they have known the way
The first step out, down towards escape
March through the night
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Can you feel the streets grow colder?
Drifting frightened souls surround
At home but always
Looking over shoulder
At the encroaching sound
Can you feel the weight of what’s to come?
The signs are lit up all around
The wheels keep grinding
But we’ve grown older
Gathered at the burial mound
But do we have another round?
Do we have, our spirit's getting thinner
Do we have, this fading town
Do we have, a place among the sinners
Do we have, these silent vows
Do we have, this light getting dimmer
Do we have, when dark surrounds
Do we have another battle left?
Sharpen implements of stone
Locked up doors keep out the strays
Stacked up instruments of bone
And we all know the tune they’ll play
The gates fall and clang shut from west to east
Bring down the walls of now and then
A ghost is watching us at the feast
What came before is all happening again
But do we have another round?
Do we have, our spirits getting thinner
Do we have, this fading town
Do we have, a place among the sinners
Do we have, these silent vows
Do we have, this light getting dimmer
Do we have, when dark surrounds
Do we have another battle left in us?
The thunder rolls and cracks the sky
The winds are charged and crystallized
A flash of fire snuffs the light
The clouds are black no more respite
The storm has come it is the time
That we’ve felt rumbling all our lives
See them run, see them hide
See their mouths slack in amazed surprise
What’s to come?
When the plates are full and cold
And the table’s empty
We search for light to fill our souls
In this land of plenty
When there’s nothing left unsaid
No shimmer of mystery
When the living ape the dead
The dead are forced to speak:
"Soon the tattered flags will fly
Lined up in killing splendor
See the fervor in their eyes
For glory no surrender
Willing sons of the great lie
We looked into the chasm
Screamed into the pitch black sky,
We’re more than marching phantoms!"
Someone here knows something’s wrong
Dreams of deepest fears
We’ve been at peace for far too long
“You think I won’t find you here?”
Half asleep we join the choir
With our bones humming
We smell the smoke of distant fires
We know what’s coming
Soon the battlements will rise
They won’t get in, we won’t get out
Soon the world will fall in line
But we’ve no will to march in doubt
All these walls are made of spies
So mask your hearts and plan escape
Before they cut you down to size
To sing in unison as slaves
So damn them all,
We’ll find escape
With clouds of green and walls of ice
A final place
Beyond this world
For this we’ll make
Our sacrifice
This is the last place that we’ll know
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