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The Thief
02:12
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2. |
A Joyless King
05:46
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The masses gathered, ears and hearts are open wide
A thief has come in the middle of the night
The heir, the hope, has passed on through the veil
To Death, O’ Thief, life stolen from this child
The sad-eyed king retires to his riches and his wares
What worth has gold when tainted by despair?
Gilded walls
Stone & mortar
The years erode and wash away
Your roots exposed
Symptoms of grief and madness they surround
Bodies ailing dying on the ground
The joyless King has locked himself away
His mind a wreck from the years of misery
Your roots have come undone
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3. |
Drowning Bird
05:49
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I remember the birth of the sun
Rising from the sea to herald a new day
Parade the child to rising hands
I remember the death of the day
A silent grave beneath a wailing crystal tomb
Cast the child to rising tides
Can you hear it?
A siren song that calls
to brave the break and crest
Can you hear them dreaming in the depths?
A smile at last
Alight on darkened seas
An ocean too far
The birds have drowned
Can you feel it?
Lighter than the burden of your heavy heart
Bend and shake
Tide will rise
I’ll find the boy below
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4. |
The Fisherman's Vow
07:08
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A wicked deed, this vile act
Words from Highborn mouths descend
My lowly life, my seaborne fate
Under Thetis’ watchful eye
The Fisher cast his empty net
Deep into the salt-tide swell
The child sleeps in darkness deep, bound by tangle weeds
A sire with a vacant court, an oak of barren branch
This wicked sea, a vile tomb
The Seer’s portents tell the tale
A noble birth, a stalwart seed
Will fell the tree in time
The ships have come in
Their nets are bare
The ships have come in
Filled with only stone
The Fisher cast his empty nets
Deep into the salt-tide swell
The child sleeps in arms of mercy
A sire with a silent court, an oak turned gallows pole
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5. |
Seas Between
01:51
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Goldenhand, Jewel of rusted sands.
The wind that blows sails from the east
Erodes the stone, golden gift from the sea
O’ Sacred Mountain
Bread and breath
Guide our Hand
We bow our heads
“Our cup is full.”
“I do not belong, though stone am I.”
“The desert’s not my home. I will live where there is need.”
Sturdy of bow, heavy of hull.
Sail swift, sail east.
Sail home.
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7. |
The Oak
06:48
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8. |
Fathoms
08:12
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i: Moirai
Bathed in Light
Herald the Dawn
These shores awash
Tonight we drown thereon
Scores of men
Recompense
To shake the shields
For a father’s sins
Gold and Stone
The Mighty Oak
Blind to heed
Prophecy invoked
Crystalline and still
Fathoms deep
Returned to his Shrine
A seaweed crown upon his brow
My son I’ve loved
My son I’ve buried
A thousand times
With guilt and grief I’ve carried
Lay him down
Harken distant sound
As Gold ascends his throne
By damned fate we’re bound
ii. A Great Drowning of Man
Looming shadow
The quickening Wave
Adrift in darkness
The hateful decay
Sodden oak
And the Stone become rune
End this line
Oh! World! Begin anew
Undone by Time
Undone by Fear
Undone by Fate
Undone by The Thief
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9. |
Thiefsong
01:44
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Horseburner West Virginia
Stoner metal. Sludge. Doom. Call it what you will, Parkersburg, West Virginia's Horseburner creates riff-heavy rock n' roll to shake your insides.
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