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Snow melts as winter gives way to spring
The sun bursts through the mournful skies
The dew like pearls on blades of grass
The world turns over in its sleep
And stirs awake
I drag my shriveled body out of bed
And peer out to the crowd below
I shun the daylight and the morning air
As I hide myself from the world
The day is lost
The world is regrowing, now my time comes due
Old life must always give way to the new
I shall relinquish my flesh to the earth
And face the great wheel of rebirth
This body is withered, wounded and spent
The vultures will feast on my weakening flesh
High on the plateau is where I transform
And pray to be swiftly reborn
Children stare at me with wide open mouths
And call after me as I pass them by
Silently I make my way to the mountain pass
And prepare for the perilous climb
No living soul sees me struggle uphill
As I ascend past the vast reach of time
Ice cold winds tear at my cloak and face
As I climb up to that naked sky
And as the dust falls on my open eyes
And my frail body lies sprawled on the rocks
The dreadful weight of the heavens crushes me
And the firmament swallows me up
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I recall ancient rites standing barefoot in the soil
Fertile beings mocking me as my kettle starts to boil
Soon I’ll be in the ground with my lungs full of dirt
Waiting to be reborn through the green womb of the earth
Student of the arts of man that have always passed me by
For I can’t see, I can’t feel, I can only vainly try
Who will guide me on this path, who will give me back my sight
Light from darkness, day from night
And, out of death, life
I uncover the path that led me here
Retracing my steps as I begin to see
All is revealed to me when I depart this life
And I am made whole again
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I thought I had it all within my hands
When the glass became obscured
The walls heaved and fell away from me
And I lay in pieces on the floor
In the space between spaces
Lies the world behind this world
Reality shifts with a hideous lurch
And the mind recoils in horror
Through the kaleidoscope
The aether welcomes me
Floating away from home
Into eternity
As penance for my hubris my body was split from my soul
I pass the threshold as I drift untethered through this endless void
Clear this fog from my mind
I was stumbling blind through life
It all crumbled when the world
Twisted of its axis
As I drift to the light
Fire burns me from inside
And I lose myself as I
Watch my face distorting
Take my soul from on high
Guide me through this endless night
Please rejoin the parts of me
That once made me human
And tell me where I can find
What’s left of the child inside
Help me make it through it all
My time is ending
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On the Bones of Pilgrims
06:30
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This fortress has stood for ages
Yet teetering and weak
Held up by sycophants
Who lack their own beliefs
The gates are choked with ivy
The hinges brittle with rust
Rotting from the inside out
With envy and mistrust
On the bones of pilgrims
This fortress was built
Battlement upon battlement
The sanctum of lost souls
What becomes of the children?
What becomes of the poor?
What becomes of the beggars?
Their bones have built these walls
Caustic words like vomit
From blackened throats spill
The lord of lies and suspicion
On his throne of filth
On the bones of pilgrims
This fortress was built
Battlement upon battlement
This sanctum of lost souls
What becomes of the children?
What becomes of the poor?
What becomes of the beggars?
Their souls live in these walls
The walls of this living tomb
Hold the bones of the damned
Their stone faces smiling
For they don’t know they are dead
Entombed eternally
In their castles up high
Laughing silently
In their palace of rot and grime
The sky is falling
Our bridges are burning
The walls are crumbling
And the fortress comes tumbling down
The sky is falling
Our bridges are burning
The walls are crumbling
And the fortress comes tumbling down
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Instrumental
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Sprung from the womb upon this earth
A wretched, misshapen being
Stabbed in the side to replenish my blood
And laid bare for all to see
This I see in the halls of my mind
As I return to where it all began
I choke on dust and ancient grey cobwebs
As my lantern lights my path
Gone from God and from the world
Cursed from birth and all existence
Not dying, already dead and decayed
For I am a ghost that calls itself a man
Ghosts of family reach out to me to drag me below
They whisper to me what I always feared and always have known
It follows me to wherever in life I may go
This veil of darkness upon my ancestral home
Save me!
I set foot on the ancient grounds where I stood as a child
Before the weight of reality descended upon me
And just like mother called us for dinner
I hear my ancestors calling me home
Arms of ghostlike essence surround me
I feel their spirits course through my soul
No God in heaven answers my prayers
I hear my ancestors calling me home
Long dead faces swirl all around me
I see their fates are entwined with my own
No God in heaven answers my prayers
I hear my ancestors calling me home
Voices echo out through the ages
Finding me anywhere I dare to roam
No God in heaven answers my prayers
I hear my ancestors calling me home
I begin to see what’s wrong with me, this curse on my soul
Always part of me, of what I’ve been, and what I’ll become
And it follows me to wherever in life I may go
This veil of darkness upon my ancestral home
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Alburnum Netherlands
Folk/Black Metal from the Netherlands. New album "The Withered Roots of Reality" out now.
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