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The Way Down
07:10
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V1
Lost in a dark wood
In the middle of my days
Trying to climb the mountain
Lame feet won’t follow my gaze
Three wild beasts
Suddenly closing in
Hope flew from trembling heart
This is where it ends
Chorus
“You wish to climb the mountain
And stand on highest ground.
There’s only one way forward:
The way up is the way down.”
“If you want to go to heaven
You must take the path through hell.
Then climb the mount of cleansing,
If in Paradise you’ll dwell.”
Keep your mind in hell and despair not
V2
All at once a stranger
Came Before me to stand
“Have pity, whatever you may be,
Whether shade or living man.”
A living voice spoke to me
though his body was dead
his words were like fire
and this is what he said
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Stylite
04:47
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v1
Atop the pillar
Between Heaven and earth
stands the stylite
Awaiting the new birth
Aerial demons
Try to pull him down
Seize his soul and body
Dash Him to the ground
Chorus
He’s the Stylite
Between earth and sky
He’s the Stylite
Watch him slowly die
Everybody watching the bird on the wire
A column, a ladder, a chariot of fire
V2
Serpent slithers
Coiling round the pole
Spitting poison
Seek to swallow his soul
Watchers gather
down below
All around him
Both weal and woe
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Count Magnus
03:39
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V1
O traveler beware
Watch what you dare
Play with evil and despair
The Black Pilgrim laughs
Dark figure on a moonlit hill
Count Magnus is watching still
V2
Avoid his woods at night
Cloaked evil, inhuman blight
Can’t withstand the evil sight
The Hunter becomes the prey
Don’t give way to morbid thrill
Don’t speak his evil name
Chorus
Cloaked evil is prowling
Count commands his will
how will you escape
What have you summoned?
To what evil succumbed?
The cloaked ones drawing near
The Black Pilgrim is come
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00:47
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V1
Lure of hidden gold
Cryptic letters make it known
Feel the deathly cold
He won’t leave you alone
Dread guardian will seize you and drag you down…
V2
Stench of mold and death
Colder than the tomb
Reek of fetid breath
Smell of your own doom
Dread guardian will seize you and drag you down…
Chorus
38 steps to follow
Into the secret well
The treasure there will bring you
Not to heaven but to hell
Seven eyes are watching
To see who takes the gold
He keeps what’s been committed
Won’t ever let you go
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The Old Man
06:42
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v1
I saw the old man
Staring back at me today
Eyes sunken and careworn
Cloaked in a mantle of gray
I saw the old man
Staring back at me today
Tired eyes above dark pools
Lips silent nothing to say
Who is the old man?
Weary old man
Fearful old man
How do I know him….
Chorus
Who is the old man
Dogs my steps and haunts my dreams
A ghost of recognition
Pulling at my memory’s seams
Who is the old man
Like a mirror in a frame
Suddenly I know him
The old man goes by my name
V2
An aged man is a paltry thing
Unless the soul clap hands and sing
For every tatter in this mortal dress
Take stock and confess
O sages standing in the holy fire
Consume my heart sick with desire
Fastened to a dying beast
Let me taste of glory at least
Sail me away
Sail me away
Let me ever stay
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Tragedian
05:38
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Cometh the lady in glorious train
Cometh the small man with an actor on a chain
The first shining brighter than day
The latter his part ready to play
Chorus
Loving your misery
Diminished in rage
Shrunk in self-pity
Up on the stage
While all the time
Your locked in a cage
O Tragedian
Let go of the chain
This role will kill you
Loving your pain…
Loving your pain…
Loving your pain…
To death
V2
Despising her beauty
Resenting her grace
The scars on your soul
The light on her face
almost too late now
please take her hand
let go of self-pity
If you will she’ll command
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V1
When the north wind blows
With its icy gales
Frozen streams won’t flow
And the spirits quails
When the serpent whispers
With his icy lies
Frozen veins won’t flow
The soul’s fire dies
Chorus
Where are you?
False prophets breathing lies
No vision
While my spirit dies
V2
When the cool breeze blows
Through the tree of Paradise
And the River flows
Vision fills your eyes
But the serpent whispers
With his icy lies
Why do you listen?
And let your spirit die
Chorus
Where are you?
Why listen to the lies
Lost vision
While your spirit dies
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Antinomy
05:29
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V1
Above the water
Under the sky
Approaching the tomb
Preparing to die
Animal with memory
Angel with flesh
Neither both nor either
Undying death
V2
Under the curse
Hidden blessing
Accept the pain
No second-guessing
Every wall a door
Every veil a way
Every prison a temple
Every night is brighter than day
Chorus
Pain in the heel
Sting on the tongue
Unseeing earth
Unfeeling dung
The way up and down
Are one in the same
Our beginning our end
In moving remain
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Green Slumbers
00:44
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Paterikon Arkansas
Old school doom inspired by early Sabbath and classic Trouble, the ghost stories of MR James, and arcane medieval and apocalyptic literature.
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