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Disgorging the Spirit
05:20
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Fallen from sight
Left undiscovered
Torn are the pages
And left without light
Rent to oblivion
Cored, excised
The mind rejoicing in trauma
Worn through
The path between
The chambers of
An empty shelter
Six locks upon each portal
Six keys to free
This breed
Born of disease
Draconian punishment
To those who’ve spread its seed
Cold inside
A house of grieving corpses
Bound as one into decay
Inhuman harmony
The poorest in spirit
How curséd are the meek
Oh, the poorest in spirit
How curséd are the meek
Mother of lies
Matriarch of foul infection
Possessed of jaundiced eyes
And skin that reeks of sorrow
Icon of woe
Symbol of all disenchantment
Exalted womb
From whence leaks abomination
The simplest of failures
A simple pleasure to relieve
Cold caresses in the dark
A mind’s obsession all-consuming
Surrender and be cured
Surrender and be cured
Our goddess eternal
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Ah, the winds of change have swept this nightmare o’er the masses
How sweet to watch the suffering
How sad to see such waste
Oh, the tides have brought us
Such grand and sundry horrors
From this they flee
For this they grieve
Rise!
Let the forgotten ones return
On this, our day of conquest
The exaltation of the Nephilim
Life-giver, light-bringer
Life-giver, light-bringer
Rise!
Let the forgotten ones return
Let the forgotten ones return
Mistress of darkness
Our lady of the swarm
Shining angel of contagion
High priestess in bloodstained robes
A god, a coward, an absentee, a ghost
No more of substance than an offering to the jackals thrown
Empty, feeble, hollow, passive idol
With sight gone blind
The essence of devotion
Infectious paradigm
A faith with reason cast aside
Drawn forth like worms
From the soil as rains turn land to sea
Gorged
Gorged like fleas
Drunk on rancid blood and sick with greed
I’ve seen the stars that bleed across the sky
I’ve seen the dust below
In terror
In terra
In worthless endeavors
From ash to stone
From flesh to seed
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3. |
Languor
05:19
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[Instrumental]
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Dystopia
04:20
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How dare we dream
In such vivid images
When all we've made is broken
All that we've built is but a facade
The ground that we walk shall wash away
Desperate prayers to callous gods
Whispered under our breath and carried away
Held by stones that care not enough to return them in echo
Weeping sinners every one of us,
We throw ourselves at the feet of idols carved by our own hands
Blessed by another manufactured the same
Now
With nightmare consequences reappearing
The path we've chosen for ourselves can only
End in torment
I laugh
I suffocate
Forsake the noose for a life in chains
Cast out
And disconsolate
Know you now, friend, why the caged bird dies?
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Bringer of Vengeance
05:03
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So
Now your dreams are right where they belong
Shattered on the floor like ancient glass
Your face, a shadow in the night
A fading spectre
The blood of traitors
Upon the cleansing pyres
The frail and useless
Are cast aside
Ageless I’ve waited since time immemorial
Watching my flesh decay
In the darkest womb of the void I lingered
Suspended in temporal limbo
Minutes like centuries
A thousand lifetimes for one life
Restless consciousness bristling
Impatient on a razor’s edge
Born, child of spite
Born, herald of death
Spirit of single-minded rancor
Harbinger of black malignant curses
Slick with blood and resting peacefully
I am renewed
I am made whole again
A chrysalis, a torpor
In depths unknown to men
I wait with purpose and dream
Oh, child of spite
Oh, herald of death
Spirit of single-minded rancor
Bringer of vengeance and conduit of wrath
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6. |
The Final Gate
03:34
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[Instrumental]
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Touch my new face
See the change you always seek
Touch your new eyes
The pain will help them see
Un-become, un-exist
March of time, cost of truth
In this, our temple of unrest
Beholden unto me
All time unfurls
Surround
The mists obscure
A hymn in tribute to none
Oh, the time has come
The time has gone
With such indifference
One can but weep
Thoughts of hope
Hopes are laid to rest
Denied
The search for substance here amidst the void
All follow
Minds fallow
Descent to common waste
Our ending commonplace
A march of clones into the soil
These unknown soldiers
In turning the final chapter’s page
Pray only never to begin again
This cold, bitter soil
In this I shall be clothed
A cold, bitter heart
This shall be my home
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