1. |
Dreams of Light
07:30
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Trapped by dreams
Pulled from consciousness
Expanding blight
Whispers levitate
Sequences of meaning
This collective surreal
The suspension of being
Dreams of fear
Dreams of light
The suspension of feeling
Dreams of fear
Dreams of light
In moments drawing power
In a haze to the mind’s eye
Confronting the shroud
Belying fate
In finite arrays
Into gnawing maw
Born of death
Void of life
Vestigial, cloying spirit
Worms beneath
Let them feast
Depart, float beyond
The suspension of being
Dreams of fear
Dreams of light
The suspension of feeling
Dreams of fear,
Dreams of light
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2. |
Blood in the River
05:49
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The cannon roars
And screams of pain
Echo here
The flash of steel
And dying breath
Linger here
Hold fast do a dying whim
Righteousness assured
That servitude is law
And freedom is absurd
Take up killing arms
Strike the traitors down
Avenge the massacred
And free the bound
Forces gather to disrupt the light
And corrode a free land
A new frontier in the battle
For the souls of men
Blood runs in the river
Stain the earth with crimson
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3. |
Levitation
02:06
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Interlude
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4. |
Out Amongst the Stars
06:03
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A curtain of starlight hangs down
Over all men on this plain
Through schism and strife
This landscape is the same
Through aeons
Across the eras
Celestial bodies uncaring
As life comes to death
Time beyond all measure
Any counting by man
Humans hold dominion over nothing
From earth we came, and will return
This planet a cosmic chariot
Out amongst the stars
Our hands grasp for purpose
For clarity and light
But winds of time erode
Nothing left but sky
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5. |
From Ashes Beneath
08:34
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Of binding and manifestation
Of rigor and struggle
Floating freely
Through dark spaces of time
Elucidation elapsed
Despair floods the sky
Noose of liberation
Defenseless deceit
Dragged naked and battered
Blood running cold
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Excerpt from "Les Marais du Cygne"
Unwarned and unweaponed,
The victims were torn
From ashes beneath,
And the crown of his harvest
Is life out of death.
Not in vain on the dial
The shade moves along,
To point the great contrasts
The reeds of the Swan's Marsh,
Whose bloom is of blood!
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Searching for hope
Dry breath and scarred hands
The plight of thy will
Scattered on land
Forced underneath
Through lifeless soil
Desolate grey, endless toil
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Marsh of Swans
Atmospheric/melodic black metal from Aurora, CO and Lawrence, KS. Inspired by local history and influences within and beyond the genre.
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