1. |
Amongst Still Waters
11:53
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Lost still-drawn memories
Waters guide hollowed souls that reach for vaulted peace
Saw the waning light fade from meadows of dream
Endlessly pulled under time
Drowned from eternity
The faceless follow the shape
One of all the same
Eyes staring through
Veiled rise of the awoken few
Strains of dismal gray
Spires of lies feeding the sulfur
By degeneracy
This withered piece of seething heart
Come to me beneath
Unlock the face
Bury me within the sea
Still shall we sit in ease
The surface frozen
I can only count the days
Come to me beneath
Unlock the face
Bury me within the sea
Still shall we sit in ease
The surface broken
I can only count the days
Pull my heart from this stone
Retribution from sorrows untold
Leaving the mark of the past
Craving release from the distance
These roots become my last
Visions from the other side
Faint so dimly and so old
Leave this place
You will never know this cold
Lie unknown and free
The wind soothes your pain
Gone to know the wreath
I, alone, can see
The slumber falls tainted to bliss
Sing within the eyeless
The fire burns closely to me
Their vengeance obscured
Cinder of the fallen tree
Spirited null risen by stakes
Burning, the yearning, breathless without release
Lone demise, feathers the snake
Forgone, unhallowed, within its place
Shallow of wise, bereft of space
The gallows, they whisper of your name
A gift from the sky
Forever gone to hide
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2. |
The Mourne
10:28
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Arose the solemn sorrows
Adorned in crowns of mist
Thrown from shadowed towers
Chosen by wicked caress
The fallen rune unanswered
The blade’s call persists
Though such terrible lies
None bear to resist
North lies the argent vengeance
Winds pierces the skin
Doom dreamt hollow
From the years that follow
The one to erase
This flowing blue dismay
Disbelief of the calling realms disguised
The Mourne pulling from the sky
Lost souls crying in the night
Their sympathies left here to lay
Alone in the veil of phase
The peak’s excision cracks the space
Mirrored through the prison we care to stay
Decision of fading away
Upon dim visions you failed to see
The torn transition, pale of beasts
Contorted bone holds the seal
The flesh disowned
Weighted to kneel
Grief stricken gates of fetid steel
Daggers of lonesome death silence the fear
The sick division
As one we weep
Their lives for ransom
A gaze of somatic desist
For when I sleep they will know my time
Never to cease to rest
Above we grasp for life
Your judgement loosens the grip
Far enough have I now wandered
Possessed by distant mistake
Asleep of hollow
Deceives the will to stay
Again I roam this lonely upheaval
Loathing winter’s decay
Disfigured glisten of flayed carcass blight
Erodes the vision buried from my mind
Along the valley I warp onto night
My contempt folds your embrace
Alone in the veil of phase
The peak’s excision cracks the space
Mirrored through the prison we care to stay
One’s decision of fading away
Distractions from the pain
No one allowed near
Suffer alone I will
Only to die this way
Hear their horrid cries
Stare into the stars for they have forgotten me
From exile I stood at the gates in frozen rain
No use of your cries of pain, unhallowed shame
Resisting the part of me, born discreet
One anguish holds all of us
Bearer of the curse
Alone in the veil of phase
The peak’s excision cracks the space
Mirrored through the prison we care to stay
One’s decision of fading away
Distractions from the pain
No one allowed near
Suffer alone I will
Only to die this way
Hear their horrid cries
Here lies the soils of my desperations
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3. |
Sunder
08:50
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The river ends with me
I’ve never known the truth
Reflections of a moon
Weeping from the darkest of skies
Under the leaves, beneath broken ground
Hold onto me, for I don’t know how
A coldness in spring, a distorted spell
The longing you search for
Turn away
Inability, I couldn’t see
Disappoint in blinding snow
A serenity to feel your embrace
Your efforts will never know
Under the leaves, beneath broken ground
Hold onto me, for I don’t know how
A coldness in spring, a distorted spell
No one will free you from your own hell
Desires to kill them
The haunting of reprieve
The desolation of my soul
Revealing the past to me
Your hand trembles in confusion
For I cannot show this withered soul
Plea for misery, none will know
The closest one to bleed
A bloodless smoke
Resent the sorrows I breath
Alone in this sorted life
Forgive my life of apathy
Dissolved of light
I lie awake to rid myself from this pain
Only now will death understand
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4. |
The Castle Portal
09:05
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Can’t you see the martyrs?
