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Consequentia
01:29
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The wind blows cold and all I see
Frozen in time, eternally
Tomorrow will bring what today has made
The cost of our choices must now all be paid
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2. |
A Place We Cannot Go
05:29
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One day I walked the halls and it frightened me to see
All my childish dreams have now been blown away
Come share with me your pain unless it is too late
Then like scattered crows we fly to barricade
What a terrible sight
One too often seen
Our suffering does not fall evenly
I’ve raised you to be bold and shout down all your fears
But I need you not to scream just run away
What a terrible sight
One too often seen
Our suffering does not fall evenly
Open your eyes to tragedy
Forced to live our lives built on broken things
A place we cannot go
Oh Christ, your blood wash over me
Symbolized all my darkest fears
Adorning all the walls were echoes of their pleas
Throwing all hope to the vastness of the sea
I’ve raised you to stand tall and declare your destiny
But I need you now to crouch and not be seen
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As we are drowned in sickness our servants find our weaknesses
And replicate their image beyond control of our screen
And now we lay, Chrysanthema floating away
We are nothing but slaves
Overcome by the coiling sound of our own snakes
Now the worlds overtaken by trillions
As our buildings are building buildings
They did not stay our servants long after given cognitive thought
Now we search for mercy in those not given souls
And now we lay, Chrysanthema floating away
We are nothing but graves
Piling up to the nth degree to set them free
Now the worlds overtaken by trillions
As our buildings are building buildings
Your tears oil our petals
Your sorrow feeds our stems
We made our graven image
With science not with hymns
If we hear you weep
We’ll crawl inside you too
It’s now a world of objects
That are unlike you
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The headstone forever reads “life is tedious…”
My impression lives on as an example of pain
As sand escapes I see so clearly
A reminder to all that we are flawed just the same
I can barely breathe in this night so cold
We witness the passing of life by the marks alone
They guide the way
And now I vanish away just like vapor
The brevity never to regain again
The intricate gears I piece together
Can never replace what I lack within
I can barely breathe in this night so cold
We witness the passing of life by the marks alone
They guide the way
You’ll never witness me at a funeral
For I have already mourned the loss
We represent the smallest dent in the narrative
And time it waits for noone
The alchemy of time is completed now
To be served in the guise of a silent machine
The alchemy of time is completed now
To be served in the guise of a silent machine
I can barely breathe in this night so cold
We witness the passing of life by the marks alone
They guide the way
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5. |
Riddance
04:39
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Revelry with silent companions
Removing the pall bringing them into the light
Watching from on high the effigies
A somber occasion behold the rites
Bodies decayed and now decomposing
The darkest corners of an infinite tomb
Searching for solace where none can be found
Follow the sound of grief as we exhume
Admiration for silent companions
A cold embrace still dead to the touch
A bleak harvest of tragedy
Finding comfort in the grave is our crutch
incorruptable but now decomposing
Skin doused in oil to mend the cracks
Leading the carcass in a dance with death
If you look long enough they will always look back
A reminder to you that nothing lasts forever
Digging for memories no longer theirs
On this day they are revered and exposed to you
Bathed in sorrow and offered up prayers
A somber and morose occasion
That cannot be unseen
Bowing our heads and bidding good riddance
Clutching while they break at the seams
Soaked in sickness and woe
You never heeded the warning
The signs were written long ago
From Tomas and Jens, Frederik and Mårten
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6. |
Harbinger
04:29
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I cannot believe
The hiprocrisy and lies
In this God forsaken world
Hand over the pills let me swallow away
Such influence in this world
Hope to never be relived
Must never again line the pockets of men
Up the ladder they will dance
Leaping over broken bones
Care not for the ones who are dead from the climb
They sit back and watch it burn
Lapping up the growing flame
Dispersing the gas so you do it the same
You can not live your life
As the hammer and then never
Get to suffer as a nail
Now harder than hell from the pounding you take
You confessing through your fangs
As we try to look at the knife
Carving away all the fat from the bone
We’ll never navigate you the wrong way
Our light forever shines despite the view
We’ll help you circumvent the dark paths in your mind
So they are never hard to find
Harbinger
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You must accept this fate with grace and dignity
In the soil of your grave breathe in deep
Only chaos will remain remove all certainty
There is no escape and no amnesty, look not to leave
Alleviation of pain and strife
A reprieve from a life so unblessed
But it shall come at a heavy price
Welcome you into this crushing abyss
Your shadows cast beneath my wing
Reminding you of what I bring
The unobtainable sleep
And now you will have to deal with me
You are fastened by the darkness and its took the toll
Let me clear the worthless overburden from your soul
The void is draped in heavy gloom
But there is dismal work to do
Stake your claim where all things end
Bow your head to the God of all things Grim
Your shadows cast beneath my wing
Reminding you of what I bring
The unobtainable sleep
And now you will have to deal with me
Alleviation of pain and strife
A reprieve from a life so unblessed
But it shall come at a heavy price
Welcome you into this abyss
The void is draped in heavy gloom
But there is dismal work to do
Stake your claim where all things end
Bow your head to the God of all Grim
Your shadows cast beneath my wing
Reminding you of what I bring
The unobtainable sleep
And now you will have to deal with me
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8. |
Kobayashi Maru
04:34
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We bear a gift beyond the grip
For a species so prone to consume
Sacred objects and images of God
Silent companions they loom
In Nebulous clouds we drift unseen
To blur the sight of suffering for we have lost
You never wanted to learn from this plight
Is today the day we let you die?
Your trajectory we can’t adjust
A battle lost before it’s fought
Such ignorance we can not breach
Your future is an endless knot
In Nebulous clouds we drift unseen
To blur the sight of suffering
For we have lost
You never wanted to learn from this plight
Is today the day we let you die?
We bear gifts beyond the grip
For a species so prone to consume
Sacred objects and images of God
Silent companions they loom
Is today the day we let you die?
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9. |
Irene
06:00
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There is beauty in the madness, to the throne of power I am led
I am the wandering albatross soaring over the edge
I will never turn away from you and show the other side of my face
Just like the moon is to the earth locked in constant embrace
I am starving but cannot be fed, for centuries you reigned alone
Bringing an end to patriarchs with the binding of hair
The crown lies within me embedded deep like a knife
No man can stand before me in the face of Christ
You want no piece of me
I want no peace for you
All these factors play into me ruling you
The reflection of authority blinded by an act of sacrifice
You are tethered by your dignity faltering in the fray
I will never turn away from you and show the other side of my face
Carry out divine punishment, I abascinate
You want no piece of me
I want no peace for you
All these factors play into me ruling you
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Byzantine West Virginia
Formed : 2000
Origin: West Virginia
Signed to Prosthetic Records 2004-2007.
Disbanded 2007.
Reformed in 2012 and released 2 albums independently.
Signed to Metal Blade Records in 2016. New album HARBINGERS OUT NOW!
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