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Broken Glass Trail
08:51
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Eleven feeble shards press into my veins
Pressing hatred and weight to collapse
Finding the darkest place that I know
To crawl into the deepest crevices
And hide away from the wretched sun
Making my way through life slowly
Across a broken glass trail I crawl
The dancing shadows of dusks embrace
And the rolling drums of the thunder ride
In natures woodland embrace
The vastness of my sorrow widens
To hold the entire world in its hand
Distant bleating of woodlands heart
As I crawl further into my cocoon of safety
Hiding from the broken glass trail
In natures comforting woodland embrace
The terrible embrace of the burning flame
Is put to rest under the torrent of purifying rain
In my sanctuary amongst the rocks and briar
I find my slumber whilst the night rages on
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Seven Tears are flowing to the river
And six of 'em are mine:
Und ich kostete den fremden Saft,
Der sich mit meinigem vermengte,
Um zu deuten in ihm jene Kraft,
Die an so viele ich verschenkte.
Und Freud war er in meinen Mund
Und ich stürzt' in tiefe See'
Und es schmerzt die alte Wunde,
Die geifernd lacht in all dem Weh'.
Doch als die Flut seinen Leichnam barg,
Nachdem er Trän' verlor, sechs an der Zahl
Das Wasser ward zu seinem Sarg,
Eine Sieb'te sich ergoß,... aus Qual.
Und als der Fluß die Trän' geleitet,
Hin zu ew'gen Meer,
Ward ihm endlich Lieb' bereitet.
Doch das er weiß wohl nimmer mehr.
Und könnt die Zeit verkehrt nun fließen
Und sei nur Traum der ganze Schmerz,
Wird er um sie die Arme schließen
Und Liebe sei um beider Herz...
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Hindered by restless thoughts at night
Submitting to the amber light of evening
Wandering through dreamlike states
Searching for the end of my ache
Fantasising for the home I left
Ending the bitter fire that burns
Searching for the sleeping fields
To fall and descend into slumber
Where have my passions gone?
Carried away down winding streams
Beginning again on this unnamed plane
I saw your face in the frost tinted rose
The light of the lunar cycle on the oasis
Illuminating the endless corpse road
Leading to the nirvana of sleeping fields
Where I may find you on the face of the rose
My mind is laced with bitter thoughts
Remembering something said long ago
Misplaced memories tinted with smoke
Misled prayers to heal an unknown wound
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Rynkor, celluliter, hängbröst och rinnande mascara
Falska léenden blandade med mundiarré
Kassörskan är en hora på deltid
Hennes vänlighet är suspekt
Teddybjörnen trånar efter att få suga av
Ett barnasinnes humor vrålar ut i skratt
Tristessen kommer som en flod, jag söker en utväg
Leksakskatten har spagetti i mun, ingen vet vad det är
Vad finns att hämta här?
Oväsen uppstår när kaoset bryter ut
Elden döper småbarn när jag spränger skiten i luften
Tycker du som jag, så rider vi
För då känn för då känn för då känner jag mej jag mej fri
Lille häst lille häst vilka skutt du tar
Sitter svans sitter svans sitter svansen ändå ändå kvar
Så far och flyg och ryk och ränn
och bom sicka bom ä du me'på den så spring och skrik
och kom igen och bom sicka bom ut i mässingen
Och tut och tjut och tjosan sen
Och bom sicka bom va'de'small i den
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Death of a Silent God
08:58
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On the edge of darkness, looking in
As I stare into the abyss of bleakness
Shooting stars, tears from the sky falling
I hear no sound, and see no colours
The god of the silent, in an empty kingdom
The vision that was planted in my brain
It still remains, a cancer that slowly grows
A vision of a man, turning to the empty cold
Collar turned to the shadow, fading through mists
Stepping away from the lights of clarity
The vision grows still more, filling me
Ten thousand people in a silent mass
Eyes closed from the truth of their misguidance
And minds locked away, scared of what they may find
If they but looked beyond what they wish to see
No-one dared to break the fragile silence
They do not know what they may learn
Were they but to speak and share a thought?
As they bow in prayer to the gods they made
For answers that in their hearts they wish not to know
The mindless masses that the visions shows
Make my heart swell with hatred for them and me
For I am but another of the masses, unknowing
Searching for everything and hoping to find nothing
The dying God of the silent vigil to his herd
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Vast souls
And inhumans,
Bitten by infected jaws
Abandoned minds
And corpses
Lurking with moulded eyes
Lacerated bodies
Without mourners
Nodding in gallows
Crushed skulls
Tasting the Fur
Of dying cats
Needles, injecting pain
Flammable skin
And deadly thirst
Beyond mind
Is sleep to be found
Leap, leap, leap, leap
From life,
Leave yourself,
Die with me
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Through necropolis steeped in darkness
The spirit crawling into the tomb
As fragile feelings of hope slither away
A broken sensation claws at the brain
Pain, sorrow, misguided dreams
The sensation grows ever larger
Encompassing the eyes that search
For anything beyond the anguish inside
The last journey of a shadow
Where dead angels lay rotten
My tomb lies surrounded by it
As razor breaks the fevered skin
The end that waits for all of us
It lies within the spewing tomb
Nothing stops the darkness growing
The turn from day to night will come
When the moment of eternity
Breaks the dawn of your death
And suicidal angels stand vigil
Over the eternal sleep of the dead
Cemeteries of dead shadows
The end that beckons to you
Follow the tormented whispers
Into the depths of oblivion once more
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I thought you were everything
I thought you were the one
But once again I'm still blind
By the fake mask of life
Again I fell for its trap
Again I fell for its lies
And now you are leaving
And I'm begging you to stay
What we had was something special
What's going on?
