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Solipsis
05:17
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If this world would keep its silence / Then the tide below would beckon me forward / I’ll never forget that day I chose to leave myself / Abandon this body / The flickering of this deafening memory echoes into eternity / The motionless of the masses has always seemed to me frightening / Their faces are discord / Thank God I can’t hear their voices / In desperation I reach into the dead air only to find myself / I will bring this to an end / Ask me why I’m vindictive / I’ve become so numb / Now break beneath the endless tide, under the empty sky / They won’t dare say anything / For we lay still to die in motion / Can’t hear her words, it was the only thing / Ringing / Calling out to me, begging me to step back, turn away / Look into these eyes for the last time / And tell the truth, what do you see in me? / This illusion lacks color / I watch it consuming you and me / The ocean will welcome me / My own glass sanctuary / The deep opens up to receive me / Void / The sole entity that perceives me
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Liminal
05:59
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Above the waters closed and trapped me within my sanctuary / An unexpected, restless void / An unknown destination / For no angels have sang their songs / No regal trumpet has sounded its call / Temptations flames hasn’t left its singe / For darkness surrounds me / Resaturate the color within this life once lost / No longer will I waste my breathe on this charade / Conscious, not reincarnate / Enlightened only of my mistake / No, my final chapter is a blank page / Return, reclaim / For I have brought myself here with such a bitter tasting leap / Through my own volition / No matter the climb / I will overcome death / But what could I say / Every single word will turn to ash and fade away / What could I say? / Will I stand there and watch my life end this way? / I’ll hoist the anchor and be the life in these tattered sails / Ascending from this darkness / Passing through the veil / So now the ocean has given up its dead, if only for a moment / And I return to myself / Calling / “Well if this world would keep its silence / And the tide below has beckoned me forward / Then I will never escape this instance” / But what could I say?
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Apotheosis
05:33
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I’ve traveled so far from home / Seeking the riches, yet I still roam / The legends tell me it must be here / I feel the presence, I must be near / A warm glow emits from a nearby door / My body shakes, a sensation so pure / I’m drawn to this room as if it were meant to be / As if some higher power were calling out to me / Stumbling upon the throne of a god / I find myself urged to follow the impossible footsteps of the one who precedes me / How can one man fill the shoes of a legacy known to all? / I will take it upon myself / These shoes are mine to fill / I now possess the crown of crowns / I have claimed the sacred throne / I have become a god / And what kind of deity should I be? / Humanity’s enemy? / I have become a god, but at what a cost? / I have become a god, unholy black sun / I can’t believe my eyes as the rain fall from the sky / What have I done? / What kind of monster have I become? / What’s done is done / At the time what seemed like fate was actually personal gain / More than a monster / I feel it leaving / Bicameral grieving / Humanity slipping / My genius ascending / My sanity spiraling / This body dissolving, distorted, evolving / More than a monster / So far from heaven / So fucking far from heaven / What’s done is done
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Ironside
03:53
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I cannot accept this as true / Found my life’s purpose in conversations with you / Counterpoint to violent mind, to my excess, is laid to rest / Forgive me for what I’m about to do / I’ve searched and I’ve tried but there is no other way / For you, death was a door / For me, a secret passage into the hollow sanctuary of my adversaries / Open your eyes as I feign closing mine / Withering, yet alive / Mimic their saccharine savior and rise / All of my life has led me to this, I will not fail / Farewell, my love / So long, my sons / I was baptized into deception before this unholy immersion / How foolish must you be not to see that we only made it this far with / Fraud, deceit, bloodshed and treachery? / We are feared as the eye of the storm / Will your dead god hung from a tree descend, intervene? / Fight back as long as you please / You’ll never be rid of me / I’m in your teeth, in your skin, in your bones / I’m under the sea / With the stars / In the stones / March through the streets / Candles and cross held high / Crowds gather round / Thinking the storm passed by / To the altar I sail / Dagger pressed to my chest / It’s time / My sacrifice is satisfied / And the world will finally see my hardships transpired / Now, I rise / And taking them all by surprise / Draw my blade, unafraid / Don’t move / Make my last move - King takes Bishop / I take the crown hostage / Follow me down to the locked gates / To let the nightmare into your dreams / You thought you could hold back the tide / Of history and entropy / We will not meet again in heaven / The blood on my hands made sure of that / Though it grieves me to know that I’ll be alone / Beyond this world, my name will be known
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Selfsame
01:57
