Crimson Orchid : Ascension

Progressive Metal / USA
(2014 - Self-Released)
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1. NO ONE EXPECTED HIM

[Intro:]
Pound!
The nail!
Impose!
His will!

[Verse: ]
Literally the everyday man,
Can animate the situation any way,
That he chooses to,
Brace yourself, here starts the culling.

Enemies readily,
Embrace the savage kiss of insanity,
While giving into, the malediction of,
Hate, with sightless surface judgments.

[Chorus:]
They’re on their way, to try and kill him now,
What they don’t know is that he’s already dead,
Devoid of life,
Yet still somehow,
He’ll save your fucking soul.

[Verse: ]
Taking in all that he sees,
Starts the process of eliminating anything,
That offends the will.

Shame has marked us all for sorrow.

Bend to will or fall to knee,
Beg forgiveness for the lack of faith we give away,
Or the will to try.

Stray so far from where we started.

[Chorus:]
They’re on their way to try and kill him now,
What they don’t know is that he’s already dead,
Cold as ice,
Yet still burns proud,
He’ll save your fucking soul.
Soon, you will see.

[Intro:]
Pound!
The nail!
Impose!
His will!
His will, his will…….

[Breakdown:]
Always repeating the words that were wrote,
Never needing to focus on who it was spoke.

Gone so long and look at how we’ve got on,
Man is just a step away from destiny,
Dos millennia to separate us,
But we’re nowhere closer to the root of things,
He has returned found us guilty of want,
Lay bathing in immoral bliss,
He has returned from the realm of the gods,
But this time he’s totally pissed.

[Bridge:]
Behold the trumpets,
Blare to harkon,
Ascension of the sun.

[Chorus:]
They’re on their way to try and kill him now,
What they don’t know is that he’s already dead,
The gift of life, for all who bow,
He’s come back for us all.

[Outro:]
Pound!
The nail!
Impose!
His will!


2. HIS MASTER’S VOICE

You don’t even know me,
How could you know my ways?
Did you hear me calling?
No, you didn’t hear a thing.
When you wanted shelter,
Did i not give you rain?
You don’t understand me,
So let me explain, it all away, again.

What you have to understand is that,
I lead a disconnected life,
All my days since on this planet gone,
In a blink of an eye,
I’m sorry for my absence,
I thought, all this time, you’d be fine,
This world has been so tragic,
But i must deny all these crimes.

Fools think yesterday’s forever,
I thought that you would be more clever,
I gave you stepping stones,
You used as weapons honed.

[Chorus:]
You don’t even know me,
How could you know my ways?
Did you hear me calling?
No, you didn’t hear a thing.
When you wanted shelter,
Did i not give you rain?
You don’t understand me,
So let me explain, it all away, again.

[Bridge:]
I am one face of a trichotomy,
Back in this shape with a transient identity,
I’m gathering sheep for the grand finale,
No longer asleep, my brother comes to battle me,
Now i’ve come for the finally calling,
I will leave no stone unturned,
My only wish in this is that the truth in his soul will burn

[Chorus:]
You don’t even know me,
How could you know my ways?
Did you hear me calling?
No, you didn’t hear a thing.
When you wanted shelter,
Did i not give you rain?
You don’t understand me,
So let me explain.
Repeat chorus
[Outro:]
I am one face of a trichotomy,
Back in this shape with a transient identity,
I’m gathering sheep for the grand finale,
No longer asleep, my brother comes to battle me,
Now i’ve come for the finally calling,
I will leave no stone unturned,
My only wish in this is that the truth in his soul will burn.


3. BIRTHED INTO DARK BEAUTY

I have returned,
Entered into darkness cloying of the earth,
Foliole enshrouds,
Long i have laid, frozen in the harshness,
I’ve come to spread plague,
See them all bowed down,
Tarry the crown, ages add the weight upon a guiltily prickled brow,
But it was all in vain,
Eons confer, time and trepidation all passing in a blur,
As the clock winds down.

[Chorus:]
Thirsting for an answer, returning to demand,
You’re the victim, treasonistic, his flock of swine,
It has always been so clear, never hiding how he feels,
Cast out to be the martyr for all mankind.

