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Old Tree
02:24
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Instrumental
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2. |
Of Wind, Water And Sand
04:59
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de dum te
nos voi deum
de dum te
nos voi deum
A circle of hands
Tearing the mist
From the hollows of morning
A meandering sky
With no end or beginning
A cold mistral rises
An obsidian sky reflects
Our own last words
The songs on the wind
Carrying tongues long dead
On the air
As we endlessly hold our breath
These songs come on the wind
From tongues long dead
And we endlessly hold our breath
Dulce caro
mio caro es
carus es
A racaro sono
a racaro dulce terra
Tu aro se il mare
De luce, de amor
mio luce
luce de amor
Te es mio de luce
dei do mare
cela mortis
A sigh in the wind becomes the rain
Falling on the soil
The beads that grow and flow downstream
To the river racing with rage
Cascading with furious waves
de dum te
nos voi deum
de dum te
nos voi deum
A sigh in the wind
Bellows with a mighty voice
Then falls silent
As it becomes the sea
As the day widens
Waves crash to the shore
Washing the sand from our feet
The song on the wind
Roars with a mighty voice
As it meets the sea
Gulls serenade us
Singing songs in the sky
We fall with our feet in the sand
While their songs soar high
A sigh in the wind becomes the rain
Falling on the soil
The beads that grow and flow downstream
To the river racing with rage
Cascading with furious waves
And then we are free
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Faint spark,
you were part of the darkness
once a flame, now a fading coal
A warm uncomfortable rage
quenched by the day without splendor,
graceless and strange
This silence telling us the world is not ours
We struggle to grasp those precious years
Hold them close and dear
This soothing song
Breathes life into my veins
Night grows warmer as the melody rises
And we feel like we belong
Rain falls as their voices grow stronger
Nourishing our broken souls
Night grows warmer as the melody rises
And we feel like we belong
Breathing life into our veins
Breathing life into my wounded veins
The night falls
as melodies rise from the mow of a wound.
Drifting on fire, torment is your bliss.
But you cry out for mercy, cry out for mercy,
as I'm pulling out arrows
from yesterday's wars.
I just escaped happiness
The songs fall quiet once more
But a single seed
Swells with life
The promise of birth
With spring’s first ebb
And I know where I belong
I feel it with everything in me
Those delicate omens
Slowly unravel
And somehow, somehow
My past is changed
Breathing life into my veins
There is life inside these veins
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The unsteady pulse of strange flutterings
Swelling in the air
A bed of grass and cinders beneath me
Forget why I'm here
Patiently waiting for the soft breath of spring
Rain cutting through the billows of smoke
Sunlight etching ashen silhouettes
Shadowy glimmer of light shards and gray
Here I can dream of another day
Roaring rivers far below
carve names for the nameless
Their faces gleam around me
as their memories are sown deep into the roots of wounded trees
All has fallen silent, save my own heavy breath,
and what is left of my dream
beats incessantly against my lucidity
Sweet and strange scents permeate the air
A thousand dewdrops falling in the sand
The murmur of a thousand ghosts
Branches stir like nimble fingers
Leaves and blossoms born anew
Silken reeds in ember fields
find their way into my sleep
A soft caress of soothing wind
warm on my cheek
The naked grove opens its maw
for only a day
Unexpected beauty shines through
Yet I fear nothing new today
for I know that nature will restore it all
Roaring rivers far below
carve names for the nameless
Their faces gleam around me
Wrought with fury, she arises from the ash and gleaming stone
All has fallen silent, ave my own heavy breath
She of radiant blood comes to claim what she is owed
And then with a calm sigh,
she fades back into the ether
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5. |
Lunatic Poetry
04:13
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Thank you yesterday's ghost
For all of tomorrow's failures
Who are you who dares to dance under my shadow?
