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Shoals
06:01
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No matter how much blood you feed to the corpse
It will not spring to life
Your dry stalks rattle in the wind
Bereft of any potent force
Tides recede
Creatures trapped
Corrupt the outcast
Bleed them dry
I hear the Voice of Nature
Every molecule singing
Alive and electric
Drowning out your hollow sound
Diving
Reaching
Falling
To the…
Sinking
Falling
Melting
In the…
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River
05:53
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World sheds its skin
Familiar patterns fade
Washed away with the ruins of old
And broken bodies of the past
This is not the land of my birth
Thieves had come in the night
Parasites have leeched their fill
And writhe in drunken ecstasy
This is the way of things
Debauchery must run its course
The path of the noble Lotus
Or the failure and ruin of us all
Open the veins of the elder ones
Let their lifeblood drain away
Stare into the eye of fate
Rejoice in our decay
Flesh is destined to dissolve
Into the stream of time
Acceptance is the only path
To wisdom most sublime
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Waters of Mem
07:38
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Here I stand on the shore
Looking west, fading out
If I could, if I might
Ride the edge of the drowning light
Waves advance, then retreat
Shapes distort underneath
Relics left on the sand
Vessels drift, yet unmanned
Take me
Pull me
Underneath the waves
Hide my face
From where men dwell
Take me
Hold me
Underneath the waves
Where the blade
And the flame fail
Take me
Pull me
Underneath the waves
From the burden
Of daybreak
Take me
Hold me
Underneath the waves
Where my heart
Will then know peace
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Depths
12:36
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Clad in colors of the night
Protean in nature
Monstrous forms relentless
In their trivial contortions
Seek to slay or banish all
Return the water’s stillness
Goal and journey merging
In the peace of shade and silence
It moves in silence
Obscure and boundless
In waves, it reaches
In signs, it preaches
From depths great
Old Wisdom
As timeless
As Oceans
From abyss
To surface
We worship
The nameless
Deep below, the fountainhead
Imbues all with its essence
Flowing forth and radiating
Element primeval
Plunge into the vast expanse
Seeking pearls and treasure
Emerge and step upon the stones
With riches beyond measure
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The Ship Has Sailed
10:44
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Close your eyes
Turn your head
Swallow pride
Feel the sting
Desire
Always
Out of
Reach
This is
Not for
You
The ship
Has sailed
Look down
At your feet
In the
Soil
This is home
No
Distant
Shore
No bright
Lights
No bright lights on the horizon
The ship has sailed
You are here
In the dusk
The ship has sailed
The ship has sailed
You are here
This is home
The ship has sailed
The ship has sailed
In the dusk
In grey light
The ship has sailed
The ship has sailed
This face, this land
You can’t recognize
The ship has sailed
The ship has sailed
You are here
In grey light
The ship has sailed
The ship has sailed
This land, this face
You can’t recognize
The ship has sailed
The ship has sailed
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Anomaly in Effigy Chestertown, Maryland
Obscure independent metal. No trends, just self-expression.
Established 2005. Atmospheric black
metal, sometimes blackened doom. Songs about alienation, depression, occult philosophy, mysticism, personal autonomy, dissolution, and decline.
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