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Do not go gentle into that good night
Old age should burn and rave at close of day
Rage, rage against the dying of the light
Though wise men at their end know dark is right
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night
Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay
Rage, rage against the dying of the light
Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way
Do not go gentle into that good night
Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay
Rage, rage against the dying of the light
And you, my father, there on the sad height
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray
Do not go gentle into that good night
Rage, rage against the dying of the light
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Shedding the Light
08:12
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Viewing through mist laden eyes
Outstretched hands never permeating
The tender miasma coating reality
A world beyond seperated through veils
Drifting on cold winds, swept in its hold
Voice stolen from mine lungs as vapour
Dissipating and taken to blackening skies
Solemn in disquiet watching Autumns fade
A fallen star whimpering in its descent
Whose presence none did look above to see
Shedding the remainder of the light
My pyre growing darker with dancing embers
The creeping of uncalm wraiths enclosing
Sweeping me up in icy tendrils of embrace
Held tenderly as chilling spells enraptured myself
The deafening miasma did grow bolder
The world beyond grew ever more distant
It's warm promises and bewitching sigts
Fading in murk as rejected light did leave
There I knelt as one in the dark cloistered in mine night
Shades and spectres dance in my vision
Mocking my solitude with courting gestures
Glistening in the sun in coloured realms
That my feeble grasp could never reach
Confined as I am to my graven prison
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In the ruins of Eden ablaze
I watch you dance between trees
Flames licking at your heels
Caressing your twisting form
Sensual and perfect in all grace
As the distance grows
And you fade into the smokes
Of a world torn away
Choking on vicious poisons
watch paradise go up in flame
All the leaves are curled and dead
The wind screams our condemnation
We bit of the apple so sweet in poison
And the chasm did open between us
In the ruins of our Eden ablaze with our folly
We dreamed of dances beneath amethyst skies
Crystal eyes reflecting the gleaming stars
Now bitter ash lingers on entwined tongues
Visions lay buried beneath falling heavens
As I watch you dissipate into the distance
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All is cold and frozen
Frozen the sea, frozen the sky
Frozen is death, but I cannot die
Cannot die
As the snow falls
To cover this all
And all is cold
And cold is all
All is cold and cold is all
Cold
Frozen
Frozen is heaven and frozen is hell
And I am dying in this living human shell
I am a dying God, coming into human flesh
I am a dying God, coming into human flesh
I am a dying God, coming into human flesh
I am a dying God
Frozen my heart
Frozen my soul
Frozen my love
I am a dying God, coming into human flesh
I am a dying God, coming into human flesh
I am a dying God, coming into human flesh
I am a dying God, coming into human flesh
I am a dying God, coming into human flesh
I am a dying God, coming into human flesh
I am a dying God, coming into human flesh
I am a dying God, coming into human flesh
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Inside the cavernous womb
Where grows the death of man
The tomb of all aspirations
Choked in malicious poisons
The prison of fermenting flesh
Plucked eyes and screaming maw
Wrapped in decaying shrouds
Cloaked in the guise of midnight
Never to be free of these binding chains
Holding us in the void
In this cracked and splintered world
Nothing new can be born to light
Drowning in melancholic depths
Voice lost to the abyss of blackness
A corona of razors upon my brow
Bejeweled in eternal dusky shadow
Crowned wanderer in the sea of fog
Ruler of the grave of dying moonlight
This kingdom built with bloody hands
Lies crumbled in ruin, neglected and dead
Devoid of all life, no hearts beat within
Broken and battered no fight left within
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Seedless passing into the light
Folly and toil, rending of limb
Sown fields bearing no fruit
Tattered endeavours to none shown
Sorrowful eyes turned to the skies
Fleeting glimpses into what may have been
Of fertile soils birthing great futures
Passing into dark and shades of naught
Burning the fields that you once did sow
With tender hand, eyes filled with prayer
Bearing the silent spores of our demise
Dead fairytales now form molten tombs
Great castles of fortune now lie in ruin
Skeletal structure where once laughter held
Dances through great halls now memory
Spectres reflected in the shades of the discarded
Beneath the mocking light of distant stars
Visions of what once may have been
Descend as poison on blank vacant eyes
The fields of your fortune have become as ash
Burning the fields that you once did sow
The seeds are dead and land filled with rot
The cruel turning of time brings no promise
Of brighter times under clearer skies
Only the inevitable end of all endeavours
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Gambling with the Abyss
11:26
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From the dirge rose to taint her eyes
That forever were tinted by starlight
Blinded they would be, split from the shine
Prey to the hidden wishes of mankind
To take the glow that she held within
And feed it to the hungering wolves that wait
Gambling with the abyss again
With every step out of the darkness
Frantically clawing at her heels to hold
Onto the prize that slips from its embrace
Her heart a burning star slowly fading
Vampires forever draining it of light
Meandering through streets of spectres
Shadows crawling across damp walls
Stalking and prowling following the shine
Hungering for another taste of its gleam
To stave away the deepening despair
That haunt their follies and solitary lives
Priests of disorder clipping the wings
Of those who would reach past the night
To touch the deep rays of moonlight
That illuminate their winding paths
Laden with serpents in wait
Encircling those who wander too far
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I am the devil
His world is a winter of hell
His rhythm is watched in pain
He dances well
Tortured by solitude
I bleed and bleed
Tortured by myself
This life is hell
I am an angel
Who bows to suicide
Can't breathe if it wakes me
And then I'll die
Angels are crying
There is no love
You should be masters of hate,
Dark of night without love
I am the devil
His world is a winter of hell
His rhythm is watched in pain
He doesn't move
Tortured by solitude
I bleed with hate
Tortured by myself this life is hell
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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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