DESPITE EXILE LYRICS

1. Ghost Vessel: Adrift

2. Absent Foundation

Whispers from a perishing orb
Traverse the crumbling phantom of our world
Specters among the cruelest evoked
Infesting and poisoning the well
That life will attain to re-imagine its form
A pack of exhausted animals
Moving on the traces of their ancestors
Confined and over-determined
Adapt, extinguish
Migrate, revolt
Repeat the cycle only to strive for a missing cause
Tear the garment and congregate the void below
Summon a place where we can just rest in our nightmares alone
Only through fissures
Can we experience a glimpse of the whole
Measuring our disproportion
Retrieving our goals
We’re just beginning to distinguish the lines that design our trajectory
The insurgent scheme of our cosmology
How can we abrogate our distraction and devise the means of creation
again?
Find the path to reformulate our genesis
Knowing we’re all too feeble to exist
Virtual efflorescence will lead us along
Adapt
Extinguish
Migrate
Revolt
Repeat the cycle
Establish our cause is lost

3. Introspector

I forgot how I found myself
Stranded in this spasm of intellect
In search for the keys of uncharted portals
Lost in a prison without depth
Hollow and brittle chambers for my weakness to dwell
As I plunged in the abyss of consciousness
Empty lanes and paling impressions
Strangled by an unavoidable gaze
I kept evading until I found the thread
Until I reached the bottom of the maze
We are a crease suspended on tide
Abandoned at the mercy of events
Waiting for greater forces to seize us
Before we lose ourselves in the current
We’ll give up our sight by the clouded brims of time
To discover that there is no substance
To witness the answers contract into emblems
And feel them nesting outside our spectrum
The fragments of my identity confuse themselves
Within an infinite mirroring
Just as a set of apparitions reflecting from one to another
While all that’s essential slithers away with the light
Deprived of the center I never had
I merge with the surfaces that unfold throughout me
Delivered and devoid of nothing
We are a crease suspended on tide
Abandoned at the mercy of events
Waiting for grater forces to seize us
Before we lose ourselves in the current
We’ll give up our sight by the clouded brims of time

4. Deviant

Finally in the sight of your misleader
Here to serve and protect
The chaos that nourished your very existence
A sum of conjunctures
Shapes the event of your own disappearance
While truth overwhelms you as a calamity
Resonating through your gestures
Devoid of an author
I am prophet of contingency
I was stillborn and thrown in the innermost obscurity
Raised by the apathy this world has forced in our throats
Until the warmth of the abyss filled my lungs
Bearer of visions of atoms colliding
Shaman of the absurd
To guide you as you embrace your subversion
And draw the full circle
So let the deviance penetrate your words
Feel the exorbitant weight of all norms
Together we will extinguish every remnant of order
We will emerge as the prospect mankind had overlooked
Stand as anomalies and obliterate this farce
Now, disciple, throw your dices and wither away
Before they even grace the surface
A master must confess
All that is left of these actions
Is bound to amount to some worthless wisdom
Swarming underneath our perception
We do only find exceptions intertwined
There’s nothing but a certitude
As patterns weaved from a lack
We revolve and forge our circumstance
So let the deviance penetrate your words
Feel the exorbitant weight of all norms
Together we will extinguish
Every remnant of order
Stand as anomalies
And obliterate this farce

5. Relics

Siren
My screams lose themselves amidst the raging storm
I have been following your swinging tail
Diving into the hazard from which we're born
I was bound to be another failed commander
I led my fleets towards this dead end
Do you recall me, fighting for a lost 'cause?
I have been trying to recompose the sound of your voice
I built the constellations I was searching for
In order to govern this unrelenting flood
I built the constellations I was searching for
And discover the cliffs where you went singing your grief
Now, as the depths swallow me down
I can still hold onto your fading grace
As a feather hanging in the balance
Just for an instant that I must try to condense
I'm holding the dices in my hand
My fist is tight while everything falls apart
You fled away staring at the ruins before you
Buried underneath the crumbs of our shattered history
You will keep existing as the allegory
Of what we could have been
Now the time has come for me to dissolve
Leaving the world to the mercy
Of your silver and gold
Siren
My screams lose themselves amidst the raging storm
I have been following your swinging tail
Diving into the hazard from which we're born
Even if your light abandons the world of men
You will forever be the mark of what we cannot amend
I could never abolish the chance of finding you again
The dices are thrown

