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Circle of Skulls
05:38
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Light all of your sanctified candles this solemn Night
Son of the East, scarred in Scarabaeus-Y
In front of this tomb that lies vacant, wide open
Forsaken from death's embrace, you are so long anointed omnipotent
Within this Dream, the world you weave
Dreamer you are, creator and god
and if you elate on the whirlwind of this blazing paradise
On unending ecstasy you are granted, suffused from the Untamed
So place upon the altar of the First and the Ninth
Our skulls of your forefathers for behind the niches we can still see
And by the time you will choose this shell to rest and jump into another
Your place in the Circle will be filled and the mystery completes
Circle of Skulls
Together we breathe blood
Together we bleed fire
Circle of Skulls
When on black rose grows no thorn
The bloodpact is renewed
Circle of Skulls
Upon the altar of eternal bliss
The night's breed conspire
Circle of Skulls
For a flame never ending
For a sun upon eclipse
Yet as long this gleaming skin you keep in pulse and grace
Dive into the mirrored well where stars in silence shine
Your eyes above oblivion awake in times when in flesh we reigned
And hark the Hermit's stammering poem and what four winds shall sing
The words you read on crystal wall when reached in astral palaces
And the notes from his Lyre, the first Melody, can be gathered into order
Now chant this Hymn, the Song of the Dream and whistle it back in starry oceans
The guiding light through the labyrinths, the Memory's golden fire
Keep this treasure sealed in secrecy, for none must ever know
The Skulls that will forever laugh, the remnants of your bloodline
By the second candlelight, Our halos will shape in unity
And as you whisper the unspoken hex, the answers will unfold
So place upon the altar of the First and the Ninth
Our skulls of your forefathers for behind the niches we can still see
And by the time you will choose this shell to rest and jump into another
Your place in the Circle will be filled and the mystery completes
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2. |
The Irkallian Born
06:52
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In the middle of the circle lights a bloodred, dancing fire
With the parchment of our poem and your memory enshrined
Of that night of 1598 when the chambers were filled in fog
And the grounds in my heartbeat shaked relentlessly yet benign
Never asked what were you, a witch or a godess
The time and the place you had come
With no sense of denial on reality's substance
You invited me in your astral abode
With you in abyss, I will fall to the grounds
With your wings I will rise up above
In the dead of the night your approach only sounds
As your talons are crackling the walls
With you in abyss, I will climb to the moon
When the clock strikes midnight I know you will come
In what mortals fear, the Undying indulge
Stellar in my veins is your blood!
With you in abyss I will fall…
For I am of Irkallian Blood
I fear not the lions accompanied your presence
Nor the stone cold gaze of the owls above my head
Nor the death in your eyes, your iniquitous essence
Or the sound of your crawling blustered
I already knew your name, I dreamed as a child
When the sentinels of your Cave I asked
A kiss, a caress and three words of wisdom
For my body, my soul and my heart
With you in abyss I will fall
Defying my sense of control
With you in abyss I will fall
For I am the Irkallian Born
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Night Rapture
04:45
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Let me not just float upon this body tonight
Let me not just explore the intagible scenery
For the fangs are sharpened bright, the wings spread open wide
By the shadows is gathered the nocturnal assembly
And ascending I howl
You could see I am fire
With this hunger I feel
I could engulf this world
As I drift in your dreams
It is the Nighthound's desire
In wild rapture to breed
And supreme ride above
For a thirst to be quenched lift me up and guide me forward
Let the breathing den below be a torch in the dark
And as I swirl, keep me firm from this mesmerizing dizziness
As this orgy escalates, let me revel, let me burn!
