1. |
Cloud Cover
05:12
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Hide out in your head
Among fallen stars
Living and dead
Waiting for cloud cover
To roll in thick
And wash away the dread
Of the mundane
Of the repetitive
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Aeons
05:27
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A dying tree, has standing brothers to break its fall
Holding still, to revel in the mourning before the release
But for now, just breathe
The drying leaves, just before they glide to the earth
Are reminiscent of all that was green
And pass away in peace
The consciousness of seasons changing, unknown
Maiden Mother Crone
A howling wind, with chilling terror riddled through its song
Cutting clear, to revel in the scorning of all that is weak
Revealing what is serene
The siren's call for all to decease
A necessary release
An evolution so present
Throughout the cycle of life and death
Only regarded as aeons
Nearly forgotten and long since passed
The consciousness of seasons changing, unknown
Maiden Mother Crone
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3. |
The Sky Lay Still
06:34
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In less than a moment
All fell silent
The sky lay still
As time froze
Bare hands risen in surrender
Surrender
In less than a moment
All fell silent
The sky lay still
As time froze
And one by one
The trees forgot to breathe
The sky lay still
As time froze
In less than a moment
All fell silent
The sky lay still
As time froze
And broke down
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4. |
Drift
05:47
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I close my eyes
To float through the black
And forget time
To go and visit shadows
In the corners of my mind
We speak of fortune
Speak of famine
Facing darkness
And the need for light
But those that have lingered long
Old and bitter
Have forgotten all that shines
Too far gone
In the depths of losing sight
Tethered to failure
Weathered in shame
A look in the mirror
And forgetting your name
With all of the trouble
You've gone through to forget
The turn from shadow to silhouette
I close my eyes
To float through the black
And forget time
Drifting along through
This land of the lost
And losing my way
In search of an answer
Clouded and vague
Tethered to failure
Weathered in shame
A look in the mirror
And forgetting your name
With all of the trouble
You've gone through to forget
Changing from shadow to silhouette
I close my eyes
To float through the black
And forget time
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5. |
Kronos
03:27
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“Kronos, I can no longer feel my body. But I am not afraid. I yearn.
I must admit after all that time spent worrying about which suit, or job, or lover would give me a ticket to societal acceptance, I am beginning to realize that, in truth, man is a fickle thing; to think that triviality such as these would ever matter to the synodic masters of the universe. This duet amongst life and death that I find myself singing along to will carry on even after its composers are long gone into the sinking of tomorrow.
Do not worry.
As the universe slowly compresses into astral iron, we are reminded that once again, this existence, this plane of consciousness where reality resides, and the mixture of life and death circle in endless fruition, our pupils grasp and reflect the same illuminating light from our ancestral home. The same iron that was compressed into creation is the same iron that pumps through our arteries, veins and capillaries, allowing brain function to create ideas such as these.
We are the artwork of stars. Our minds, their canvas. Friends are those colors painted on the same piece. Forever bound by the stroke of the cosmic brush. I love you all.”
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6. |
Blue Ruin
07:03
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I watched the Earth evaporate
Into the void
A change of the guard in heaven
To the devil's employ
Saw shooting stars go still
Watched worlds surrender will
All burning into nothing
All fading way to black
The expansion of forever
Has now been shown its limit
The Universe, is no longer infinite
The sun is masked by a blanket of clouds
The sky is dark, yet no rain pours down
As light collides above the Earth
Descent of the desolate, in blue ruin we are left
The entropy of heaven
Is met with Armageddon
The Universe, a silence indefinite
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7. |
Patterns of Man
05:26
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Fear dissolving into the ether
Warming the welcome
As met by the appeaser
Watching as waves
Crash with contentment
And blend with the sand
As if they wished it
Through a storm of what's come and what's gone
An elixir of chaos and calm
A light in the dark, so nascent
In this genesis
Through the ages and patterns of man
No matter the patience
No matter the progress
Whether feeding or choking them
Or any extension of an arm
They bit the hand
Through a storm of what's come and what's gone
An elixir of chaos and calm
A light in the dark, so nascent
In this genesis
Light in the dark, so nascent
In this genesis
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8. |
Silhouettes
06:23
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Silhouettes in my periphery
Of black and gray
You're the fear that I must face
Seeing red
With eyes on fire
Bleeding red
From splitting flesh
Images in my periphery
That I pretend not to see
They're fading in and out
Taunting me
Breaking bread
With false desire
Quick to act
You spitfire
Naked in the cold
Bearing harsh winds and snow
Smiling through the shivers
You take sick comfort
In the way you froze
I can't help you understand
If you don't want to hear
That you're beckoned by a darkness
Assembling an army
Of everything you fear
Truth holds dear
Those that nurture it
Bold steps taken
Tire those that turn against
And lose themselves
Silhouettes in my periphery
Of black and gray
You're the fear that I must face
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9. |
In Different Shades
06:36
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Angels and demons
Tell me of their division
If not only perception
And a belief in the sacred
Where hell meets the heavens
I need not forgiveness
For my sins
If less is more
Is there weakness in strength?
To push forward
Like nothing's in the way
With fluid motion
But oh so little grace
Why hurry
When no one's set the pace?
Release this fearfulness
And put it to an end
Through give and take
Distinction between black and gray
In different shades
Duality takes shape
Love and hate
Dancing in the break
Leaving ruin in their wake
Walking with open wounds
A signal fire for what hurts you
You need not be relentless
To make it to an end
Angels and demons
Settled in their division
Toying with our perception
To put a blur on what's sacred
Where hell lies in heaven
Love and hate
Dancing in the break
Leaving ruin in their wake
Broken and beaten
Face down in the dirt
Through love and hate
I walk through the flame that burned me
Hate for the pain that had scorned me
And love for the man that it made me
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10. |
Passing
01:23
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11. |
Through Discord
08:52
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Hereby stand alone
Counting moments as they come and go
All this time without a whisper of a word
Losing touch with things you said and whispers heard
Holding to the rope
With tired hands
Fire falls to the rain
Dead ash rises from the flame
Ascending into nevermore
Through this discord
Through this discord
We are nevermore
Through days seeming heavensent
We sleep
Blind to the ways
We made hell
Only we could bend
Asleep
We don't see
Every way
We made hell
Fire falls to the rain
Dead ash rises from the flame
Ascending into
nevermore
Through this discord
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12. |
Silentium
09:49
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Clear the sand from your slumber
Shake the spell of sleep
Close the door to that wonder
You only meet in dreams
Now listen as if you've never seen
As illusion sings of the self
The melodies entrance
Through the haze stands confusion
Reaching for a hand in dance
While we spin to the sounds
Of heaven and hell
To the song of delusion
All around us fell
An answer calls from a distance
With no question begged
In a swimming resistance
And no shore at edge
Through waves of fear and ardor
The dream becomes lucid
Between silence and stillness
Who wears the crown?
Or does stillness silence motion?
And silence still the sound?
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Maiden Mother Crone Nashville, Tennessee
A constant crashing of sounds
Nick Stacey: Vocals / guitar
Wesley Suttle: Guitar
Dave Parker: Bass
Greg Dowling: Drums
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