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Goer
03:31
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GOER
The path goes before me but I cannot see the way.
The darkness is blinding,
the fog come surround me
and I cannot see the way.
The Light placed deep within me
Threatens to rip itself from my chest
Not lighting the path
But pulling me
Down the way.
A way I do not want to go.
Closed eyes nightmares
Screams from the blackness
Cracking whips from all sides
Striking! Tearing my flesh like adders
Terror in isolation
Through this path of thorns
Then suddenly
Opens the fog before me
With swirling flames of fire
I cannot believe
He’s been this way before me
The Origin of my Light
And into the darkness I go
The Light deep inside
Back into the darkness I go
Tearing from my chest
Back into the darkness I go
Pulls me down dark paths
Back into the darkness I go
Back into the darkness
Back into the darkness I go
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2. |
The Mountains, They Said
05:25
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The Mountains, they said
Let us consider this
This pathetic man, so small, so frail
So weak, so afraid
The Mountains, they said
Let us crush him
With a hail of ice, barrage of stone
Pulverized
Never to be found
To the Mountains, the Ocean said
I have watched this man resting by the river of peace
I will open the mouth of the river and swallow him
whole
Casting him against your cliffs
Dragging him down to my dark depths
Utterly destroyed
Detritus of flesh
Down to the abyss, where
Even the light dare not go
Then the Earth, it said
What a wretched worm, this man
I will open my bosom
Growing wider and deeper
Causing him to fall into black
Back into the womb of the world
As if he had never been born
Forgotten and alone
Amongst all that rots and decays
Stillbirth of eternity past
Closing the gaping chasm above
As he falls
Forever
The Mountains, they said
Let us crush him
The Ocean, she said
I will engulf him
The Earth, it said
I will bury him
Never to see
Never to breathe
Never to feel
The light
Forever
In dark
Suffocating
Drowning
Crushed
Entombed
Gone
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The rain falls cold and dark
The air is still and hot
The only place with less light
Is deep within my heart
A visitor has come
A stranger for so long
She’s spirited inside
And made my soul her home
Turning towards the sky
Serves only to belie
Inevitable fate
Of restless sleep tonight
This guest knows my story well
And through this distance veil
She rings a tolling bell
Less pleasurable than hell
I cannot see through black-lit forests
A sunrise dawning to release this presence’ hold
I cannot see this flood at full crest
So into its misery I relegate my soul
A cursing on the tongue
On vacant stars is hung
I cannot see through black-lit forests
A sunrise dawning to release this presence’ hold
I cannot see this flood at full crest
So into its misery I relegate my soul
I cannot see through black-lit forests
A sunrise dawning to release this presence’ hold
I cannot see this flood at full crest
So into its misery I relegate my soul
On vacant stars is hung
A cursing on the tongue
I cannot see
Sunrise
I cannot see
I’m drowning
Ah, she brings isolation
A cold and weary song
It plays inside, she sings
Relentless on and on
It’s an opus I’d forgot
Of a longing and a lot
So hopelessly beyond reach
So all hope now is lost
She came by way of grace
And left without a trace
Save memories wove into
A deadly cord of lace
I wish her journey well
As for me and my hell
This unwelcome stranger
Will live in stories that I tell
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This wasteland, my home
This cold, my life
This dark lights my eyes
This stark wilderness, my comfort, my rest
This blindness the height of my sight
This world that surrounds
Like impenetrable cold
Crushing to dust, my bones
This surface of ice and frost a sharp contrast
To the fog within my soul
The fog inside my soul
Standing on the icy edge
Of where winter’s cold is born
Watching the ice like soldiers marching past
Into fog of a war forlorn
How I long to be a part
Of their deathly peaceful march
With the cold wrapped around
And the fog calling on
To some nether ethereal song...
I long to dive beneath the ice. I,
I’d gaze above into the shimmering light
I turn my eyes up to the sky. I,
My body’s froze
My blood feels black
My blood feels black
My blood feels black
My blood feels black
Anchored to this land of ice and snow
Seems no escape
The crystalled air filling my lungs
Slows with each breath I take
No rest, no warmth, no power of will
To join the icy throng
Casting my eyes beyond the skies
Nothing but frost surrounds
Ice soldiers marching on
Where they drift I cannot go
For I can’t move or breathe
My mind is numb, my hope has gone
The way of death’s decay
The Fate’s have left me lying here
My thread within their reach
But turn their backs, like God, His eyes
A wretched relic doomed to freeze
Dead inside but to never die
I long to dive beneath the ice. I,
I’d gaze above into the shimmering light
I turn my eyes up to the sky. I,
My body’s froze
My blood feels black
I long to dive beneath the ice. I,
My blood feels black
I’d gaze above into the shimmering light
My blood feels black
I turn my eyes up to the sky. I,
My blood feels black
My body’s froze
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Where Cold Dies
05:06
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Cold.
Bearing a cold world alone
Such a lonely existence
Always doubting
Always wishing
Always looking
Sparks!
Igniting deep inside this heart
Such a foreign feeling
Always yearning
Always searching
Always hoping
There is a fire rising up from the embers
Reaching to the heights, lighting the sky
Such a warm comfort for foggy eyes
Hope is always found above where darkness lies
Passion.
A whirlwind of emotion
Such a shocking departure
Always pulling
Always burning
Always thirsting
Love!
Welling up and immersing
Such an overwhelming state
Always lifting
Always calming
Always growing
There is a passion rising up from apathy
Reaching a crescendo, consuming my world
Such intensity for opened eyes
Love is always found where the passions burn
There is a love rising up from the rubble
Reaching the healing of a shattered heart
Such a dangerous thing for stinging eyes
Peace is always found where true love starts
You found me
My dead heart
But You did not leave me
You’ve risen
With me like
A dizzying wave
You changed me
What I was
You revived my dark heart
This is a new world
This is a new heart
A new reality
The reality is You
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VOGR is a Christian Metal Ministry that hopes for change in this world for Christ and help spread His love to the metal community.
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