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Horror
03:40
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Sidhe of the Barrow
04:00
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VERSE I
Hark the Heralds Horn in the Hollow
Stark in Stygian Half Light
It calls to restless Sidhe to ride this night.
Bestride the Western Wind, black wing darkened sky.
Briarthorns twist & writhe, choke augurs cries.
CHORUS
One shrill blare from horn resounding
I feel my doom draw closer
Dancing wights, bathed in wraithlight
Fell us as wheat, oh host of the restless
Sidhe of the barrow!
VERSE II
Six of wounds to cast on you,
As shades of sluagh jeer.
Unforgiven dead, almost here.
Descend on western wind, howling cloaked in drear.
Anoint the taken, in evergreen ash & tear.
CHORUS
One shrill blare from horn resounding
I feel my doom draw closer
Dancing wights, bathed in wraithlight
Fell us as wheat, oh host of the restless
Sidhe of the barrow!
CODA
Final blare from horn resounding
I feel my doom is here!
Dancing wights, bathed in wraithlight, blood harvest moon.
Fell us as wheat, oh host of the restless
Sidhe of the barrow!
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3. |
Protraction of Night
03:09
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VERSE I:
Dusk fall, marching forward into the dying light.
Solstice of our longest night, no edge in sight.
Threshold, the verge we’ll cross into unfurling black beyond.
Destruction resplendent.
Hail the breaking of the World.
CHORUS:
Dearth and its dread,
No dirge for the dead.
Scream the promise of mutual annihilation.
Grand collapse, curse of inaction.
The great serpent coils and leers.
VERSE II:
Vexation, the creator.
Egregious acts of oppression reign.
Dire times, greed and scorn.
The son is dead, the veil is torn.
Scourge the coil with terror and toil,
We saw this coming.
Damnation resplendent.
Hail the breaking of the World.
CHORUS:
Dearth and its dread,
No dirge for the dead.
Scream the promise of mutual annihilation.
Grand collapse, curse of inaction.
The great serpent coils and leers.
BRIDGE:
Domineered by false Kings,
Whom depredate soil and soul.
Whilst the idle drown in blackened glass.
Catastrophe self-inflicted.
CODA:
Dearth and its dread,
No dirge for the dead.
Scream the promise of mutual annihilation.
Dishonour the promise of mutual annihilation.
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VERSE I (First Act):
Distant figures part the morning mist,
Banks that billow roll through their wake.
Dawn breaks, breath the wildfire glow.
Three companions march on.
Beloved fallen carried on high,
Great golden flame to banish deepest night.
VERSE II (Second Act):
Vaulted skies cracked as you fell,
Even they wept for you.
Your repose waits on the hill,
Journeys end where land and sky collide.
Last rites, a farewell by fire,
One last song to send you beyond.
Ascend ancient crest, ancestors attest.
No pain assuaged, nor sleep, nor rest.
INTERLUDE
VERSE III (Final Act):
I, sole heir, to this my dying day.
The howling beyond now bellows my name.
A clarion call that rings and resounds.
Astride the veil, only now I see,
The carried fallen is me.
We, stoic as stone.
Three voices rise to invoke,
To call upon the old ones, heed us now.
All-Mother below, Earthen womb, great boundless unknown. Break slumbering ground, skyward, strike a stone to their name.
All-Mother, hear us at our darkest, we need you now. Our life's blood departs upon your summits shroud.
All-Father above, foehammer, great thundering tide. Strike down with pyres light, a parting gift of flame.
I, sole heir, to this my dying day.
Last rites by fire, forever I shall stay,
From where I hold the sky.
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VERSE I:
Lo, drink deep depths below.
Galvanise my spirit.
Intone, quicken the undertow.
Encumbered and bound, but departing the lie.
Low, will my bones forward,
Onward through harrow and yawning divide.
You, thy torch-bearers flame
Raze the path home, we’re not going that way.
CHORUS:
Gyres dance by erstwhiles pyre light,
Riding screams forth into the long night.
Let conflagration breath out new life,
Burning briars that bind,
Moors that suppress,
Bonds which restrain,
Cast from spires that spurn us from starting again.
All came from nothing, and unto nothing they shall return.
VERSE II:
Galvanise thy spirit.
Intone, wounds of the overthrown.
Conjure conviction, render resolve.
Row, cross through the mire,
The only way forth is straight down the line.
Bridges ablaze to light the seeker,
Follow roots of the Earth, find a new way.
CHORUS:
Gyres dance by erstwhiles pyre light,
Riding screams forth into the long night.
Let conflagration breath out new life
Burning briars that bind,
Moors that suppress,
Bonds which restrain,
Cast from spires that spurn us from starting again.
All came from nothing, and unto nothing.
Will forth from nothing.
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6. |
Goddess Ablaze
05:36
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VERSE I:
I can never leave this place,
This cairn of my life's esteems.
A stone orchard for dead songs and dreams,
Yet the Goddess stills screams to me -
Bow down, break the hands of the maker,
Return in-kind the stones of the takers.
