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As the sunset bleeds gold on the horizon
I walk alongside the freezing Gjoll
An abyss of nature and hopelessness
The bleakest thoughts and the darkest waters
No light reaches here, no life, no happiness
Nothing of what I have left behind.
Weightless rain against the water
is the Death Knell of my own demise
The rain and the current are my only companions
They both sing a melancholic melody
In the river I see a reflection of my nihilism
Of how my life was wasted away
In those below I see myself
And the sorrow that runs within
And as I drown it in the rain
The rain drowns in the water
Slowly descending into the painless waters
As I lose touch with my body
My blood will flow away
And my bones will be laid to rest
Those who wander in these waters
Live at ease with the meaninglessness of life
I detach from my former self, bound with nature
I have descended above the water
Before my passing I see a
Gleam of light above the surface
Life generates from my remains
And death is all around me
Caressed by the water’s soft touch
I witness the passing of time
My memories unrevealed
My legacy forgotten
I am in ruin
I am decaying
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[Instrumental]
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Through history and fantasy
Swimming through the depths of time
A manifestation of nature’s wrath
The mighty Cetacean shall sink us all
The heartless voids of the universe
The visible absence of color
Its body scarred by the failures of man
The mighty Leviathan shall sink us all
Blood and sweat
Spilled for one’s revenge
Weightless rain against
The Whale’s brow
Why is God deaf?
He has abandoned us
To the titan of the sea
There's no hope for us
There is no Heaven for our souls
Only our remains buried at sea
Sink us
Sink the Sun
Drown us
Drown the Sun
“Consider the subtleness of the sea;
how its most dreaded creatures glide under water,
unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden
beneath the loveliest tints of azure.
Consider also the devilish brilliance and beauty
of many of its most remorseless tribes,
as the dainty embellished shape of many species of sharks.
Consider, once more, the universal cannibalism of the sea;
all whose creatures prey upon each other,
carrying on eternal war since the world began.”
The Whale has killed God...
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Esox lucius
13:25
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Winter, we reach for the warmth of our hearts
Spring, we reach for the light of the Sun
Summer, you left me in the shallows
Fall, is there anything left to say?
Against the water like weightless rain
I will dive away
I’ll still see you in my stream of consciousness
You have blinded me as if you were the Sun
I casted clouds of Melancholia
To protect me from your burning touch
The rain haunts me forever more
Reminding me of that cold November night
In liquid and liquor
I found my peace
Fooling myself that forgetting was possible
In silence I yearned
I was lost in the sea
Holding rivers of desperation
A Pale Mantle of Ashes
The Snake eating the Marrow
Of the day that will never come
Drown every emotion
Numb every feeling
Lay drenched in the river
Grey skies of doom
Green leaves falling
Against seasons of desperation
Black birds witnessed my suicide
From blood stained trees
Gazing above the water
My body is an ecosystem
Hidden within myself
The beast awaits its prey
Painted like vegetation
Unnaturally still
Only responding to beastly
Natural instincts
Among lily pads and sunken logs
The Esox Vaudeville
“Against the dream darkness beneath night’s darkness had freed”
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Walden
04:59
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“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”
“I did not wish to live what was not life”
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The River Nihilist
19:36
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I cherish the day that will never come
When I no longer despise the sun
Of rose tinted petals blowing in the wind
And your blurred image on the sea shore
Where I drowned all our flowers
I deny myself the comfort of remembrance
For all the water under the bridge
Still is from the same river
We are nothing but meager rivers
With no beginning, with no end
With no purpose, with no hope
With no answers, with no fulfillment
I hate the Sun
Drown the Sun
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Esox Italy
Atmospheric Black Metal from Italy. Dealing with depression, nihilism and underwater inhabitants.
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