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Coalescence
05:21
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As we are drowning
In the slime of entropy
All we could have built
Scattered, broken and withered
By the time the rot set in
Everything you’ve known was no more
The test of time always separates matter from void
Severed heads of kings
Lie among torn bodies of peasants
All slain by the hand of decay
All devouring, all shattering, all consuming nullifier
All deceiving, all confirming, all forboding demiurge
Omnipresent stench of fate
Shattering worthless skies
Smothering wretched lives
Slow death necrosis
Careless of where it seeps
So can you see, how this world was designed
All once born converges unto cold black monolith
Divine creation all destined to fall and putrify
Feel the curse of aeons
All devouring, all shattering, all consuming nullifier
All deceiving, all confirming, all forboding demiurge
Shatter under weight of pure nothigness
So, can you see?
Come, do you see?
That all you‘ve done
All you've ever percieved
Amounts to nought and is about to cease
Earth beaneath will fall to dust
As well as the skies collapse
Black shall engulf all the stars
And you will wilt with rest of us
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2. |
Succumb
04:12
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Driven deep into a sphere
Laced with expectations
Suspended firmly within
With blind veneration
Seething malformation naive and obsolete
Gnawing on unsuspecting feeble mind
Now stand back and watch the world collapse
Plague engulfs the shards left behind
Blood drips from lacerations unto a canvas
Painting an image of a concrete wall
The vision has finally cleared
With window pane crumbling down
Revealing the world unseen
Shrouded by fog of desire
Disfigured king of nothing
Flagellant of own will
Usurps his resigned throne
Plaguekissed and turned to stone
Deeper in aspiration a rot will effloresce with a crimson gown
Many words were uttered
Nothing has been said
Clinging to a vision
Without sense to comprehend
This has been here before
The hopes of incomplete
Yield all your vigor to sanctity
Now stand back and watch the world collapse
Plague engulfs the shards left behind
Blood drips from lacerations unto a canvas
Painting an image of a complete lie
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3. |
Hollow Idol
04:10
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I was enthralled by light coming from a marble temple
Its shapes peeking over smoulders of my past
The veil of its fallacy, kept me blind to all the cracks
Frail were the hands, that built this monument of light
Crawling towards nothing, knee deep in a swirling quicksand
Devoid of any semblance of self I clutched, to this alluring mirage
Exposing my throat to be slit by the keen edge of a blade
Swayed by the empty words of a porcelain siren
I crouched before this plastic hollow shell
My flesh as an offering for you to waste along the way
Innermost chains binding my very substance
Splayed upon the stain-glass shade
An effigy of frailty and shame
Your fucking monument… finally dust
Shattering everything your hands have touched
Reborn through hate I finally see
The heaping pile of shit of this deceit
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4. |
Spectacle of Inertia
04:29
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Cast upon this world
Drawn unto the light
Stricken of all merit
And carved into a mud
Timeless echo… separate, cultivate, procreate, excoriate
Drowns out the dissonance… seeping
Hailed and decried… perorate, venerate, confiscate, exenorate
Clawing inside
And so the procession of ashes drags forward its burial cart
Plowing through the fields of debris left unscathed by funeral march
Shedding droplets of torn skin and golden chains
Encased in stone and liquid gold
Lungs filled with sulphur and hope-laced mold
Deafening void of a divine call
Smothered by rope of a serene drone
The inner subjugation (both) upheld and discarded
Captive in apprehension
Spinning in circles
Ongoing paroxysm of feeble temptation
Depriving termination
Soulless… futile
Mind and soul set into stone
Spirit cauterized
Walking among ashes
Drawn unto the light
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5. |
Final Prophecy
03:06
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The stars are reached and tamed
Old lines and constants broken
In depths resounds our nam
Unreached doors now are open
By hand of - believer
Falls one last true deceiever
Our paths are now bounded
Within the mirrors of our time
Boundless frontier conquered with ambition
