Draconian
In Somnolent Ruin

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• 1. I Welcome Thy Arrow (07:59)
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  You're the hunter
  I'm the haunted
  Woven with sorrow's thread
  Where I go you will follow
  I welcome thy arrow
  
  Hand me thy poisonous chalice
  Impale me on thy spear
  And adhere!
  Steadfast in my sorrow
  I welcome thy arrow
  
  Neath idle, blood-shut eyes
  There's a whole universe there
  
  The indefinite chart
  Of life's spectral ocean
  But I was lost in woodlands
  Famished and broken
  Of what seemed like endless winter
  
  The hunter and the haunted
  Adrift from here
  Over soul-sick burrow and shore
  I welcome thy arrow
  
  -Hand me thy poisonous chalice
  With arms outstretched
  Come here
  This is thy prey!
  And I will not pray to be saved
  Not at ease with my sorrow
  So I welcome thy arrow
  
  Recounting its history
  I'm keeping it here
  
  The indefinite chart
  Of life's spectral ocean
  But I was lost in woodlands
  Famished and broken
  Of what seemed like endless winter
  
  The hunter and the haunted
  I lay outstretched and bare
  In the vermillion glare
  There's a whole universe there
  
  No more am I to weep
  I'm awakened from the dream
  Of an insomniacs sleep
• 2. The Monochrome Blade (07:01)
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  Icy dew around burning cinders
  Ardent features, skeletal fingers
  Faces yield, torn by splinters
  Sacred heroes, grinning
  Like monstrous creatures
  
  Erase me from this vision
  Halt the burning season
  
  This burden, this burden
  Is it my own?
  Am I alone in writing my song?
  
  Erase me from this vision:
  Thoughts dismayed
  Souls betrayed
  Through this prison of flesh
  
  This burden, this burden
  Is it my own?
  Am I alone in writing my song?
  
  The burden, the burden
  The ancestral daughters and sons
  The perilous ones
  
  The burden, the burden
  The ancestral daughters and sons
  The perilous ones
  
  Like a blade stuck inside our hearts
  Held to the throat
  It's the binding of the spirit onto shame
  And God's in the gutter
  Drunk on the tears he claimed
  
  For He is alone
  Inquisitor of the monochrome
  
  We ascend to a Heaven
  Overgrown by dusk
  Among the misgiven
  Shards of our lives
  
  With a downcast face
  And tears aligned
  We're leaving this place
  To reclaim the divine
  
  We are alone
  Refugees from the monochrome
  
  Their burden, their burden
  The ancestral daughters and sons
  The perilous ones
  Coming undone
  
  The burden, the burden
  The ancestral daughters and sons
  The perilous ones
  
  Is this what we've become?
• 3. Anima (06:30)
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  Anima, break me
  Defend me before the storm
  Anima, recover me
  Defend me before the storm
  (Envelopes me)
  
  For my heart is tired
  Tired from trying
  Freeing the soul
  From all of this dying
  From shipwrecks and tides
  And counterfeit smiles
  Til You my Anima dies
  
  Anima, don't forsake me
  Breathe life into me
  Console me so I don't turn blind
  Not to fade as Saturn passes by
  
  For my heart is tired
  Tired from trying
  Freeing the soul
  From all of this dying
  From shipwrecks and tides
  And counterfeit smiles
  Til You my Anima dies
  
  Anima, I kiss the lights
  My co-creator in silence
  It's the darkling grace
  Of this spectral bride within
  I lie awake with the rustlings
  In the attic of my mind
  The harrowing trauma
  Paints the shadow that walks beside me
  
  Oh Anima
  You're the wind in my sail
  And the heartbreak in my smile
  You're the tender whisper as I die
  
  For my heart is tired
  Tired from trying
  Freeing the soul
  From all of this dying
  From shipwrecks and tides
  And counterfeit smiles
  Til You my Anima dies
  
  Anima, watch over me
• 4. The Face of God (07:36)
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  I saw the face of God
  And it was weeping
  The spirit of Man
  Fitfully sleeping
  
  To imagine what's true
  With images
  With cutting nightmares
  Cringing while sleeping
  In wreckage
  Slithering
  
  By sea, come forth
  Through dark ocean eyes
  And rivers' flooding out
  Petrified and dreaming
  
  Encircling the grace
  And the face of God
  Is drowned by weeping
  His blood now ebon
  Dripping
  
  I saw the fate of Man
  And I was screaming
  I saw the face of God
  It was weeping
  
  This bewildered gaze
  With a futile plight
  Of some glorious sun
  Never to rise again
  
  Confusion, come forth!
  Be my epitaph!
  With each day of creation
  Walking backwards
  Into the ruins of cold light
  
  And divine providence
  
  God
  Into absolution: Void!
  You're flooding this tear-carved trail
  By mindless rumination
  It's something you've always done
  
  A supernova - There
  Stillborn Here
  Pay heed, dearest friend!
  I won't drag you down
  Into darker waters
  I promise
  
  This cavern's like a veil
  Of a life thwarted and foiled
  Unrealized in my sobriety
  
  - And You would
  Cross oceans of anxiety
  And bleed generously
  To set me free
  
