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A foul wind haunts us like a curse
Upon leaving our homeland in silence
Numbered – us few who survided
Let the Mourn guide our crumbling steps against the rain
Weary eyes witness a change in the grass
Withering fields slowly drowning in volcanic ash
A scorching path cuts through crawling roots and trees
Howls of ancient beasts echo in the air
Wading through a flaming path
And now our hopes are looking thin
Of going accross the broken landscape
The horses fled and now we're lost
Lost forever, here
In the land of eternal desolation
Where stony remnants hide looming gateways to a forgotten past
Death stalks our darkened trail
A graveless Death, beneath the ashes where wind and rain blaze
Suddendly our hearts stir at the view
We know we've been here before
Gods deliver us from the Ashlands
Their beauty is a sentence for our souls
Our eyes still wet with tears
The wind was trying to rip them apart
Crossing the wastelands where thousands of our ancestors died
Here bones are covered by measureless dunes
And we feel dead ourselves
Lost in a future grown red when all mountains turn to ash
We're out the land of eternal desolation
Away from the valleys of the Ashlands where wind and rain blaze
We carve a path through sprouting roots and trees
The nightmarish halls disappeared with the haze
Gods deliver us from the Ashlands
As we leave their terrors behind on the peaks of memory
Silent, untouched, uncorrupted they remain
We know we'll be here once again
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Pyre
07:57
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Silence
The white wilderness watches us, every move we make
A feeling of doom embraces every rock and tree
Admist these infernal mountains, we came upon a secluded place
Where glimpses of what's dead seem to visit this world again
Forever mourning the ones they left behind
Screaming the names of their murderers
Towards a cold, indifferent Moon
Sky-high columns of unnatural flames,
Blueish and pale as the Void
Unending maelstrom of spirits
Foverer bound to get their revenge
Forced to stand a sight
No mortal should endure
Do we all pay what's due
In the end?
There are faces in the fire of this Pyre of ghosts
And only the midnight breeze will carry their whispered oaths
Home
There is no retribution
In the end
The new Dawn eradicates the gloom
The Pyre is cast down, we are free to get away
As the morning Sun awakens
The Pyre is no more, it's just a memory
For daylight can never know
The sufferings of those who died
A madness that can only reveal itself
In the dead of Night
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Amber
06:27
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Grey falls the brush on the paint
Ghost in a sunset long lost in time
Bred not the light on our shores
Pale dominion of colorless shame
The strings hide their true nature
We are left in strife
The ancient flame still burns somewhere
I dreamt of her face
Fading away in silence
Amber is the color of the past
No more than hints of what was lost
Left for us
To recoil
But it was all washed away
It will rain, countless years it'll rain
And the tides of days will flood your every last trace
I will forget
All that I was, all that we were
Until the last shovelful of earth
Covers a rotting corpse which can't speak your name
I still see you
Trapped in amber
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Ashlands Foligno, Italy
ATMOSPHERIC / EPIC BLACK METAL duo hailing from eastern VMBRIA
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