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A Voice
01:22
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It's like a journey I was always meant to take, but have not yet started.
And that moment when it begins, I will know.
Like walking along a beach at dawn on a brisk and focused morning.
Looking to the glowing horizon, and knowing what is to occur. I can see it.
I can feel it.
I can smell the anticipation in the air.
And I could stand here and do nothing, absolutely nothing, and still it would come.
Still it would come.
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2. |
Sebastian
03:10
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Up the dirty stairs again / dandy dreams, cocaine screams
Paint the walls in junkie blood / and drape the whores in opium green
Sharks they circled and fog closed in / spectrum of sequins in turpentine
Moral turpitude at the gate / as violent love spilled in the wine
Carnal herald in sober times / (carpe noctum, ye crucified)
Death before boredom, we hold the line / (carpe noctum, ye crucified)
Conceal the one you truly are / a man to be rejected
Bury your bones, swallow your heart / a mask to be accepted
With love comes only strangulation / invasive cancer, labyrinthine
[decadent, delectable, deductible] / drown down in dihydrocodeine
Sebastian, you bastard / mother sends her sympathies
Regrets, egress, fetal alcohol apologies
Night come to take her away away, son / night come to take her away
Night come to take her away away, lad! / night come to take her away
“half-Byronic, part-moronic; part-shaman, part-showman; part-Nazi,
and part-Liberace”
Carnal herald in sober times / (carpe noctum, ye crucified)
Death before boredom, you crossed that line / (carpe noctum, ye crucified)
Carpe noctum, ye crucified, ah! / (carpe noctum, ye crucified)
Carpe noctum, ye crucified, ah! /(carpe noctum, ye crucified)
Night come to take her away away, son / night come to take her away
Night come to take her away away, boy! / night come to take her away
hahahaha...
Sebatian......
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3. |
Demons
04:00
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I know that you’re with me / I hear your footsteps matching pace
And I know what you’re thinking / like words were carved into your face
So, spare me this temptation / you creatures filling up this place
The night is never-ending / and I may yet still fall from grace.
So tell me
How can I free myself from you /
If there’s a way, I’ve got to know
Cause you've been with me for so long /
I'd almost hate to see you go
How can I free myself from you /
If there’s a way, I’ve got to know/
If there’s a way, I’ve got to know
The sound is so familiar / Your leathery wings are closing in
The pain is almost comfort / As your claws sink into my skin
The agony might kill me / So why is it I can't let go?
Cause I'm afraid to live without you / Yeah it's hell, but it's the only thing I know
So tell me
How can I free myself from you /
If there’s a way, I’ve got to know/
Cause you've been with me for so long /
I'd almost hate to watch you go
How can I free myself from you /
There's only one way that I know/
There's only one way that I know
What am I afraid of / this is all I wanted / the darkness, the silence / a rest for my weariness.
am I mistaken / or am I a coward / will I find within me / the strength to move forward
Now cornered and helpless / and run out of choices / I must seek escape/ if this battle is pointless /
so seeking the comfort / embrace of the cold earth / With blade that can liberate body from soul
How can I free myself from you / There’s only one way that I know
There’s only one way that I know
(No.........)
[Alternate Verse/Chorus]
Found you in my nightmares / and prayed awake, I’d find respite
But still, your presence lingers / You are the hell inside my mind.
It must be so easy / to put the blame on someone else
But one look at these demons / and I know / I know my enemy’s myself
How can I free myself from you / If there’s a way, I’ve got to know
Cause if these demons can be slain / then there’s still time to save my soul.
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4. |
Derelict
02:25
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Empty windows look out on life
Rain drips down blurring the lines
Sealed away and no one’s behind
No one’s inside
Green creeps in
The end begins
I’m praying for a flood, I’m praying for fire
To be one with mud, I’m no one’s desire
The works of man
Forgotten hand
Taken by the land
Shadows grow colder
The creeping scents of moulder
The path is choked and broken
Chained and locked and long forgotten
The light is out
And long forgotten
Goodbye to dreams
Surrender to dust
Every hinge screams
Consumed by rust
My walls are breaking...
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5. |
In the Midnight Hour
02:14
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Wait 'till the midnight hour
That's when my love come tumblin' down
Gonna wait 'till the midnight hour
When there' no one else around
Gonna take you, girl, and hold you
And do all things I told you,
In the midnight hour
In the midnight hour
In the midnight hour
Wait till the stars come out
See the twinkle in your eye
Gonna wait 'till the midnight hour
That's when my love begins to shine
You're the only girl I know
And I really love you so,
in the midnight hour
In the midnight hour
In the midnight hour
(wait... WAIT...)
Wait 'til the midnight hour
That's when my love comes tumbling down
Gonna wait till the midnight hour
When there's no one else around
You can try to get away,
But I'll find you anyway
in the midnight hour
in the midnight hour
in the midnight hour
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6. |
Belie
04:42
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I can’t believe / What I can’t see
No one’s there / In the air
Silence reigns / Over our pains
Do not believe / Divine deceit
You will rot / All for naught
All your pains / Are in vain
All will end
Air, sea
And land
Gods and man
I can’t see / What I can’t believe
No one’s there / In the air
Chaos reigns / Over our pains
Do not believe / Belief be lies
You will rot / All for naught
All your pains / Are in vain
All will end
Air and sea
And the lands
Gods and man
Whispers there
To deaf air
Unholy despair
Cry where
No gods care
No gods there
ALL WILL END
ALL MEN
ALL THINGS
PAIN AND SUFFERING
all for naught
all forgot
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7. |
Ozymandias
03:46
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Mirror, mirror, on the wall / show me cities rise and fall
The world I’ve built, the things I’ve done / how long will my praises be sung?
