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Pyrocene
05:24
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Enter the age, the age of fire
Heads in the sand
Burning the land
Forest to ash
Cleansing by flames
Erasing aeons
All in a cosmic blink of the eye
All that has ever lived and died
Their tombs disturbed, disinterred
Why are we resigned to this
Kneel down
Writhe and grieve
Lay your wreath at my feet
I know it's the end
Enter pyrocene
Hellfire rise
All life will die
Comforting lies won't save you now
Our world will burn
Ashes will turn
We are the cancer that fire will cure
Kneel down
Writhe and grieve
Lay your wreathe at my feet
I know it's the end
Enter pyrocene
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2. |
The Quiet Knife
04:43
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A familiar caress along the spine
Cold edge pressing in
Blind to the wounds, the aching blooms
Leaving scars
In the absence of what was whole
A cut that deepens as time unfolds
A relic of trust betrayed
Buried beneath the ribs
Shadow of a guiding hand
Shrouded by denial
The weight of unsaid words
Mistaking the silence for mercy
Charting a map along the fractures
To a heart in ruin
In the absence of what was whole
A cut that deepens as time unfolds
A relic of trust betrayed
Buried beneath the ribs
Shadow of a guiding hand
Shrouded by denial
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3. |
Throne of Ash
04:36
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Blinded by desperation
Hands grasp at nothing
The last ember dimmed
I’ve left it all behind
Too weak to climb
Too proud to descend
And here it lies
Towering in the distance
This throne of ash
A worthless facade
This brittle ground
Cracks with every step
My body thinned
Returns to the soil
A promise I’d never return
Lost along the way
The phantoms we chased
Are absent to us now
Left to ruin
Hope lost meaning
To the illusion
Ascend to nothing
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4. |
A Stillness Survival
05:13
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The calm of surrender
A caress of indifference
A suffering no longer to bear
Eyes open, letting the world blur
Fade into the static void
Quiet hum, no remembrance
Sinking into the arms of apathy
Sleeping through the disillusion
Folding deeper into ourselves
Locked within hollow shelters
A stillness survival
Light diffused, enduring pulse
Ephemeral amnesia
Staring at a blank page
Of all our hopes and dreams
Fade into the static void
Quiet hum, no remembrance
Sinking into the arms of apathy
Sleeping through the disillusion
Folding deeper into ourselves
Locked within hollow shelters
A stillness survival
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5. |
Threshold
04:33
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Echos left behind
Through the door you vanished
Waning
A shape still burned
In the places you stood
Fading
Shadows that drape
A comforting weight
Becoming a collector of unsent letters
Folding grief into an offering for no one
I'm bargaining with regret, words rewritten
Disposed at the threshold of your leaving
Every version ends the same
Moving the pieces again
Weakening
In the sea of memory
Trading with futility
Wasting
Shadows that drape
A comforting weight
Becoming a collector of unsent letters
Folding grief into an offering for no one
I'm bargaining with regret, words rewritten
Disposed at the threshold of your leaving
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6. |
Phantom Prison
04:51
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A prison without locks
A cage with no walls
Within the panopticon
As we live we shall fall
Illusions of choice
In thoughts and deeds
Every decision leads to
A premade conclusion
Turning our dissent into
Bad faith manipulation
True thoughts muted by
Overwhelming lies by design
Never to be accountable
As horrors rain from the top
Die for the system
Convinced that it must be
A cog in the death machine
Never further from free
Turning our dissent into
Bad faith manipulation
True thoughts muted by
Overwhelming lies by design
Never to be accountable
As horrors rain from the top
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Unwoven
05:22
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Threads tremble in our hands
Once taut with promises
A tapestry undone
Silently unraveled within
A quiet erosion
We swore would never come
Dying stars
With the hopes we once pinned
Cold and numb to grief
Desensitized
The pain turns barren
Lying awake
A quiet erosion
I swore would never come
Dying stars
With the hopes we once pinned
A beauty, this empty vessel
Once sacred, now a pretense
Complacent, the fire fades
Distant and indifferent
Cold and numb to grief
Desensitized
The pain turns barren
Lying awake
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8. |
When the Light Breaks
05:29
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The earth laid bare
Mountains worn to dust
A covenant buried deep
Written in what remains
The flesh betrays, forward corrosion
In the brittle dark, a whisper of morning
The pulse of a rhythm so faint
Breath still in my lungs
In the stillness my heartbeat slips
As I wait for the light to slowly break
There is a price for hope
In this cruel delusion
The breaking, a reminder
Forever consumed
The flesh betrays, forward corrosion
In the brittle dark, a whisper of morning
The pulse of a rhythm so faint
Breath still in my lungs
In the stillness my heartbeat slips
As I wait for the light
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9. |
The Pain of Hope
03:52
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