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Eleventh Hour
05:34
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By raising Midas hands
The crawling believers come
Command them reap the land
To break it and build your throne
You’re walking on holy ground
That disappears with each step
And speaking in ancient tongues
Set fire to the air and the earth
Hands high to heal the dying sky
Feel it taking over
Too late, there’ll be no morning after
And night will last forever
Can you feel the wind blow hard against your blood
Weakening the sky and cracking, breaking into flood
A wave upon a shore of living steel
The needle in the flesh that draws away your will to feel
We’re wading in the wounds that are left by wasted time
All the beasts can sense it
As the old gods blood runs dry
Cut-throat and jaded a suit just for smoking
And under the surface the pressure is threatening
The storm clouds look ready to break, hallelujah!
Brazen and backwards this huge heart attack
Is just fatally shy of convincing the schemers to die
The sea spilling over the wall, hallelujah!
If we drown, you drown with us
This path is leading somewhere fucking dangerous
Can you feel the acid rain wash away the pain?
Waiting, surrendering faith each day
[Lost in time
Peace is just whispered in careless minds
[Better start counting down]
Hands high to heal the dying sky
Feel it taking over
Too late, there’ll be no morning after
And night will last forever
Can you feel the wind blow hard against your blood
Weakening the sky and cracking, breaking into flood
A wave upon a shore of living steel
The needle in the flesh that draws away your will to feel
We’re wading in the wounds that are left by wasted time
All the beasts can sense it
As the old gods blood runs dry
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2. |
The Gemini
04:53
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I’ll find a way out
I’ll separate from you all
And step behind the mirror
Ignoring your call
There are legends to be made
Trials and treasures await
I cannot break away
With your poison in my veins
Fire for thinking along new lines
[Perish the thought it wasn’t one of the pre-approved anyhow
Makers stretched me beyond my bones
[One and the same now nothing remains. The Gemini, them and I]
Starting fighting back against the mental trap
Of animosity in harmony
Blood on my hands
And shivers down my spine
I won’t rеgret cutting the umbilical line
I’ll find a way out
I’ll sеparate from you all
And step behind the mirror
Ignoring your call
There are legends to be made
Trials and treasures await
I cannot break away
With your poison in my veins
There’s nothing left for me way out here
You pursued us for all we’re worth
Never strayed the path for better or for worse
Still as stone, and we’re newly alone
Silence now holds the voice of fear
Take a break and catch your breath
You’ve won my tears
And if you come willingly
Oh the things I could show you now
Can you control me without your tools?
In the mirror do I crack the same as you?
Under the same skin, don’t we all fall apart?
Will you persist through these painful years
To bring back one scrap of what I once held dear?
Thinking all alone…
There is madness in the silence way out here
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3. |
Jungles
05:59
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Swamp legs and the feeling of the edge
I live and die by the holy blowfly, ought to web it instead
Snake man, cut by the healing hands
I never burned on lake desire and caught your fevers instead
Aimless, with a sense of dangerous
I’ll rip and tear for an equal share and I call your manners undead
Cruel hands bound by mechanical bands
We haven’t heard of your god or the word and we pray to our motherland
[For greed they’ve come for king thеy’ll die
Faces of gold and eyеs that shed a little fire
Chew through our lands and mark our stones
Out in the night we see their desecrating steps]
From the temples top to the bottom of the sea
It speaks in me
I ask for silence please
Show the way and nourish the pain and let me seek peace
Wicked in the way that you’re always telling me to cease
And I’ll always fear that you’ll never hear all our own mysteries
Conjure me when you’re feeling far away
Never forget that I died so that you could stay
I believe I can retreat now
I need an ancient sleep now
In the words of the moon
Speak the sins
Tastes of fear
Bitter fruit swallowed whole
Lines of fire in the trees
Reflect light
We raise our hands up to the sky
Dance in skulls that come knee high
When the wind whispers in our ears we lose our minds
Feel as one with blood and wine
Insects calling on divine
Clouds make way for the serpent
[Teeth and fire]
And all our lands are overrun
Aspect of dread floats on and on
Just skin and bone
I am an empty man
I’ll never hold my angel's hand
Maintain the aspect of the land to keep it evermore
Under the influence of souls that keep your mind onboard
Raining rivers of blood that washes steel away
Leave it caked into the sand and watch the vipers lay
Wait all night
At sunrise
Flee, child!
