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Megalith
01:53
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Secret of the Stone
03:05
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The air Is Alive!
I’ve waited far too long, been sleeping way too long and now I
Take Back My life!
I live to roam the earth, and I will find my worth
The secret of the Stone is Grave, it lays to waste the hearts of men
I warn you do not seek it, turn away while you still can.
So I go into the Great Unknown
I’ll let it Lead where it will, I’ll never be standing still
I go into the Great Unknown
This road before me will shape my story
If you go there will be none to walk beside you
Who can share your burden or reach out to guide you (x2)
I'll march on all the same (x2)
I will show my face
I will prove my name
I will find my place
I will open up the gates
There is a great fortress in the air
The answer that you seek is hidden there
So I go into the Great Unknown
I’ll let it Lead where it will, I’ll never be standing still
I go into the great unknown
This road before me will shape my story
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In Reach (Out of Touch)
03:51
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Take a moment’s time
Look to the edge of everything that you have found
(It goes forever, and I could never, and I could never, and I could never)
Take this wondrous sight
See beauty dawning on the edge of the horizon
(And I could never, and I could never, and I could never, and I could never)
I see far away a Fragile flame hung in the sky
A pale cold flower in the night sky, It leads me on it pulls me in and now I’m chasing after the moon and chilling light the land is shaping
I see far away a Fragile flame hung in the sky
A pale cold flower in the night, planted among the stars and watered in the twilight, planted among the stars and watered in the twilight
But I chase it away
I move and it moves from me (in reach; out of touch)
A cold flame that will not stay
I have to catch it before the day
Run around, run around till you find it, I hope that this love isn’t clouded by blindness
And keep it down, keep it down in your heart now, but never let it fade
Don’t let it fade, let it fade, let it fade away
Keep pressing on, this love is strong but it may not stay
It’s bittersweet, a rose, a thorn, a choice I must make
Take in all this space
Your kingdom reaches out as far as your eye can see
It goes forever, and I could never, and I could never, and I could never
Take my thoughts in stride
A heart can be so free and filled that it is lonely
And I could never, and I could never, and I could never, and I could never
Run around, run around till you find it, I hope that this love isn’t clouded by blindness
And keep it down, keep it down in your heart now, but never let it fade
Don’t let it fade, let it fade, let it fade away
Keep pressing on, this love is strong but it may not stay
It’s bittersweet, a rose, a thorn, a choice I must make
Time's not on my side
Can't feel your warmth, where do you hide?
Where did you flee? I cannot find you
You spoke my name, you flew away, and left me confused
Please show your face to me again before the sunrise
Time's not on my side
Can't feel your warmth, where do you hide?
The last Rays of your light are fading
The path I'm following along is separating (The path I'm following along is separating)
Run around, run around till you find it, I hope that this love isn’t clouded by blindness
And keep it down, keep it down in your heart now, but never let it fade
Don’t let it fade, let it fade, let it fade away
Keep pressing on, this love is strong but it may not stay
It’s bittersweet, a rose, a thorn, a choice I must make
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With My Lesser Self
04:05
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I don’t want to feel so broken anymore and I don’t want to feel alone anymore
I don’t want to be here, no, I don’t want to be here at all
(x2)
You were my heart (x4)
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Prayer of the Prey
03:15
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I will not compete this way
I refuse to run your race.
She feeds off all of the anguish and wrath
Of those who could not escape from her grasp
I wish you could see, yourself as I do
All these obstructions are tangled round you
I will not compete this way
I refuse to run your race
turn and run, escape while you can
You're just a part of her master plan
You've heard the stories and still decided not to heed
She promised you she'd be everything that you need
She was an angel or at least that's what you believed
But when you turned your back you knew that you were deceived (x2)
I won't. Back down. I will. Hold my ground (x4)
(You were the world on my chest,
now that you’re gone I’ve got nothing left)
You've heard the stories and still decided not to heed
She promised you she'd be everything that you need
She was an angel or at least that's what you believed
But when you turned your back you knew you were deceived (x2)
You've heard the stories and still decided not to heed (you heard the stories x2)
She was an angel or at least that's what you believed (you heard the stories x2)
Light fires, light fires thanks to your goodbyes
Let's start new but start without you
I thought you might have been Better than this
But that ship has sailed and You will not be missed (x2)
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Chaotica
03:30
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Black Bleeding from the skies above
Seeping into this parched earth
Savage ink of this world’s blood
My name is formed, marred across the land
“Chaotica” scrawled out by the Withered Hand
Feel the power of consuming fear
Dread clutched your heart as I draw near
A blackened tongue utters my name
My hunger seeks more lives to claim
My strength rides in upon the wind
An ancient evil was condemned
Now wandering freely once again
Lurking no longer I descend
Where I walk even the earth is wise enough to tremble
Forms of light curse my life
I’ll burn the world, swallow it alive
Feasting on all those in my way
Ripping out the heart of the day
Black Bleeding from the mourning skies
Poured out on all the earth
Hiding from my eyes
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The Sea At Storm
02:46
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I cannot remember the last time that I could see the shore
The black clouds above have wrapped the sky into their deadly fold
This tempest all around pulls me down into the ocean’s core
Tell me what it is I’ve done that brought about this rain and cold
...The things I left behind
go on and let your rage unwind
Here I am. now’s your time
I haven’t been that hard to find
You think you're so wise and strong
I have been here all along
Feel my fury, spare your wrath
Just another fool in my path
You think that you’re All
My fears have taken form
They've blotted out all the light
Cast away by the waves (by the waves)
Guiding lights went astray (went astray)
-NO-
Live, learn, or at least you live
Forgive, forget, or at least you forget
The sea at storm has pulled me in
this is a fight I may not win
The sea at storm is testing me
Is this my end or destiny?
