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Given To The Rising We stand encircled by wing and fire Our deepest ties return and turn upon us The shrouded reason, the bleeding answer The human plague in womb Bring clouds of war Let us rest Our future breed is the last In the conscience waits Dreams of the new sun We're blood in the dust Gi en to the !ising Through this we claw roots Of trees in the world of iron Our father's steps fueled the boiling sea The wretched har est reaped by the hands of dawning Our pain cannot forgi e the silent machine of the fatal flaw in man That brings us to the end 2. Fear And Sickness In the thoughts of time we are of sand With aphasic songs the ratios are blind " lucid air deletes the sound The water slows to recei e you The lantern guides to the e il "s a weapon forms of the dawn The air ree#s of foul play Inscribe your fears in the soil The sea is foul Li#e worms in your heart $onsume an age old Of forgery and deceit "t the center we will find you %alling prey to its lustre 3. To The Wind I saw God in death through you &ost things we'll ne er #now The dar#est water runs in The feasting cancerous The 'uestions burn in cages Of a masterless life of disease

"ll that feel the warning see to will its steeds Of blac# to cut us down Of white to light our sound Of red to burn and drown "nd grey to spread li#e ash to the ground 4. At The End Of The Road The land here absorbs light In erting false hopes to night %ault lines of reason sha#e thin Grit erodes a s#ein of earth To rise and become of use " relentless motion of tongue Deflower the nature of light Deflower the nature of water !eali(e, reflect, and refract leagues and layers grow deeper Li#e roots into the ocean The wellspring is nailed to a chain " lost and binding dream $ar ing a rec#less control Of the #ni es hanging clean %rom a wild and innocent grace )tars blac# the blood of silence The lightning shears the heart %all unto 5. Shado I remember the fear I remember the taste Isolation !eflection " distant echoed howl Blood on the ground )hadows mo ing on me Tension "nimal !esponse Blind eyes dawning and watching the wrec#age The life fades to sil er &y engine's burning To bring me to them I'm wal#ing to the eternal la#e of light

!. "idden Faces Through the eyes I ha e #nown you *our spirit is stretched thin *our eil is a hole )tream a dar# tide's betrayal That rips through its own Through the eyes of the wheel I will see you coming Through the wa es of lies I will see you coming Through the years of burden I will see you coming Through the weathering ine I will see you coming The feral now feeds you Instinct is pure "ll reactions are sane +yes on the mountain ,idden faces )pirit faces #. Water $s %ot Eno&gh The stitch in our eye With roots deep within The soil stained with blood Of those who rose before the time Dirt relies on our test Tied to the resol ing design Distance aries though the ways bring us all %eeders seething woe is them The olted antenna saints that will the fire The hand is gnawed The end is nigh The warriors remain and they bring us to the s#y We'll burn in the sun "nd we'll fall to the moon '. (isti)) *Watching The S ar+, " swarm de ours the heart The seed burns where it lay build designs of none !oots ha e poisoned the clay " flame tongued blade

Opens holes in the s#y *ou stand holding the gate They' e all drowned in the flood )un-whitened bones In a landscape of hounds The bound shade a light To disperse the stars We watch, we watch It is of the moon It is all of the moon In this weather we must build fire Distill Brea# them all down Distill %ear them all apart -. %ine The words of gods lie among us In the gla(ed clay of ruin "t the source of subtle bodies to #now the s#y "nd how it was hammered into place Where all graces are electric "nd the days are all nine "nd the nights are all nine "ll nine 1.. Origin "ll my spirits come through we when I bleed " fractured s#ull in a desert well, I lea e this disturbed, destroyed child will follow you " wild and wounded beast I stand inside the sun &y heart let memories flood my mind "ll the fi.ed, breathing strobes in the wa#ing hours The clouds are looming to remind me of the /udgement passed on my soul "cid stars ha e scarred my mind and left me as a ghost I shattered my curse and spread it through the land I wander guilded, willing, and unclean 0ro/ect dar# eyes sullen, drawn out and wic#ed 1ameless lights pull me into a reflected psychic blac# hole