Frontier, by Midgard

Frontier

by Midgard

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1.	Universe 25 04:25	lyrics	buy track
We are in distress An offering of heaven, the nature of excess Inside our walls, a microcosm Souls bared, all our secrets revealed Born and bred inside the machine We are purveyors of our own liberty An empire under the artificial sun Victims of secretive design, the price of perfection In universe 25, our creator has failed In universe 25, we are condemned In universe 25, where the end begins In universe 25, the failure of dreams We do not belong Dissected and fragmented to see what went wrong Our callous empires crumble The end of order, a failed experiment In universe 25, our creator has failed In universe 25, we are condemned In universe 25, we don’t understand In universe 25, where it will end
2.	Four Seasons of Autumn 09:06	lyrics	buy track
On the last day of the season Autumn decided to die The sweetness of it all A beautiful release One final step A terminal remedy She stares through the window And sees the clouds go by Will this grey serenity Be the last thing she will see? The veins of frost are spreading Like the signs of her symptoms Upon the wall she sees the symbol The symbol of guilt I am alpha and omega The first and the last The beginning and the end The future and the past Question me not The judgment and the sin The spark of dissolution Inside the fragile skin No, there was never a solace There was no chance of peace There was never a light No, there were no revelations No dreams of salvation Fading into the night She walks upon the frozen dreams of summer Her bare feet leave no prints upon the snow Her eyes are shining with remembrance Of warmer seasons long ago The fields are frozen The songs have bled And she seeks Remedy in death A speck of light in the winter Flowers rising from the snow A precious memory will glimmer And she knows it is time to go Come with me child, walk into the shadow Free from your suffering, free from judgment Come with me child, and you shall not return Beyond the frailty of flesh, you shall be made whole Take my hand, take leave of the misery Take my hand and drink of everlasting summer On the other side of the veil All things shall be renewed On the last day of the season Autumn decided to die
3.	Equilibrium 03:46	lyrics	buy track
So it has come to this A providence divine The sum of all our fears The trial of our times Upon the gilded streets The cross of misery The gates of paradise Where no one holds the key This is equilibrium Of broken souls and lives This is equilibrium A fateful compromise Are the angels watching? Do our dreams run dry? Do we need the darkness for this light? The elegance of light Paid for by pitch black crawl The sentiment of grace Bought by another fall The proudest of our victories Paid for by others’ sins The sum of our intentions Averaged out by the extremes This is equilibrium Of broken souls and lives This is equilibrium A fateful compromise Are the angels watching? Do our dreams run dry? Do we need the darkness for this light?
4.	Through the Autumn Stars 08:33	lyrics	buy track
Behold the ivory gates, though fallen and opaque with time Touch the withering stream of summer’s fading equinox Come unto the twilight’s celestial tapestry And drink the chalice from Hecate’s heart Behold the flowering of season’s living end Akin to weaving of the gossamer strands Dance the blessing of the fall with slithering shadows And float away with the wisps of fading smoke Into the morphing constellations Beyond the lighthouse of the moon Into uncharted destinations Before the day comes all too soon Sail through the autumn stars Into the sleeping forge of endless worlds Sail through the autumn stars Into celestial symphony’s lost course Sail through the autumn stars Where angels feed oblivion to the ghosts Sail through the autumn stars Into Elysium long lost And in the pale repentance Disciple walks away From ashes of the sentence That carried eyes of the last day Behold the Dionysian spectacle, since long estranged Tipping the scale to the side of the harvest moon Running with the galleons of October clouds Rising into the abode of sleeping apostles And all that once was, shall return unscathed Moribund gods smile upon the Saturnalia Breathing in the music of celestial machinery Ascending to the realm of the spirit Into the morphing constellations Beyond the lighthouse of the moon Into uncharted destinations Before the day comes all too soon Sail through the autumn stars Into the sleeping forge of endless worlds Sail through the autumn stars Into celestial symphony’s lost course Sail through the autumn stars Where angels feed oblivion to the ghosts Sail through the autumn stars Into Elysium long lost
5.	Deceiver Rising 03:08	lyrics	buy track
Darkness all around you Did you lose your way? Shades of broken doorways Rotting window panes Are you yet to falter? Are you yet to crawl? Thirty silver pieces Useless on the floor Fool, out there in the dark Thought to leave your mark Never to be seen In the light again Never trust you twice Deceiver always lies As you fall You will remember Will you surrender? Will you fight and die? Will you face my anger With another lie? Are your knuckles bleeding Slammed against the wall? In the hour of darkness You thought you knew it all Fool, out there in the dark Thought to leave your mark Never to be seen In the light again Never trust you twice Deceiver always lies As you fall You will remember
6.	In the Shadow of the Wings 05:38	lyrics	buy track
We are but embers in the firmament of time One final breath before the fade… Wait for the sun to rise Your hope and fear To be one with the light We will embrace the eclipse For this is not the end Lost in the heart Your thoughts and words Will become your legacy Against the coming of the night The wings that stood against the sun Collecting words to be undone One final hour paints our losses grey To stand against the vagrant time Against division and decline The memory will never fade away In the candle fire, we shall never forget In the candle light, we shall remember Forget the body, it was just a shell The spirit will carry on And as I hold the image tight I feel that somewhere deep inside We are but wrinkles in the fabric of the void The wings are black against the sun Collected thoughts and dreams undone Embrace aphotic, unity dissolved How do you live when you know? How do you meet each sunrise? When the eclipse is near What is the meaning of life? We live in the shadow of the wings We love in the shadow of the wings We believe in the shadow of the wings We die in the shadow of the wings
