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These Precious Moments
04:30
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Hot winds whip the road
across this tired terrain
Fog on the windshield
from the humid summer rain
Three days, three thousand miles
Three thousand more of pain
Three years or maybe more
I will come here again
[Prechorus]
'Til then I'm living like I'll never live again
You never know what's on the road ahead
[Chorus]
These are the moments that we have to spare
These tender moments that we have to care
Moment to moment the things we must bear
I live for the moment to prove I was there
The landscape changes, it's all so vast
The road changes, and all too fast
Three weeks, three thousand dreams
Three decades fall away
Three more like days before
We watch it slip away
[Repeat pre chorus]
[Chorus]
[Interlude]
These precious moments that we cannot spare
These precious moments that we have to care
These precious moments we squander away
These precious moments that make up our day
These precious moments that we cannot waste
These precious moments that we use in haste
These precious moments that we cannot waste
These precious moments are too precious to taste
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2. |
Terraform
03:42
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Stirring from a slumber in the throat of the monster
Deprived of my majesty's decrepit malaise
Like a fluid melody departing from time
To time under the spell of a sorceress blade
Ripping apart in a cadmium cascade
Terraform
Transpose
Transport
Transcend
To the next plane unraveling its titanium braids
Lifted by steam powered clockwork vulture wings
Chasms become cracks and seas become puddles
And the mutations kick in and it all becomes muddled
Transport
Transcend
Translate
Transpose
Stirring from a slumber in the throat of the monster
Deprived of my majesty's decrepit malaise
Like a fluid melody departing from time
Ripping apart in a cadmium cascade
Transport
Transcend
Translate
Transpose
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From waves of Covid, To waves of soldiers
Missiles incoming, Burning sunflowers
Shocking the world with inhumanity
Radiation clouds, from idiocy
Raging fury, seeing blurry
Defenders turning them all to slurry
Cutting down their greater numbers
No one can reign in the dogs of war
Without dissent there is only the silent
Now the grizzly has felt the nightingale's trident
History's a spiral that never stops rhyming
It's only a question of choices and timing
Blasts of phosphorus chemical munitions
Laying landmines, dropping cluster bombs
Kidnapping children and killing civilians
The rape of Mariupol
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4. |
Soul Searching
07:07
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Floating through an endless sea
Fifteen billion light years wide
Unknown worlds left just for me
In this I will confide
[Chorus:]
I’m searching for my home
I’m searching for some hope
I’m searching for my soul
I’m slowly losing all control
Hurling through this void of black
Through this rift I gaze
Yearning for a taste of Earth
The Earth obscured in haze
[Chorus]
[Solo]
[Band in]
Now I look upon a plain a thousand miles wide
An ancient world sterile yet green that moves me deep inside
[Chorus]
A spirit lost in time and space, loneliness persists
Searching through infinity for worlds that don’t exist
[Chorus 2x]
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Whispers carry through the still of night
Words of carrion washed ashore in the tempest’s might
Flocking like a crowd of angry doves
Racing across electric skies above
[Pre-chorus:]
A rose forlorn, a labyrinthine vine
Triad of tumultuous fire and vine
Benighted in shadows by fluorescent light
Etiolated yet blindingly bright
[Chorus:]
To silhouette a rose in blackest night
Transcending darkness beyond
In the whispers devoid of light
Are words that do not respond
Three if by sea, and two if by flight
Halcyon dreams occlude the fading night
Vista of verbal void, a poignant clarity
Precipitates the abstract polarity
[Pre-chorus]
[Chorus]
[Solos]
Demure darkness, in silhouette
To genuflect before coquette
A revenant in reprised repose
The vine tangles around the rose
[Pre-chorus]
[Chorus]
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You are a walking contradiction, Hyperbolic premonition
Hypocritical admission, Screaming from the skies
Fad plasma like a phantasm, With the speed of a cracked spasm
You see I'm on a mission, Gonna open up your eyes
[Pre-chorus:]
Can't you see it now,
Why can't you see it now,
Why can't you see it now,
Why can't you see?
[Chorus:]
It's right in front of YOUR FACE RIGHT NOW!
But your head is in YOUR ASS SOMEHOW!
Nothing I can say WILL MAKE YOU HEAR!
What I have to say IT'S LOUD AND CLEAR!
But you don't care WHAT THE TRUTH IS!
Just as long as it’s GOOD FOR BUSINESS!
Talking out your ass AND THEY LOVE IT!
Now I'm telling you TO GO SHOVE IT!
Mind-induced catalepsy, Catalyzed tranquility
Forever burning in your mind, tantalizing you will find
Nevermore to procreate. A golden tongue to elevate
A slave to time with nothing more, Searching out forbidden lore
[Pre-chorus]
[Chorus]
[Instrumental break]
[BREAKDOWN]
You think that you are on a mission
Soldier of divine revision
But all of you have tunnel vision
They've cluster fucked your minds!
