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Fatal Breath
03:52
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Years drift before your ancient eyes
Within you the past is still alive
Each breath is an eroding tide
Every hour your world is left behind
Before the silence
Speak to me while your time is left
Don’t let the chain be broken when you take your fatal breath
We’ll pass so quickly in the dark
As each flies towards a separate mark
One breath and I’m again alone
Wandering within this great unknown
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Oh, vast cathedral of the sky
Tall narrow windows arching high
Oh, violet lightening’s jagged rays
All tempered to a lilac haze
Fractured colours stain the sky
Invisible unto my eye
Ultraviolet
Focus your celestial eye on me
Ultraviolet
And I’ll stare into it willingly
Oh, loose the heaven’s radiant force
All unknown colours at their source
Oh, let me see your cryptic light
To burn away my final sight
Burn your way into my mind
Take my eyes and make me blind
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Hades Embrace
03:29
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I’m awake
To the memories that surely time will take
Come and know me now and look into my eyes
And in this final moment say goodbye
Oh, lay me down
Deep into the ocean where I’ll sink and not be found
Oh, let me drown
My mind is slowly rusting
So let me take my place
In Hades cold embrace
She is here
To cut away my memories year by year
By this mocking twin of youth I am undone
And once again a child I have become
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My hands seeking in – darkness reach
Open mouth dripping – hair and teeth
Breath of rot and a – sickness sweet
Oh, come and take me down into the deep
Things aren’t as they seem
You’re in a fever dream
So give yourself to me
To find out what I mean
Stumbling steps down a – spiral stair
Pistons hiss as steam – fills the air
Gasping furnace turns – gnashing gears
Mechanical I’m lurching ever near
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Sarcophagus
03:42
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A symbol of wonder and fear
To transform the body to something unclear
A slab of immovable stone
But inside are left only bones
In longing for infinite days
To witness and be known by eternal ways
The tragedy seen on your face
Will know me as soon as I’ve met your embrace
I’m just a captor of your spell
I’ve seen your face a thousand times
But I can’t know you well
You live inside my dreams
Within an unseen eye
Where you’ve been watching me
Sarcophagus remains
Sarcophagus awaits
Until the final day
Sarcophagus awaits
Within her gilded gold eyes
She shows you a vision of your own demise
Inside a bottomless vase
Beneath the endless glass waves
Deep in desperate dream
But motionless now and forever it seems
You’re always an object of fear
Never a promise that solace is near
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6. |
Cruel Optimism
03:48
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The night is falling over me
The winter’s dawning beautifully
Oh, you’ve come too late
My lips are frozen I can’t wait
…but it was only fantasy
And now the future’s lost to me
The moon is waning every day
My youth is fading suddenly
Oh, let me pretend
That my hour is not at it’s end
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7. |
A Ruined Garden
03:41
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Lost as a fallen tree
An ancient city rots
Under an endless sea
Of tangled ivy knots
Mighty roots will slowly pull each archway down
As vines remain securely bound
I’ll be waiting as branches grow out from my eyes
I’ll be watching as night wears her heavy disguise
I’ll be listening as stories are whispered in rhyme
And I’ll speak when my voice is known only to time
As stifled marble halls
No longer ring with sound
And yawning towers sink
With secrets never found
Stone foundations rest so deep within the earth
As roots much deeper still give birth
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8. |
Souls In Chains
04:26
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They lay enshrined in their velvet halls
Holding court beneath us all
Lying in their lavish graves
They play chess to decide our fates
Cenotaphs that bear their names
Cast mocking shadows upon my face
Evil tongues a snare will set
Their greatest curses are unfolding yet
Caught in a web as helpless prey
(Souls in chains)
Indentured souls who page their way
(Souls in chains)
In a gallows game, we’re just souls chains
For long beyond their earthly time
Their hatred and their greed unwind
They’re laughing in their scornful ways
As they watch the earth decay
Someday at last the end will come
Even the greatest force will be undone
And though you hold the sceptre now
Silence will claim your resting ground
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Watcher of the Seas
05:24
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I wandered through the forest deep
On an island alone with my dreams
Ancient paths led me through the trees
And as I heard the branches speak
With the whispered conspiring of leaves
A melody found me on the breeze
And as the red arbutus watch over the sea
And the waves I hear them calling out to me
This is where I’ll always be
My feet soon left the guiding trail
Following this eerie song
As though it was driving me along
I scrambled down a river bank
Pushing through thick ivy walls
Emerging as night began to fall
The music reached an apex
And rang out in my ears
I looked to find the players
But no-one did appear
Rings surround my arching bones
At last I can perceive
That I am red with peeling bark
And bright arbutus leaves
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10. |
The Watching
02:46
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SPELL Vancouver, British Columbia
HYPNOTIC HEAVY METAL
Cam Mesmer - bass/vocals/guitar
Al Lester - drums/vocals/guitar
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