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floating on ascending plains

by Myriad

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overlooking a valley of haze and sky holding a picture of heaven in my mind's eye a wind blows through the blackened tree as i die overwhelming is this sense of space and time beneath the temple the town in heat waves lies cubic buildings arrayed in haphazard lines ascend to the marble palace that stands in the sky clash of cymbals, echo in my mind's eye did you say that this was the land of your queen? or are you teaching your children dreams? are those teachings any more of a dream than our own? time is when all shall be revealed night descended as the tide lapped against drifting sands under the pale orb a great peace settled and prevailed across the land and as the sun began to descend beneath the rim of the earth over your sacred stream the music began and sang of eternal mirth as the rain approached from behind i found my place deep in your throng guided by heaven to meet with the ones who knew where i had come from passing through fields of fireflies and lightning illuminating our flight i joined with you in hymns to unknown gods on this unearthly night "save us now from the chaos and darkness that has come upon our journey home!" listening, i contemplate is the one you are praying to now aware of your fate? this sacrifice our culture is performing is precipitating our decline leading us away towards the ones who seeks to darken our minds can we say we are chosen, we are saved? but to those who are not of our ways legends and myths be their guides? arise at dawn feeling lost and forlorn the sentinels giving us cause to mourn the sun rises over symbols and signs in stone your legends and wisdom inscribed join the procession to enter the gate searching for weapons succumb to our hate the structure intended to edify now a symbol of tension and ancient divide
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it's not without sadness that i perceive the spirits of those who have departed from me promises made to meet once again panaceas to dull the pain when it ends does this event hold a meaning in time? a fragment of love before its demise? in the fire of time your friendships have burned ashes remain of all you have learned descending into this unholy ravine i am musing upon the singular scene of screaming demons and shrieking winds i search for silence amidst the din heavy and darkness gather at point of horizon coldness and ice settle into our minds and as immense planet rolls upon her wings now daylight is ending and darkness begins emerging from this chaotic scene i sit amidst the forest trees sinking deep into the soul and mind the ancient words reveal their meaning this time now you say that i can't know of that which can't be seen or of what we call greater realities i have all things the earth and sky you have your own word only how can you deny when the sun is shining?
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you can feel it in the seasons and the colour of the days calling out from the sky in so many different ways and when the time has come when nothing remains remember this is the nature of forever fading days and so it follows that those who are wise lament not for the living nor for that which has died and as your heart is consumed in the relentless passage of time remember this is the nature of everything that is born to die

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released January 1, 2001

Drums by Darren Finch
Other instruments by Matthew Heindorff

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