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Shallow Water Blackout
04:40
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These crystal waters gleaming
They beckon
And call me to be
I take a breath and break the surface
And take a breath again
I feel I can go forever
As deprivation’s sinking in
Just underneath the surface
It's right within my grasp
An entire world before me
So close but fading fast
Far Below
The world I know
I drift along this underworld
And skid across the sand
A darkness covers everything
And leads me towards the abyss
This grip is ever tightening
It pulls me further in
I died before I knew it
I want the chance to live
I push and writhe in unconsciousness
Stuck between this world and the next
I claw up to the surface
As I convulse and twist
I break free
Sink beneath
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2. |
100 Meters Down
07:28
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Sinking deep
To the depths below
Where all light dies
And the world grows cold
A forgotten civilization
Remnants of a dark creation
Tortured screams
Resound the void
Convulsing in agony
Writhing in antiquity
Empyrean bells have begun to toll
The sound awakens a chorus of souls
Twenty thousand dead before my eyes
They can't recall where they had died
Condemned beneath the waves of eternity
Weighed down by sins of mortal tragedy
"We wander on in this crypt unseen
All that remains of the great atrocity
Izanami, the keeper of souls
Seek her ahead in the depths below"
Turbulent pool of discarded dreams
Tortured apparitions of agony
Drifting on a current of endless suffering
Drags me down beneath
To Yomi
At the bottom of this ethereal sea
Polluted pillars give way to debris
Izanami calls from on her throne of the diseased
Into the palace I take refuge to reprieve
The stoic facade of a decomposing queen
A decrepit throne of broken corpses obscene
A porcelain face with burning eyes of fury
A visage scarred beyond the will to be seen
Where the gods had once fallen from her tears
Now trails of fire trace fractured skin
This hideous fury comes forth
I grovel on knee and beg to depart
Please. I. Beg. You.
Send. Me. Back. To.
The. place. and. time.
Before. I. arrived
"Mortal!
How dare you to presume?
To come before me
And dare to decree?
No
This simply will not do
For this is my domain
And here you shall remain
That is of course unless
Maybe there is some use
To bring these souls to rest
Grant this at my request
Go and light the fires on the shores
Guide the dead back to the living once more!
Do me this one simple task
And I shall send you back"
The earth quakes and the seas drain
The palace crumbles and the souls disperse
Neither in the land of dead nor living
I wander on to light the flames
I heed my calling towards the tombs
I hear her voice within my mind
"Light the fires on the shores
And call the dead to life!"
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3. |
Apparitions on the Waves
06:20
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I walk along these ashen shores
This tomb amongst the tides
To bear a light of salvation
To those who have died
This stench, infernal
Roaming scavengers scattered on the sands
I wretch, encircled
By bloated corpses I'm unable to withstand
I approach the pyre
And offer recompense
A flame
Ignites
This world
To life
Tumultuous waves erupt
Crashing on the shores of grey
Tortured souls come bursting forth
Towards a beacon that lights the way
A promise kept
A duty fulfilled
The world around me changes
To a view of my time
An era of senseless violence
When evil humans thrived
They mutilate each other
Blood spurts forth from their skin
Carcasses consumed by hatred
At a war's appalling end
I know why I was sent
I know where you have died
I beckon to call you forth
And guide you to back to life
The violent sea erupts
Into a brilliant wave
That comes to wash away
The blood of all mankind
A horde of spirits comes into view
Riding the waves of exaltation
To seek out what remains
Of their forgotten existence
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Geysers spew forth
Breaking through an eroded world
Demolishing existence
And flooding the world in darkness
Engulfed in the tides of damnation
I writhe towards the surface, to the light
The mounting pressure plunges downwards
Underneath the horizon line
Escape is futile
But why is this
Thrashing underwater
As the world collapses in
Ripped apart by raging torrents
I plead for ascension
Breath of life waning in this vortex
Washed away, set adrift in the tides of time
The anguished tension of painful swelling
Towards the light as the currents rise
A promise kept
A duty fulfilled
Bubbling, pressure mounting
Nitrogen within my skin
Rapidly decompressing
I float up towards the surface
As above, so below
A reflection of mortal dissidence
Izanami, on her throne
Comes into view in the distance
Silently, she grants remittance
To take the form of flesh and bone
I break the surface, thus reborn
I awaken to return home
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