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Creation Myth
04:44
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We came from nowhere
Formed in cataclysm
Grasped in fragments
At the limits of our vision
Wreathed in metaphor
Dredged from history
Lacking common language
To describe the mystery
Beyond all mortal senses
Through the forge of time
Explored in vivid dreams
Beyond the human mind
Unending grandeur
Expanding from the source
Suspension in the void
Propelled by unseen force
More than we could bear
But we bore it all the same
To vast to comprehend
Yet chained by many names
Beyond all mortal senses
Through the forge of time
Explored in vivid dreams
Beyond the human mind
Far beyond the human mind
Vying to claim dominion
Contested, never given
Too much time spent choosing sides
Walling off in separate tribes
Bent to a shape we can cling to
The universal fear
Our only time is now
Our only life is here
We came from nowhere
The gulf between the stars
Will we meet this moment?
To hold the sky and make it ours
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2. |
Equinox Vigil
05:30
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As dawnlight crests the hills
Dreaming valley adorned with gold
A sense of waiting imminence
Superposition of new and of old
Where the stream carves the canyon
Sigh of the wind, the only sound
A subtle transition
A change so deeply profound
By time we are marked
Renewed and reformed
No return to remembered pasts
The calm that follows the storm
Across the divide
Through haze of distant blaze
At the turn of the season
To the end of an age
As the sun completes its transit
The western sky aglow
When everything has changed
Will I find my way home?
Stars wheel overhead
First whispers of polar chill
I close my eyes, breathe in the night
And know that I will
By time we are marked
Renewed and reformed
No return to remembered pasts
The calm that follows the storm
Across the divide
Through haze of distant blaze
At the turn of the season
To the end of an age
Beyond the boundary
A dance of life and death
And the watchers held their vigil
And the winds held their breath
To find their way home
Oh
I will find my way home
Aloft again in velvet dreams
Alone under the spinning sky
Aware of every change
In bursts of color passing by
Beyond the boundary
A dance of life and death
And the watchers held their vigil
Until their final breath
Until their final breath
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Like winter winds on windowpanes
I felt foundations tremble
And darkness formed around me
Where shadow shapes assemble
The path is fraught with danger
Crises to be managed
I can’t undo what happened
We just live among the damage
In this drowning realm
By such tragedies bereft
Where scavengers divide
To feed until there’s nothing left
Gnawing pangs of regret
Gaping wounds of grief
Seductive pull of shame
Doubt, the lurking thief
Floating free above my body
To view from safe remove
It doesn’t dull the pain
But once acknowledged, nothing left to prove
I’ve leaned on fellow travelers
And shared my strength in turn
Beings of emotion
Penitents with grief to burn
And the world still spins
A point of light in space
Even on the darkest days
I don’t want to leave this place
And I will not collapse
While I’m still drawing breath
To name the pain and cast it out
To scream until there’s nothing left
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4. |
Dark Sky Sanctuary
04:56
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Constellations overhead
As dreams, so far away
Edge of night is shining bright
Enough to light my way
Far away from sorrow
Far away from home
Across obscure horizons
Where secret paths are known
To gaze upon the ancient dance of light
Cast through deep infinities
To rest at last in quiet dignity
Here among the sighing trees
They told me there was nothing left to see
Nothing left to learn
The sleeping sky reveals the lie
Where a billion stars serenely burn
In dark sky sanctuary
One last refuge from the world
Under the shield of stars
Great mysteries unfurled
Beyond the self
Beyond all mundane needs
Adrift upon the stellar sea
On starwinds borne
To fall at last on me
The open sky, where I yearn to be
Far away from sorrow
Far away from home
Across obscure horizons
Where secret paths are known
To dream across the endless gulf
To contemplate the vast
To comprehend the grandeur, where awe awaits
To be revealed at last
Enrapt as the stars fall
Overhead as dreams, so far away
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5. |
Secret Language
05:56
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It wears on you
Like heat from sunburned skies
A star you cannot see
A memory lost
Voices from another room
Nearer my death to thee
Unmarked passages
Whispers in the dark
Along the hidden path
To guide as we embark
We speak the secret language
Sharp consonants of sorrow
And in ourselves, we find
The strength to face tomorrow
Enduring monolith
A beacon as the fog begins to lift
Through the fire
Tempered by the heat
In memory submerged
Yet not alone
Turned by purpose
A new form shall emerge
We march on
Through perdition
Forged in fire
By every cruel condition
We speak the secret language
Sharp consonants of sorrow
And in ourselves, we find
The strength to face tomorrow
We speak the secret language
Lanterns in the dark
A hidden path revealed
Converging bonds
Carried as a mighty shield
And the strength of trust
Becomes the sword you wield
In the hour of need
No map to guide you
To dare mighty things
With those who stand beside you
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Memoriae Sacrum
03:25
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Absence frames forbidden words
We cannot bear to talk about
A dance upon a razor’s edge
To keep the fire from burning out
In frozen time
When I was yours and you were mine
A last embrace
An echo deep inside my mind
I felt your fear
As you stared into the dark
Tried to hold you here
All the while, slowly torn apart
I found you once inside a dream
Where the veil of death is thin
Upon oneiric shores we walked under the stars
One tale untold, yet another shall begin
Until I lost sight of you
Vanishing, as all dreams do
Shocked into the waking world
Cruelty of the real
Where everything has changed
Yet some scars never heal
Across the spectral sea
In remembrance, you call to me
Oh, I hear you call to me
The chapter ends
With hollow hearts
Sacred memory lingers
Cast upon the wind
Like ashes through my fingers
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7. |
On The Last Day
05:21
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When the silence settles deep
And the veil of night descends
How will you remember me?
How will I make amends?
It’s a final gesture
It’s a room without a view
It’s a dream you can’t recall
And it’s staring back at you
Crossing years
On the roads that led us here
Harvesting
Mercy when the wounds appear
To still the heart
Courage over fear
To recognize the pull
The gravity that holds us here
Love as transgression
A book of sins
One last confession
Where fate presumes
This fire consumes
On the last day
At the fading of the light
Will you lay your burdens down?
Or carry them into the night?
It’s a kind of madness
It’s a lock without a key
It’s a point of no return
It finds us all
It waits for you, it waits for me
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8. |
Such Impossible Sights
06:08
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Forged in seething fire
Deep below the earth
To flow toward the sea
Infinite rebirth
From the molten core
In pyroclastic flow
To shape the land anew
Shattered from below
Through hidden gates of stone
I felt the ancient heat
Beneath the ground I walked
Yearning to be free
In and of the world
How glorious to be
Every dreaming hope
Revealed at last to me
Held in breathless awe
By every starry night
How fortunate to see
Such impossible sights
As the moments flow
Ever on and on
Beyond the far horizon
Forever gone
Never to return
Yet deep inside my heart
The flame forever burns
Along the shore
Where the sea receives the sky
A vast expanse of blue
Awakened by the tides
Fed in rushing tribute
By rivers wide and deep
Tears from distant hills
From every jagged peak
Scarred by glacial force
Under deep weight of years
To rise above the clouds
To wait for stars to reappear
In and of the world
How glorious to be
Every dreaming hope
Revealed at last to me
Held in breathless awe
By every starry night
How fortunate to see
Such impossible sights
How fortunate to see
Such impossible sights
In this ancient place
By dappled rays beguiled
Listen close to hear
The secrets of the wild
Empires rise and fall
The primal force of nature
Endures beyond them all
Through all trial and strife
I will carry this moment
Until the end of my life
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Established in 2017. Melodic black metal for everyone.
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