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Gods of a Fallen Empire

by Torrent

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1.
Frail and listless Your apathy defines you A lie born from the truth A failing whisper Suggesting defiance A pale hand to guide you What once was certain Now certainly is lost Replaced by greed and corruption A strangling grasp At the throats of innocents To break what once was pure I will live forever I am the truth beyond the hate An apparition Unyielding I'm the Ghost of the Saint Awakening the fallen spirit Inside You Beneath the ashes and decay A life unbroken You shall rise up And be reborn As a Ghost of the Saint
2.
War, subjects slain before us Followers died in vain Sacrificed to fallen idols Conquerors curse our holy name Razing that which we deemed sacred A consecrated burial ground Sacrifices made unto us Could not stop the war drums sound A dying preacher Forsaken one His temple torn to rubble We gods are silent His faith undone Our idols broken Consumed by fire What shall become of us We gods of a fallen empire Will we maintain existence When all the flock is gone? How will we bless the pious? Decide what's right or wrong? Will there be funerals for us? Remembrance of each decree All powerful omnipotent ones Erased from history A dying preacher Forsaken one His temple torn to rubble We gods are silent His faith undone Our idols broken Consumed by fire What shall become of us We gods of a fallen empire
3.
Ignorance Far beneath us Blind deceivers Waging war with reality Vision Bleeding truth Obscure view Complacency will make a fact a lie Disseminating fallacies Inventing their own tragedies A case against humanity Growing larger with each louder voice Byproducts of a panicking Fear induced society Exacerbated as we accept truth as a choice Rewriting all of history Endangering reality Dissimulating demagogues peddling insanity Production of a never-ending Smokestack of a fabricating Scream against which there is no logical recourse Traitors Anointed in hate They bleed for truth that doesn't exist With a grim silence we turn away And leave this world to its tragedy Reverence Of deception A vile collection Intelligence drowned out by fear Risen To the surface A violent purpose Distorting all that once was clear Promulgating fantasy Disguised as bitter honesty A masquerade of anarchy Eradicating reasons' voice Though senseless their denying Intellectualism is dying Buried under a monolith of ignorant force What once was decided Now chided and derided Antipathy towards an ignominious ideal Consequences coinciding With our disgust and denial It doesn't matter what they say we'll always know what's real Traitors Anointed in hate They bleed for truth that doesn't exist With a grim silence we turn away And leave this world to its tragedy
4.
Woodsmoke 03:45
Instrumental
5.
Colorblind 04:46
It came like a whisper It's silence was screaming Forcing them down A massive weight to bury us all And as we cowered A weakness so exposed Oh were we unworthy Just wretched creatures Blinded to what it brought us Can't bear to see its beauty In this world Where we crave black and white All shades of gray surround us But there are a few Who would not hide their eyes When they confronted the color Beyond a reason Past what all logic holds There is a world to capture It would lead us If we would only follow Yet we grip harder, our shackles In this world Where we crave black and white All shades of gray surround us But there are a few Who would not hide their eyes When they confronted the color In this world We are the willful blind Less comforted by splendor But all it takes Get off your knees and rise Open your eyes to color
6.
Walk Away 03:36
Moonlit shadows hide what was to be My face, but you swore you could see My image, calm and unopposed As tainted as a black rose Your heart was left for me to find Tore out what kept my piece of mind My willow weeps upon the ground A raging river makes no sound Slate black a starless night A howling wind calls my name Drawn into the twilight Devoid of clarion treasures As though looks could not deceive Something. Anything. Tell me what you want from me I can be what you can't believe Then I'll walk away forever Words I wish to speak all fall away Truth undefined and gray Your spirit, pure as the snow That hides what no once can know Lost my light to what you can conceive Luminous shadows in the trees Rejecting what you'd thought you'd found Leaves only frozen sun-scorched ground Slate black a starless night A howling wind calls my name Drawn into the twilight Devoid of clarion treasures As though looks could not deceive Something. Anything. Tell me what you want from me I can be what you can't believe Then I'll walk away forever
7.
Black clouds Converging I feel them weighing me down Each drop A torrent I'm sinking into the ground (Futile) Futile is the life we're given (Searching) Searching for a greater meaning (Deeper) The deeper that we dig the hole (We find) We find we come away with (Nothing) Nothing left to leave our sons (Dying) But dying palms filled with soil (Broken) Our broken backs arched to the sky (We see) We see how deep a grave we've dug The rain falls down Thunder echoes through the air Your final sound A simple sigh of despair Death rises around Buried beneath a wave Struggle no more As black water fills your grave Silence Forever I feel it enveloping me All light fading A deadly grip tightening (Our lives) All our lives we spend escaping (An end) An end we know will one day come (Avoid) Avoid the presence of the moment (We're left) We're left with naught but broken (Memories) Memories filled with lies (Another) Another wasted destiny (Pleading) Pleading for a new tomorrow (Deaf ears) On deaf ears fall our final cries The rain falls down Thunder echoes through the air Your final sound A simple sigh of despair Death rises around Buried beneath a wave Struggle no more As black water fills your grave Mother Remember The first time I made a sound Waste not Tear drops There's already plenty to drown (Devastate) Devastated by a weakness (I could) I could always call my own (As dark) As dark waters rise around me (Exhale) I exhale and make my (Final) Final mark upon the world (My loss) My loss met with indifference (The rain) The rain will not mourn for me (Washes) As it washes me away The rain falls down Thunder echoes through the air Your final sound A simple sigh of despair Death rises around Buried beneath a wave Struggle no more As black water fills your grave
8.
Tempestus: (As I make my descent into the valley Aching roots under my feet I see throngs of dying faces Amongst the trees Wan and narrow Broken and humbled They've abandoned their homes The land is scorched and barren A bitter drought flowered only with death My boots scrape on cracked and broken clay My eyes well with tears As dust permeates the air It seems nothing will ever grow here again) Amongst the ruined waste There remained A failing child His hope gone with the rain Praying to A god that will deliver nothing Stranded here A family lost at home The wanderer approaching His eyes are hollow A shadow of loss Trailing at his feet But still they feel That compassion must guide them A stranger made of death They invite into their home Rain must fall The storm clouds within You cannot defy the rage building inside of you A loss again All the same Yet worse than before A black shroud falls The storm will consume Erasing all Like that which created you And though you exist to manifest strife In your wake of death... Life The kindness that they gave He repaid A bond was forged born out of despair But as the light gave way Eyes empty as the grave Unleashing rage Tempestus tore the sky! Rain must fall The storm clouds within You cannot defy the rage building inside of you A loss again All the same Yet worse than before A black shroud falls The storm will consume Erasing all Like that which created you And though you exist to manifest strife In your wake of death... Life At last the thunder fades Nothing remains The family and child All washed away His tears they fall Each drop into the flood Once again A drowned Love Rain must fall The storm clouds within You cannot defy the rage building inside of you A loss again All the same Yet worse than before A black shroud falls The storm will consume Erasing all Like that which created you And though you exist to manifest strife In your wake of death... Life Tempestus: (As I take my final step out of the valley I cannot bear to see the carnage I have caused A loss floating among the detritus Absolute destruction of that which showed me love And born out of the same And though life may blossom here again It will be a joy I never witness)

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Recorded in 2016 at Magnitude Studios.

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released June 6, 2016

Engineered, mixed and mastered by Jason Catlett/Magnitude Studios.

All instruments and vocals written and recorded by Matt Sikes.

Guest Vocals:
Ricky Vanatta - Clean Vocals on Colorblind
Tyler Davis - Voice of Tempestus

Creative input provided by Collin Stables on Woodsmoke

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