1. |
Prelude
02:35
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2. |
Adorned in Midnight
12:00
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Adorned in midnight
She slowly sways
The shade of what might have been
Flutters within my mind
Her touch forever a breath away
A word left unspoken
Engraved upon my heart
The more I reach the more she slips away
Washed with blood and kissed with scars
God of time, hold me still so I may see
For a moment her last fading light
The caress of misery lays within the dark
It calls to me, embraces me, it bids again to take me home
Adorned in midnight
Adorned in midnight
Drown with each breath you fool
Endless guilt shall haunt my step
Linger on oh waif of tragedy
Eternity in a moment
Night-touched I shall remain as you
Entombed within her eyes
Adorned in midnight
Adorned in midnight
Wretched and torn I linger
Crawling from day to day
Sinking deeper into my heart of guilt
I gaze upon my broken reflection and choose to resign
The wilted portrait before me, my destiny
A price paid for undeserved love
My watch begins, I wait forever
The dawn that never comes
The sin unabsolved
Dancing upon my dreams
She remains
So perfect and serene
Elixir of remembrance and regret
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3. |
Bereft in Requiem
06:16
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Once my muse, deep in my thoughts
In darkened mass we weep
Regret embraced, we kiss her face
Consigning her to sleep
A suckling child forever more
The moment in an eye
A care confessed, a fond caress
In deepest rest she lies
We are so far away
Bereft in requiem
We are so far away
Bereft in requiem
Eternally we grieve
Relentlessly and without reprieve
The wizened regal martyr
In death a life divine
Our loss her shroud, she’s bent and bowed
Beneath the weight of time
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4. |
Ashen Veil
06:20
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Upon autumn skies
I see your smile
Thoughts fail, pulling me back to you
Our moon belongs to memory
City nights and black nails
With tired legs and strong minds
We move toward the coming dawn
The safe glance, the knowing wink
All dreams are true on velvet hours
Yesterday a fey word sang lullabies
Harkened our fall to death
Wherein our muse must die
Upon autumn skies
When Dionysian hearts danced upon a lily
Our moon belongs to memory
Of city lights and tangled arms
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5. |
The Scarlet Mirror
07:21
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Crown me in blood
Sanctify sewn shut eyes
A crimson oblation
Upon broken glass
A canvas for devotion
My flesh laid bare
A meagre offering
Shameful I beg for more
I reach for a shard and open my veins
Crawl across your sins, as I paint them red
A gift for my harpy, a melody for the marquis
A disease called you within me
A claret clarion call
Carry me
My limbs they bleed
Now cry for me
Pierce the vein
Wrap me in lust-filled disdain
My roots grow deep
From scars they weep
What have I become
Master of none
To pluck the rose, to bind the dove
And kiss upon the scarlet mirror
A swan enlaced - sings no song
But binds our hands to a falling star
King David play on
Pluck thy lyre
Sound the crimson end
With arms afire
No hearts can mend
This lament for love, I offer to you
So you may learn of the scarlet mirror
A swan enlaced - sings no song
But binds our hands to a falling star
The scarlet mirror
I reach for a shard and open my veins
Crawl across your sins, as I paint them red
A gift for my harpy, a melody for the marquis
A disease called you within me
A claret clarion call
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6. |
Eclipse
06:37
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Hear me
Our beautiful sleep must wait
When you spoke your sweet words
I heard, I followed you
‘Cross the stars
To the last light
In the corner of my past
Where angels watch
Don't haste the day
Charon can wait
No truth waits
Across the sea, my love
Lay to rest
And let grace wash over you
In all the sounds of shadow
When night falls
Reach out again
Feel my pulse
It holds you still
Your prince of shrouds
Calls out to you
I'm still here
Holding back the dark
No need for sighs
Memories don’t fade
When made with tears and love
Fight another dawn
I’ll be there ‘til the end
When gods go to die
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7. |
Wreaths for the Wretched
06:17
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Grain by grain
Life will pass
Like ruthless rain
Through the glass
Drop by crimson drop
Seeping from our holy palms
We bathe in the blood of heretics
In praise with outstretched arms
Faith forgotten
Forsaken unto thee
The child begotten
From the cross unto our knees
My wreaths for the wretched
I finally lay down
I weep for those beneath
For those not yet I mourn
Benign in our belief
Yet still the children’s’ songs do swell
We give in to our grief
Stricken silent in farewell
My wreaths for the wretched
I finally lay down
I weep for those beneath
For those not yet I mourn
Grain by grain
As time descends
A life restrained
Regret unto the end
We dance in the dying light
Divining devils all around
We dance in the dying light
Despairing deities in silent shroud
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Drowning in forever
Flowing choking grief
Haunting memories dulled to dust
The dark’s divine relief
To love, too frail
To no avail
In my arms so tight
To seek a sleep
In silence weep
And find this gentle night
Flesh stripped slowly bare
From holding onto thorns
And now there’s no one there
To hold her as she mourns
No hands of mine
Nor sands of time
Have ever ravaged her
As memory
Is misery
Her beauty is her curse
The jest of cruel affection
Rent from her grieving grasp
Refined as crude affliction
Benumb her bleeding heart
She beckons the dark inside
So she will have a place to hide
In fragile fear embraced
A silence shrouds her glistening face
To love, too frail
To no avail
From her arms in flight
To seek a sleep
In silence weep
Into this gentle night
Cascading down – a shadow from her eyes
Trembling – under shapeless skies
This wretched cold – drowned in doubt she lies
And heralds her demise
These hands of mine
Nor sands of time
Will ever ravage her
Her memory... her misery
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9. |
Keket
07:27
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He comes at dawn
Fate’s fairest faun
Silvered lips to quicken my heart
Words I never knew, yet wanted
Merkhet’s fall
Darkness shines
I run to him
Twice shadowed by the sun
Lips part, hands caress
Infinity through naked flesh
Bringer in of the light
Amphibian wight
My soul, my love, my heart undress
Serpent sun
Of the womb
Feel this pain
My distance from you
Turn the other side
Sing songs of dusk
Raise up the night
And taste my lust
Fill me in
Thrust inside
Let sin begin
All wishes abide
She paints the sky with fire
Writes my name with stars
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Orphean Passage Cape Town, South Africa
'Rendering sorrow into sound'
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