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Cruelty of Hope
07:30
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Lamplight shines in black infinity
A hallow lantern world.
The story of a soul
Began along these lamplit boulevards
Where mother keeps us warm
With no cause for alarm
Where you quietly disarm
The questions casting shadows on your heart
I'm sure. it's there. I saw it in the dark
A whisper of a spark glow softly from afar
But here along these lamplit boulevard
Our mother keeps us warm with no cause for alarm
Yet, Still i want to know
Is that a fire in the horizon
Still i want to know
Or an illusion in my eyes
Nothing ever changes here it happens all the time
So how come only i can see this distant light
What if from afar my silent star
Is the brightest candle in the night
My burning monument
In radiance where the darkness is torn from my sight
Can't bury these feelings (believe what you're seeing)
Of the disquieting notion that maybe there's more out there
"Mother do you see that distant light"
"It's calling me come closer"
(Come Closer....)
"Mother of all beings could I try"
"To journey in the endless"
"Unnamed expanse"
"Only if you live without my light"
"Prithee, my child, perish the thought"
"And if you go you can never come back to your home. Could you make that choice?"
"My darling boy please stay forevermore"
"And when your eyes are clear"
"They'll be sincere"
"The brightest night is here in lamplight"
"Life in the gentle glow"
"Our eternal home"
"Where the darkness is torn from your sight"
Can't bury these feelings
Believe what i'm saying
Of the disquieting notion that maybe there's more out there
What if you don't find your answers, boy?
Then i guess i'll know how far i'd go
Go and you'll never see your home again...
And if i don't i'll crumble from within
In the darkness you will lose your way
I'm already lost if i stay
Stay just a while, you should think this through
I know it hurts but i need to know the truth!
My little doll you're just a child (Now i can silently Disarm)
Your small eyes only see in dull and wild (The questions casting shadows on)
But i can't be as cold as cruelty (My heart's so full.. I'll stoke the fire...)
A gentle breeze upon your candle ...
Upon my candle
"if you must go..."
"I can't tell you no"
"So strike your match against the nameless dark"
"Take this lantern"
"Feed the fire"
"With your Hope else be consumed"
"By the dark abyss"
Soon i'll know for sure
If my slient star
Is the brightest candle in the night
"Mother, I promise"
"To only miss you as long as i live in infinity"
So farewell to lamplight
Goodbye forever
Now i turn words into motion for i know there's more out there!!
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Guiding Light
07:36
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Translucent wisp
So delicate
You brave the wind and dare to coalesce before me
Floating there
You mote of dust
Small and naive, and still believes, impossible dreams
Invisible
You're barely there
Yet you insist on your creation
You just don't understand
There was a time
Long ago in the light
There the mountains and oceans i breathed into life
In endless skies I painted the constellations
Shining down
On the valleys and steppes
On the myriad planes of existence i dreamt
Where every word was spoken in celebration
But now silence reigns in every kingdom
The once bright pastures now but a dull grey
Hope then, is only a thin veneer
Something, something always gets in the way
Crisis
Disaster
Contradiction
Every single one different
All things die no exceptions
Always
The consequence of existence
An unavoidable spiral
back into the abyss
Or it could be me
An imperfect god
Near hollowed my soul, my heart,
My illumination
Growing dim
Or dim from the start
Small and naive, I used to believe like you
But now I know
I know I know for sure
I know I never was bright
Enough to spin hope into Life
I was a fool
To think myself an enlightened thing
To think I could turn
Translucent wisps into worlds
impossible dreams
(Ranto Lerula)
One last time
Despite all the reasons why
Despite all my failures I
Will shine you a new
Guiding light
Hoping just one last time
Despite all the reasons why
Despite all my failures I
Will shine you a new
Guiding light
One last time
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Hero of the Abyss
06:23
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As dark as the oceans
And colorless skies
And as dull as the goddesses light
Her creations reflects all her flaws and frailties
With the one sole exception who dared to smile
She could not see way back then how could she?
O'er shadows so tall in her e-eyes?
Can you hear
my song in the depths?
Sung a fool to a hero
In the abyss
Oh will you forgive
My late melody?
Sung a fool to a hero
In the endless abyss
Broken unifinished creations handmade
And she cried how her light was too dim
And when she cried, it always ran back, with flowers on it's arm
never once did she take them, she'd look away
She could not see way back then how could she?
O'er shadows so tall in her e-eyes?
Can you hear
my song in the depths?
Sung a fool to a hero
In the abyss
Oh will you forgive
My late melody?
Sung a fool to a hero
In the endless abyss
She would find herself lost
In thought as she drifted through the darkness
To the coast, the black and the cold
Unbeknownst of the danger
That lurks therein
A leviathan came to devour the incautious goddess
As the void stared back with a glint in it's teeth
An ending that would suit me well
Yet I barely saw the white flash in its maw
Through the petals that flew in the air
The brightest of violence
Can you hear my song in the depths?
Sung a fool to a hero in the abyss
Oh will you forgive my late melody?
Sung a fool to a hero
In the abyss
Can you hear my song? My Dear Hero
As deep as the oceans and violet skies
And as warm the goddesses light
Her creations reflects all her flaws and frailties
But now her eyes holds no shadow and her world is finally bright
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