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Unforeseen Consequences
02:16
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If I close my eyes.
I’ll just disappear.
Sing a different name.
I’m no longer here.
If I close my eyes.
I’ll just disappear.
Sing a different name.
I’m no longer here.
If I close my eyes.
I’ll just disappear.
Sing a different name.
I’m no longer here.
If I close my eyes.
I’ll just disappear.
Sing a different name.
I’m no longer here.
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2. |
We Don’t Go to Ravenholm
03:44
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Would you think any less of me?
If I admitted to being afraid.
The worry that weighs on my heart.
Makes me believe I’ll drift into nothing.
A distant memory.
But in all actuality my mortality isn’t what instills fear.
It’s the loss of an ability to build a life together with you here.
Compounded with the death of your magnanimous grace and ever loving soul.
But as I really begin to analyze the interior of my mind.
The anxiety is rooted in something more selfish.
I can’t cope with the fact that one day you might forget me.
Know that if the recollection of my name brings you pain.
I’d truly wish that you couldn’t remember me at all.
Perhaps it’s a little hypocritical of me now to start bargaining.
But alas in these tremulous times one must search for hope where none can be found.
Please anyone or anything that is listening watch over her for me now.
My eyes are growing tired and I feel someone is trying to call my name.
Goodbye.
I’m leaving.
Reflective light.
A room filled with white.
So serene.
This maiden in sight.
I awake.
She begins to speak.
Of the seas.
And what they could mean.
I could see her again?
I could see her again?
Then it’s worth the risk to me.
Then it’s worth the risk to me.
Then it’s worth the risk to me.
Then it’s worth the risk to me.
Saie, I can go back?
Saie, I can go back?
Saie, I can go back?
Saie, I can go back?
Saie, I can go back?
Saie, I can go back?
Saie, I can go back?
Saie, I can go back?
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On the horizon.
A sea of solid blue.
Beautifully Tranquil.
Calm and never ending.
The sight of sapphire.
Breathes life into the sand.
Within the quite.
Silence brings you comfort.
Shrouded by the serenity, hidden.
Its darker, coarse, and abrasive nature.
But I’ll press on I have to for you love.
So now I walk forward into the sun.
I swear I saw her face.
I swear I saw her face.
Renewed Valor.
And my resurfaced pride.
Hope isolates.
My virtue and my vice.
Though honor may.
Cost what’s left of my life.
I know we will.
See each other again.
Renewed Valor.
And my resurfaced pride.
Hope isolates.
My virtue and my vice.
Though honor may.
Cost what’s left of my life.
I know we will.
See each other again.
And so I pray.
Desperately in your name.
(Into the sapphire sand sea.
Come face to face with me desire.
Vanquish what is left of your fear.
Cleanse your spirit inside the light.
This pillar a beacon of truth.
Destiny’s equilibrium.)
Welcome to the place.
Where I meets I.
Welcome to the place.
Where I meets I.
Welcome to the place.
Where I meets I.
Welcome to the place.
Where I meets I.
Welcome to the place.
Where I meets I.
Welcome to the place.
Where I meets I.
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4. |
When I Meets I
04:17
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Truly I’m starting to believe fate just loves my misery.
Or perhaps this is a mere distorted view of a desperate man.
Is the divine light of serenity now deceiving me?
Could this be another trial that’s keeping me from her grace?
What if this is a hallucination, a cruel fever dream.
Am I really kneeling before a shadow of myself?
How can you not accept me?
Can’t you see we are the same?
Our minds forever linked.
Sorry, we are one.
Apart of you.
Unaccepted.
A shifted blame.
Still misconstrued.
And feeling used.
Welcomed abuse.
Self-hatred.
(Don’t deny the things that you see.
It’s the truth.
Buried down.
Your heart won’t spare you the guilt so.
Leave the light.
Disappear.)
So still lying to yourself?
Embrace the darkest lie.
No justification helps.
A naive tortured soul.
Trepidation cancels out.
The one purpose we share.
Though it is a nice gesture.
Thoughts of her won’t save you.
(Don’t deny the things that you see.
It’s the truth.
Buried down.
Your heart won’t spare you the guilt so.
Leave the light.
Disappear.)