You who has seen my skin
And resonates with the doom bells
With music in your fingers
And color that weeps behind your eyes
Hands that traces the chaos
Chasing the last stretch of life as wolf and lamb
Savagely marching backwards against time
Breathing in the freshness after the storm
Weaving together the minutes until I awaken
We can follow this path to nowhere together
Calling as thin as the wind
And through the darkest borders of my mind
I try in vain to remember my name
And why I am here
From within a glass shrine, behold me
I am but a husk of grief, bathing in paradise
In the night time air I am a golden flute
Frigid air piping tunes throughout my frigid bones
Waking to the tune of tomorrow's delightful madness
For then I can sleep when the birds stop singing
How grand my existence could have been
had I ever been born
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6. |
Still The Wonder Lingers
04:32
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As small drops of day fall cold
I find myself lost
in this winter white tomb
My body lies like a reed in a silver flute
Filled with poison songs
For your lips to free
Night is faintly luminous with a livid mist
The candles tall like golden sentinels
A great glow of burning bloom, a waxy gleam,
Revealing shadows of unsightly things
A blossoming chaos no longer hidden
Blind reflections scattering,
yet somehow shining through
My glacial effigy above me
Parched in empty air
Yet still withholding death
For me there are only your words
You break them with your lips
And I catch them as they fall
I watch your eyes calmly cling
To the slow steady rhythm
Of the snowflakes in the sky
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7. |
Lavender Mist
04:11
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Here there are no leaves for the wind to stir
Even for winds of Spring
Trying to learn what years secretly whisper
And only the echoes answer
“Hush”
“Hush”
Molting like a serpent
Taking on a new form
Deep vibrations as imperative as death
Molting like a serpent
Molting like a serpent
Taking on a new form
Within my lavender mist
Something stirs
We wake the beast to still the clamor
Feathered by day
Scaled by night
The weary poet
Withered to a husk
Peeling back the hollow shell
Of a thorn-crowned God
All that I can remember
Is that this is not a dream
Is that this is not a dream
“Hush”
“Hush”
“Hush”
“Hush”
Molting like a serpent
Taking on a new form
Deep vibrations as imperative as death
Molting like a serpent
All that I can remember
Is that this is not a dream
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8. |
Sublimity
04:22
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Strange creatures chase their spirits to the sky
Two cloud vessels collide and scatter,
Torn by the glaring sun
At first breath, our very nature is set aflame
A fragile state to remind me
To take this as a warning
Sublimity comes only after chaos
And secretly I immerse myself
Into a quieter pandemonium
So clairvoyant and faithful
Chase their spirits to the sky
And vanish in the wind
As if they were never there
A timeless world with no name or measure
A dream with broken images
Of the night’s treasures
I fall asleep, gently living forever
A fading fossil hiding behind a century
A dry husks taper
Away into sunset
To vanish in the wind
As if I was never there
A dream with broken images
of the night’s treasures
I fall asleep, gently living forever
A fading fossil hiding behind a century
A dry husks tapers Away into sunset
To vanish in the wind
As if I was never there
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The Clairvoyant
04:08
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Why do you raise your startled eyes to me?
Was it because you could hear my voice above the storm?
The mighty rising winds
Becoming my strength
The patterns of earth and sky
Woven seamlessly
A Constant breath
That can devour the sea
A mirror that grows brighter
With deaths chosen many
Their hollow human shells adorned with gilded spires
Like boney fingers they touch the clouds
Elusive and uncanny
That which cannot be unseen
Drowning in the empathy
From tomorrow’s children
Who’ve endured their own passing
Only to bring me home again
What do you hear?
More than wind in its familiar grief?
More than the wash or rain
And its culmination?
A cleansing
A Familiar way of dreaming which I have always known
For I can foresee your past,
Since life began
Chorus:
Quando tempus est ad cognoscendum
quod non potest esse visum
aperi oculos, aures
praeterita prospicere est
Ignotus
invisibilium et
ego dicam tibi
sed non tamen
ego semper notum
aperi oculos
et cor tuum
Praevidere omnia et
praeterita prospicere possum;
aperi oculos
ego semper aures.
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10. |
The Sound Of Withering
03:53
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I have seen a pale garden
Where all things Earthly reside
Behind a darkening veil
Reveal what comes anew,
When the old has gone
When the old has gone
Ever changing like a joyless eye
Which closes shyly with a sigh
Adrift for what seems like days
The great wave grows in ever flowing, chthonic tide
Until finally the wind carries me above
I sing as a bird before the night
Sleeping beyond a pale sunrise
Until the rains pour upon the earth
Until the sun blazes in the sky
Flooding with light... brilliant, unforgiving
I have seen a pale garden
Where all things Earthly reside
And now I drift without words
Wounded, undone
Serene chaos, so quiet now
The last hours fall one by one
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11. |
Radiant Blood
04:00
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Like a stone untarnished,
It is made of the world
And the world is made
Of the body and mind
A utopia undone, by a self-made god
A tainted eden where the serpent is king
Little grows here, only a single tree
It's branches claw and tear
Through the skin of the air
For what is beauty without despair?
