1. |
Prologue
00:51
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2. |
I. Denial
08:23
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A cruel, reluctant elegy
Its piercing prose suppresses me
Mangled by the cacophony
Which refuses my acrid heart
-
Beating loudly
Filled with anguish
So devoutly
I will perish
-
The reliquary beckons me
Shrouded in my sweet fantasy
Ignorant of reality
Where we never come apart
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3. |
II. Anger
04:54
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Don't dare you look at me
Cast your gaze away
Scorned by your devilry
my reverence betrayed
All your oaths, your affiance
Reneged without reprieve
Inflicted with your transience
My deference deceived
-
I can't accept
That you're
Never coming back
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4. |
III. Bargaining
08:13
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Plagued by this fantasy
That all will be okay
Sometimes you look at me
And the sorrow melts away
What else is there to say
To try and make you stay?
We felt like destiny
So why did we decay?
Was it always this
Delusional bliss?
I look back in time
Distrustful of my eyes
Why can't you see what
I'm willing to be
Put me through agony
Make me your apogee
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I hear the wardens call
Echoing from the hall
There's no need to fight
When this wasn't fate at all
Rend me in twain
I relish the pain
Transmute my flesh
Into something profane
Break down my bones
Ground into dust
Rob me of life
Leave me a husk
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5. |
IV. Depression
02:23
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Everything I touch
Crumbles into dust
Misery is my destiny
I play my final melody
Wrap the rope around my
Neck and kick me down
Breathlessly I fade
I will be unmade
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6. |
V. Acceptance
16:09
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Tempted as I may be
To prophesise recovery
Your proclamations spurned
The prospect of return
In these posthumous times
I have come to realise
Sublime as it might have been
The taste is o so saccharine
Bereft of reciprocity,
What is left of my idolatry?
The harmony surrendered me
No more is that reality
-
I must accept that
You're never coming back
The curtains have closed
The dream fades to black
I must accept that
You're never coming back
You meant the world to me
But it wasn't meant to be
-
I might take some time to
adjust to this new paradigm
Regardless of my despondency
I still cherish all of that time
Of course I wish
That we were meant to be
For I know that that love
Still burns bright inside me
But even though
We're apart finally
What you've done for my soul
Let me loose, set me free
You changed my mind on
The way I lived my life
I look up to the sky
The clouds soaring so high
Before you came
I had been torn apart
And did not trust myself
Nor the wants of my heart
Now I know that
I deserve clemency
And that I love myself
And can love tenderly
I hope that I could impart a
fraction of the remedy you gave me
I still think of you fondly often
Thank you for sharing some time with me
(choir interlude)
I can accept
That you aren't coming back
I'm just glad that we loved
With the time that we had
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7. |
Eulogy
01:08
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