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A Chance to Live Again
08:08
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My eyelids prised apart
And yet it’s not as it seems
What is this place?
Who are these I cannot see?
This flesh is unfamiliar
It does not feel like home
My mind ajar; reality is torn
I have passed on
Beyond the realms I believed defined
Yet why is it I still breathe?
The mirror shows me something I cannot unsee
An unfamiliar reflection
A face that is not my own
I touch the lips, the nose the mouth
The stranger in the glass mimics and obeys
One more ride around the sun
In another form of life, another
Breath is taken from me
And ousted from another point of view
This skin I feel is not my own
I see the world through different eyes
I have been given the time to last
A chance to live again
Distraught and confused I try to piece
Together this absurd circumstance
Holding the glass before me
I call for answers but no reply
How do I identify? How do I conform?
The obituary speaks the truth
It tells that I have moved beyond the veil
Yet I am still aware, alive
The gravestone reads my given name
And the bones that lay beneath
Sing stories of my days
This is not what I believed
Would follow after death
Should I be grateful to still be here?
But I still crave my former shell
Is this the norm should I conform?
None of this is the truth
Fragrant air and beauty soil
Cannot prepare for this end
A Chance to Live again
To leave my mark upon the earth
A Chance to Live again
Consciousness emerging from its shell
I cannot feel the soil beneath my feet
The leaves between my fingers touch no nerve
Something is missing, something is wrong
That something was once mine and now it is lost
I cannot consume, I cannot elate
I feel no lust I gather no hate
I cannot live in this form any more
I wish to return to which I was first born
One more ride upon the earth
The aegis winds of afterlife
Sting my salted face
I cannot believe that I can live again
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2. |
Vessel
03:31
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Unto this world I was revealed
A servant to my confinement
Bestowed for aeons inside this vial
Now this realm we share
From broken vessels I emerge
The cracks they shadow my ascent
In desolate chambers I evolved
The keys to time I dissolve
The concave walls of this weathered urn
Eroded by the passing of stars
The ancient writings on my casket
Lie of my doings and mourn not my loss
From alchemic birth to ancestral grave I rise
Hailed forever as the serpent of lies
Naught but the gods can stem the tide
Hear my calling fear my cries
Uncovered from my hidden tomb
Dust ridden catacombs from the old regime
Could not outlive me
From broken vessels I emerge
The cracks they shadow my seclusion
In empty chambers I evolve
The keys to time I dissolve
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3. |
Constellation Speech
04:44
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Carved into spaces between suns
Linked in ethereal essence
In the dark beyond the void
Foreign words collide
There is no form to understand
No meaning to the structure
We do not speak the language
Written on the roof of the world
In the bid for higher ground
We fail to reach a common goal
The constellations conversation
Thoughts within a new design
Forcing minds into the grey
Forming inner vision
We translate articulation
Into text we can understand
And create a bridge
To share ideals and beliefs
To merge the mind and matrix
Between the sentient force
We do not speak the language
Written on the roof of the world
Oh!
It all fell down
We lost the meaning in the madness
The method to the end
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4. |
As the Dreamer
04:37
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Silence envelopes entropy and time
In this nothing realm of meaningless paralysis and lies
Distortion clouds the focus and illustrates the why?
In this magnificent delusion of tragedy defined
Airless and rigid
Pale and cold
The wraiths dark breath
Welcomes me unto it's fold
Deep within the fabric
Of melancholic time
There is no sleep and no elation
Along the line
Inside nothing and consuming everything
As the dreamer I am cold
Captured in the image of
Static night
As the dreamer I am cold
Limited by conscience
Innocent and alone
As the Dreamer I grow old and pale
Wrought within the wiring
Inconsistencies of intermittent thought
As the dreamer I grow old and pale
Under the lies of the dim and wilted skyline
It beckons me to sleep
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Monachopsis are a technical / melodic death metal band based out of Leicester, UK.
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