7.	Sovereign 05:30	lyrics	buy track
In the field I stand before you Scarred and battered yet unbound In my eyes, determination To raise my flag above the vultures Broken bodies, broken spirits Gods and temples desecrated Cities burned and the earth is salted And the heart, it cries for vengeance Salt the bloody earth We are at war In the face of our enemies I am sovereign In this battle we are alone There is no surrender As the raven flies Over the graves of our fathers The wind whispers The sole remaining truth It is better to die well Than to live a slave As black clouds fall like lead We shall fight forever more As the day turns into night We will unleash the dogs of war In the clouds and in the fields Upon the waves and blood-slick shores At the sight of our enemies We will unleash the dogs of war And in the end you will see The meaning of our fight Vengeance and poetry Written in the sky We are the last of our kind We face the tempest and prevail And in the face of our enemies We are sovereign As black clouds fall like lead We shall fight forever more As the day turns into night We will unleash the dogs of war In the clouds and in the fields Upon the waves and blood-slick shores At the sight of our enemies We will unleash the dogs of war As the raven flies We will unleash the dogs of war As the raven flies We will unleash the dogs of war I am sovereign, I am the one I am sovereign, I am the one
8.	Samarkand 04:46	lyrics	buy track
And I saw the spires rise against the blue sky Eternal and ancient In the cobbled stone streets, memories of an age Silk and sand Where your eyes watched the heavens The minarets pierce the veil In your shadow I see the crossroads Of the world Take me to another age and dream of Samarkand I hear your call under the eastern stars The desert wind sings strange quatrains I see your hopes, but so little remains And underneath the sun and stars The divine providence subsides And though I seek to understand I left my dreams in Samarkand And I saw the curtain of centuries rise A window to the past Shadows of poets and fools Concubines, conquerors, saints and fanatics In my mind’s eye, a never-ending Procession of the ghosts They all dance Under the azure lens of heaven Take me to another age and dream of Samarkand I hear your call under the eastern stars The desert wind sings strange quatrains I see your hopes, but so little remains
9.	Frontier 05:28	lyrics	buy track
These eyes will make you see The impermanence of being All our achievements, left as nothing Before the futile limitations of man In the sky, above the clouds A vision true and clear As we climb above the thorns Towards the new frontier On alien fields strange flowers grow A kin to hope and fear With eyes towards the great unknown We are chasing the frontier The false law of possessions Deception of ill-fated liberty All our achievements, a fading structure A mausoleum at the end of days In the sky, above the clouds A vision true and clear As we climb above the thorns Towards the new frontier On alien fields strange flowers grow A kin to hope and fear With eyes towards the great unknown We are chasing the frontier The sermons of divisive hope Set our tribes in licentious ways All our achievements, left as nothing Before our cancerous limitations In the sky, above the clouds A vision true and clear As we climb above the thorns Towards the new frontier On alien fields strange flowers grow A kin to hope and fear With eyes towards the great unknown We are chasing the frontier On alien fields strange flowers grow A kin to hope and fear With eyes towards the great unknown We are chasing the frontier We are chasing the frontier
10.	Skylines 06:09	lyrics	buy track
In heat the city sleeps And dreams the night away Monochromatic shades Of lives in disarray A parable for truth In search of lost control Distorted, concrete haze These stones remember all So in my blessed ignorance I painted cities grey I saw you in strange skyline A thousand miles away Like albatross in heaven Like writs upon the sand My faulty declaration – I’ll see you I’ll see you in the end So many things undone And too few left unsaid As city lights subside Its dreams will speed ahead Forever a step behind Not meant to beat the odds But you will never burn My castles in the clouds This claustrophobic senseless bliss Sealed by the fading hands As thoughts of broken memories And thoughts are set ablaze Like thorn inside the crown Like poet’s disarray I see the skylines burn A thousand miles, ten thousand miles away And as I ride the earth below Pretending not to care I saw the cities burn And wondered if you were there I saw the past left out And rotting in the streets A thousand years from now A story incomplete The haunting of all senses speaks In twisting serpent’s tongue A thousand different skylines With memories to burn Like shards of alabaster Like a lonely final stand Uncertain silhouette – I’ll be there I’ll be there at the end Can you see them burning My castles in the clouds? Can you see them burning My castles in the clouds?

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released January 19, 2019

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Midgard Maryland

American metal band Midgard evolved from melodic death metal roots to create a unique sound rooted in diverse vocal stylings, twin guitars, and melancholic, progressive touches. The band's classic lineup has reunited and will be releasing a new full-length album. Midgard's fourth full-length and first concept record "Damage" is coming Spring 2024! ... more