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Westward

by Lunarscathe

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1.
Metempsychosis 05:48
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Am I real? Blood-drenched machinery birthed anew, electric motors grind Coagulated oil combusts again, decades in waiting Hydraulic limbs move in rhythms, like tides in and out Familiar feelings of pain resontate, through this frail being The download completed, from uploaded youth Decades since deprecated, code rewritten anew The human element persists violated Beneath hollow steel husk degraded The rebirth animates frigid remains Wrought regenerated indisposible The soul persists – but the flesh is null The body insignificant – transmigration is all Transmigration is all Metempsychosis Reinvigorate, a killing machine, try to retrain Reconstruction done, history is seen, but ought not repeat A bloody rampage, written on the page, see in disbelief Was this really me? Can my soul be free? From the sins I have waged The soul persists – but the flesh is null The body insignificant – transmigration is all The killing element persists concentrated Within glazed over pupils redilated The humanity rapidly evaporates vanishes Memories once regained quickly wash away All that exists is new, history forgotten The empty soul remains intact – metempsychosis
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Westward 05:07
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Just look west, for the solutions to all extant problems Just look west, for guidance and wisdom to solve every dilemma Conspire in night, under the unwavering stars Betwixt their archaic silence unto a prudent start The sorrow of light, incessant cacophony Of bemoaned days and time pilfered away by scorching reverberations Deafening noise will break to silence The passive astral ghosts offer auspice Garish light will dim more modestly The vacant space promotes lucidity Borne in horrors, hunger – sickness – poverty – rape Illuminated by auroras to solve each cruel infraction The populous cries, unto an unforgiving sun That basks in blistering tempers of the wretchedly imperfect Solace is lost in the solar void Twilight onsets a temperate breeze of hope Silence is lost in the vast noise Midnight condigns wisdom unto the willing But who is willing to embrace her? Who can truly see past their own eyes? Just look west for her sphere of influence Her soft reflection paints the welkin The pandemonium of human’s lies Stare beyond infinity with lunar scrying Just go west
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Cursed Race 04:29
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They herd in droves toward the blinding light Knowing not the fate of their pursuits Cataracts that last a lifetime Skin burns and sores that refuse to heal Fanatics spar over ritual areas Absolve their bodies to this solar deity Their flesh is scarred by the death inducing beams Yet they fawn for more exposure The risks thoroughly researched and detailed There is no logic behind their ignorant devotion The curse expands its grasp The afflicted show their faces Foolish people drawn to light Paying the essence of their lives Braggarts boast of their enlightenment But the intelligent stay in the shadows A race drawn to self harm Inflicting their own end A race spawned in cursed dawn Arising to empyreal behest No cure exists for this scourge The darkness saves those who rise above Their dying words still harbor patronage Die beneath the solar god they served Serve their curse
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Vektor 04:49
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Call the horn, to fell their helm This wage of war, with magic’s help Magitek, the armor in new trials Designed to mindwash and kill By harvesting, the strength of an esper child Subjected to death At vektor, where the emperor rules from his throne And the espers imprisoned from their home Force the crown, enslaving all To wake the gods, the Triad The torture chambers and experiments Testing the ends of esper’s health Absorb their strength then toss the waste Of magicite to incinerate But the war is raging, the Returners arriving, a new world is dawning Burn Burn the continents, devoured by elements Channel the espers’ strength, to slay the general As vektor sank into the tower As vektor sank into the tower Vektor, where the emperor ruled from his throne And the espers came back to overthrow All of vektor And the remnants serve the tower’s base
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Lunatic Fringe 06:06
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Your faces seem familiar But your hatred makes no sense Why you said what’s been said Your voices speak the words But their sounds are meaningless Answers lead to dead ends There’s no compromise It’s all absolute The polarity turns debate into dispute There’s no empathy It’s all destitute But when no one wins, everyone must lose Wielding weapons of vicious lies Torment one another into malice Build the trenches, pour the moat The war is won with each vote The lunatics strive to make a point But logic and reason devolve in emotion The lunatics want to hear their voice As it rambles incoherently forever While the country suffers in stagnance
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Carnal Justice 05:59
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Left work early, driving on our road Why is his car parked in the driveway of our home? Call your phone but no response, open the door cautiously Is that distant moaning what I fear it could be? Walk upstairs, headboard is banging, shadows entangling, an erotic scent Suspicions confirmed, a mind full of doubt, builds blind rage, as you’ll soon find out I’ve been through such pain from you Carnal justice this bed will be his tomb This bed will be his tomb Watch for a minute, he’s thrusting in deeply You claw at his back with reckless indifference to cheating Moans grow louder, the sheets have been stained There are no chemicals to clean the betrayal and shame Open the door, all eye contact, sheets pulled up, and stories created Get on the floor, serve me as you served him, make him witness, before I say that I’ve been through such pain from you Carnal justice this bed will be your tomb This bed will be your tomb I unholster my pistol, his wounds create a fountain Spattering our room in a perfect crime scene crimson I force you at gunpoint to lay down In the pools of your suitor’s blood Fornicate with me like you did him It’ll all end soon enough Come to me, come for me Rub it raw, taste the Blood Then shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot A visceral scene, two corpses and me All that remains of our once precious history But prison seems arduous, living feels pointless I guess my body will make three Shoot This bed will be our tomb
