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From the dawn of others
03:40
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It's not that I'm born alone.
Forgotten home, the wasteland.
Wandering soul, the rains uncalled for.
Grown in darkness, emerged in soil.
Oh, my Lord. We were away.
The worn-out skins of men's heart,
divine trace of the merciless.
All my love devours her kiss.
Oh, my Lord. We were away.
Men from lungs of unlightened plan.
Glowing darkness of malice.
When planting seeds, we were away.
When planting seeds, we were away.
The fated birth behind the truth.
Skip this purse, don't fake this false.
When planting seeds, we were away.
When planting seeds, we were away.
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2. |
The sky's divided
04:44
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We’re not away inside the wall.
We’re not alone in your side.
Let us see the flawless face of your grace.
The darkest hour is gone.
Light of reason is glimmering.
Will you grant me a way to prove the other shimmering souls.
The sky’s divided. The war is sacred.
The frost of nonbelievers is a file of dust.
Will you cleanse my sin away? I’m all yours.
The crown is mighty. We’ll destroy them all,
and blaze the land outside the wall.
Will you cleanse my sin away? I’m all yours.
When night time comes, the savior arises.
He’ll reign us and guide us to highest place of ourselves.
We rule the sky on wings of your grace.
The reign has begun. He’s on our side.
Raise the wall of wail as the sky’s divided.
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Human is human
04:36
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Crimson town fell asleep in silence. All the songbirds stopped tweeting
wishing them a good night, wishing they won't have bad dreams.
There's no farmers harvesting on the field. No kids out on the streets.
No looms weaving threads, no lambs on the grass. The silence remains cold.
The silence was cold and the justice was done on the fest of their flesh and the blood.
They were supposed to lack something we got and that thing was supposed to divide us from them.
But we couldn't find any clues that unite us in the name of the man. Then she asked me.
"If the birds without a wing have the name of the birds.
And the lambs on the grass can graze without a herder. Then what about them?"
I knew the words I gotta say. But the others won't let me.
They say it was chasing them wearing sorrow as face.
They say it was facing them wearing tomorrow as fate.
Tombstones of the names untold. I was scared to break silence.
Tombstones of the names untold. I closed my eyes to save me.
Take me to where you save me with no names called.
Now it’s done. I've seen the world and tomorrow. It was drowning.
Tombstones of the names untold. Go away, I can't grasp you.
Tombstones of the names untold. Go away, I'll go back to my home.
To my world of others.
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4. |
The Trial
03:25
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I am a phantom of your sin
I am a beacon of them
I see the fear in your face
Maybe that fear is a guilt
Aeternus malum
Is that what you call my charge, my nature?
Depriving them of judgement,
is that what you call entrusting?
Aeternus malum
How far is the light and darkness in your faith?
Can't you see their eyes in a blank?
When you feel the wave, you'll see the weight of your sin.
So let me take you back to me
before you slide away into the sea.
I am a salvation so you let me take you back to me.
Let me take you back to me.
I am a salvation and you wish me in the system
that you call the way to higher place of ourselves.
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L'amour étroit
04:29
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Don't fly low for me, my dear love.
How could I've let go of my nature of craving for your heart.
Our love is nothing but a mere blasphemy
if you veer away from the stairway to the centre of his cross.
The strait is a gate and narrow is the way.
Two cannot walk abreast at a time, not at a time.
So through me, to higher.
Through me, to higher place.
Through me, the wreckage of this quivering soul. (But I fly for you, my dear love.)
To the land unbeaten by invasion of gloom. (How can I let go of my craving for your heart.)
Love me, for I am the one who is leaving. (I guess you loved me.)
Love me, for I am the one who is leaving. (I guess you loved me on the worst way.)
I guess you loved me.
And I loved you so.
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State-of-minds
05:02
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You erased me against my will.
But don't rage against your sin.
I don't blame you for that.
I'm the other side of you
behind cage, behind drapes of your wish.
I don't blame you for that.
I don't blame you for that because you're the other side of me.
You're a creature of them. I am a victim for your stage.
All the men's behavior is a symptom of the savior's advent.
It's surging. The tide is surging.
And you'll be a guider of the men into ascending madness.
And they'll say it's redemption.
You're so immaculate. you're so calm. you're so explicit. I don't blame you for that.
You're so essential. You're so cruel. You're so dangerous. I don't blame you for that.
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Don't cry above my heartless feet.
It's too harsh.
I'll be a sinner, not a saint.
It's your wish
My passion's specious surface is
a fake vestige.
It's not for me, it's not for you.
It's his wish
Agnus Dei.
Push me hard, and lash me down.
It's his wish.
It's not for you, it's not for me.
It's his wish.
It's no redemption.
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8. |
.22
04:48
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Ain't no fear, like a demon. Like a first time kiss.
Say no, dear. I'm the damned fake. I'm the beast from your dream.
Maybe I'm fine with all the leaves fallen, and all the beacons from there torn apart
with the million ways to take me down to the place we've been reminded.
I'm alright, dear. I'm alright, dear.
Is there somebody to belong?
Nobody's alone now, but me.
Is there somebody to belong?
It's alright, it's alright. Dear.
Maybe I'm fine as all the thieves are gone. And they’ll face me without a face.
But all the fears come in my mind as I wasted the nights away in our times unlike the days
when our love, tears, and all the years disappeared like the sky fallen, like the stars faded.
But I'm alright, dear.
Is there somebody to belong?
Nobody's alone now, but me.
Is there somebody to belong?
It's alright, it's alright.
As the trees will grow on us, and I'll find the way.
As the fight will draw on us, and I'll find the way.
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9. |
And we never let go of
06:27
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I hear you saying things that never have been said.
Carving the words that I never learned
before the night I buried your bodies myself.
Alone, for long. I buried your bodies.
But don't be afraid. All the times we had,
it's not meant to be worthless. So don't.
Because the tales of our being remains on the slates
of our love, tears, and all the years.
The great mistake of us won't be done again.
Who had us live for who else to live on?
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