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Rakoth - Ars Compilata lyrics



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01. Les Arts Fauches

Music & lyrics by Rakoth
Mesdames et Messieurs, Soyez les bienvenus à l'exposition d'arts fauchés.
Vous êtes invités à découvrir les ?uvres d'art mutilés à l'etat méconnaissable.
Des constructions fines tressées des choses degeulasses!
Un tas d'?uvres de la culture mondiale mélanges avec des clinquants!
Entrez donc! Er vous en allez regretter!
À vos risques et périls! Vous êtes prévenus et bienvenus!

02. What They Seek

Music & lyrics by Rakoth
Led forth by the Silver Star
Ship of Unknowledge sails out of grey void
Driven astray by the Winds of Comprehension
They seek in delusive seas
Island of Sleep, the Oblivion shores
They seek their God to save their souls
To save them from themselves

"Obey! Don't think! Stay calm!
Marry and reproduce!
Obey! Don't think
This is your God!
Obey! Don't think! Stay calm!
Marry and reproduce!
Obey! Don't think
This is your God!"

You think you differ
Despise their hollow minds
And their pathetic affairs
You found the way
You're Disciple of Truth
You need a mentor
Who will take your hand
And wisely show you the path

Come near, my friend, stand close to me
Attend to faint whispers
Get rid of thoughts, visualize
The Pyramid of Light
We lose our form, ascend so high
So far beyond dreaming
But don't look back, just don't look down
Or you'll be drawn to Earth

"And one journey leads yet into another,
So too doth all life continue onward...
Within one seed lie the secrets of the universe,
Within one cell the secrets of life, and within thee
The secrets of the mystery... Thou art the key!"

We drift through Nowhere
In nebulas dark soothing haze
And stars dance in silent parade
Dim "Light Divine"
Left behind in tremendous disgrace
No match for this majesty

But this is not for you
The Universe we travel is mine
You cannot return here again
Reject your arrogance
You never shall find what you seek
So get back and join your herd in their Quest

03. Ars Compilata

Music & lyrics by Rakoth
Ave atque vale
Exitum asta probat
Tempus edax rerum

In aeternum
Benevobis
Stultica beata
Alea jacta est
Delenda est Carthago
Freuet auch des
Wahren Scheins
Euch des ernsten Spieles
Kein lebendiges ist eins
Immer ists ein Vieles

Wolkenzug und Nebelflor
Erhellen sich von Oben
Luft im Laub und Wind im Rohr
Und alles ist zerstoben
Dum vivimus vivamus
Dum spiro
Spero
Hominis est errare
Nil premanent sub sole

05. Lineage

Music & lyrics by Rakoth
Since the times of the shattered Globe
When gods emerged to create the life
All races beget men of war
And temper them in deadly strife
In war or peace, prosperity or carnage
We tread our path, a mortal or a god
There is no force to overcome this lineage
To break these bonds, the lineage of blood
Time flows, the aeons pass
And yet there's much blood to spill
These lands are covered with scars
Scars that cannot be healed

Gran Kain shouted with great pride to all the world and instilled spirit into the creatures of his own image. However, the result was terrible. His creatures were weak, stupid, sly, and cowardly. All the other gods despised Gran Kain's creatures. Overcome by the shame of his failure, Gran Kain abandoned his creatures and went into hiding for a time. These creatures are called humans. And the war goes on.

06. Emphaty Mire

Music & lyrics by Rakoth
Each of you has a purpose bestown upon you by the force you worship.
Each of us wishes to be free of such force.
Few strive to become that force.

I woke up only to see
Mystic haze thickening around
Cannot move, I must
Break the spell that poisons the Spring

The Spring of Life that brought me to this state...
"How fortunate the man with none"...

Memini mirabili hora
Lux veni, ante lucem me

I tried to change my Secret Path,
I tried to change my way
But empathy and pity rose
Compassion made me sway
So slimy tentacles of decadence began to grow
(Lux veni)
And when I thought I've reached the light
They've drawn me down below
(Ante lucem me)

See these low lives?
They reach for me like I am the light myself.
They adore me.
They deserve to give their useless lives to me.

Thirsting for the spark to guide me out of this
Mire I ignite the souls of those devoted
Lame tiny bizarre insects crawl down in the
Mud only worth of being scorched

I would sacrifice anyone and anything
(Light them up)
Just to break out of this asylum
Thoughts poach in sticky web spinned by
(Burn them down to ashes)
Shades of regret and guilt, ghosts of pain

Light them up (Burn them down), dispel the dark
(Speak) Seek the key (They shall heed)
Unseal the way
(Teach) They shall heed (You'll ascend)
They'll follow you
(Burn) They shall burn
(Like moths) in sacred Afterglow

Will this pyre be enough to light my way?
Will the immolation of that miserable swarm bring me back to where I desire to be
Or do I need more of them?
Shall I ascend at last?

