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The Silent Observer
08:22
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Woe, the face reflected before thee
Within polished glass under dim light
There is no place for childish fears
In a world where all our nightmares are real
In the shadow of the town hall
A God of concrete flesh
Averts its eyes from sickening scenes
Of a rampant lurid disease
To be the pig that dreams of flight
To be the corpse that dreams of life
Shattered in the plainest of sight
In a place devoid of sunlight
These demons, realised, ostracised
Childhood dreams shattered and burned
These demons, realised, ostracised
Childhood dreams shattered and burned
Because silence is golden and silence is needed
In this situation it’s ever so needed
So don’t say a word, my child…
The face within this polished glass
Falls into a thousand fragments
Lest we silently observe through our tears
The curtailment of our children’s innocent years
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Brass Lungs
05:27
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Our memory remains
Stone deaf in the rat way
A smothering pressure
Unable to move
Yet memories of lime cracked skin
And wax to fill our wounds
They remain down here with us
A darkness imprisoned within
Lost souls, no toll to pay
Trapped within this ossuary
Haunted are our families
No body to burn but respects to pay
Deep inside these caverns veins
We were crushed and here we remain
Oh, we are forsaken
I long to see the light again
The light I always yearned for
With brass lungs we call for our freedom
A chorus of baritone pleas
These catacombs of scalding rock
Do not make a fitting tomb
Retrieve me from this tomb
Release me, oh release me
Free our - Free our bones
Free our - Free our souls
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The creak of the branches
The groan of the wind
Should close your eyes
Lest some poor soul close them for you
This ship searching for shore
Has sunk to the bottom
A dandelion amongst the bramble
Beautiful, yet fragile
“Your blue face in the trees
Let me speak to you within a dream
You remain a part of me
But for that I forgive you”
And with tears glistening in his eyes
He disappeared into the night
A new dawn and its scalding light
Illuminates the fragility of life
Every time I pass those trees
I hear footsteps behind me
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4. |
Celestial Atrophia
05:46
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Crack the firmament
Split the skull of the earth
Charred feathers fall
Fermentation of the heavens
Seraphim, sick with disease
Godly beings brought to their knees
The afterlife is devoid of light
Prepare your soul for eternal night
Gone are childish fears of Hell
Empty are these zealots words
The body of God, bloats and swells
Pungent to its lurid core
Ink blotted clouds
Darkness spreads across the world
The heavens melt
Celestial atrophia
Take me to the other side
Somewhere deep inside my mind
Away from apocalyptic toil
Where skies burn and oceans boil
Under the yoke of mortality we fail to achieve
Our conscious mind on fire with a flame that burns so slow
Burns so slow
We have no need of fantasies as we shuffle from this mortal coil
Rage against the dying of light and embrace that death is real
Indoctrination
Save yourself my child
Seraphim, sick with disease
Godly beings brought to their knees
The afterlife is devoid of light
Prepare your soul for eternal night
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Child of Ash Sheffield, UK
Formed in late 2016 with the goal of creating a new black metal vision in Sheffield - atmospheric, crushing and thought-provoking.
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