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The Great Darkness

by Waves of Mercury

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1.
We steal the dying kisses Invisible lovers stretched across the shore Between two worlds yet whole in none This is our penance forevermore The colors wash away From our flesh and from the skies Entwined under falling shadows To disappear at sunrise (Chorus) Our words they linger On the whispers of the waves The sea she sweeps us In her cold embrace Casting to the current All that's left of us The sea remembers...us We writhe as fallen angels In our throes we march to the dawn Swirling tempests of lust and need Burning like a thousand suns until we’re gone Our fate to live again Until the Heavens crumble within In the ether of our existence Our one lonely sin
2.
No! Down it comes A streak tearing the sky The morning star A shooting flame from Heaven high Descent everlasting Blistering of flesh and bone At once it ends Lying ...alone Serenity and misery Breaching the borders of eternity Where worlds end and so begin For those guilty of immortal sin Dust falls, giving him rise All around The Great Darkness lies A landscape of nothing A world in a void Crossroads oblivion Where angels lose their way He is forgotten This prison without walls Spat out by Heaven Where divinity falls Darkness illusion This world a masquerade Swallowing emptiness Will shimmer and fade Hope lies abandoned Across this scorched earth Waves of decay bring no rebirth Darkness tumbles away Burned by fires of his rage A unity of exiles Carve a bloody new page Darkness covers A new God leaving its shell One dream dies for another In his kingdom of Hell Down it comes A streak tearing the sky The morning star A shooting flame from Heaven high Descent everlasting Blistering of flesh and bone At once it ends Lying in wreckage...alone Dust falls, giving him rise All around The Great Darkness lies
3.
I) The Watch I take my place A witness to the End of Days The silencing of the world In the sun’s dying rays Mankind’s demise Gasping at it's last breath One last golden horizon Then lonely death The night forever An eternity in wait The pestilence of man Ushered in by our own fate Gaze to the black heaven We are a world standing still Our twilight reaching for us At last tranquil II) The Darkness Serenity and misery Breach the borders of eternity Never to rise from black wings Fools were those who thought them kings The crossroads of oblivion Where angels loose their way Tombs of ice shall be their rest Fallen to the Great Darkness III) A Deafening Quiet A deafening quiet Sings the songs of our bitter end A populace of statues Guardians with nothing to defend Slithering shadows Bleeding over withering light Our dead sun, our deaths knell Dawn of our perpetual night A deafening quiet Sings the songs of our bitter end A populace of statues Guardians with nothing to defend Our dead sun, it's death knell Dawn of our night In the suns dying light IV) Hope Now here lies hope A rebirth ...of the end of days A shining golden world At the dawn of days
4.
I felt the storm fall down upon me I felt my life fall away from me I hear the whispers of those I've loved I heard the silence from high above Spoke to no one and all alone Taste the sadness of what I've been show Felt the storm fall down on me I felt my life fall away from me Saw the world crumble away I saw The Great Darkness here to stay
5.
I have seen this broken girl But a million years before Pale and drawn Riddled with her lies Mistress and martyr Her dead, languid eyes The secrets sealed away Behind her haunted lips I have seen this broken girl before But a million years before She lies in the arms... She lies in the heart of the storm She dies just like the rest of them Only time and time again Pale and drawn Riddled with lies A mistress and a martyr Her dead, languid eyes Secrets sealed away I have seen this broken girl before But a million years before
6.
I) The Warning All that falls and all that wilts So begins in decay As above and so below Shooting stars from the House of God Those who stand before us shall pay The Judgement of Gods II) The Observation I saw mankind die Awash upon the shore I dwell within the wait I know where you stand... Along the broken path I will see you again Cut you down to size And know this... I have watched you as you grow I've seen you fall before And yet you rise up high Only to fall back again Down to your knees I have seen your ways I will remain forever, forever And there you stand alone With your faith and hope That you will rise again But soon I will pull you down And you will all come to rest Awash on this bloody shore Then I will pull you down Awash on this bloody shore Now as you crumble away You will see how it begins And how it ends in pain These words I have told you before Each time you repeat yourself At times we think you will learn But it's always far too late III) The Reckoning Beheading of sanity Desecration of virtue The end of reason No reason for the end Cries of the lost Mourning of the skies Ashes of mankind Float in bitter hues The worlds you walk The gods you pray They are as nothing Before the Undying Eyes may witness The glory that is ours Beyond your knowing We are magnificent
7.
You whisper things... Not come to pass We spent each dying moment As though it was our last And with trembling hands We held on to it all And in silence I watched In silence I watched As you began to fall... Down upon me was... Sadness and pain And I hoped and I prayed... That it would leave me some day As we wasted our days... There out in the cold This I do know This I do know That you were my silence in the falling snow
8.

credits

released February 13, 2012

Dave: Drums, Vocals, Mellotron
Brandon: Guitars, Mellotron, E-Bow
Greg: Six String Fretless Bass, E-Bow

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