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The Wall of Sleep
05:03
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Shapeless, shifting void
The sanctum of the weary and the paranoid
A source of untold fears
Helpless to observe
Beyond my understanding my own soul's unnerved
With music to my ears
What horrors have I dreamt of
Will I shudder if I stare
Am I strong enough to transcend
Am I brave enough to dare
Is my fragile psyche faded
Have I sunken to the deep
The forbidden world allures me
Beyond the wall of sleep
Summoned now in rest
Both foolish and enlightened are unkindly blessed
To witness the obscure
Fleeting glimpse of death
The horrors still consume me with my every breath
A specter's scar so pure
Running wild in the night
In our dreams we take flight
But where to do we run
When the nightmare's begun
Are these faces of mine
Or do they hide behind
The sleeping surface
Keys to know the unknown
Every life, every stone
But what soul pays the cost
When you learn from the lost
What awaits in the dark
If you dream with a spark
To invite a disturbance
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2. |
To The Grave
05:55
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Deep in the mist I can feel something there
A touch of the soul like the wind in your hair
There's a light in the dark but it's just so far away
While we storm heaven's gates
And we heal our mistakes
The fear could take us over
But we heal in the light
And we gather our might
To find our spirit's closure
So we fall again
We come together
When the pieces fall apart
They last forever
With a prayer to fill our hearts
And to keep us brave
Our eternity
A circle holding us between
The threads of life
This cursed reality
Has doomed us with new purpose
As spirits bound in service to the grave
Where some wander aimless and some quest for more
In traces of kingdoms, the ruins of before
We consider the cost
And we're fighting to survive
While we cross through the rift
Our ethereal gift
Will leave us shells no longer
With the whispers in mind
Of the demon inside
We end our failures stronger
Something has eclipsed this land
Covered by an unseen hand
Suddenly in death we've found another kind of life
Trodden under kings and queens
We inherit greater means
Power of the souls, now repurposed for our plight
Demons from an ancient time
Rise up from the filth and grime
Soon we face the storm, but in numbers we stand strong
Blessed with a kiss from the unholy light
To get up when we miss and after we've died
The battle will be ours, but the war is fighting on
So we rise again
We stand together
Like million lights aflame
They burn forever
With a song to guide us home
And to keep us sane
For eternity
We're searching onward
In the afterlife of Earth
Our bones in ashes
But we fight it all in wonder
And we'll face it with each other to the grave
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3. |
Black Roses
06:03
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Children joyful dancing in the sun
With a blissful ignorance of what's to come
When the guardsmen start to struggle
And the barriers give way
We're broken and we wither in the fray
We are husks
Alive but barely breathing
Sometimes we pull ourselves together
But our efforts fade away
We are dust
Crumbling by the moment
We try to push away the ending
And black roses fall the same
Running off afraid of what's to come
When you're facing down the barrel of the lawman's gun
But the saints have learned the secret
And the rebels know the same
We're killing just to bury our remains
Preludes of every stanza
End on repeating notes
A tale of woe and sadness
Chorus of silent throats
We try and keep a memory
Transcribing every line
But when they turn to ashes
We perish slaves to time
Burned out on borrowed moments
Used up like cigarettes
We feel our time expiring
But it's not over yet
Each finds a meager purpose
Though our cold grave awaits
We face the morbid beauty
Of our collective fate
We are flawed
Chained to the laws of nature
I guess we'll have to teach each other
To leave legends to our names
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4. |
Dreams of the Deep
08:21
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Enshrined
By an ocean divine
Waiting for the truth to come alive
Before your own accursed eyes
The call
The end of it all
Death lingers endlessly below
Awaiting mankind's fall
It comes at last
From ages past
The madness below
Beyond all that we know
Will arise
Nightmares foretold
From days of old
The secrets we keep
And the dreams of the deep
Realized
The end
Of the sane world of men
Now I question all that I have seen
I this is a specter or a dream
Embraced
By those with the taste
For insight forgotten long ago
Of futures laid to waste
And in the waves we wander
Searching for our end
Now our vessel's going under
And an epitaph is penned
With the sunken gateway opened
Soon the sea reclaims
And when the dark has spoken
We will know its cursed name
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5. |
Outside
07:16
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It is my own home's affliction
Behind bars within a cage
I've been marked the plague's possession
And I've been locked in for days
There's a ruckus in the streets
Those I begged to stay inside
