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Act I: The Archivist
05:07
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Dawn’s amber passion breaks
Engulfed in what its absence takes
Carried a message penned by idle hands
Called to rest, to sleep beneath the land
To let the 8 years beyond erase
What never needed to happen in the first place
Years of fickle hindsight will offer no embrace here
Sobered by the warning of a future choked in fear
There is no wisdom in the aether
No knowledge I could lend
I come to give this last resort
To let your journey end
I gaze at my reflection
As I step towards my tomb
The stars aligned for me,
To be a failure
Since the day I left the womb
Years of fickle hindsight will offer no embrace here
Sobered by the warning of a future choked in fear
There is no wisdom in the aether
No knowledge I could lend
I come to give this last resort
To let your journey end
If we don’t close the curtains now
Everything just stays the same
You’ll spend more decades on a broken path
Beside both guilt and shame
Release me now
Or everything stays the same
Cut the cord and let me fall
There is no use in going back
Stop the cycle’s echoed call
And let me be the things I lack
There is no wisdom in the aether
No knowledge I could lend
I come to give this last resort
To let your journey end.
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Act II: The Undoing
05:01
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The stage is set
An audience taking their seats
My presence turns to regret
what history repeats
A void in me
Exposed by brittle bones
Patterns set into the marquetry
Of temporary thrones
It was dark beneath the sun
when life became the final breath to candles
inhaled against the will it takes to count
the decades lost between the razors and their handles
I gave up everything I have ever loved
to chase illusions dressed as life in dreams,
to find my soul is slipping through itself
in streams from open wrists and no one seems
to care
The stage is set
An audience taking their seats
My presence turns to regret
what history repeats
A void in me
Exposed by brittle bones
Patterns set into the marquetry
Of temporary thrones
I wish that I could hold myself and scream it’s not your fault
With a deathbed made of porcelain
the edges of the crimson water flood
If only you would keep me in your arms
as memories turn to ashes in my blood
Epiphanic provenances
Seeping through a dying mind
Relinquishing the nature of
This shadow soon to be defined
As misery.
I’ve left a note to tell you why
This life performed is not the life I know.
The gift of living is to love and die,
Do you love enough to let me go?
Bury me beneath the earth
The stage is set
An audience taking their seats
My presence turns to regret
what history repeats
A void in me
Exposed by brittle bones
Patterns set into the marquetry
Of temporary thrones
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The overture ushers in a melancholic call
Amidst the stifled whispers swaying in the stalls
Under spotlight's naked glow
I enter to a silent applause
It comes the time for me to go
At the mercy of an illness
Grinding me between it's jaws
Gaze at the galaxies above us
Anchored to the earth that lays below
To live beyond the stars
I beg you, let me go
I cannot fathom ideas of ending
Though it is drawing near
Still what breaks my heart
Is the thought of staying here
When looking back on years
That didn't have to be in vain
Please don't let this final act replace my memory with rain
The wicked things I've done to not feel this alone
Were written in the seeds from which I have been sown
Gaze at the galaxies above us
Anchored to the earth that lays below
To live beyond the stars
I beg you, let me go
I cannot fathom ideas of ending
Though it is drawing near
Still what breaks my heart
Is the thought of staying here
Whether I'll be condemned into darkness
Or swallowed by the light
I'll welcome this eternal fate
The only one in sight
Unburdened, in blossomed laughter
Now vacant as a ghost
Tethered to a rafter
Scenes these lights engrossed
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Winter Hotel London, UK
Formed in late 2017 through the chance meeting of its founding members, 5-piece Winter Hotel create a dynamic, hard hitting yet emotive Alternative Metal sound that's hard to pin down to a single genre. This constant push-and-pull of differing extremes creates a band and a sound that removes the boundaries between Metal’s vast spectrum of subgenres and even introduces other genres entirely. ... more
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