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“In your eyes I see no reflection
Maybe it’s a look into my soul
Somethings lurking in the shadows
Sometimes I want to let it grow
Enough until it consumes me
Will it stay or will it go
Darkness feels like the wind
Starting to brush against me
Like a gentle loving touch
The caress, a calling
Let weakness leave my lungs
As I expel all toxicity
And learn to breathe
In with the new
Out with the old
All the lies they told
Have rusted my gold”
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2. |
A Sacrifice to the Stars
04:44
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“As angels take razors to wrists
To see the red instead of the white
The ground starts to shake
My fate no longer waits
I just want to live forever
I just want to be remembered
Stars are starting to lose their shine
Disrupting between space and time
Let me be seated at your throne
To watch all the insects below
I just want to live forever
I just want to be remembered
SACRIFICE!
Rain down blood then thunder.
Burn them all!
A call for fire
This is my war
Every casualty
Heard of no more
The moon falls closer
As the masses sleep
The world is melting
As I hear it weep
Killer of moons
How much more will I sacrifice?”
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Orchard of Oblivion
03:48
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“Finally I hear the call
Follow the howl to the moon
Orchard... orchard...
How I thirst for this night
So I may drown in its light
The taste of blood
Drunk on all I've loved
Take from me this cup
Once I've had enough...
Baptized in the light of the moon
I hope this old life is over soon
In heaven, in hell, no more room
On this earth I'll forever roam
I've lost all the trust in myself
And all faith in everyone else.
Every line slowly erased
Can you hear it
The sound of the night
Can you see it
The shape of the moon
Light pours down from the moon
Into my open mouth
Spilling out between my lips
Into my open palms
Orchard of Oblivion”
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“Stars create the map I etch into my back
Pound my head until the rhythm brings me back
Bring me back
Always ignored the world on my shoulders
Maybe it's time I let this burden roll around
And let it go on it’s own path
As I roam alone”
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Duality Trades
06:13
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“Reaper on the moon
World at your scythe
Singing your tune
Into the dying light
Taking your hand
I find it hard to let go
For all the things you took
Were just things I stole
I can't let go of the world
Life is he
Death is he
All I need
Eternity
All I need
Duality
When you’re burning at both ends
You can’t tip the scales of life and death
Lost in eternity's grasp
Face to face with the mask
How do you become so at ease
When you just sit there and tease
Making me question whether to believe
Or let my faith disappear and leave
Reaper on the moon
World at your scythe
Still singing your tune
Into the dying light
Leaving your hand
I find I already know
All the things you took
Were things I must let go
I know it's time for me to go...
And when I meet you in the mirror of yesterday
I’ll shake your hand, turn, and walk away
Goodbye old friend
May I never see you again
Life is me
Death is me
Now I see
Eternity
Now I see
Duality”
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6. |
Today's Mourning
04:23
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“Awake in a world of fear
Panic the ending is near
Each morning births a new terror
Every night offers another prayer
At every throat you will see a rope
In every back you will see a blade
On every hand you will see blood
But I am just another to blame
Women and children can’t escape
They’re the ones truly at stake
Even if brother just kills brother
Say goodbye to son and father
Kill us all
With poison
All guilty
Of our grief
We just can’t stop killing
Critic I am just another to blame
Cynic I am bound with those in chains
We murder and then we pillage
Families from our own village
At every throat you will see a rope
In every back you will see a blade
On every hand you will see blood
But I am bound with those in chains”
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*Do not go gentle into that good night
Old age should burn and rave at close of day
Rage, rage against the dying of the light
Though wise men at their end know dark is right
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night
Rage, rage against the dying of the light*
“Let my body just float through the emptiness
Once I separate and become endless
I’ll be free”
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Constructs Eclipse
10:59
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“Every memory and every sin
From beginning to the end
at my back door, breaking in
We all have demons, living in
With burdens on my shoulders
I'm just a little preoccupied
With an angel and a devil
In one ear and out the other
My cries for help denied
If I let them starve, they just get angry
And go hungry until they eat away at me
Slowly succumbing to my fear
First it's an eye, then it's an ear
I fear the day my body is not enough
I fear the day I can’t feed their hunger
(GO)
Breeding from the inside out
All their evil intents expand
Just focused on instant clout
With my head in the sand
Maybe we can hang the moon
Maybe they will all disappear
Every memory, a dagger
For my psychotic behavior
I’ve been told lives in me
Something I have yet to see
Who do you side with
When you're the enemy
Breed them for your own
breed them for war
constructs eclipse
clone then for more
take them for their life take all to see
aspect correct bled for the need
reign over all pain in human
existence lives plague upon land
use and dispose decay to waste
all life is lost they control space
There’s no more room for me here
There’s no place left to burn alive
The insects are eating at my eyes
So I once again look to the skies
(HOME)
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My wings have been made by the faults of man
How I have longed to be like the rest of them
But once I step into the darkness
I can’t stop my demons from sneaking in
So it had just become second nature
Yielding to the curse of a human creature
Can you blame me for wanting to be like everyone else?
I hang from the moon
But a man can change his stars
A man can change
And a man can rearrange his stars
A man can rearrange
I’ve taken revenge for everyone I’ve ever hurt
Every scar on my back burns from my own words
Lash upon lash, I crawl back
Finally my reflection without shame
Finally the stars spell out my name”
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Ritual Contrition Colorado
“Hang the Moon is a mystifying, murky and gloomy example of death metal with few frills but remarkable reward. Dismal and devastating throughout, Ritual Contrition ravage the listener with everything from ruthless riffs to pummeling percussion in the most primal manner they can.” ... more
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