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Tailspin
03:16
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Steel teeth gnashing the sky
Breathing in fire and lead still I
Steel teeth gnash the sky
Breathing in fire and lead and
Yet here still I find a certain sense of solace
Iron will till I die
And it may not be long yet
As I fall in line among the ranks of Horus
Spiraling to the ground
There’s nowhere to go but down
This is the end, end of my story
A final tailspin, a fiery glory
Spiraling to the ground
Nothing can stop it now
The flak and blood
The fire and char all say
The path through the maw was the only escape
As above so below is what they say
As within so without, within this place
Oh, feel the deafening roar
Of engines failing, vengeance falling, pulling us toward Earth
Steel teeth gnashing the sky
I float through fire and lead like water
Spiraling to the ground
There’s nowhere to go but down
This is the end, end of my story
A final tailspin, a fiery glory
Spiraling to the ground
Nothing can stop it now
Nothing can stop it now
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Where the Sky is Empty
04:43
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Closed off windows, slamming doors
I can’t take this anymore
But time will show
Darker truths not known
And the reason why
I guard them with my life
You cannot know how I’ve searched for the words to express
A mere semblance of this emptiness
(I’ll find a way back home, way back home)
Gather ‘round as you share in your final testament
I never got a chance to say goodbye
I never got a chance to see you off through the door as you cross to the other side
Each word weighing down
As if you knew that it was our last parting
Every pause profound
A fragmented haunting
As I search the room
I feel you here
And I try to forget
That this time I’m all alone
This doesn’t feel like home
Being here without you
I’m so lost without you right now
This doesn’t feel like home
But time is quickly slipping
And I can hear you whispering “go on”
Eyes up
Look closely
Take Courage
That’s the key
Press on
Don’t falter
Look inward
That’s the key
I know if you could
You’d smile and tell me no tears
I know if you could
You’d take me far away from here
Growing gold as sunlight
In our memory
Write a different story
A different melody
As I search the room
I feel you here
And I try to forget
That this time I’m all alone
This doesn’t feel like home
Being here without you
I’m so lost without you right now
This doesn’t feel like home
But time is quickly slipping
And I can hear you whispering “go on”
Closed off windows, slamming doors
I can’t take this anymore
Go conquer the world
Chase the sun, the golden dawn, to the pyramid palace
Go cut out the heart
A secret coded by the god of Justice through the ages
Go conquer the world
Listen closely for my voice because the world is quiet there
Go cut out the heart
I’ll meet you out where the sky is empty
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Slumbering World
04:17
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Don’t you close your eyes
They’re watching you
Guard against the night
It beckons you
Break
Encircle the sun
They’re baying for your blood
Don’t you sink in the shadows
Missing pieces forming tapestries of a slumbering world
Oh it’s the wayward souls
That lead us far from home
The things we need most are where we’re scared to go
It’s the wayward souls
That lead us far from home
The things we need most are where we’re scared to go
Pain clings straight to your soul
Plunging you through years of cold
The burden on your shoulders tells
You’ve seen too much to forget now
It keeps you up, it weighs you down
Oh it’s the wayward souls
That lead us far from home
The things we need most are where we’re scared to go
It’s the wayward souls
That lead us far from home
The things we need most are where we’re scared to go
Through the years they were always listening
Through closed off windows and doors
Through the years they were always listening
Through closed off windows and doors
Don’t look now
Everything you’ll see is a looming cloud
Oh it’s the wayward souls
That lead us far from home
The things we need most are where we’re scared to go
It’s the wayward souls
That lead us far from home
The things we need most are where we’re scared to go
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No I don’t know
No I don’t know
Why death must take its toll
And leave us with these ghosts
So cold
Can’t let this go
Familiar catacombs
That gather around their own
The strength to bury a friend
It won’t be the last time
It won’t be the last word
It won't be the last life that it grasps in the palm of its hand
I know I can’t go home
It’s not there on my own
Why does death take its toll
Why did death take his soul
And when the end is drawing near
Everyone is consumed by their darkest fears
Desperately grabbing for anything that pulls them from the deep
So you pray for sleep
But you won’t find comfort there
Dreaming of escape won’t kill the nightmares
I’m so lost