Forever crowned in prolonged misery
One belief in the higher
Forgotten dreams from a kingdom out of reach
The ending nears the path alone
Beyond relation to the world I’ve known
Constellation of fates to weigh
Disposed horizon, a friend betrayed
Tonight we’ve gone to hell
Begging the skies to speak
The muse of glows fades from our sight
This is the home that we seek
Tell a truth to me
Death will set you free
Through the vapor’s rise,
I notice the color’s all the same
Spared from falling downwards
Held in the gray between
Go from Earth to see
I forsake this sleep
I can see they lower me in the ground
Sacrifice for this nothing
Withered the gates to pry
Absent disorder of spirit decay
The remains ignite
Cursed to live again
The reaping cries of liars
Damning me from returning once again
One’s lone desire
Across the trees, further from the rise
The ending nears the path alone
Beyond relation to the world I’ve known
Constellation of fates to weigh
The frozen silence begs me to stay
Tell a truth to me
Death will set me free
Through the vapor’s rise,
I notice the color is all the same
Spared from falling downwards
Held in the gray between
Go from Earth to see
I forsake this sleep
Forgoes this fated line built from grim wonder
We sail beneath under the corners of your eyes
Chariots of steam holding the lie closer
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5. |
Moon Within Our Palms
04:04
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I have run out of places to climb
Left this body and took flight
We hold together through air
Rest we will somewhere
You are the vespers in me
The moon subsides, its essence lies free
From this grief
I rise from the ocean like an island without end,
Become an aerial, A beacon that I wont forget
Without the rains of the night
I’ll become the air for you
Fleeing from your sight
This cloud could never do
You are the vespers in me
The moon subsides, its essence lies free
Come together by the wind of day
The shores are waiting for us to sail away
From this grief
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6. |
Chosen Bereft
11:25
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I masquerade abysmally
Led into the moment’s fray
Fear of being seen once more hides me from day
Their apparent woven mockeries tear me from the seams
None will know the nothingness of this bereave
The devil doth speak to me
With a still of laughter and peace
A glass with nothing to fill
You make the confusion bereft of my will
Descend in chosen black memory
All of which end the same
Denied the lucid blank reveries
Gone unknown, a sorrow’s grace
Distractions of mine subside
Ignorant to the past
Injury sustains to an end
Swirling design possess this head
Marauders faint sickly to the lowered sun
The pose of the lilac tree points towards the one
The tyranny of light shaded judgements
What’s left withstood the paling name
Despite your efforts to capture me
Your feeble mind failed insane
To know the song of entranced eves
Desires that wail across the wake
Another choice left unrelieved
Great barrier of idle disdain
Resent me once again
An apathy I must send
Your waiting of love’s caress
The silk remains far from breath
Goes the unholy black thunder
A storm known evermore
Your reaping lacks to make order
The face of the closing door
Though once believed of heart changing comforts
Forget my life, I’ll find the peace
Serrated the morning comes
Awake to live the doubt today
Black fire told prophecy
Vanquished the writings of disease
For my entire time alive
Silence stood at the scene
Resent me once again
The apathy I must send
Your waiting of love’s caress
Their symphonies of the end set me free
Resistance is made
Chromatic of blaze
Alone I bleed in the broken glass
Persist through my ways
The grasp of this pain
The weeping echoes from the first memory
The gusts brim the corpses
The lives I have slain
Their hopes die in howling vast tragedy
An eclipse of this shame
The loss of my faith
Again my indifferent breath everlasts
Ghost of pleas
I reject thee
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Citadel Secaucus, New Jersey
Citadel is a Progressive Death Metal project based out of New Jersey.
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