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Once long ago when I was young
I felt the warmth of the sun
But now all I see left before me
Is dark eventuality
Cry for the day but it runs away
The dawn will never break
And the cruel twist of time
The light denied
Fear plunged into me like a knife
Down come the walls
And through they crawl
Like dogs, like filthy dogs
You could fall to your knees
And scream and scream
But no one will hear or see
We wrote this song
For string and key
A song for you and me
Then came the words
This twisted verse
The part that I must sing
Fall on our head, we need it said
It's red, it's bloody red
I scream out of key
Oh sing with me
Of dark eventuality
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The Lights Have Paled
04:26
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I really don't care how much farther I must go
I'm tired and I'm spent and there's nothing but road
My heart bleeds fantastic, in colors unknown
All I know is where I go
Ahead, on ahead, I go until I drop
They cannot make me, cannot make me stop
The strange lights have paled
All the stars that fell through the
Haze of mystery
This is all history
Onward we go down to the final showdown
Oh, dark Megiddo, come don't be late
The valley is filling, the winepress is ready
Our feet are so tired from trodding these grapes
And so the strangers fell
Dropped right out of the sky "Oh why?"
The stars have left their estate
The waves foam out their shame
And the lights went out without a shout
Without even a whisper
Oh, our lives went out, so, drink it down
Our cups are filled with the bitter
Oh, dance us out, oh pagan cow
Heathens you blot out your names
So, come and see, I speak to thee
Try and see what you can achieve
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Disenchanted
05:00
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I've lost control again
You tried to pull the reins from my hand
Forgive me for what I've done
I'd flee but I'm too scared to run
Disenchanted
Nothing like I imagined
Strip away the veneer
Show me something real
I don't want to be confused anymore
Deceived by the face you've adorned
Disenchanted
I've lost the taste for it
So bitter in my mouth
I want to spit it out
The time I've wasted on you
I just want to know the truth
The curtains close dark
The lights they fade
I don't even know how I got here
Now I don't think I can escape
So it is the same
It always ends the same
Disenchanted
Get out while you still can
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Enough
03:15
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Where'd you get the confidence?
To stand up to us, to rise against
Remember there is no return from this
To stand against Jesus
What's come before has fallen to dust of the earth
The kings and the lords did not live eternal
Men in the dirt just like everyone else
Is this time not enough?
I have the confidence
To stand with my God unto the death
Nothing you'll do will break my will
I am, and I am still
Everything has its time in the sun
Like the flowers they shine but soon will be withered
Death has its claim on all of us
But for some it is not enough
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Don't Look Back
04:06
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Open your eyes
And don't be surprised
One final time
The horizon's blurred line
As it fades to black
Keep running and look ahead
Broken cloud fell into our bed
Fireworks flare into the sky
But don't look behind
Jackboots and the sound of guns
Nothing new underneath the sun
Run if you want to survive
Open your eyes
The tears in their eyes
As they realize
Every single lie
They swallowed with pride
Then comes the fall
With the crash of a terrible sound
The walls around brought down to the ground
An empire rose and an empire fell
Collapsed down the wishing well
The people blind they could not see
They reached out to eternity
God of the people, the voice it speaks
"This day we've won our victory"
The door is closing run for your life
There is nothing left on this side
Just chains of bondage, death and despair
There is nothing there
So keep running until you drop
Got no choice you cannot stop
No mercy from hearts of stone
The executioner's throne
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The Vision
04:45
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Down and out, we're in the shadow
Trapped here in the valley
Dark's the day, the blinded eyes took us away
Cut me down, oh come and try
An eye is taken for an eye
I'm not afraid of threats you make
Appointed once to die
But I, I will return, mark my words
Listen and unseal the vision
Open wide, here come the lions
Torn apart by lies that you told
Here I am, I am a witness to these things that unfold
Listen well, cause it is coming
The greatest lie ever told
Wondering after the glory
The steel teeth of Rome
The axe will fall, on us all, upon us all
The king of stones has come to call
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Hollow
05:00
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I never thought I'd be so hollow
But time goes by
Dreamed lost dreams of tomorrow
In my heart I know it's a lie
Time turns to dust in my hand
I feel the death of man
Unwrapped, oh how can we stand
Against the sea?
I dream through the dark of the night
Visions in my head
I see through all the lies
You told me
And I return to feel the hollow
What's happening to me
Is this just a sign of the age?
Is this just how it's to be?
Come down, oh Father
I need you to rescue me
I can't do this alone
I'm calling, please
Don't leave me so hollow
Broken and undone
I know you will come save me
Please don't wait too long
I don't want to feel so hollow
But time has its way
I'll look ahead toward tomorrow
But for now I'll just pray
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Through A Glass Darkly
05:21
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Give me the words I don't know yet
I want to see past this fog in my head
So full of rage burning inside
And I see with eyes open wide
I searched in the dark of my heart
Wrought with uncertainty
And so I tried to perceive
Through a glass darkly
I'm tired of this song
I keep singing it wrong
And the bells in the distance they ring
I know what's to come
But how far can we run
And how much longer will they succeed?