And since the end is drawing near
Everyone is consumed by their darkest fears
Desperately grabbing for anything that pulls them from the deep
So you pray for sleep
But you won’t find comfort there
Dreaming of escape won’t kill the nightmares
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All the world is clear now
I’m standing on the last summit
Promise me remember
To find the light and follow it
Now it’s clear there’s no other way to follow
For tomorrow
Fight the fear, let the sunlight shape your heart’s road
Not your sorrow
You may not live to lie in your blossom’s shade
But you can still capture the boundless life you chase
The things that you have built, the courage you have shown,
Your legacy lies in the good that you have done
Now chase the sun
All the world is clear now
I’m standing on the last summit
Promise me remember
To find the light and follow it
Take courage through the years
How could I bow to fear
Illuminate the road
With all that I know
Take courage through the years
How could I bow to fear
Illuminate the road
How could I not go
I found the light recovered from the shadow
Break through the night
Another path, a small glow
I found the light recovered from the shadow
Break through the night
Another path, a small glow
Now it’s clear there’s no other way to follow
For tomorrow
Fight the fear let the sunlight shape your heart’s road
Not your sorrow
I found the light recovered from the shadow
How could I bow to fear
Break through the night another path, a small glow
With all that I know
I found the light recovered from the shadow
How could I bow to fear
Break through the night another path, a small glow
How could I not go
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We never fail to fall
We never learn to read the marks on this world
We never fail to fall
So I’ll just turn the page
Restless
Beneath the weight of this madness
Like a dress rehearsal for death
I lie in red and black
So steel yourself for where you go
No map has marked but even so
You can’t turn back or shield your eyes
From villains walking in disguise
We who ought to crawl have learned to fly
Who we are is all we’ve known
But there’s more if you let go
So we turn the page
A rival now, I’ll bring your walls to the ground
But you can’t move until you let it go
Turn the page
I’ll light it up and burn it down to the ground
But you can’t move until you let it go
Dark days torn straight from our deathbeds
Sorrows like burdens of silence
Anguish of the inevitable
We turn away and face the dawn
You know not what lurks at every turn
The things you've seen you can’t unlearn
Watch closely for imposters
For down here there be monsters
Who we are
Is all we’ve known
But there’s more if you let go
So we turn the page
A rival now, I’ll bring your walls to the ground
But you can’t move until you let it go
Turn the page
I’ll light it up and burn it down to the ground
But you can’t move until you let it go
Life flies, closed eyes, I’m not sleeping tonight
Feels like a ghost always slipping from sight
When I’m alone I let my mind roam free but it’s always my demise
I’ve broken the silence
I’ve challenged the giants
I’m letting go so I can turn the page
So put on your brave face
Spill blood for a new fate
I’m letting go so I can turn the page
We turn the page
A rival now, I’ll bring your walls to the ground
But you can’t move until you let it go
Turn the page
A rival now, I’ll bring your walls to the ground
But you can’t move until you let it go
Turn the page
I’ll light it up and burn it down to the ground
But you can’t move until you let it go
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7. |
The Absence of Light
03:44
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Stumbling
Through a land shrouded in mystery
Vile blackness spun from spurs of glacial nights
I push past the waters that have festered here
Bathed in blighted sunless light
So build a castle or a coffin
You’ll rest the same each way
Hellish cry of a black dominion
Waiting its fateful day
The being which we herald will move the sun
To rise on
The age of Iron Hatred
You might hear the most terrible sounds
In the Absence of Light
Through blackened eons we sing
And forge the bindings to bring
The songs of the ancient powers
The waking of Elders
Lost in the land of shadows
Breaking their slumbers
Falling through the dire barrows
The ground begins to break
Exposing a new way out
Nek Ahweh Dleh Nhep Oh Lhat Rohp
Nek Ahweh Dleh Nhep Oh Lhat Rohp
Nek Ahweh Dleh Nhep Oh Lhat Rohp
Nek Ahweh Dleh Nhep Oh Lhat Rohp
Lost deep in shadows that time forgot
Wandering where the sun cannot
Through the uncounted black eons we sing
In these godless voices the songs that will bring
The binding of Elders, the rending of worlds
With dark winds in the sails of Theseus unfurled
We have survived countless centuries in mire
Holding our torch and feeding the power
No more hiding from the light
Through blackened eons we sing
And forge the bindings to bring
The songs of the ancient powers
The waking of Elders
Lost in the land of shadows
Breaking their slumbers
