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As It Rises
04:30
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Buildings collapse,
Rivers rise up
Against the city walls.
The ocean roars
With laughter as
She wipes the slate clean.
For the first time in days,
The rain lets up.
Soft white clouds
Dot a clear blue sky.
And here we are,
Looking down from the highest tower,
Surrounded by the sea,
As it rises.
Sunlight gleams
On the crests of the waves,
And the bodies of the dead
That float serenely by.
And there is no one
Left but us.
But you know that,
Don’t you?
You and me
And the seabirds,
Floating in the sky.
Floating in the sky,
Waiting and waiting
For the water
To engulf us.
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Possession
04:12
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You’ve been dead for so long,
But you’re here right now.
No one else can see you,
But I can somehow.
See with my eyes.
Speak with my voice.
Touch with my hands.
I’m empty.
Possess me.
I’ve been lonely for so long,
But I’m not right now.
No one else can be me.
You possess me now.
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Starving Beasts & Fate
03:30
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You thought I was dead,
But I was sleeping,
Waiting for you to arrive,
So I could slash you
With my claws.
But my fur is soft and warm.
Surrender to its weight.
Your life means so little to
Starving Beasts and Fate.
You thought I was prey,
That you could cage me,
Hunting for me like a prize,
But I have trapped you
In my jaws.
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4. |
Taken Underneath
04:50
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When the tide pulls in
I am taken underneath.
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How Much Did You Take?
03:43
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Shake yourself awake.
How much did you take?
Are you willing
To say goodbye?
You fell asleep again,
Dreaming of a time
Back before you lost it,
Back when you were fine.
Oh, how fast you run!
With your glowing face
Pressed up to the sun,
When your life had just begun.
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6. |
When the Sky Ignites
03:28
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10,000 years
Floating encased,
Suspended in ice.
4,000 since you returned.
Your world had been erased.
But why? But why?
But why did you leave us behind?
Dilated time,
Like the eye,
When the sky ignites.
10,000 screams
Haunting your dreams,
For eons, repeating…
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Asphodel
05:27
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Far beyond the sleeping sea,
In the land of perfect night,
Endless fields of asphodel,
Blooming without light.
Asphodel, forget yourself.
Neither paradise or hell.
Even though your petals fell,
Asphodel, it’s just as well.
Sent on ships from many lands,
Souls as nameless as their deeds,
Lost among the asphodel,
Hungering for flesh that bleeds.
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Cavalcade
03:56
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Night devour Earth.
Winter wind blow through the land.
Cavalcade of spirits,
Sweep through where we stand.
Ride with them
Through night
To see
The Sun again.
We wait for them to visit our heavy winter sleep,
The spectral riders of the wind,
Whose shadows veil the Earth
On the longest night.
But you mistook their cold eyes for starlight,
And you mistook their breath for the wind,
And you mistook their skeletal limbs
For the branches of the trees.
But the wind is not the only howl,
And the trembling leaves on the bare branches
Are not the only dead things that move.
Take flight now
With the host of the dead ones and the dreaming ones
Fly across the land.
Fly into the night.
Fly into the darkness,
And the icy, freezing starlight.
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Materialize Me
05:42
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I wait to be seen.
I live on the edges,
The breath and the mist,
The space in between.
I come to exist
With each of your pledges
To everything
I ever have been
Summon me up.
Materialize me.
Give me form,
So that I might be.
Call out my name.
Recognize me.
Push your energy into me.
Invoke my form.
Sexualize me.
Give your power up to me.
Praise my name.
Prophesize me.
Breathe your breath right into me.
Mere mortals don’t see
My shadow or shape,
Fooled in believing
They’re greater than me.
But I’m not leaving,
And you won’t escape.
I can bring great pains on thee.
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