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Arkham
02:50
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Instrumental
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Among the sister stars of the bull up in the skies
Shadows dance and grow where the twin suns rise
Where soon be ash they light a city hewn from stone
In the eye of Taurus spins a world by us unknown
Along the shore the cloud waves break,
The twin suns sink behind the lake,
The shadows lengthen
In Carcosa.
Strange is the night where black stars rise,
And strange moons circle through the skies
But stranger still is
Lost Carcosa.
A guest of honor among a crowd of modest size
In the Court of the Dragon, the guests shield their eyes
Hidden faces covered by masks made of bone
A sallow man in robes, who sits upon the throne
Songs that the Hyades shall sing,
Where flap the tatters of the King,
Must die unheard in
Dim Carcosa.
Song of my soul, my voice is dead;
Die thou, unsung, as tears unshed
Shall dry and die in
Lost Carcosa.
The sisters, the stranger, the masquerade ball
Dancing and feasting in costumes they call
The stranger and sisters broke from the fray
Under the sky, they were carried away
The stranger, Cassilda, Camilla, conversed
The simple request, the response it was terse,
“We’ve shed our disguises, so now must you too”
“Ladies I say that this face you see here is true”
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3. |
Prove The Devil
04:53
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Bacchanalia of the senses
Surgery removed defenses
A window opened to another plane
Small procedure in the mind
Perception’s threads start to unwind
The subject surely feels no pain
A new eye open from within
A broken spirit lives again
Dimension’s walls are wearing thin
New life is ready to begin
Mystery wrapped in gestation
Subject’s mind in vegetation
Yet the child grows within the womb
Subject feels no labor pain
No response comes from the brain
The child rises from a living tomb
A new eye open from within
A broken spirit lives again
Dimension’s walls are wearing thin
New life is ready to begin
Bacchanalia of the senses
Her beauty removed defenses
A window opened to another plane
A child’s wild imagination
Hidden times of recreation
The subject disappeared into his brain
A new eye open from within
A broken spirit lives again
Dimension’s walls are wearing thin
New life is ready to begin
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4. |
Difference In The Dose
04:37
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Heavy hangs the hand at the end of the wrist
Like a pendulum swings and it's clenched in a fist
Locked at home, high alone
Half an empty glass waiting to spill
Strongest is the magnet when trauma attracts
Fragile is the shell held together with cracks
Cold as stone, skin and bone
Wasting breath and past, a grave to fill
Locked at home, high alone
Half an empty glass waiting to spill
Sick and wasting, just a husk to slowly drain
Tears and silence, overwhelmed by darkest pain
Cure or poison, only difference is the dose
Hard to measure with many nerves exposed
Heavy swings the hand when it’s clenched in a fist
Darkest when the pain’s the way you know you exist
Cold as stone, skin and bone
Know they can’t detect you when you’re perfectly still
Locked at home, high alone
Half an empty glass waiting to spill
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Dagon
03:53
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Graven idol danced
Still and cold at night
In shadowed solitude
The lake consumes the light
Keep me safe from the water
And at the highest moon
The calm becomes a tide
Arms of the granite groom
Embraced leviathan bride
Keep me safe from the water
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Madness At Sea
05:00
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Spark the engine over liquid graves
The bones of those before are reefs within the depths
If I could I would turn the tide to ash
Run the ship aground, walk to shore
No crew, no cargo, no heeding maritime codes
Turn the ocean to oil and burn it away
And so I sink below the waves
Join the older bones long since kissed by death
Sleep below the fiery waves
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Crawling Chaos
04:54
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Bathing in the rain of the red cloud blooming in the field
Plagued by an illness, one from which I’ll never heal
The pounding drowning out the passing through the door
Do dreams invent for me a devastated shore?
Sung to slumber
I’ll flee the waves that swallow the wasted coastal land
The right hand path that leads away from ruined sand
To trees where angels fall from the canopy on high
They sing out verses of the end soon drawing nigh
Sung to slumber
It’s nearly over for all here.
Beyond the Milky Way, there is Teloe.
At Teloe, ivory bridges form bones
The rivers, veins of liquid gold.
They carry pleasure ships to paradise.
Cytharion, the realm of seven suns,
Fit to house only those divine,
Tolerating only youth, beauty and pleasure.
There, you will stay, hearing laughter and song
Until your time ends, and you return to the stars.
So through the ether, a dying planet spins below
Endless deserts where once roaring rivers flowed
A black sea growing from the center like a mouth
A fading sun like a candle winking out
Sung to slumber
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8. |
Seed Of Destruction
04:12
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Off the coast of Avalon, the Russian calls to Hell
To raise the red right hand to ring the final bell
Sow the seed of destruction
Safely in the Bureau, the teacher holds the hand
Grant the child the freewill, to be his own man
Grow the seed of destruction
When the crown is lit and placed upon his brow
Will he crack the horns and thrown the sword down?
Or reap the seed of destruction?
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Rats In The Walls
04:34
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De la Poer was informed of ancestral misdeeds.
Can’t ignore when the poison sprouts from the seeds.
Subterranean slaughter in the family history
Mr Black found a crack into the mystery
Rats in the walls
Hidden city down below aged, mouldy stone
His bloodline sat upon a dark, corrupted throne
Feral men did roam where modern eyes are blind
De la Poer found his teeth in the neck of his own kind
Rats in the walls
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10. |
I Am Providence
02:49
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Instrumental
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