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Dim Carcosa
05:57
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Time
Has frozen still
Living kiss to kill
Sweet succumbing will
Stars
Scattered points afar
Swirling chaos charm
Return to dark
Twin suns are setting
Strange moons are filling the sky
The faceless are marching
To waters where mysteries lie
Songs they are singing
A King now conferring the Sign
Frayed ends are pulling
The madness is growing inside
Alive
Even death may die
Pallid yellow lies
Lost in dimming light
Have you seen the yellow sign?
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2. |
Icon
04:35
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Listen close, the idol comes to sing
Born of a million broken dreams
A paper god to pay all my sins
A stone reminder of where I have been
Up high the Icon watches
Upon a mound of dirt
Choking on a choir of praises
Toasting its demise
In the wastes the Icon wanders
Brighter than the stars
A symbol to the fading vessels
Reaching from afar
To the well, to take and never leave
A plastic promise, devil in angel's wings
Holy monster, invisible design
False idol, built on tortured minds
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3. |
The Mountainside
05:08
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Buried under open sky
Waiting for the chance to die
Breath succumb to choke and rot
Spindle gasp setting off, wound and taut
Canvas stained of spilling ink
Fermenting echoes to bleed and drink
Eons waiting, whisper change
Visions danced but never named, never came
Nowhere left to hide
Spirit bared on the mountainside
Crumble from the weight
Running from the face
Too gutless to leave this place
Farther up to climb
Persistent voices burn and shake
Pale sunlight, hesitate
Devoured slow in sinking time
Tendrils spin and tighter wind
Words escape, die thou unspoke
Climbing on, grasping hope, then awoke
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4. |
The Moth
06:36
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All punctures nearly healed
Leaving scars and broken seals
Echoes form a stain
Drips into a poison I can't taste
Dark cocoon on silent night
Comes a monster dressed in white
Small cut give way to sky
Make you think you've seen the light
Feel it kick you to your knees
While it burns at your teeth
Suckles deep, sweet regret
To again be pulled beneath
Trace my veins with the lost
Like the struggle of the moth
Always drawn towards the light
I'll break free tonight
Crawl inside, world sewn shut
Wait to see what you become
In a fit, cut out your tongue
Blind yourself from what you've done
Clawing on to break and fix
Fruitless time spent to resist
Feel the taste of better days
To die alone in crushing bliss
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5. |
Curse
06:20
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A world laid to waste
Running from the truth, the numbered days
Reach in, pull the spine
Self-inflicted wounds to pay the price
Forgot but not forgave
Drive a wedge and claim betrayed
Billowing endless nights
Blackening, beckoning deeper inside
The Curse
(parasite)
The Curse
(rot insides)
Empty the carapace
Spill out the chasms of what was
The weight, touch ground to knees
Choke on the bitter taste of memory
Mangled hand reach out
Catching only fear and doubt
Awake a sense to feel
With smiling lies, and eyes that steal
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6. |
Golgatha
05:11
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Pick up your cross to bear
Walk the miles ahead
Crawl into a palace of dirt
Where hardship has no end
Broken all your ties, but now
The hole has sunk too far
Burn all your bridges to find
All alone you are
You suffer hatred
You suffer time
You suffer endless
Until you die
No fight is ever fair
There's sand in your eyes
You feel the winds of change
Become a reprise
Thrown down to the floor
Tied to the wall
Impacts hit harder when
You're free before the fall
You suffer monsters
You suffer truth
You suffer lovers
Who never soothe
You suffer life
You suffer death
You suffer terror
Of drawing breath
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Blood in the street where the body lies
Fade to memory as they all pass by
When order falters and the times don't change
Our hopes are gathered in an early grave
Our protector walks the streets
And draws his holy gun
Hides behind a piece of tin
No remorse for what he's done
Do you feel safer now
With that iron on your hip
Do you live without regrets
Do you kill if they resist
Left to watch the helpless die
No justice and no piece
Rally for the answers why
The ghost, the grave, the sky
The hallowed vigil goes burning on
For someday to know peace
In the hearts of mothers mourning sons
A ghost that never leaves
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8. |
