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In the Cage
11:49
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Please leave me here
I long for this darkness
My life is painful and gone
My heart is longing for this
Please leave me here
The sun is too bright
The night is too cold
The fight is endless
My strength is diminished
I am a sliced heartstring
No longer holding blood
Fear for me when I am gone
I shall return in spectral times
I release my life into yours
Remember my sacrifice, as it is you
Do not mourn as my elegy plays
I shall become as seraphim
Lo! Death has reared himself a throne
In a strange city lying alone
Far down within the dim West,
Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best
Have gone to their eternal rest.
There shrines and palaces and towers
(Time-eaten towers that tremble not!)
Resemble nothing that is ours.
Around, by lifting winds forgot,
Resignedly beneath the sky
The melancholy waters he.
No rays from the holy heaven come down
On the long night-time of that town;
But light from out the lurid sea
Streams up the turrets silently-
Gleams up the pinnacles far and free-
Up domes- up spires- up kingly halls-
Up fanes- up Babylon-like walls-
Up shadowy long-forgotten bowers
Of sculptured ivy and stone flowers-
Up many and many a marvellous shrine
Whose wreathed friezes intertwine
The viol, the violet, and the vine.
Resignedly beneath the sky
The melancholy waters lie.
So blend the turrets and shadows there
That all seem pendulous in air,
While from a proud tower in the town
Death looks gigantically down.
There open fanes and gaping graves
Yawn level with the luminous waves;
But not the riches there that lie
In each idol's diamond eye-
Not the gaily-jewelled dead
Tempt the waters from their bed;
For no ripples curl, alas!
Along that wilderness of glass-
No swellings tell that winds may be
Upon some far-off happier sea-
No heavings hint that winds have been
On seas less hideously serene.
But lo, a stir is in the air!
The wave- there is a movement there!
As if the towers had thrust aside,
In slightly sinking, the dull tide-
As if their tops had feebly given
A void within the filmy Heaven.
The waves have now a redder glow-
The hours are breathing faint and low-
And when, amid no earthly moans,
Down, down that town shall settle hence,
Hell, rising from a thousand thrones,
Shall do it reverence.
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2. |
Fractured
08:25
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Breeding cacophonous feelings
Despair like a stabbing glass
Deep into flesh long scavenged
Fractured am I, son of longing
Rise from the shallow hole
Looking through a stained goblet
Filled with the wine of ages
Drink deep my fractured child
Become marrow as well as sand
Bleed thy immobile blood
I am the last of true mankind
Flawed like the hanging sun
I am the embodiment of darkness
I will envelop all who stand in my way
I devour sunlight faster than shade
More powerful in lyric than my fathers
I am broken and lying in this cell
Fractured my hemlock drank
Joints stiff and bitter taste
Body loosing warmth and life
I smile upon my unburied grave
I laugh with the ghost in my mind
My Fractured child I cry!
From my Fractured eyes
Spawn of my Fractured being
Fractured fractals on Fractured soil!
Feel my Fractured body fall!
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3. |
Entombment
16:10
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In this cell I am alone
Fear spreads through my soul
Holes through which mice crawl
And shadows on the walls
I am alone in darkness
I hear voices speaking about me
The shadows dancing
Endless silhouettes motion
The squeals of dying mice
As I crush them with my hand
I throw the corpses away
And leave myself in corners
Shadows embrace my shoulders
They weep for my affliction
I cry for merciful death
My captors return with spears
No food or water here
Except for melting snow
Alone I wander the cell
So alone, so alone
Entombment before burial
Before I am even dead
My crimes are small
My body is stinging
Tears evaporating in the air
No sunlight greets
This longing soul
I fear for death and malady
Desolate screams
Stalked by Grimness
Infected with Melancholy
I am alone in darkness
So alone, So alone
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4. |
Solidify
12:18
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Caved in my lungs
Speaking foreign tongues
Ripped of flesh and spirit
Maniacal screams sear me
Possessed by bleeding serenades
In darkness’ cell I reside
Loneliness spreads like fires
Solidify the falling snow
Ice breaks like glass
Hearts leave their prisons
Lust spreads like the wind
I stand on the edge of the world
Gazing at the abyss
Longing for shapelessness
In shadows I stand above
Emptiness lurks within
Corridors walls fading
Into homeless structures
Sadness solidified
SOLIDIFY
In my mind
Solidify
Breathless inside
Heartless pride
Solidified
Pathless soul
To the end
Hard as coal
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5. |
Sinking Heart
11:04
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Sinking Heart
A passing glance over my shoulders
A drifting stare across the dark sea
Waves of love are now slowly crushing me
Sinking heart lies in the shoals beside dreams
Cursed place covered in the green moss
Shipwreck coves treacherous land beneath
Cages of bone confine my lost soul
Escape denied from the love you adore
Currents pull my cell back down below
I cannot hold my breath any longer
Black waves controvert my desires
Only decease can free me now
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6. |
Confine Me
02:26
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Confine me
Confine me from light and love
Confine me from those above
Confine me from my grave
Confine me to be saved
Confine me to this cell
Confine me back to hell
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7. |
The Door
14:40
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This door is bound with whispers
Withholding secrets that I long to implore
What could be hiding?
Hiding behind that thick door.
Perhaps there is a wren that sings for me
Perhaps a far and distant shore
Whether bird or beach that lies for me
It is just beyond that door.
What splendor will I find?
When I am free from this stock and store
But I am dying to find it
To find it just beyond the door
What satiety I could have
If I could rise off of the floor
But I am trapped and bound
On the inside of a locked door
I beg you all to hate me
Succeed and I’ll love you evermore
But I know in my heart you sleep
On the other side of the door
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8. |
To Sleep In Silence
05:29
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