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CHAOS, REVISITED
So wending we’re now on the road of ruin
Deep shadows so red mind blackened with pain
Over rhymes unabashed; the tailored ignorance?
So intrinsic post-frenzy I applaud humanity!
Played along this sordid path
Much aplomb in genocide
Hollowed eyes of rotting skulls
Forlorn gains from fiery skies!
And futile be the word the dogmatic nothing
Where true hopes lay hidden—paid in deep nightmares
What would we be but flesh so frail?
Of tales in betwixt crestfallen so brief?
So who prays who weeps dear friends?
As the sand it pours out time in vain?
Would we see but eye-to-eye…disdained?
Madrigal of sins full swing but why?
Sold foretold no reasons lost
Damned if so twice damned if don’t
Feigned delirium ordained by chaos
Sought but failed this wanderer now falls!
Believe now and pray or bleed for later
This pained retribution en masse in due death
So soon we’d be gone right back where we’re tainted
Forsooth we shall soon lift the final black curtain!
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I SHALL MISS QUINTESSA
I shall miss the silence the space
And the stares that are worlds apart
Onto which these stains of all strife
And all life they depart for the dark
But never too engraved these sins much
Denied and all grief so imbibed
And for places to where these steps
I would take for the sake of the sane...
I shall miss those sirens of sadness
That bellowed in all scenes so undone
For white lies and dark sighs it is time now
For the world to welcome me back
From this altar for pain to departed red roses
Of hope that had bloomed once again
For this I unto me as I carve once again, this
Glorious path to heavens amidst all lost smiles...
And to this end of all misery I now stand
At the threshold of more bright white faces!
Of things left unsaid for when the last I set out
For darkness within and without for within thus remained...
And so now I shall miss this unruly
Hubris; this darling wrecked Quintessa
For the spirits they had lurched from the void
And then straight to the dawn for now and forever!
For never this me he’ll forget of the place of whence I came
Through the land so forgotten but never forgiven
For the fires in my heart for the future of battlefields
And to the plane of all stars for a place I called home...
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MISERY, REVISITED
I am...so very...alone
I can’t…go on…living like this
Standing in the darkness, feeling so cold
Counting back the days I’ve spent in regret
The light was never there but still I pressed on
Hearing as my past keeps cursing my present
Shedding useless tears like I’ve done it forever
My life’s a joke; a living mistake!
I cry out my plight, my words are but glass
That shreds on my heart as it bleeds and rots
Nothing that I do, is not without failures
I’m useless...hopeless...helpless!
Here is a dreamer, a dream destroyed
A sorry, good-for-nothing, and going nowhere
Forever he’s bound for ridicule and shame
Walking on roads he should not have taken…
Painfully I tread, on pieces of my mind
Wiping the dirt they kicked at my face
Feeling as the rain rips through my soul
And with each new step, it hurts even more!
I’m counting the days left in my life
Yearning for death to free me from pain
I don’t belong here; I always knew that
But all is too late now, all is unforgiven!
Now I’m lost in a world that never wanted me
Walking the path of impending destruction
With all my failures keep pushing me from behind
And my God is now, no more by my side!
No; this can’t be happening to me!
Why me...why now...why?
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VALEDICTORY SIGH
O wretched spawns of infamy obtuse in conjured lies
Awry in pride all self-bequeathed excessive cowardice
Preponderance in nothingness fell refuse incarnate
So sweetly stained tomfoolery but still you multiply!
Applied derived of wasted life a cancer with a face
That issued forth black fetid pubes availing mockery
What pallid stench alack in brains, of ornery in jest?
Through deathly grace fell short of plagues
A valedictory sigh...
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ANOTHER BLACK YEAR
Like the fire from those who once were
I now float on the stream of time reversed
See the silent winter's scorn
For the shameful past, the future it comes!
Now no more will I taste the sunrise gold
For the darkness and me be one the same
And the light of the youth so barely gleaned
Deep in mind I seek but alas in vain
So forgive me not for I am no more
So beyond all signs, salvation lost
See the silenced minstrels of tears
They now danced bedewed upon this grave
But for me no signs divine or bright
To so beckons this me into the light
I've killed this quiet whimper of fools
For the loss of life no more of care
Now I brave the days of endless pain
No more dirges--inhuman--within my heart!
Weak the fire that burns my soul
For the price so black, undying sins!
Now who'll pay for me this blood and lust?
So deceived was I unto this life
Killed and gone all vestiges
My humanity's torn for endless nights!