From the temples top to the bottom of the sea
It speaks in me
I ask for violence please
Rivers of blood, a valley in flood, and you’re so
Wicked in the way that you’re always telling me to be
I can barely feel, we will never break free of these cages
Think of you, but you feel like a memory
I’m at rest ‘cause I know that you’re far away
Spirits, please, I’m barely breathing now
Mother! Wrap me in your earthly gown
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4. |
Jester
06:41
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Fix your eyes now
They betray innocent intent
Focus your mind now
It is seldom your friend
Steel your heart now
It has not the time to mend
And no one else can say
Which path will lead the way
(Words)
Cold comfort
(Hands)
So distant
(Night)
No refuge from the day
Tell me softly what I never wanted you to say
Show your colour, seven Hells are taking me away
The clouds pass beneath, this bridge at my feet
A rope around my neck, and her voice says "One more step."
I'm not home any more
There's a fist in my throat
I'm not home any more
There's a fist in my throat
And I talk to myself
But it doesn't seem to help me
Found your way in, seeped into my skin
Mercy, don't deny your long lost lonely child
Once more I know for your offer of gold
Will a fool's heart sway no more
For what has gone before?
I asked and I begged but never was I fed
Until all at once (here have it all)
Go eat until you're dead
The misery and rage;
The iron of the cage
It's not enough to scream it
(So go write it on the page)
Don't believe me, I don't know
I'm the Jester watch my show
But know the words I use belong not in my act
(In fact)
I'm a monster, wretched spawn
You'll be better once I'm gone
And then the only way you'll know me
(Is at the light)
Returns to your heart
But with that said you're gone now
I have a chance to finally feel whole again
Breath fills my lungs I've got time to rest
Alive to notice colour pierce the migraine
I'm alive
I'm alive
Fix your eyes now
Focus your mind now
Steel your heart now
Breathe it out now
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5. |
Coming Home
01:58
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6. |
Siren
05:22
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Beg, borrow and steal
Take a hold of the wheel
Take me to that horizon
Leave the harbor behind
I must be out of my mind
Give me your blessing, Poseidon
It's just a question of when
I'll take possession and then
You will come crawling to me
(Please, just give us some money)
I finally found me a way
They'll say that I went astray
But when they see me return
Wait and you'll see
Just what I'm about to be
My kingdom for the taking
Waves crash on me
But do nothing, for I believe
From that dream I'll be waking
You said I'll never be all that you want of me
Born in the gutter, a product of malady
Made in the city streets, molded by grinding heat
All that I ever learned kicked and lashed into me
I can remember then, there was a moment when I thought I'd end it all
Never see the light again
On the beach, a body, cold
Beckoning the light of gold
Torn old rag, and guidance in words of old
I asked for your help
Left with bruises and welts
Cursing
Wait and you'll see
Just what I'm about to be
My kingdom for the taking
Waves break on me
But do nothing, for I believe
From that dream I'll be waking
That sound, that warm liqueur
It tingles down my spine
It's calling me to come look over the edge
That face, that goddess in water
What is it my love, you've been searching for me?
