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Terrible Fates
01:38
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2. |
Cast Away
03:05
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Is time, the rushing river, flowing forward, ever free
Or is that your perception of the vast and endless sea
The castaway, who's gone astray, who tests temporal seas
Can wick the waves and count their days in thousands or just three
Well you've lost something important and I've lost a priceless prize
But I can see you've got the courage and a little bit of time
So here's the deal, the bargain steal, my newest, oldest friend
If you return my property, I'll show you how this ends
Cast away the present
Cast away the now
Cast away another day
And then you wonder how
You cast away your future
As you cast away the past
You cast away another day
And hope they last
Cast away
Cast away
Cast away
Cast away
Double time, as owl flies over swamp and mountain snow
Past ocean waves and canyon's graves, where giants walk with eyes ablaze
It's there you'll be and there you'll seem no stranger to the sea
Come on in the waters fine, dive right in
Cast away the present
Cast away the now
Cast away another day
And then you wonder how
You cast away your future
As you cast away the past
You cast away another day
And hope they last
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Clocktower
03:51
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Awake, with the dawn of the day
The townsfolk all work and go about their charades
Illegible signs, strung about empty stores
The shiver of doubt, I've been here before
Clocktower
Can you tell me the time
I've got these thoughts
In the back of the mind
Clocktower
How long has it been
Something's wrong
What was it again
The town, in the shade of the moon
The clockwork cogs, clicking in tune
Blood-red eyes, frozen in pain
It all goes around, again and again and again and again
Clocktower
Can you tell me the time
I've got these thoughts
In the back of the mind
Clocktower
How long has it been
Something's wrong
Can you tell me again
Clocktower, clocktower, give me a day
Just one more hour and I'll slip away
Clocktower, clocktower, I need more time
A minute, a second, a chance to rewind
I'm turning the time back and playing with fire
Or lost in a loop with my free will expired
Or what if that I am just stuck in repeating
This nightmare again and I'm just left here screaming
I just need more time
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4. |
The Mask
07:46
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We wear all their memories, gone so soon
Faces long forgotten to the phases of the moon
The seasons, like clockwork, the people come and go
And every single person's got a mask they show the world
The soldier's saber rattles where his courage can't be found
The foreman barking orders finds no company around
The paramours, that plot their days and ponder what could be
The courier endures the course yet, yearns to wander free
A mask for you
A mask for me
A mask for the whole wide world to see
The crooked cattle jockeys grin and hawk their hard-earned wares
The rancher plays her poker face to pacify the pair
The frontman's unaffected air exposed by new sounds
The manager decides in doubt and drinks as if to drown
A mask for you
A mask for me
A mask for the whole wide world to see
A mask to hoard your anger, a mask to hide your shame
A mask to mask the pain is still a mask all the same
You of many faces, you of so few words
You in silence, screaming for your voices to be heard
They say the world's a stage and that the players all, are we
Then why does it seem that nobody wants to play with me?
All their funny faces, all their fake and phony laughs
Maybe with this new mask I can find what I don't have
Feel it crawl through my skin, just like needles and pins
To the edge of the knife, scraping out, carving life
Overwhelmed by the pull and the vast undertow
Of the fire in my veins, spreading out, taking hold
Feel the earth giving way, I am molten, you are clay
I'm the feast, I'm the flood, I'm the fields overrun
I'm am woken, hexed flame, I'm the curse, given name
I am envy, I am free, I am magnipotent
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5. |
The Four Who Are
04:39
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Fallen leaves
Frozen throne
Ocean seethes
Hearts of stone
Outside the faded glimmer of the faintest, far-off star
An ancient oath encrypted in a song that carries far
Across the blackest passageway, beyond the void of light
An order spoken softly as a whisper in the night
Four who are
Four are we
Hear our Call
Oath to keep
Four who are
Four are we
Break our chains
Set us free
Inside the fetid sepulcher and frozen mountain's throne
Inside the sunken citadel and tower made of stone
Inside them, they are waiting and the gaze with covered eyes
They sing out to the darkness for the one to break their binds
Four who are
Four are we
Hear our Call
Oath to keep
Four who are
Four are we
Break our chains
Set us free
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Blood And Teeth And Eyes
02:51
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Ranting, raving, gnashing
And the sharpening of skeans
The rotten, ruddy, skunk-apes howl
Bemoan their missing queen
Eye for eye
Blood for blood
Eye for eye and blood for blood
They scream and shout out loud
Burn their wretched palace up
And tear their hovels down
