1. |
Perseus Arm
05:16
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I bare my flesh to Father Sky
and breathe deeply of his cold
The time has come to leave the womb
and cast off the chains of gods of old
Burning embers in the night
reveal all to those with will to see
Beacons in the blackness
to guide our path across an endless sea
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2. |
Colossi
07:23
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Upon
A desolate throne
With vampyric greed
I suck all the marrow from bone
King
of all that I see
I crush with great cruelty
those who would stand against me
Crush with great cruelty those who would stand against me
The cities run red with the blood of the billions
the tempest howls it’s bitter chill
Heavy hangs the head that bears it’s swollen crown
but the collar is heavier still
Gilded plastic cages with ceilings of glass
frame all-encompassing lie
The nectar is gone and all recourse is lost
now we must fight or we die
Quake
As death rains from the sky
Steel wings borne of hatred
Black hearts fuelled by fire
Black painted spectres of fury and fire
consume the black blood of the Earth
Skeletal hand of the feeble of conscience
ensure that their screams go unheard
The mold has been set, cast the pieces in motion
Now crawl neath the yoke of our greed
The faceless have thrived on our sweat and our torment
enslaved to our ignorant creed
Quake
As death rains from the sky
Steel wings borne of hatred
Black hearts fuelled by fire
Gone
An epoch cast in stone
Break the bonds of our serfdom
Seed the land with their bones
Tear our kings from their thrones!
Shatter the shadow of Crassus!
Bring the Colossi down!
Chew off the chains of the plutocrat!
We make the future our own!
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3. |
Island 3
07:24
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Thunder of their engines roaring, clouds of fireflies are taking flight
Rising from a black abyss an island made of steel and of light
Scriptures of the physicist illuminate dark corners of our minds
New horizons lie beyond the graveyard of the ancient satellites
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4. |
Retrograde
06:01
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Hatred is in my DNA
How can I resist?
Violence swells beneath the surface
An undertow that drags me down
The skulls of millions lie at the bottom
Among my scattered bones
How can this be who I am?
How can this be who we are?
Staggering chance
Beauty beyond comprehension
Life slipped through my fingertips
While my hands were around your throat
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5. |
Entropy
05:22
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Smothering tide
Crushing the world under foot
Delusion, denial and hate
Empathy?
Evolutionary drive?
This fear is what we have chosen
Psychotic - Tapestry
Systemic - Entropy
Indifferent - Cruelty
Fractured - Reality
Fearful - Symmetry
Scorched Earth - Philosophy
Phantom - Entity
Heavenly - Enemy
Sepsis of the mind
A seething cancer of the soul
Your shepherd will lead you astray
Asleep
At the summit we lie
Black clouds are gathering, ushering us to our end
I lie asleep
Among dead leaves
Choking on
The air I breathe
I watch them go
About their lives
What comes, they know
As well as I
There will be
No Paradise
Utopia
Sacrificed
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6. |
Interlude: Krakenmare
02:59
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(Instrumental)
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7. |
Ryu-Un Maru
08:59
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We sailed upon
Onyx skies
To cast our gaze upon the face of God
But what I saw
Was nothingness
The void between the stars
Black haze eclipse my mind
Ghosts shriek beneath my skin
Their heartbeats deafening
Release them from their sin
The end is nigh, the gods have lied
I killed them all
The fault is mine, I led the blind
I killed us all
Tear down the sky
Shatter the moon
My guiding light
Has spelled our doom
My guiding light has spelled our…
Cold corridors echo
Frost creeps like cancer
Eternal silence a deafening roar
Unrest in our endless sleep
War lurched behind us
Our blood in the water
A wolf that would swallow the dawn
A blanket of ashes to cover our bones
Our celestial tomb sails on
The children of Gaia awaiting the dawn
Eternally frozen in time
Dust turns to dust as she silently rusts from inside
Divine suicide
Across the face of the night we will drift
as the embers wane sickly and die
Phantoms and ghosts of our struggles and hopes
now as one laid to rest in the sky
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8. |
No Way Out
04:10
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The shattered skyline
Leering down
Over acid sea
Volcanic plumes blot out the sun
Blot out the sun
It stares at me
Crushing my chest
A lifeless, obverse reflection
Of myself
Our mother’s womb
A nuclear tomb
In silent judgement
All our kind will die
Shell-shocked neurons, flash of light
Burning daggers pierce my sight
Firmament from earth unbound
A burial ground
Plague and plunder, death of all
Starvation of the soul
Blood and fire, storm and drought
No way out
With cracking hands
Held to the sky
Drowning in
Desperate cries
Gaze high with sunken eyes
He arrives
You will pray for death before the end comes
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9. |
PSR J0835-4510
01:16
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(Instrumental)
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10. |
Solar Landslide
07:26
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When the mirror is gone
When the reflection fades
What remains of ourselves
But the blackness of space?
Our time has run out
Meet our own deserved fate
A scream won’t be heard
with no one to hear
The falling of trees
will fall on deaf ears
Beacon in the dark
Extinguishes us
Atlas has grown tired
his burden too great
Crushed by the fall
of Hyperion’s weight
Our time has run out
Meet our own deserved fate
Tyrant
King of the darkness rising from the blackness of the silent void
Tear the mantle from giver of life
Oh, monster, tyrant, object devoid of a soul
Sun
Turn the day
into night
Break the seasons...
Every liar
and every thief
all of our hatred
and selfish conceit
and all of the hopes
we held in the sky
are gone in the blink of an eye
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11. |
Apogee
04:02
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The spire of Mons Elysium towers in the sky
A star flickers and fades among the dying of the light
The cycles rendered motionless and scattered by the wind
This life must reach its end before another can begin
We leave this place incognizant, no memory to enshrine
The time will come again that the constants realign
Space and time are meaningless where consciousness has died
The death of Mother Earth begets the death of Father Sky
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