Primordial fears subsided by conviction
Terminal point of humanity's affliction passed over
This is the final prohecy
Watch it unfold now
Failure of flesh revealed
Stunned by binary scripted progress
Mankind again on its knees
This is the final prophecy
Watch it unfold now
Onward road
Spiraling out
Onward road to stars
Spiraling out of pace
Passed over failure's burden
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6. |
Sunshine Never Comes
04:03
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Take my hand and lay to the river
For long trip you've never seen
Sights you'll see will give you shivers
End was coming you could forseen
Now strange darkness is in your prayers
Ashes from heaven are filling the air
You've had enough and i'm taking you down
To land where sunshine never comes
Where hopes and dreams are torn apart
Where all your faith is left behin
Where glare of new dawn never shines
Don't give up upon your desire
For all the time which is divine
Open your eyes and your mind
Where glare of new dawn never shines
Don't give up upon your desire
For all the time which is divine
Open your eyes and your mind
There's not much for you to say
That is the only way
Last one thing that's left is your toll
You must pay with your soul
What you are
We were once
What we are now
You will be
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7. |
Demigod
03:53
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Offspring of Eru Iluvatar… Demigod
First dark lord to all of creation… Demigod
Fallen one from the host o Ainur… Demigod
Creator of all shadow forces… Demigod
Standed againts the themes of the Great music
Descended to newborn world, as it’s utter ruler
But it was against the will of remaining Ainur
I’m your lord now and after, you will hear nothing but laughter
Bow to your supreme master
I’m Demigod
But god crowned his lesser brother… Demigod
This was one of the greatest failures… Demigod
Cause dark one fought off all the others… Demigod
And they couldn’t hold his back powers… Demigod
And then began the siege to break dark forces
Death, pain, and sacrilege in war of chaos
But this time it was new, prevailed light’s dominance
I’m your lord now and after, you will hear nothing but laughter
Bow to your supreme master
I’m demigod
Dark lord was enchained by the others… Demigod
And god cast him to void of endless… Demigod
But this was not his final demise… Demigod
And once again he will just arise… Demigod
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8. |
Feast Thine Eyes
08:04
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So, as you stepped into a river never crossed… again
For nothing had changed
It never does
You've seen this before
Unfolding right before your eyes
As it was meant to be
Despite every hope
You had force fed yourself
Despite every promise
That was sacred to you
You are standing here
Watching it all crumble
Ceasless march of cycles
Unbroken as they are
Written in the annals
Sculpted in your mind
Your shamefull chronicles
Meaningless as they are
Every page wasted
Littered with dismay
Again plunged deep into this riverbed
Its banks closing in
On every single dream
Nothing has changed
You have seen this before
Chew you pathetic fucking coward
On this woe you have wrought your fucking self
Withered with every hope
Condensing inside you
Revenants of past milestones
No conclussion
No absolution
Bereft of all meaning
Bound to be returned
So feast thine eyes once more
(for this time it might finally render you blind)
Feast thine eyes once more
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9. |
Iron Sky
04:57
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Above isles flies the eagle
Black, strong, the great deceiver
Brings the fear, destruction, pain
Behold, the terrors reign
His eyes are upon a land
Which he urges to command
Fierce eyes, sharpened claws
He's willing to make bloody scars
But from the skies above the isles
With lions pride arise bold ally
Arise!
Fly for glory
For victory
Fear not, let your
Legacy eternalize
Per ardua ad astra
Stand and fight, kill midnight
Tear down the Iron Sky
To prove the griffon's might
Wind is combed ,by the wings
The major battle - now begins
Many allies from many lands
To bring down evil give their hands
Like one they fly, against their foe
No mercy nor fear there is to show
Squadrons gathered, heading eyes to eyes
In their hands now hope of nations lies
Last one thought is flowing in their minds
Coming battle, the history writes!
Last one foe ends in blue
Depths of sea…
Last one spirit wasted
Is now free…
Forever their spirits will echo beneath the stars
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