(Don’t deny the things that you see.
It’s the truth.
Buried down.
Your heart won’t spare you the guilt so.
Leave the light.
Disappear.)
She is my life.
My will shall thrive.
She is my life.
My will shall thrive.
She is my life.
My will shall thrive.
She is my life.
My will shall thrive.
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5. |
A Pentecostal Flame
03:09
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Precious naivety guide my way.
Through this barren wastelands callus flame.
The fire’s somber tone resonates.
With the depravity in these walls.
Thoughts of you keep me grounded.
Just enough to not fade away.
Thankfully I value hope.
Now more so than I ever did.
Will reduced to cinder.
Lost as the embers dance.
It’s spirit in ashes.
The body will collapse.
Wait.
And so begins the soliloquy.
Spoken by the mouth of hell itself.
Here ends your journey.
For you are the meek.
So I’d mind your tongue.
It’s the devil you speak.
You Speak.
You Speak.
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6. |
The Devil at Sea
04:06
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For a moment I
Heard a voice.
Calm almost docile.
It rejoiced.
Freed from solitude.
Now alive.
Something menacing.
Breathes again.
A sleeping beast rises from the fire.
To ravage and feed upon desire.
He assumes control of impurity.
And destroys what’s left of your mind with heart.
Here lies the devil at sea.
Here lies the devil at sea.
(Hell and earth collide.
In the afterlife.
Perished without end.
Here in contempt.)
(Hell and earth collide.
In the afterlife.
Perished without end.
Here in contempt.)
If I had just one wish.
I’d start over again.
If I had just one wish.
I’d start over again.
If I had just one wish.
I’d start over again.
If I had just one wish.
I’d start over again.
The demon takes me in hand.
I am engulfed by the blackness of flame.
Though my eyes remain open.
I cannot see and thus the fear takes hold.
For the first time in my life.
I am filled with one sovereign emotion.
So consumed by the hell mouth.
I must eagerly await what comes next.
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Old haunts.
Her fragile melancholy.
Tears swell.
Fall with dejected luster.
New pain.
The suffering will echo.
Eyes close.
The wind dares to share my name.
(Clarity come sing my praise.
I am lost in empty days.
Damned to repeat my mistakes.
Cursed for all eternity.
Redemption is what I need.
This weight I carry numbs me.
I’m stranded in a moment.
Where life and love came and went.)
He taunts.
Holding fate in front of me.
There is.
A faint resemblance of choice.
I try.
To speak but I have no voice.
So wrong.
Why must we both face torment?
Your presence reminds me why I can’t just linger here.
Your presence reminds me why I can’t just linger here.
(Clarity come sing my praise.
I am lost in empty days.
Damned to repeat my mistakes.
Cursed for all eternity.
Redemption is what I need.
This weight I carry numbs me.
I’m stranded in a moment.
Where life and love came and went.)
Change fixes nothing.
Change fixes nothing.
Change fixes nothing.
Change fixes nothing.
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Even now I ponder about the day we first met.
Your warm smile that eased my obvious discomfort.
The bright dress you wore that complemented the sunlight.
The off kilter joke I made almost ruined our night.
(When fate locked.
Your door you.
Opened a.
Window.
Nothing will.
Divide us.
Promises.
Nor trust.
Cannot break.
Or falter.
With time we.
Find truth.
I am yours.
Forever.
You’re my light.
My love.)
I’m at peace when we’re together.
There’s no better feeling I swear.
I could do this eternally.
Getting lost in each other’s heart.
Not even this keeps us apart.
You’ll always be my everything.
Even if I’m just your nothing.
What I feel now remains unchanged.
I can’t afford to waste my time in this place.
I can’t afford to waste my time in this place.
(When fate locked.
Your door you.
Opened a.
Window.
Nothing will.
Divide us.
Promises.
Nor trust.
Cannot break.
Or falter.
With time we.
Find truth.
I am yours.
Forever.
You’re my light.
My love.)
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9. |
Sorrowful Sea
05:56
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(I awoke to find my hands tied to a ghost.
With a lonely heart her sorrow has arose.
She trembles and searches for the words to speak.
In silence I see a past alarmingly bleak.)
There is a woman in tears.
