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Ad Lucem
01:11
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What is in a flame to cast its orange dance on walls, on pages with words from ancient humans, that they may bestow upon us their wisdom from the grave.
What is in a flame but a gift, it warms us in the dead of night, when the unblessed souls have been forsaken to the cold.
A flame has the power to sing songs of great chaos and destruction.
Only from the ashes of destruction can a new purpose arise.
Et Lux in Tenebris Lucet
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Ghost of My Inner Shadow
05:53
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The dark behind a failing sun, to baptize the world in shadow
Marble gods crumble to earth, hollow of souls, eternal night
A raven moon bitters the course to a cathedral's domain
Contagious misery rising on waves of silver tears
Souls feed on marred reward, rendering a shadow thickest
Resisting the pain, resisting the dark
They wear chains of fear and sorrow to decay the soul as flesh
Dreamscapes, broken stars, blood-red roses escape from scars
Ghosts without wings bound by guilt, anchored to this realm they built
Resisting the pain, resisting the dark, They wear chains, of fear and sorrow
Dead and burned eternal ash
Dreamscapes, broken stars, blood-red roses escape from scars
Ghosts without wings bound by guilt, anchored to this realm they built
In death, the fortress breaks, what is left, but a lost chance
Dreamscapes, broken stars, blood-red roses escape from scars
Ghosts without wings bound by guilt, anchored to this realm they built
Mortals cry for a cure, extinguishing their own lamps
Life spoken into dusk, useless chants inertia
In death, the fortress shatters, what is left but a lost breath
Ill-divine are the weeping statues if they could even see
How godly are human intentions? Their angels singing; praises of light
Escape, the weight of darkness, and perish
Escape, the weight of darkness, and be exiled
Escape, the weight of the dark and fall
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Catharsis
06:39
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When the storm rages above, down thy skin, thick as blood
Hope will fade, for there is nothing but cruel despair
Flesh from bone in the moments of time, beauty turns dark divine
Left to rot in the moments of time, when thy soul can grieve no more
No shelter from the raging seas
Bury thee below the surface; no reflection to see
Destroyed, shattered, unfading suffocation
Destroyed, shattered, falling into abyss
The river widens, drowning thy soul to live
Only where the dead dwell, entombed from within
So much to behold
A story unforgiving; words lie inscribed
The hurt can never be destroyed
For it burns like a grave through my veins, devoid
Diverge light to shine unto thine own heart
Ever brighter, deeper than pain
Through the darkest storms, the night rains wane
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The Nightmare
05:48
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Cold as Death, embrace the night
Ungodly shade, her velvet cloak reigns
In a blackened sky, the moon glows faint
A prison of torment, a prison no mortal brings
Hour of Lilith curses blessed, dreams possessed
Banished from the Garden of Eden
To sleep is to be seen by wicked things
By the ruling queen of eternal damnation
Vows of death, blood upon her breath
She's breached a rift in the underworld of dreams
Evenfall, spellbound in nightfall
Tortured screams, dark hauntings, tearing at seams
Awoken from a bleak night, I am fallen
Shadows dancing, to harrow and enslave
Unbending as the knife, unmoving as the grave
Unholy souls delight, she craves!
It is stark even in daylight
Shredded my crippled eyes
What burns away the spirit and flesh but a purifying fire?
To kill the beasts inside, scarlet flames of cyanide
She's breached a rift in the underworld of dreams
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In Absentia Lucis
05:23
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End of All Flesh
05:35
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Nor sun nor moon will pierce the black clouds
Floods prevail In the name of heaven
Death hails down from a dark sky
Creation stood as it was made
Wickedness begets only the same
Mountains swallowed by wrath
Built by eons, ark of the king
Ancient eyes, weeping blood
Broken cries, grieving love
I am the raven, I withheld the olive branch
Beneath my blackened wing, a fetid hand commands the dove
A thirst for extinction that cannot be quelled
This circle of hate
Wash away the decay
Let it all burn
Let it all drown
Let it all die
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War in Heaven
06:27
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Oh hallowed realm
Where god defies man
Nothing left, still here I am
With wisdom abound
Stirring the stagnant lake
Of an ill-begotten fate
I am the guardian
I am the morning star
Born of fiery stones
A parade before kings
I am the Storm, I am reborn
To the dead conformed, forlorn
Prophets wither in downfall
Coffins shrouded by the pall
They escape into chains
Burning their righteous sight
On the angel’s white light
In this benighted world
I am the son of Dawn
I am liberty for all
I deny the Ancients of Days
My descendants will inherit the heavens
And war broke out in heaven
In unyielding rage, I fall
Buried where hell blooms, I rise
Ave domine inferne
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Awake Thou That Sleepest
05:05
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Hail O Death
Witness my frailty
Bring an end to this timeless abyss
From this nihil void
Let it take me, and may this be my last fall
We are the unblessed
End this life and recreate
We are the unblessed
A barren road to forsake
From fire and ashes
Herald of resurrection
Wings of ascension
Exsurge a mortuis
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9. |
O Fortuna
04:56
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O Fortuna
Velut luna
Statu variabilis
Semper crescis
Aut decrescis;
Vita detestabilis
Nunc obdurat
Et tunc curat
Ludo mentis aciem
Egestatem
Potestatem
Dissolvit ut glaciem
Sors immanis
Et inanis
Rota tu volubilis
Status malus
Vana salus
Semper dissolubilis
Obumbrata
Et velata
Michi quoque niteris;
Nunc per ludum
Dorsum nudum
Fero tui sceleris
Sors salutis
Et virtutis
Michi nunc contraria
Est affectus
Et defectus
Semper in angaria
Hac in hora
Sine mora
Corde pulsum tangite;
Quod per sortem
Sternit fortem
Mecum omnes plangite!
O fortuna, In Fortune solio sederam elatus
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