And ascending I howl
And still spreading wildfire
Through deliverance spheres
And the earth's curve aloft
As we drift in your sleep
This will be our desire
In Night Rapture to feast
Till the margin of morn
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4. |
Amidst Twin Horizons
06:06
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(instrumental)
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5. |
Burning Sorcery
06:54
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When the winds will form again these sacred circles
That in Mercury and Sulphur osculate
I will march upon the thinnest rope
With no fear of the void below
And no memory of the wars overleaf
Just the drop of shroud's leafs
Hence, drunk I will dance in front of the Tomb
And grab these rings in swirling trance
To roll again between the seen and the unseen
And seal this Tomb forevermore
To carve a poem in the caves of Pan
For a Knight devouring dawns and dusks
The desert that will grow one rose
And the memory of a stalagmite throne
Never search where the Ageless rest their lair
When the Queen has kissed you and the Twins enflamed
Never search where I hide my gold
To slit the chapter destiny, in two crimson dreams I may unfold
Drunk I will forever dance for the wine never depletes
And potent enough might you as well there stand
I shall give you 4 clues of a word
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6. |
Orphne
05:20
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I will wrap again this body in black cloak
And the wand will have its place upon this surface again
I no longer yearn for a mortal caress
No tear upon a marbled tomb
I have stared beyond the four points of compass
And pierced the center of experience shaped veils
I have shared the soul of the Messenger
From the trenches of void I have traveled
Above the sunburning Sphinx
Adviced by the ancient Moth
Inside the nebular triangle
Guided by the whispers of Thoth
Through these halls the spark within reburns
From below these crossbones Her voice echoes still
And my cauldron has been shined and my dagger has been
sharpened
For I have borrowed from the bridge's guard
His key, his thirst, his capless flask
This time I will not return on colorful capes or bright shined crowns
And the birds will not sing welcoming chants
No golden chariots and scepters of glory
No matter the fruits I have tasted
I will always return where the lifeless dwell
Above the sunburning Sphinx
Adviced by the ancient Moth
Inside the nebular triangle
Guided by the whispers of Thoth
Orphne, my swift wings are thine
Orphne, whispering source of the mind
Your songs still echo throughout the walls of Charonium
Your legend is remembered, I am scarred with your wreath
Orphne, I have buried deep in the oceans
My fate, my hours and my final breath
I have seen upon the shores many boats carrying lost dreams
Many tears, drowned memories and countless broken wings
For the oblivion's embrace is always warm
And the sleep in your eyes always sweet
I will swim back to this bright world bitter with the coldest skin
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Firecrowned
07:21
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With the hourglass everturning still the portrait is unchanged
The eyelids of the Sleepless are still hanging high
With the hunger of the great devourer and the sign of TaArEcT
Twice a birth has been blessed, three nights before July
I remember when worn out on vast and burning deserts I crawled
And this caravan staggered my path aside
Those Moonriders' enchanting tales of abstract charm
Once is enough to forever remember their music
Do you remember their stuttered words?
The verse unrhymed and the ending everchanging?
Do you remember your open sores?
I will keep pouring sulphur and salt on that graceful bane
For the solitary times you gazed to the stars
And the primal awakening when you wandered off the scenes
For all the wounds and pains when you marched onwards in scorn
And the fabric of the curling snakes still reshaping your skin
Do you remember their stuttered words?
The verse unrhymed and the ending everchanging?
Do you remember your open sores?
I will keep pouring sulphur and salt on that graceful bane
Have you enshrined the blackened stone?
The brazen eye and the memory of an ancient whisper?
Your journey towards Edfu
The cavern's descent and the mystic cascade
I remained for so long above these burning dunes
And faced so many times the great Worm below
Οn these arid lands you can grant me more that ten plagues
For I had left with a sword to return with a crown
I remained for so long above these burning dunes
That this skin can no longer get scorched
Behold my relics that I hide above the stars
And the torn asunder pieces of all inherited maps
Keep the hourglass everturning, filled in sands of seething gold
So with the caravan my chance will come to stammer my
enchanting tale
Hang your eyelids up high and dream beyond the unknown
For three nights before July the end has again been rechanged
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8. |
The Hourglass Still
11:53
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What upon an astral shore
In might and grace can be reborn
Above the northern clouds
And where fates are carved upon fading stars
Spread your light upon this path
Hide the sun and I will come
Send your dashing winds to carry me onwards
You awakened me once and I pledged my blood
Ι have pledged my soul
And I have sworn an Oath forevermore
I have been once torn apart
Wounded, crawling, bleeding
With the warmth of death in my skin
And the dance of ravens accompanying
I have been offered the sweet wine of oblivion
And a honorable pact for my name
Don't forget that time I refused them all
Up atop the Twilight's dome
That some call the Ageless watch
Once I saw the signs and planned my maps towards the skies
And I traveled above these fields to reborn with your serpent kiss
And I have sworn to hold the hourglass filled forevermore
I have been born twice
Once in pain and once in delight
Once to fade to ashes and once above the mundane vaults to rise
But our path aligned and my blood was spilled an eternal sacrifice
To dance the Spiral Dance and shut the starlit skies
Now that my fate is recarved on glowing sands
I keep moving them within the ancient glass
And I will remember...
That with your Fires I have once been healed
That I have been drowned in your burning elixir
Upon a crumbling world I hold the hourglass still forevermore
So, spread your light upon this path
Hide the sun for me to come
Send your dashing winds to carry me onwards
You awakened me once and I pledged my blood
I have pledged my soul and I have sworn the Oath
To hold the hourglass still forevermore
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