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Waves of Anguish
03:04
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2. |
Days of Hell
05:22
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DAYS OF HELL
Amidst beauty and bounty
The betrayal was inevitable
Yet disturbing nonetheless
And of what effect are my prayers
Quod me nutrit me destruit
Simple concepts that shall never come to be
Words I cannot say aloud
Thoughts that will not relent
Torture that inequitably burns my soul
Scars layering and pain unrelenting
Spirituality and heresy
Seasons of irony a moment of clarity
Monuments of doubt
Malevolent blooms and thorns
Bitter springs eternal
Anthems of the apostate belay hopes of fools
Paradise denied
Paradise denied me
I am afflicted
Terrors and nightmares
Paradise denied
Paradise denied me
I am tormented
My dreams and despair
My days of hell in the Garden of Eden
In this idyllic garden
Promises and poisoned fruit
With each sunrise and setting
The serpent mocks and laughs
Quod me nutrit me destruit
Man placed eastward in Eden
Chaos spawned in consequence
Demons savage those I love
I bleed alone
The heavens and earth accomplished
Majesty resplendent and yet I
Drink again from fount of disappointment
Monuments of doubt
Inane thoughts and futile rituals
Cascades of hypocrisy
Hopelessness and festering wounds
Paradise denied
Paradise denied me
I am afflicted
Terrors and nightmares
Paradise denied
Paradise denied me
I am tormented
My dreams and despair
My days of hell in the Garden of Eden
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3. |
Now Taken
06:02
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NOW TAKEN
A kiss that lingers in memory
The sound of nothingness
And smell of sunshine
Unsustainable
Deepest loss I am unable to bear
And my control denied
Grief-stricken, I acquiesce
With consequence acknowledged
The things that matter to me
What I love defines me
Eram quod es
I was what you are
The seduction of blasphemy
And the sex of it all
I cannot cry anymore
But I remember our music
Do you hear it now?
Will you dance and sing?
Or will our hearts both bleed black
Forever
Sin in sunlight
You, now taken
Damned, in defining instance
Unremorseful
Choice echoes for eternity
I embrace the tragic
Beauty damned to darkness
Hell pulses through me
The things that matter to me
What I have done defines me
Eris quod sum
You will be what I am
The seduction of blasphemy
And the sex of it all
My thoughts
In conversation
With the night
The one never truly mine
My conscious disregard
My contempt
And I betrayed love
I betrayed your love
Looking into your eyes
Knowing forever
Is of my choosing
Eternal anguish
And I am forever
Unrepentant
And I betrayed love
I betrayed our love
My sin
Your fate
Now you are damned
And it matters not to me
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4. |
Feanor's Bane
05:18
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FEANOR’S BANE
This I do for those I love
We forge for the Lord of Gifts
But smiths in secret
Vilya Nenya a Narya
Three for the greatest
For the fairest
Free from corruption
And from influence
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5. |
Regicide
06:17
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REGICIDE
The bell tolls again as hope is
Consumed by hopelessness
From the streets of plague
A chorus of windswept curses
The kingmakers in shadows
Communion of intrigue
An implacable vanguard
Patient, immutable will
Regicide
The kingslayer
Begets your doom tonight
Endeavor to kill the king
Best kill the king
Rites of politics and liturgy
Chalice of retribution
Blessed by the oracles
Exacted in recompense
Soulless assassin
Sharpens and poisons his blade
With measures of liquid courage
Descends into dark thoroughfare
Regicide
The kingslayer
Begets your doom tonight
Now, your moment of reckoning
You impotent coward
Your power cannot save you
You sadistic bastard
I introduce you to suffering
Delivering your judgment
You gave no mercy
Now, there is no mercy for you
And the sword falls down
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6. |
Tale of Grief
04:07
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TALE OF GRIEF
Túrin drove his blade to the hilt
In the belly of the mighty Glaurung
Falling, his flesh burned by blood
Farewell
O twice beloved
A Túrin Turambar
Turún’ ambartanen
Master of doom
By doom mastered
O happy to be dead
Dying, the dragon reveals his curse
Nienor, daughter of Húrin, here is your brother
In horror and anguish, she lept to her death
Farewell
O twice beloved
A Túrin Turambar
Turún’ ambartanen
Master of doom
By doom mastered
O happy to be dead
Stirred from darkness
Túrin set the hilts upon the ground
And cast himself upon the black blade
Farewell
O twice beloved
A Túrin Turambar
Turún’ ambartanen
Master of doom
By doom mastered
O happy to be dead
Upon his tombstone, the Haladin wrote in the Cirth of Doriath:
TÚRIN TURAMBAR DAGNIR GLAURUNGA
Beneath that, they also wrote:
NIENOR NÍNIEL
Though her body
Could not be found
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7. |
Convergence
04:24
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CONVERGENCE
Awakened
To realities not my own
Reflections of choice and consequence
Alternate paths intersecting
In a room of familiar strangers
Draining bourbon as the melody plays
Indescribable
The meeting of oneself
Over and over again
Events and decisions that changed us all
Now I reflect in affirmation
And pain of deepest regret
Curiositas
Desiderium
Convergence
Contentus
Concilio
Convergence
What is and
What might have been
Questions now answered
Bittersweet
This surreal encounter
Impaling irony and perspective
Once again this night
We are intertwined
My wounds rip open again
Indescribable
The meeting of oneself
Over and over again
There but for the grace of god
There by his wrath I suffer
And yet here I dwell
Curiositas
Desiderium
Convergence
Contentus
Concilio
Convergence
What is and
What might have been
Questions now answered
Drunken, I pass a mirror
And catch my reflection
I return to look deep into my own eyes
And meet myself there
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8. |
Omen
05:17
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OMEN
The sky is blood and flame
The omen foretelling that all is changing again
Ancient evil resounds
Resonance of prior pain
The ebon shadow falls far
Sigils and ceremonies
Ominous black skies
Winds of change brutally cold
My cup of grief overflowing and
Tonight I cannot drink again
Vita detrimentum
Perditio amissio damnum
Dolor morsus patientia
Portent threatening and disquieting
All is changing again
Bleakest augury and divination
All is changing again
The omen foretelling that
All is changing again
Tidings delivered by demons
This most disturbing unease
As the crimson horizon menaces
Fear and uncertainty burning
Upon the death
Of magic and religion
Seasons change again
In silent moments of
Dread and lamentation
Winds of change brutally cold
My cup of grief overflowing and
Tonight I cannot drink again
Vita detrimentum
Perditio amissio damnum
Dolor morsus patientia
Portent threatening and disquieting
All is changing again
Bleakest augury and divination
All is changing again
The omen foretelling that
All is changing again
And what brings tomorrow?
And what more can I bear?
So tired
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9. |
Gates Beyond
04:02
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GATES BEYOND
Perhaps we were not meant
To live so long
The gates beyond
Must be open tonight
It is as it was
Pain now abstracted
Yet at these times
You are with me
Delusive visions
I turn and see
For one moment
Quiet accedence
Enduring memories
Comfort beyond death
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