1. |
Awakening
07:49
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Breathe
Be not afraid
Your path
Is not done yet
Welcome to your truth
Where you trim the branch and preserve the root
See it as a friend
The beginning of the end
No
I found myself
Awakening
An ethereal garden right before my eyes
Left destitute
and formless in
A begotten void that
cleansed me of my sin
And let new life begin
How can this be
Transformed into the very
Creatures that scourged our kind
Just tricks on our frail minds
This is what’s meant to be
Only The Seven see
Rebuilt but sound within
Shed from our human skin
I am obsessed
Eternal rest
Escapes my grasp
And taunts from a distant mirror
Lies
Fed to my soul
To satiate
Manipulate
Everything’s fate for Ækyr
That wretched wraith
Disguising hate
With open arms
A warm embrace that burns
Burns your flesh
Burns your soul
Burns to show your faith
Faith in lies
Faith despised
Faith that blinds us
To re take first breaths
Awaiting second death
In hopes I kill it first
Destiny: demiurge
Chosen to cleanse
On solemn wings
Encased in flame
Clutching the last piece of what’s
Mine
Returned to flesh
My sanity
Slips through the cracks
Exposing a broken martyr
Nothing
Will stop them now
With stag and crow
Serpent entwined
Left to their own devices
Pray
Beg to the dark
Yet when I cried
into the void
It just stared back
Ever black
We are
More than
Creation
We are one
Seven in one
one throughout millions of minds,
Hearts, lives, deaths
All Betrayed
by those confiding in hope,
Faith, truth, lies
No
No
No
I refuse to kill those who did nothing
I refuse to be pawns of the ancients
I refuse to submit to this tyrant
Fool, succumb to to call of The Voidbound
You have much to learn but
It has all of you
It has all of us
You know not,
the grounds you tread
The countless dead
Of centuries bled
Let your self
Grow numb of your past life
Our wealth
Of powers provide
Pride
Honor your pride
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2. |
Our Shattered Garden
03:51
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Mentally defiled from the cold black absence
Fighting for control of my new corpse
Haunted by the presence of a million memories
Plucked from kindred souls
Histories and tombstones but a faded practice
No one left the victors to survive
Led to burn for nothing but a brand new horror
Forced upon the meadow taking life
My mind is open wide
Thrust into a realm
Of dark and light forsaken
Crafted by its hand
To muse the sins of man
While plotting its revenge
With ash and sacrifice
The herald of the end
Behold, the product our sin
And when you see it’s portraits on the walls
Then you will know just what it meant to fall
This is your home, we’ve waited far too long
The seventh birth, you are right where you belong
Within this realm
Where it found peace
We have found secrets of our Tyrant ruler
And if you seek
For truth or lies
You will find both inside our shattered garden
Personify the soul attached within you
Evoke the strength left vacant for the hatred in your heart
The pure one
The gathering one
The bleeding one
The blinding one
The darkened one
The nurturing one
The burning one
Bred as captives knowing only death
So when you feel your fated lonely call
Then you will know, its lies were told to all
Bringer of fear, a harbinger in thrall
After your wrath, there will be nothing to recall
The Tyrants plan
Will be fulfilled
Now that the burning one is manifest
There’s no escape
From truth and lies
You’re now a patron of our shattered garden
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3. |
Esoteric Menagerie
10:29
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Know your god
Meet your god
Eons ago
There was a deity
In duality of darkness and light
Secluded and lost
Caged by eternity
The bounds of its reach stifled by none
In its divinity
The ether transformed into flesh
To share in the physical realm
A body and garden for rest
See the flaws in me
Mechanical gaze of the omnipotent
Feel the thoughts of me
Projecting fear of its past loneliness
Be the catalyst
The jealousy rages of fire and ice
Destroy all of this
An envious self siphoning paradise
Creation was too much to bear
My plague unaware
It brought forth new life
A change for its solitude
An effort of love that can’t be undone
Cursed to conceive
yet not destroy
A fatal mistake that can’t be unmade
Millions of lives
Conformed to travesty
Their withering vine
Spreads only death
Come for the end
Stay for the aftermath
We’ll be alive
When humankind dies
Slowly but surely it dies
See the flaws in me
Watching the downfall and decay of man
Useless hope to be
Waiting for reason to reclaim their hands
Loss of everything
Stripped of my strength at the behest of sin
Dare to make again
Sacrificial ceremony begins
Creation was too much to bear
Spawn of mine
Bathe In degeneracy
Witnessed from this
Esoteric Menagerie
Why
Why defile my righteous gift you take for granted
Ill create monstrosities to lift their burden off
And supplicate my throne
Who feast upon the essence and the marrow of your form
Transmuting their crop of humans into seraphs torn
Harvesters whose gluttony will shortly learn to mourn
I confess to wishing for the way things were before
I will rest until the ancients’ conquest wins my war
War
One by one
Blood for blood
The altering of their only world
Please, persevere and claim your hordes
To bide my time
The void surely will make do
Stripped of my power
Locked from flesh
When I return
They will not see a mirror
But a vengeful god in scorn
March
Fight
Kill
End
Rest
Rise
Fall
Fall
Fall into my arms and see such majesty
Crawl amongst the dirt until you’re chosen for my plan
See the flaws in me
Existence denied that an Angel was born
Give my throne away
The Garden was shattered to make it a home
Death of what was pure
Abandoned in darkness to fester and rot
Birth of something more
The light of a seraph restoring its heart
To live in the Tyrants abode
Spawn of mine
Bask in its
Dark mystery
Living in my
Esoteric Menagerie
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4. |
Tulpa
05:16
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Potent omniscience
Conquering myself
Rended from
The husk I claimed in mortal life
A separation very few perceive
Installed in grafted flesh for servitude
Curses whisper
