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Leprosarium
06:42
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Set out on your journey; you're now in exile
They label and define you away
Passive and complicit all the while
You readily rot and decay
Now cast to a cult of lepers
Your only route to salvation
Always recovering, but never better
Acquiesce to your ablation
Shedding skin, to become one of them
Mind and body quickly become a wreck
Removing limbs, purging self of sin
Hang the albatross around your neck
Is this really who you want to be?
At the mercy of grifters and fools
They say you’re sick, rife with disease
You’re to blame for the harm that ensues
Yes, you’re ill, but will you get well
Taking all these steps to nowhere?
Reducing you to a mere shell
They will break you in the name of care
Shedding skin, to become one of them
Mind and body quickly become a wreck
Removing limbs, purging self of sin
Hang the albatross around your neck
Is this really who you want to be?
At the mercy of grifters and fools
They say you’re sick, rife with disease
You’re to blame for the harm that ensues
I implore you, find resolve within
You’re full of light and standing tall
Make a new beginning, not an end
And know I’ll be there if you fall
Shedding skin, to become one of them
Mind and body quickly become a wreck
Removing limbs, purging self of sin
Hang the albatross around your neck
Is this really who you want to be?
At the mercy of grifters and fools
They say you’re sick, rife with disease
You’re to blame for the harm that ensues
Break the chains, break the chains
Be free from suffering, don’t hide from the pain
Break the chains, break the chains
Reject their ways, don’t accept their blame
Is this what you thought you would be?
In the company of liars and thieves
Thoughtless invaders of the mind
You’re no good down on your knees
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The Last Snowfall
07:28
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She awoke me from a slumber deep
Confused: “Why aren’t you next to me?”
My mind was hazy, as if in a dream
As the land outside began to freeze
Ashes of the world around my feet
Isolated, deranged, feeling weak
Crying and begging to be free (to free what? should this be ‘be’ free?)
As a lonely snow falls upon me
She looked at me with love in her eyes
And said what we had would never die (never...what? missing a final word here?)
Did not believe that I could destroy a life
Until the night she began to cry
Ashes of the world around my feet
Isolated, deranged, feeling weak
Crying and begging to be free same as above
As a lonely snow falls upon me
Nothing can grow
Only the glow
Of falling snow
If it must be so
Death, they say, is not the end
And desolation is my ancient friend
My voice howls in the frigid wind
And I know I cannot do this again
Ashes of the world around my feet
Isolated, deranged, feeling weak
Crying and begging to be free as above
As a lonely snow falls upon me
Nothing can grow
Only the glow
Of falling snow
If it must be so
Ashes of the world around my feet
Isolated, deranged, feeling weak
Crying and begging to free
As a lonely snow falls upon me
I do believe
What has befallen me
Color blast through the ice
How dare you?
I defy the light
I go into the night
As a lonely snow falls upon me
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A Vivid Monochrome
06:06
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Moments
Frozen in time
Pages of pictures from a life
A grey so sublime
Drawn to a world of monochrome design
Half-remembered days play like actors on a stage
There is a meaning behind the tales they tell themselves
The light which they borrow comes from somewhere else
Dancing in a pallid shadow, a gleam of indigo
The feeling of a long summer’s twilight, sepia
A lover’s embrace bathed in regal red and gold
Color burns into an image of a time before, a time of its own
I stir from within
for I’ll never be without
A world painted
from a well of color
A violet sunset shimmers over a field of green
Emerald waves across the mountainside
Feeling swept away, they will not be denied
Whether or not they are my own, I cannot define
A vivid monochrome
With a life all its own
Wanting to be known
Demanding my eyes fall across its brilliant form
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8 Hours
08:58
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The bold know of fortune’s favor
Unrestricted, they drain the well
Surreptitiously they savor
Slaking a thirst they may never quell
I will see what can be
Viewed from outside the body
Throw open the doors
Of the shadow palace
Shift my gaze near
What do I hear?
From obscured to clear
Now I see my fear
Crumbling upon me
Reality unfolding
Abandoned, overcome
How will I find my way home?
Brilliant, dark, shining, I see without my eyes
Thick walls lining my mind to my surprise
With speed I design a living prison cell
All knowledge combined, full view of my own hell
Shrill voice crying, I hear myself defy
My own finding, only to question why
A void howling, lacking causality
Time progress stalling, 8 hours of eternity
Something has become me
I have become
What have you done?
You, who stand before me
And will remain in the aftermath
When all numbers add to One
And all vectors approach Infinity
Will you not implore me?
To walk with you
To walk our chosen path
A beast of many faces
Drink from your shattered chalice
A visionary of vicious design
8 hours of eternity
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Observing
09:27
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He was feeling numb inside
In the year when he arrived
It was 1793
Unmoved by what he would see
Their plan laid out centuries in advance
Esoteric enemies, no one stood a chance
Observing from the 4th dimension
Until the moment of their ascension
12 stoic warriors gazing through history
Tragic events, on the periphery
A fatal mistake set the universe burning
The earth trembles, reality’s unraveling
He stood watching the father
He upset the order
And now the boy would die
Sending the timeline awry
Their plan laid out centuries in advance
Esoteric enemies, no one stood a chance
Observing from the 4th dimension
Until the moment of their ascension
12 stoic warriors gazing through history
Tragic events, on the periphery
A fatal mistake set the universe burning
The earth trembles, reality’s unraveling
Why am I so cold?
Am I drowning?
Freezing, can’t feel my limbs
I was dying, now this is the end
A flash in the black water
A strange, onyx angel saves me and my father
No, wait, who is this man?
Who dragged me into the night from my bed
He is not my father
Where is my father?
I would do anything for him
No risk is too great, any means to this end
Another died but I can save his life
Perhaps ease the sorrow of my wife
I’ll make sure he’s well
I’ll return him, I swear
Just to see his face again
No more suffering for him
He is not my father
No, he is my father
Free me from the amber
Where is my daughter?
Their plan laid out centuries in advance
Esoteric enemies, no one stood a chance
Observing from the 4th dimension
Until the moment of their ascension
12 stoic warriors gazing through history
Tragic events, on the periphery
A fatal mistake set the universe burning
The earth trembles, reality’s unraveling
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Northern Crown Florida
In the cracks between the Doom, Prog, and Rock n’ Roll genres, Northern Crown find a unique fit. Their first EP, “In the Hands of the Betrayer”, knocked on the door to the halls of classic metal. Their first album, “The Others”, tested its footing on the fringe of prog. Their self-titled second album was a hydra waving the flag of Doom n’ Roll. "In A Pallid Shadow" will be released July 3, 2020. ... more
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