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It’s time to break your soul
free or repeat this loss
treading in a sea of chains, shackles, and broken dreams
It’s easy to feel the weight of it
you can’t drown in a sea of chains
shackles & Broken dreams
In a life of blackness, my search for light ended. Upon the backs of evil, I began to feel the sun. Ego melted away as I looked down at my evil twins.
Confidence grew, my perception inverts towards the warmth as I stand upon my most trusted foundation ironically comprised of my biggest fears.
A son shines bright, a warmth to thaw the cold & dead of darkest night. Follow the star, my pillar, my sight. See me through, please help me...to not end this plight.
No longer will I drown a prisoner in chains, beneath the fog, between the waves. No longer will I perceive each day as if they were chains. No longer will I drift alone, isolated by my own selfish ways.
No longer will I repeat this loss, now treading in a sea of change.
No longer lost unable to see. no longer drowning in a sea of chains, and shackles & broken dreams.
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His Spirit ∆˚ His Horns
04:43
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Dear traitor, I write this letter to inform the world of your wretched existence. An open letter to the man who struck my child so hard he pissed himself forever altering the landscape of his future, his life, his emotional self.
It takes a village to raise a child, not a beating from the village idiot.
You preyed on her weakness
I could smell the gas
see the light flicker in her intoxicated eyes
Traitor Traitor
down by your spirit
down by your horns
the dark cloud you cast will surely dissipate
I could feel the weight
the spell you cast
silently manipulate
you took their spirit, lost control
Why would you poison such innocence
fill his heart with such bitterness
How could you force him to feel as you did
as you always are
pretend to be tall doesn’t make you a man
You’re just a broken boy, son fathered by a better man
This is your warning, from the father of the child you managed to get your filthy hands on. I will not kill you, I will not beat you until you piss. I will not be another example that violence is the way... The pride and ego of a narcissist are used as weapons to manipulate, deceive and project their darkness upon others. much like the horns of a bull, they are also the weakness I will use to bring you down
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π1 Orionis
03:50
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The Gray
05:05
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Paint myself a pretty picture
paint myself into a corner
paint my "self"...a pretty picture?
pained my "self" into a corner
as I have a thousand times
into the gray
You? No...
"I'll never change"
bombs away
light it up, light it up
like a Molotov
maybe the world wouldn't be
so cold, gray and barren
I step back to get another view
colors turn to shades
loss of brilliance
shades shimmer overwhelming
trembling I cannot take this beauty
as I have a thousand times
bombs away
you know I'll never change
into...
into the gray
you know I'll never change
light it up, light it up
like a Molotov
maybe the world wouldn't be
so cold, gray and barren
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5. |
Rock Bottom's Up
05:19
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You've reached the bottom of my heart
winding layers
ending made of razor stone
Becomes the start
Zero Minute
Dazed in Deepest Hole
You're gonna have to dig
with that pitchfork
to earn back that crown
You think you can go back
the same fashion you came?
Only way outta here is through an impenetrable slate
Rock Bottom's Up
Breaking Through, Breaking Through
Your Time is Up
Best of Luck, Best of Luck
Frantically Picking Locks
Won't Lead You to the Key
Don't you see it's not our right
You won't fall through the sky
down
It's the only path
either way, you're at the bottom
of a hole on a slab
Slab
Either way, you're at the bottom of the hole
Either Way, You're at the bottom of a hole
on a slab praying for wings
to take you far above this hell
God Damned this foundation
Foundations Can't be Built on Fairy Tales
Rock Bottom's Up
Breaking Through, Breaking Through
Your Time is Up
Best of Luck, Best of Luck
Frantically Picking Locks
Won't Lead You to the Key
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π2 Orionis
05:30
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Rivers merge to floods
my eyes locked into place
feel my cage
the doors closed tight on me
Clouds so full
I'm ripping at their seams
the drizzle begins
overflowing at the sight
An open sore
is all we've come to now
I can feel the gap
walking blindly on our fault line
run my hands along
the granite as it crumbles down
I still feel my cage
I can still feel this cage
Sink or swim through this?
what have I come to now?
I'd rather fight for breath
than settle into the sediment
my vision has become so blurry
the mud of you still plagues my eyes
wish you would open my cage
I don't want to feel this cage anymore...
An open soar
is all we've come to now
I can feel the gap
walking blindly on our fault line
run my hands along
the granite as it crumbles down
I still feel my cage
Don't want to feel this cage anymore
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Betelgeuse!
Betelgeuse!
Betelgeuse!
Lurking
Orbit
Deep within the darkest
darkest of corners
Red and yellow Alpha Devil
Lurking, Orbit
Deep Within The
Darkest of Corners
"Please, Please!
I Don't Wanna Be Me!
A Ticking Timebomb
Is Deep Within Me!
(Leave Me, I Don't Wanna Be...)
Run Far Away
Alpha Orionis
Betelgeuse!
Testing My Shell For Weakness
Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse
Destined for destruction
A Sacrifice in Supernova
Here I stand upon these Shoulders
(Of This Giant)
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π3 Orionis
02:28
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Victim Vampire
07:52
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engulfed in the flames
my shame my guilt my petty woes
on the edge of your seat
suspended in disbelief
feet dangling
exposed above an infinite hole
and a blackness below
I feel it in my bones
rising
glowing
being
engulfed in the flames
my shame my guilt my petty woes
I can't compare
how angry lost
daggers in your heart
how could I be so cruel?
I'm not a victim I'm a vampire
Just when you thought life couldn't be any more frightening...
You find the key to a vault that should never be opened
I feel it in my bones
rising
glowing
being
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11. |
Flames of Empathy
06:55
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Beneath The Sword
07:32
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kneel down, lower your head
you are forgiven
Cast out as you deserve
you are forgiven
Cast out as you deserve
kneel, lower your head
you are forgiven
but soon to be dispatched
cast out as you deserve
obey you must
my shield, my wings
my belt
my sword
Lower your horns
Aimed at you
A powerful triad of ancient sun
I don't need your loyalty
the earth you stomp turns to dust
kneel, lower your head
you are forgiven
turn noose
stone to rubble
Flames fueled by a stampede of stubborn rage
earth and fire
turn to rubble
incinerating indestructible throne
strewn about the bones of the tarnished crowns
all the blood now washed away
upon this high
the earth you stomp
turns to dust
powerful gyre turned noose
stone to rubble
earth and fire's turn to stone him
and carried him away
The water will not win
extinguish all the fire
extinguish all
the state is rest
I don't need your loyalty
the earth you stomp...
flames fueled by a stampede of stubborn rage
I don't need your loyalty
all the blood now washed away
the bones the rust
the earth the dust
carried away by water by wind
extinguished all fire
the slate is reset by this juggernaut gyre
the earth you stomp
turns to dust
powerful gyre turned noose
stone to rubble
earth and fire's turn to stone him
and carried him away
The water will not win
extinguish all the fire
extinguish all
the state is rest
the earth you stomp
turns to dust
all the blood now washed away
the bones the rust
the earth the dust
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13. |
π4 Orionis
02:55
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The Gathering Pool Medford, Oregon
The Gathering Pool is an independent music project by Ryan Christopher of Portland Oregon Progressive Rock band, Fluid. thegatheringpool.com
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