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Overture
06:01
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Stop and on and on of course!
Stop and in and out comes an idea.
We start now, begin now, it’s time now.
Stop dreaming, start seeing no non-believing, the Saviours...
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Save the World
03:24
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Origin then foraging, from formation of it all
We just hit play, until today, don’t want to let these planets fall
What we gonna do?
We could just start a new?
I don’t think that we should sink that low, it’ll go askew.
What’s your big idea?
Well, this I want to hear.
Let’s work real hard until we’re charred, and save the world from today.
What about famine throughout, poverty ain’t no fun
Climate change, are you deranged? We shouldn’t say what’s done is done.
But that’s not fair!
Why should we care?
I don’t believe that we should leave, existence we should share.
What do you mean?
They’re not on our team.
So let’s work real hard, until we’re charred. Yeah! Let’s save the world anyway!
Yeah, let’s grab books, the knowledge we’ll find
Gotta take a look at everything, it could be inside
So, whip out your spellbook and solve it
We’re gonna save the world anyway!
Yeah, let’s grab books, the knowledge we’ll find.
Gotta take a look at everything, it could be inside.
So, let’s whip out our spellbooks and solve it.
We’re gonna… save the world anyway!
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The Books
04:09
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Reading books, to fill the nooks, I’m getting looks, who cares they’re crooks?
I am grafting, time is passing, discovering so much to remember.
And now I’m burning through pages of spells
Creating fires to reverse the coming hell
We have demons and disaster to expel.
Dare to stop me, with the arch staff sparks are bound to fly!
The fight to rectify the wrongs, there’s something out there I can faintly see…
With my Necronomicon, I’ll solve this untimed rotten symphony.
Thinking in witchcraft, clench the arch staff, heal the broken tapestry.
Mix the cauldron, stall the doldrum
Only one can truly hold them, the solution is in wizardry.
Results are in, I have sinned, to heal the broken tapestry.
Break the laws, smash the doors, the solution is in wizardry.
'Cause I am breaking down walls that you can’t see.
There’s something out there, and it’s coming now to me.
And I will forge a potent amnesty.
Cauldron doldrum, I will hold them, nothing will stop this grand old being!
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Inexorable
02:19
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Sketchy
04:01
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When I see him, oh, when he’s working
I can see he’s on the edge of dreaming
He is slipping, floating and tripping,
I can see what he’s coming to.
I've got to take his stuff and mess it right up
It’s looking very sketchy, can’t leave it luck,
I must change it all up, the sacred texts agree
Before we change forever to eternity...
4 + 5 isn’t 9, I’ll change it to 2 - that’s what I’ve got to do.
It says subtract, but in fact, I’ll times it by 2 - that’s what I’ve got to do.
Time for breaking, mmm, I’ll be making
A sandwich or two for my buddies.
Oh, he's lunching, I'll be a'punching
Numbers into this old computer.
They’re working together, my, what a friend!
Helping out simply, help him get to the end
Maybe he requires a wizarding hand
In case there is a spell or two that we can expand...
Hey there dude, hey there dude, what can I do? Maybe I can help you too?
Hey there man, lend a hand, I agree too - it’s what we've got to do.
Take that bit out, but that looks key?
Maybe to you but it's not to me.
So this is all part of some big plan?
Why would I tell you any different, I’m your biggest fan!
So it's true, thank God, phew,
Fate agrees too.
It's what we've got to do.
Change that tree, snapped in two, whoopedie-doo!
It's what we've got to do.
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Penumbra
05:31
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Internal ferocity when I beat the beat you’ve got to peel the steam
Precocious indecency, stop the flip out, make some tea
Watch the TV, the outside doesn’t care
Only the beast will end
A kryptonite of bends
The platonic fortress lends
Itself to a timeless field
Stop it now, stop it now, stop it now
Underdogs creating underpinning the beginning
I cry for the hounds of death.
Feel it now, feel it now, feel it now
Overcharged, overhauling, embroiling
Deafly screaming with no breath
Lefting the right
Centring the skewed, until the watchman bows, his night is done.
A performance rated 5 stars, to the highest bidder
He will deliver a sinner.
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7. |
I See Blood
03:39
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I see the page turn, the chapter finds me now.
On an island sits a creature to be found.
And with his left hand, that he may raise in vain
On a spaceship, slowly goes insane.
Are you ok? Concealed, contrite.
I'm not sure you'll last the night
But in truth, aloof, you'll lose this fight.
Raise your right hand,
I see blood.
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The Hand of Life
06:22
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I think, you tripped a sensation
Untapped, a source of stagnation
An overflowing well of deflation.
Slow your breathing, hear them sleeping, dormant lie your thoughts.
