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Kiss the Earth
06:12
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The funeral bell begins to toll
The old man he loved is dead
The stink of death creeps through the cell
And wretched thoughts seep into his head
Where now the living word from his mouth?
Where now the gentle smile on his face?
Where now the sweet smell of heaven?
Only the rotting stench of death and decay.
“And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee”.
There the bride and groom, and who is this that he sees?
The old man shining with eyes like the sun
“Yes, I’m here, too!“ he says, “Do not fear, my dear one.”
Fall down and kiss the earth
Water it with your tears
Forgive all and be forgiven
Become wiser than your years
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2. |
Keep Your Mind in Hell
06:48
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Fifteen years on the side of a mountain
Sleepless nights and sightless days
Only one glimpse of the vision glorious
Tortured by the demons but still he stays
Keep your mind in hell
V2
Like a bereft child outside a garden
Like a sightless beggar begging eyes to see
Like a long-lost lover longing for his beloved
Like a holy virgin wanting to conceive
Keep your mind in hell
And despair not
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3. |
Way of Negation
04:03
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V1
Take the pictures off the walls
Take the statues from the halls
Pull the pages from the books
Imagination is a crook
V2
Cast away the rind
Purify the mind
To find eternal rhyme
Dark poetry sublime
Chorus 1
Our health is this disease
Our naked, cold striptease
Our sickness must grow worse
Lest the world become our hearse
V3
Shadows in the cave
Gyrating in our grave
Transfixed by our screens
Our gods these small machines
V4
The seers say it’s not
And to wait without thought
In ignorance and night
Dark passage to the light
Chorus 2
Cast your idols in the sea
All you thought you knew
All you hoped you’d be
Past the threshold of the dark
Ever ancient, ever new
Ever slave ever free
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Nostalgia
02:55
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Stand at the river’s bank
Stretching toward the sea
Liquid shades and swimming ghosts
Drown in mortality
Chorus
Will we find the sacred grove?
Taste the living tree?
How to drink the brimming cup
Immortality?
World of shades and symbols
Shadows passing into night
Where the beauty of timeless forms
The dream of living light
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5. |
The Hermit
04:57
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Darkest night
Moonless sky
Black water
Ocean below
In the cave
Mountain side
The hermit sits
He turns the rope
Rocky crag
Holy Mountain
A ladder
Straight up to the sky
Still turns the rope
So slow
Calloused fingers
The needles’ eye
Chorus
Luminous darkness
Unfading light
Glory of Tabor
Illumine his eyes
His mind in hell
But no despair
The demons yell
Still déeper he dives
Flaming tears
Years and years
He’s dust and ash
Dead and alive
Earthly angel
Celestial man
Ancient child
Foolish and wise
The paradox
The only way
The ancient path
The dead arise
Chorus 2
Beyond the void
Out past the dark
Above is below now
Infinite heart
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6. |
Keeper of the Bones
04:04
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Write the name on the skull
Cast the bones on the heap
Lay the body down to sleep
Pray to the Lord his soul to keep
Chorus
Weepers of the holy tears
Keepers of the sacred bones
Let me wake before I die
Let me sing before I sleep
Let me pray while it is night
Let me turn and let me weep
Make a relic of this flesh
Make this body a shrine
Make this heart a golden chalice
Make a Seraph of my mind
Write the name on the skull
Cast the bones on the heap
Lay the body down to sleep
Pray to the Lord his soul to keep
Chorus 2
Keeper of the holy tears
Keeper of the sacred bones
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The Tyger
02:27
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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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