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The Empty Circle

by Psychostasy

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1.
Shadows 01:22
The sun is waiting to speak Its word, sacred and solemn Culling the strong and the weak Melting me under its torment Silently torn and devoured By the choices I wish I could change Naked and chained to the earth Swallowed by the cosmic embrace Adrift in a boundless maze Alone with my past unspoken Bleeding remorse and despair The ghosts will be awoken Haunted by shameful deeds Seeking repentance and remedy To the comforting darkness I flee For the shadows have no memory The shadows have no memory
2.
Discovery 02:04
(instrumental)
3.
Revenge 03:29
An ancient grudge, untouchable resentment In a distorted perception of self Proliferating in its own convictions Mutating into an incarnation of spite Forgetting the deed but remembering the debt Stifling any attempt to forgive and forget Subject to prejudice, spawning these vengeful thoughts They let their echo resound through my soul A distant memory, turned into violence Reminiscence unleashed in a haze of rage Seeking payback for what was done A verdict spoken with rage alone Aprioristic condemnation The way it is in the recollection Hell has spread in every part of me And revenge, revenge is all I seek All I seek Forgetting the deed but remembering the debt Stifling any attempt to forgive and forget Mercilessly settling the score Exacting my revenge
4.
Eclipse 03:39
I walk in shambles, cloaked in disbelief I exist for everyone but me I watch the puzzle crumble piece by piece Beneath the madness, a lock without a key I dragged my mind through ungodly places I lost myself inside my own fortress I bend and break to this constant torture Undecipherable, maddening cacophony I blankly stare at the mirror While my reflection laughs at me Dissolved in darkness, beyond reclaim Swallowed in nightmares, into thin air Losing faith in who I am Grinding to a halt under the eclipse Slave to the current, pulled by hidden strings I crawl in silence, cursing the disease The gaps get closer, distorting reality The gaps get bigger, devouring what’s beneath Paralyzed by Nonsensical thoughts Servant of the paradox An unquenchable thirst To put the pieces back in place Shattered to fragments, beyond repair Reduced to nothing, screaming despair Losing grasp of who I am Grinding to a halt under the eclipse
5.
Disease 04:17
The same routine repeats Share your frustrations, let your madness out on me Listening to nonsense Feeding you the same pathetic lie day after day While you’re dragging me in your own grave Herder of zombies The life I chose which will turn me into one of them And secure my place in hell The beeping of the machines Etched in my eardrums when I try to go to sleep Hoping for the end to be near Disfigurement of soul Loss of all control I, protector of the ugly truth Bearer of the false hope That things will ever be as they were before I, servant of a broken god A puppet on a string Fighting a war that nobody will win With no feelings other than fear With no leeches sucking you clean With no gods left to appease Death is the only way out of the disease I, slave to a useless carcass Left with no will to live And with no memory of me I, bringer of useless comfort Where there should not be Death is the only way out of the disease Out of the disease
6.
Spiders 03:04
Spiders crawling out of me Visions from a darkened future I can’t control Nibbling at my sanity Disorder in my thoughts Constant paranoia Fear of what’s next Smothered by the ever-growing doubting of myself Stranded on a branching road With nowhere safe to go A leap of faith disguised As open choice Treading on fiery paths Every move could be my last A corridor of unlocked doors Luring me in While an appalling fate unfolds beneath my skin Baleful revelations of what I’ll be Vivid like a memory, deceitful like a dream Stranded on a dead end road The shadows rise, the spiders crawl Divine decree disguised As glimpse of hope Stepping on wobbly tiles Every move could be my last Shadows rise Spiders crawl out of me Shadows rise Spiders crawl out of me Do I have control? Do I get to choose my fate or is it set in stone? Do I have control? Do I get to choose my fate or is it set in stone? Shut it off, reject and forget Follow the spiders I’ll shut it off, reject and forget Follow the spiders
7.
Veil 03:52
Greeting familiar faces I have never seen Coming back to places I have never been Constantly reminding me of what I’ve lost Safe from every danger but time taking its toll Come back to me Give me the key To this fleeting memory Every picture burned and thrown into the sea Every relic buried where I cannot reach Traces of a lifetime scattered to the wind Things are slipping farther than they seem Drowned by heartache Forbidding myself To make her memory part of me Blind and aimless Begging myself To part the veil and make her real Crushed by hatred At war with myself To make her memory part of me Blind with anger Erasing myself To part the veil and make her real Bound by a vanishing thread Forever apart, never astray I’d give it all away to wipe the blur out of her face A glimmer of hope in my world Suspended in time, in the unknown I’d give it all away to see her eyes once more Giving up myself I’m parting the veil
8.
Ghosts 03:14
The decaying ruins of my former self Evil spirits, empty eyes, a past I can’t forget Waiting to be unearthed, lurking in the depths A silent curse, wanting me dead Paralyzed, numbed and deafened Their eerie chants, echoing in my head I feel the shelter collapse, the veil is now torn Everything goes blank, but they keep marching on Drenched in cold sweat, a glorious alienation Increasing levels of isolation Replaying the scene I’m but a startled passenger chained to my seat I can't reshape my past, but can i avoid it and be finally free? Time frozen on endless repeat And the ghosts will awake I, condemned to never forget With my ghosts still awake Paralyzed, numbed and deafened Their eerie chants, echoing in my head The illusion fades Fear takes over The illusion fades Fear takes over Lurking evil spirits Plunder my memories Fear has taken over I can’t look away Haunted The ruins crumble I’m condemned I can’t forget And the ghosts will awake And the ghosts will awake Time frozen on endless repeat And the ghosts will awake I, condemned to never forget With my ghosts still awake
9.
Paradox 02:00
(instrumental)
10.
Monument 05:06
A winding road behind me covered in regret Years of feeling like my steps barely leave a trace I find myself overwhelmed by my irrelevance Indifferent to the passing of time until it’s too late A sculpture of my failures, a beacon of my past The crashing aeons will corrode my decrepit husk Fragments of myself disperse through the shapeless void My remnants rotting hopelessly, without a noise A painful awareness, of what I could not be A blinding darkness obscuring all reason I will soon vanish, and with me all my deeds All that I have done, what have I actually done? Engulfed in seething silence The empty story unfolds Left alone despising Everything I’ve done In the vast oblivion I dissolve The sun is waiting to speak Its word, sacred and solemn Culling the strong and the weak Melting me under its torment Silently torn and devoured By the choices I wish I could change Naked and chained to the earth Suffocated by the anguish of fading away The crumbling monument of me

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released January 27, 2023

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