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Forsaken Acolytes
05:35
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Silent, beside this tranquil lake
These ruins of the dawn ages
Shalmirane
What guardians defend the secrets of this place?
Forsaken acolytes
Awaiting the Master's return
White violet cleaves the night sky
Another desperate message will they hear?
I am sentient again
Gulfs of time have passed
And yet I still remain
The teachings live in me
I carry on his creed
Until the end of time
When the Great Ones shall arrive
The prophecies remain confined
They are safe inside his robot's mind
Are there answers in that tri-optic gaze?
This ancient bastion still defies
Vestiges of the human race
Forever lost in time
Can these wanderers perceive
The truth of this fallacy?
In a time of great unease
A universal realm in disarray
He returned to a home he'd scarcely seen
A home that became his resting place
"It is lovely to watch the colored shadows
On the planets of eternal light"
SOLO: J. DeChellis
SOLO: Leamy
SOLO: O'Rourke
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Dreaming Diaspar
03:50
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Untouched by time
Sustained through the ages
Remnants of mankind
Enshrined for generations
Dreaming Diaspar
Dreaming forever
"Content in their eternal autumn"
Beyond these walls
A vast desert waste
In the hall of creation
Life will begin anew
Ancient data storing forms
Every facet of a contained world
Buried memories of a bygone empire
SOLO: O'Rourke
Cycled lives reincarnation
But here he stands for the first time
A unique, a miracle
Perhaps this son will find his way out of
Dreaming Diaspar
Forever dreaming
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The vessel arose from the sands
Majestic relic heralding distant times
Man will sail the solar seas once more
Across distances impossible to conceive
Far beyond the speed of light
A distant heptagon, perfect in its symmetry
Nacreous incandescence
Abandoned crumbling structures
Dried oceans, no trace of life to be seen
A planet closer to that eerie sun
Covered in brilliant green, proliferating
The brutal law of nature rules this world
The violence of life unchecked
Survival, the only law
SOLO: O'Rourke
A message piercing through our consciousness
IT IS FORBIDDEN
A psychic warning
IT IS FORBIDDEN
IT IS FORBIDDEN
Another dead world blood red
Uniform, curious formations
Could it be a barricade?
An enclosure for some unknown being?
Could it be, it has broken free?
More it seems everything has moved on
What is this feeling of dread?
There is something among the stars
Phantasmal cognizance
It calls itself Vanamonde
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The Mad Mind
04:18
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SOLO: O'Rourke
Lurking outside our material world
A consciousness freed from reality
Boundless intellect
Bestowed upon an insane will
All tremble at the fury of this unseen foe
Stars collapse and planets fall
A cosmic omnicide
The empire shakes in the wake of The Mad Mind
In its infancy the potential to destroy a galaxy
Probing endlessly through the helpless minds
Instilling irrationality in all it finds
Eroding eons of wisdom
Fracturing symmetry
The final enemy
Power beyond God
Curious child
Oblivion in its palm
SOLO: O'Rourke
The aftermath far exceeds our darkest dreams
A mad mind's will is endless suffering
Desperate
The brightest minds
Convene again
Working with one purpose
Thousands of races
United in one final aim
The Black Sun
Dimensional prison
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Beyond This Universe
05:47
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Impossibly, an incision across the blue sky
Black as the emptiness of space
They have come, looking upon our world
Through their celestial window
Unearthly brilliance
Drops of light gathering
Into a torrent of purest flame
Awesome, gentle power enveloping
The very sound of infinity
Shattering the limits of our comprehension
"The Great Ones have come"
Vanamonde remains
Last child of that lost empire
Curious, humane
Final guardian at the end of time
When that distant prison fails
In the twilight of The Black Sun
When The Mad Mind is free
Among the corpses of stars
They will decide
The fate of all
SOLO: O'Rourke
And after all this time
Mankind remains in its infancy
Barely able to stand upon this stage
Amoebas still shuddering
In the currents of death's ocean
Can we gaze upon the unknowable?
Can we fathom the unseen?
What wonders lie, beyond this universe?
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6. |
Wanderer
02:54
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Solare Sanctum Boston, Massachusetts
A cohesion of musical ideas gestating over many years, Solare Sanctum came to form in 2019 when the epic musical groundwork of founding members Matt O'Rourke and Bennet DeChellis was fused with the lyrical visions of vocalist Patrick Rennick.
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