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Oh, golden apple of ambition
Doubt is a serpent warning me so threateningly
In raging silences he whispers:
“Prudence is wisdom, denial is sage”
To Psychic Death I'll bow
Oh, hunger not for ours is famine
Nor suffer lust for ours is infertility
Renounce the pride of action
The dying man regrets his life lived recklessly
To psychic death I'll bow
Silent as the moon
To psychic death I'll bow
Passive as the womb
Silence the sea has never seen
I cut away my thoughts
Still as the sky could never be
I cut away my heart
I give what has no use to me
Enthroned in lavish jewelry
Sits Saint Austerity
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Opulent Decay
04:14
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Pale comfort
Sick in luxury
Frail abundance
She mocks sardonically
Shivers, she, in land austere
For comfort she can't bear
Wayward she will turn away
From those who court her desperately
Opulent Decay
You who've felt cold
Sleep most sound on nature's bed
Hunger leads you
Your thirst will keep you fed
Ask for something greater still
Than ease can ever fill
Lovesick artist, bid adieu
and Lady Truth may follow you
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Sibyl Vane
04:28
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A lone girl waits
Her tears have long since passed
But the cold cuts so deeply
The summer never lasts
Why did you think
You could feel the morning sun
But not suffer the cold ice of winter
It's just begun
Bright are the stages
Where tragedy lies
But from a desperate girl on a dark night
They turn their eyes
What's the difference
When you live within your art
If your days are spent in fiction
Where does truth start?
Heavy chains
Drag this poor child down
Heavy chains
Wrap her round and round
Sibyl Vane, wear your shackles proud
The curtains are drawn on the last act of Sibyl Vane
Chains of love
No tears can ever rust
This world seems so unforgiving
Seems so unjust
She moves like a sunset
Last gaze at the sky
Heavy chains in deep water
Ripple her lullaby
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Primrose Path
03:55
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Beneath my wandering footsteps
A path of flowers bloom
Intoxicating colours
Seduce with rich perfume
Forget my past
Renounce my future
To this Primrose Path
My senses pull me onwards
I'm led as though a slave
Enchanted pedals falling
As autumn brings decay
Cold winter looms
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The Iron Wind
05:27
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Down in the night
Ancient as sleep
Abandon our raft into the deep
Many still cling
Thought she rots away
On yesterdays' words their tongues decay
The drowned stand proud once more
As they sing their mournful song
Their eyes beg me to join them
But Iron Wind pulls me along
Keep faith in me
As we throw ourselves free
I'll hold my doubts in silence
Carried as slaves
By iron bound waves
Yield to the ocean's violence
Though I may falter
And fail to reach the shore
Seek ye not after
For tomorrow's yours
Love me as the wolf loves her prey
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Infant born in mother's pain
Wisdom earned through failure's gain
Beauty lost to time's decay
The sun sets on another day
But dawn will come again
Honest as a child at her play
And when nothing else remains
All I have is what I give away
Love is learned in deepest loss
Art is won at painful cost
The runner suffers every mile
The father sweats to feed his child
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A cavern lies
Forgotten deep within the earth
Alive with gold and bright with gems of boundless worth
Untouched by hands, unseen by eyes
The serpent whispered:
“This wealth alone is mine”
Below the roots of tallest tree
A river trickles quietly
And he who tastes it will be free
To live his life eternally
Within the trees
An ancient temple waits
10,000 years interred in nature's deep embrace
In crumbling halls still written clear
Is knowledge of both man and God
Concealed by time
A songbird answers in reply
“For all your wealth, what shame you cannot fly
Despite what immortality may bring
I pity you who cannot sing”
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Ataraxia
02:13
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As towards the sea will tumble restless stone
Two sisters bathed in river broad
As winter's frost had recently thawed
The elder's hair grew to her knees
The young remembers all that she sees
As towards the sea will tumble restless stone
Though charged unto the younger tend
The elder swam to shore again
The young succumbed to current strong
And to the river she now belongs
As towards the sea will tumble restless bone
Tell not our mother I've been drowned
Oh say instead I'm joyfully wed
These willows weeping bridesmaids proud
Tall banks the isle down which I'm led
Towards my love eternal, cold hard stone
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Imprisoned By Shadows
05:05
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In shadows you always
See what you fear
In emptiness your eyes
See most clear
I only feel your warmth in the dead of night
I remember the fading image
But I can't quite...
Can't shake this feeling
I'm imprisoned by shadows
In sleepless nights...
(hear the spectral voice around me)
in fear delight...
I'm imprisoned by shadows
Vessel of change
I'm caught in your chains
Awake within sleep
I'm trapped in your dreams
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10. |
Saturns Riddle
05:20
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Ivy bound hands
Reach out in welcome or in warning
Ruins stand
Choked with dust and time
Seek deep in memory
Come lose your way to me
If I put out my eyes you'll see
Conceal the world from me
If I cut out my tongue you'll speak
Rise up from ancient sleep
What secrets do you keep?
Strange fires burn
Lead astray into illusion
A page is turned
Lost before the dawn
Sought in banality
Found in periphery
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SPELL Vancouver, British Columbia
HYPNOTIC HEAVY METAL
Cam Mesmer — bass/vocals/guitar
Al Lester — drums/vocals/guitar
Gabriel B — synth/guitar
Jeff Black — guitar
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