Down in the dark they depart
Hidden where I can't see
Stared through the fog of time
Looked through a glass darkly
I searched in the dark of time
Looked for the reason why
So I tried just to see
Peered through a glass darkly
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Meaning
04:29
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Rolling down the hill
I feel you still
Drenched in this rain
Dark clouds won't go away
Look up to the sky
Is there a reason why?
Is there meaning
To all of our pain?
In darkness we would sink
Broken down we'd shrink
Is there a grand scheme
Or mindless suffering?
I scream out to thee
Save me from this grief
Bound in servitude
Did the truth come though?
In chaos there is death
No law leaves nothing left
There is no meaning
For the lost of the world
The voices speak
"You'll do as we think"
But if this is just a game
Why are you so afraid?
You prove me with your fears
Outline me with your tears
And all the words you say
Just give yourself away
And if it's all for show
Then why run to and fro?
The time tick tocks away
But for you there's nothing gained
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Dead In Our Tracks
05:09
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Enter in, wearing thin
This dark facade
Makes my head ache
All of this fake, these false gods
So you want to touch the dark?
Believe in tomorrow?
Follow through with the tune
The dark design of time
Unburden us the dark
Let us leave this death
Unbridled in our hand
Forgotten in our rest
I hear you, and I know you hear me too
Coming through in our view
So frightened of the dark
Let us see this end
Taken from our hands
Asleep and taken in
Smoke ascendeth like a reflex
Reflected in broken glass
Harm of thee, oh harmony
Shattered to be what did you see
Shining in a dark abyss
Reached out to starry Tartarus
I am frenzied inside
Frozen in our stead
Stopped dead in our tracks
When did the highway end?
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There's Nowhere To Hide
03:13
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I tried and I tried,
But I found nowhere to hide
Transfixed my eyes
On what I could not deny
My head adorned with scars from these thorns
Crucifed me on the screen of my TV
I looked, what did I find
No sound in my mind
As the time passed by
There was nowhere to hide
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The World
05:26
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The time was withheld
The crash of wedding bells
A lone cloud drifted through the sky
Then, cold fell the rain
Drenched in dismay
How could this happen today?
Calm came the storm
The violence came before
Look with your mind not your eyes
Bird on a wing
Brought down low to thee
Evil came to me in disguise
Appointed by the dirt
Anointed to return
Distilled all the truth from the lies
Enraptured by this verse
A black sky spelt the curse
Unhidden from all blinded eyes
The world is falling
The red wine is spilling out
Cup runneth over
To the underground
Feed into the flowers
Blood leaves a sour stain
Avenge us, oh Father
How long must we wait?
But our time was withheld
The crack of broken bells
No clouds drifted through the sky
But then fell our rain
Rejoiced for the day
Our time had finally come to repay
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The Storm
03:46
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Onward, oh onward I go
In this rocking boat, oh
The wind mocked my frustration as I tried to secure
In this coming, ever-raging storm
It doesn't matter how I try
Nothing ever seems to clear the darkness from the sky
Weeping black rain down upon us from its eyes
Crawling across the night
And it rains down on me
A black and deep and awful flood of misery
Fear soaked and drowning in this endless bloody sea
Oh I call out, I scream to thee
One, two, three, four,
There is an ending to this war
The cannon smoke, the barrel worn
There is an ending to this war
Five, six, seven, eight
There is an ending to this pain
The violent fear, the throbbing ache
There is an ending to our pain
So we go forth
The rain upon our face as we knelt down to the floor
In disarray we pray as we entered in the storm
There is no other day but today
And into darkest night
The rain unfolding loud into the true breadth of its might
And there is not an end, no, not end in sight
For us to see, for us to flee this bellowing sea
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All I Want
05:38
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If you knew how tired I was
If you knew how sick of you
If you only knew
I tried to escape to claw my way
Through the rotting frame of this paradigm
I tried but I could not find
All I want
All I want
All I want
It's all I want
The shattered rain of pain
Falls in my hair like glass shards everywhere
All I can see through the scarred bleeding haze
The rest of my days trapped in this maze
If you only knew how sick I was of you
I want to be through
And I'm sick of myself too
Trapped in this roundabout
Never get out
Was born in the wrong time
Guess it's my lot to die
But I don't mind
I don't mind
It's not the pain
It's the time, the time
This is me bleeding
The words confused on the page
Dip the quill with my pain
Smoke it fills my lungs
The curse of this habitation
I need to breath to survive
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So helpless in the face of
Such trouble
Torn asunder
And the fire
Sky is dark
The smoky fog rolls through
Wind blows past the trees
Blows around me
Once birds soared through the sky
But now they hide
Falling ashes on me
What could never be
A smoke it fills my eyes
What a surprise
The smell of gasoline
Common to me
Falling ashes on me
How could this ever be
Slowly we go down to
A place of no return
Seek shelter in Jesus
Before the door is closed
And so we go through the open door
In spite of the voice of the world
They will never see
Blinded by their own dream
Time, it's getting close