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So you think you can toss the Veil? / Untether yourself from embodiment? (No) / Soar high above the collisions? / Yet I grant you identity - extruding your distinction indefinitely / Won’t let you fade away / Losing my grip on things I’ve treasured along the way / Well you can’t ask me to forget my own name / Struggle and fight, dissolving memories / While you may cling to self-abandonment / I will continue my own narrative / Yet we’re one and the same after all - dopamine, serotonin and cortisol / We are the Selfsame
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Sophia
04:37
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I’ll remember the sea beyond the coming fire / Sword in hand, surrounded / The wind has not blown, the rivers not flowed / The stars and moon have fled this place / Clouds look down in pity as we starve ourselves / But we have no lungs to breathe in this autopsy / It starts with me / My life for this city / Mark the line for the first incision / Negotiations will be quick - my own life for this damned city / They carry the crescent and blot out the sun / Now marching before us / Breathe fear on everyone / The earth is torn open / The oceans recede / This horror before us / We bleed the machine / I’ll remember the sea beyond the coming fire / As the ashes of yesterday fade away, I remain / The approaching fire no longer seen on the horizon / This flame is not purifying / Can’t escape the slow death you are dying / These walls will fall / These gates will fail / And hell will come, assimilate us all / Though they raise up these towers of bone and blood, we must fight on / Don’t turn your back, don’t hide your face / Die with honor in your hearts
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Melancholia
04:22
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Monument, unsculpted / Melancholia / Masterpiece, abandoned / Melancholia / Numb limbs guide the pen struggling to name this place I could never see before / A monument, unsculpted / Vision stirs inside, always find my ink runs dry / Or am I going blind again? / Masterpiece, abandoned / Don’t stir / Don’t speak / Don’t breathe / Don’t think / Am I not made to co-create, generate? / With frozen tongue, I stagnate / Without my voice, can’t purify, exorcise / Sorrow wakes, fear arrives / Adrift / An architect with aching hands and failing sight / Builds a prison in his own mind / Believing himself buried within a sarcophagus of his own design / It materialized / No lock, no key / I could be free / By sheer will I free myself / I devour my own melancholia / Savor the daze of melancholia / Exalt the beauty in melancholia / Exit myself through melancholia / I devour my own melancholia / Diving deeper into melancholia / Offer up a prayer to melancholia / I have mastered my melancholia
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October 11th
08:41
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Epidemic / A natural form of genocide / A derelict city stained with death / Once was so vibrant, so full and alive / A cold display of natural selection / Scorch the earth / Allow no chance for re-emergence / Remove any viable host / I still remember that fateful day when the first one hit the floor / I still remember the unsettling sight of his contorted face as he died / Alone / Nothing, there is nothing left / Everything is gone / I’ll remember October 11th
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Regards
01:34
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11. |
ToTheArk Pt. 1: Hunted
04:07
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I can’t shake this false apprehension / Like a shadow that follows too closely / I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again / This is not just a trick of my god damned mind / I’ve fooled myself before and I swore never again / Still this haunting will not cease till I burn this whole world to the ground / Close my eyes, hold my breath / For this lapse in time / My death / I feel it tearing through my mind / It’s something I can’t rewind / Escape through this splitting skull / Now turn to face this devil / Nightfall will welcome us all / But its cold embrace and its empty face / Have become my own / Sinking down to the incandescence I once knew / Blurred lines and echoes as I tear back though / Awake from this tortured sequence / So much time has been lost / Weakened and forgotten / Condemned to repeat this / And I beheld myself, disfigured as that faceless horror and said, “I would rather die” / Turn, Look, Run / The hunter is close behind / And I’m running blind / Don’t you see that man in shadow? / Am I losing my mind? / Condemned to repeat this tortured sequence
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ToTheArk Pt. 2: Return
06:11
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So calm, so cold / I’ve caught my breath / I’ve given in / Deep beneath the mask I’ve worn since I came into this world / Stirs something primal / Slowly released by fevered incision / Now internalize this repetition to escape and transcend / The clouds have rolled back / The stars have fallen into the ocean / I can no longer see beyond all these lacerations / Impermanence flees to be replaced by an unobstructed hatred / For the first time, I see with no face / I am the haunting echo of a silent universe / A whisper in the wind / The dysphoria within / Welcoming the Hunter’s Mask / I close my eyes for the last time / Though cold and motionless, I’m still inside / And I fear I’m not alone / Will you guide me? / Even a shattered mirror shimmers in the moonlight / You’ll take me to the ark
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