Oryad : Hymns of Exile & Decay

Progressive Metal / USA
(2021 - Self-Released)
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1. INFLAMMATUS

Inflammatus et accensus
Per Te, Virgo, sim defensus
In die iudicii!

Fac me cruce custodiri
Morte Christi praemuniri,
Confoveri gratia!


2. BLACK IS THE COLOR OF MY TRUE LOVE'S HAIR

Black, black, black is the color of my true love's hair
His lips are something wondrous fair
The purest eyes and the bravest hands
I love the ground on which he stands
Ooh

Black, black, black is the color of my true love's hair
I love my love and well he knows
I love the ground where on he goes
I love the ground where on he goes
Ooh


3. IMMERSION

Drown me
Drown me in my memory
Submerge me
Baptize me again
I need you
Need you to return to life and
Drown me
Drown me in memory

Darkness undulates
Black waves breach the shores
Shores of endless scree
Darkness undulates
Eyes always awake
Weightless fingers white
Reaching for the break
Eyes always awake

Drown me
Drown me in my memory
Submerge me
Baptize me again
I need you
Need you to return to life and
Drown me
Drown me in memory

Your eyes so long-gone
Pits of endless black
There is nothing left
Your eyes so long-gone
Shadows don't exist
When you're this far down
Dark that can be touched
Shadows don't exist

Drown me
Drown me in my memory
Submerge me
Baptize me again
I need you
Need you to return to life and
Drown me
Drown me in memory
Memory
Memory


4. DOXOLOGY

Under the stars, just kicked-up dust
Particles in a Caravan
Hurtl'ng toward the inevitable rust
Of exile and decay
We're planets' embryonic food
We're bodies for bodies
From sinew flows humor and mood
Constant revolutions

Have you heard the groans of Time
As I have in my dreams
Have you heard the moans of Life
Like a star's death gleams
Have you heard the sighs of Space
Coming from celestial streams
Have you heard the cries of Earth
Bursting at the seams

I watch the transit of stars and moon
Always stretching to the west
The call of fate is always, "Soon"
They one day will reach the end
The end of the known starscapes
How can it expand
Behind eyelids whisper the shapes
That foresee time

Have you heard the groans of Time
As I have in my dreams
Have you heard the moans of Life
Like a star's death gleams
Have you heard the sighs of Space
Coming from celestial streams
Have you heard the cries of Earth
Bursting at the seams

Have you heard the groans of Time
As I have in my dreams
Have you heard the moans of Life
Like a star's death gleams
Have you heard the sighs of Space
Coming from celestial streams
Have you heard the cries of Earth
Bursting at the seams


5. SACRIFICE

I would take the Fall for you
If it could make you see
The hidden teeth in this life
Tearing away at this Tree
I would dive to Hell for you
Submerged in murky desire
Floating through intentions
Caught in endless mire

Let me take, let me take
Let me take the pain
Let me drink your tears
Let me soothe, let me soothe
Let me soothe the beast
I will end your fears

I would take the spear for you
Flung from Gabriel's reach
Feel the sting of fresh-torn flesh
Fighting to pass the breach
I would pass Beyond for you
Give my Soul to the fire
Surrender my existence
To an eternal Pyre

Let me take, let me take
Let me take the pain
Let me drink your tears
Let me soothe, let me soothe
Let me soothe the beast
I will end your fears

Let me take, let me take
Let me take the pain
Let me drink your tears
Let me soothe, let me soothe
Let me soothe the beast
I will end your fears

Let me take
Let me drink
Let me soothe
I will end your fears
Fears
Fears


6. HYMN OF THE END

Came monsters, livid--
With desire.
They fought,
Wrangled over the world, A morsel.

God lay dead in heaven;
Angels sang the hymn of the end;
Purple winds went moaning,
Their wings drip...drip-dripping with blood.
That fell upon the earth.
It, groaning thing,
Turned black and sank.
Then from the far caverns

Of dead sins
Of dead sins

Came monsters, livid----
with desire.
They fought,
Wrangled over the world, A morsel.

But of all sadness this was sad--
A woman’s arms tried to shield
The head of a sleeping man
From the jaws of the final…

Final Beast….
Final Beast….

Came monsters, livid--
With desire.
They fought,
Wrangled over the world, A morsel.

Came monsters, livid--
With desire.
They fought,
Wrangled over the world, A morsel.

Came monsters, livid--
With desire.
They fought,
Wrangled over the world, A morsel.

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