Falling through the dire barrows
The ground begins to break
Exposing a new way out
The dire barrows have me stumbling
Through a land shrouded in mystery
Vile blackness spun from spurs of glacial nights
I push past the waters that have festered here
Bathed in blighted sunless light
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There’s no way out
There’s no way out
Racing through to find our way out
The exit’s much further now
I race through fear
Just to find a way out
But each turn I take is always worse somehow
It’s so close at hand but much further than it seems
A turn of fate in a twisted world, I must find the key
Should I stay or should I go
When every step leads away from hope
Forever roam these halls of stone all alone
Joined by forfeit souls
Guiding lights that led astray
Distant fragments of memories
Forever roam these halls of stone all alone
Joined by voices of forfeit souls
Woe to you
And all who meet me in this place
You will learn of loss
Your teacher will be misery
Tragedy shall walk your path and you will find
That when the time is ripe she’ll pluck your spirit from the vine
Yield to me
Guardian of ancient flame
Bound by glyphs and not allegiance to another name
“That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die”
Should I stay or should I go
When every step leads away from hope
Forever roam these halls of stone all alone
Joined by forfeit souls
Guiding lights that led astray
Distant fragments of memories
Forever roam these halls of stone all alone
Joined by voices of forfeit souls
It’s so close at hand
Nothing’s quite as it seems
I’m racing through this twisted world
At last with the key
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9. |
Sea of Fire
04:29
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I’ve seen the dark chasm yawning
Black planets roll without aim
Mute horror screaming unheeded
No knowledge, lustre, or name
I’ve seen the bones of all nations
Mere dust in an hourglass
Keep time of a wretched destruction
From present, future, and past
Soured slumber
From a seething vortex of
Time and godless outer hells
Emissaries from cosmos yet unknown
Brought forth the Atlas Ruinica
Fling open Solomon’s Gate
And then they speak
They said to me
They revealed to me
The secrets they sailed into the sea of
Fire, fire
No escape
No return
Fire, fire
It has seen
It has heard
Let it burn
There is an eldritch evil that runs so deep
That its river poisons the stars
Kept comatose only by strange mercies
And the amber flame
Frozen from afar
Sailing through the sea of
Fire, fire
No escape
No return
Fire, fire
It has seen
It has heard
Let it burn
So hide it well
Not another soul will live to tell of
Fire, fire
It has seen
It has heard
Let it burn
I’ve seen the dark chasm yawning
Black planets roll without aim
Mute horror screaming unheeded
No knowledge, lustre, or name
I’ve seen the dark chasm yawning
Black planets roll without aim
Mute horror screaming unheeded
No knowledge, lustre, or name
Tear the souls from their flesh
Tear the souls from their flesh
Forsake not the path before you
Forget not the shifting sands
Forsake not the path before you
Forget not your wretched end
Forsake not the path before you
Forget not your own end
Forsake not the path before you
Forget not your own end
Sea of fire
No escape
No return
Fire, fire
It has seen
It has heard
Let it burn
So hide it well
Not another soul will live to tell of
Fire fire
It has seen
It has heard
Let it burn
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Follow the call
And step beyond
‘Cause the gate is ready, it’s time to touch the light
Go
And ponder every life
You will grow to understand they intertwine
Then you say are you ready
Are you ready ‘cause the gate’s about to close
And it’ll swallow you whole
The weight of The Many is too heavy to carry on your own
I think it’s ready to blow
Go
Through the entry
‘Cause the gate’s about to close
And it will swallow you whole
The weight of The Many is too heavy to carry on your own
I think it’s ready to blow
I feel it drawing me
And I’m magnetized
The fabric of the things we see is one cell of a greater Life
So go
And seek out every sign
‘Cause the gate is open, it’s time to touch the light
Now the worlds begin to spin
Through the eye of Solomon
I end where it begins
Go
Through the entry
‘Cause the gate’s about to close
And it will swallow you whole
The weight of The Many is too heavy to carry on your own
I think it’s ready to blow
And the sky will fold pouring stars into the sea
And at last again we’ll meet
So cross, follow me through the door to the other side
Join me here where all worlds collide
Then you say
Are you ready
Are you ready ‘cause the gate’s about to close
And it will swallow you whole
Go
Through the entry
‘Cause the gate’s about to close
And it will swallow you whole
The weight of The Many is too heavy to carry on your own
I think it’s ready to blow
This is the end, end of my story
We meet again, the sky has been emptied
Spiraling through the clouds
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