Funerals From The Astral Sphere

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Written and recorded from November 2009 to January 2011. All lyrics 2010-2011. Double Cd release in 2011 by I, Voidhanger Records. Comes with a 20-page booklet, in a slipcase. Disc 1 Fallen from Firmament The spiteful heavens remain a broken and pointless dream Am I to wander and be terrestrial forever? I craved the silence and solitude of death in the stars Instead I feel chained and bound to this wretched earth Back in this forest, I feel the presence of living things Deep in the surface...

Written and recorded from November 2009 to January 2011. All lyrics 2010-2011. Double Cd release in 2011 by I, Voidhanger Records. Comes with a 20-page booklet, in a slipcase. Disc 1 Fallen from Firmament The spiteful heavens remain a broken and pointless dream Am I to wander and be terrestrial forever? I craved the silence and solitude of death in the stars Instead I feel chained and bound to this wretched earth Back in this forest, I feel the presence of living things Deep in the surface I feel the rotting of flesh and bone And in the distance I see a tombstone whose name I know And whose untimely death is mourned by no one I craved the silence and solitude of death in the stars Instead I feel chained and bound to this wretched earth A Death So Pure In the silence of the trees, I hear them singing And in the darkness one is dying And he is burning… Against the Moonlight The flames have died against the moonlight For an age he has lived and served The smoke has choked his last breath And so he leaves this world behind His soul now gazes at his jarred flesh And he sees that he can do no more A weight, it seems, has been lifted But still I see a sadness in his eyes I see a sense of failure That clouds his passage to death And those clouds are dark and burdened What vision does his kind foresee? An Ode to Dying Spirits O’ hear me spirit It will be over before we know it’s begun O’ see me spirit I am alone now waiting for darkness to fall You cannot hear me You cannot see me You stand their watching Your eyes are both empty The world will fall now And you will perish Your life is over My words seem to haunt thee Don’t worry spirit I cannot help you You turned your head away O’ crying spirit Death is upon you All the world dies as one You will no hear me You will not see me You fall down watching Your soul is withering The world will die now We all will perish Our lives are over Your words seem to haunt me… When Death Comes Crawling As you leave me I feel such loneliness sweep over me I sense the world getting darker And the air getting colder death is haunting these woods And I can see all those Whose flesh he will soon touch He will soon touch… The fragrance of dying flesh is burning And slightly overwhelming As sure as those who protect this forest slowly die So do the bonds of those who need its air and nourishment Soon all shall die All the crying of those dying Haunts those hunting and those running Death is creeping on those weeping There is no chance for those sleeping Now it’s snowing, the winds blowing There is nothing new now growing Leaves are falling, bodies sprawling There’s no hope when death comes crawling Silently In Shadow t’s creeping, it’s creeping silently in shadow It’s listening, it’s listening for the sound of breathing It wanders, it wanders where no eyes will see it It’s always, it’s always just a step away It’s feeding, it’s feeding on the dreams of mortals It’s draining, it’s draining all the life away It grows with, it grows with every fear of man It’s always, it’s always just a breath away And in this age of darkness it grows Its empty void is now visible A vacuum of living things Whose souls it feasts Mankind has only itself to blame… Its shadow now seems not as silent This black hole absorbs all the light The silhouettes of mankind Now merge with the void Who can now tell them apart? Lost Lost, lost in the mist and the trees I will go where the wind never blows All alone in this dark maze of trees I will go where the sun never glows Ache, take my spirit away Where I go, no one will know… Tears of Starfire The death of an ancient being Deserves more than a mortal’s tear Its existence is much more than our own I feel nature’s pain and sorrow So when I look to the heavens I see a shower of stars The cosmos is bellowing And shedding tears of starfire… The earth is drowning in fires Sent from beyond the eighth sphere The pain of the ancients Shall wipe the earth clean The trace of mortals will soon disappear And all man’s creation is falling Their towers of strength come down The fires of destruction are reflecting Within nocturnal beasts’ eyes Disc 2 Journey Across The Stars When the heavens are falling, he’ll come And bring with him destruction He’s travelled many moons and many stars He is the bearer of bad news “Oh mortal ones, you have reaped what you’ve sown. Take these wounds as your last chance before I return” And faster than a candle burns, he goes On his journey back across the stars He leaves an anxious world behind For those still alive will remember his words “Oh mortal ones, you have reaped what you’ve sown. Take these wounds as your last chance before I return” Never to Return All I see, can’t be real, all is calm Weightless sound, entrances me My thoughts are free The night is calling us away The vast plains of stardust amaze It lights the dark and endless path If only I could stay, never to return A Midnight Odyssey Instrumental From a Celestial Throne From up in the stars I look back on our earth I see a prisoner’s dwelling Needing to be cleansed From afar it looks wondrous Enigmatic and serene But when it’s viewed more closely The filth can be seen From up in the stars They laugh at our dreams They see the foolishness Of our quarrels and beliefs How mortal man has wandered So far from the path And now the beasts await To feast on our mistakes From a celestial throne I see a vision of burning trees The blackened seeds are sown A cosmic thunder will bury our screams From a celestial throne I’ll watch the mortal earth tremble The blackened seeds have grown And from beneath the earth they strangle Secrets and Solitude In the silence of the astral realm There are whispers of an unknown tongue The more I listen, the less I know Of myself… of my existence Shores Serene There is a lake way up in the sky It’s where the ancient spirits go to die Its shores serene, its waters calm Its silence surreal, the astral graveyard Those Who Linger at Night “I am the forest, the keeper of fate I have awakened to die These trees are old, my breath is frail I can no longer protect them” “O’ ancient spirit, I did not know My presence has brought this fate If only I could erase the trace Of mankind’s foolish ways” “Your kind has come here and burned the heart Of those who linger at night They held the secrets, our precious fate But now they’ll drown in silence” “O’ dying spirit, I shall prevail And rid the world of man They shall desire, but they will fall This world shall drown in blood” And with those very words The rich green leaves all turned brown As all the moisture dried The spirit fell to the ground Funerals from the Astral Sphere Above me rises the blanket of night A canvas lit by a million fires But whose flames are small and far I shall never reach their glowing warmth They look upon me with rejection They bring no peace to my mind There is no comfort in such a dark void There’s only grief in their funerals… From the astral sphere Read more on Last.fm. 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