When the End Began
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Thus Spoke
02 : 14
2
The New Eternity
03 : 25
3
Northern Fires (Guernica)
03 : 54
4
Afterdusk
03 : 55
5
Visible Unseen
03 : 51
6
Look Outside: Dream
01 : 30
7
Vanity of Sleep
04 : 09
8
In Absence
03 : 30
9
Share the Body
03 : 33
10
Firstborn (Ya’aburnee)
05 : 07
11
Lower Empire
03 : 50
12
Look Inside: Awake
01 : 36
13
The Anatomy of Time (Babel)
03 : 43
14
Depths III
03 : 46
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Track Lyrics
The New Eternity Lyrics
[Verse 1: Garrett Russell]
Mother, tell me, why do the waters make us sick?¹
Who bleeds the heavens making the clouds rain pestilence?²
Dropping fever,³ like manna from the morning sky⁴
Gather your children and hold them as they die⁵
Panic humming in the palm of my hand
Silent vectors injected with the curse of man⁶
Bodies dissected, heartbeats redirected⁷
The past was dead,⁸ why did we resurrect it?⁹
[Pre-Chorus: Thomas Freckleton]
Strange fruit¹⁰ grows on the vine¹¹ of humankind
Beneath a bright synthetic sky, I saw the future die
[Chorus: Garrett Russell & Thomas Freckleton]
A web of wires in our mind
Weaves an empire down our spine¹²
I fear we've sealed our fate
There's no escape, there's no escape: the new eternity
Strange fruit is growing on the vine
Beneath a bright synthetic sky
I fear we've sealed our fate
There's no escape, there's no escape: the new eternity
[Breakdown: Garrett Russell]
Germinating extinction¹³
[Verse 2: Garrett Russell]
The people unite when you dose¹⁴ them with fear¹⁵
Relinquish their will, let their objections disappear
Crowds galvanized by vapid words¹⁶ and septic slurs¹⁷
Utterly transfixed¹⁸ by the fiction of the "greater good"¹⁹
Estranged in this age²⁰ we set sail to the stars
Return to the earth still unaware of who we are²¹
We've come too far, we've come too far, we've come too far, it's all I know
The darkness didn't die, no, we brought it home²²
[Interlude: Garrett Russell & Thomas Freckleton]
I sowed a secret deep in the earth
But despite the world it grew, I knew all things could be made new
All things will be made new²³
[Chorus: Garrett Russell & Thomas Freckleton]
A web of wires in our mind
Weaves an empire down our spine
I fear we've sealed our fate
There's no escape, there's no escape: the new eternity
Strange fruit is growing on the vine
Beneath a bright synthetic sky
I fear we've sealed our fate
There's no escape, there's no escape: the new eternity
[Outro: Garrett Russell]
Cross the Great Divide and see
Light and Dark collide in me
Shake the shroud of secrecy²⁴
Uproot the grim hegemony²⁵
The new eternity
Northern Fires (Guernica) Lyrics
[Verse 1: Garrett Russell]
Ration my breath, terror clandestine in my chest
Mangled, I lay on a foreign forest floor [1]
Caught in an instant, divided by distance
Alone in the fray, clutching my trigger, I pray
As I make amends with death on a distant shore [2]
Such is the fate of the nation-state [3] despite the myths, they propagate [4]
The narrative never fits the crime
Democracy's died this death a thousand times
The masses kneel before the golden cross
Held by the priest [5] who bows at the feet of the king [6]
[Chorus: Thomas Freckleton]
We stand alone in the dust of what could be
Fighting to find our humanity
[Verse 2: Garrett Russell]
Bury me with my name in an unmarked grave
Another casualty to the vanity of history [7]
The war marches on after the killing ends [8]
Take our lives: colonize our minds [9]
I've been digging through timelines, historical bylines
I find the fatal flaw in our design lies
Between thoughts we had and words we knew [10]
Between what we're told and what is true [11]
Who fuels the fascist? [12] A classist
Inculcating the masses in passes
Under the contrived countenance of contrition [13]
The victor writes the story [14], more often burns the manuscript
Set fire to a pyre cremate the crimes that they commit [15]
But the flames kept us warm
So we bit our tongues and tasted scorn
The bitter stench of finite men
Betrayed by the thieves they swore to defend
The bell will toll [16], and in the end
Lay only echoes of what could have been [17]
[Chorus: Thomas Freckleton]
We stand alone in the dust of what could be
Fighting to find our humanity
We stand alone in the dust of what could be
Nothing we fought for will set us free
[Outro: Garrett Russell]
Throw myself, headlong, to the jaws of the beast [18]
The war machine that feeds for eternity
Throw myself, headlong, to the jaws of the beast
