1. |
The Music Box
06:24
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Never seduced by reverie
Never imbued by a plague of thoughts
Memories relegated; stored in a box
Consumed is he in escaping life
His saviour clothed in wood, embellished with ivory
His Utopia cradled by sound
Flawed by a yearning perfection
Consumed by tone, regressed from life
The more a Maestro the less a man
A hollowed soul
Open the box to unite with the self
Bond once again to misery, pain, laughter and love
Unscramble the scenes of life
Piece together the past
Here is your greatest ensemble
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2. |
The Darkness
07:13
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A darkness seeping through skin
My poison, my drug, my flaw
It contains me, it keeps me
But I bear its soul
I hide inside, trying to scratch my way out
I pry each day for hope
This trail in front of me has already weathered
Weary as I am, I’ll follow
I am withered from the pain I have suffered
I bear the scars of dismay
Salt from tears crystallise on my cheek
Wounds once veiled, now revealed and bleeding
This darkness has tainted my soul with such a bleakness,
That when I bleed, I leave the darkest of stains
My mind, my body, my soul
Is a prisoner trapped in a whirlpool of fury
It’s absorbed my spirit whole
I am my own shadow
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3. |
Habitual Red
05:42
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Little red flame light my demise
My tears dissolve in your ash
Burn me, calm me
Caressed by embers
Troubles cushioned by your smoulder
A blinding haze stings
Embellished breath
Enslaved by this burden
I am stained
Habitual red
I breathe in your death
Ash in my mouth, mud lung
A blissful smother, a silent choke
I am infected
My habitual red
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4. |
Spirit's Requiem
10:21
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Little did I know, that when I wrote this song,
I was writing it all for you
Now when my fingers touch these keys,
I am waiting for your cries,
To let me know that you’re near
This song goes unheard
Your silence speaks a thousand words
I was blessed to have you near
You’re never forgotten
Hush, no need to hark
The Gods will caress your tormented heart
The burden of your tear
The thunder that you fear
No longer are your threat
An agony, before unknown to me,
Unveiled itself through your death
My body and mind ceded into a slavery of a darkness not felt before
This pain is not harsh enough for what I have done
Nothing can ease this pain
As long as you’re gone, I am miserable
I am a stain on this earth, smudged into life
Lonely is this home without you
At times I still feel you
I forget you’re not there
When will this pain subside?
Blessed be your soul, mine is damned
I killed you, my best friend
Society is a curse that bludgeoned you to your hearts arrest
We gave in to this world in castigating you
If your end had not come, would it have been mine?
Would it have been?
We kept you behind a palisade
To guard this world from your flailings
You are potentate
And as such now Spirit, you are quiescent
Forgive me
Can you hear me?
Forgive me
I still sense you’re here
Forgive me dear Spirit
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5. |
Portrait of my Need
11:38
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The painting on the wall stands alone among busy textures
It’s shades haunting, each brushstroke hypnotising my soul
My focus forced upon this gruelling beauty
The portrait of my need
I want to be her
She walks alone through dreary smudged streets
Blackened buildings towering over her steps
Acid rain pelting at her grey skin
Fog and night sky blinding her
And yet she walks
She doesn’t see the streets she walks
Isn’t afraid of its looming walls
She doesn’t feel the rain,
Or the blisters on her feet as she walks
Her black hair dull and matted
Her clothes but old charcoaled rags covering her morbid body
Her eyes hollows in her face
Her soul is dead
She doesn’t shiver from the cold
She has no worries, no thoughts, no tears
She just keeps walking
I wish I could be her
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Promethean Misery Blue Mountains, Australia
'Promethean Misery' is melancholic dark music infused with elements of Doom Metal. It is the solo project of multi-instrumentalist Samantha Kempster.
Previous bands include "Myraeth" and "Lycanthia".
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