1. |
Solstice
04:16
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When darkness brings darkness
The sunlight flickers behind your eyes
And cradles, enables a change
When ashes bring ashes
Your wonder answers, and rests itself in your palms, your palms
We waited for daybreak
The night was long so we stayed awhile, awhile
To bring a solstice, we chose this
A steady hand paints golden skies and wakes us
We wake up and see it all
We are the solstice
We are the sun
The morning belongs to us
We are the solstice
We are the sun
We cover the earth like dust, oh
It was always there
Latent and waiting
For roots to bear a harvest of change
It is in the air
Our autumn ascending
Now dawn, we share
Our solstice will claim this ending
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2. |
Fly With Me
03:24
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Can you hear that sound
The city has a voice
Oh, I can hear it now
The timbre of a choice that I can't say out loud
No, I don't feel anything
Those paths between
The end and the beginning
All the things we see
We find another meaning
For who we are
And who we could be
Now I can see those golden dreams
Shapeless bells are ringing
A thousand souls, they sing
Won't you fly with me
Come and fly with me
Just take my hand and you'll see
These chains, they'll never hold me
So fly with me
Come and fly with me
The darkness is closing in
Perhaps it always has been
And I was raised in sin
But despite the curse of your world, I never let you in
I'm uncompromised
I'm stirred awake
Like the morning sky
Shapeless bells are ringing
A thousand souls, they sing
Won't you fly with me
Come and fly with me
Just let me go and you'll see
These chains, they'll never hold me
So fly with me
Come and fly with me
Just float on past the surface
Of woes, doubts, lies, and burdens
And cease to be
We are harmony
Then float down, find your way back
And watch me soar and know that
You'll always be a part of me
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3. |
Forlorn
04:08
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Take the earth
Take the sea
Wring it out, encapsulate, set free
Everyone is listening
Captivate tragedy
We congregate to whys when lost in grief
I don't know what you did to me
Could you ever be so forlorn
Could you ever be so forlorn
I couldn't ever be so forlorn
How could you ever be so forlorn
I saw you once
In a dream
The day after I died
You called to me
Unmake the woes
Your heart has seen
You stayed a while
You let me breathe
You sat down right beside, said you'd never leave
But through a one way mirror
It was only me
Could you ever be so forlorn
Could you ever be so forlorn
I couldn't ever be so forlorn
How could you ever be so forlorn
Could you ever be so forlorn
Could you ever be so forlorn
I couldn't ever be so forlorn
How could you ever be so forlorn
I'll say it once
But not again
Embark your fragile mind
Pacify the end
And recognize the light you send
For what it was
Will always be
We'll dance across the lines here underneath
And trace them back for all to see
I couldn't ever be so forlorn
I couldn't ever be so forlorn
I couldn't ever be so forlorn
How could you ever be so forlorn
I couldn't ever be so forlorn
I couldn't ever be so forlorn
I couldn't ever be so forlorn
How could you ever be so forlorn
Take the earth
Take the sea
Wring it out, encapsulate, set free
Everyone is listening
For what it was
Will always be
We'll dance across the lines here underneath
And trace them back for all to see
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4. |
Gone
03:35
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Gone
When it starts to hold us
Betray us and control us
Defy our sense, it knows us
It knows that we won't change
When worry starts to find us
A presence will remind us
A feeling will confine us
We'll always be the same
Now
Our limbs are battered, broken
The window's shattered, open
And all your things are stolen
Your senses start to fade
Divided with precision
A cognizant revision
This waiving of admission
It sends it all away
You've found
When feeling starts to show
Shut down, you'll never know
So now
When grievance grinds your bones
In moments time, goodbye
You're gone
Now
As exits disappear and
Intention follows near it
Your body claims coherence
And walks it to the grave
When everything is poison
A fatalistic void, then
The act of finding sources
Is futile and insane
You've found
When feeling starts to show
Shut down, you'll never know
So now
When grievance grinds your bones
In moments time, goodbye
You're gone
You've found
When feeling starts to show
Shut down, you'll never know
So now
When grievance grinds your bones
In moments time, goodbye
You're gone
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5. |
Monster, Monster
03:30
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Monster, monster, what have we here
A deadly aspirant that begs you to hear
The violent cadence of foolish thoughts
You've been locked up here for far too long
Monster, monster, what do you see
A frivolous soul waiting patiently
For blood red teeth and fatal claws
To creep through the silence
Devour their flaws
But you're trapped inside
And the door's held shut
I won't step aside
But I'm close enough
Let yourself out
Break my bones and cut me down
Oh, grind me into pieces
Only then I'll see
A monster's revelation
Will define my need, oh
Let yourself out
Break my soul and drag me down
Oh, show me all the weakness that I couldn't see
Cuz' I can only wake up when a monster's after me
Monster, monster, grant me your fear
My virtue is tainted, my body reveres
The sheltering sanction of vacant thoughts