[Verse:]
Here in the soil, vitalize the serpent,
My blood starts to boil, as memories unfold,
Always the fool, dare i to ask a question,
His one and only rule, is sycopanthian pride,
Silent the weald, hidden in dark hollows,
Soon all will be revealed, as in a story told.

I have spent lives, consorting with corpses,
I’ve paid for my crimes, well beyond my means,
Brimstone and fire, all antiquated chambers,
Chained king for the pyre, my brother i seek

[Chorus:]
Thirsting for an answer, returning to demand,
You’re the victim, treasonistic, his flock of swine,
It has always been so clear, never hiding how he feels,
Cast out to be the martyr for all mankind.
Trap them in cages, so they can relate to the way you were enslaved,
Force fed hatred every day,
Says it’s easy to adjudicate, to play the martyr every day,
When you don’t know the first thing about the shadows of the heart.

[Bridge:]
For millennia, i have waited to taste of your disease,
Plotting with the angles who chose to fall with me,
I travelled out of body into your endless dreams,
Planting seeds of retribution building monuments depraved,
From now coalescing as prepare for the stage,
One simple act of vengeance to end this fucking game,
Watching as your waiting to see the final stage,
The world is burning slowly as we all worship the flame.

Does a blind eye see? What sight cannot?

[Chorus:]
Thirsting for an answer, returning to demand,
You’re the victim, treasonistic, his flock of swine,
It has always been so clear, never hiding how he feels,
Cast out to be the martyr for all mankind.
Trap them in cages, so they can relate to the way you were enslaved,
Force fed hatred every day,
Says it’s easy to adjudicate, to play the martyr every day,
When you don’t know the first thing about the shadows of the heart.
Shadows of the heart!


4. QUID PRO QUO

Hold!
The time has come,
For what?
The prophecy,
Be sure!
Oh please go on,
If you do this, then you’ll fall forever!
Fool!
What have i to lose?
All this!
My sacrifice,
I beg you to listen to reason!
Is worth every lie.

Ahhhhhhh, you put your faith in your gods!
That never worked for me

[Chorus:]
Bleed, for all your sins,
Not that it matters!
They’ll be washed away,
By the tears!
Of all mankind,
One drop in the water,
Creates a wave.

[Verse:]
From here!
And where to hide,
In your place!
There’s your mistake,
As seen through your own eyes!
I know everything.

Fool!
Such arrogance,
Dare you say!
Is what lead to this,
You’re blinded by your own choices!
So let’s play the game

Nooooo!
Those bonds will not be regained,
Never will i serve thee.

[Chorus:]
Bleed, for all your sins,
Not that it matters!
They’ll be washed away,
By the tears!
Of all mankind,
One drop in the water,
Creates a wave.

[Narrator:]
“and as this blackened bent dark angel stood before his sovereign defender, the whispers of a war seemed eminent”

Replay my fantasies,
Vanquish the innocent.

Rise my fleet, take wing to conquer man,
No horses need to carry disease,
My minions you’ve betrothed to me,
We’ve tried of these bleak endless scense.

Fell from the tree, so fast to defy you,
So used to ease forgiveness gave,
Chattering baboons made to assuage you,
They’d be dismayed by truth of what was paid.

Enough of this, you are wasting my time,
I’ve still a world to grind.

Now let me be so i can get on with it.

Please try,
To see,
Mankind (damn them all)
Must live (get out of my way)
Or what? (you’ll soon see)
Please stop (all of them have to pay)
I,
Have waited,
All,
Who stand by me will,
Rise, to heaven, to play, as kings for a day,
A week,
All time,
Is mine….


5. THERE IS STILL HOPE

Lives! Gone! Stray!
Those who supply your faith will pay,
With every one of their lives,
The end is drawing nigh,

Violent displays,
Crushed bodies under hoof and bray,
Silent disdain,
No longer bound, it’s time to play.

Bleed, phenomenal,
Screams, the sweetest serenade,
Feed upon the fold,
Streets will run with blood tonight.

Tormented voices beckon out to nothing,
Roll out your tongues to taste the grand façade.

[Chorus:]
When light fades for dark endeavors,
And death seems to be too clever,
There is still hope, there is still hope.
We could make this last forever,
All lifelines will soon be severed,
There is still hope, there is still hope.

