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To Thou, Ancient Death
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Swimming in a sea of dark recollections, I saw blood running like an everflowing stream. I was deafened by the nocturnal silence and I found myself as the last one on earth.
Dig deep, rummage through your core the essence from beyond.
Unearth, open the old wound, your fate is cursed!
I chose the left hand path as the slaughter of my soul. I was sent where no life dwells, into eternity.
Now my remains are into the grave after a winterlong trek. I'm now just a shadow in the deep, fornever laid to rest.
I escaped that realm of chaos and abided all the dreams you dread. The spectral sorrows had haunted my soul in a nightmare made flesh.
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Ceased greatly far from deliverance, the harrowing aeon persists.
I leave behind an empty vessel; a hollow grail.
Placed high above on the charnel ground, the excarnation begins.
Sacred scavengers surround the mortal part, left to decay.
Scattered by vultures
On the top of the tower of silence
Surrounded by carrion birds
My remains sustain other lives
Scattered by vultures
The traces are left to decompose
Surrounded by birds of prey
A burial in the sky
My journey has already started
So have no grief for me
I was condemned to reincarnation
The endless cycle carries on!
Through consciousness I will travel leaving merely flesh, blood and bone
The stream of life and rebirth goes on, and karma is my judge
Mighty creatures of the sky, emanation of the wisdom deities
Foresee the future and gather the gods; guide me to a higher realm
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Inverted Burial
04:31
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After a long time of dreadful torment I reached the end of the line
I put a stop to my appalling grief I came to a halt.
I took the one and only thing I had left, I had the final word
and thought I could finally rest but ended up...
Inhumed upside down
condemned to an inverted burial.
It came to me that I had failed an unforgiving god I've always scorned
and now I have a new debt to pay for, bygone!
Weak and pathetic servants of a counterfeit deity enforce their law.
My bodily relics end up...
Inhumed upside down,
condemned to an inverted burial.
Inhumed upside down
condemned to eternal oblivion.
Immured in the recesses of the earth
guilty of blasphemy with a stake through my heart
Cursed by those who claim punishment
but the execration will be cast over them.
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Grave Desires
03:08
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Time was I stood as thou dost now
And viewed the dead as thou dost me
Ere long thou shalt lie as low as I
And others stand and look at thee.
These are my grave desires...
Farewell my friends.
Death is a debt to nature due…
Farewell my friends I loved so dear
I’ve gone and left this vale of tears.
My end you know, my grave you see,
Prepare yourselves to follow me.
You’ve been born to die,
As I’ve been dying so long
Hear my voice call…
These are my grave desires...
Farewell my friends
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The almighty sun disappeared,
And the earth cried in pain for its son
the rivers dried up and filled with consternation and dread.
A sullen sky beheld
The growth of an appalling plague
And the ancient hill of elation
Became the gate to eternity.
From the valley of distress,
into a void
An overwhelming silence befell
As the impending fate arose
the path of candor was dragged and led
into a void.
The ground opened from its core
And shed streams of blood,
The threshold of sacrifice
Emerged as deliverance.
Feel the sense of despair
And hear the screams of desolation
A cold wind devours the land
Beneath a cloak of despondency.
Hear the cries, feel the grievous air inside your soul.
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