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Ouroboric State
05:29
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We knew the cost
The price we had to pay
Felt the loss
As the moment slipped away
Led to the edge
To drink from poisoned wells
Heedless of the harm
We brought upon ourselves
We fall
Before abject altars
The pulse of racing hearts
We return
To primal forms unbound
Near and yet so far apart
Through mirrorlands
Paths laid in molten glass
Doomed to repeat
The present as the past
We set our feet
Upon this burning path
With every step
The cycle is recast
We fall
Before abject altars
The pulse of racing hearts
We return
To primal forms unbound
Near and yet so far apart
Only loss awaits
In this ouroboric state
Ossified in grief
We call to empty skies in search of peace
Desperate for relief
To heal the wounds that cut so deep
The storming surge
A fading ray of light
Sanctuary
Beyond the edge of sight
The endless march
Regression to the source
With every wave, sorrow
Returns in greater force
We are questions without answers
Viewed through the fog of sleep
Recursive loops of self-consumption
Along a path that time has worn so deep
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2. |
Moonlit Navigation
05:17
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Night, my sanctuary
As light fades I am renewed
Drawn by evening’s spell
As sky fades to black from blue
I left the path by eventide
My steps the only sound
Beneath the boughs, a moonlit way
Wonders waiting to be found
Oh Luna
Sing to me across the waves
Light my path through mysteries
Where all my hope remains
Heralded by evergreens
Across the verdant bed
To stride toward the numinous
To walk where moonbeams led
To be reminded of my place
My own impermanence
To step upon the bridge of stars
And cross the firmament
I felt the night upon my skin
Thunder of the tide
I saw the moon reflected
Where sea and sky collide
Oh Luna
Sing to me across the waves
Light my path through mysteries
Where all my hope remains
And as the nightjar calls
The chorus of the dawn
I wept in quiet gratitude
For this place where I belong
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3. |
Dream And Memory
05:32
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Color blurs, refracted through night-rain
It feels so unfamiliar, this land without a name
Shadows dancing through hazy light
Half-glimpsed faces just beyond my sight
Unlock the door
To lost structures of the mind
In dream and memory
Revealed for us to find
Scenes recalled from long ago
Revelations only the dreaming can know
Unbound in lucid logic
Archetypes more felt than seen
Debts unpaid and choices made
Upon the solemn shore of dreams
Unlock the door
To lost structures of the mind
In dream and memory
Revealed for us to find
Beyond the gates of night
A land unmoored from time
Deep layers of awareness
Knowledge, portents, signs
And through these haunted halls
Each moment is relived
Shattered in a thousand fragments
The greatest gift a mind can give
In this communion
This fragile state
Profound awareness
Enlightenment awaits
As I return to wakefulness
Bearing secrets only dreams can tell
Carried into daylight
To become a better version of myself
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4. |
Chains Of Loss
04:35
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Where the wind sings of sorrow
Where starlit sands shine like frozen tears
In the shadow of a great absence
My shoulders felt the weight of aching years
In these moments of regret
For words unsaid and deeds undone
On haunted shores, I wander alone
Waiting for a dawn that never comes
Broken temples
Monuments to grief
Two covenants
One to burn and one to keep
In twilit fields of memories
Through desolation plains
A forlorn trail marked side by side
With shattered chains
Each link a broken promise
So strange, yet so like my own
To know I’m not the first to walk this path
To know I’m not alone
Broken temples
Monuments to grief
Two covenants
One to burn and one to keep
Step by staggered step
I drag these chains of loss
For every breath, a price
For every love, a cost
Unified in loss
In miles of chains that fell away
In their tears, a mirror
And through the fog, escape
Even in their grief
They left a path for others’ sake
Gratefully I mark the way
For those who follow in my wake
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5. |
Signal Fires
07:02
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At dusk we left the shelter of our homes
With pain so deep we felt it in our bones
We knew it wasn’t safe to wait another day
One final glance, then we had to turn away
Torchlit roads
Choked and lined with falling ash
A desperate flight
Hot winds burning at our back
No destination, no place to call our own
We couldn’t name the sins for which we must atone
Symbols of the life we left behind
Laid with reverence upon the pyre
A thousand suns aglow, a new horizon line defined
Stand in vigilance before our signal fires
On the way we gathered others to our side
Those who endured and vowed to stay alive
For every one that fell, another took their place
Through sheer force of will, we kept each other safe
In the wild
No map to mark the path
All we knew
We were never coming back
One day we’ll find a place to call our own
The road is hard but we aren’t traveling alone
Symbols of the life we left behind
Laid with reverence upon the pyre
A thousand suns aglow, a new horizon line defined
Stand in vigilance before our signal fires
And though we bore our wounds with dignity
Deep histories of pain
We found our strength and built anew on stranger ground
Primal force retained
And though the way is hard
And though the wounds are deep
We struggle onward to our eternal sleep
Upon the broken path
Through agonies of grief
Until the end, refuse to know defeat
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6. |
The Breaking Point
06:18
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The burden shifts
Assuming new malignant forms
With every loss Another wound to be borne
A growing sense
A claustrophobic scene
We felt the pull, falling back
To the spaces in between
We descend
To depths hitherto unknown
Beset by stabbing blades so finely honed
Injuries compound
By many hands restrained
Every tiny cut leaves us further drained
On sorrow’s spectrum
A matter of degrees
The breaking point
It’s the hardest place to be
Lost in a haze
Precious time slips away
Reduced to the essentials
To survive another day
Bear the weight
With the tensile strength of steel
A sad refrain
How can all of this be real?
Events collapse
Cannot stop the bleed
A rush of storming stress at such high speed
Holding on for life
When every door is barred
A downward force that pulls so very hard
On sorrow’s spectrum
A matter of degrees
The breaking point
It’s the hardest place to be
We are still burning
Before the blaze, a spark
There are places we can’t go alone
So we’ll find each other in the dark
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7. |
Wild Magic
01:50
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8. |
In Desperate Times
05:58
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We count the years
Lost like drops of rain
We wear our masks
So we can shift the blame
In waning hours
Defenses fall away
When all is lost
And nothing left to say
“Next time”, we said
“We’ll find a better way”
Ever burning, never learning
From mistakes we made
We saw the truth and looked away
The weight too much to bear
We had our chance and let it slip
Ashes cast into thin air
Enshrined in sorrow
Cities of glass and gold
So we bear witness
At the dawn of what has been foretold
Hold on to any sliver
Of hope that we may find
The only way out is forward
Because we live in desperate times
We brace ourselves
For pain yet to come
No way to stop
hat’s already begun
And all that we have known
And all that we have built
Now laid low
Who will bear the guilt?
Abandon your fears
They’ll only weigh you down
Only we can save ourselves
As the cities slowly drown
At the chasm’s edge
Every lifeline severed
All that we have left
Is to stand in strength together
Enshrined in sorrow
Cities of glass and gold
So we bear witness
At the dawn of what has been foretold
Hold on to any sliver
Of hope that we may find
The only way out is forward
Because we live in desperate times
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Established in 2017. Melodic black metal for everyone.
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