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Spektraal
08:00
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The Elders have seen the clouds looming
They told their sons and daughters to run and hide on the hills
Never your hearts shall turn back to the see
I greet the newborn with an iron tainted smile
For deep In my heart I mourn, foreseeing what is to come
I crossed the Neptune’s torch, reached the caverns of sleep
We were all thrown back to the shore, empty souls adrift
Spectral is my ship
Empty is my soul
We believe no more on the great gods, and nor do they believe in us
Voracious is our appetite, we swallowed the skies they once used to sit upon
The mooring ropes are cut, the caverns of Ulu are full
I turned to be the herald of the new dawn, stars falling into a raging ocean
And so they left their houses taking women and children
Braving their serment to the old
And when they reached the highest mount
They saw what the elders have seen
Heavy is the grief upon the fragile heart of men
And these people loved upon all the sight of the sea
Would you grow old knowing you will never see stars again
Without hearing the gulls and waves
And from your treason you'll witness the birth of an age
And time and land shall be erased
The spear of destiny shall take you to the bottom of the oceans
And drown your soul
In olden days I was a man who chose exile
To follow the mists of my questions
And a fire consumed me, burning brighter as my path lengthened
Now the fire is dead and my heart turns empty
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Astral
05:44
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It was a clear summer night
Sheets, hearse in the pale light of stars
From the open window I remember the smell
of the fields, summer flowers, heady
Uncalm is the realm of the giants
I need room to reminisce or invent
And that’s, that’s all I could see
Yet the dazzling void of my existence has cleared up
This night, sitting in the corner of her room,
Watching her dream, numb contemplation
Then I ascended and felt a glittering bliss
And then I burnt and burnt without any suffering
I was becoming the comet at the behest of some superior will
Fragmented glimpses of what I was or could have been
Thin is the air, so are the spaces, souvenir
Of a spring eyed face, the memory of a tranquil breath
Reluctant protagonist of the cosmic tide I am
Stepping into the breach of a time I can’t control
Setting the cosmos balance in precarious conditions for a single glance
A single selfish moment of grace
Have you ever witnessed the anger of a star ?
Trapped in a curse that outweigh earthlings conceptions
Since I remember I wish I was born a man again
Made from mud and rotting flesh, yet I am not
The story I tell is one of vengeance, for my life was stolen
And soon will be yours
I dug the void between the planets to see her dreaming again
And found nothing
So will I do until my path reach you all again
O pilgrim, I’m returning, gather your brothers
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Breaking of the Bonds
05:39
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Unsilent is the realm of the phantasmal brethren
Here in the center of the ground
An assembly of ghosts whispering to the seedlings, smiling at their games
Here the fire burns round
Beacons – have been scattered
Silence and sound overlapped
You destroyed – Breaker of the bonds
Silence and sound overlapped
A vivid light, the warmth of a fire
A fragile offering, a conscious eye guiding a caring hand
Uninvolved in the subtle tectonics that defines the world we travel in
Beacons, have been scattered
Silence and sound now divide
You've destroyed, the fire has escaped
Never, never, never to come back
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Betula
06:29
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So alone and majestic
Against wind, against snow
A towering flame
You traveled so long, so far, braved the waters of Ohr
And crossed the Neptune’s Torch
A wanderer, forever lost you are
A life of renouncement, of clarity
So alone, silent receiver
Fragile king of the distant spheres, you suffer and endure
Telling us what wisdom should be
There’s not a river you don’t know, nor a kingdom, nor a mountain
And yet you never asked for power, women or gold
I want to know your purpose, to grow wiser within your light
Tell me
I know that I don’t know, and so should you
I have no purpose, nor meaning, and so do you
We are and will be nothing
Follow me
I’ll teach you
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The Wanderer
07:51
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These barren, these barren lands I walked so long, too long
I witnessed the breaking seasons, and mourned
Ashes covered in snow
My fate was to wander
Floating into a grey eternity
Retrieve the sword from the abstract box
Quench the blade into the fountain before you cut the rope
Breaking my bones with stone jaws the cosmic wolves drag my body along the skyline
Turned from human flesh to dust, will I fly with the wind? I become the mountain
Take my eyes as a retribution and see what lies beyond
Open the chest of my secret, what is numb might feel again
My legs are broken
Stooped is my back for having carried too long its weight
You chose to follow me
I'll pass down the ashes to you
So fire can be born again
Yet my fate shall be complete
And I'll rest in silence
And the fire shall burn
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Noir
02:52
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Aube
05:55
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This the of time of a new day, of a brighter day to come
This a time for revelations, for a change in the ever pulsing tide
Brun the old drawn lines, there's no such things as destiny
This is comfort that you seek in the birchwood chapel
Gather, gather round my friends, I'll tell you my secret
We have the power to shape our lives, to outrange what has been done before
From the ground turn your face t'wards the sky, forget the the old ways
We're all too human
Bound to rot
Let it burn, let your vision burn and guide you, through fear
Through questions, we must go beyond
The veil of flesh, I refuse to rot, nameless
The veil of flesh, burn the birchwood chapel
The dawn I designed, is deathless
To create we must choose new rules
To comprehend we must break
To build we must destroy
To see beyond we must level the mountains
The compass as a beacon towards light
The hammer as the weapon and the tool
Will you follow me, I'm willing to share my secrets
And if we fail, and if black smoke spoils the skies
We'll wait for the return of the sun
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Ethereal
04:55
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A fragile gift in fragile hands, inherited
And then it will fade to the west, with us
Ethereal
It is lost, yet unveiled, to those who can see
It's a stream and a flame, here and beyond
Precious
Ethereal
I need to know, I need to know
What lies beyond the red of the sun, of the blood
Before the breeze subside
Before the stars have fallen
Before my bones are gone into the ground
I can't bear, this ignorance
This suffering, the vanity of the shelter I borrowed
I hate my kind, and the weakness of the flesh
An irony dawn I see, deathless
I will scatter the flame of truth
Open the eyes of the miscreants
For in every heart, in every house, my vision shall be known and revered
I am the augury of progress and as an rotten world fades
I'll be the bringer of a new bright dawn
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The Great Fall
10:23
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It echoed against the mountains
Water and thunder, might and grace of the oceans
Breached, gutted, giants rising from their bottoms
Ageless memories of distant realms, only told by the old and the mad
This inevitable conclusion, all the stories when they end are a fall
Tell me, tell me again, the words of the great fall
So they can be the crucible of my own
Facing the fire of a hammer-built truth
Breaking the layers of thoughts
Parallel mirrors of endless patterns
Seamless, like untouched snow
Reflecting existences shattered
The time will come to set it all anew
I search for an opening
Trying to see a convergence in the lines
Corrupted soul isn't among the gods, or whatever you call them
Devouring jealousy is but the matter of man
Tell me a story!
Veil of corruption, over perception
Is the story constructed?
Or generated at random in the starless void
It is time to choose, what do we want to be
As I woke up, I saw the grey barren lands
There were no forests, nor houses
But empty roads and a sky filled with columns of smoke
And dead factories, their empty halls resonating from the gears and furnaces
Of a past industrious glory
If a seed ever grow again in this place
It shall be crushed with the hammer of progress
For a man will survive and start over
And its only purpose, is to drown itself in the dazzling reflection
Of a lifeless metal dawn
I laid my breath amongst the roots
Put my eyes in a chest, threw my ears at the ocean, I am old
The chants are gone, smothered by new echoes of the city
They buried me under the mountain, yet in my sleep I am laughing
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