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The Bitter Season
06:02
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Below the clear blue sky
The haze of each day
I lay broken
A blind memory
Where I stumble
As winter fades into the spring
Sheltered from the rain
I wait in dreary sunshine
Pausing in the breeze
Scattered on the wind
Every passing shadow
Traces what's written
Each contour redolent
With these faded visions
Slip into the emptiness
Etching silhouettes as they fall
Surrender to the mystery
Drifting through the haze
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Clouds anchored to the daylight
To fill the somber heavens
A mist against the harbor
I pause in lonely splendor
My fractured composition
Imperfect in recollection
Scattered on a frozen breath
A fugitive of certainty
Approach these dying aspects
Melting on the lens of dawn
In a vacuum of failure
This shape feeds memory
The moment that I falter
A hesitation of the air
Growing softly, radiant
Expressive in my confusion
A significant discovery
Absent from this maze
Drawing contours as they wither
Wandering through the winters rain
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The Metamorphosis
07:00
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Looking back on what I was
Cannot see the truth in you
Only see the shame in me
Never find myself again
Never knowing what could have been
Never finding anything
Only greater emptiness
Deeper than I began
Crush me for the good in me
The good in me will cut you down
How will they find me now?
In the end they won’t care
Lost within a shaded place
They’ll find my emptiness
You’ll consume all within me
And replace it with sweet apathy
All my love what does it mean?
A cheap gift for uncaring creatures
Scars deep inside with monsters mocking
Forming me into an unloving being
Someone so cold you fear its coarse gaze
And loath its existence day by day
All fear their creation now
Wishing to run away
Forgive me
I am nothing
You give me
All your lies
And shamed me
with intolerance
I’ll never know
Just who I am
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Pale Erosion
05:35
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Give me all your shallow thoughts
Leave me in a hollow place
Grant me all your hopelessness
And bless me with your shattered dreams
Tear me into tender pieces
Feel the gilded illusions swell
Crawl into your secure spaces
To hopeless to escape unscathed
No form can deliver me
All barriers eroded down
Pale and weak my frame of mind
By your cold vindictiveness
Shatter down my mind inside
Falling in thin fleeting strips
Sliding in an endless ocean
Down, away, it drains and slips
I am just a shadow now
A ghostly wraith entombed inside
Promise me that you’ll always love me
And crush my soul with your pride
I journey now an empty being
My flesh it drips into a grave
You’ve given me my misery
I go upon my hopeless way
No form can deliver me
All barriers eroded down
Pale and weak my frame of mind
By your cold vindictiveness
Shatter down my mind inside
Falling in thin fleeting strips
Sliding in an endless ocean
Down, away, it drains and slips
Give me all your shallow thoughts
Leave me in a hollow place
Grant me all your hopelessness
And bless me with your shattered dreams
No form can deliver me
All barriers eroded down
Pale and weak my frame of mind
By your cold vindictiveness
Shatter down my mind inside
Falling in thin fleeting strips
Sliding in an endless ocean
Down, away, it drains and slips
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Empyrean Impressions
05:50
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Sinking softly into a dream
Shimmering with impatience
Softly on your skin
Arches the golden sun
Fallen upon the spring
Night broken by stars
The canopy of night
Locked behind twilight
Sinking softly into a dream
Shimmering with impatience
Softly on your skin
Arches the golden sun
Fallen upon the spring
Night broken by stars
The canopy of night
Locked behind twilight
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A Trembling Void
04:22
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Golden pillars
Converge upon
The early dawn
With a veil of sight
Lost within
Radiant flames
Stellar in
Transcending vision
Of the virtue
Awakened by the
Inception of
A vacant strain
Absolved by
Redolent forms
Found among the
Void of observance
A thin prayer
To voyage among
The forgotten
And unanswered
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Within the Ruins
05:55
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About me I see decay
It transformed in my sight
Toppled statues beneath my feet
Mundane ruins in dreary light
And within this frame there lies
Nothing but imprisoned shades
Only bound by emptiness
That these coils cannot evade
Deep within the catacombs
That vault the somber ruins
A vestige of hopelessness
Swallows faith beneath the dunes
Everything so cold and dead
All forms are washed away
In ancient walls lay icy fear
Of worlds long decayed
Enter into this piece of mind
Tranquilities synthesis
Hesitating on the verge of
Sweet oblivion
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Empty Possessions
06:52
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Never find myself again
A coldness growing deeper
These covers never warm me
Consumed by fever dreams
From within the wilderness
Scattered fragments spill
Catching faded glances
A holdout from the day
The emptiest possessions
Slipping through my hands
Sift between my fingers
As if grains of time
The broken pieces fall away
Lost upon a prayer
Cast into these dismal rooms
A passage stripped of comfort
Talking to the shadows
A cry into the night
Tell them to surrender
To the sifting stars
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A Ceremony Transfigured
08:10
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In scorn we wander
Following the blind
These dismal towers
Conceived in bindings
Scaling lost ramparts
Where the angelic
Proclaim nothing
In empty circles
Wandering this place
With silence supreme
Invisible walls
Hide misery unseen
Forgotten by all
Abandoned in dreams
Never to emerge
In ceremony
In the pale gray skies
Slivers reach the dusk
Statues loom dreary
In vacant chambers
Among solitude
Hear a soft singing
Of doleful voices
Toiling forever
Wandering this place
With silence supreme
Invisible walls
Hide misery unseen
Forgotten by all
Abandoned in dreams
Never to emerge
In ceremony
A framework remains
In this temple
Written in words
A solemn rite
Stale flowers adorn
This somber observance
With heavy heart
A consummate gesture
The cold misery
The languishing memory
Of once greater days
Lost to the ceremony
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SFUStudios Taipei, Taiwan
SFUStudios is composed of various studio projects, spanning a diverse catalogue of musical genres including: Indie Rock, Progressive Rock, Ambient, Electronic, Psychedelic Rock, Jazz, Goth, Industrial, Doom, Grindcore and Metal.
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