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Shadows
01:22
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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
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Discovery
02:04
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(instrumental)
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Revenge
03:29
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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
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Eclipse
03:39
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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
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Disease
04:17
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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
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Spiders
03:04
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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
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Veil
03:52
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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
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Ghosts
03:14
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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
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Paradox
02:00
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(instrumental)
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Monument
05:06
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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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