Got you chanting like a fascist
Bigot racist, ageist, classist
Where you go one you go all
To go and build a Berlin Wall
[Pre-chorus]
[Chorus]
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(Instrumental)
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8. |
Astral Negative
04:15
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I’m the fears inside your head
I make you wish that you were dead
I am the prodigy of your demise
[Chorus:]
Life, in catatonic sleep
The secrets that they keep
In that abyssal deep
Time, the final bleeding whore
A fatal yellow sore
Of misery and more
I’m your death become reality
Embody your insanity
I am a mind obsessed with all your hate
A child of divinity
I am your mortal enemy
I am the one you fear will separate
[Chorus]
I am the darkness given birth
I am the end of time on earth
I am the spawn of fire from the skies
[Chorus]
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9. |
This Paradox of Madness
01:44
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This paradox of madness obscene
This paradox of sickness unseen
A vision of microcosmic vanity
Corrosion of the inborn inanity
Closer to the source of all creation
Inadvertent morbid fascination
Darkening the mute gray at the base
Of median of all of time and space
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(Instrumental)
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I'm tired of this
I keep seeing ghosts in the road
It seems so real
More than one person can manifest
I'm tired of these ghosts in the road in the middle of nights
Crossing in front of me ahead of the lights
Figments of shadows, a trick of my mind
Or long lost souls hoping to find THESE GHOSTS
(Fast part)
Haunted highways on a midnight slog
Familiar places drifting through the fog
Drifting in and out of sleepy daze
I see a shadow in the haze
(Guitar solo)
(Back to slow)
I'm tired of these ghosts in the road that trick my eyes
Here comes another one, but now I'm getting wise
Just another shadow up ahead, I won't be fooled this time
But it isn't, and the two of us have now become THE GHOSTS
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(Instrumental)
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Deja vu is more like a rhyme, than a true repetition of time
A resonating causal clone, a feeling that I'm not alone
Covered shrine of Cattleya, drifting dreams of drab draughts
Sorrow swelling swiftly swallows, sweltering fell crafts
Dissonant devices darken harrowed hollow dreams
Rested laurels borrowed from sadistic carnal screams
[Chorus:]
Defects in the world crystal shatter constantly
Defects in the world crystal devour eternity
Infinite reflections in deluded vanity
When there’s nothing left but shards there will be tranquility
Drinking from a gray glass fountain, balancing on a brass mountain
Cavaliers of coronations, power pyrrhic proclamations
A staunch supply of parasites, poetic demise
Eons collide, a flood of blood, delusions are made wise
Superficial sacrifices to placate barren minds
Strategic folklore leads the way to sardonic shrines
[Chorus]
[Guitar solo]
Inhuman machinery glancing fro and to
In a unison cacophony dragged into the slew
Surfaces of revolution put the world in shock
Malevolence invariance counting down the clock
Reading lines by scar light of terminal poetry,
It begins as it ends, imperfect symmetry
[Chorus]
Defects in the world crystal shatter reality
Skeletal ponderance of temporal mortality
Defects in the world crystal
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14. |
Ravenback
05:13
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Fly or face the inevitable day
The ashes of a life wasted away
A forest of mortar, iron, and steel
Life in the slow lane asleep at the wheel
[Pre-chorus:]
Woa... I will fly away
Woa... To gather the day
Woa... To not just survive
Woa... For I am alive!
[chorus:]
I will fly on the back of a raven
Free to go where I may
Flying fast with the power to stave in
The evils that get in my way
I will fly to spread the resistance
To help and free those in need
I will fly to the ends of existence
On a raven's back I will speed
[quick solo]
Times apace with the flock on the wall
A flower for valar, will you heed the call?
This is your life, you'll make it somehow
Come and join the flight, your time is now
[Pre-chorus]
Woa... We will fly away
Woa... Together someday
Woa... To not just survive
Woa... For we are alive!
[Chorus 2:]
We will fly on the backs of ravens
Free to go where we may
Flying fast with the power to stave in
The evils that get in our way
We will fly to spread the resistance
To help and free those in need
We will fly to the ends of existence
On ravens' backs we will speed
[interlude into shred fest solos]
[Chorus 2]
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15. |
Denouement
03:44
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I remember being there,
Everybody together.
Gathered for revelry,
And we had big plans
On the cusp of something great
Something truly legendary
And then it all came to a halt
It was only temporary
Another dream, another time, another place, another when
What could we’ve done, what could we be, what could we’ve said, what could have been
Were we all there, in that same place, in that same time, when we were great
Were we insane, was it a dream, who now can say, it’s getting late
And so life had its sway
Reality hits hard, they say
And it all fell through the ground
And we went our separate ways
And so then your life goes on
And makes you wonder what went wrong
Try to make some sense of it
Leaves you there throwing a fit
None of this makes any sense, who have I to blame
Everything is different now and nothing is the same
Looking for some comfort where there is only pain
Wallowing in self-pity can never lead to gain
Another dream, another time, another place, another when
What could we’ve done, what could we be, what could we’ve said, what could have been
Were we all there, in that same place, in that strange time, when we were great
Were we the same, was it a dream, who now can say, it’s getting late
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Far away I long to be,
This world it calls to me.
Through the rift of tranquil green,
To places yet unseen.
Voyager across the sea,
To this ancient land.
I gaze across this verdant place,
Beyond the foam and sand.
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Blood Stained Glass Dayton, Ohio
Blood Stained Glass is the musical project of Dayton, Ohio native Ben Bernard. Blood Stained Glass’s music blends progressive metal, electronic, and many other genres into a unique blend. First created under the name Midgard in 1999, releasing many demos. In 2007, Midgard was renamed Blood Stained Glass. The project was put into hiatus until 2017. In 2021, Entropy and Discord was unleashed. ... more
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