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From Dust
07:23
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2. |
Reliquary
13:04
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reveal to the guiding hand as it falls to expose the will to the words that speak through years
the veneer of time
these failures upheld while eyes are rent from dream by altared vision
after and after
image riven from dust
given forth to sight
an offering returned
return to youth
return to failure
in waste
in vain
see now
see now
in waste
in vain
a lifetime of vision is blindness
deceiving the image with shadow upon shadow
see now exposed
see now revealed
beyond time and light
the hand is bound
unto the heart
beyond the eye
beyond the dream
the hand will reach
to guide or fall
to grasp the lie of light
the will inert
the eyes lost
words fall silent
tongues held in wait
futile demand
failure upheld
see now
see now
all I've ever known
secede to me so that I may taste these fruits of all I've made
hold me down to choke upon the body of these rotten labours
resisting fallen wraiths in hostile whisper
a missive to grace, a revelation to a burdened soul
see now that dark and light have always been as one
lies told to choices made belief as I lie still
blind me and I'll wander
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3. |
Their Shadow Cast
14:03
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following in guilt
the frailty of the ward
shield it from deception as it fades from me
regret will form my armour for the dearth to come
these years worn down
pursuit of self
a search to find the centre
at expense of
the other and there
after all
these years
a lone figure
standing
a duty of protection
to a shared burden
we the carriers of time
brought together
a sacrifice
for the ordeal of elegance
reckoning
reckoning
reckoning
reckoning
leave this flesh
stricken by longing
cleave the whole
as the spirit withers
roles exchanged
time will know this loss
worthlessness
a legacy of grief
tethered
to a mask of strength
resentment
this foul memory
trapped in word and thought
never to reach you
caught in the expulsion
of this bitter wash
deception of the self
for expense of the other
hold me up
as I bring you down
failure is my constant
as time withers all
and now I see the age
your words become my own
regret my ward
I shall protect
I shall
preserve
these years I've known
will haunt me
this shame
will live
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4. |
Sorceror
07:57
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what will remain
will return
time conceals in the looking
discard what's temporal
for the view is chosen
the past and future cast
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5. |
In The Wake
13:38
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now end it all
in the presence
of that simple image
in the presence
of constant dread
the presence
of loss
years hoarded
and overwrought
with the need to last
caught between the wounding past
and a loathsome future
weary in their presence
after all this time
laid waste
imposing upon ease
inducing loss
a requiem
to honour the memories
no longer
recalled
such value
in decay
a need to withdraw
explore the unmediated
a lone voice
to years lost
another dream
swept aside
for the merely repeating
surrounded by the means
to fail again
a lone voice
these years lost
these vows to which I have been bound
weary of the grip I've held
wrought with vision
no longer sought
my heart first opened
to boundaries expanse
all was lost
in instant
for now I wield
fear and risk
I've known the steps
I take
this barren
surround
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6. |
Dissident
07:30
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fingers bound
centred
then severed
hands alone holding the dreams of old
never to be as the mural
never to be like the wounds unknown
hoarded years
revealed to the wistful eye
stifled heart
exposed to the waiting pain
in wait
in wait
in wait
in wait
look down
these hands conjoined
their simple comfort staid
look down
these hands they tell
of lives to be
look down
these hands held to one and other
look down
these hands
I’ve always known
look down
trapped unliving
straining against
a lifetime
striving to leave
behind
fingers bound
these broken hands
are mine alone
never to be
mine alone
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Of Spire & Throne Edinburgh, UK
Of Spire & Throne have been chipping the same few down-tuned fragments of riff off the doom coal-face at the end of the same
dank and airless tunnel since 2009. They have no plans to resurface.
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