Eye for eye
Blood for blood
Count the blades that point your way
Count your precious time
Count the debt you owe to us
In blood for blood and teeth and eyes
We will come, we will collect
Our counter-call your crime
We will get what's owed to us
In blood and teeth and eyes
Across the bog through noxious fog
The straw-men twitch and waltz
The raiding party's lurs blare
The sacrifice is called
Eye for eye
Tooth for tooth
Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth
They cackle as they cry
You took ours, now we'll take yours
They wail to weary skies
Eye for eye
Tooth for tooth
Count the blades that point your way
Count your precious time
Count the debt you owe to us
In blood for blood and teeth and eyes
We will come, we will collect
Our counter-call your crime
We will get what's owed to us
In blood and teeth and eyes
We will come, we will collect
Our counter-call your crimes
We will get what's owed to us
In blood and teeth and eyes
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7. |
Inside The Viper's Den
04:36
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Slide and slither, serpentine
Shake and shiver, shout with me
Swing your hands and stomp your feet
And dance with me, inside the viper's den
Come dance with me, ye sycophants, ye ones who fall in line
Applaud the looming doom at hand and revel in end of times
Come dance with me, down in the pit, down in this vile shrine
We'll writhe together, rhythmically like serpents intertwined
Slide and slither, serpentine
Shake and shiver, shout with me
Swing your hands and stomp your feet
And dance with me, inside the viper's den
Come dance with me, upon the stage, inside our rotting tomb
Beneath the swamp, beneath the fog, beneath the poison blooms
Come dance with me, the dance of death, betwixt the choking vines
Beneath my blade, beneath the moon, beneath the weary skies
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8. |
The Coryphée
00:50
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Automaton
05:19
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Frozen steel, howling drone
Titan rises, mountain groans
Ice-cold, frozen throne
Rusted, chrome, automaton
Snow blown, mountain home
Titan roams, automaton
Smell of sulfur, raw ozone
Rockface rumbles, giant roams
Ice-cold, frozen throne
Rusted, chrome, automaton
Snow blown, mountain home
Titan roams, automaton
Bull-goat guardian of arctic fortress
Cold steel colossus crashes down upon you
Horns of steel, hooves of chrome
Grinding gears, crushing bones
Ice-cold, frozen throne
Rusted, chrome, automaton
Snow blown, mountain home
Titan roams, automaton
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10. |
A Cordial
01:05
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11. |
At The Bottom Of The Bay
03:12
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The open ocean, broken, smoking, seafoam harborside
It's underneath, what can't be bound, it's underneath, that you will find
A citadel in sleeping stasis, far below, a dreamlike place
It's taken with the testudines, to the bottom of the bay that we go
Then you don't see
Any way home
Any way back
Any life boat
Diving deep, it's getting darker
Down below, a little farther
What is sleeping in the water
At the bottom of the bay
The soaking merfolk, croaking, spoke in secrets in the quays
Of twilight temples lost to tides, of bygone ancient elder days
What lies below the waters gray, in half-dead dreams beneath the waves
Abyssal riddle's agony, to the bottom of the bay that we go
Then you don't see
Any way home
Any way back
Any life boat
Diving deep, it's getting darker
Down below, a little farther
What is sleeping in the water
At the bottom of the bay
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Spire Of The Red Sun
03:37
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Spire of the red sun rising
Tower in the sky
Accursed stands, in shadows lands
It burns infernal eyes
Spire of the red sun rising
Hollowed hearts of stone
A canyon damned by bloody hands
Of the walking dead that roam
It's hell on earth, where up is down
The ending has begun
The heavens sink beneath your feet
You fall into the sun
Spire of the red sun rising
Mocking those that dwell
Promised with the hope of heaven
Forever in their hell
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Man On The Moon
06:04
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Man on the moon, stuck inside his room
All alone and lost in song, wander along
You and I are but the same, just a mask and a name
Something lost for something gained, what does it cost
Man on the moon, play your little tunes
And sing your little songs a little longer, then we'll be gone
We both want what we can't have, a little time, a second chance
Another try, to make it count, but now our time is running out
Fall, Fall, Fall
Some friends that you turned out to be
But who needs you, when I've got me
You shut me out and locked the door
You won't be laughing anymore
I'm sick of games, so board I'll flip
I'm tossing stones at pickup sticks
Of silly toys, I've had my fill
If I can't be happy, no one will
Fall
Before the sunken gods of old
Before the titans stalked the cold
Before the drowning, dreaming slept
Before the stone-men took first step
I was there, and I was king
And I ruled over everything
There was no you, there was no we
And everything, belonged to me
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