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A Study in Scarlet
09:27
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Numb and lifeless nights
Keep bringing me twisted dreams
There's no rest for a tortured mind
And the darkness brings me no peace
Grey hordes
Of bleak days
March onward
Crushing me
I
Can't
Understand
My
Own
Nightmares
I descend to darkest depths
I crawl away from the Sun
My heartbeat slows with every step
Soon I will be forever gone
I dream of plagues
Scourging humankind
I whisper ancient names
That carve into my mind
Fear flows through me
The blackest horror
Morbid image
Of otherworldly sorrow
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Nowhere is Here
09:53
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So was this your sweetest dream,
The peak of your desires?
To conquer and to rule,
Cognize and analyze.
This persistent electric light
Of your ever-glowing reason
Is but a torch in the heart of caves:
Seeing something, you miss the whole.
You say that gods are dead,
So who’d you worship now?
Some truths, they never change
As laws and customs do.
I saw your shining kingdom
Of glass and stainless steel.
No gallows or noisome gutters,
But why so cold and bleak?
Staring at the abyss,
Is it you who stare?
You’ve explained both stars and atoms,
But where do those nightmares come from?
You’ve lit the blackest night.
…Have you evaded the dark?
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The Sleep of Reason
06:07
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What lurks beyond the veil?
What does that thin shroud hide?
What horrors'd be revealed
Deep down inside your mind?
Thin shell of consciousness
Contains the things unknown
Lost control, weakened grip
Panic lashes like a whip
Fearsome voices from inside
Eyes that stare forever blind
When imagination breaks
Free from sanity's grasp
Something inside awakes
To rip away the mask
Of false civilisation,
Of centuries of lies
The primal fear and anger
Claw through this foul disguise
The sleep of reason produces monsters
The sleep of reason produces monsters
The sleep of reason produces monsters
..Monsters that humans really are.
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Silent World
08:44
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As the Sun goes down
Its light is brighter
As the river flows
It has no end
The depth is high
For words to reach
Therefore the world is quiet
Our mother tongue was once a song
The ancient hymn of silence
Sung by the flights of voiceless birds
That wend their way to sunrise
…Our doom, to speak
And say nothing
To think eternally
And not to dream
To build the ruins
And celebrate
Another day of our defeat
We’re blind to see
The river’s bottom
We’re deaf to hear
Its whispering call
And yet the water’s still and quiet
Awaiting silver wind to blow
The world is silent…
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Metamorphosis
08:19
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Amorphous shapes of flesh
A living masterpiece
Extreme of evolution
Achievement of the progress
A larva for the future
A symbol of rebirth
A sign of things to come
Changing
Growing
Transforming
Shifting
Evolving
Morphing
Aspiring to transcendence
Enigma of the Life
A body so perfect
So eager to survive
Suffering through torture
Crawling through the pain
Struggling for the future
To start it all again
Changing
Growing
Transforming
Shifting
Evolving
Morphing
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मातृ (mātṛ)
09:01
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That night I crawled back
Into the womb
To see again
Your dreams in black and white
...To meet your demons
The raven
The worm
The dog
I descended
Circle by circle
I danced with shadows
And sang with the dumb
I drank the black nectar of life and joy
I ate the white salt of truth
...This morning I look at the snow
The cerement of the world is blinding white
Crows' silhouettes above paint black
Across the dirty milky canvas of the sky
The triumph of the moment
The coldness of its splendour
Give meaning to the hollow
True mourning into Mirth
Let the bliss reign
Today is the festival
Will you ever have another chance
To revel at your own funeral?
Shout and scream
Pour the rivers of wine
Sign the hymns and dirges, all at once
For it's your last time...
...
Our answers lie beneath the snowy shroud
The warmth of breath won't melt away the ice
Only the sun will, burning the eyes
Boiling the blood, tearing off the flesh
To the white bone
To the black stone
So sweet of them
To let this tragedy persist
To play the ancient drama
Of setting us face to face
With ourselves
The worm
The raven
The dog
We grope our way in the dark
Where even snow seems black
We seek for purport
In the desert
Where only wind can speak
Thus, endless is our wandering
For what we long for is the end
...Crows' silhouettes paint black
Across the canvas of the sky
The symbols they evoke
Are yet to be deciphered
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Hypnotic Dirge Records Amadora, Portugal
Hypnotic Dirge Records is an independent record label and webshop based in Saskatchewan, Canada and Lisbon, Portugal active since 2008. Our intention and raison d'être is to release quality expressive and eclectic art through aural manifestations.
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