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Dead To A Dying World - Elegy lyrics



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01. Syzygy

Let the cold clear water
Cleanse my spirit
Let the tumult smooth my bones
To river stones

From dust to dust

Let the wind reclaim
My body
As the tempest ever chips
Away

From apogee to perigee

Of the Earth we are born
A curse
To the earth we return
To scar no more

Into the conjured flame
We dance
Back to the life bearer
Forgotten

To the firmament
Return to dust

02. The Seer's Embrace

Ashes laid to dust
Seventh seal opened
A mind of wisdom
The hour was known
Final rites spoken
Wake upon death
The day of passing
An alluring end

The seer of grief has spoken
Seeking hands flooded with void
Grasping at fragile mist
The ruins to hold and thrive
Whisper of what remains
Dwell amongst the silence
Amongst the ashen dreams
A wilderness of dry stones
For the last year's words
Are now shriveled voices

Fate the new language
Visions of past escape
Wearied existence
Shadows rise as greetings

Scorched, savaged faces
Breathe barren in fate
Stone bunded eyes
Gaze on rising wasteland
For these roots that hold
Feeble hands embrace
Drowned in burnished haze
Clutch and sink to a depart

Savagely still, waiting
Clothed in echoes gone
Rose stained regrets
Violet hours steadfast
Days are passing
Alluring ends

Retreat from where such came
Kneel to a dark sun
Bow to a moon of blood
Diadem, fallen knees

03. Vernal Equinox

At twilight it wakes
Wresting me towards the waves
Derelict ruins of wars forgotten
Synthetic light now fades

Water and stone
The flood has come
Reaped and sown

I envy the tendrils
Yearning for the light
My glass is empty
I am an absence of thirst

At twilight it wakes
Wresting me toward the waves

04. Empty Hands, Hollow Hymns

Stripped bare, mind crumbling away
As flames fade, on to run, on to pain
Ground down, pulse waning away
As flames fade, on to run, all in vain
Whispers echo, fresh shards to break
These patterns fade, on to run, end of reign

Lungs of soot, bund and bound
Mist rising from tepid waters surrounds
A veil of depths, hidden below
A shape forming slow to grown
A vision fades, hands reach out
Devoid of form, cloud full of doubt

All that you're giving, all that you see
Drifting before you, ash in the stream
Can't tell what's real, can't tell what's right
Certanty gone, mind full of lies
Haunted, haunted, fragmented light
Broken and naked, teeth sinking bite
Battered and bruised, futile excuse
Bundly march on, call is too strong
Shock to the core, delirious and maimed
No choice is sane, collapsed under strain
No choice is sane, what's left to claim

Racked with fear and regret
Running blind, can't forget
Body shacking, soaked by sweat
Fingers numb, cold and dead

Broken whispers, fell voices
Endless fog, self betrayal
I'm chocking and crawling
Cult of ego, ghosts calling

05. Hewn From Falling Water

There is not another green world
No respite, no relief
A cage of our own design

We are the lamb
We are the seven seals
Terrible and false

Hewn of fallen rain
Hewn of blood

06. Of Moss And Stone

Anthropocene
Waterless flood
Anthropocene
Blight split from above
Anthropocene
Exhaled fear
Anthropocene
In a handful of dust

To beg the sky with tear filled fists
Enraged eyes stab bund for bliss
No voice is heard no bargain claimed
Everything offered all souls displayed

Dark shadows split the road ahead
Constant falling under crippled legs
Shadows melting at the edge of sight
Visions call to an empty night

To bed and plead on bloody knees
To hope for something that cannot be
To give it all to empty hands
And cave to life's demands

I will never see mourning by stars
As deep ashes adorned hollow eyes
The fallen sky came in one day
The last hands clutched and sank
As the dry bones sang final words
To death rattles dreamt in fates

Razed, razed
These circles I've run
A canyon my wake
Razed, razed
Burned carcass on bluff
And still I wait
Razed, razed
Moons passing us by
Still searching for signs
Razed, razed
Carved my dead flesh
Offered my black blood
Razed, razed
But nothing, only silence
But nothing, only silence

Everything moves past me
Agony in isolation
The river keeps running
I am of moss and stone
Humming with despair

The space between the rungs of fate
Whose silent shores are want to wake
Cast nervous calm on ground is shake
While sleepless souls are made to wait

Dark shadows split the road ahead
Constant falling under crippled legs
Shadows melting at the edge of sight
Visions call to an empty night