1. |
The Tower
07:07
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The Tower-
the sun has fallen
shards of light dying from sight
shadows come calling
under the shroud of night
ages drift like snowflakes
and melt quicker each time
youth, the price that time takes
it's memory sublime
my hands, twin maps of pain
the blame all mine to bear
alone in the wind and the rain
with no one left to care
count down the days
dreaming of the ways
that i might be free
gazing to the skies
through old tired eyes
tower release me
onward and up i go
one jagged rock each time
the lash strikes one more blow
enslaved, yet i climb
time blurs away reason
behind this curse of mine
this tower, this prison
oh lord, give me a sign
praise be to mercy
heaven still too high
all crumbles around me
washed away in the sky
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2. |
Among the Liars
05:39
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Among the Liars-
condemned i am falling just like hope
on the floor
lying in rot, decaying with me
all the lies
eyes that dissect, flay me down bare
to shiver alone
where i find myself standing
in cold judgment
words spat as venom under a bloodless glare
their hate coming in waves
but dwarfed by my own
encircled by those guiltier than i
poisons the blood
in my veins you will find them
in the ruins of humanity
i lie among the liars
drowning in disdain
choking on hypocrisy
but dying all the same
scarred eyes rise up
seething with cruelty they know
snapping with madness to burn them
all away
and down fall the liars
searing them blind like they deserve
a penance of death for all only
in my mind
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3. |
Winter Moon
05:00
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Winter Moon-
a cold grey, lifeless star
staring down unto the world
midnight eternal
beckons the whisper
sordid tales of our death
full of hope full of promise
our fate buried for none to see
still they refuse silence
echoes the death-throes of our world
swallowed by our hollow black sun
this winter moon lost
all the traces of the ages
every dream cast in the sea
met a lonely frozen end
the last road to discovery
lies in death
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4. |
Gardens
04:06
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Gardens-
landscape of misery
draped in decay
gardens of the grotesque
withered dismay
entombed in silence
enslaved by forever
drowned in the ages
suffocating together
landscape of ashes
blurring the day
gardens we inherit
wasted away
whispers of the end
roll across our shore
poisoned souls of the earth
fueled by the lust of war
devouring itself
hatred is bled
plague for all the ages
mankind is dead
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5. |
The Bridge
02:48
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The Bridge-
there she is once again
shining light in the dark
all i need is a glimpse of her
it unfurls an ocean
the space is eternal
our void wreathed in silence
but those moments in time
belong to none but us
there she goes once again
lost to me one more time
crumbling to the bridge
i stain with my tears
eyes alight ignite desire
bathe our flesh in it's fire
unspoken need in our hearts
but the bridge still holds us apart
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6. |
Horizons
04:32
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the ocean
I) horizons
my horizons lie across the sea
setting out into the mystery
waves break in a crash
above us the unbroken skies
as we sail into the night
on a vessel to new lives
and inside my heart flies
the sprawling ocean has called out to me
whispering since the threshold of my memory
cresting whitecaps, the ebb and flow and the undertow
now home at last the sound of the sea a lullaby
each rolling night as i close my eyes
freedom on the ocean far from the world we know
from atop a mast, i can see past forever
my only sorrow lies away from the sea i adore
where my love was left on the lonely shore
waves break in a crash
she gave her heart to me
until the collapse of eternity
and now my heart dies
as the storm comes to life
now the skies ahead have bled away their guiding light
the sea that would give us our future may take it away
and from the mast i can no longer see past forever
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7. |
The Storm
03:49
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II) the storm
storm breaks the morning sky
thunder cracks away at my faith
and dread makes it's home in my heart
wind and rain grind down again
the ocean has turn on us
pulling our resolve to pieces
in the calm before the storm
raging out across the sea
the swells to much for me to handle
i break your ship to splinters
hold strong now my lady please
fighting back will do no good
she is broke we are sinking
it's over now fall to me
can't hold out abandon ship
another falls to my will
fading fast my limbs gone numb
feeds the ocean deep
can't hold on my life is gone
as the waves pull me down
and i can hear no sound
as the tide pulls me to sea
my love remember...
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8. |
Below the Surface
07:17
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III) below the surface
my horizons are no longer above the sea
below the surface
the storm has gone for me
adrift in the ebb and flow and the undertow
in the quiet hand of the sea
the waves wash over me
and still i cling to her
her memory, my only comfort
for my eyes no longer see
gazing to the depths in regret
i never should have left the other half of me
my tears fade in the ocean
the sorrow of a million lost souls
in the quiet of the sea
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