My purpose is empty, my conscience is lost
Monster, monster, find your release
A settling soul is the rival of peace
So come now, I'm slipping, my mind is naught
Your moment has surfaced, the noose is taut
It's all trapped inside
And it won't let up
I've grown petrified
But I've had enough
Let yourself out
Break my bones and cut me down
Oh, grind me into pieces
Only then I'll see
A monster's revelation
Will define my need, oh
Let yourself out
Break my soul and drag me down
Oh, show me all the weakness that I couldn't see
Cuz' I can only wake up when a monster's after me
Creeping, haunting, singing softly
Ever-waiting, time's escaping
Creeping, haunting, singing softly
Ever-waiting, time's escaping
Let yourself out
Break my bones and cut me down
Oh, grind me into pieces
Only then I'll see
A monster's revelation
Will define my need, oh
Let yourself out
Break my soul and drag me down
Oh, show me all the weakness that I couldn't see
Cuz' I can only wake up when a monster's after me
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6. |
Cross Contamination
03:50
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Couldn't tear out these eyes to disguise the things you took
Couldn't black out the lies that reside in your trying looks
Cross contamination
Cry manipulation
Horrid revelations in this place
Abhorrence impending
Agony ascending
So run, run run, run
You better run
You better run
Run far away from this place
Cuz' you can't erase their mistakes
You better run
Oh, you better run
Run far away from this now
To drown out that haunting sound
Ignorance is operated
By our hands, intoxicated
Terror trapped inside, so take it
Hide it, burn it, crush it, break it
End it, it's contaminated
The dead are writhing in lines
Right beside your scathing hooks
Spilling out from inside
When the hive was barely shook
Cross contamination
Vile aberration
Crooked mediation in this place
Suffering unending
Sanity descending
So run, run, run, run
You better run
You better run
Run far away from this place
Cuz' you can't erase their mistakes
You better run
Oh, you better run
Run far away from this now
To drown out that haunting sound
Ignorance is operated
By our hands, intoxicated
Terror trapped inside, so take it
Hide it, burn it, crush it, break it
End it, it's contaminated
Are you buried alive
Gasping for air
Did the gravedigger betray you
Or was the shovel in your hands
Falsified virtue at the will of your kin
Why don't you sleep with the worms
You'll fit right in
I need to get out
You better run
You better run
Run far away from this place
Cuz' you can't erase their mistakes
You better run, oh
You better run
Run far away from this now
To drown out that haunting sound
Ignorance is operated
By our hands, intoxicated
Terror trapped inside, so take it
Hide it, burn it, crush it, break it
End it, it's contaminated
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7. |
Evercold
04:46
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With no promises I move on
Shelter your senses you're, you're gone
This form wandered off too far... ahh...
Now all the host knows is you are
With no sense of time I tread on
Searching for nothing more, you're upon
A path made of wars and wrongs... ahh...
Bound by the notion you don't belong
I'll never belong
Evercold, I stay
Shattered and broken inside
Memories, sand on my feet
Carried off by a wave
But you say
Everything will change
I promise you don't let it die
Time is a luminous sea, with so much unexplored
You'll find what you're looking for
With no end in sight I float on
Frostbitten bones hold us out from
The warm cover of the sun... ahh...
Left here alone, closed in, you're numb
Bring yourself back to me
Bring yourself back to me
Bring yourself back to me
Bring yourself back to me
Evercold, I stay
Shattered and broken inside
Memories, sand on my feet
Carried off by a wave
But you say
Everything will change
I promise you don't let it die
Time is a luminous sea, with so much unexplored
You'll find what you're looking for
With no promises I move on
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8. |
The Ghost of Me
05:31
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Come, lost, broken soul
Won't you give me a dream
I saw you wander through the halls
Were you looking for me
Come night the air is cold and I can hear you speak
Soft whispers through the walls haunt me to sleep
Sent off to meet my strangled woes
A vacancy
Trespass among the thoughtless, whole, but empty
A march without motion as stiff as a stone
They start to bleed
Black seeping through their bones
A soundless scream
Dissonant forms made of glass
Gather to mourn a spirit passed
Through cracks in their core your image is projecting
The deviant holds heinous lies
Like a mother would hold newborn life
The body declines and none are left standing
And I wonder if, you're thinking, thinking of me
Through this, I see it dissolving through me
And I wish you felt it like knives on your knees
Defy this
Believe in the ghost of me
Drained vessel, your remains are shown through shattered screens
Far past them, you awake alone and caught between
The endless divide of a choice unbeknown
You fail to breathe
An arc of misguided subliminal tones
Your mind recedes
Legions occur
Grasping, thin
Mirroring words held within
I know who you are
But can you really hear me
The decedent stirs
Wakeful eyes are ravaged and blurred
Robbed of sight
Ambivalence dies
And none are left standing
And I wonder if, you're thinking, thinking of me
Through this, I see it dissolving through me
And I wish you felt it like knives on your knees
Defy this
Believe in the ghost of me
