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Harbinger
03:41
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Obsidian Flow
07:33
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Cast not thy pearls before the wretched swine
Their ignorance flourishes like grapes on the vine
It sits enthroned behind empty eyes
Dispensing judgement and spreading lies
Liminal - the space I occupy
As the world around me remains frozen in time
I see the masses relish being blind
Never to truly see, never to try
Every politician - all dark magicians
Will drown in the fire when the serpent has risen
Burn down the gates to the kingdom
Then slay the gatekeepers of old
And when the rulers try to reclaim their hold
They are crushed under obsidian flow
The philosopher's stone
The source of every realized
Individual soul
Who holds it inside
Those with ears to hear
Those with eyes to see
Blessed be, protected
With the blackened armor of god
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If
08:43
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(adapted from the Rudyard Kipling poem “IF”)
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when they all doubt you,
But allow for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by it
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
don’t look too good, nor talk too wise
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son
If you can dream and not make dreams your master;
If you can think and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And kneeling down you build them up
If you can make a pile of all your winnings
And risk it on one game of pitch and toss
And lose and start again from your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss
f you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son
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Song Of The Sea
06:39
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The velvet sun fades far from me
Casting a warm wind on my mind
The rhythmic lapping at my feet
Hypnotizes and leaves me lost in time
Death touches gently on my hand
And whispers faint the song of the sea
Remembering a life, now spent walking endless sands
Reminds me of who I'm supposed to be
Mother, with ever-reaching arms, pulls at me
Father, always scornful, unforgiving, delivers me
Tossed among the waves, helpless, sinking down
Serenity flows through my veins, forever ocean bound
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Northwoods
08:02
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Mountain of the eternal sunset
So near yet so far
Surrounded by the strangest
Ancient forest of stars
Blood on the stone
Altar of bone
Sacrifice to entice them, revealed
Chanting the drone
Future is shown
Prophecy yet to be seen is sealed
Unaware
Decendant from the sky
Blank stare
Inherently knowing why
Monolith
Stimulates the inner eye
Basilisk
Northwoods kingdom is thine
Blood on the stone
Altar of bone
Sacrifice to entice them, revealed
Chanting the drone
Future is shown
Prophecy yet to be seen is sealed
Eye of the ever-sleeping mystic
Open wide to the night
Out of body wayward misfit
Sees with inward sight
Like moths to a flame
Descend
Embrace the abandoned
Amen
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My Wild Love
08:55
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My wild love went ridin'
She rode all the day
She wrote to the devil
And asked him to pay
The devil was wiser
It's time to repent
He asked her to give back
The money she spent
My wild love went ridin'
She rode to the sea
She gathered together
Some shells for her head
She rode and she rode on
She rode for a while
Then stopped for an evenin'
And lay her head down
She rode on to Christmas
She rode to the farm
She rode to Japan
And reentered a town
By this time the weather
Had changed one degree
She asked for the people
To let her go free
My wild love is crazy
She screams like a bird
She moans like a cat
When she wants to be heard
My wild love went ridin'
She rode for an hour
She rode and she rested
And then she rode on
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Maya
10:26
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darkness floods my eyes
without so much as a warming touch
concentric circles of time
have turned and gone like a fleeting song
where are all the things I knew?
when once the sun became the moon,
now shines into an empty room
breathing
shallow breathing
angel of the burning sky
with trumpets loud amidst the shifting clouds
where does salvation lie?
I sought for it far past the wandering stars
life is naught but hell disguised
a fever dream built on lies
where all the fools become the wise
reason
empty reason
I can see when I close my eyes
the world I knew was blind
I can see when I close my eyes
the world I've left behind
I can see when I close my eyes
where the truth tries to hide
I can see when I close my eyes
eternity dwells inside
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Collapse
05:47
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your sweet eyes, i hesitate
in my arms life escapes
it's so hard to let you go
from this unfair world
the emptiness you've left behind
fills my mind, stopping time
i'll see you soon
wait for me
i'll see you soon
wait for me
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