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Aevum
06:33
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AEVUM
The isle of the blessed
That of many names
And here untouched
By sorrow
Aevum
Aeviternitas
In absence of fear reconciling
Most cherished melody of all that is true
Between time and eternity
Crashing waves of memory
Introspective vantages
My return
A falling
Aevum
Aeviternitas
My return to spirits, aeon
And the sound of her voice
The songs of angels
In this timelessness
Here I am home
This is my heaven
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Vanguard of Despair
06:08
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VANGUARD OF DESPAIR
In my discontent
With the blood and tears of men
I confronted the prophet
Demanding answers
And he replied
I predict not the storms
Nor fire bleeding from mountains
But I knew of their imminence
You will weep
Drink deep from the fountain
Until your ruin comes
I remember home
Treacherous stair-stepped path
And as my hope died
Magic abandoned me
Now discordant winds
Blow me through firelight
My age ending
Witness this sobering dawn
You will weep
Drink deep from the fountain
Until your ruin comes
Antiqui colant antiquum dierum
Quo fata ferunt
Wicked gray plumes
And apocalypse upon us
The vanguard of despair
I tread toward the inevitable
Dirt and dried tears
Nothing matters anymore
World reduced to charred memories
My last inconsequential steps
So I weep
As I drink from the fountain
I am in ruins
And now forsaken
The fountain dried and crumbling
Prophecy come to be
I will thirst for my last days
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Laughter of the Gods
05:41
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LAUGHTER OF THE GODS
A small cup
Gripped in dirty hands
My days, weeks and years
Wheels of plague cart
Pushed up filthy streets
Every moment, how to escape
And when I dared hope
I heard thunder
Weary legs
Burning up steep hill
Bring out your dead
Stale bread crust
With the stench of death
Reverie, as cart wheel turns
And when I dared hope
I heard thunder
Another day
Trudging mud and shit
Earnest, whispered prayers
All despair
Yet, I remain determined
One copper further
And when I dared hope
I heard thunder
Without warning
Lightning crossed the sky
Simple irony
Me rigid and blue
Coins fall from my hand
On my own ride upon that cart
Man plans
And the gods laugh
What have they decreed?
No one gets out alive
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Every Hour
05:14
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EVERY HOUR
Moments that break me sentimental
With voices now silent
Defiant, I raise my glass
On my lonely walk, memories resonate
As clouds wander past waning moon
Aged spirits burn across cobblestone
Will it ever rain again?
Vulnerant omnes
Every hour wounds
Pausing for one more cigarette
Reflecting here in darkness
Can no one hear the melody
Of what is true?
Vulnerant omnes
Every hour wounds
These things we knew together
And now I am alone
Now there is only
Before and after
Purpose turns to ashes
In this season of all that disappoints
A malevolent place I dare not go
Even in memory
How the dead affect the living
And the sacred songs that tear me asunder
Vulnerant omnes
Every hour wounds
Vulnerant omnes
The last one kills
Slowly dancing
To the beautiful song
You remember
But now the jester beckons
And my song ends
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OMNIS PRETIUM (Fortress I)
Prima luce
My breath frozen, billows
Engaging the horizon
Malevolent forces magnificent
Certain death advances upon us
Without hope, without fear
I know today that I will die
Archers rain death
Down in torrents
Trebuchets shatter stone
Concussive blasts unrelenting
My brothers’ precious blood
Flowing wet, stains deep
Heathen legions ascend, cascading within
Fall into me
Your hell awaits
Fall into me
Bloodthirsty, I strike again and again
Resolute, I cry out
Hold, for your honor
At all cost
Disoriented, suffocating
Time blurs
Una salus victis nullam sperare salutem
Nec spe nec metu
My brothers’ precious blood
Flowing wet, stains deep
Without hope, without fear
I know today that I will die
Limbs hewn, their eyes go empty
Fall into me
Your hell awaits
Fall into me
I have chosen the manner of my death
Resolute, I cry out
Hold, for your honor
At all cost
Carnage and chaos
Stench and nausea
Obscenities and futile prayers
Butchery and blood river
Una salus victis nullam sperare salutem
Nec spe nec metu
Fervent prayers cast to saints and warriors
I ready myself to follow the inspiring dead
All faith and hope lost
Our death now is certain
As God has abandoned us
And who will now mourn?
All faith lost
Fall, fall back
All hope lost
Run to the keep
Up stone stairs
Desperately circling, stumbling, tripping, gasping
Barricade the door
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ET SANGUINEM (Fortress II)
I embrace the hour of sleep
Remember me forever
Retreated to fortress, lacerated deep
Escaping in increments, I bleed as a river
And here draining amber
As my body pours forth
Hora somni
Non omnis moriar
Rendered asunder
I shall not all die
Whispers unheard
Reconciling fear and sorrow
Regrets torture me again
And here draining amber
As my body pours forth
Hora somni
Non omnis moriar
Rendered asunder
I shall not all die
Non omnis moriar
I shall not all die
In fine
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7. |
White Wolf
08:00
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WHITE WOLF
One with the night
Through woods kissed by snow
Following the scent, I strain for speed
Spitting curses and blasphemy
Small creatures flee, as well they should
I cross frozen streams
Gaining precious steps
Malevolence and determination
After them, they hunt her
They must die
Child of moonlight
Now created in mine image
In the sanctuary of the cathedral
Under full moon, sharing the curse
This divine punishment
Brutal, bestial ritual sacrilege
Transformation
So passionate, so sensual
White wolf
Usurper, betrayal pierces deep
Furiously, master pursues coven’s
Unforgiveable sin
Just above the treeline
The pack falls upon my beloved
Ravaging gray feast
Her life spills out
Their howls echo
Fetid steam rises from torn meat
Feel the pain of the change
Primal unleashed as
Bones crack and the white hackles rise
Given the power of immutable being
Eternity enchained as lycanthrope
My soul – schizophrenia
Her wounds external, mine beneath
White wolf
I slaughter each a step slow
Arteries staining snow
Enraged, falling upon the bastard
Jowls close, his flesh tears
My retribution, such elation
But then I see her body there
And I despair
I despair
In the bleak reality
That love is as life
Transitory
Child of moonlight
If I had not failed you
If only you were here with me now
Solitary nomad, I wander inconsolable
Vigil unending
Blooms and thorns grow wild there
Across the ground where she fell
I return now and again
To talk to her memory and
Remember all
White wolf
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