Soon the noise gives way to silence
For a moonlit lullaby
Oh my mind,
Oh my mind,
Thoughts are fleeting all the time
I feel bones begin to splinter
As my fever starts to climb
Who's to blame,
Who's to blame
For the blood that wrought this shame
Now my ears have started ringing
To a symphony of pain
My blood's contagion
Brings transformation
But all I want before the doom
Is to see the streets outside this room
Don't leave me waiting
My lantern's fading
And I won't be awake to see
The monster that becomes of me
Let me see the sky one last time
Come home and take me outside
The new beast is isolation
When I'm haunting my own home
I feel my walls closing inward
And my soul leaves me alone
Here I struggle in the darkness
To remember my own name
I've caught glimpses through the window
That the world is not the same
Flesh and bone
Hunger's grown
Cries become an endless drone
I fear soon I'll be the hunted
Like the multitudes below
Someone's there
Someone's there
Night is coming and I'm scared
Starving wolves outside are howling
And I join them in their prayer
Dark signs
Flashing in my
Cold mind
Succumbing now with no time
Left to cure the pain
Pale and
Clawing blindly
Life still
Clinging tightly
But my own blood has been claimed
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6. |
Summon the Choir
05:34
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Here we're frenzied by the illusion
We're dying for a transfusion
A cure to kill the virus in our midst
This city needs a savior
Healed by the church's favor
Experimental taste of moonlight's bliss
First blood
From cosmic wonders
A dark flood
Of power from under
Congregate and we begin the recovery
Praise be
The gods have fallen
Fear me
And heal the rotten
Summon the choir for we've made a discovery
Now the surgery is complete
And mortality is defeated
The needles grant the power in our veins
Brought by the holy hunters
Old ones and dreams of thunder
A sacrifice within the flames
Though the treatments take their toll
I've changed the human soul
This is power beyond control
Sing for newly granted eyes
And dreams now realized
For the righteous and divine
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7. |
American Made
04:13
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We tried to drink the ocean when the rivers went dry
Our desperation feeds and keeps our demons alive
We walk along with nothing left to lose
To suffer in the darkness or to live with the kings
Our choices are presented as intangible things
The chains assure our hands can't break away
We ride the cycle up and down
We bend the knee to a different crown
Made in America
In America
Made in america
American dreamers waking up afraid
That they are relics of a golden age
Made in America
America
Made in america
American made
Look and you can see it in the print on the page
They codified the system an invisible cage
But we outnumber, and our strength is wild
Don't deny our future the luxurious rage
The structures are upended when we engage
You hold the means to make it all worthwhile
Sold on lies like liberty
Just to find that freedom isn't free
You can try to keep on playing
But the players never win
Cities built on taken land
Where they own the new world built with our hands
But now you can change the state we're living in
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8. |
Die With You
04:50
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A feeling like we know
We've made it far enough
No shame in letting go
Across a nation's bones
Still barely clinging to
Some distant, broken home
Still awake through
'Til the end of line
When the rain falls
And the searchlights shine
It's going to take a miracle to find our way
I will find you
On the precipice
Gonna crawl through
If it comes to this
We were never going to make it anyway
So I think I want to die with you today
No matter where it lies
Together to the end
The light around us dies
We're sick of asking why
We've never had a choice
In the falling of our time
Stranded embers on a long dead street
We strive in silence with naught to eat
The creeping blackness takes our will no more
And we take our exit through an open door
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9. |
Wartorn
04:17
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With strength like the Atlantic wind
We ready for a storm
The call to rise as champions
Starts where our kingdom's born
With iron on our battered skin
And anger in our bones
We'll die to serve this petty crown
Protect this fragile throne
Set your eyes
On the fire in the sky
Seems the war is neverending
'Til the true king sits on high
Our birthright
Taken swiftly in the night
We write history as immortals
May our nation never die
The blood spilled on these clover fields
Will run into the sea
Where we will take the reaches back
With brave camaraderie
Though brethren low have fallen
We have will to carry on
To build up on the ashes of
Old lies and broken bonds
We put our fear away
We heal after the break
And announce our victory
We claim this land as ours
We fight under the stars
To embrace this destiny
We gather
To push further
Not just madness
Not just murder
For safety
Together
Our kingdom
Forever
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10. |
Can You Hear It?
