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My eyes open in pain
Lying in the nuclear snows
Stained red with my essence and sorrow
Agony encircles my wounds
Wretched life remaining inside
Rising to my knees screaming
Tears forming in bloodshot eyes
Releasing my despair to the world
Lifeless and broken I remain this night
Closer to the edge, a lost spirit
Screaming to the celestial space
Praying for salvation, to cease
The lone angel, a vigil of the world
A future that isn't mine
Spreading my frost tinted wings
I remove myself from the world
Towards the blood tinted skies
The smell of ash and cold remaining
No salvation or solution, a life far away
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Drifting through the skies
Watching the world below
A hollow corpse shell
Where once life dwelt
Landing beneath a canopy
Of blood, ash and dying leaves
I imagine a world in bloom
And curse the wretched life I lead
Little remains of what once was
Shallow reminders of days long past
A world I never got to witness
Images and sounds now extinct
Despair plunges its blade once more
The dark and cold encircling my soul
Falling in this graveyard of blood and trees
Holding myself tight I lay and die
Time never stops, though nothing passes
Nothing left to see the seasons change
Or watch the ebb and flow of the waters
Only my eyes see the pointless passing moments
In this graveyard of roots and trees
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He Who Would Swallow God
09:05
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Watching the light sink away
The last of my strength draining with it
My heart replaced with stone
My soul dipped in blood and hatred
A voice from the dark aether speaks
A shape forming in the midnight mists
Cloaked in the nighttime and hooded in fog
A voice dripping with malice comes forth
A call from the grave
It speaks of a world before myself
of suffering and debasement
Of tongue and sword in perpetual feud
Born of the souring visions and wrath
It was born to cleanse the world
To rebirth it all without life
To give nature time to reclaim
its words fell as glass upon me
Sanity shattered by hammer blown words
I was born to a mutilated world of horror
birthed into a noose closing slowly around
I swore to create my own vengeance
The aethers voice grew silent once more
As I vomited forth foul utterances
Basking in my own hatred and bestial desire
I would take to the heavens and burn them down
He who would swallow God
He who formed me to suffer
Who cut the world apart before me
Who burned my life before it began
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Falling
Down I keep falling
The air ripped from my lungs
Suffocating, desperate
Descending from on high
Falling
My wings keep struggling
To catch the freezing wind
Frozen tears clinging to my face
Descending towards my tomb
Spiraling ever downward
Through spheres of hatred
A morning star cast to the Earth
Born in fire and rising through ash
Icy rain descends, blanket of cold
A scythe cutting the curtain of reality
Retreating to solace and isolation
My only fortress is the darkness
A conspiracy against all life
The shadow of no light hanging
Infesting every moment with hate and mourning
My self extinction brought to pass
My only fortress is the rain
Welcoming the darkness once more
Turning my gaze eternally inward
Towards the familiar loathing and despair
Taking solace in familiar hatred
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The pale icy moon illuminates
Rain mixing with blood and ash
And pale lifeless figures rising from night
Lifeless eyes gazing through myself
Lost and mutilated in a world
That stands in perfect silence
A heavy suffocating atmosphere
With ghosts wandering freely
They offer me a vision of futures
Where worms reign as kings above all
They rise from the graven earth
Moving through sulfurous fog
A dark eternity before them
Their eyes upon the angel of misery
The coldness of their gaze piercing
As they show me these cold futures
My screams pierce the night blanket
Take me away from this suffering
Lead me away from this darkness
But the figures just fade away, back into night
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Veins filled with the serum of torment
Eyes weeping the tears of prophecy
Ears echoing the anguish of nations
Surrounded by the graves of all men
The Angel Experiment receiving the world
Formed in the cocoon of times end
At the birth of a new dying aeon
When fire ravaged millennia of sin
Wearing the ashen crown of darkness
When Gods hand smote the cosmos
These eyes have taken in the land
And vomited back the blood and hate
Born witness to the accuser and adversary
Walked the fire paved skies and scorched earth
Dipped in the pool of destruction and bathed
Futile is the attempt to reason the chaos
Accept each blow as it comes forward
But bow before no God, instead merge with darkness
Be reborn in the dying flames of his kingdom
I have tasted the growing sour fruit of suffering
Born the scars of perpetual anguish
Embraced the blisters of my existence
Spreading ashen wings to the moonlight
The Angel Experiment will finally be free
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The alleys of hell where we wonder
What's eternal, now it begins
The fate of the earth, where we were born
No last echo, pull the plug
And the storm left nothing
And the storm left all
And the storm took nothing
And the storm took all
The winds of disease burn your fields
So unhallowed, so unclean
The face of extinction raw and pestilent
White with terror, tainted eyes
And the storm left nothing
And the storm left all
And the storm took nothing
And the storm took all
The ghosts of grace want your bones
Your spirit left for dead
The cause of the mourning, lay in grace
Like nations raped with praise
And the storm left nothing
And the storm left all
And the storm took nothing
And the storm took all
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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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