1. |
Thaw
02:20
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Breath of life
Rushing in to wake me
Warmth outside
Slowly spreading through me
Banishing
Frostbound dreams
Frozen eyes
Strain against the starlight
While outside
A new world rises
Pale and blue
Pale and blue…
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2. |
Journey's End
06:13
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Verse
Wake from a dream, a thousand seasons long
Behold the light, of unfamiliar stars
We have arrived at last
These weakened bones, withered from our sleep
Can’t help but grasp, in awe and longing
This is our home to be
A clamor raised, as more awaken
These refugees, have braved the unknown void
In search of sanctuary
From the swarm, that consumed
All we had, all we knew
Helpless we, fled in hope, of a chance
Chorus
For a light, at Journey’s end
Put our hope in this new land
See the light, at Journey’s end
Let our second chance begin
Verse
I’m greeted by, the first to be revived
The governor, the role she’s been assigned;
To lead the vanguard while I
Stand beside, and advise
Studying, nature’s guise
So we may, coexist, with new life
Chorus
In the light, at Journey’s end
Put our hope in this new land
See the light, at Journey’s end
Let our second chance begin
Bridge
There’s something on the sensors!
Unmanned but closing fast
We’re not the first to be here
Someone else took this path
No sign of people
No one but empty shells
No sign of struggle
No stories left to tell
Who was here
Where’ve they gone
Is our new home
Someone’s tombstone?
Outro
One page ends
Another’s beginning
This new world
Is another journey
To begin
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3. |
Stellar Waltz
05:13
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Captive lights
Spiraling
Dancing through
Inkwell skies
Falling, Inward
Never, Falter
Steel and, Glass have
Been remade to
Dance as stars
Chorus
Stellar Waltz of steel and fire
Eternal dance
In dark expanse
Evermore this masquerade
With the undead orbiting this grave
Verse
Silent cold
Monoliths
Obelisk
Obstinate
No Sign, Of a
Mortal, Maker
Silent , Shouting
Only, We were…
We were here
Chorus
Bridge
Sleeping dancer
Tell me your dreams
Titan architects have passed
No more heralding their might and power
Leaving just automatons
Masterless they carry on eternal
Chorus
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4. |
Reclaimed
04:57
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Verse:
Look now!
Can you see what I see?
Steel Skeletons crowd the horizon below
Hark now!
Do you hear the absence?
The stillness of a world gone silent
Now wait just a minute, I need to take this in
What could end all this opulence?
The footsteps of Titans still cast in the ground
With no signs of their master
Prechorus:
Life
Re
Mains
Chorus
Endless Cities
Crumble beneath centuries weight
Feeding new growth from decay
Empire Fallen
Can we build our home on a grave?
This world
Has been reclaimed
Verse
Look How
The Jungle is sprawling
Cannot tell where the iron ends and timber begins
Hear how
The canopy’s rustling
Whispered echo of an empire’s secrets
Beneath all the vines there is a bed of steel
Long forgotten and rusting away
And industry’s melody has long since subdued
Faded out of all memory
Chorus
Bridge:
Those who came before
And all their hopes and dreams
Vanished like a fog
Carried by the breeze
Chorus
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5. |
Megafauna
05:40
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Verse
As we break ground
On the foundation of our first outpost
Shadows loom
They’re reminding us we are the strangers here
The unknown, all around us
Hanging heavy
We will find no peace until we know
So I set forth
On an expedition to the wilds
Following the
Sounds of thunder and the shaking of the earth
Are these chasms, left by footsteps?
What behemoths
Roam beyond the frontier of our home?
Chorus
Beasts
Towering
Living mountains
Mortal colossus
Verse
In the clearing
Roams a herd of creatures leaning down to
Graze from treetops
They seem calm and docile, yet I only feel
Paralyzed by, awestruck terror
How can monsters
This size find a way to come to life?
