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Extinguishing the Stars
05:06
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How did it get this far?
When did it slip away?
Early summer spent suspended
In a dreamlike forever
In defiance of a coming
Shift in the weather
The retreat of lengthened days
A dawning dread of approaching winter
Relinquishing the reins
Any semblance of control
Or imagined destiny
Extinguishing the stars
In surrender to the cold
Impending reality
Clinging to what’s lost
In futility
In gradual, resigned acceptance
A vision revealed
Slowly succumbing
In protest
To the turning of the wheel
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2. |
Darkest Corners
05:09
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At any cost may they never see
What lives under the projection
Writhing in silence, convulsing
It withers and dies when exposed to light
Chiseled from stone
Never let them, never let them
Faultlines grow
Never let them see
Deny it all away
Marching on, always marching on
And don’t forget yourself
And don’t forget your smile
A young man grows so quickly old
Colors drained away
From eyes no longer blinking
Just one more day
One more night
Never ending
It’s like gravity
Increases every moment
It’s like
With every step the earth gives way
beneath my feet
It’s like tragedy
Swallowed and unspoken
In time
Taking root and waiting
Incubating in the darkest corners
Take the reigns
Embrace the struggle
What doesn’t kill you
Well, you know the rest
Take the reigns
Submerge the pain
Pressure makes diamonds
Or hadn’t you heard?
Alive inside the machine
Keep up or be replaced
Alive inside the machine
Die there
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Caught between unyielding forces
Unfelt erosion crawling ever forward
Undermining the most trusted
Taken for granted as ageless and eternal
Eyes upon the cloudless sky
Awaiting answers
Long since revealed
Blue gives way to vastness
A perforated black
An absence unmeasured
To walk upon disintegration
A temporary confidence
Above the stampede of the oblivious
Below, it gnaws without relent
Without relent
Concrete veined with faultlines
Foundations settle in decaying earth
Silently consuming
The optimism of our remaining moments
Come the day of upheaval
As the underlying gives way
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4. |
Ghosts of May
06:04
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Elusive and intangible
Expectations slip from my grasp
As hope and doubt and pain and patience
Twirl and dance their mocking dance
Searching searching frantically
for distraction,
Anything to keep at bay
The underlying, unrelenting,
helplessness
of an uncertain “someday”
Staring up at different ceilings
In a circumstance undreamt of
Craving for voice
Grateful for words
But sometimes words are not enough
Not enough
Like a walking ghost making its way
In and out of daylight
Forcing smiles through countless days
Dreading nights unending
Eternity unfolds by seconds
As time itself slows down
From clock to calendar
And back again
It would be all too easy to drown
But after it all
If she waits like I wait
Enduring, enduring
Until the end
And somewhere beyond despair
If she waits like I wait
Forever means nothing
If she waits
If she waits
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5. |
We Eat Our Own
05:30
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Find the refuge here
That you seek
An escape from the world
And the burden of conformity
Come forth, the cast out
To a darkened place
Where we the lost unite
And everything else fades away
In search of some identity
A calling away, away from this
Diverging from the common path
Only to be set upon
The glint of eyes
Just outside the light
We are circling
And we eat our own
We eat our own
To prey upon
Weakness in any form
Our howling voices converge
We eat our own
We the losers who can’t fit in
Crushing losers who can’t fit in
A professed call for unity
A thin veneer of cohesion
When there are no more enemies
We create them of ourselves
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Buried Under Sky
Buried Under Sky is a melodic metal project that formed in the middle of the 2020 pandemic.
With an avowed
love for dueling melodies and hard rock rhythms, Buried Under Sky wears its nineties influences on its sleeve with zero ambition to be the fastest, hardest, heaviest, or anything but four middle-aged guys with day jobs making the metal they want to hear.
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