07. Indoctrination

Music & lyrics by Rakoth
Empty life, empty shell
Your existence has no purpose anymore
Bleak millennia are yours to rot
Wondering aimlessly
With no hope, no warmth inside
No light ahead
You will meet the ones who care
You'll meet us

We shall give you hope
We'll give you strength
We'll bathe you in our love
We'll pull you out of your abyss
We'll make you one of us
You'll feel like you've been reborn to the brave new world
The universe of light
Where the angels sing
You've found your place at last

Here you see all around
Smiling faces, everyone is happy here
We will help you wash away the past
Here you will realize
That your hollow futile life was full of sin
Now erase it, wipe it clean... Wipe it clean...

You will learn, step by step
We must labour to fulfill the Higher Plan
Our mission is to save mankind
You will strive, working hard
Your endeavors are important to the Cause
And the Cause... The Cause is everything!

"The complexities of life do distract and disorient, and thee shall know the turmoil of fear and uncertainty... He that hath not foundation shall in wandering suffer... While he that hath sanctuary shall know peace and stability... Discover thee the builder, that thee may light these eyes... For rooted in he lies the knowledge of structure... From encircling waters wrest thee the works of stones... As thee make sacrifice twixt all the four corners, thy labor shall not be in vain, for the opaque yielded from the stone will be transformed, and thee shall behold the radiant light... Thus may one discover a haven, and assuredly travel onward... Thus may one discover thyself, and assuredly travel through life..."

We shall guide you
You shall follow
On your heavenly path to
Your sincere and so pure sacrifice

08. Inner You

Music & lyrics by Rakoth
Descend from your virtue peaks
It's so unappealing, so depressive
Stop radiating your distilled
Perfection
Get back from your depths of sin
Sweet and magnetic yet utterly hollow
Don't talk to me, don't look at me
Just let me go at last

I recall your pity and sorry
When I did not believe
Tears that fell when you saw my sorrow
Proved you won't forgive

You look so calm when I'm on my knees
Begging for mercy, praying and crying
I wonder what the hearts of the angels
Are made of
And as you're hugging me
Trying to bring my soul to peace
I imagine how I split your chest
Exposing what's inside
Real you?

Light, purest light enchanting
Twisting the mind, eliminating the hope
I realize I'm unworthy
Dim filthy light hiding
Something I don't want to see
Eyes soon to explode - cover it back!
Conceal!

Never ever try to imagine this again... Ever!
Be happy with what you have and never look inside
Remember! Never!

I'm falling back out of killing sight
Holding to you as the anchor of real
Never again to question your angelic
Nature
I'm falling back just to see you smile
So comprehending, so sympathetic
You comfort me, you make me live
So why am I so scared?

I recreate bliss of unknowing
Icon of your eyes
I celebrate self written story
Of angel in disguise

09. 93 Shattered Runes

Music & lyrics by Rakoth
Hail the grain of dying world
We stand on the edge of reason
When the rose clouds conceal
The exhausted sun dog hail 93 dead sunwheels buried deep
But what ends when the symbols shatter? Is this impure?

We said destroy at the dawn of new age
We have sworn to keep the fire burning
We shall survive the deadly June
And proclaim the rebirth of the world that has passed

True - the guilty have no pride
And their only reward is the scorn
But when runes and men collide
The future is born

We said destroy at the dawn of new age
We have sworn to keep the fire burning
We shall survive the deadly June
And proclaim the rebirth of the force that we are

Hail the grain of dying world
Those who keep the fragments together at the wall of sacrifice
We take care and control

10. MDB

Music & lyrics by Rakoth
Sear me, doomed lover
With your catching feathers
Transcending the black heart romance
When the snow in my hand
The return of the beautiful
Is the prize of beauty, the dark caress

God is alone in his black voyage
On a sea to suffer in
So like the gods of the sun we turn loose the swans
Under your wings and into your arms

Silent dance, the grief of age
The songless bird, le cerf malade
Songs of darkness, words of light
Grace unhearing the thrash of naked limbs

The Isis script
Erotic literature
The sexuality of bereavement
Base level erotica

Gather me up forever
The dreadful hours at your river
Raven and the rose in the scarlet garden
The whore, the cook and the mother

Heroin chic, Apocalypse woman
The deepest of all hearts
My hope the Destroyer, the child of Eternity
A kiss to remember - she is the Dark

From darkest skies all swept away
It will come, the Edenbeast
Symphonaire Infernus et
Spera Empyrium
Vast choirs
The cry of mankind
For my fallen angel, for you
Der Uberlebende is the crown of sympathy
Deeper down to the fever sea
Of the bitterness and the bereavement

Two winters only of your shameful heaven
I cannot be loved
And I walk with them
Into the lake of ghosts
To remain tombless here in the throat

And my fury stands ready
On thy raven wings
I am the bloody earth
See the light
At the end of the world
On the night He died

Love's intolerable pain
The blood, the wine
The rose, the blue lotus
One of beauty's daughters
A cruel taste of winter