Chorus
Beasts
Towering
Living mountains
Mortal colossus
Bridge
Fauna this size
Should be impossible and collapse
Under their weight
Yet they stand
Forces at play
Beyond the common flow of nature
Something’s amiss
With this world
Chorus
Living mountains
Mortal colossus
Breathing heirloom
Of the forgotten
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6. |
Stormbringer
04:44
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Verse
SURFACE
The Seas are torn asunder
TEMPEST
A howling gale of steam
18 days at sea, following a trail of ruin
Steel towers are twisted and toppled down
From the depths below an onyx sludge is hemorrhaging
Left exposed by this violent uncovering
Where’s the culprit now?
Suddenly we see the seas below begin to heave
And the world around us explodes
Chorus
Roar, crashing waves
Howl, searing hurricane
Storm never cease
Stormbringer feasts
Verse
SURFACE
The air a burning cyclone
TEMPEST
The waves blot out the skies
Battling to find my footing while I’m holding tight
And make sense of the chaos that’s taken hold
Suddenly I see the heaving mass in front of me
A leviathan so large it blocks out the
Whole horizon and
From the wall of flesh, a giant eye is opening
Staring at me like the gaze of God
Chorus
Bridge
THE MOUTH BEGINS TO OPEN
AN ALL DEVOURING MAW
THE SEAS RUSH IN A TORRENT
CARRYING IN THE SLUDGE
ALL HANDS
ABANDON THIS LOST VESSEL
ALL HANDS
ESCAPE THE TITAN’S JAWS
THE BEAST, PAYS NO, MIND
TO OUR, FRENZIED CRIES
WE ARE, AS ANTS, TO
MOUNTAINS SCRAPING THE SKY
Bursts of steam carry
Us to safe seas
Chorus
Outro
DESCEND
The seas have calmed their boiling
TITAN
The winds become a breeze
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7. |
Raven
05:14
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Verse
Perched above the clouds
On a mountain crag
Wings of black, unfurling
Watching patiently
As I rise to greet him
Both of us, Curious
Plain as day to see the being here is ancient
There is wisdom there
Smoldering in his eyes
This is no mean beast
And I wonder if
We could learn from each other
Prechorus
Suddenly my mind
Hears the whisper of another voice
Speaking without words
Yet I understand everything
Chorus
[I have watched]
Through the centuries
[The World below]
As it Fractilizes form
[Ever change]
Into Cascading, spiraling
[Life] Living dying
[Un] Reifying
[shack] Without limits
[led] Ever more it
Grows
Verse
Secrets of the past
Flood my memory
More than I can comprehend
But I see the brink
This world was brought unto
Facing oblivion
There’s malevolence that permeates the ground here
But was overcome
Leaving scars running deep
Now the winds of change
Which once saved this world
Are now a storm threatening
Prechorus
But beware your mind
For the hatred that was locked away
Left poison behind
Borne by star gale, it’s festering
Chorus
Bridge
Follow the star
Birthed by the ancients
Font of the doom
Which has befallen all of us
Find the resolve
To stand alone
Nobody else
Is left to save you anymore
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8. |
Vigilant
04:34
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Verse
Brother! Come, rejoice!
You’ve returned and
We’ve been busy
There’s so much to prepare
This world has revealed
Many truths that
We were blind to
But my eyes are open wide
Prechorus
Come
Gaze
With me
Chorus
Behold! Our star is rising
Our dominion here will now begin
Your old weak and defenseless
Friend has been reborn
In Vigilance
Verse
Ancient war machines
All restored to
Serve our empire
When we cross the stars and
Crush those who destroyed
Our home, our kin
Come, my brother
Add your wisdom to the fight
Prechorus
What
Have
You learned?
