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Floodgates
06:15
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Tear myself open for all to see
Decimation by own hand
Carving out a life, a chosen fate
The crumbling house of cards
Horizons beyond the dust
Where do we turn in these trying times?
Unveiling the burning within
An empty frame of a life, a gaping hole
How could we let it come this far?
Destitute, derelict, prolonged realization
Survivor's guilt at the greatest cost
Turn every stone, uncover every mystery
Defective pursuit on my own terms
Desperation marks our ways
Clinging to the last of ropes
All eyes upon, dark night of the soul
Boiling points and unspoken sacrifice
Poison thorns, tentacles of past
The weight of silent habit
Here I stand, reborn
Firmly anchored in the mire
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Stillwater
08:07
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Reactive tendency, purging acts of senselessness
In the throes of uncontrol, waiting for stars to align
Growing alienation severing every tie
Fading relations, shrinking worlds, cesspools for us to dwell
Justify it to yourself by narrowing the view
As you turn away, have you seen the light?
Mires of human entanglement - all-consuming, cannot be appeased
Alone in the presence of many, assumption of conformity
All the small things remind me of what I could never have
Yet here I see you, wearing indifference with pride
May peace wash over me, reprieve from the unrest
Every texture holds the key, sporadic infuse of light
The crowns of trees and the stillwater
The rugged refuge of the dusty trail
Nothing but silence meets the eye
Where mankind's heresy means nothing to me
Lethargy, it all passes me by
Weaved in guilt and exhaustion
Futile doubts, I harbor
Hollow beacons of light
Contrarians and advocates
White noise and fruitless tongues
My words are left unheard
Vestige of a defeated shape
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The Silent Epidemic
07:52
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Taking part, serving the eye
Scrambling to uphold a hollow mask
Self-sacrificed, with a burning hunger
You are nothing to them
Cursed walks of life, cast to the sidelines
Residual abandon
Never knowing where the disease ends
And the person begins
Slam the doors on the brittle and pale
Forging pathways through blood and shame
Shield your existence, for so you've been told
Scream and shiver in echoing halls
Condemned to silence for the smallest of scraps
Yet they don’t give an inch of their world
A sickness lingering beneath, you'll never know their riches
Only in pretense will arms be open, silent epidemic
Suffer for their ways
You've been told, you've been deemed
Labeled and packaged for their ease
Your search for balance, purpose and control
Life-long endeavors remain untold
Leaving no mark from your lifeless world
Seamless observers from window panes
Had all the stories of the world to tell
But no-one to listen, from the outside looking in
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Missing Pieces
04:30
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Time is not a healer
Moth toward the headlight
The panic of today
Discord, dreams and cautionary tales
Beacon in the distance
That thousand-yard stare
Eyes seeking bygone relief
Days we thought we were forever
Eyes to the setting red sun
Fading northern star
Hungry tides wash away
The last embers of the light
Are we just missing what we never had?
Thrall of the horizon
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Diaspora
07:04
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When every road begat to lunacy
The irreversible, the unforgiving
Tired daily chores, draining restlessness
A sickening spiral we've become
Summerdreamer, give way to sorrow
Flame falls to familiar, all too fast
Forge ahead, the rainy tracks
Who gave us free will to forsake?
What shimmers may not be gold
The hunger of derelict souls
Who gave us free will to forsake?
The mirror's watching eyes
Ripe with judgment
How can I trust my own hand?
Failed architect of my own fate
The ravage of constraint, watermarks of sorrow
Every smile holds a cavern, haunting every step
All that we've lost
All that we've failed to see
Only the ashes of a dream once woven
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Finality
07:05
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Bring me to the very edge and pull me back
The view over the abyss, I can see forever
One last high, or one final low
An endmost touch significant
Blackbird eyes in the dawning half-light
Shadows amiss with jesters
The turmoil that mortality invokes
Realization of impermanence
Growing hunger, resilient need
Walls of damaged reason I weave
What lies hidden in the dark
What lies clouded by constraint
Longing for storm's end, the bittersweet comfort
Linear absolutes I cannot escape, challenger of the preordained
What was once unbroken, what was once concealed
What has been foretold, what has been forgotten
Engaged in thought, to make the most
Entangled, until we forget to live
The narrative's confinement, every scenario played out
Wreaking silent havoc, our lingering finality
The ramblings of broken men
Dire tales of displaced innocence
Distant horizons in the seeker's eyes
Intentions aside, lonely days ensue
In the unknowing, the key beyond the veil
Purpose eludes me still
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Soulsearching
09:43
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In need of a word, in need of a change
Retracing each footstep
Forgive my failing hand, forgive my profound words
Turning stones to find anything that matters anymore
I want to feel joy, quiet and peace
I want to see the world that never opened to me
The fleeting eyes of innocence
The long gone treasures of the open mind
It's the urges we hate to feel, instincts taught to suppress
Yet it might hold the key to it all
How can we grow when always halted in our step?
Searching, searching
Until the lights go out
Merely a spark of belief
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Soliloquium Sweden
Soliloquium is a swedish death/doom metal band started in 2011. Our main influences are Katatonia, Anathema, Paradise Lost
and October Tide. Soliloquium has grown from a side project to a full fledged band, and our musical horizons are expanding beyond death/doom.
The third full-length album "Things We Leave Behind" is out 16 March 2020 on Naturmacht Productions/Rain Without End Records!
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