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Our Last Fanfare
05:50
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Your statue seems to call the skies
Beckoning with tearless eyes
A winter cloak of ice and mist
To freeze then shatter metropolis
As a shadow devours humanity
Kneel to the cross for a light to see
Mans time can only offend
Never will ascend
What is broke, we cannot mend
For the end will surely come
No more moon, no more sun
Death and decay rule the world
From the ash a pearl
One boy, one girl
Fire and ice, both will burn
The sound of thunder will be heard
And the human race shall cease
In this great release
We cannot tame the beast
And so the present cannot pass
Until the end creates the first
A new world of harmony
Will be our destiny
Will be our destiny, our destiny...
Rejoice!
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2. |
Sister Of The Sea
02:59
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There it is, her voice again
Like some sorcery
I ride upon her notes of pain
As she gently carries me
From such a melancholy shore
To sands of fantasy
And there she enchants me again
Sister of the sea
*Into my heart an air that kills
From far country blows
What are those blue remembered hills
What burning forests those?
That is the land of lost content
I see it shining plain
The happy shores where I went
And cannot come again*
As darkness sweeps across the sky
The moon calls her once more
The haunting song ends with a cry
And I am left upon her shore
Then the only sound is of the waves
Crashing, tossing me
Back to where I don’t belong
With my demons for company
*adapted from AE Houseman 'A Shropshire Lad'
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3. |
Burn Like Ice
05:05
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You stop me running
Each moment forever
How can you do this?
Filling empty spaces
With nothing
Each movement alone
Falling through emotions
You touch and I shake
Am I tasting your soul?
Why do I feel like this
When your eyes
Turn to stone?
Show me your tears, pleasure from pain
Nights you don’t speak if I disobey
Oh, I’d turn the tables, reveal my woe
But strength through joy I don’t think you know
So I’ll drive it in deep, watch the blood spray
Nights I don’t sleep, the games you make me play
Let the fire burn my grief-filled chest
Force from my heart the loneliness
We're two crashing waves, one master, one slave
You burn like ice
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4. |
Medusa
04:34
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Ten thousand snakes shedding their skin
Mistress of beasts spreading her wings
No power to change her march to the end
No space for doubt divides the message she sends
And here we are as pillars of stone
We cannot move our roots from our home
Here we were born and here we shall die
Defending land with blood and with pride
My name is Anath, I am the mysteries
Within the threefold forces of the Great Goddess
I purify
I am the truth beyond your world
Look upon my eyes and behold the abyss
Ten thousand snakes shedding their skin
Mistress of beasts spreading her wings
No power to change her march to the end
No space for doubt divides the message she sends
And here we are as pillars of stone
We cannot move our roots from our home
Alone we stand, alone we shall die
The honour won, looking into her eye
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5. |
Death In Avalon
02:56
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Oh to die, your hero, your warrior
Oh to die, in the perfume of your golden hair
Oh to die, in your arms, disarmed
Oh to die, cradled to your breast
With your tear running down my cheek
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6. |
The Warmth Of Being
03:59
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The evening clings to his skin
Its heartbeat makes his head spin
A-part of the web and dazed by her potion
Breathing the tides of the ocean
Burning inside the reason to exist
A poison, a love, a kiss
If the secrets she passed down
Led us to where we are now
What have we done?
As the moon shadows the sun
And the moon shadows our son
Virgin
Mother
Crone
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7. |
The Waiting Ground
04:05
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I can feel a cloak of bitterness enshroud
My heart lost in storm clouds
Alone I stand within a place that I call home
Oh, how I used to roam
And you will not return to the shore of this strange land
To fill an empty man
Where all I do is wait and sit and wonder how
I think I know it now
And as the time goes by more thoughts of you are lost
Melt into the frost
The longer that I stay the more it numbs the pain
Here love can’t remain
Around me the fog falls and all I feel is bone
Safe among my own
Where all I do is live in a place to die
I think I know just why
It’s dark, grow cold
It’s dry, grow old
In the waiting ground
And why should I be found when you know that I am bound
To the waiting ground
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8. |
Behind The Mists
04:40
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I wonder if they can see me here
As I tread the hidden path of tears
Those who walked these roads of end
Roads whose company is now the wind
The air thick with odour of stale spells
I hear the clatter of a thousand bells
The walls of ivory crumbling manor
Dormant stands the Silent Tower
This is once where angels watched
Carve in wood Kenaz notch
Speak a long forgotten name
Then ride, bestrewn, beyond the rain
Here the crystal brook once ran
Now a dry vein in a drowning land
The distant echo of battles won
Lost in the mists of faery song
When winter guides frosts icy-hand
Into the spring, we will understand
Too late to turn the tide of death
We are the kill, I feel the chill of Albion’s weary breath
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9. |
Eye For Eye
07:05
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You servant of false power
You who go nowhere
Just to a bottomless pit
Of dreamless sleep
Drowning us and ours
In your filth
You know what you do
Yet do nothing that is true
You are damaging our health
You cannot redeem yourself
Murder
It tastes sweet
The smell it is strong
An eye for an eye
If I took yours would it be wrong?
An eye for an eye
If I took yours would it be wrong?
Eye for eye, unsheathe the sword
Eye for eye, on the governing horde
Eye for eye, for all those that are wronged
Eye for eye, come join our song
Eye for eye, unsheath the sword
Eye for eye, time to meet your lord
Eye for eye, for all those that are wronged
Eye for eye, come join our song...
A gift for a gift
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10. |
Silence
03:33
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Dark shadow cast across today
Our land and people all betrayed...
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While Angels Watch UK
Cult forerunners of the so-called Neofolk or Apocalyptic Folk genre; formed in Autumn 1985 by Michael Victor [aka DeV] in London, England. Dark, often epic music, incorporating post punk and post industrial influences; accompanied by uncompromising lyrics that explore the human condition, culture, esoterica and the darkly romantic, with foundations built upon the Northern Mysteries.and Lore. ... more
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