Her face buried in her hands.
Arms covered in lesions.
Once fair skin battered and bruised.
A man walks into frame.
Hiding a gun in his waist.
He shoves it in her chest.
The scene dissipates away.
And winter is revealed.
The land blanketed in white.
There sits an elderly man.
Hat in hand begging for change.
Time and seasons pass him.
The medals he carries rusted.
A once proud veteran.
Slowly passes in the street.
(I awoke to find my hands tied to a ghost.
With a lonely heart her sorrow has arose.
She trembles and searches for the words to speak.
In silence I see a past alarmingly bleak.)
Another voice pulls me in.
Show me how it had to end.
Seclusion, elusive hope.
Those who feel we fear the most.
This child has felt no love.
Empathy or compassion.
From an abusive mother.
From a neglectful father.
Day and night begin to blur.
Take the pills and leave this world.
You left it all behind.
Capsized in a sea of light.
Their souls drag me to the depths.
Capsized in a sea of light.
Their souls drag me to the depths.
Capsized in a sea of light.
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10. |
Uncharted Waters
04:34
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Adrift on this forlorn sea.
Of melancholy memory.
Sailing through a lucid dream.
Conjured by the water below.
Where apparitions lose sleep.
In long forgotten reverie.
Woefully the weather grows.
So heavy it anchors the ship.
Locked in a moment with this cessation.
The waves try to welcome a lost soul home.
Heavyhearted spirits grasp at the hull.
With great strength the ocean pulls me under.
Lost in the vastness of the sea. (Clutching on to the debris.)
I feel the water taking me. (Despair washes over me.)
The place I have been longing for. (But I cannot falter here.)
Now doesn’t seem so far away. (Shed the light embrace the fear.)
How will this consume me?
How will this consume me?
Destitution leads the way and dissolves all ungodly trust.
The possibility manufactured by man in time rust.
Pessimism guides the strays to the bottom of the ocean.
Decadence can push you forward strip you of your emotion.
Locked in a moment with this cessation.
The waves try to welcome a lost soul home.
Heavyhearted spirits grasp at the hull.
With great strength the ocean pulls me under.
Lost in the vastness of the sea. (Clutching on to the debris.)
I feel the water taking me. (Despair washes over me.)
The place I have been longing for. (But I cannot falter here.)
Now doesn’t seem so far away. (Shed the light embrace the fear.)
Darkness please bring me to the shore.
To a place that I’ve seen before.
Shine a light on the open door.
Again I walk this path once more.
What I choose is blinding.
Selfless and abiding.
Fire, water, and sand.
Show me the meadowlands.
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11. |
The Meadowlands
07:04
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The journey.
Must now end.
Here I am.
Meadowlands.
Let’s begin.
We must go.
I’m needed.
Down below.
Blissfully.
Forgotten.
You will see.
Two futures.
In separate directions.
The road you have followed goes.
Peer into heavens warmth.
Lose yourself in love and light.
Or do you long for her?
Leer upon what’s left behind.
First you should know the peace.
Where a soul can go to rest.
Floating through walls of white.
I bathe in divine rite.
Amongst tranquility.
Sentiments rise inside.
I just feel so at home.
I’ll never be alone.
Family I once lost.
Greet me with open arms.
But this will not keep me content.
Anymore.
I cannot exist anywhere.
Without her.
Maybe I’m a little selfish.
Perhaps more.
Just let me see that loving face.
I adore.
Where is she?
Where have you gone?
My someone.
With another.
Do you think?
Think about me.
The blood rush.
Aches in my chest.
How long have.
I been away.
It’s been years.
But you don’t change.
All my fears.
Lock into place.
All because.
You met my gaze.
I’m hollow.
But so are you.
Life heavy.
Burdened with guilt.
Like you are.
Afraid to feel.
You’re missing.
Something in you.
Tell me why you hurt.
For me dear.
For you I’ll return.
I promise.
I will show my worth.
Lift this curse.
Soon we’ll reunite.
We’ll be one.
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Shoal Lake Lexington, Kentucky
Dylan Conner-Guitar
Dillon Baudendistel- Vocals
Jay Conner- Drums
Caleb Nicholson- Bass
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