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Into The Void
04:27
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INTO THE VOID
The degradation has reached its peak
Doomed integrity the way out is in
Morbid visions becoming the world
Heartless ordnance destroying hope
What’s in death that life can achieve?
Gleaming metals denying grace?
As all preachers now went insane
Would you still have faith in Life?
Kneel before me, stare into this broken glass
Find the keys to kingdom comes doused in fetid bliss
Derelict stones ashen ruins, prayers dispensed
Avert your eyes from monsters deep inside clawing out
Then you’ll know for sure that the truth never soothes
For your ever-perfect world abhors brilliant minds
Followers are paid—wise ones murdered in droves
Hear the silent screams—unmarked graves—sordid past!
Come, stand atop the fallen gods
Watch the twilight sets the pace
Twisted saviors sing of peace
As we plunge into the void
There, there! No tears befit this fate
I am here to set you free
Wrestled minds now come to rest
In this bleak world we are one
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MORBID ENDINGS I WISHED FOR THEM
Spare me from this mockery humanity the strayed
Morbid endings I wished for them alas they do not know
Squalid egos, might is right, forsooth they’d find no peace
Septic minds twice rotting mouths again I wished them dead!
Come see the pitiful, as I rip their faces off
So where’s your ego now? Why shed those useless tears?
Feel the burn, molten lead, within your sorry mouths!
There is no stop, it’s payback time, the pain returns three-fold!
Forsooth the world is better off without these cess-filled souls
So where’s your Science—your Gods? Why don’t you call on them?
Rejoice, for ‘tis of me, the one who doesn’t exist
He comes to take it back—the life you stole from me!
The bliss that’s found in death—a sigh afore the black!
Would you please return to life, so that I could kill again?
No need to look back for you never did, but now it’s all too late
Reprieve or rest? There’s none for you! I seek to end it now!
The status quo disturbed, all hope is lost to fear
Morbid endings I wished for them at last they did so know!
Malignant walking tumours—no world befits your deeds
Pathetic grimes devolved to shit, this be your genocide!
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3. |
I Shall Miss Quintessa
05:42
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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 griefs 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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(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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5. |
Entangled In Thorns
06:10
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ENTANGLED IN THORNS
Take me in, betwixt those lips…
Serenading bleak, this full red moon!
May it be this sordid fate found twisted?
But it’s there for us to see things through
Black façade, ‘tis carnival of souls
Wrenched from trust, salvation in grief!
Two dead hearts with nothingness entwined
Rapture-bound unbaptized fallacy!
Come and dance with me for all long since
Deck the halls with tears of shadowed bliss
Soon you’d know where all the roads arrive
But my darling we’re damned…eternally!
Blackened rose with bloodied thorns
The sum of fears not much of God
Twilit streets the spirits screamed
Come now midnight I set you free!
Chain not this heart for purgatory blessed
As immortals our love is borne from fire
Sneering Death profane the Good Book
For what is worth, it’s better off this way!
Much too soon this blazing white dawn
As we’re back into the crypts
So if there should be a Tree of Life
Then forsooth we are but its thorns!
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6. |
Another Black Year
06:38
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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’s 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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7. |
Dark Deceptions
04:26
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DARK DECEPTIONS
Forsooth we’re indebted, but nothing to give
Too long it would seem we’ve blamed on above
What are these blackness in hearts you and I?
For I walk in paths betwixt light and dark!
Cold stones, darkened death borne, wintered since long, heavens gone!
Find me, past the red dawn, blackened veils torn—tainted truths!
Heaven, why the silence? Pried defiance, such be the price!
‘Tis long, but no love called, princely farce dulled—paid in steel!
And now comes again the timed introspection
What freedom what will? Are we but deceived?
When all that we did, the strings made us danced
To kiss or to kill, what say we cut our losses?
Pale me, silenced in wrongs, en masse to mourn, touching dusk
Now loose, turned in silver, paid bereavement, timed for songs!
Take me, or so kill me, I did nothing, wrecked in dreams
Eppur si muove, but what if I’m God? Where’s my Throne?
Thus I welcome thee to the never-dying circle
It pays to be the deathless when the living gives you pain
Now we’re all but free, sweet emancipated bliss
Cast off dark deceptions for one life eternally!
Soon it comes for them doomed believers of this world
Replacing all religions with their science—foolish whim!
If we gave our knowledge are they ready for the truth?
We’re all less than nothing in this cosmic scheme of things!
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Silenced Minstrel Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Silenced Minstrel is an underground metal band started by Silenced Minstrel (now Void Tenebrous) from Kuala Lumpur Malaysia and has been active in the local metal scene since 1996. He was once a co-founder and keyboardist of the gothic black metal band HALUN before the band broke up in 2010. ... more
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