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Everything Goes to Waste
04:56
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Terra cotta faun
Grinning on the lawns
Must have seen how this serene Soiree will end
Soon this golden hour
Destined to turn sour
The moon is gone, the deed is done
The mystery spent
Everything goes to waste
Everything fades to grey
Everything carries the taste
Of future decay
Everything turns to dust
Your shining armor will rust Your star will fade
The whole charade
Fall to the ground
Even now in your prime
Feel the flow of time
Drip by drip slip from your grip
And drag you down
Everything goes to waste
Everything fades to grey
Everything carries the taste
Of future decay
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My Mausoleum
07:56
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It’s quiet between these walls
Of black marble and sighs
Cold to the touch, seamless
To the world’s inquisitive eyes
This has been my fortress
For forty years or more
Frozen to the world outside
Frozen to the core
I’ve built a mausoleum
Of all that I hold dear
Nothing leaves or enters here
In my mausoleum
The past is locked in with me
The air is stale and dead
Echoes died out long ago
No more to be said
I walk along the walls at night
Cursing them aloud
Run my finger over them
Know them inside out
I’ve built a mausoleum
Of all that I hold dear
Cracks are starting to appear
In my mausoleum
I will tear it down
Brick by brick, stone by stone
I will shed my skin
To let the inside out
To let the outside in
In my mausoleum
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3. |
Fallacy
05:01
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Lyrics by Nihil.
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4. |
Like Fallen Rain
06:10
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I’ve learned to speak your name
Ever so softly
To conjure up your face
Aloof and lovely
Perhaps your ghost will stay
If I move slowly
And if I never think of all that hides In the corner of my eye
Close behind
Tumbling leaves of brown
All through September
Beneath a fading sun
A dying ember
The season came undone
But I remember
The bright lights
The sacred and obscene
And everything in-between
No-one knows
From my lament a world arose
And as I try to walk away
Before the storm
The torn remains of broken stars
Come raining down
The world indifferent holds its tongue
All is the same
Like something almost being said
I’ve learned to speak your name
Ever so softly
To conjure up your face
Dead and lovely
And when in mute despair I reached in vain
You were already
Loosened like long hair
Poured out like fallen rain
No longer mine
And as I try to walk away
Before the storm
The torn remains of broken stars
Come raining down
The world indifferent holds its tongue
All is the same
Like something almost being said
And when I speak your name
I can make believe
You’ll almost nearly
Not quite hear me
I close my eyes and think of death
As long as I can hold my breath
You’re almost barely
Not quite near me
When I speak your name
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Oh, Fall
03:37
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Turn of the season
Birth of the new
Death of the old
Contemptible you
Hailstones and keepsakes
Shivers and storms
Melancholy
Takes a familiar and tangible form
Oh, fall
Will we remember the fall
Memories of treason
Nurtured like wounds
Farcical longings
Weltschmerz in June
Take what I owe you
Wipe clean the slate
Harvest the land
Winnow the hurt and the grief
And the hate
Oh, fall
Will we remember the fall
The fall of leaves of man of dreams
Of best laid plans
Of dead-end schemes
From grace from hope
From all that gleams
To ruin
Auburn colours pensive stares
All pretty but it ends in tears
Days you’ll spend the rest of the year
Rueing
Turn of the season
Out with the new
In with the cold
The trite and the true
Clarity’s reason
The black and the white
Winter is coming
Welcome the crystalline dying of light
Oh, fall
Will we remember the fall
Let’s fall like snowflakes you and me
To ruin to pieces to our knees
Like leaves to rot
And feed these trees again
The reaper’s bringing in the sheaves
We come rejoicing, go like thieves
The end of days
The fall of leaves
And men
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Dying of the Light
05:24
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All my dreams are memories
All the stars are dead
They’ve been dead for centuries
We just haven’t noticed yet
All of this will end in tears
The future is a lie
Believe it for a few more years
And then you die
Staring into black
Eternity never meant to last
Forever looking back
To navigate by the ghosts of the past
The dead and dying
Still shining bright
Darkness closing in on us
At the speed of light
When I was young
I used to relish the fight
I’m tired like a mayfly at midnight
Rage against the dying of the light
I’m tired like a mayfly at midnight
I promised you the world
I promised you a future with me
But I don’t know if you’ve heard
The future’s not what it used to be
Dead or dying
Still shining bright
Darkness closing in on us
At the speed of light
When I was young
I used to relish the fight
I’m tired like a mayfly at midnight
Rage against the dying of the light
I’m tired like a mayfly at midnight
I’m tired like a mayfly at midnight
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November
03:05
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I loved you in November
When the stars were out
Now I’m walking in the rain
Dying to surrender
Within, without
Oh, I loved you in November
And all the world is green
I’ll sing for the sapling
Sing for the seed
The unbeatable slow machine
And I’ll walk all night
Surrender to the rain
Hollowed out like a castle of sand
Down the river into no man’s land
I loved you in November
When the stars were out
Now I’m walking in the rain
Dying to surrender
Within, without
But I lost you in December
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Last summer breeze
Left such a bitter taste
Mark of disease
All that lives must go to waste
Idle hope succumbs to reason
The evening light is fading fast
Welcome the dying season
Every night may be your last
Life finds a way in the end
Life will prevail
Life will transcend
Life will take its course
Some find it comforting to hear
But I must confess my darkest fear
Is life’s unbridled force
Life will be the death of me
Life – life will be the death of me
As autumn leaves
So much to be desired
We’re left to grieve
The rites of spring expired
Midwinter’s vow of silence
The frozen lake, the dying hare
But something stirs
In dreams of violence
Beneath the ice, down every lair
Life finds a way in the end
Life will prevail
Llife will transcend
Life will take its course
Some find it comforting to hear
But I must confess my darkest fear
Is life’s unbridled force
Life will be the death of me
Life – life will be the death of me
No more sorrow
No more memories
No more tomorrow
Life will be the death of me
Life finds a way
Life finds a way to get you
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