Taking one's heart for a moment
Filling it with light,
Before returning it to a world
Which has grown darker and fading fast
Chorus:
Re mi do ah sir to ma to mi
Do semi-do vas the
Do vas scoprir thus the
Hic do va ser, do oh
Aprir do ser, ii do
Assecor co so ti thus
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A young girl grieves
As she peels back her own shadow from the ground
A dark hand reaches for a comfortless touch
'I died' she cries. 'And I was stolen'
'My Body rose to the sun, and I burned away
The air grows cold as she slips away,
Behind the clouds
Ascending with no tether
The impure gluttony
Of blood, air and bone
"Perhaps I am sleepwalking
Just below the curling Earth's skin
My bare feet floating
On the quiet evening tide."
She sleeps like wax in nectar
Petrified in fallow soil
She knows the piercing name
In her silence, the birth-cry comes
"The unborn rejoice,
For now... forever reaching
For the root of all things, beckoning wisdom
(Bereaved, become the quiet air)
And last words die in your throat
At the end of the story,
When the torment arrives,
The performance can begin
Now she moves past her dreams
And speaks before she sleeps
Yet none can steal your...
None can steal your might"
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13. |
The Pulse In The Sky
04:18
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Snow
Stars
Sea
Sights
Sky
Earth
Moon
Child
On the last day we are showered
With an eternal snow of stars
From an ancient sky
Under a sea of sights
Toward the weeping moon
A child ascends
A child ascends
Snow
Stars
Sea
Sights
We can hear singing
From within the pyre
a wondrous sound
From an astral murmur
We can hear singing
From within the pyre
A Goddess rises
Toward the weeping moon
A wing laced with lavender tears
We can see behind our own faces
A wing laced with lavender tears
A child ascends
A child ascends
Snow
Stars
We can hear singing
From within the pyre
A wondrous sound
From an astral murmur
We can hear singing
From within the pyre
A Goddess rises
Snow
Stars
Sea
Child
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The Grass has grown over me
Becoming a second skin
Pores spilling green
With each curving blade
Without a sound
A face behind a face
A smile beneath a grin
As we wait for the night
Watch us grow smaller
A vivid and vulgar, desperate epiphany
That shakes the ground beneath us
The watcher hides among immortals
To help gather and feed us back to the earth
Secured by nature's touch
And re shaped by the eyes of birth
We shed our blood upon dust
Chorus:
Lo vedo qui Luci, qui senza buio
Do.. Dominus, Kyrie
Lo Vedo qui luci bianche
Lo vedo qui luci, ripensa: Luci qui, senza buio qui
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As I slept... you died
As though you had slipped through a chasm
Fingers outstretched,
Reaching for you
Aching for your touch
I thought I saw the shape of your breath in the cold
The faint taste of morning salt on your skin
The dew of your tears as a healing balm
Is this real or just a dream?
Either way I must endure
As ivy ribbons clutch at my feet
I am waist deep in silk and mire
Your phantom recoils within its shell
My hands searching for your pulse
I remember, remember it all
As life ebbs away in the soil beneath my feet
Bring me home to you
Bring me home
To breathe with you again
Such a reverie to endure
The sweet sound of nothing
My consolation is the melody of silence
A requiem
Between slumber and waking
Bring me home to you
This emptiness
Bring me home to you
There are no words for it
(Chorus)
Oh Luce, oh qui Luce.
Dona, donerà, luce verrà.
Luce nuova copiosa.
Oh grazie perchè il cielo prego ancora.
Farà amore e più luce per me
Vera Croce da te.
Croce dall' odio che a ciò nuoce.
Vera croce dalla tua propria volontà
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16. |
Guardian Of The Pale
04:52
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This memory tightens like an unquenchable thirst
A tether that binds me to yesterday... and tomorrow
And In turn rewrites my own history
Remember me now, if only for a day
Ere you go... I go with thee
The young Earth still innocent and free of scars
She who bled radiance and arose from the ashes
The foaming water is a gown around her feet
The rays of the sun fall golden on her shoulders
Always watching, always waiting
We listen intently
As she says nothing
As feels feels nothing
She of radiant blood
Unfettered from her mortal flesh and bones
She endures
She is free
I am she, born of the stars
Sister to the moon, and daughter of the sky
Forger of light, bringer of darkness
I am that which frees you to follow
Behold me... the un maker of worlds
Guardian of the pale, protector of the fallen
Let me scrape away the rust from your dreams
Let me eat away the fear that binds you
We take our steps slowly as we shape our fragile utopia
Share with me this never ending moment
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Autumn Tears Billerica, Massachusetts
Autumn Tears is an international musical act incorporating a unique, organic fusion of modern classical music with elements of cinematic score and world music, layered with diverse male and female vocals.
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