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Long in the Tooth
08:53
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Our decencies that tilt empires
Will join the space between the stars
A distant dawn forever alight
Impossibly red, arterial bright
Times crumbles granite and our memory
Enthralls all it calls to eat from its tree
Lonely and desperate
A ceaseless icy rain
Spines supine, lines entwine
Anguish fills our days
And like the winter's sun
Our ancient omens shine but give no heat
The leaves of yesteryear
They rise then fall back to the earth
Born of the sky
Where the night filled my eye
Sight unseen and unsound
Shadows poison the ground
Oil black sights they compel me
Like hexes and spells
Our fate know to us and we know it well
We all live in hell
Bridge of years
That leads to skyward towers
Deftly eroded by the
Plodding pressing passage of our lives
Our brief hungry lives
Where did we come from and where do we go
Since I awoke here the answer's unknown
Venerated
Worse for wear
Long in the tooth
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Death on the Malahat
03:11
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The sound of rain like
sharpening knives
Grey mountain faces with
gallows in their eyes
Pale in her anger
This thief of light
Lingers like a collapsing sun
Boundless
A chord strikes
A feeling I'll never remember
Uncertainty darkens our door
Maybe the pain is
imagining there's anything
Mine today, yours tomorrow
These gifts we cannot endure
As we turn and falter
Our destiny we write in water
Blood on the road
As above so below
On the road to revenge
No hope no fear
On the road to revenge
Be prepared to dig two graves
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Boiling Ancient Light
07:43
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Boiling ancient light so thick
That it gathers in your fingertips
Listen to the daybreak
Whisper its' sweet deceits
We are all alone
All the time
Until we die
Dying skies reflect in eyes
They shimmer like wildfires
We are all alone
All the time
Until we die
Go ask the sun
The worth of one
Overthrown
Overgrown
Upon these wings of desolation
Vessels so ancient
That they pour out wrath
Our timeless creation
With six wings apart
The eyes all around it
Outnumber the stars
Each head like a lion, an ox, and a man
A spectre despondent
With our death in its' hands
All things treasured cannot hold
Our desires first ash then cold
A shroud, our death, we can unfold
All that glitters is not gold
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4. |
Void Eater
06:25
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Cruciatus in crucem
Haec credam a deo pio, a deo justo, a deo scito?
Cruciatus in crucem
Tuus in terra servus, nuntius fui, officium perfeci.
Cruciatus in crucem
Eas in crucem
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I'm not myself
I knot myself
In shapes both risen and profane
Brutal restless
Brittle rapt
Pulled in all directions
Our fate now set
Once ascended
We descend
Straight through to the underworld
Crest fallen in time we learn
An existence now abstraction
Creeping dread, miasma
The night has its' price
Uncaring lights baptize
At once emptiness
Confines me
Resigns me
Exalted but still no more
Resistant to all that lays before me
A darkness that can be felt
Aeons die, still I
Reach to the stars
These bands of amber
Become our tombs in time
By temple light
At once emptiness
Confines me
Resigns me
Exalted but still no more
Resistant to all that lays before me
I'm no more
A great horror
Is that losing one's self
Can occur as if it were
Nothing
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5. |
Wolverine Blues
02:25
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What you believe
Is the vanity you conceive
What you love you don't pen
To put in a cage is to put to an end
Enamoured of the passion
Life-sucking lust
You will never gain my trust
I'm a misanthropical breed
Insatiable in my need to feed
Utterly fearless
For your luscious flesh
I've got an appetite like a war
And I always hunger for more
Enamoured of the passion
Life-sucking lust
You will never gain my trust
Vicious mammal
The blood is my call
Pound for pound
I am the most vicious of all
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6. |
Endless
07:36
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This harbour I have
Withdrawn myself to
After weathering the
Storms of life
A future never comes
The past does not exist
Our time is not endless
Death at the gates again
It howls my name
A sorrow that fills oceans
Unfathomed these depths
A future never comes
The past does not exist
Our time is not endless
Nothing lasts
Nothing changes
Tide
Subsides
The largest mouthful of ash
Atop these mountains of death
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HERON Vancouver, British Columbia
Life is overwhelming.
How could the void be worse?
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