Collider
05:49
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Standing on the firing line
Bullets pass me by
Forking tongue, beguile my heart
Led me here to die
Running from the falling sky
From the fires raising Hell
Cutting through the targets who
Swore knew the bastard well
I'm a collider
Now my bones snap in two
Crippled from the impact, bleeding through
I'm a collider
All my force collides with you
Waiting to repel and sever ties anew
Bombs go off, I hit the dirt
And curse the mocking sun
Poison air and coughing blood
For a fight I never won
Going out the cowards way
Like the ones who came before
Spin the loop that trapped so long
Collide forevermore
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9. |
Cassilda's Song
03:04
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Along the shore the cloud waves break,
The twin suns sink behind the lake,
The shadows lengthen
In Carcosa
Strange is the night where black stars rise,
And strange moons circle through the skies,
But stranger still is
Lost Carcosa
Songs that the Hyades shall sing,
Where flap the tatter of the King,
Must die unheard
Dim Carcosa
Songs of my soul, my voice is dead,
Die though, unsung, as tears unshed
Shall dry and die in
Lost Carcosa
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10. |
Black Stars Rise
06:27
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On this day
On a day that's so dark
You can't feel the sky
Count your days
Can't even think
You just want to die
Don't know why
The dimness now calls
The sun doesn't shine
There's no time
To wake from the dream
The body still lies
Remember the
Poets you
Once thought were wise
A life of
Sorrow falls
And black stars rise
In your ears
The voice that once spoke
Is silent again
In your fear
A promise you broke
You want it to end
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I live in hiding
In panic-stricken times
Eyes ever blinding
To only look behind
Keep moving forward
Say voices gone unheard
Fall into forever
In a fractal, wishing word
And I believe my own lies
When the Snake meets the sky
I'm always striving
To be more than I was
I'll never make it
Never be good enough
I've put off changing
Put my trust in placing blame
Excuses I've made
All the days I would trade
And the smoke fills our eyes
When the Snake meets the sky
Waiting for your chance to come to light
Waiting for when the stars are right
Watching alone as life passes by
Mourning lost years of wasted time
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12. |
Grey Matter
06:46
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The anchor tied around my feet
Unconscious now and sinking deep
Drowning in my drunken apathy
Losing will it takes to break free
Giving in to hopes of giving up
Never seen above down on my luck
Plunge into the empty solace of
Holding on to what was
Hiding behind your eyes
Grey matter has turned the tide
Why can't you see it
Why can't I breathe in
The grey matter in your eyes
In the waters where you hide
Fight back the demons
But still they seep in
Waking up to see you're still alive
Another day to drain away your life
Question what's the point of seeing light
Or surviving past another night
They say I'm faking my disease
Lack resolve to get up off my knees
They've never clawed until they bleed
Against a coffin buried deep
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13. |
Utopia
10:31
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(Instrumental)
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14. |
Tatters Of The King
06:38
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Built a life of lies
Oppressing those you serve
Caring only for yourself
Justify the murders
In secret wars eternal
Profit from the chaos void
Darkly hidden shames
You pander in the names
And bow before the icon you create
Pulling on the strings
Stopping progress,
Change means losing power over life
Upon throne that's bleeding
Within a twisted mind
Inside a black heart beating
Under wicked sky
Buried gods and masters
In dirges that we sing
There forever flapping
Tatters of the King
Construct a monument
To your own excess
Ivory tower beaming lying smiles
Built your holy empire
On the backs of peasants
Who sell their souls to last another day
Bathing in the glory
From the sweat and blood
Of ants who have nothing left to give
Seeing only green
A piece in the machine
Forget the lives behind the working parts
Hide behind the Book
You never understood
Feel the hollow silence in your prayers
Twist the word of God
Into weapons to defeat
The exiles seeking only peace
Feel the holy light
While taking from the tithe
To build a mansion to better praise yourself
Threaten hidden devils
Looking in the mirror
Do you hear the Savior's voice again
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