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The Fall
16:13
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The sun is falling down quietly now
And twilight is embracing your soul
The shades around you are flickering
Like candles in a draughty hallway
The doors are wide open to thee
Illuminate the darkness of night
This is the place of destruction
And they approach thou in thy name
(Chorus):
We are division, we raise and speak of magic
We are wardens, no one passeth by unseen
We are illusion, we are speaking in tongues
We are water and we hail your shadows
It is they who guard the daylight
And who bring on the nighttime
Those who once knew him well
They shall come forth by day
He will be able to rise again soon
The divisions of the great sky
Massed choirs repeat:
(Chorus)
Those who are in this picture now
Have the flesh of their own bodies
And their souls speak over them
Their shadows are united unto them
Motionless they starve for sympathy
With quavering voices kneeling to pray
He hath passed by
(Chorus)
[And they hear HIS voice]:
I hear, I taste waters of your pain, I will remember
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Realm Of Sokar
13:19
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Reaching the realm of Sokar
The underworld hawk deity
Dark pathways he has to negotiate
Being dragged on a snake-boat
He crieth to them and their places
His boat guides him through these pools
Lonely is thee who witnesses
Falling down in shades of pain
(Chorus):
We are torture, celebrating darkness
We are vengeance and forgiveness
We are shelter, hidden from your eyes
We are pain, distress and fear
Invisible … distress and fear
Ye who stands at the blocks of torture
Who keep ward of the destruction
Those are ancient birds of prey
Who destroy and cut in pieces the dead
Raping and torturing their own kind
They fear the echoes of the past
Fetter and bind this figure which is in you
So that he may pass you in peace
(Chorus):
Invisible and distress
[And they hear HIS voice]:
I know and I bind your burning souls together
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3. |
Slaughters of Apep
05:07
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He passeth over this dusty road
By means of the words of power
The utterances of this great deity himself
Performs the slaughters of Apep
So they shall act for him as
Magical protectors in heaven and on earth
He crieth out to their lost souls
And there are heard the whispers
Of those who are shut in this circle
Who are like the swathed ones
Silently the gates were opened
And he leaves this lonely island
The names of the ones who kindle fires
The god who is the governor of Tuat
By means of the fire which is in their mouths
Swallowing their flames after he passed by
Rowing vigorously back into the waters
The sound of their words echoed in his mind
We are protector, we scream and shout at thou
We are slaughter but we are shut in this circle
We are abandoned and we speak your mind
[And they hear HIS voice]:
I smell, I sense and turn your old fears into anger
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4. |
The Rising God
12:31
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They gather together the souls on earth
And they make pure the spirits
By the hidden figures which are therein
Afterwards they swallow their souls
They feel the legacy of the king
After this great one hath passed by
Those who rest here have their arms on earth
And their feet and legs in the darkness
He crieth to them in their own bodies
But they do not depart from their places
And then the shades of despair appear
The winds cease from their shiny faces
Thou sailest over the blood red horizon
Thou takest up the place in the shrine
The shapes in their bodies praise thee
Descend thou into the endless sky
To take thy two dark souls
Through the magical and wise protectors
We are servants, we guide thy greatness to light
We are dust, we live in the shades of your words
We are sadness and await your return
[And they hear HIS voice]:
I see, I drink, I breathe, I yell…
I see, I drink the golden ale of the morning sun
I breathe, I got the strength of a thousand warriors
I yell and your hails echo from the world’s end and back
I rise, rise, rise and will never fall back into darkness
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VOID OBELISK stands for a bunch of musicians coming out of completely
different genres and musical
socializations. Together they provide their
listeners with a malstrom of many different styles, sounds and moods on a
basis of heavy Doom Metal, raucous Noise Rock, viscous Sludge Metal and dark
Drone Metal.
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