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Gilded crypts,
Echoing empty,
Lonely monuments in the night,
Passions stamped,
Into lifeless things,
Do they continue?
Will I?
Oh,
Funeral,
Held for the living,
Not for the dead,
Night,
Eternal,
Always the same,
In the finest tomb,
Or in the potter's field,
See beyond,
The shadow of lurking fear,
And endless chain,
Made of mortal links,
Glittering,
Just out sight,
Eternal recurrence,
Body to earth,
Soul into ether,
Raze the prison,
Walls of granite,
Bury my soul,
Beyond,
Beyond the potter's field,
Rehearse my death,
In this life,
Into unknown,
Realms beyond,
Heaven?
Hell?
The end?
Or am I at the start?
A soul,
Now reborn?
Or just a mind deceived?
I lie awake in the dark,
Blind eyes,
Starting into,
Time.
Disassociate,
Silence the noise,
The only path forward,
Takes me,
Beyond,
Beyond this life,
Beyond this body,
Beyond this earth,
Beyond the potter's field.
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2. |
Body Without a Soul
05:25
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I continue to rot,
Wandering endless planes,
Compelled to move,
Devoid of purpose,
Trapped on this earth,
As a body without a soul,
Imprisoned by flesh,
Damned by life eternal,
Unthinking,
Unliving,
Unending,
Subsisting on,
Vapors of being,
Unable to cease,
Life.
I continue to rot,
Phantoms haunt,
The skies around me,
Lost in reverie,
Infinite moths,
To vanishing flames.
Trapped on this earth,
As a body without a soul,
Imprisoned by flesh,
Damned by life eternal,
Unthinking,
Unliving,
Unending,
Subsisting on,
Vapors of being,
Unable to cease,
Life.
I feel my past,
But I cannot remember,
Horizon of pain,
An endless eschaton,
Of the self.
Can you hear me now?
I'm screaming in endless agony,
Isolated soul,
Absent from decomposing brain,
Apart from the world,
Trapped in,
Mirrors,
Echoes,
and Shadows,
Longing to escape,
The unforgiving void,
Silence,
Darkness,
Do I still exist?
Is this the end?
No!
I move forward,
Chasing the dying sun.
Eternal rot,
Only decay.
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3. |
Further Into Night
05:09
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Further into night,
Blinded by the dark,
Moonless sable sky,
Capstone of this earth,
Scrying mirror shines,
Images take shape,
Refuge found in gloom,
Inner life is free,
Here,
Paint with shadows,
Free here,
Endless canvass,
Free here,
Night immortal,
Free here,
So far,
Beyond,
The light,
Endless streams of thought,
Blur before my eyes,
Infinite design,
Trapped in mortal globes,
Fragile instrument,
Teeming with decay,
Longing to remain,
Relic of its age,
I cannot go on,
My essence scatters onward,
One with the darkness,
Endless and formless,
Bottomless chasm,
Eternal inkwell,
To write the fate of gods.
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4. |
Phlegethon
04:25
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Souls erupt,
Like ash clouds of the dead,
Consciousness,
Blacks out the sun above,
Annihilate,
What was,
Blanketing the landscapes,
Far beyond,
Bones of mountains,
Hewn from mortal lives,
The matchless earth,
Reborn,
Chaos,
Bringer of the light,
Stealer,
Of the divine,
Flame,
Burn,
All creation,
In ashes we find our salvation,
Carve into the desiccated corpse,
Blaze the path of your own destiny,
No gods,
To forge,
Your fate,
Shackles melt,
In flows of ecstasy,
A mortal being,
Freed from dogma's chains,
Beset by death,
Finally alive,
And fit to reign in Hell,
Burn.
Souls erupt,
Like ash clouds of the dead,
Exulting,
In new found liberty,
Rising above the decay.
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Spirit,
Coursing through your veins,
Venom,
Test of your faith,
Death,
Waiting in the box,
Lives,
Meaningless without,
Signs of your God,
Called to die,
Bring your cross,
They shall take up serpents,
Crawling up your arms,
Fangs,
Paths to the beyond,
Terror,
Alive for the first time,
Enraptured,
Opium divine,
You put your lips to the poison,
And drink the deadly thing,
Your eyes are clouded with shadows,
The silence deafening,
Of your God,
Lead astray,
Pointless loss,
You are among serpents,
Writhing in your heart,
Hatred,
For all who stand apart,
Cancer,
Spreading in your brain,
Possession,
By Pentecost's flame,
Drive out the Ghost,
Speak your tongue,
Leave your cross,
Banish all your serpents,
To their own fate,
Slither to early graves,
Dead,
But for wasted heartbeats,
Bound,
By unending deceit,
Slaves,
Of Salvation,
Addicts,
Of Heaven,
Signs of your God,
Called to die,
Take your cross,
They shall take up serpents.
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7. |
Excarnation
04:29
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We are bones,
Forever for a time,
Persisting beyond death,
But still just finite,
Light leaves my eyes,
Blood leaves my flesh,
I return to nothing,
Finally I rest,
We are bones,
Forever for a time,
Persisting beyond death,
But still just finite,
Alone atop the mountain,
Buried in sky,
Cleansed by nature's wrath,
Finally purified,
Centuries await,
My spirit echoes,
Longing to return,
Entomb,
What once was,
Exhume,
What shall be,
Into,
The night beyond,
Fall through,
Eternity,
Bones,
We are bones,
Ground to dust.
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8. |
Finitude
06:24
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Where will time end?
I disappear,
Deep beneath its waves,
Carried farther,
Down below,
Where life cannot escape,
I lose sight of the surface,
Your face disappears,
In a blur,
I can feel your breath behind me,
Somewhere,
Your heart mourns,
Somewhere we end our essence,
Somewhere we end this life,
On to darker depths,
I'm slipping,
Farther away,
I lose all direction,
Up is gone,
Down is every way,
There is no escape,
From this prison,
Life,
Cannot be,
In its walls,
I have just a moment,
Of stillness,
A glimmer,
Of you.
Your heart is beating,
Somewhere far away,
I feel it pulsing,
As I fade away,
Somewhere we end our essence,
Somewhere we end this life,
I will not exist,
Can love persist?
I cannot resist,
I must exit,
Somewhere we end our essence,
Somewhere we end this life,
Once and for all.
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