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The Christening
02:40
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Of Matter & Mind
05:07
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An oath between mind and matter
To burn a clandestine hearth
To bear the crest
On an aegis blessed
Once again, I flee from space, flee from time
In oblivion's paradise
Warmth and ward
Enshrined within
Stained glass haven
When sorrow rains
When stress sludges the veins
We escape
A haven awaits
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Crystalline
08:07
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Enchanting, we're entranced
Mellifluent plainchants
Abstract walls adorned in the ideal
Transparent, never obscured
From why the walls exist
Throes of woe
All my fears
All my stress
Burn through glass
Hearth burns cold
While crest erodes
In my only peace
The abyss looks into me
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Kingdom
07:38
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Snowfall
Of grave graupel
A biting shroud entombs this mental temple
Painting an honest sky
Clouded in fear and flaw
As it cracks and rumbles
From life's debris
Ricocheting
Walking these halls of shattered walls
Each step a piercing reminder
Fortress far from fortitude
A king's reign slain
In verity's besiege
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Oasis
07:44
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From the ruins, I stare
Against unforgiving winds
Exhaled from the abyss
My clear vision bleared
Bloodstained shards rain
Splintered glass face
Frail lungs riven
Riven by my own haven
Bloodstained shards rain
Splintered glass face
Frail heart riven
All from within
Bless me a hearth anew
Of flames enshrined
In the heart's tomb
Reify pure warmth and splendor
With scintillating rays of hope
From the mouth of the architect
To bathe away sorrow
For no one and nowhere feels like home
Only one hearth shines deep in the mind
Where the embers of peace breathe alone
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Halo
09:05
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My sore eyes find sight through a ring of light
Wishful luminous gaze upon an ashen plane
My blood runs cold
In cloak and dagger
From the abyss
Beauty has forsaken me
Rains of anguish hail
Eroding away these holy halls
And so they fall
Sanctuaries created in our image
As frail as ourselves
Soon I shall fall too
Mercy find me
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Hiraeth
09:02
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Arise, sun of nostalgia
I feel its warm light through sacred glass
Igniting my hearth
Yet it is I who stains the glass
Yearning for the hues that paint holy the past
Showering rays of rose and sky
Cleanse me with peace
Home is where the hearth burns inside a noble lie
Take me back to simpler times
Where the leaves breathe oxygen into me
And the wind whispers gracefully
Yet it is I who stains the glass
Yearning for the hues that paint holy the past
Showering rays of rose and sky
Cleanse me with peace
But what good is a home lost in the mind?
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Devoured
07:20
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On the warpath, I stand still
Immaterial aegis in hand
Against veridical blade
Yet to no avail do I ward myself from the sword
My greatest wishes, my only home
Above the abyss hanging by a thread of hope
With this epitaph, the thread rips
In bell, book and candle
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Oathbreaker
07:53
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As the flames fade, hopeless flares kiss the fallen aegis
Most gentle, bittersweet farewell to a moldering mausoleum
Preserving the ashes of nostalgia and forgotten dreams
Warm-hearted hiraeth
No warmth in a feigned flame
Cold and desolate in this dead kingdom
Where the abyss reigns
Blessed or doomed to live
Hollow promise from birth to death
A lifetime lived within
At the hands of all that is
When the abyss seals the lids of our eyes
The oath is broken
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