'Tis now late as I gazed upon the moon
So enshrouded all clouds like reddish slime
And the wind’s now burning black as sin
For this life I am gone beyond all hopes
Now do not be hearing laments of me
For no pardons or smiles befit this undead
A demon wrapped in human face
And my craving for blood—my fall from grace!
So be part us now, no decades would sing
And do not, I beg, to hope we'd meet
For no mirth or joy would come for soon
But mere love so dark, infernal at best
I'd dispose forever this feel for you
Though your heart still beats to such a beast
Hasten back to the light, my love
And leave me be for the end of another black year
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IN MEMORIAM (UNDERTAKER’S LAMENT)
To when 'tis now far derived from the honed
Gunned devised yet so prompt to deliver
Perplexed re-directions, or skein predilections?
Alas what place what haste might time it imposed on the brave
Found chaste yet a waste—much displaced—far from grace?
These too shall pass en route to decay
Blessed decadence foaming post-rapture gazed
In this maze found dazed to delivered—erased!
Betraying from pain as decisions cannot gauge
Feigned weathered and adaged—what renders what candor
Can be found most wanting?
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BLACK-HEARTED SUFI
Taste the unending high, unyielding like the endless sky!
Forsooth I am but one so blessed, in reaching out to touch it all
As such this me the utmost being, begetting powers beyond all dreams!
And such will be for His Decree, descending signs of rapture’s seed!
Look at me, a deified human king!
Fall on me, unbending will set free
See these hands, ordained at Heaven’s feet
Bow to me—divinity of deeds!
Gleam unto this cosmic dance—come see them praising me!
As above and so below, there’s nothing I can’t be!
Succinctly claimed my aerial grace—to which I’d give not free
Search no more the path of light—‘tis be supernal glee!
If such there’d be but death of hope--to me no secret’s great
For there upon the Throne Most High, I’ll be your savior’s sigh!
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(BLOOD RED FLOWERS) BLEEDING MOON
Weave for me tales, asleep past icy stares
Tearing me apart, a-dancing for the void
I am but a man, a-leasing crownless jest
Teetering adaged, aground in blasphemy!
Upon the wend that ended, I did once paid all dues!
Taking all the light, took none of deigned despair
Pried off of lost forever, a gaze enforced in deeds
Soothing hollowed doubts—my sins of thy beloved!
Blood red flowers, bleeding moon...
Tainted poisoned heart, ‘tis poet’s sweet revenge!
Yearning for the pallid, ignoring darkened days
Lest the world’s a stage, it rends on hope—oh bliss!
Insights based on hate, wafting frosted freedom
Fornicating nights—ablaze in martyrdom!
Blood red flowers, bleeding moon...
The mark of sins unowned, aflame in reddened tears...
Blood red flowers, bleeding moon...
Sordid torn twice-mended, afloat on putrid dreams!
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CANTO DIABLO 1: DEMONIC EPIPHANY
Pale and cold this touch of death…
For certain there’d be bleakness!
To waking up bereft of hope…
Such twisted minds alone!
Would you care to scream in vain?
Or smile in infamy?
Come dance the mine-field stage…
Enchanting blackened void!
This blood red aberrance…
Erupts in rapt encore!
For I’m the one dispensing bliss…
My chalice overflowing!
Would you care to say it’s true?
No Gods availing you?
Then rise my friend and kiss my hand…
No strife begets you now!
For you I’d come in raptured grace
Like a savior and his charge!
So will it be and manifest…
Arrive in splendid poise!
You are your GOD your destiny!
This universe be yours!
No feeble dogmas dubious texts!
The truth will set you free!
Of sins and deeds thus what is next?
Mere long expired dross!
All the troubles here and now…
They came from one same source!
So carve this world as you see fit…
You are the Devil’s Horde!
And I will watch in solemn pride…
This Golden Age now comes!
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IN MEMORIAM - OCTOBER SKIES
A piercing noise, a sigh and sleep
Come find me in catharsis
From emptied gun to tearful heap
And death arrived in bliss…
Thus under bleak October skies
No pulse no absence felt
A late night passing--no surprise
Another John Doe dealt…
So come now hell, Almighty great
And soothe this passing shame
For restful eyes in puddles red
Black bodybag of fame…
Now weep before my body cold
And wish that I’m still here
Alas no tears found weight in gold
An ode to a sickening year…
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The sixth album from the band, a compilation of tracks selected specifically from the band's first three albums, being put together just for the heck of it but also as a musical reference point of sort. An album that roughly describes how the band's music originally sounded like right before it began its horrid mutations, starting with the fourth album and onward. The band is unsigned and is looking for labels.
released December 18, 2020
Silenced Minstrel - All vocals and instruments, composer, sound engineer and producer.
