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Heralds and Desolations
06:20
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I stand on the edge of a great precipice
Staring across endless gray
A small hand in mine, one I swore to protect
A vow of endless weight
Subdued, by an unseen wall
An ideal, yet to be spoken
Your precious blood
Is on my hands
I couldn't save you from the blight
Empowering
The light we forged with love
To shine in shadows
To curse a life
The hardest task we've known
Desolation looms
Life before death
Strength before weakness
Speak the words. Speak the words.
Journey before destination
Your precious blood
Is on my hands
I couldn't save you from the blight
Surrendering
The fate of everything
I cannot shield you from the plight
To curse a life
The hardest task we've known
Desolation looms
I cannot rise to protect
Those without defenses
A herald's call unto thee
A protector's cape across our backs
I hear it calling to me
An oath I still feel outside my grasp
I hear it calling to me
Speak the words
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Lore
04:35
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Within an ancient text our story's sealed
The truth behind our zeal
Endless volumes
The legend of the ones whose reach exceeds their grasp
A hollowed prize we clasp
Millennia it's all the same
The heroes of the ages locked away their bones
Piles of skeleton keys reaching toward the sky
We never looked closer
Falsify history
Fabricate destiny
Newly chronicled legends
Cover up villainy
I struggle with a brand new tale
A child’s fable, drenched in white light
Even with best intentions, I manage to fail
To honor them with truth
Concealed knowledge
Locked in archives
The beast protects without failure
Defend the past
Control future
Bound by our lore
Hear my final request
I beseech you, omit nothing
The certainty of all my triumphs and faults
My story ends with you
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Settlement
06:44
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Cast out
In exile
Wandering wastes
Caravan
Wide-eyed innocents
Under ragged wings
Lost, we seek
Safe passage
A settlement
Blinded bliss
A dark hamlet
For those we love
Refuge
Shelter
Save us, they said
Stronghold
Unfounded
Save us, they said
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Veiled Monuments
07:03
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In lavish halls
An idol calls
For who remains
Adulate
It's ornate veil
Soothes all doubt
It's crumbled form
Seeks renew
Once feared
In time forgotten
Misrecollect
New congregation
Gathers in praise
The concealed
Luring
Fortune
Capitulate
Pursues
New ground
Appropriate
It devours
Feeds on blind worship
Engulfing
Those who see profit
Broken stone
It grasps to preserve
Mounds of bone
Used as substitute
Lay Waste
Defile
Distress
Satiated
It lies dormant
Enshrine revived
Til its desires restored
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If This Be Doomsday Portland, Oregon
PDX post-hardcore
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