Lone Wanderer
Exequiae

Trackliste

• 1. To Rest Eternally (24:28)
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  Mortal and condemned...
  Black veiled shapes of mourning
  Spirits cloaked by glooming reverence
  
  Sonorous tolls the funeral bell
  Heads bowed follow in procession
  Eyes bedimmed with tears
  Lament for the loss endured
  
  Stillness...
  As the birds have ceased their song
  And heavy rain begins to pour
  A futile prayer floats like mist
  To rest eternally
  
  The rope gives way
  Slow, but steady
  Into the cold unknown
  To receive as had been given...
  
  Under sorrow’s unrelenting spell thou shalt wander,
  till thou return to the earth out of which thou wast taken:
  for dust thou art, and unto dust thou shalt return.
  
  All paths converge
  In final knowing:
  Into quiet eternity
  All shall venture...
  
  Dead drops the wilted wreath
  To earth’s sodden swansong
  And the eerie dirge
  Of the shovels‘ scrape
  
  Mortal and condemned
  left behind...
  As the dreaded day unfolds
  
  When mourners drift
  Like scattered ash
  And silver tears dry
  By callous winds
  
  When once more,
  The weight is lifted
  Unbearable,
  but fleeting...
  
  When mourners drift
  Like scattered ash
  And silver tears dry
  By callous winds
  
  When once more,
  The weight is lifted
  We are forlorn,
  Left to rest eternally...
  
  As meager mortals
  We pass from mirthless grounds
  Into waters of forgetfulness
  
  Days march on
  And seasons shift
  In total indifference...
• 2. Existence Nullified (10:44)
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  Where bitter tears of bereavement once fell
  In utter silence, swallowed by foulest earth
  They rot away...
  
  Lure of the dead...
  
  Six feet under rotten soil
  Unburdened from the weight of life
  Centuries undone, existence nullified
  
  Remembrance long withered, flesh turned into soil
  A strange allurement has taken hold of me
  I rot... away...
  
  Like father, like son
  Descendance has begun
  For grave men sire graves
  And cowards father cowards
  
  Lured by the dead
• 3. Life's Lost Vanity (08:39)
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  Step unto the mourner‘s path
  Begin the quest for truth
  So many yet have asked
  
  All hallowed vows disintegrate
  Promises end up shattered
  Search yourself
  As vanity of life is lifted
  
  Lay bare the idols
  And reveal the mourners path
  
  Not by way of thought
  Will is tamed
  Not by way of reason
  Death is claimed
  
  Not in gold nor in glory,
  Not in flesh nor in name
  Does the soul find its solace
  Or quench its restless flame
  
  Lay bare the idols
  And life’s false dichotomy
  Truth is adorned with failure
  Echoed forth ad nauseam
  
  Life’s lost vanity...
  
  All hallowed vows disintegrate
  And promises end up shattered
  
  Spewed forth ad nauseam
  
  Life’s lost vanity...
• 4. Anhedonia (12:16)
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  Withered through atrophy
  And broken by loss
  Every futile attempt
  Yields to nothingness
  
  Sucked into a swamp
  Of empty novelty
  Trapped inside this
  restless, anhedonic hull
  
  This apex of existence
  A dress of rotting skin
  Immured by ageless unrest
  Set adrift in endless dark
  
  This apex of existence...
  
  In my own putrid creation
  I bathe in the silence of cowards
• 5. Epistemology of the Passed (16:17)
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  We are idle hands to knot and weave
  The severed web of continuity
  We live with nurtured seeds of doubt
  But true knowledge blossoms for the dead
  
  Gnosis, it eludes our grasp
  Lost in the aeons, forced into retreat
  Wretchedness prevails
  
  All enigma is untold
  Epistemology of the passed
  Old conundrums to unfold
  We dwell in secrets, doomed to last
  
  All enigma is untold
  Epistemology of the passed
  Old conundrums to unfold
  Tragedy and loss amassed
  
  Gnosis, it eludes our grasp
  Lost in the aeons, forced into retreat
  Wretchedness prevails
  
  In this day and age of blindness
  What light shall guide our way
  What lance will pierce this veil
  What truthful words remain?
  
  With gnosis laid to rest
  Flown into somber night,
  In realms of death,
  Truth resides.
Dauer: 01:12:24