Times have changed, idle hands of shame,
Drip blame, towards every source but the…

One, who chose it all,
Flood, the mid with bloody thoughts,
Run, the pantheon,
Struggle, while chocked with entrails

Promise betrayed,
What savior kneels to clear the way?
Brittle bones break,
Inferior in every way.

[Chorus:]
When light fades for dark endeavors,
And death seems to be too clever,
There is still hope, there is still hope.
We could make this last forever,
All lifelines will soon be severed,
There is still hope, there is still hope.


Willing the weak to stand as one,
Cripples the conscious mind,
Watching the sheep dismantled comes,
At no greater of a time.
Feed them the lines, the rope is not long enough,
Give them enough to hang,
Follow the path you laid before, see how it worked.
The first time you lead the way…

Run as fast as you want, wings will catch you all,
Come see through my eyes before you die.
Bleed, phenomenal,
Screams, the sweetest serenade,
Feed, upon the fold,
Streets, will run with blood tonight.

[Chorus:]
When light fades for dark endeavors,
And death seems to be too clever,
There is still hope, there is still hope.
We could make this last forever,
All lifelines will soon be severed,
There is still hope, there is still hope.

[Outro:]
Lives, gone, stray.
Those who supply your faith, will, pay,
With every one of their lives,
The end is drawing nigh.


6. REVISITING OLD WOUNDS

Finally, you’ve come,
Long enough you took,
How many must die?
Until you can admit,
Your faults and failures,
Your path so tailored,
He showed more care for you,
Despite brief pain, you were alive.
You only died one single time.
What have you to say?

Well, let me see,
All the things, i could say would not amount to just an inkling of the light.
We shared, you and me, can’t you recall anything,
From all the way back in those gardens so full of life?

How dare you avoid my queries!
Where was your light when i was trapped in ice?
I seem to remember those days,
Where were your cries on those dark endless nights?
You were king in your house in the sky,
So don’t speak to me about all the good times,
Now just look at the world we have made,
Aren’t you proud that i’ve become the monster that you always thought i was?

Look, in my eyes, can’t you see the reflection of your face?
See how you’ve hurt us, with your lies.
Don’t look away. Please believe all your actions have a price.
Yours was a lesson, not yet learned.

How dare you ignore what i’ve said!
Maybe you are the one who will learn here instead.
I have placed down the gauntlet.
Your crown will shattered as pearls before swine on the ground.
Let them all usurp you of power,
Did they beg for you once in their last dying hour?
Of course they all called to their faiths,
But they all came through me before finding their ways.

Well, i guess that settles it, tomorrow the world will die.

Patiently, i waited for thee, but to no avail,
Cast out of your arrogant ways, starting your own trail,
The blame must really fall unto me, it seems you’re right, i’ve failed.
Before now, all we wanted was peace, but i will make it all right.

Enough, i’m done with these vague, impassive atmospheres,
The spear in my side never in vain, distracted action taken,
Millenia, i’ve spent in a dream, with everything forsaken,
Maybe i will follow and play, if just to see you broken,
You’re broken, see you broken.

Tomorrow, you must come,
Bare all arsenals,
Battle shall be done,
We will see who has more.

Faults and failures,
Your path so tailored,
He showed more care for you,
Despite brief pain, you were alive.

One more chance to speak,
Share your peace with me,
Open up your chest,
Say you’re sorry, and i’ll let it rest.

Well, let me see, all the things i could say would not amount,
To just an inkling of the light.

Interlude: “enter the circle again” by jacob le doux. Music by donald parks iii
Is it in mankind’s nature to be inquisitive?
To seek answers and hound out riddles that plague us along life’s course?
Perhaps curiosity is the greatest gift of man.
It hides in so many forms but is omnipresent in the universal psyche of every soul.
To question; for some it implies a lack of faith.
While still others might say it was an imperative cog in this great machine.
For how can we ever compound upon knowledge without the ever reaching thirst?
Our hunger leads us down these labyrinthian paths, all hoping for the same destinations;
Truth, time, love, happiness….
Even in the withered hearts of the savaging depraved,
These same desires incubate like stubborn maggots.
Knowing that those elements are fleeting and the days so numbered, they refuse to spread but they sleep soundly in the womb none-the-less.
Waiting, hoping for birth, for isn’t everyone waiting to be born,
Into some greater knowledge, dimension, or state of emotional soundness?
The liar and the child, the rapist and the preacher, the tyrant and the teacher…all seek,
All bound, with different shackles; but all seek, those same things.
The elemental fire…..the crux of our desires.


