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Mare Cognitum - Solar Paroxysm lyrics



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01. Antaresian

We have beheld the age when the cosmic sea was filled
We have transcribed the formation of constellations

Eyes coalesce into oneness
With each generation, expanding

We have become the archetypes of existence
We have understood the purpose of ourselves

Visions blessed with permanence
Accursed everlasting sentience

What has been seen must never be forgotten
The wisdom of eternity we carry
Into the furthest reaches of the cosmos
Far away from our faded, dying suns

Immortal memories embraced by time…

We have beheld the birth of our binary suns
We have counted the days before their failing light

The tide of life has risen
And so too must it fall

We have unveiled the harrowing end of our world
We have foreseen the devouring of our galaxy

And when the light has gone
So too will be our memories

What has been seen must never be forgotten
The wisdom of eternity we carry
Into the furthest reaches of the cosmos
Far away from our faded, dying suns

Immortal memories embraced by time…

We send our minds into the waves of the cosmic sea
Our bodies remain to return to the void
As one we defined the purpose of our own existence
And we will find what lies beyond this dying world

Immortal memories embraced by time…

02. Frozen Star Divinization

Frozen in time
The shell of a neutron star
Collected among
The event horizon’s edge

Universes connect
An edge between two realities
Hypersurfaces linked
Transforming to codimensions

Comingling the traits of paired existences
Across a stretch of suspended time

Properties pass from one cosmos to the next
Macrocosmic aspects replicate and disperse

Resplendent emanations
Simulacrum transposed

New logic is formed
Laws of nature transform
Time’s anatomy shifts
Gravity ceases to exist

All constructs
All meaning
Wiped away
In the consummation
Transfiguration

Divinization

Energy disperses
Rupturing through the cracks
Among the surface
Intertwined intrinsic bonds

Elements exchanged
Through tunneling wormholes
Distributing instantly
Across the empty expanse

Planting the seeds of formations unknown
Depictions upon the empty canvas of the cosmos

Properties pass from one cosmos to the next
Macrocosmic aspects replicate and disperse

Resplendent emanations
Simulacrum transposed

New logic is formed
Laws of nature transform
Time’s anatomy shifts
Gravity ceases to exist

All constructs
All meaning
Wiped away
In the consummation
Transfiguration

Divinization

Energy disperses
Across the surface

This reality is birthed
The foundation is laid
For creation of future worlds

What once was is shattered
The shell is cracked and worn
To this new reality we submit

New logic is formed
Laws of nature transform
Time’s anatomy shifts
Gravity ceases to exist

All constructs
All meaning
Wiped away
In the consummation
Divinization

03. Terra Requiem

The last leaves have fallen
The last vine has withered

The ocean has boiled for so long
Choking our breath with fetid steam

We claw for shelter from the heartless sun
Which cracks our skin and dries our wells

So great is the debt we have incurred
So too will we wilt and fade into dust

We’ll pay with the ashes of our humanity
And cease to walk upon this earth

And the earth will forget our name

04. Luminous Accretion

Corporeal fractures
Essence separates
Violent transposition
Self-observed from above, lingering

Communicants, wretched spires
Materialize, surround, engulf
Great tongues through which
Creations are spoken (and thus conceived)

Possessing the husk, now lifeless
Diminished into anemic sedation
Vigor mutates into weakness
Life transmutes into energy

The light is gleaned, the refuse discarded
The radiances collect evermore

Vigorous accretion unknown
Martyred fragments once threshed
Merging, veiled in shadow
Returning to past forms

Communicants, wretched spires
Materialize, surround, engulf
Great tongues through which
Creations are spoken (and thus conceived)

The light is gleaned, the refuse discarded
The radiances collect evermore

Bask within the glory
Beneath the searing sky

Become a torch
Or turn to ashes

Time’s grasp tightens
As hope grows dim

They’ll turn to ashes
They’ll turn to ashes

Returning to past forms
Shrouds of diffused light, revitalized

The fragments recovered
Can bind together once again
And become whole

05. Ataraxia Tunnels

Visions conjure throughout
A delusion searing into memory
So vividly

Once compulsively wrought
Now imbued to confine a once-great mind
Forever

Paradigm abstraction
Contortion absolute

Reduction of wisdom into basest impulse
The faintest glimpse of the reflections remain

The visage presenting itself as a wretched beast
A gruesome debasement of vigilance released

Corpulent sycophant
Forcibly satiate

Parasite omnivore
Ravaging nescience

Bastardized abomination reveling in self-destruction
Restructured horrendously through eons of suffering

Bastardized abomination reveling in self-destruction
Self-flagellation, infinite thought regression

Reason crumbles throughout
An illusion permeating identity
Completely

Once impulsively mocked
Now rejoicing in the deadened halls of lucidity
Heedlessly

Ambitions recanted
Degeneration complete

Reduction of wisdom into basest impulse
The faintest glimpse of the reflections remain

The visage presenting itself as a wretched beast
A gruesome debasement of vigilance released

Corpulent sycophant
Forcibly satiate

Parasite omnivore
Ravaging nescience

Bastardized abomination reveling in self-destruction
Restructured horrendously through eons of suffering

Bastardized abomination reveling in self-destruction
Self-flagellation, infinite thought regression

Infinite Thought

Infinite Regression

So tranquil…
So tranquil…
So tranquil…
Has my erasure become

Blissfully I depart
And separate from my mind
Blissfully I depart
And soon I will forget