And I wonder if, you're thinking, thinking of me
Through this, I see it dissolving through me
And I wish you felt it like knives on your knees
Defy this
Believe in the ghost of me
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9. |
Volition
04:09
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Why don't you ask me a question
Just tell me what you need
Cuz' there's a bold interception
Every time I try to speak
Oh, can you carry off these burdens
Right the wrongs of me
The consequence of failure
Is easier, you see
When you take it all
Just take it all
You know a choice is a golden refuge
That shelters as it speaks
A language of conviction
That conquers apathy
So when your mind aches with staggered virtue
You'll find the agency
To divide doubt, mend the facets of you
And scribe your masterpiece
Erase it all and build yourself again
Until your woes submit and the soul commits
To take it all
Defy the lies we've kept
Put our hearts to rest
And the soul will take us home
I'm sick of waiting for an answer
To a question I won't ask
These idle hands surrender
The fate of nulling this collapse
But these bones are ever-restless
For an inkling of a change
So I'll find it now, I'll scream it out
This iron will cannot be swayed
I'll take it all
I'll take it all
Erase it all and build yourself again
Until your woes submit and the soul commits
To take it all
Defy the lies we've kept
Put our hearts to rest
And the soul will take us home
Erase it all and build yourself again
Until your woes submit and the soul commits
To take it all
Defy the lies we've kept
Put our hearts to rest
And the soul will take us home
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10. |
Monarch
06:04
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Rose eyes
A visitor roams your mind
Soundless voices cite
Temper your woes
Tend to your whys
Apathy grows in the nurture of night
So fight
Harness your words
Orchestrate lines of impervious worth
Golden dreams
Sing to thee
Golden dreams
Sing to thee
Rose eyes
Sway with the faults of time
Set your soul alight
All of your hurt
All of your pride
Witness the cost of duplicitous lies
On tides of light
Majesty beckons your hurried reply
Golden dreams
Sing to thee
Golden dreams
Sing to thee
Somewhere, out there
Rose eyes
Fervency bolds your sight
Sound usurps the night
Stated to thee
All of these things
Guided beyond the dream
To breathe, fall and recede
Furnish your harmony
Golden dreams
Golden dreams are roaming out before the end
Sing to thee
Sing to the choices restored with the virtue to understand
Golden dreams
Golden dreams are roaming out before the end
Sing to thee
Sing to the choices restored with the virtue to understand
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11. |
Owl in the Snow
04:35
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I was writing a song
I caught a memory in my palm
I held on tight just for a moment
Then let it go
I watched as it went
I waved goodbye and softly said
Another day we'll meet again
I'll see you then
Gentle quiet
Pacify my mind
Oh, these wings are tired
So as the evening falls I will rest these weary eyes
Sing to me
Stay by my side until I fall asleep
A faint lullaby treads softly through the night
And comes to life
Make believe the world is gold and find your harmony
The faces of time as weightless as the white drifting through the sky
Gentle quiet
Dignify the signs
When intention's blind
I'll follow the certainty inside
But for now I'll stay
Patient for the day
Pull the weeds away
And claim the garden that you shaped
Sing to me
Stay by my side until I fall asleep
A faint lullaby treads softly through the night
And comes to life
Make believe the world is gold and find your harmony
The faces of time as weightless as the white drifting through the sky
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12. |
Peace, Hereafter
07:33
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Recall me back to the synergy
Where days part in memory
Let me go
Take me
Remove all these awful things
Reside in my mind and see where we go
Ask me what it feels like
I'll say I don't know
Like a wish to the air, we ask and can only hope
Hope that when someday when it comes home
Whoever finds it hereafter finds it and already knows
In the rain, I've been found
Lucid and walking
Under silence and sound I know that you're watching
And in the ashes of everything, the world, it turns to gold
And the silence knows
Here we are again
The measures repeat but your heart is serene
There's a song in your soul
A radiant chime made from fractals of time
It sings
Oooh, oooh, oooh, oooh
Oooh, oooh, oooh, oooh
Bright soul, reverie, miracles, clarity
Uphold what you see
What it was will always be
Bright soul, reverie , miracles, clarity
Uphold what you see
What it was will always be
Bright soul, reverie , miracles, clarity
Uphold what you see
What it was will always be
Bright soul, reverie , miracles, clarity
Uphold what you see
What it was will always be
Time moves on
And memories, they wilt away
But that's okay
In the rain, I've been found
Lucid and walking
Under silence and sound I know that you're watching
And in the ashes of everything, the world, it turns to gold
And the silence knows
In the rain, I am whole again
Wakeful and searching
And through the thoughts that we sought to mend our Spring is emerging
And in the ashes of everything, the world, it turns to gold
And the silence knows
In the rain, I found you
Latent, and dreaming
So I went back to prove
Though answers are fleeting
In the ashes of everything, the world, it turns to gold
And the silence knows
Now the silence knows
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