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Kingdom on the Shore

by Ildrasun

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Kingdom on the Shore 05:23
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Shine down on me On top of this precipit tower Shine on this land Show me the sum of my reign And this is all that I have My life my land my people I dare not look to the sun For hope has left us all Oh heaven, oh king our god (They bow to my divinity) Protect our lives (Knowing not from whence it comes) Oh worthlessness of all mankind (Their eyes turn toward the throne) Remembrance, a reverie for (They've forgotten who they are) A different time (And so have I) We pray your hand moves by design (I pray I've not failed my own kind) Stay hidden away Reclusive and distant Splayed limp on the throne All will power gone The seeds of despair Sown long ago Bears a small sour fruit It's taste still on my tongue I feel the weight on my back Within these walls I hide my face
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Impending Storm 03:21
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I feel the spring coming on The smell of earth waking The vestiges of change Our sky begins to grey Life outside renews But inside fills with haze The cold had kept us still And now comes restless pain Longing for the winter As the clouds roll in Black foreboding front lines Creep on the horizon Wind begins the torrent Snuffs the beacons out Wandering in the dusk The warmth will wake us up But anxiety will remain Singing songs of valor As they tie ships down Each man in stoic terror Praying to the crown Taste the salty air come smashing forth Board the windows and withstand the storm Raise your skinny arms and touch the past Find what remains in the aftermath
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Out to Sea 04:12
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Sorrow of the clouds Drown the land in tears Rage of wind whipped forth Gods of anger rear A man pulls me from trance Adoration Tells me there is word Tribulation An old friend I thought lost From nascence Is out there in the exploits Of nature Ready at the helm Push away from shore Men as stiff as boards Dismayed at my resolve Like a rabid wolf Crushing surge Back and forth Soaked to bone Ripped and torn Swallowed by mist My mark unreclaimed As king of this ship My reign is overthrown Into the sea
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Adrift 02:17
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Ideals 04:42
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Salt in my lungs Carried by this man from the shore Naught left but chaff From the voyage I endured Brought to by his alien voice The left hand path calls me to the hills The well meaning recluse I bid him farewell What hope will I have there to find something true Alone in the wilderness seeking meaning anew Have I gone wrong Seeing things only as myself Shall I desist From looking solely to the past Has purpose been In everything around all along Or is it naive To believe that order prevails What is joy Can it thrive May a man Feel its life Bright eyed child Look to the sky I need a vantage point To reach understanding Make sense of man's mind Grasp a kingdom's plight
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Summit of Lies 04:03
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Ascending Every stride I take more frantic than the last In fervor Putting all the pieces in place Reconcile Knowledge with the state of life Revelation Observation philosophized Focus, try Rise up, why Arrogance, insecure sophistry Hardened hearts, spite filled gesturing Anger ruled, anti empathy Sharpened tongues, spitting hypocrisy Feigning humanity while hope dies Given everything that man could desire Where does it end Selfish action, greedy swindles and liars How can you live Forward looking, only 'til evenings fire Tomorrow what then Turn your back to former friends and conspire Honor is dead My hands touch the sky, the wind is my breath The waning suns fire, the colors beset Your eyes in this light, empty as death This summit tonight, shows your assent to the lies
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Descent into the Wood 06:05
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Tear off the crown And watch it drop down Teeth clenching hard Fists turning white Blood running hot And my thoughts are burning bright Faltering hand Weakening step Confidence fades And what else have I left Ideals dispersed Reason gives way Wisdom blanks And knowledge loses its taste Heart writhing up Empathy gone Feeling goes dark And song abandons my tongue Stumbling down the slope beneath Grasping at every branch and tree Darkness looms, I cannot see Whatever waits in front of me Slowly does the steepness quell But quickly does the rushing swell Water's voice before me tells A river runneth through this hell I fall to my knees, groveling in mud Anger bursting free, my hatred erupting up Break the shackles of man and see How far he gets on his own spirit Until he finally collapses in A pool of his own blood and tears And collect all the sorrow and anger And bottle it up and store it forever Until the event horizon is reached Over and over and over and over and Break the shackles of man and see How far he gets on his own spirit Until he finally collapses in A pool of his own blood and tears And collect all the sorrow and anger And bottle it up and store it forever Until the event horizon is reached Unleash it all and dismantle the whole fucking world The whole goddamn world The whole fucking world
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Death and Rebirth 05:07
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Goddess of the river, our souls unite I intend to pass facing the sky Water suffocate me, deny life Gently take me lower into the night Dripping away like an icicle When the sun comes out And freezing again in the dirt Under the moon’s cold light The warmth forsaking my blood As my heart slows to a halt Finally at rest My spirit’s boundaries fall Freedom into the vast blue expanse Life no longer restrains Mortality a thing of the past I am the wind’s fair song Alas The scene vanishes before me The host The spiritual realm consorting At once I am swallowed whole Assimilated Their collective thought runs through my soul I am to be reborn Apparently my purpose is not yet revealed A task my prior self had lost Or perhaps my fate required The experience of death and rebirth
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The Holy Temple 05:39
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Burning flesh and boiling blood Shot down from the skies above I am alive Glowing bright on hands and knees Searing castle stone beneath Senses alight The royal guard approaches scared Rising tall I meet the stares It is our lord All who stand before me flee Running through the streets they scream He has returned Be gone, vile preachers of hate I’ve come to crush your tirades Recoil, tremble all you Who venom and toxic thought spew What shame, you’ve brought on yourselves Imprisoned minds form your own hells This cult, this temple is doomed This blasphemy taken as truth Oh lord we are weak and poor have mercy on us Ah This is the end I slay misery once and for all Brick by brick I’ll rebuild this world And cast the old into the void Truth wisdom passion life Kingdom come and my throne reclaimed

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A king looks out over his domain and the sea. The will to lead his people has faded, and all have lost their way. He feels the heavy air and the emptiness consume him.

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released November 17, 2020

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