1. |
The Warning
05:02
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The sun is baking the landscape below
Another day of our lives
Our gazes lowered, away from the glare
By routines occupied
The people's hardship rising, it grows harder to maintain
The lives that we still cling to, is it all in vain?
We simply accept every new decree
Never suspecting a lie
Thinking the troubles are sure to end
While slowly we are bled dry
Kings conspire together to change it as they please
Is it for the good of the world, or just their pleasures appeased?
Their pedestal ascending by the plans they've laid
Deception turns us upon our own, confused and afraid
Stop and ask yourself does
There seem to be any
Sign of compassion
Or are they just preparing
An optimal setting
Where we are subdued and
Being born, dying while
Structures benefit their kind?
Is that so mad?
Stop clinging to illusions of allegiance to a side
(No, I know that it's right)
We're one and in the castle our enemy hides
(I see you've strayed from the light)
Tribulation's rising, how much more can we endure?
It's right out there before us: their intentions impure
When our children's children view this as history
Will they see the fools we've been and ask why we didn't flee?
Stop and ask yourself does
There seem to be any
Sign of compassion
Or are they just preparing
An optimal setting
Where we are subdued and
Being born, dying while
Structures benefit their kind?
Or are you blind?
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2. |
The Ashen
04:31
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Youngest child let me shelter you from the cold, give you the best and more
But in this palace you find yourself within, you'll fear our brand of recourse
And I learned the meaning of fear
The flame you wield inflicting scars
Left me weak and susceptible to vice
Now you've grown with a palace of your own, so tell me how does it feel?
Do you strike out when the child begins to shout, another turn of the wheel?
There must be something in our blood
Or is it something you did to my heart
Why the ones we're sworn to protect must fear
I feel the rage building within
The same fire that was left unguarded
And burned me into something resembling you
Colours pale from touch of flame, it burnt them all away
The Ashen fears it shall repeat today
Youngest child I look at what you are, what's left after the flames
A daughter of your own, you try to make a home, I pray you don't do the same
You realize that I know
I've seen what's left and my guilt and pity will never leave me alone
You could have been so great
I'd give anything to change the past but time has run away
Colours pale from touch of flame, it burnt them all away
The Ashen fears it shall repeat today
Quell the fire it can't return to your young betrayed
The ashen pallour she must not attain
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3. |
The Sublime
05:40
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Bewilder
It is extinguishing optimism
Disenchant
Despair as a sunny vision's fading
Stolen
Weren't we promised the rewards of victors?
Unfulfilled
They were fantasies I held so dear
Stolen
And I find hope is gone
Unfulfilled
And yet I must go on
Do you find hope is gone...
If it was you all along?
In the beginning
There was none that wasn't mine
No convention or expectation
Just the will to see it unwind
In the beginning
There was nothing but my mind
It was just me and the sublime
Sublime... the beauty of our world
A force beneath the surface, a fuel for our souls
Feel the chill, it's taking hold, taking hold
Strive to be the medium and mine the ephemeral for its gold
Do you find hope is gone...
If it was you all along?
In the beginning
There was none that wasn't mine
No convention or expectation
Just the will to see it unwind
In the beginning
There was nothing but my mind
It was just me and the sublime
Sublime... does it slip through your grasp?
Peacefully prepared hearts and minds join the masters of the past
The jester taunting you at the gate, at the gate
Bows to you and steps aside, is this inspiration fate?
Bewilder
Did it extinguish the optimism?
Disenchant
So the sunny vision has now faded
Stolen
Time to forgive the old expectation
Unfulfilled
Find your way to achieve exaltation
It's out there, it's out there, don't despair
Yours to share, it's out there. It's out there, don't despair
It's out there, it's out there, don't despair
Yours to share, it's out there. It's out there, in the air
Come to find a gift to behold
Out my fingertips, from my soul
Gears of progress teeth do align
And the burden's released from my mind
Nothing matters (but this truth)
Touched the sublime
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4. |
The Sunken
05:14
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Condescending look upon my face
And I'm feeling love for no one
My body is tired, my heart is numb
You think this must be who I am
I need you
I'll mislead you
And I'll push you away
And I'm drowning
By the moonlight
While you're looking the other way
Living life behind a bubble's film
And escaping one glass at a time
Elixir of carelessness your spell's
Charm's wearing thin yet I'm dying of thirst
I need you
I'll mislead you
And I'll push you away
And I'm drowning
By the moonlight
While you're looking the other way
Just a matter
Of time until
Another friend is turned away
Every careless
Gesture of mine
A symptom of my soul's decay
Aqua vitae, your sultry charms lead me astray
I do not feel there is any good until you've poisoned the day
Aqua mortis, you suffocate a sober smile
Pour you into my every wound, how much longer to be beguiled?
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5. |
Candy Tree
03:00
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