Permeating every thought
No space in mind for conflicting ideals
Revenge can find itself in many different lights
Utilize your hatred, witness grace in flight
Through emerald skies
With wings ablaze
Reaching at stars
For endless days
Surreal that I’m with you
But not what I’d pursue
A manifestation I didn’t know I knew
A Tulpa rises
Becoming shadows draped in light
Subconscious agony controls my throes of life
Emotions flood
as memories phase
Through wasted lives
And empty graves
Too many empty graves
Too many empty graves
I long for the place of the pain
For a place I can rest my weary soul
I long for the comfort of discontent
Take me away from here
Shelter me in your love
Save me from myself
I begin to break
Odysseys
Of corporeal hosts denied
Their sacrifice regenerating strength
For its return to right it’s one mistake
Fear smears Perception
And regret entrenches deep
Admonished for my time in Existence
There is no exodus from this palace of lies
Our restoration of the garden I defy
Detecting hordes
Within my mind
Becoming one
With the divine
Seraphic forms
Myriad of eyes
Symbolic of
Our view inside
The place once familiar
I longed to return to
Is now cold and barren completely alien
A Tulpa rises
Drowning my shadow with their light
Lift me from my sorrow liberate this mind
Emotions flood
as memories phase
Through wasted lives
And empty graves
My quest for peace
Comes with a cost
If Aekyr lives
Then all is lost
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5. |
Vengeance Devouring
07:24
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The lies
Of ancient ones and tyranny
Consume my consciousness with guilt
No choice
But To bend the knee to vile gods
May they know
That my vengeance is devouring
Humans
Who perish
Under seraph wings
Restore the tyrants flesh
Weep for their souls
An offering of the innocent
Ether flows, cleansing my soul
As my vengeance devours me whole
In time
Spilled blood stains morality
As my
Restraints degrade and rust
Cursed are those
Who gaze upon The Burning One
Lest they know
That my vengeance is devouring
Behind
The flames
I wait for it’s return
Now I’m the one who burns
Weep for their souls
To justify reprisal
Ether flows cleansing my soul
As my vengeance devours me whole
Suicide would be an easy end
To rid myself of all this pain
Deicide will be the only way
To erase Aekyr from our plane
Not in vain
Why
Why me
I have but one careless final wish
To watch a tyrant suffer
Burn
Condemned all while cleansing my soul
Unholy means will bring an end to suffering
Of life In Existence
A chance for a new fair beginning
So I ignite the spark
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6. |
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Reap what you sow
Legends are
Passed down from elders to the young
Seeding thoughts
Those mythic tales woven and spun
I’ve become
That nightmare bearing many names
Be afraid
I’m the Apocryphal existence of white flame
Chosen to induce the
Final days of chaos coming to obliterate your world
I ask forgiveness for my sins
Against my home
Against my own
I feel remorse
For what must be done
Cities engulfed
No person spared
Their ether siphoned
For flesh to be prepared
I will make my legendary exit from this godforsaken realm
Making haste to lay waste across this tainted garden leaving cinders in my wake
Behold
My flames
Illuminate, disintegrate the land
Of sacred rest
And fleeting peace
Revealing that
Which laid beneath
Betrayal now becomes a rite of death
Crumbling in fear of pain
Embrace the reckoning
Trust is meant to go both ways
In me, your faith must stay strong
Opening the gate to
Climb from depths below emerging as a pyre in the sky
Bestowing death to save your world
From tyrant hands
and ancient blood
Ancestors perish
For progeny to thrive
I retch and weep
One foolish lie
The stars align
For the innocent to die
Keep my name
from your tongue
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7. |
In Revelation
10:30
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You Will feel the pain you’ve caused
I’m The one who breaks your laws
Unforeseen
But a dream
Denied
Love
Disdain
From our god
Leeching sourceless energy from that which made this world
Led to fear and hate arising in its purest form
Forced to suffer by the hand that mirrors us no more
Gone
Left in the dark
Guidance is lost
Everything falls to pieces
Rot
Reflecting what
Permeates all
Plaguing the world eternally
There is one hope
That can save us
But we’re the offering
Your sacrifice
Will relieve you of
pain and suffering
Eternally
With ashes to prove
You were a gift of life
Discarded, wasted in strife
The end of time
Is drawing near
Though worry not, ‘cause I’ve
Become something to fear
Unforeseen
In revelation
My fate was destined to
Seal the world from our god
To foil its plans of sworn revenge
On its children
Breaking the wheel
Of cyclical doom
Burning one
You dare move against me? Hah
Gone is the thought of a god
Darkness incarnate is
All I am now
The void
Swaddles my ether in shape
Given away
all I have to
Conjure my envisioned fate
These worthless shells; an imitation of my grace
No person ever blessed enough to see my face
Would you risk everything to save the human race?
I’ll end your life myself and keep your soul encased
As a trophy, a symbol now ingrained
In the fiber of every single plane
Bear the burden of watching all you know,
Disappear
When I wave my hand and wipe it all away
Civilization erased
Swallowing all time and space
I have waited for millennia
Contemplating how it feels to rend and devastate Existence
All the lives
Siphoning immortal strength
Basking in their ignorance
Halted in an instant that
Converges all into one
I, I will be one I will be all
You, The Burning One, you’re nothing at all
Come confront your loss, your power so small
No longer enthralled, protocol swept to the wayside as I take my form
The peace that we left
Was bound to slip away
You will fear a greater fall
I will burn until you’re gone
In revelation
My fate was destined to
Seal the world from our god
To foil its plans of sworn revenge on its children breaking the wheel of cyclical doom
In revelation
My last creation
Has turned; defying all odds
When born from death and ether into Existence
My only fear is The Burning One
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