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Not everything is as it seems
Monuments overshadow me
In my blackest crown
Shed tears for the veiled king
The last of us remain
With nothing in between
Caress me
With blood stained hands
We speak of that
Which no one understands
A blood soaked kiss
Fitting welcome for the queen
The last of us remain
With nothing in between
In the shadows of monuments
Not everything is as it seems
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The Red Bead
03:44
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The deep cut is painless
When the blade is sharpest
From a red bead to a river
And then it’s over
A life
Can mean so little
A momentary flicker
And then it’s over
The deep cut is painless
When the blade is sharpest
Numb for so long
Nerves on a knife edge
Comatose comfort
If man is wolf to man
Then run with me
To take a life
Can be so simple
Sleight of hand betrayal
And then it’s over
Starved of sensation
Watch me die slow
It might have been different
To give my life
Will be so simple
From a red bead to a river
And then it's over
The deep cut is painless
When the blade is sharpest
Numb for so long
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As Gravity Ends
03:46
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A sense of violence
we fall like dead leaves
drifting lost
on a turbulent sea
decades close in
The shape of things to come
hollow cold
flawed perfection
How far can we go?
Horizons extend
We leave more behind
As gravity ends
Lay myself bare
Confessional age
Sympathies shared
At this primitive stage
Decades rebuilt
Years disconnect
You walk away
As I genuflect
How far can we go?
Horizons extend
We leave more behind
As gravity ends
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Evidence
05:22
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Every contact leaves a trace
Impressions hang in empty air
Creating evidence, creating evidence
Meaning where no meaning should be there
Is this your evidence?
Heedless of proof faith is our evidence
Empirical truth faith our experiment
Through relics of lesser lives
We grow stranger than we were
Retracing paths, retracing paths
Of ghosts who’ve gone before
Is this your evidence?
Heedless of proof faith is our evidence
Empirical truth faith our experiment
Merely shimmers here
Lives on hold in dark and flux
Resurrect as stars burn out
Traces of a century brought back
Is this your evidence?
Heedless of proof faith is our evidence
Empirical truth faith our experiment
In the face of your conviction
The walls began to fall
Balance tipped and overthrown
Degrees, now, of what left is real
Is this your evidence?
Heedless of proof faith is our evidence
Empirical truth faith our experiment
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As We Turn To Rust
04:20
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The fate of all things is decay
No care can stop this destiny
By day we’re bathed in dust
So in dark we hide a truth
In plain sight of denial
As we turn to rust
Rejected time and time again
Piece by piece we’re broken down
Our structure cannot last
Like derelicts of night
Dulled by time and slick with rain
As we turn to rust
Dark mirror lacks reflection
Tarnished crimson, faded chrome
Realities of jaded lust
Pools like blood beneath our feet
Our corrosion is complete
As we turn to rust
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Into Great Silence
05:06
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We hears prayers recited
In a high walled garden
Fragile commandments
Implore that we go on
Simple revisions
Mean all is changed and broken
If you knew the way ahead
Is this the path you would have chosen
Shadows show no movement
Here you are enclosed forever
And you will know regret
In the name of the father
Now in the minor hours
Hushed tones call for reverence
Til steps in the hallway
Remove the shroud of silence
All is quiet now
All is quiet now
All is quiet now
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Like Satellites
05:57
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Like satellites that span horizons
Senses stretch on and on
Nothing to start so nothing to lose
Nod to forever for all is absolute
Grounded on nothing but locked to a course
Here I am now in central collapse
Fall in a vacuum here velocity ends
Turn me to dust I’m dismantled again
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Incision
04:21
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A broken reverie
Where all becomes memory
my newest obsession
is this discovery
Once you’re under my skin
You’re all that remains
A universe of bones
And poison in my veins
Begin the incision
And sharpen my senses
I steadily fade
Is this what the end is
A futile pursuit
For none can deter
The passage of time
We are now all that we were
What more will you ask
No more to express
a single pound of flesh
Is all I have left
Begin the incision
And sharpen my senses
I steadily fade
Is this what the end is
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Stranger To Myself
04:29
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Alone on an empty shore
A wide expanse of nothing
I’m consumed by the view
And lost in the absence of sound
Taste of metal in the air
Silver skies on the verge of rain
I’m a stranger in this place
Trapped by stasis and fear
I’m a stranger to myself
Nothing left for me here
Alone I test the water
And submission comes so easy
The ripples spread and fade
And there’s no hope of rescue here
Will I sink or swim, embrace the tide
It’s only a matter of time
I’m a stranger in this place
Trapped by stasis and fear
I’m a stranger to myself
Nothing left for me here
Must we mask
Our fundamental needs
In a matter of time
It all comes clear
I'm a stranger to myself
And there's no hope of rescue here
No hope of rescue here
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Last Of The Lovers
06:11
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Stand enraptured
A revelation
A strange elegance
To this desolation
All that once was
Slowly vanishes
No grace or redemption
It all ends with this
If you deal with devils
They’ll mark your cards
Innocence forgotten
In holy wars
So this is our fate
Fall of man to end it all
Lie here in ashen snow
Buried where we fell
All the rest of the lovers
Draw their lines in the sand
Faint gestures washed away
As the sea reclaims land
All the scars that we etched on the earth
Time and tide will erase
We’re the last of the lovers
And we’ve fallen from grace
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The Vanished Past
07:15
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Not everything is as it seems
Beneath the vanished past
Another history
The fragments
Pull together
And tell a story
Of you and me
There is nothing but silence
Sharing darkness til dawn
A feeling of forever
A moment of perfect calm
Not everything is as it seems
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