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1. |
Never Rising Sun
04:30
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Failure and ruin are part of my life
Chaos, torpor and devastation darken my vision
I'm able to run but the ground is collapsing under my steps and that means nothing to me
My place is frozen and my sun never rises
But that means nothing, nothing to me
My body's dry
My blood doesn't run
My muscles are like these ruins
The sound of my cracking bones rings out
But pain doesn't reach me
My tongue oozed black dust alike the one filling the air
I am like these ruins
I'm able to run but the ground is collapsing under my steps and that means nothing to me
My place is frozen and my sun never rises
But that means nothing, nothing to me
One second or one century?
How long will I have to bear this?
I'm now a stranger to this place
They took all of it and made it their own image
Am I even still alive?
Or only the reflection of this living hell?
Horror parade and abuse trap me in a nameless inside rebellion and anger
Only my body remains painless, as my spirit burns at the thought of seeing them rot
Of seeing them rot
Yet I can't stop thinking : how can I pull through this?
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2. |
End Of Time
03:27
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It's the end of time
Of mankind
They drained, ate or used us
Among these people were those I loved
they were like my blood, essential to my heart
They are gone, dead or shut in
I'm dead now too
Not outside but dead still
They took our lives, our rights, our freedom
They burn the air with their only breath
They burn my flesh with their only saliva
I still breathe thanks to my memories
Those of a time when his sweet perfume rhymed with happiness
They were like my blood, essential to my heart
Now they are gone,
It's the end of time
Those indefinable creatures are reproducing now
Like an army organized in a hierarchy mayhem
I couldn't have imagined this in my craziest nightmares
For everything is beyond belief
They sewed my lips
I'd like them to sew my eyelids too
For like Medusa they petrify me with their only look
I still breathe thanks to my memories
Those of a time when his sweet perfume rhymed with happiness
They were like my blood, essential to my heart
Now they are gone,
It's the end of time
The end of time
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3. |
The Elder Sign
05:29
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I know he lies bewitched and chained
Bound in the fetters of the Elder Sign
"His malignant and laothy mind
Spreadeth the dark seeds of Madness and corruption
Into the dreams and nightmares of sleeping men"
I am He whom the Winds fear
I am He who sees present, past and future
I am He who surveys dimensions
I am He coming from dark ages
Continuum reveals its darkest secrets to the One
"Who dares the nighted realm of They who shun the light
And comes to gaze into his face"
"What I have seen would drive anyone mad
Yet I can not go mad", I can't even die
I am He whom the Winds fear
I am He who sees present, past and future
All worlds lie open to me...
"Cursed the ground where dead thoughts live new
I'll make each charnel clay my den"
And make the worm gnaw until, out of horrid corruption, life springs
"And until the dull scavengers of earth wax crafty to vex it
and swell monstrous to plague it"
I curse
I damn
I pray, believe, in the strength of the symbol against the radicality of realness
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4. |
I Dreamt
04:37
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This night, I dreamt
Like every night since the stars are connected
I dreamt of men running away from an endless thrall
They're telling me a story
Which, along time, is taking the form of a disconcerting reality
At the limits of dawn, I stay pensive and powerless against this chilling ineluctability,
Insufflating me a future I can't face
For I have no cards in my hands,
Neither have the Elder Gods
Every night, I see them crawling a little more towards us
Step by step, limb after limb
Underground or in space, they are enjoying a future that will honor them anew
Those who lived from the beginning of time will take back their rights and let us with our destiny
At the limits of dawn, I stay pensive and powerless against this chilling ineluctability,
Insufflating me a future I can't face
For I have no cards in my hands,
Neither have the Elder Gods
Every night, I see them crawling a little more towards us
Step by step, limb after limb
The veil of reality tore off that night a little more, while I felt a contact on my skin,
Both real and quixotic, icy and burning, powerful but impenetrable
While my skin is spitting my fear through its pores
My head tumbles under the effect of a voice calling me incessantly
This night I will dream again, until the stars are back in their place
I will dream again
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5. |
Last Moments
04:30
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A black stream reflects my image melting with charred and bare trees
About to spin before a last swinging
Just a high hiss,
Just the acid rain, hot and viscous
And nothing else
The crackled soil encompasses my steps
While some invertebrates,
Last reptilians born from a filth of which name can't be revealed,
Are trying to make their way through this puzzle of clay
What have we done ?
What about our planet ? Our lives ? Our Resources ?
It seems this earth doesn't want to carry us anymore
It seems it wants to exterminate us with some entities hitherto invisibles
But I can figure them out
Just me and some others
Just an acrid and persistent smell filling the air with its pernicious poison
The low and heavy sky leans upon my shoulders as for a rest before collapsing
An oppressive heat is filling the air to not let room for oxygen
What have we done ?
What about our planet ? Our lives ? Our Resources ?
It seems this earth doesn't want to carry us anymore
It seems it wants to exterminate us with some entities hitherto invisibles
But I can figure them out
Everything will have an end
Me and the others
Me, and my fellows living on this earth
In a nameless apocalypse,
In a term that cannot be said, afraid it strikes and lets us on the soil, bloodless
Like the one whose name can't be revealed, waiting and dreaming in the delight of our future extinction
Just me and some others
Just a high hiss, just the acid rain, hot and viscous
Just an acrid and persistent smell filling the air with its pernicious poison
And nothing else anymore
My last moments
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6. |
I'm the Crusher
05:00
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Come, you're my guest
Come into my den, let me show you the unthinkable
I'm the enticer and the crusher
And I feed my hunger of perdition, vanity and lust
You're so soaked with me you cannot see me anymore
A sound, a breath, a move from me and you become my clumsy puppet
Ha ha, look at you ! Pathetic jumping jack !