The sea at storm has pulled me in
You’ll never harm a soul again
The sea at storm is testing me
This is for all the suffering
Tidal anger pulls me under
Tidal anger
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Wrath of a Gentle Man
03:25
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You've got an Axe to grind and tight closed eyes
Your contradictions come as no surprise
That you made yourself blind to your own lies
I think I'll sever my ties.
A penny is far too much for your thoughts
Your putrid mind corrupts and rots
There’s more to you than meets the ear,
Just nothing that I want to hear.
Try seeing things through another’s eyes
You don't have to lobotomize
To open someone else's mind
You have become what you despise
I won’t waste another moment on your dogma.
Obstinance: manifested. Blind-eyed, Closed-minded disaffection
Spare me your so-called “wisdom”
You’re a fake, an arrogant fraud
Save some judgement for God.
You’ve had plenty of practice preaching, why won’t you practice what you preach?
(Chorus)
You’ve got an axe to grind and tight closed eyes
Your contradictions come as no surprise
That you made yourself blind to your own lies
I think I’ll sever my ties.
Your idolatry breeds hypocrisy
Your eyes are blinded by the pride you see
That the elegy that you wrote for me
Should have ended up so differently.
You're a mockery of humanity
The incarnation of dystrophy
You're a harbinger of catastrophe
A plague, pure ruin, you are disease.
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The Moonless Night
03:20
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He roams the earth by night
He prays to catch a sight
Of the thing that escapes his mind
It hunts and haunts escapes and eludes
it's gone when he opens up his eyes.
It’s nots living when you’re dead inside.
I’ve been through Hell, I’ve tasted heaven, I’ve walked the road that joins the two.
Now I’ve lost myself somewhere inside of me and I'm not sure what to do.
This past year has been the hardest time of my life and I would kill for a rock or a hard place.
But now the clock has turned, I guess the lesson learned is that The heart of stone shatters into the most pieces.
It's been difficult and getting worse ever since the start, I burned down every bridge between my mind and my heart.
The flame that lit my way
The Moon led me astray
The things my heart once had
That led me down this path
A wilted fragment of my Focus
A hidden thorn among the roses
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10. |
Vitality
03:02
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I’m so tired of sleeping and sick-to-death of this illness and
Each day I can feel as the stronghold of my mind
Slips out of focus, away from these dreams
Heart beaten down, torn at the seams
This can't be the end of everything that I've done
All the darkness in this world could never block out the sun
There’s no evil that surrounds us that can outweigh the good
Bound by the light, lifted up from the ground where we stood
Vitality is gone from me, my apathy a eulogy,
That reads: “here lies a tragedy,
A hollow shell of what was me”
You’re a skeleton of your former self, and I can see that you lack a spine.
I fear there is no cure for this
Lethargy-wrapped narcotic bliss
No shock that can awaken me
No force to break this apathy
Wake me up, wake me up, I'm far too dead to die
I can't remember how long it's been since I last saw sunlight
Wake me up, wake me up, I'm far too dead to die
I can't remember how long it’s been since I saw any light
Vitality is gone from me,
My apathy a eulogy
That reads: “here lies a tragedy,
A hollow shell of what was me.”
Restore to me vitality
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11. |
Castle in the Clouds
04:01
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Years spent roaming
Through countless nights
This road before me
The end in sight
It Falls Around
The fortress walls they crack like brittle bone
Hear the sound
Magnificent and full of horror
Go live your life outside of the shadows
Be a voice, not an echo
I stand on battered feet
From the ground beneath
I can’t help but think it’s the end
My path ends here
Stained glass falling everywhere
I see it passing through the air
And past the broken shroud I found:
An end to my life on the ground
Stained glass falling everywhere
I see it passing through the air
And past the broken shroud I found:
An end to my life on the ground
Look around at desolation
See the fall of the creation
A fear was born of insurrection:
End of my life or a new start?
Far beyond the moonlight’s reach
I have traveled looking for the fortress in the air that I was brought to seek
Led by the Stone, away from Sea
Finally I have found meaning to my quest that has always been inside of me
But the fortress walls crack like brittle bone
They reveal the Secret of the Stone
Live for Life without the fear of Death
Glory fades and the Grave takes the rest
It Falls Around
The fortress walls they crack like brittle bone
Hear the sound
Magnificent and full of horror
Go live your life outside of the shadows
Be a voice, not an echo
I stand on battered feet
from the ground beneath
I can’t help but think it’s the end
I’ve faced my fears, I’ve fought my doubts
What I found was a Castle in the Clouds
I see the walls of the great Castle, so strong against the attacks
Crumble before their own dead weight, and spread a web of cracks
There’s more to life than death
And seeing is only believing for the blind
But Death and I are the best of friends
We’ve been close so many times
Through forests and plains I have wasted away
Over mountains and glaciers my skin turned to gray
I gave up my home to travel alone
Into the world, leaving all I had known
LISTEN TO ME
In every trial from far away
I have been here with you each step of the way
It Falls Around
The fortress walls they crack like brittle bone
Hear the sound
Magnificent and full of horror
Go live your life outside of the shadows
Be a voice, not an echo
I stand on battered feet
from the ground beneath
I can’t help but think it’s the end
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