Turbulence, your votive to wield,
This muse's flame your shield.
Rise and resist the refrain.
Stand, spit forth sanguine again.
Sear shut wounds from the Father
Upon my creations fire.
Ride forth with the gale, chasing the tide.
CHORUS:
Reef myself free from the threads, as I come undone.
Commit my body to your restless sea.
Breath deep of smoke of sage, your effigy.
Lost in ritual, found in you, my Goddess ablaze.
VERSE II:
Her Iapetus divide, chiaroscuro divine.
In duality I find
The aestus at your heart.
Blessed gyre that tears me apart.
Again my banshee keens to me,
Unto thee I gift unrest.
Rise and resist the refrain.
Stand, spit forth sanguine again.
Sear shut wounds from the Father upon my creations fire.
Ride forth with the gale, chasing the tide.
CHORUS:
Reef myself free from the threads, as I come undone.
Commit my body to your restless sea.
Breath deep of smoke of sage, your effigy.
Lost in ritual, found in you, my Goddess ablaze.
INTERLUDE & SOLOS
CHORUS:
Reef myself free from the threads, as I come undone.
Commit my body to your restless sea.
Breath deep of smoke of sage, your effigy.
I, Forever yours,
My Goddess ablaze.
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7. |
They Wait for Me
04:28
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VERSE I:
They split the standing stone
To build chapels to lies
We defy
Perverse conversions of sacred ground
But their time to wither has come.
Illuminate scripts of aurum
Gilded fables to deny
We defy
Their monoliths to mono-myths
Cultural genocide
PRE CHORUS:
When still, we hear them call
From memories of home
Forebears guide your way
Until your dying day
CHORUS:
Ancestors
Speak to me
Through me
And when I die
They wait for me
VERSE II:
Called to stand once more
By voice a thousand strong
We defy
Forgotten bonds, spirit, beast
Our time to be remade has come
We won't withhold vengeance owed
For all crushed and claimed
We defy
Their silent coward, and his sacrifice in vain.
PRE CHORUS:
When still, we hear them call
From memories of home
Forebears guide your way
Until your dying day
CHORUS:
Ancestors
Speak to me
Through me
And when I die
They wait for me
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8. |
The Fray
04:20
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VERSE I:
Our lost time collect sepias stain
In her faded hands to keep
Handfast to the ways
that converge and part in wake.
To stem
To stave
The fray
PRE CHORUS:
Fata Morgana’s blade
Part all from sight
CHORUS:
Beyond the threadbare weave,
Nights tapestry alight.
All which we adore,
Vanish unto the ethers host
Tread the twilight seam
Cannot follow
Handfast to the ways
That stem, That stave
The fray
VERSE II:
Cortège to lost embrace
Finality awaits
To cross the twilight seam
To join with you, the threads between.
CODA:
Our lost time collect sepias stain
In her faded hands to keep
Handfast to the ways
that converge and part in wake.
To stem
To stave
The fray
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9. |
Wintersmith
05:41
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VERSE I:
They could not save the phare light
Staved my side on shoals in life
My timbers break in the rocks embrace
The first embrace in years.
All my works and splendours claimed
Swept by her cold, unyielding rage.
I cannot hang on
Fall back into her arms
CHORUS:
Only peace I’ve known
Far below the waters, of which I dream
A moments reprieve in the crashing black
Leave my bones to rust, gifts to the deep.
Every rebirth feels like a death.
VERSE II:
This night, not first nor last
My ruins I keep, time past unseen.
Still the watchtower dark
Has made my purpose clear.
I’ll strike a light to guide you through.
Until she calls me home.
I cannot hang on
Fall back into her arms
CHORUS:
Only peace I’ve known
Far below the waters, of which I dream
A moments reprieve in the crashing black
Leave my bones to rust, gifts to the deep.
Every rebirth feels like a death.
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10. |
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VERSE I:
Down, digging ever deeper.
Harrow my hallowed soil, with their frantic jagged hands
Riven for stone and steel, material bled from my marrow
Curse their blasted eyes, avarice their burning sign
Black spiral dancing into arms of the death knell
Deaf unto the tolling bell, lockstep in line with souls to sell.
We betrayed her.
VERSE II :
Rend my flesh from bone, as if tearing hearth from home.
I am empty, made hollow by my own
For ligatures of silver, gallowbraids of greed and gold.
We betrayed her.
CHORUS:
Hand in hand we march into the Styx
Drown, deathless drowned
Glowering Strix, sing our maledictions.
VERSE III:
No obols for eyes, all that glimmers is gone.
Spent on age of thoughtless sleep
To betray the Earth beneath their feet
Black spiral dancers swinging from the tolling bell.
We betrayed her.
CHORUS/CODA:
Hand in hand we march into the Styx
Drown, Drowned.
Oh glowering Strix, sing our maledictions.
Hand in hand we march into the Styx
Down, Drag us down
Lash us to that tolling bell.
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11. |
Quiescence
02:03
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