Beings of vanity and of lust / show me man return to dust
Speak to me in silver tongues / tell me, am I good enough?
Behold I am the king of kings
God among ye mortal beings
Yet still a man and doomed to fear
Entropy everywhere
When all is said there will be none
To think of us when we are gone
Trunkless legs we stand upon
A remnant of our Babylon
Mirror, mirror, tell me please / where this constant struggle leads
Will my dream, my empire stand / or fall lost under shifting sand?
What’s the purpose of this then / if all we do will someday end
If all our passions, works and glories / never ‘til tomorrow stand
Behold I am the king of kings
God among ye mortal beings
Yet still a man and doomed to fear
Emptiness everywhere
Sands of time that fall and drain
Form deserts stretching far away
As all the world we know decays
Footprints in the sand will fade
Beings of vanity and lust / show me man return to dust
speak to me in silver tongues / tell me, am I good enough?
Mirror, mirror, on the wall / show me cities rise and fall
the world I’ve built, the things I’ve done / how long will my praise be sung?
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8. |
Mephisto
03:09
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Oh, I miss you so. Oh, I miss you so...
He took my blood in trade / Her fading touch in my dreams
This aching floods of memories / This deal I gladly made
Oh, I miss you so...
Thieves all in heaven above
Oh she, I can’t forget
Mephistopholes I thee beg
Steal back my lover’s breath
Now you caress my face / How our love ensnares
Only devils answer prayers / Cooling blood staining lace
Oh, I miss you so...
Thieves all in heaven above
Oh she, I can’t forget
Mephistopholes I thee beg
Steal back my lover’s breath
Mephistopholes, keeper of souls, dealer of the damned
On this night, I beseech thee to reunite,
My love to me, my love to light, bring her back from under night
Free from dreams, at night I scream, come back to me, from memory
Mephisto please, make it so!
Thieves all in heaven above
Oh she, I can’t forget
Mephistopholes I thee beg
Steal back my lover’s breath
Thieves all in heaven above
Oh she, I can’t forget
Mephistopholes I thee beg
Steal back my lover’s breath
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9. |
Night Falls
03:22
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Wishing to speak / but not to dare
Tears flow like blood at the joy of fiends / We all suffer evil dealings
I see all terrors in your eyes / And I can’t stem the rising tides
The swords are raised up against you / There is nothing I can do
How many dreams have you got?
You ever think you’d wake up?
How many dreams have you got?
You ever think you’d wake up?
You ever think you’d wake up?
We all sense a gathering storm / It’s now the future that we mourn
So in my arms I’ll hold you close / It’s you I’ll give love most
And while you may say all your prayers / I’ll stare into the blackest air
And nurture my fury again / And plot them all a bitter end
Well how many tears have you got?
Did you think they’d ever dry up?
Well how many years have you got?
You ever see your time was up?
You ever think you'd dry up?
How many dreams have you got?
You ever think you'd wake up?
How many dreams have you got?
You ever think you'd wake up?
You ever think you'd wake up?
Just wait until night falls...
How many fears have you got?
Did they ever make you give up?
How many dreams have you got?
You ever think you'd wake up?
You ever think you'd wake up?
How many dreams?
How many screams?
How long?
Can you hang on?
Can you hang on?
And how long?
'Til you're gone?
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10. |
Darkness
03:54
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I had a dream
Which was no dream.
The sun was extinguish’d,
Stars did wander darkling
Icy earth swung blind
And blackening
In the eternal space,
rayless and pathless, in the moonless air
Morning came and went and brought no day / in dread, men forgot their passion
In this their desolation, and all hearts / prayers for light were chill’d and selfish
To look once more into each other’s eyes / fearful hope was all the world contain’d
Forests were set fire, but hour by hour / extinguish’d with a crash and All. Was. Black.
They fell and faded, and all was dark
They lay down and hid their eyes and wept.
But in the blackness none could find rest
A meal was bought with blood
Gorging himself in the restless gloom:
No love was left
All earth was but one thought
And that was death!
The pang of famine fed upon their entrails
Men died, their bones were tombless as their flesh;
The meagre by the meagre, were devour’d,
Till hunger clung them, or the dropping dead
Morning came and went and brought no day
Prayers for light were chill’d and selfish
Fearful hope was all the world contain’d
Extinguish’d with a crash and all was black.
Famine had written “Fiend”
The world was void
A lump of death
A chaos of hard clay.
Seasonless,
Herbless,
Treeless,
Manless,
Lifeless–
Ceaseless
I See! (Icy)
DARKNESS
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11. |
And Nothing More
01:18
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WitchHands Colorado Springs, Colorado
WitchHands is a Colorado based Goth Rock / Deathrock band
D-beat rhythms, melodic synths, grinding guitars, and lyrics ranging from sad poetry to nihilistic rage.
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