7. A TASTE OF VENGEANCE

Bodies litter every path,
Blood red seeps through every crack,
All roads lead to where we stand now,
This is the last battleground.

It’s so hard to see his children fleeing through the breeze and still they’re singing,
Bringing me, the strength to seize, the day and though we may all fall,
We’ll end up in, the sky with, heaven’s kiss, as it gets placed gently right over our lips.

Now the time has truly come, the toll has risen without hinder,
Mounds of flesh dry in the sun, as crows pick through their rotting innards,
Dinners served in hell tonight, our appetites insatiable,
We’ll pick the bones till pearly white and grind to dust what’s left of you,
Your force is weak, timid sheep,
They will never survive us.

I can’t forgive, no more freedom for those who would seek out the darkness,
My patience thins, i am done with the games, i will reclaim this kingdom

I remember lies, i remember pain.
I remember birth in a pool of flames,
I remember hurt, i remember shame,
But now i choose to live again.

Your new life, ends here.

I’ve tried to be benevolent in every way,
I’ve tried, and you’re all hung up on some old shit,
Why now, you could have done it anytime you wanted,
So proud, to have suffered by your own hand,
Time flies, what is a minute to a man immortal?
I’ll find and eradicate your every seed.

No time, has ever been better,
Then now, to undo your seat,
Mankind has lost all of their belief

Father, forgive me for the acts that i’m about to commit,
To demonstrate faith, i will erase the plight that stands in our midst,
And i am afraid that there will be blood on my hands.
Pledging allegiance to the light was never a choice that i made,
But grateful i am for all the light i bathed in all through me,
But living again has med me more than a man.

Let us end this now and forever,
Come my brother, we’ll take this into the sky.

[Narrator:]
No!
All across the globe, by a fires glow, one sure thing was known, all will face annihilation,
Into the skies they fled, while the earth was bled, with a final sigh, by the end of the night we’ll
Enter the circle again,
Enter the circle again,
Enter the circle again,
Enter the circle again,
Suddenly underfoot, light and the dark it took, even the mountains shook,
We all fall down,
This isn’t part of the play, out of the skies ablaze, into the sea of pain, fell two brothers,
Pillars of smoke and fire, out of the folds in time, enter eternal light,
All fell blinded,
Only the two would know, only their eyes were shown, basking inside the glow,
While all his children sleep.

Oh, my poor children, my poor child.
How far you have run from me,
With your warped philosophies,
You have never stopped to consider your ways.

You wallow in your delight,
Inquisitioning despite your own skeletons in plain sight,
But did you think you could not see?
And you know better formed yourself,
You live each day despite the guilt,
Acting like you don’t feel anything,
Doesn’t make strength out of fear.

I was only trying to deplete the world of hate,
To battle forces dark that seemed to grow in multitudes each day,
I prayed forgiveness or for grace to stay my hand, but in the end,
I had to defend both the thrown and your own crown.

I was sick of groveling within the murk of dirt,
My cage was rusted and i trusted i could make it back unhurt,
A balance i demanded a pound of flesh for what i suffered,
I wish to see the agony of our own dying mother.

[Narrator:]
All of existence ceased to be in the blink of an eye,
Our ambassadors of light and dark hung in a pitch black void,
Not knowing what was next, there came a big calamity

“god”
How long has it been?
This stands the test of time,
And to be forgave,
All you had to do was,
Admit you were wrong,
Say you’re sorry for,
All you chose to do,
All you chose to do,

Workin’ the circular drain, rewind to fine-tune the matrix,
It takes a certain strain that feigns at balancing straight bliss,
Take this gift, and eat it in remembrance of me.

Limited observations leading to the abyss,
Dislodged in time, space, the whirlpool swallows all that will fit,
We’re being wound unto the coil, oh yes.

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