6. Into the Gyres

We rotate
Tied to the pole of our fragile dignity
Plugging our ears with the wax we shaped out of remorse
To prevent us from hearing these mermaids
That instigate the demons enclosed in our souls
The skies seem to have cracked yet once more
We have ignored the coming storm for far too long
Given up on any hope of salvation
Stuck in the gyres for ages to come
We forgot they used to sing fables of love
Still we know we would let them drag us
Deep down the precipice we're longing for
We tighten our knots
Too scared to leave the wrecks we're floating upon
With open eyes
We swallow the winds that blow on this forsaken earth
The skies seem to have cracked yet once more
We have ignored the coming storm for far too long
Given up on any hope of salvation
Stuck in the gyres, we're stuck into the gyres
Driven by insatiable hunger
Hoping to discern a way home
Drifting on the surface of unconscious
A forlorn chant to guide us forth
We've breathed life into those demons
Around us the foaming black whirl
We can only stick to the course
Separate us from spirals and ghosts

7. Death Drive

Pose an end to this wretched existence
How can we live in this purposeless oblivion
We've let these images overwhelm us
'Til we were crushed by the weight of simulation
Masters decay, idols stand still
We cannot but remain
Alone with our reasons to kill
No more escaping the falsehood
Our legacies are already fading away
These fragments have dissolved the frame
Once more as spectators
We sink in the dust that buried our truth
No more ideals to betray
We are now given back to our anguish
To divide again ever day
What should live from what must perish
To retrace the line within us
Such is the lowest price we'll pay
We just keep fooling ourselves all over again
Orbiting around these hollow centers
Wandering through these corridors full of crippled mirrors
We should eradicate our obsessions
Overcome our addictions
But still we're trampled by the unease of our ancestors
Our legacies are already fading away
These fragments have dissolved the frame
Once more as spectators
We sink in the dust that buried our truth
You cannot divert decay
You cannot invert the mechanism
Eyes shut to witness the fall
Of what's already falling apart
Let civilizations collapse

8. Ghost Vessel: Swerve

9. Of Imaginary Shipwrecks

Seized by the mist and the platitude
Of this speechless tide
We've spot the foam, we've traced the absent vessel
That will reverse our fate
Will we drench in his trail
Or will we navigate the horizon
In search for the metonyms of loves now lost?
Yet again we were forsaken into the dead calm
Bearing a reminder of those shimmering coasts
As promises carved in our memory
There's no grasp on what awaits ahead
Our certitude was molded into the matter of our doubts
The very stone of the homes we're leaving behind
But we will sail once more
And just give ourselves to the swinging
Between cruelty and lifelessness
Spending lifetimes to seek for an imperceptible swell
A dawn that never shines
Lies hidden beneath the crest
A pledge we cannot formulate
That we will observe through a single act

10. Submerge

A hollow heart that can never be filled
Abandoned to the depths of night
Left alone, floating, betrayed
On the edge of this burning sea
We always thought we were infinite
No limits have ever shown along our way
We followed blindly the winds of perdition
Just to find our end, just to find ourselves
A pulse in the veins as I wait for the end
Let me sink in this ocean
A gaze at the constellations
As the lungs are filled one last time
Left alone, floating, betrayed
On the edge of this burning sea
You were the light that I needed
But now you’re shining in distance
My feelings withered away with your memory
Cold stone replaced your shape
Eventually we will meet again
We always thought we were infinite
No limits have ever shown along our way
We followed blindly the winds of perdition
Just to find our end, just to find ourselves

11. Ephemeral

We've prayed for the rain
To cleanse the plagues of the earth
We've prayed for the deluge to wash us away
We were brought to face our disaster
The boundaries have been long crossed
The limit exceeded
This is the day we relinquish all misery
The wallowing in apathy
To have it done with these pitiful creatures
Confined in an ocean of repetition
We've spent centuries in deception
Chasing ethereal delusions
Divided between fate and fortune
Merging with our fading traces
As disciples we wither beside our masters
We'll fracture the laws
That plead us defective
Attending the eclipse
When daylight is one with the dusk
To enshrine the birth of a different order
And unleash the fury they've bred in us
To redeem the relics of our past
The premonition of an unnoticed path
A transient justice reigning upon our vestige
Ephemeral
Just for an instant forever condensed
Just for an instant we'll find a way home
Ephemeral







DESPITE EXILE LYRICS