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Universe 25
04:25
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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
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Four Seasons of Autumn
09:06
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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
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Equilibrium
03:46
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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?
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Through the Autumn Stars
08:33
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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
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Deceiver Rising
03:08
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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
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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
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Sovereign
05:30
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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
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Samarkand
04:46
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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
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Frontier
05:28
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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
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Skylines
06:09
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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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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
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