1. |
Intro
03:15
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Het staat of valt
Met kromme leden
Schalt de hoon
Uit vloeibaar merg
Ik heb geen erg
Meer in dit heden
Een lege troon
Slaapt op de berg
Waar door mijn schede
In gore beden
Met valse toon
Door mijn schedel knalt
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2. |
Spiegelscherven
05:34
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Ik snij mijn zinnen uit de wind
Die schuurt langs harde huid
Vaag en vaal verdorven
Hangend om ivoor
Stroop een hartslag af van steen
Fel verweerd en ooit gebroken
Stil slapend in het water
Dat naar mijn lippen kruipt
Ik heb mijn naam begraven
In een veld zonder verhaal
Waar de stenen planten kijken
Hoe ik langzaam verdwaal
Ik schrijf op muren
Lees de lichten van de stad
Tel de lange uren
Tot ik de nacht weer heb gehad
En de ochtend nog eens breekt
In spiegelscherven van geluk
Waar mijn geschrift zich wreekt
Gaat alles gestaag stuk
Het licht bespot mijn woorden
Stom met een laars op de keel
Ik hap adem in natte aarde
En drink het ratelende einde
Leeg tot het hout zich verslikt
Mijn hoop verstikt in lompen
Die hangen rond dit rottend vlees
Terwijl het koren zingt om ochtend
Vraag ik me af wat het was
Het vele lelijks of het weinige moois
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3. |
Ideopathic
04:45
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Daylight comes to rob the night
Of moon and stars that silver light
The way to sleep with a pale gleam
Am I awake in someone's dream?
Best not to dwell on why I'm ill
I do not care, I do not know
For even though I feel it still
My heart stopped many miles ago
I will die before I wake
In dreams that grant no sleep
There is nothing left to take
So I won't pray to keep
Deep in the vaults of earth
Sunken far from sun and moon
There lies a light now buried
There sounds a silent tune
That sings in voices shattered
While clawing at its tomb
Degenerate and haggard
Born dead inside the glume
That swells and rips and spews
Yet seals the life in grey
From dark to dusk, despair abloom
Hope only present to betray...
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4. |
Surface
05:52
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I've been walking 'long strange rivers
In a land of dreadful dreams
Where only death delivers
And nothing's what it seems
I've tried my best, like all the rest
To get away from here
But the road keeps disappearing
Every time that I get near
So I've been going 'round in circles
Drawing maps inside my head
But with each single step I take
My feet feel more like lead
So I just curse the rivers
And the sad old sound they make
Guess it won't be long now
Before it's my sick soul they break
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5. |
Woken
04:22
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As we were nailed upon the cross
Wood blistered in the sun
A bird lit down and sang a song
The day was simply moving on
Wind joined in and as we swayed
Shadows danced amongst the dirt
And though our suffering was not delayed
They cast a doubt across our hurt
For though there was no son of God
No lance or crown or even hill
It did not matter who we were
All that lives, our time will kill
None remember names we bore
Without frankincense or myrrh
Nothing but the sold off dross
We simply died and then no more
So as we hung upon the cross
Choking on a Summer's breeze
We joined the choir of life's loss
That brings hope to its knees
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6. |
Lucid
04:48
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Through a cloud of dust and dream
The light cuts my molten eyes
A clarity sets in, I from its perch
Dive in the lake of lovelorn life
As I swim the lucid waters
Breathing through my open mind
Current drags all thought away
Drowns it in the universe
Perennial peace inside the void
I taste it on my beggars tongue
My lungs flooded with knowing
It will be the death of me
Sinking far above the world
A clarity sets in, I from it perch
Slip and fall, up to a cloud
From which the lake is filled
As I lay in lucid waters
Leaking last breaths from my mind
Current drags all thought away
Drowns it in the universe
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7. |
Interlude
01:13
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8. |
Sight
07:08
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Twilight comes and I hear weeping
Shadows 'pon the stairs are creeping
Cold crystals form upon the pane
Nothing will be the same again
The air is thick, a putrid scent
Sensations sinking, slow decay
No salvation, life is spent
Sands of time just slip away
Cracks in flesh to swallow whole
Remnants of a sodden soul
Pain is real, dreams are a lie
All we are is meant to die
Death sits on the window sill
This night is old and strangely ill
A cry, a sigh and then a chill
I never was, it never will
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9. |
Burden
06:00
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Made of flesh, born to rot
dreaming to be things we’re not
pathetic race, gasping for breath
closing in on certain death
thrown into a world of hurt
crawling, crying in the dirt
laughing in the drowning rain
pointless, wasted and in pain
there is no hope, there is no meaning
no motive, purpose or reward
there is no gain, there is no reason
time in life, a mere damned season
bag of bones, bound to die
choking on our final sigh
all there is to every day
a downward spiral of decay
each of us, a simple slave
every way leads to the grave
buried beneath barren soil
tripped up by this mortal coil
made of flesh and born to rot…
made of flesh, born to rot
dreaming to be things we’re not
pathetic race, gasping for breath
closing in on certain death
all the air we have, we borrow
waste our days in silent sorrow
aiming to achieve distinction
through our own certain extinction
useless struggle to go on
all you see, will just be gone
no escape from mortal fate
once conceived, it is too late...
thrown into a world of hurt
crawling, crying in the dirt
laughing in the drowning rain
pointless, wasted and in pain
there is no hope, there is no meaning
no motive, purpose or reward
there is no gain, there is no reason
time in life, a mere damned season
bag of bones, bound to die
choking on our final sigh
all there is to every day
a downward spiral of decay
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10. |
Lost
04:01
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We are models
Regurgitating souls
Into a web
Where listless spiders wait
To suck the last life
From the husk
Feed and breed
Like regurgitation
Shaping our brood
In a futile attempt
To stand out in the hive
The sedated stream of consciousness
That stains these sheets with vanity
A testament to the restlessness
Of wasted, hopeless humanity
The days were damned
To start with
A steady stream of
Sad serenity
Ripping the doors
Off heaven's hinges
Then it all came to a halt
Grinded down by those gears
That processed lives
Long before our own expired...
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11. |
Outro
01:16
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NYRAK
Nyrak is a progressive black metal band from Belgium, founded in 2021 by Nevel as an alternative creative outlet for his legendary black metal band Gotmoor and was joined by Nihil (Lichfield, Hangman’s Hymn, Plagueland, Voidwork, ex-Saille, ex-Herfst, …) shortly thereafter. Nyrak may have some frills, still the band values music over image. ... more
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