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Pariah

Part I

1. Provenance
[Lyrics]
​Light dribbles over the darkness’ cloak
I am enveloped by hibernal dream
 
Autumnal breath pursued and I knew
Whispered round me, black winds blew
Flying above, conscious ascend
A thousand people lost, Cimmerian end
 
I rode to my home, reeling
The message of the wind so clear
In pastures of death I crawl to relay
I am the messiah of disbelief
 
As I finish my mystic stumble my oath to this earth is sealed
 
I crest the hill, the final stretch
Townspeople wander the streets, bustling
I weep for the notice of a single soul
Zealous ears ignoring the squalid
 
Shouting to flee imminent death
The hand upon my shoulder
I struggle in sincerity for my kin
I covet those who do ordain
 
Standing now, not by will
My wrists shackled, iron touch
Screaming with rage into heathen’s face
Choking godless figure, “Cast him out”
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2. Exile
[Lyrics]
​Vanishing fog fading into pools
Draining away my hope
Vacancy, writhing breath
Crumbling citadels mask my steps
 
In plains of glistening blades
In woods of contorted trees
Ever seeking the mysteries
Falling deeper into pain
 
Hide beyond the reach of our kin
I dare not show my face again
Things should remain unknown
Lest all will soon turn into stone
 
Shouting to flee imminent death
The hand upon my shoulder
I struggle in sincerity for my kin
I covet those who do ordain
 
Standing now, not by will
My wrists shackled, iron touch
Screaming with rage into heathen’s face
Choking godless figure, “Put him down”
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3. Pariah
[Lyrics]
​Pacing with death inside
Gazing through me in the night
Screaming for help I cried
And snuffed was I, like candlelight
 
Roaring disdain emanating
The aura had vanished before
 
When all is emptied
Where is one to go?
 
Dying and fading away / city engulfed in black
Never belonging in a folding era / death of a system, poisonous mask
 
Perfect cause in their eyes
Would kill and die with god in their mind
 
Vague expressions in those who hate, don’t care unless instructed
Pressure in conformity, thought punished in convergency
 
The larger the group, the greater the hazard
All I want in life is to die in peace
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Part II

4. Cascade
[Lyrics]
​I’ve told my lies without the loss of a minute of sleep
In the woods I find myself lingering
Unhinge the shaded sky and take cover beneath
I do not carve the words of god into my teeth
 
I was drawn to the waters at the bend
Fleeing from decaying footsteps in my head
As a crane in flight, a martyr of the dead
Betraying me in time, the Earth will feed on my flesh
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5. The Embers of Distress
[Lyrics]
I see not hope here, I cannot serve this earth
I lament my heritage, I expect not grievance
For I truly despise humankind!
 
A godless figure, scream to the sky
Sing the ocean’s tunes, this day I die
 
A forsaken friend spent his millennia here
A heathen in sovereignty, frozen in time
 
Stagnant waters rush between my toes
Deliver me from the torment
Banish the shackles that bind my feet
To the burning ground I am chained
 
An idol from the past saw calamity before it struck
And in abandonment would spare us all
 
A single tear runs down my face
Cascades across my flaking skin
 
I was and I am the final tempest
I breathe this autumn sky, which is my dusted cloak
I was and I am the martyr of emptiness
A vacant void which swells now folds, erasing the pock that is man
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6. Search
[Lyrics]
​We’re on the shores of time, our wings fell to our sides
Will we find a home amidst this dark, ancient cold
Lesser lived fragments of the once shattered dream
Play as notes in the melody of the hope that I used to keep
 
Father told me to listen to the words of one
To repent my sins and give unto Him
Weep beside this oak, lend your tears to the bark
Cry a silent storm as draws near your doom
 
Christ sank the Sol in your thoughts
But he perished by your hand long ago
From the tomb ascended a mortal feigning death in the dark
He was claimed by the true rulers and the just
His flame a candle at the base of the bonfire
The caricatures of gods lit the dusk of man
 
A dirge shatters the morning, the pallor ivory white
Of your stone dead prophet, his wrists drained cold
Wounds as jagged as the mountains etched in holy skin
 
In the mire of tears descends an overseer of torment
 
I saw the nightfall, a chalice of vapor
Poured into my soul, the onyx embrace
A phantasma’s mist graced my shoulder
 
Shone in rays on my face, the beauty of the burning sun
 
The crust breaks at the dawn
Seething in the wake of ebony tide
Drift away in the quiet waters
Lose your face and drown with the others
 
An oceanic grievance drew me to the sands below
Damn thyself not to the agony of ebony tides
I see your suffering, I see your regret
But it is my place to rest with the drowned
 
Tis a place of torment, a torture beyond eternity
Scars lain deep, join us not, the Drowned
I will leave you be, oh Drowned
To sink without my presence
 
The boughs of these hills sing their longing to me
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7. The Boughs of These Hills
[Lyrics]
​Sing a lullaby, drain the poison from the earth
The stinging of rope on skin, cumbersome burden to bear
 
The turn is mine, the line has come
The dead beg a name and that name is mine
 
A pale sky shone on me, I was alone
The final revenant of man without a soul
 
I shall not return from solemn perdition
I covet death and resent forgiveness
 
Sweep your hatreds into the dawn, play the lullaby of the earth
Sing your sorrows and come to die, drain the poison from your soul
 
The perfection of the silent darkness
Burned my eyes as I fade unto it
The stinging of the rope and skin
And the writhing of my final breaths
 
Faith crumbles beneath my steps
I crawl to death with languor
Chalcedony glows, brumes float about my body
I am bereaved, choked of my forlorn life
 
The burden of humanity broke those who balance
So cleansed are we
 
The boughs of these hills sing my last notes to me
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8. Downfall
[Lyrics]
​I advise you repent, the antichrist rises
Ensuring the damnation of mankind
 
Diminished faith unto abandonment
Frost was silent as the gods wept flames
Painted ice across the night sky
A winged figure in flight
 
The lies spoken by the jealous
Are washed clean on the millionth rain
 
This icy landscape, scenes of a struggle
Hatred seared, its crust shattered
Winter’s call fell across the land
Death’s hand once cold as my own
 
Sterile are the boughs of the spirit, flooding from basins of tears
This tundra, in its desolate grandeur, benevolent features silenced the landscape
 
Where has time gone / we lost all that we had
Once silence stole all that we loathe
We sought love / we failed not for them
Fire singed heartache / cold embers to dust
 
Silent fought we through the end of fortnight
Into its cold, icy landscape, past ethers we soar
 
 
When the demise of humankind reaches its end
As destruction spans the horizon, I find a sort of peace
A peace I see alone, as only I observe its beauty
And only I find in it catharsis
9. Of Floods and Flame
[Lyrics]
​​Candlelight falls from above the trees
A flash of light, it is ceasing
 
The raindrops touch my skin
 
Once saturated soil now grieving
As it is dressed in flame
 
The waves tear over me
At their crest I rise, struggling
 
Water gone, brimstone again
The burning trees fall around me
Skin is browning in the roar of the blaze
I accept the closing of my final days
 
Drifting in the wake of pain
Blinding light coming again
 
Who am I to resist
The end is crawling over me
 
I never knew my place in this life
I found it here, hanging from a branch
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