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From Clay and Dust
06:21
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From clay and dust we were formed
By water and salt sustained
But we shall ascend to speak with the stars
None save us know the nature of the universe
the secrets of the stars
The procession of eternity
All that we observe in the heavens
Calculated, codified
But tainted by our mortal minds
The flesh that forms our thoughts
Is vulgar, profane
Unworthy of the firmament
We must seek to change ourselves
Rid our flesh of salt and earth
To be reborn in quintessence
Reborn in quintessence
Abandon life
Free your soul
Temples built
From salt and bone
Lay the foundations of our rise
To the firmament
Flesh and bone profane but suitable for this purpose
Sculpt a tower of suffering and skulls
To climb ever higher and reach the stars
And reach the stars
Abandon life
Free your soul
Our spirits rise
From ash and stone
From clay and dust we were formed
By water and salt sustained
But we shall ascend to speak with the stars
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Oceanus
06:03
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Cold Deep Bleak Infinite
Salt Black Void Hungering
Falling forever/ Please forgive
To blackest depths / Let me live
Endless / Black abyss
The salt water roils
Bound before the mouth of the abyss
The final fall to come
Dying of thirst
Drowning in salt water
Tides will rise and wash away our works
Our sacrifices wasted
Waves break and salt the earth
O! Salacia, Oceanus,
We weep and we bleed your essence
But we have drained your compassion
And offer nothing you desire
That which preserved becomes poison
That which endured enacts vengeance
Abyss consumes earth
Salt water rises
Falling forever / Please forgive
To black abyss / Let me live
Tides rising / Why linger in false hope?
Waves crash
Wasting
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Serpentine Shadows
05:04
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A serpent encircles
Coiled around the world
Scales the black of void
The red of dreaming days
Imprisoned at the dawn of time
Punished for an unknown crime
Venom forced to flow
Dissolving its own flesh
Ouroboros, Suga'ar, Jormungandr, Hesaya
Its true name unimportant, the mystery is this:
Was it put there to ensnare, to swallow sun, to bring despair,
Or to be boundary from what lies behind in wait?
Infinite, coiling, writhing, boiling,
Lusting, scheming, feeding, needing,
Dissolve, digest, regrow, suggest,
To us that we should seek to escape our home
Venom flowing, starlight glowing,
Poison is in everything, we should not seek a cure,
Daylight swallowed, night to follow
The moon will shed its shadow as a serpent sheds its skin
The cold light shines, but does not warm
The serpent writhes, devoid of form
Protector or jailer
Rebirth or swift death
Why are we afraid to share in the cycle we've been left?
That which hides behind the stars
Wants nothing but our silence
No rebirth waits in the void,
We are not quintessence
The cold light shines, but does not warm
The serpent writhes, devoid of form
Our entropic demise
(Our wasting lives)
Shall not be marked by ceremony
(Need no praise)
Starfires consuming the skies
(Heaven's lights don't burn for us)
Or fading out one by one
The salt of our bones shall return
(The salt of our bones)
To (is) the earth
While the serpent writhes
(Forever more)
And the moon sheds its shadow
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Skeletrix
06:06
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O! There's no rebirth
Not for the salt of the earth
Not for the salt of the earth
Imprisoned, yes, and awaiting the grave
Enslaved by she who rigged the game
We return
To her arms
The cracker of bones
The Skeletrix!
Skeletrix:
You will return to me one day
The flesh you wear is just a mask
When your charade of life is over
I will have your bones again
Our flesh inert
Return to earth
A grisly homecoming
Her grin never fades
Back to her hearth we return
There to be unmade
Unwoven mind and bone
Skeletrix!
Thus we imagine
Romanticise our end
A return to a lover, the arms of a friend
But there is nothing beyond or below
No spurned goddess, no peace to bestow
O Skeletrix, I wish you could exist
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Quintessence
06:06
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Here, on earth
Quintessence
Not above
But within
The preserver
Purifier
Don't look upward
To air or fire
Soldiers fortune
Sinner's penance
Taste of sorrow
Quintessence
So much waste of dreams and judgement
Searching for the fifth
The matter of the firmament
The universe's gift
It calls to us
We are not whole
From our sweat and tears and blood
The answer's in the action
The final piece of alchemy
The product of reaction
It has always been
The sacred that's within
Demarker of demons
Pillars of penance
Healer of wounds
Crystalline weapons
The preserver
Purifier
Don't look upward
To air or fire
Soldiers fortune
Sinner's penance
Taste of sorrow
Quintessence
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Alturúk Vancouver, British Columbia
Alturúk is a solo recording project by Canadian musician Zac Baccardax. It combines his loves of heavy music, sword-and-sorcery fantasy, and working alone in a dark basement for weeks at a time.
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