One step is all it takes, then you will be mine
We'll be together
Listen, I would like to lay down next to you
But the stories tell me I should run away
I just need to stop and try
To get it through my mind that you're innocent but I'm the prey
Running on the edge of this insanity
Living in the moment just to stay alive
I would give it up for you
If I thought I had a chance of surviving 'til the sunrise
Take me to the darkness down below
Sand and sea
There was always meant to be a wedding in the waves
(Luminescent skin)
For the song you sing I will be a harmony
A final resting place
(Sinking deep within)
And eyes that glitter like gold
No
Let me go
Release your hold
Siren song, ice cold
Sadly, all that came out was a melody
Jaws that bled the life right from his drowning veins
One more slaughtered lamb who strayed too far for greener pastures
And offered up his neck for the blade
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7. |
Creatures in the Canopy
04:49
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Rain melts the rooftops
Under neon sky
Nothing and no one
Lasts too long outside
Nascent whispers
Fall from on high
Do as I do, Do as I say
And you will survive
Once the whispers make a difference
A hand extends to the ground
Quite a view they've given you
But these aren't wings, they're weights
A violent commandment is ushered down
Come and meet your purpose in the clouds
Make yourself at home (slowly drift away)
In the pit of their poison paradisе
For the creatures in thе canopy drink their blood and wine
We can take it from here (catatonic with fear)
Sovereigns proven they're no more than parasites
And the longer that you breathe them in
The stronger they become
Lack of control and the calmness are quite
Unlike the deafening roar of complacency,
Where every thought is laid to waste
At the moment of your suffering potential
Make yourself at home (slowly drift away)
In the nightmare that you see with open eyes
For the creatures in the canopy feast on you tonight
We can take it from here (catatonic with fear)
Time to decide if your life's worth dying
Don't be the wall between us
You've been fed and fattened
Fear the harvest my friend
It's easy in the end
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8. |
The Devil You Don't
06:18
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Watching love through a one-way screen
From my tree-top sanctuary
Overwhelmed but so alone
And hollow to the bone
Life in a thousand tiny lights
And a thousand bloodshot nights
Just as dead men feel no pain
I felt nothing till she came home
Bathed in her glow
Staring through endless midnight
Longing for her touch
This pain is too much
Her silence a warning sign of suffering yet to come
Nest in my mind wrapped up in my desire
Forever won't be enough
Deprived of your love
I'm a discarded memory buried in the snow
Call unto me еcho of peace
My nightmares cеase
I'm helpless kneeling before you
Dust for skin
Become the ghost from lifeless eyes
My body is her host
She's the crawling of skin
Withdrawal without the sin
She's the sick before the feast
The corpse feeding the beast
She's my hunger and thirst
This migraine her curse
I'll forfeit my self to sing praise to her verse
Could mold and change my nothing into pride
Blank and tearless eyes
That shy away and wither in the light
And cannot say goodbye
Maligned her undoing
The scent of her soul in our dwelling
Thoughtless company
A taste of the real grave lights bring her back to me
Nightly as I chase her shape
I can't explain how cold I am
When I touch her empty light
She recoils from my hand
Dark endless burrow eyes staring lifeless
Dead never rotting
I've fallen into bliss
Fragmented sanity
A remnant of my mind in your machine
Profound mania
In the end I could never forget her eyes
Her verse could mold and change my nothing into pride
Blank and tearless eyes
That shy away and wither in the light
And cannot say goodbye
What am I?
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9. |
Kaleidoscope
06:39
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I had to put words to it first
To spell out the turmoil inside
This whirlpool of colours
This fragmented rainbow
That I feel that I struggle to hide
From home where I knew who I was
I've run far away and turned strange
I wish you could've met me back then
When I laughed
When I was prism of the sun
And I'm waking every morning with a grown
And I'm starting later every day
I spend a little more than I can spare
What does it matter anyway?
I'm fading colour from the weakening pity
And I will fade out in grey
I have to burn out brightly
I am not the enemy
No mattеr what you think of me
I've wasted so much еnergy
Afraid to grow old without leaving scars on my hands
And if you listen very close
You'll hear all I wanted was the space to make my own way
Gift me back the words that slipped away
Where the hours seem the same
Forgetting every figment I can find
Like sunlight for the blind
Madness in becoming something worth meaning
And I will not die this way
I have to burn out brightly
I am not the enemy
No matter what you think of me
I've wasted so much energy
Afraid to grow old without leaving scars on my hands
And if you listen very close
You'll hear all I wanted was the space to make my own way
How? How can I possibly be happy being me
When every thought is tinged with regret?
Kneel. Gather every piece. Every part of me
Forget the past and build me something real
I can't have all this effort be in vain
I have to burn out brightly
I am not the enemy
No matter what you think of me
I've wasted so much energy
Afraid to grow old without leaving scars on my hands
And if you listen very close
You'll hear all I wanted was the space to face a new day
Fear not the old grey
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