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Survival - Stagnate Reality
The river flows
Almost unseen
Droplets no longer go
Clearly downstream
I’ve been reduced
To a bare machine
A sole surviving beast
Essentially
Hidden in the darkness
I am, ego eimi
In the confines of my mind
My own detainee
Everything that seems to pass by
It does not pass for me
No today and no tomorrow
Only nihility
Nothing passes
No, no water flows
The clepsydra is chained in time
The compulsion to survive
Surpasses the constraints of time
Of time
Stagnate reality
To counter extremities
A process so innate
Revert to primal state
This sickness of mine
Frozen in time
Blind are my eyes
Frozen in time
The end of my life
Frozen in time
In Time
In Time
In Time
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Denial - They Are Mistaken
Behold, demise never comes into play
I am alive
The sun still rose another day
Paragon of strength
No appositely kneeling down to pray
They are mistaken
I don’t demand Apollo’s grace
I can not lie to myself, this frail state I’m in
Whatever lies before me, is it a war I can never win?
This reflection in the mirror, it can’t really be me
Deprived of recognition, sense of all familiarity
Gone (gone)
Stronger, my will to live my will to fight
I will survive
Persist for still so many nights
This fate of mine
It can’t be true, it won’t be right
I’m in my prime
I’m nowhere near done with life
I can’t deny to myself, revelation is seeping in
Perhaps Eternal Night is upon me, and time is wearing thin
This reflection in the mirror, it can’t really be me
Deprived of recognition, sense of all familiarity
Gone (all gone)
No
Death waits for no one
It just doesn’t care
No mortal life is endless
I am well aware
But where is the logic?
Why is this fair?
It can’t be true
Not my despair
No
Why?
Why?
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Anger - Kitrine Chole
04:25
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[A mortal life makes no sense to me, I never want to die]
Damn the earth
Cursed be the skies
My terminal life
Days pass by
As dark as night
And everything is
Falling apart in front of my own eyes thereby I
[chorus]
I feel the flames rage
up in my veins
Kitrine chole
The tide is too high
Swallowed by yellow bile
I’m losing my mind
A black haze thwarts
My vision’s blurred
Sever the chains
Composure can’t hold
This pent up energy
The rage breaking free
The walls imploding destroying all what once was
[When I think about the end, all I feel is anger]
Damned be the gods
For bringing this fate upon me
Bring the fire, rise the flames high
Let it grow strong inside
Bring the fire, rise the flames high
Let it grow strong inside
Burn
[chorus]
I feel the flames rage
up in my veins
Kitrine chole
The tide is too high
Swallowed by yellow bile
I’m losing my mind
No letting of blood
No cleansing of mind
Will save me this time
Project my fate
Upon any other
I don’t care about
Them, make them suffer my bane instead of me (of me)
[When nothing matters anymore, destroy all else]
Take them
Flame them
Curse them
Condemn them
Take them
Flame them
Curse them
Kill them
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This raging fire in my body
Won’t endure, quenched bit by bit
It would’ve been nice if I kept going
To have strength
Perseverance
I keep falling down
Down
No more denial
No more to life
I could’ve become a great man
Could’ve lived a life of dreams
My hopes and my ambitions
Like me all disappear
My useless existence fleeting
Who will even miss seeing me?
The light of day
Is on the wane
When memories fade
Only emptiness remains
I feel the darkness all around me
A burdened pain surrounds my chest
Try to flee in sheer desperation
Away from here
Far away
I see my coming
End
No more dawn’s embrace
Only the grasp of Eternal Night
The light of day
Is on the wane
When memories fade
Only emptiness remains
I won’t fulfill my true life’s purpose
The Asphodel Meadows awaiting me
The world around me will keep on turning
Passing me by
Without care
I will be vast a-
Sleep
No new experience
No coming day
I could’ve become a great man
Could’ve lived a life of dreams
My hopes and my ambitions
Like me all disappear
My useless existence fleeting
Who will even miss seeing me?
(There won’t be anymore)
Me
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As long as blood flows through my veins, my will won’t falter me
My call goes out to all the gods, wilt thou hear my humblest plea?
I kneel down on the ground
My hands firmly beating the dirt
Let my cries find your mind
Grant me the audience I deserve
Hèn oîda hóti oudèn oîda
I now turn to thee
Desperate and forlorn
Hades, will you answer me?