I do of you what I exult from me
Come into my arms, I will grip you in a fatal embrace
Trust me, devote yourself to my cause
I will eat your hopes and your soul
It's done for you
Don't try to leave me, it's too late
Everybody does it
Come, you're my guest
Come into my den, let me show you the unthinkable
They didn't understand what caused their loss
Like you today who thought betraying yours would protect you from us
It seems too late to avoid your salvation
It seems the moment has come to glorify our return on this earth
They didn't understand what caused their loss
Like you today who thought betraying yours would protect you from us
It seems too late to avoid your salvation
When the sun declines to give way to infamy
When the night drips its sinister malevolent shadows
Only then, you will know
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7. |
Silent Land
04:11
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Time forgets, lost in the maze of darkness of this silent land
Stinking like something that had died again and again
Only the Moon remembers ages gone by
From dim abyss of nights she crossed
And remembers also the blood-congealing truth of that old rhyme
“That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And yet with strange aeons even death may die.”
“Death is no deterrent to the mighty dead.
Even in decay their vast intellects can fill our sleeping minds with nightmare visions of the Pit and ultimate insanities beyond the reach of reason”
Time forgets, lost in the maze of darkness of this silent land
Stinking like something that had died again and again
Only the Moon remembers ages gone by
Far in the midnight depths out of our sight
There the black planets ride within the tides of fire
Why would I need eyes to feel this ?
Why would I close the gates of my memory?
Why would I close the gates of my memory?
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8. |
Forever...
03:00
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(Instrumental intro to "...Still")
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9. |
...Still
06:13
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I'm contemplating this living universe like a wonder forever lost
Mine remains frozen in this vise of blackness
A kaleidoscope world opens to me like a billion fast paced images
Like a Goddess frozen in eternity
I am a still picture, my time remains stuck in strange aeons
My life unfolds in a temporal backwash
It is here
It cannot see me
It's moving and living
And I'm remaining stuck in this gloomy and icy abyss
Like stuck in my mind I can feel, I can hear and breathe, but I'm forever still,
Counting out time is my only way out, evaluating my grief is inexpressible
I will be the helpless witness to ultimate gloomy scenes
The ones that will toll the bell of our Earth and my existence
I'm forever still in this frosty and gloomy abyss
I'm a ghost with a texture that no one can see
I'm an observer forever,
Fossilized, standing back from a stolen life
I can feel and suffer my own ossification
I'm an observer forever
This blazing sun seems so far
These slender and delicious flowers seem to keep their scent
These childish and innocent laughters are for a world not mine anymore
Like a Goddess frozen in eternity
I am a still picture, my time remains stuck in strange aeons
My life unfolds in a temporal backwash
Now I dream of the funeral lament about to ring out
To save me from the pain that is killing me without ever destroying me
I'm waiting for it like the celestial messenger who will close my tired eyes at last
And let me escape in a salutary nothingness, devoid of feelings
When I hear the Earth moan and break
When I see it drift far from the suns,
So, maybe the funeral lament will free me.
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10. |
Unveiled
04:43
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I feel like a river suddenly reversing the way of its flow
Descending ever deeper in the basement of supreme horror
Getting closer from the tainted den
And materializing the old prophecy
I divest myself of my suffering
So this life can be mine again
I can no longer content myself with gazing at existence,
Filled with the delicate disgust of helplessness
Under faint suns I beg you
Silence, give me your iridescent secret
For me unveil the veiled sky
In a holy and poetical oblivion
"Mercy, I let it off : I damn them who pity"
I'll inflict torment on those who didn't pray
Getting closer from the tainted den
And materializing the old prophecy
I divest myself of my suffering
So this life can be mine again
I can no longer content myself with gazing at existence,
Filled with the delicate disgust of helplessness
I was seeking only one person in my life I had not disappointed
And before the first light of dusk, I realized no purity remained inside,
Nothing will be lost in this trapped heath of years
No part of me will let a tear fall on this ground
Under faint suns I beg you
Silence, give me your iridescent secret
For me unveil the veiled sky
In a holy and poetical oblivion
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11. |
Where The Vision Led
05:54
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The world goes over its worrying destiny and its impossible equation
Before the eyes of the thinking beings left without shelters
And when ghosts will have disappeared
You will see this sacred and shapeless Fire
This Fire which will dash forward and shine throughout the world
Then you will listen to his voice
Prostrated in front of the Lord of silence for all eternity, forever.
Among light and blackness colours vibrate
Announcing the shimmering hour of big Chaos
Nothing will hinder the step
Even with a dead soul they fight
No one can stop them
Centuries are waiting for milleniums
Just like moroseness is waiting for pain
Time is only building reliever temples
Of which slabs are concrete screeds
Among light and blackness colours vibrate
Announcing the shimmering hour of big Chaos
Nothing will hinder the step
Even with a dead soul I fight
No one can stop me
The world goes over its worrying destiny and its impossible equation
Before the eyes of the thinking beings left without shelters
And when ghosts will have disappeared
You will see this sacred and shapeless Fire
This Fire which will dash forward and shine throughout the world
Then you will listen to his voice
Prostrated in front of the Lord of silence for all eternity, forever.
With heart shrouded in snow,
With skin burnt by the sun
I've been weary of time
Following where the vision led
Insane rhymes in my mind
Claws nailed deep in my flesh
I've been weary of time
Following where the vision led
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Dylath-Leen Cambrai, France
This atmospheric death-metal band was created in 1999. Latest album CABALE was released in Sept. 2011. Current status: writing new music.
Photo by Helcanen. Design by Seth Siro Anton
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