The war machine that turns for eternity
Throw myself, headlong, to the jaws of the beast
The war machine that feeds for eternity
Throw myself, headlong, to the jaws of the beast
The war machine that turns for eternity
Vanity of Sleep Lyrics
[Verse 1]
This is a love affair with consumer despair [1]
An emptiness I can call my own [2]
An arbitrary sanctuary [3]
Where we deposit prayers to a dispensable God [4]
Welcome to the end stage age [5]
Where joy is a pill and love's a prescription
Vaccinated with an outward suspicion
Isolation became a pre-existing condition [6]
[Verse 2]
Manifested drudge of my mass-manufactured consent
But there's a gaping hole in my consciousness
A deep that cries out to deep [8]
This is a love affair with consumer despair
An emptiness I can call my own
An antidote for mystery
Our indifference is deafening
[Interlude]
אהיה אשר אהיה
[9]
There's a presence here [10]
It stirs inside the static dissonance of discontent that refused to relent
[Verse 3]
I built a home overlooking a graveyard
To remind myself I'm still alive
Yet you see a flaw still abides
As I witness an ending that I can't contrive
We watched a golden array of a casket parade
As wealth makes its final display to the ground
I found it strange that even in this place
Death became such a gainful exchange
[Chorus]
Give me something to hold, give me something that bleeds
I'll scour the earth for my identity [11]
Is there a cure for a sick society? [12]
So rich in this world, so in debt to ourselves
The network of life in such a disconnect [13]
How many times must we die this death?
[Post-Chorus]
Annihilation is all we are
Desolation is everything I know
[Verse 4]
All we are is all we love [14]
And everything I know is destructible
Artificial heart, obsidian soul
Encircled by dreams that are combustible [15]
We trade the Garden for Cities, [16] the Tree for a Tower [17]
Surrendered our faith, became addicted to power
I know that hope grows inside of the Wound [18]
And I know progress is empty [19], I must be consumed [20]
So I'll dig through these masks till I find my face
Separate from the false pretense I embraced [21]
It kills me to know that you'll never find peace
You can have all the world, but you'll never be free [22]
[Outro]
Tear the stitches sewn across my existence
Cut me out from this nothingness
Dusk will come and lay to rest our fleeting, fading, silhouettes [23]
Depths III Lyrics
[Verse 1: Garrett Russell]
I knew one truth, and that truth was the sea
Cold and knowing, it saw the coward in me
And as the stain of epochs lines my tongue
I choked heavy on the past, too numb to speak back
We're each abandoned by the hands of time
That set us down to sail circles [1] across a straight line
Sister moon, are we all that's left?
Just a silent satellite and the sigh of flesh [2]
Come down and rest your lunar head on my breast
Listen to the terror tear at my chest
Our masts in tatters, oars shattered
Feel free to pull me back to the vast, unforgiving mass
Should we call this art, my falling apart?
The tangents of an imbalanced heart
As matter multiplied, I divide, but I digress
The deprivation is taking effect
[Verse 2: Garrett Russell]
You've said if I stood against my darkness
Not all of me would die [3]
But all I see on the surface is a shadow
And it occurs to me this could mean suicide
When you went quiet [4], I turned to silence [5]
Seven sisters [6] draw me back across the moor [7]
Could you still love me in my leaving?
Would you remember me by the moments we forgot?
And as the waves slapped at my raft
I cursed the fate like our vows, they broke at the bow
Flanked by the mist, I inhaled the breath of existence
Then you called me for one last time
[Chorus: Garrett Russell]
I am the wind, the Be and the Still
I am the Depths, the Immeasurable Will
And when I awoke in that Garden
Lord, did you see me as I was dreaming?
[Verse 3: Garrett Russell]
I locked eyes with the storm
The sky sank down to receive the fury of the sea
The abolition of my being [8]
The precipice of eternity [9]
Incandescence burst through the black
The veil was torn [10] as the void collapsed
The rain will subside
Be my eyes, [11] show me hope in the maw of the night
Our fractured pasts fall into one
A dozen stars [12] collide as a perpetual sun [13]
And as we disintegrate
Will you be the Fire that burns in my lungs?
[Outro: Garrett Russell]
Breathe me in
Watch me burn
Come breathe me in, breathe me in
You'll watch me burn