[Hades:]
I wish not yet to see you
Nor speak to you negligible speck
Be gone from my sight now
Until Charon brings you back
No
Thanatos
I call upon you
[Thanatos:]
Who dares to stand before me, a frail and dying man
Idle hope for salvation, offering you that I can’t
– You are death personified
Yet fate lies not with me
– I feel the coming of my demise
Seek the Moirai three
[Moirai:]
We do not care for any sense of purpose
Not for the living, not for the dead
All life simply must abide to us
To the spinning and cutting of the thread
I will not
No
[Moirai:]
This perseverance in your asking
You fear the truth and embrace the lie
This dreaded fate that has been given us
Share the curse of never ending life
You want to live forever?
Watch the world die before your eyes?
A rare exception to grant your wishes?
Prolong your suffering till the end of time? Fine!
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6. |
Nightmare - The Vision
04:54
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Dark
Black
A nightmare
Destiny never diverts to an other man
Once set in stone, no escaping the suffering
The horror
Played out right in front of my eyes
Eternal darkness clearly on the
Rise
Sick
Death
Perdition
The abysmal whims you set on the world
Lachesis, Clotho, Atropos, declare our lots
No one will live forever
Clear
Wit
Observant
Destiny never diverts to an other man
Once set in stone, no escaping the suffering
The vision
Played out right in front of my eyes
I now see clearly through your filthy
Lies
Blood
Raged
Deceivers
The abysmal whims you set on the world
Lachesis, Clotho, Atropos, I’m fallible
I will not live forever
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No one can escape what is foretold
None can break the iron decrees
All has and all will come to pass
By the ordinance of those Sisters three
Only anguish before me
On my closing path
My final departure
I saw it in a dream
Even the darkest lie
Pales by my reality
A never-ending life
Will never come to be
All that will ever be
Exists to fade away
With my thread all spent
No tomorrow ahead
With no chance to amend
I’m facing the end
But for the first time
I feel satisfied
That I
Will gladly die here
With my death in sight
Acceptance resonates
Let it all come to pass
My destiny awaits
With my thread all spent
No tomorrow ahead
With no chance to amend
I’m facing the end
But for the first time
I feel satisfied
That I
Will gladly die here
Fading
Waning
This lonely road
My only road
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My final hour
All essence devoured
Please grant me death, without the suffering
My passing phase
Death without grace
Before all ends, must come the suffering
No more resolve, a worn-out life
Absence of thoughts and feelings are rife
My soul begins to slide
Please grant me death, without the suffering
Sorrowful spirit, born of the Night
Sister of satire, malevolent plight
Your ways are misery mine
Before all ends, must come the suffering
Pain
No ways to alleviate
The aches
The body disintegrates
Pieces are falling, are falling apart
The mind is dissolving, cognition distort
Suffer
Suffer
Plagued
My being begins to boil
Release
Me from this mortal coil
Torment’s awoken, relief vast asleep
Delirious rambling in the twilight sleep
The weight of the world
The essence implodes
Losing composure
Is torture above all else
The darkest times
Where pain is all there’s ever felt
The suffering
Detachment of spirit
Of psyche, of mind
Forsake my physical shell
Decayed and left behind
Pain
No
Earth without suffering
Sky without suffering
Life without suffering
Death without suffering
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9. |
Death - Journey’s End
06:34
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Let go
Enclaved by the river Styx
Lies a tomb for me
My celestial sanctuary
Let go
An eternal resting place
All alone and forgotten
The Asphodel Meadows
Let go
Of the pain I feel
My disease-ridden remains
How my being aches
Let go
My bleeding heart
Beats slower and slower still
Give me nothingness
Let go
Relinquish all earthly matters
All bonds I’ve ever known
Let my spirit flow
Let go
My reeling mind
Is telling me it’s time
Descend into darkness
[speech]
In the second year of the 115th Olympiad
On the second day of the waking moon of Metageitnion
The journey of a man came to an end
His life cut short, or rather fully completed
The thread of life might be stretched but never lengthened
For no one can overcome mortality
The darkness calls for everyone
In the end
Even the gods won’t see the light of day again
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Tragacanth Utrecht, Netherlands
Tragacanth is a black/death metal band with broad symphonic influences. Hailing from the heart of the Netherlands, their songs however tell of ancient tales and times.
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