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As the Dreamer - EP

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Digipak CD edition of Monachopsis' 2nd EP 'As the Dreamer'. Comes with full booklet including lyrics.

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1.	A Chance to Live Again 08:08	lyrics	buy track
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
2.	Vessel 03:31	lyrics	buy track
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
3.	Constellation Speech 04:44	lyrics	buy track
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
4.	As the Dreamer 04:37	lyrics	buy track
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

about

The second EP by UK based technical melodic death metal act Monachopsis; As the Dreamer is an aural onslaught of technicality, complexity and brutality with a hefty dose of sombre melancholy and melodiousness for good measure.

Written between 2017 and 2019, and recorded sporadically between 2019 and 2023, As the Dreamer encompasses all the pain, misery and anguish that came from it's developmental-hell-style creation process. COVID-19, injury, illness, line-up shifts, studio issues and the trials of day-to-day life all contributed to the lengthy delay of the project, but the band feel that it's all been worth it to have the next chapter of their tenure as a band wrapped up, and couldn't be happier with the final result.

credits

released October 27, 2023

Monachopsis is:
Richard Allsopp - Guitars, Vocals, Piano, Orchestral Programming
Mihir Miyangar - Lead Vocals
William Bartholomew - Bass
Kieran Hickman - Guitars

All Music and Lyrics by Richard Allsopp
Performed and Recorded by Monachopsis
Produced and Arranged by Monachopsis
Mixed and Mastered by Nikos at Haunting Studios.
Artwork by Mohammed Hoirul
Drums by Ezra Browne