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Tainted Well 05:46
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The source of life has been tainted Resistant bacterium flow through the pipes Water moves, navigates All of it, intertwined One entrance, all it needs Infests, perpetually But how did the sickness emerge? Was it maliciously introduced? Did it catch some spores in the breeze? Or are there traitors who roam free? No matter, they research a cure But they have failed, overused the antibiotics Evolution, adapts to their weapons They are losing, versus the infinitesimal Once they learn Then they misapply The strains grow Resist and multiply Tending to the piles of fresh corpses The graveyards are filled to the brim of death The crematoriums reek of decomposition This village is in horrible peril Is there hope that any aid is on its way? Or are they quarantined, condemned to death? Are the rivers also contaminated? Perhaps the aqueduct is fully compromised? Tides flow, ebb and fade All liquid, concatenate No exit, all is lost Marred, marked for death While they wilt away, they find the culprits Some wicked cultists tainted the well They signed a suicide pact, the evidence written in blood But did not want to leave their village, full of widows and orphans Put their heads on pikes, burn their bodies bright, one ounce of solace before the plague Ends all life
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Mass 05:19
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Fault lines give way and crumble Giant cracks carve through the earth An oncoming catastrophe Civilization collapses Sucked into a colossal sinkhole Gravity is far too massive Humans cannot resist nor run The leaders watch satellite footage They’re at a loss for a solution The hollow continues its rapid expansion Entire metropolises are washed away Humans are pulled in the chasm and all implode Millions are wiped away in unstoppable motion Molten craters devour all trace of existence Devoured Like the old adage, if a species is eradicated But no one is around to hear it, does it scream aloud? Any extant signs of life are lost in chasm Forgotten
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Epitaph 07:23
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What is there to be said? - What is there to be written? Tell me Lived a life of no accomplishment Made no friends to part their thoughts Pushed an estranged family away No highs no lows, nothing of note The expectation of something memorable to etch into the stone Awash in mediocrity that words serve no purpose Don’t waste your breath - don’t waste your intellect In both life and in death Equally vacant Don’t waste your time - don’t waste your empathy In both life and in death Unremarkable Inter the body into the earth The cheap coffin will decompose But even the worm infested lacquer Is more remarkable than the corpse inside A humdrum collection with average value Left in storage for nobody to claim All societal procedures are over The deed is done The empty funeral home is closed The soil is sunk Don’t waste your stone - don’t waste your equipment In both life and in death No epitaph needed Don’t waste your dirt - don’t waste your acreage In both life and in death A forgotten crypt The gravestone bears no name For no one knows who lays in waste An unetched stone sits on display To mark this final resting place
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Black Future 05:09
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Black future - black future Wartime crimes, bankrupt economy Political madness, mass extermination Pay no mind to the reason, the end will arrive Whether it’s for the individual, or all humankind There is no sign of hope, all is destined to die It’s safer to accept defeat, than struggle through life Sunspot scalding, atmosphere crash Volcanoes exploding, levees collapse Tomorrow’s an enigma Why try to predict? Any intervention, cannot stave off cataclysm Whether self-inflicted, or nature’s scorn Promises are spiteful, as none can be upheld All positive prospects, end the minute you’re born After all though, we’re stuck here Yearn and watch the moon tonight For all of tomorrow’s beauty Is lost if you awaken blind All the fragile neuron firings Try to hide the ugly truth Black future – black future Black future – black future
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Moonlight 05:59
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Follow the moonlight Away from the daily entropy Westward to infinity Perpetually drifting to solace The shadows encapsulate And bring forth their quiet peace Follow the moonlight Away from the devastation and extremity of the day Westward To an ever-radiating reverie beneath the stars Doom spelled out by twilight The cacophony of the daytime Blinding sights and bruising noise Diminish all the lives It doesn’t take much to see It doesn’t take much to feel The science, the guidance, the savior It’s faithless, quite basic, no deity Follow the moonlight – to lunacy – to tranquility Follow the moonlight – to lunacy – to destiny Lunacy, relinquish the stigma Give yourself unto her breadth Lovelorn, enamored of night Devour yourself in the cosmos The sordid bleakness of the future Forge a new avenue When you’ve fallen weak, the guidance you need Will always shine to the west Empowered, passionate, reinvigorated Once wandered, now revived, bask in gray light Follow the moonlight – to lunacy – to tranquility Follow the moonlight – to lunacy – to destiny Beyond destiny, creation, dimension, ubiquity Moonlight
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Drowning (Stabbing Westward cover) 02:08
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I'm drowning in nothing Nothing real Nothing left Nothing I'm losing myself Sinking deeper down Silently Leaving this behind Nothing left but me I'm hating myself Hating Everyone hates me now Everything has changed Everyone has changed But me Everyone has changed

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Written in 2015, recorded early 2016

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released August 17, 2016

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Lunarscathe Wisconsin

Melodic metal from southeastern Wisconsin

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