It's getting hard to breathe
I'm torn open
I'm on my knees, asking you to stay and not to leave
Please don't go
Please don't go
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A dreamlike veil seeps over reality
A tremble that grows in the dark
Vivid hallucinations over my vision
That threaten my subconscious
To tear away the face of the deep
I leave your world once more
To fall into the vacuum of time
To leave only you standing alone
I fail you in life, and so shall now
For eternity between dawn and death
Kneeling on battered broken skin
Before the void that lays beyond
That tears away the veil of night
Leaving wounds on exposed memory
Beyond mind and thought it lingers
Lost inside my darkened mind
Away from the breaking dawn
You’ll find me dying between dreams
Petty, helpless with bleeding eyes
Turning away from the time and light
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As the moon crests the top of the cloud line
And illuminates the world, bathed in dark
I stare into the other realm, through shadow
Through smoke and blackened ash I gaze
Through broken mirrors I look to the stars
Hatred flows through my veins, infernal
As the last vestiges of love and life burn away
Sorrow desecrates the heart that beats
As I long to fade away through twilight
Through broken mirrors to the stars
As the world outside my window
Is plunged into a deathlike silence
A black requiem for the coming of dusk
Honed by the baying of night time beasts
Honouring the coming hour of night
As the air grows cold I hear them
The sounds of misery and sadness
Penetrating the blanket of night time
Their moonlit laments flowing down
To where I stare up into the stars waiting
As the moon crests the tops to the cloud line
The time has come for me to depart from it
To join the other world, through shadow
Through blood, tears and blackened ash
Through broken mirrors to the stars
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.M.K.
05:16
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Blind faith clings to my eyes, blinding
Causing me to continue forward
Even when all my hopes have died
And my voice has long since been silent
Violating the soulless shrine of failure
By maiming myself, the cowering flock
A choir of regret and dead dreams sings
Echoing through the chamber of my mind
My days have turned to blackness
Degenerated into the shit beneath
No matter how far I climb away
I will always fall back down into it
I know my sickness has no cure
And my eyes will never see again
Blind faith clings to my heart, dragging
Dragging me upwards to fall once more
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Once again despair is kissing me
With her cold ghostly lips
My own destruction is leading me to my grave
That I digged for many times
And once again I'm becoming a spectral thought
Forgotten, sad, miserable shit
As I fall into the black spheres among lonely memories
You've broken us, piece by piece
The score of my soundtrack is written by blood
Music of suicide written in red
I did it myself, my wrists are also opened
And like my tears, it's cascading
Everything has been lost behind us
On my kness, hands on my face
The sun is appearing into the spring morning
Where I'm lying there's just nothing than my dust
Now you don't care about him
You live on the other side of feelings
But our February snow
is now covering my lifeless body
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Abandoned by Light
12:39
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December cold settles in deep
Frost coats the vales in white
The crunch beneath my feet
Breaking the reverie of my journey
Cutting through my silent thoughts
Wandering through the nocturnal mist
The sun consumed by the dark clouds
Reverie returns, as I ponder the meaning
Of this life, this journey, this world around
I, he who was abandoned by light, wanderer
My cries fall onto the silence around
My identity begins to crumble inside
Torn away on the cold winds of winter
Abandoned by light, I fall through shadow
Who am I? Another soul amongst the many
Time slows to a standstill, the wind slows
I sit, the cold settling in my bones
Trying to find the self that I have lost
Abandoned by my life, nameless wanderer
The lies I have accepted have broken, and I am nothing
Laying down in the December frosts
Staring into the darkest skies above me
The god I was taught to love, left me here
The life I was told to love, is not mine to love
And everything has now gone, abandoned by light
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While we may believe
our world - our reality
to be that is - is but one
manifestation of the essence
Other planes lie beyond the reach
of normal sense and common roads
But they are no less real
than what we see or touch or feel
Denied by the blind church
'cause these are not the words of God
- the same God that burnt the
knowing
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The morning mist spreads its cold embrace out
Holding the dawning world in its chilling hold
Empty streets, undisturbed silences, hollow
The world that greets my gaze is forgotten
Under the shimmering radiance of the dawn
Solitary figure under the gloom of street lamps
Wanderer in the sea of fog and silent hills
Tarmac roads and concrete alleys long forgotten
Paths to alternate realities and thoughts abandoned
My journey through suburban nightmares
To reach the end, the end of the silence
To accomplish nothing in the early years
Destined to be a faceless entity in this world
Nothing but fleeting periphery to time and space
A wanderer amongst the masses and the worthless
As the morning mist begins to recede back
Returning to the weary embrace of the earth
I reach the edge of this place, and stare out
Across the end of the world, to the beauty
Of the shimmering embrace of the dawning horizon
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Abandoned by Light Sheffield, UK
Founded 2013 by Karhmul - solo Black Metal project from Sheffield, UK.
Check out my other band 'Nokturnal Ritual':
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