Chorus
Bridge
My dearest friend
What has become of you
This plague has all but consumed you
BLASPHEMY
HERETIC
This is no plague
This is freedom
Gift from heaven
Vengeful power and
Rage
Prechorus
Seize this Sophist
Tie his limbs down
Shackle his hands
Bring him to me
Soon my brother
We’ll make you see
All you have learned
Will serve our crusade
Chorus
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9. |
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Verse
THE NEXUS
PULSING WRITING OVERFLOWING
EFFERVESCING WITH DISTORTIONS
TWISTING FABRIC OF EXISTENCE
Captives fleeing
Taking flight
Towards the ancients’ beacon
Steadfast, pursue
Let those fools
Lead us to what we’ve sought
Prechorus
A WEAPON
ARMING US FOR OUR SALVATION
A SWORD FOR DOMINION
Chorus
Power calls
Like a siren from the void
Twin hearts are reaching out
One in rage the other terror
Verse
THE NEXUS
PULSING WRITING OVERFLOWING
EFFERVESCING WITH DISTORTIONS
TWISTING FABRIC OF EXISTENCE
Brainwashed pursuit
Twisted minds
Desperate to hold their power
Can we save this
Condemned world
Before it is consumed by
Prechorus
A TIMEBOMB
COUNTING UPWARDS TO EXTINCTION
THE ARCHITECT’S TRAP
Chorus
Bridge
THIS FRACTURED HULL OF METAL
A BROKEN HUSK ADRIFT
ITS FORM IS TORN ASUNDER
BY TEMPESTS HELD WITHIN
AND THROUGH THE CRACKED FACADE
A COSMIC GALE IS POURING FORTH
TWISTING THE SPACE AND TIME OF
ALL THAT’S CAUGHT WITHIN ITS WAKE
Gazing through the twisted wreck we peer into infinity
Pure and white and radiant a singularity resides
GRASP
BUT OUR HANDS CAN NEVER REACH
CLAW
AT THE UNATTAINABLE
How can (We)
Mortals hope (Dare)
To End (Stop)
Such a power
Is our (Last)
Dream of home (Hope)
Hopeless (Lost)
Our fates sealed
This is (All)
What We’ve sought (This)
Power (Might)
From the heavens
Make us (All)
Conquerors (Kings)
Unbowed (Rule)
No more fear
Outro
One hope is lost
One hope enflamed
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10. |
Nomad
10:09
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PART 1
Cold and adrift
Moored to a storm I cannot end
Is this the end?
Is rage the only path that’s left to us?
Who am I to deny it?
I’ve never been
Someone who knows when he should give in
Who am I to defy fate
Who am I what can I do?
I will wander
PART 2
Verse
These twisted dimensions
Warp existence, yet my
Thinking has remained rigid
and fixated on, my old premise
If there seems no answer
Then the question must be false
Breathe in, close my eyes and see
New perspectives are, all around you
Prechorus
WHO AM I
I who peel back the veil to grasp at wisdom
KNOW MYSELF
Endlessly a seeker
Chorus
Farewell to the home
I’ll never know
My fate is to wander
Follow the unknown
Whither it goes
Embrace who I’ll be, Nomad
Verse
Had I sought destruction
As the answer, to itself?
Falling to the same trap as
Those I condemned as, beyond saving
Prechorus
WHO AM I
I who know only that I yet know nothing
KNOW MYSELF
Nomad ever searching
Chorus
PART 3
Bridge
Rivers flow
And cannot be halted
But with care
One can change their course
River flow on and
Carry us to new
Shores
[Rhythmic behind above]
[Let This River Flow] x4
[Carry us to new] x4
Verse
Cast out from these shores
And sail the sea of stars once more
We’ll carry the winds on our backs
A never ceasing roaring tide we hold
Severed from the malice
That’s poisoning the world below
The Source we hold will flow pure and true
The raging Earth will calm and be reborn
Bridge
THE VANGUARD’S SHIP APPROACHES
WE’RE OUT OF TIME
THIS CLOSE TO THE FONT OF MADNESS
THE VIGIL’S GONE BLIND
All hands, brace we’re bringing this white hole in tow
Capture this warped torrent, we’ll outrun the light
Cosmic power
Hums to life around us
Stars outside
Stretch to meet me
Goodbye, Earth and Sky
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We are a Progressive Metal band from Pittsburgh Pennsylvania and Nashville Tennessee. We write concept Sci-fi albums in a shared narrative universe
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