06:32
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Born of the darkness
From granted eyes beyond
Dreams of the deep mist
They hide a scratching song
There's a primal fear
That death is near
Writhing now in wait
Am I past the veil
Consciousness failing
I hear a wicked fate
Can you hear it?
Can you hear it?
The tolls of madness ringing
Do you fear it?
Do you fear it?
An ancient choir is singing
All consuming
Calling to me
In a dream, it's a thorn I can't dig out
Can't you hear it too?
If you listen close now
Lulled to the madness
I have seen what I can't know
Glimpsed at a nightmare
To fester and to grow
In this empty home
Of flesh and bone
A presence left unseen
Laying awake in bed
My hollowed head will
Call back through the dream
I feel it humming deep inside the walls
The dark vibrations
Whispered acts unspeakable, horrible, reachable, audible
I'm pressured to awaken my own sight
To generations
Ancient ones malevolent, reckoning, pestilent, beckoning
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11. |
Silver Grenade
06:11
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There's someone that you once loved
I'm sorry I can't be
You hold a ghost of me
My thoughts they tend to travel
To where I lost my soul
And my darkest days repeat
And you know
That I want you
Even though I push you further away
But my scars
Push my fears through
And I hold you like a silver grenade
I've tried to find the answer
To resurrect my heart
To go back to the start
Sometimes the human starts to wake up
And I see the wreck I am
When you're still a work of art
Will you set yourself free
When the cold regret is all that I can see
Will you show me to bleed
How to recapture the essence that is me
I promise I've tried
But guilt and fear cloud my vision
Every decision
Now I know it's my fault
But if you hold me closer
The pain feels over
For now
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12. |
We Evolve
07:03
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The noise has settled down
Before the storm arises
A never ending climb
No road to run away
We're scared to keep on fighting
We're running out of time
Fractured skies and acid rain
We are sent unknown
Temples high in trails of pain
For a moonlit throne
The hourglass avails
So haste must beat temptation
The dream we're living out
Is not imagination
Across a living tomb
We fight wholly outnumbered
To swiftly face our doom
And face the cosmic thunder
Fractured skies and acid rain
We are sent unknown
Temples high in trails of pain
For a moonlit throne
Take a look across the hordes
If you don't trust me
Our nightmares will evolve
And so must we
The chemicals
They settle in
The atmosphere
Breaches my skin
And there is not one ally left alive
This time, this time
The planet's wrath
A natural will
Against the test
Adapted skill
When the odds overwhelm us we survive
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13. |
Haunting Kind of High
05:32
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I've been feeling kind of down
Feeling like I'm going to drown
Guess I think I need a new fixation
Need experimental eyes
Just to feel the other side
And experience a close sensation
You know, this earthly world gets lonely
I want a surreal trip to haunt me
We're all just searching for that lasting mental spark
When it hits you know it sticks
And then your soul has hit its mark
Ascending from this plane to walk along the sky
But you need the supernatural
For that haunting kind of high
Delve a little in the deep
Grab a piece of hell to keep
Wanna creep into a new dimension
Warm possession by the fire
Now it gets my spirit higher
And my mind embraces the connection
Fill my psychoactive mind
Bullet proof and armor lined
Make me stronger, hold me closer
Make me shine
Leave a whisper in my brain
Take the pressure take the pain
This nirvana makes me wanna
Go insane
Take my being out of bounds
Show me what the dead have found
I can feel the rush just behind me
Make me feel a spectral love
It's a wicked potent drug
With it you could make my blood almighty
I need the haunting kind of high
That makes me feel alive
The haunting kind of high
Like you're never gonna die
The haunting kind of high
The devils dropping by
The mortal spirit's cry
Like the fire in your eyes
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Aviators Fort Myers, Florida
Aviators is a Southwest Florida indie musician specializing in fantasy rock and gritty synthpop. Many songs are inspired directly by beloved video games, shows, films, and novels.
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