  Murdering your dread
  
  Life is for the Living
  So don't waste it on me
  For I saw the face of God
  And it was weeping
• 5. I Gave You Wings (07:29)
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  I gave you wings
  You gave me death
  I gave you life
  And you were blessed
  
  I gave you wings
  You gave your love
  The kingdom within
  I'll let you in
  
  I was left here alone
  To be the tortured sun
  Doom-riven
  Deprived of her song
  Long ago
  
  On this derelict path
  Through cosmic night
  I am the servant on the fields of sorrow
  Now, I have no strength left within me
  It was turned into tears
  For the Heavens to see
  
  Hold it together
  For one more winter
  
  I gave you wings
  Tears down my chest
  My arms around you
  Now you can rest
  
  I gave you wings
  A way to learn
  So you can find me
  When you return
  
  Woe to them:
  Hypocrites! Murderers!
  Brood of vipers
  Veiled in false pretence
  Whose virtue is but a cold offense
  Seated high within their gilded places
  Slithering deep inside Archonic temples
  
  You and I
  We are the residues of light
  And we took the sacrifice
  Long ago
  
  This derelict path
  Through drizzling snow
  The path to wisdom edged with thorns
  Now, I have no ardour left within me
  It was turned into tears
  For the world to see
  
  For one more winter
  Hold it together!
  
  You gave me wings
  I gave you Death
  And took your sins
  From your dying breath
  
  I cannot save you
  From this world
  I wrap my arms around you
  As darkness stir
  
  If you perceive me, you perceive yourself
  It is through my eyes that you see me
  And see yourself
  For if you approach me
  It is because I have approached you
• 6. Asteria Beneath the Tranquil Sea (02:30)
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  Something's always wrong
  Even when I'm sleeping
  So I cracked the moon
  And sang along
  
  Just breathe
  
  And everything is always wrong
  Even as I'm breathing
  So I cracked the moon
  And sang along
  
  And if I wish to leave
  Who'd tell me that I'm wrong?
  'Cause God just seem to sing along
  
  Breathe in
  Breathe out
  And breathe
  No more
• 7. Cold Heavens (05:13)
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  I am estranged
  A desperate plea for escape
  So we must part
  This tether now must break
  Just let it burn
  For all this waiting is murdering my soul
  Be it life, be it death
  It's all perpetual unrest
  
  What's life but to learn how to die?
  I'm there, at the edge of Despair
  Devil may care!
  
  With any raging storm some bitter funeral
  How dreadfully cold must the heavens be
  A land of misery bestowed on me
  I see no saving grace in your masters face
  
  I am estranged
  I cannot drive this shade away
  Then, where's my heart?
  What devil kept us apart?
  Just let it burn
  For all this waiting is murdering my soul
  Be it life, be it death
  It's all perpetual unrest
  
  And what's life but to learn how to die?
  I'm there, at the edge of despair
  God Devil may care!
  
  With any raging storm some bitter funeral
  How dreadfully cold must the heavens be
  A land of misery bestowed on me
  I see no saving grace in your masters face
  
  I am the sound of falling
  In the rift between God and dust
  Now I'm in this prison forever
  Drifting the starless tide
• 8. Misanthrope River (06:25)
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  Here, perhaps, 'tis the sole current that forever flows
  Leaving the gilded, youthful shore behind
  By venomous grief to drench the ever-belligerent stream
  All too real, too vast, this the shattered, incompetent dream
  
  When nothing is what it seems
  And the world has been
  Pulled over your eyes
  When false light beings flock
  In the dissonance
  We're moving upstream
  Down the misanthrope river
  
  Where shall I go if one of us dies?
  Where shall I go if one of us dies?
  
  Beware, my psychic inheritance
  No withdrawal, please
  Remedy me
  From where nothing
  Is what it seems
  I've never asked for this!
  
  What truth has gone beneath the tide
  When every measure's been taken
  To steal the rushing light?
  Where shall I go if one of us dies?
  I'm moving upstream
  Down the misanthrope river
  
  Cleansing our souls
  Down the misanthrope river
  
  And cold is the shiver
  With a brushing stroke of winter
  Cold, cold is the shiver
  I'm moving upstream
  Down the misanthrope river
  River
  
  For You, my heart's last drum
  No withdrawal, please
  Remedy me
  For what am I not allowed to see?
  I've never asked for this!
• 9. Lethe (07:11)
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  An Archon waits by the river
  The Archon waits for me
  Watching myself dissolve
  I'm stuck inside this dream
  
  It waits in shadows deep
  Its' eyes are fixed on me
  I fall silent into the void
  Far from the Mercy Seat
  
  And they call us Sinners
  But we are the last Believers
  They call us Sinners
  There's an Archon by the river
  They've always preyed on me
  Even now as life has left me
  Their current, my ceaseless tide
  
  Oh God, I am drowning
  Another name without a memory
  This light is cruel and blinding
  Devoid of symmetry
  
  And they call us Sinners
  No, we're the last Believers!
  They call us Sinners
  
  Oh, shooting star
  Drown in me!
  Drink
  Forget
  Repeat
  
  Oh, shooting star
  
  Oh, restless soul
  Drown in me!
  Drink
  Forget
  Repeat
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