Fall back into sanity’s arms
Spinning quickly, feeling sickly, don’t ignore the taunts
Come back, furnish us with all of your charms
Nightmares over, small abode, her, less frequented haunts.
How can you feel the cruel unknown?
Take the easy way to home - to the seat of lies
Excavating heartbreak, while, it cries.
Oh let, him grab hold of something
He doesn’t ask for much, just for one thing
Distraught in the comfort of nothing
I see you’ve found some redemption
A cesspit full of filth and temptation
Creative styles of self-degradation
Slow your breathing, hear them seethe, despondent are your thoughts
How can you feel the cruel unknown?
Take the easy way to home - to the seat of lies
Excavating heartbreak, while, it cries - uncruel, unfeeling.
The hand of life atoned.
Spinning quickly, feeling sickly, don’t ignore the taunts
Come back, furnish us with all of your charms
Nightmares over, small abode, her, less frequented haunts.
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A Sinner
04:20
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10. |
Burning Crown
05:03
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Swimming down an empty sea.
Sharing findings with a hint of Galant pageantry
Find my way and then I’m lost again.
Variants that I have found
Showing them is when I know I’ve left the mortal ground
Lose my way and then I’m gone again.
And the pain, so insane
That I don’t see the turns
And the crown, upside down, how it burns.
In my heart I know the truth
Wrapped around my neck belongs this anguished mental noose,
Knowledge is the path to solving it
Introduce the facts we see
The more we know the more we don’t know bloody anything
This unknown feeling is a rotten blip.
And the pain, so insane
That I don’t see the turns
And the crown, how it burns.
The weight of kingship in my head, to appease the living dead, and the freedom that is said, to save you.
The heavy burden that is placed, to endure a world disgraced, to redeem one so ungraced, just to save you.
And the pain, so insane
That I can’t see the flames
And the throne, unatoned, how it wanes.
The weight of kingship in my head, to appease the living dead, and the freedom that is said, to heal you.
The heavy burden that is placed, to endure a world disgraced, to redeem one so ungraced, but I’ll save you.
In my heart I know the truth
Wrapped around my legs nothing but unfitting shoes
Wisdom is the path to solving it.
Introduce the facts we see
The more we know the more we know it’s stopping tragedy
This unknown feeling is only a blip.
Swimming down an empty sea.
Sharing findings with a hint of Galant pageantry
Find my way and then I’m whole again.
Variants that I have grasped
Showing them is when I know I’ve left the mortal past
Lose my way and then I’m found again.
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Make Your Bed
02:41
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Feet have landed waiting for a bus
I see the spirits watching over us
Militant delirium
Absurdity, it’s gonna come
Grab your shoes your coat and run!
Quantify the drowning of the sun
Life-ending harmless fun.
Exuberant hysteria
Weaken the exterior
Running to the one we fear...
I told you last time the sun would never set
Because there’s no big concern as of yet.
The universe it said stand up straight and make your bed
And don’t question the lies that you’ve been fed.
Smell that sound and taste the madness
All of this to hide the sadness
Question nothing
State the fact
Make the Ragnarorik pact
Then they’ll let us bring it back.
I told you last time the sun would always rise
Because it’s clear my dear that that’s a pack of lies
The universe it said stand up straight and make your bed
And don’t question the truth that you’ve been fed.
Don’t believe Warwick avenue is a sign
Space is free, take a sip of galactic wine
Subtle, a rebuttal, that could muddle up a cuttlefish that will only dance for you
Take a sip from my tankard
And you’re immortally wankered!
Have a swig from the pool of neurosis and time.
I told you this time the sun would clearly set
Because there’s only great concerns that we have met
The universe it said stand up straight and make your bed
And don’t question the lies that you’ve been fed.
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12. |
The Stole
03:53
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Out of timing
On the toilet
I won’t spoil it
Only oil it
Into timing.
Take it away, you can only breathe the day
Dismay, for whoever wears the stole
Tenpin gremlin.
It always rains, and the pain, it shames.
It’s done now, it’s all done now.
Light a different kind of fuse
Light up now, if you can’t feel like you’ll lose
Look at me I’m only a drunk man
Light up, I’m tired of fighting.
Mortuus is here,
He wears his cape of mortal fear
And with his scythe cuts deep and true
Holding back tears,
Makes light of you.
Mortuus is here,
He wears his cape of mortal fear.
One timely swing
And the cries of life, tumultuous foreboding, never ending
And so it goes that I should know, that everybody’s souls we have been spending
We lament the death, that Mortuus has stolen, never mending
We cannot stop the ticking time twist cataclysm ending.
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13. |
Finale
06:35
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