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Ouroboros

from TRIUMVIRATE by Archivist

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Ouroboros

Lyrics that appear between // and // are not sung on the album but are integral to the story.

The Archivist:

Rivet shudder
the wheeze and splutter
The well of earth
Drags us ever closer

The roar of rocket fire
The leaden heave of gravity

I feel a cry is silenced by
The look of hope in you
Halted sea of cusped ice
And canopy of forests might

And in stark contrast
A turmoil of desert sand
And amidst this tableau
The scattering of living bodies
Of a tribe drawn to violent ends
My presence is a portent

We settle on the divined line
A cleaved land, its people riven
I disembark my sanctuary
With you beside me, gemini


Construct:

Her people throng
Curious and brave
To greet this child
Of spent epochs

They approach with caution
Faces marked with
Chalk and charcoal
A painted grimace

Hides a kindness
Offered with extended hands
I hear the confluence of converging paths
It’s meaningful!

Fates assurance,
Times epitaph,
Serendipity
In voices heed

For I see her past
Laid out before me
Astronomical,
In brass orrery

Kepler’s idioms,
Trenches blind piety
Her fathers love
To see her live

Aboard my body,
Enshrined in
To give of
His life for her

To burn up with the whole world

From green heart beckons
Harmonising with her chord
Below forests quake
For the coming of my child

The fires long quenched
Rudiments of song
Lift resonant
The reed vibrato of a choral throng

Laughter, prayer
And lov’ed joy

//Their gentle clasp with mine
And together we are lead
To warm envelop
Songs of hearty contentment//

All is forgiven, countless moments chronicled
All is forgiven, of lost fortunes and grave missteps
All is forgiven, as we traverse
All is forgiven, amongst your living memory,
All is forgiven my archivist

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from TRIUMVIRATE, released April 28, 2019

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atmospheric metal from Austria, England, and Germany

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