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Intro
01:16
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Before them lay a path
Winding into the mist
Treacherous landscapes around
Barbed antennae jutting from hills
Unto them came this choice
Binding them as one
Knotted tension rising
Dropping temperature, embracing chills
Fearing what lies in the fog
Their faces painted in slate
Unbinding the storm in their hearts
The fiercest will wither and suffer as one
Heedless and rid of all joy
They wander right into the haze
The night enclosing around
The dreams of the past becoming nightmares
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Nature's Eye
05:37
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You've traced the origin of your kind
Existed but a blink in nature's eye
But what for?
You've drawn your power from the Earth
Now we've passed the point of no return
Slaughtered nature
But what for?
Entwined we are
Die we will
Slaughtered nature
Ravaged all
Thus doomed we are
Die we will
You'll find I will not cry for your kind
Look at these ancients; left to die
But what for?
Fingers of the Earth rising
Reaching to the darkened skies: for the Sun
You've traced the origin of your kind
Existed but a blink in nature's eye
Fingers of the Earth rising
Reaching to the darkened skies: for the Sun
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Wild One
06:22
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This is the vale of sorrow
At the edge of the day
Dark reflection, Earth's protection
We find our way
Ancient circle of stones
Where memories lay
Green hills in the shadow
We will seize the day
Wild one
Run free
A storm on the horizon
We reason not why
Midnight bells ring turmoil
Hear the Raven's cry
Run across the treeline
Hark at the darkened sky
Hours pass and the colours change
Across valleys we fly
Running in the dark, dead of night
Dreaming of a dawn that will never come
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A Call for Silence
07:10
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Uterine creature
Spew forth into
Nightmares anew
No God to pray to
The folly of humanity
Inconceivable thought
A call for silence
Hear the ultimate defiance
Enmity for the unborn
Your ultimate years are now
Protean prospects
Prophetic whispers
Commitment to one's own
Fear of life alone
The downfall of society
You led the way
Disgust with anthro
pocentric views
Need to rule the world
Banner of man unfurled
It is not too late
For mankind to see
Reaching the apex
Ending lineage
Procreation's fall
Isolation for all
Ending disorder
Restoring nature
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The Mother Part I
07:08
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Ethereal air
Beauty, grace, so fair
Strength beyond compare
Of us all
She'll despair
And to her, we are servants
She knows what we'll become
When she stands she'll speak
Voice like a heartbeat
Champion of the weak
And us all
She'll defeat
See her stand
Breathe in deep
Summon will
Breathe out life
Someone said
Once to me
Her world will not die
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Parallel History
07:20
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Whipping up a storm
Lies, deceit in human form
Why stoke the fires of misery
When you can live parallel history?
Oh no, won't see
Wind in your eyes
Could it be
Climate change denied
Climate change denied
Dripping blood and hate
Write your name on all our fates
There's no need to claim victory
When you can live parallel history
Duplicitous minds
Smoke and mirrors deceive mankind
Who needs freedom or liberty,
When you can live parallel history?
Hollow victory
You will die the same
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Road to Ruin
06:14
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It's looking at me and I feel its empire
As everything around attests
The triumph of stone over all I survey
The darkness surrounds and whispers
Though creatures abound, I will see not a flicker
Or nuance of life at its best
The mountain, the giant, this headstone of black
I tremble, I feel a shiver
A whisper to me and I stare through the night
As I realise my future stares back
Unmoving and still, black as ebony's will
and it dawns on me - the winter
I felt the emotions; remembered the past
and the flowers that now look like ghosts
The world beyond this reflected in my eyes
and I awaken yet dream that you're here
Alone
This monolith claws at my soul
On the road to ruin
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Buried
05:21
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Dark path we walk on
River of blood flows
Why the land is destroyed
Nobody knows
The sun over the glens
Reveals the scars
Forces beyond measure
Will bury us all
Dark eyes have cried now
Tears fall to the floor
This is our reality
Everybody's war
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Goodbye
04:37
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As tears fall from the sky
The yawning chasm groans
Ice ages carved this land
Crags of doom pierce the sky
Through the rains - forlorn sigh
Touch the Earth - mostly hope
All the years raised the ground
Forces great shaped our world
Raise a hand; say goodbye
For a time,
My home
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Outro
03:11
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The well-trodden path lay before her
Strewn with the debris of men
Pain written across the scarred landscape
A litany of centuries of chaos
At once sad and fierce
Writ upon her formless features
The sobre throught of a plea unheeded
In a mind littered with untethered strings
Yet the notion remained open to her
She was only constrained by
The limits of her power
And she cried tears of fire
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