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Antikythera EP

by Antikythera

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1.
When sincerity thought to be null And the oath unbroken still In the most somber shadows of night I will reveal the most blinding of light This sudden dichotomy of crippling souls Casting all warmth of the sun into the cold Swept into the winter winds, bound by invocation Never to return again, exiled from Elysium If this river carries-any memory at all I will drift along-it's absent waves To crash against the stone as words, unspoken verse A sound once most serene - the siren used to sing Tragedy sang lore of woven gods, in an era of skyward chains With the cold that wields thus morning, in the shadow of odium flames Yield to those who tread with malevolent storms March forth, wild heart - to reclaim spirits scorned This sudden dichotomy of crippling souls Casting all warmth of the sun into the cold The throne defiled, broken frail marks Casting a light into ever-endless dark Damned me, depraved the warmth of home Encased the astral gown In silence we rejoice Through vagrant woods reborn This broken earth beneath me, yearning incomplete Tomorrow rests behind the mountainside If this river carries-any memory at all I will drift along it's absent waves To crash against the stone as words, unspoken verse A sound once most serene - the siren used to sing
2.
Air is still, and fog adorns this wretched night It fled through the trees, with intentions unknown Precursor, peril along these winding roads We are not welcome, it's walls are damned and cold Dug deep for you Beneath the soil To be exhumed I know someone's out there, I heard you in the cellar A glare in red and white, What happened to her eyes? The chant that summons hell, and the ominous foretold From below, to be bound in chains Evil finds it's way inside Locked Behind Cabin Doors Dismembered limbs, a severed head It was the woods themselves, they're alive
3.
Hidden behind this resonant shade, A will once tempered by the storms of plague Seasons of silence, a muting of hope not endured Defying the violent design Do you dread the turning of the tide? Reluctant, forced to choose a side Can you trust the guiding of the hand? Granting sight to the blind We weep with the withering woods It's flesh and barren bone This brilliant glow, alone, still flickers yet i hold A gentle brush of splendor to paint this fading world Basking in clouds with a taste for the horizon Enthralled by all that is bound Beneath the ash once laid a wanderer's dream The forest of moons that held the sky, now only speaks in sighs Awaken, helpless sibling sun - the burning wheel above Sol witness to all things undone We weep with the withering woods It's flesh and barren bone Born bound to this broken home
4.
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As we embrace the final dawn The rain upon our face, tells of sullen times Wash away the tears, ring the death knell Enamored by it's chime I've seen it inside their eyes It was carried in their mother's arms To nurture a fire soon to burn - on and on The virulence before the storm, there are secrets to be born Can you feel their heavy hearts? Like anchors of sinking ships As we embrace the final dawn The rain upon our face, tells of sullen times Wash away the tears, ring the death knell Enamored by it's chime I've seen it inside their eyes It was carried in their mother's arms To nurture a fire soon to burn - on and on This bounding main - A silence left to comfort These wind-capped waves - Torn seafaring hearts Until we reach the shore, can you hold this close to yours? This burden, the dark Under the weight of the world We've come this far Guided by vagrant stars When all warmth fades, cold the garden of night By lantern's shine, we brave this search of light Until we reach the shore, can you hold this close to yours? This burden, the dark Under the weight of the world The bridge, the flame that follows me until the end Haunted, our path, they'll know our name at last Until we reach the shore, can you hold this close to yours? This burden, the dark Under the weight of the world
5.
Never waking from this dream like fever Torn from the heavens with such radiant eyes We call upon the moon, the endless tide (Prayers for the void into the gray Mourning the monochrome earth, we've made) The bloom of promise, the thorns that shroud Soil in my hands, gripping the ground Beyond the shade, the shade that shuts the eyes Splendor's an illusion, burning the mind Parading in your shell, fragile nest of lies The masquerade of who you are, and what you're not What you're not inside A breath before the words of loss, and with venomous pride Resonant the tragedy, of grieving echoes deprived (And when the cold winds called, they beheld your name We ignite the sky as once vagrant flames) If the earth is an open wound mother let me grieve Salt of my blood, shared with the sea The bloom of promise, the thorns that shroud Soil in my hands, gripping the ground Beyond the shade, the shade that shuts the eyes Splendor's an illusion, burning the mind

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released November 26, 2016

Music and Lyrics written by Antikythera
Mixed and Mastered by Ronny L. Marks
Guest guitar solo on "Exiled from Elysium" performed by Josh Seguin of P.D.P. and Mute The Saint

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