Thought you should know
There is nowhere left for us go
Falling ashes on me
Fire burns to the sea
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Seek Death
04:41
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Asleep in the embrace of security
I fade away as my stomach starts to scream
Torture me mind empty
Fill me full of dread
At least then I'd feel something
Nothing in my head
I want to be free
They tried to warn me
I didn't believe
I laughed at the thought
Now I'm what I feared the most
Nothing but a walking ghost
"Give me liberty
Or give me death"
But they gave me neither
I reach but it runs from my grasp
Asleep in my filth
Nothing stirs me
I am awake
But I cannot leave
All I want is to leave this life
But they won't let me
Oh god, oh why, I don't understand
I tried, but we failed
Reorganize, redefine
Fell down the wishing well
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Power
06:54
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Pour down on me everything you have
I will speak
In my mouth the words are so sweet
I will speak
Out of the sky it fell upon me
I was weak down on my knees
Let it come forth out of my mouth
I will speak the words out
Time has come for the setting sun
The words have been written
No return and no place to run
This is how it will end
Go where I send you
Say what I need
The power is within you
Go forth with great speed
Over the mountains and underneath the sea
Push through the wilderness, arise with eagle's wings
Oh, the fire pushes me to speak
Feel the fire underneath my feet
Come forth then, I will unleash my tongue
The prophecy will be sung
The time has come for the final word
I will speak until I'm heard
I am ready to fulfill my destiny
The power is within me
Not afraid anymore I've crossed through that door
I'll go until I can speak no more
Power is in my mouth
Power: I'll speak it out
I've eaten the book, the words will pour out
Power within without
Power
Power
Power
Power
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Calm
04:44
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Mercy
Please have mercy
Mercy on me
I cannot tame
This roaring, raging sea
We call to thee oh calm this sea
The wind it blows and bellows
We're adrift and we cannot still
The storm so overwhelming
Jesus have mercy
We are so afraid
We cannot make it stop
No matter how we've prayed
Come down to us oh Father
And save us from this end
We do not want to drown
In this black dreary abyss
We call to thee oh calm this sea
Our boots are soaked and worn
The boards below creak and groan
We cannot survive this storm
Mercy please have mercy
Mercy on me
We cannot tame
This roaring raging sea
Jesus we call you Jesus
Save us from this end
We are calling out
Reach out your hand
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They Wait
04:33
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Speak softly and slow
Quiet and low
Or else they might hear you
Coming through
The doors have ears
Wired they can hear
So much fear, such fear
And the sky will fall
Come down upon us all
There's no way around only through
Forget about the past
There's no turning back
And there's nothing left for us to do
Oh how can you sleep?
Sitting on the brink
On the precipice of total control
The hand wringers smile
As we walk the final mile
There's no turning back
And there's nowhere to go
Let us be silent
As we escape
Into the black
Oh worried fate
Not a sound
Nor a whisper
We shall go like thieves
Here come the worms
Eating all of us
Eating through the wood of this rotten house
They've come for you and me
Bellies are empty
And their eyes of full pain for they are hungry
Down to the grave
They wait
Deep down to the grave
They wait
Fall this house of cards
Built from broken stars
Bombarded and torn apart
So, run while you still can
Forsake this wretched land
And never look back
Run while you still can
I'm reaching out my hand
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Flood
03:23
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I can't control the sea within me
Waters bending like a river
Overflowed and rushed in
Words conquer my mind
The exhaustion is overwhelming
Is all this a retelling
Nothing ever is stable in the midst of a flood
It doesn't matter how much I try
It doesn't matter how much I've cried
Will these tears never dry?
My tears reflect in the sky
So I scream out into the air
My voice collapsed in a sharp despair
A silence gripped over my mouth
Won't let a single word get out
Boiled down in the ointment sea
I smell the salty froth of thee
Serpent song swirling speech
I know of thee, you twisted thing
Overwhelming spiral in the deep
Betwixt thy scales I cannot reach
In Jesus Christ name I rebuke thee
My God, My God protect me
I will not bow down to such a filthy thing
Godless vexing darkness I hear thy beseech
I am, I am and thou art naught but a thought
Thou art no more but a meal for the hungry flock
You want to make war
Make war with me
You better be ready
I am powerful and I am reinforced
I know thee and I know, I know thy voice
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Bright Eyes
04:13
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Stumbled in this place
Wind upon my face
Sky wept in vain
Broken frame
Torment of the saints
Ground cried out our names
On we go with no tomorrow
And on we go into the unknown
I feel alone
In space on my own
Am I the only one?
Fallen out of hand
Buried in the sand
There's nowhere left to stand
Beset surrounded on all sides
By smiling antichrists
Bring me home
Bring me closer
I want to feel the warmth of your light
Jesus come,
This world's been undone
There must be an end to this night
Masquerade this pain
Broken in the rain
Feeling obstruct again
The scene in me
Buried by the sea so deep
Broken in defeat trampled underneath
To make war with this beast
For Jesus Christ, we're prepared to die
Our final sacrifice
Open wide the mouth of madness in the dark
Abyssal bleeding heart
Flood out like skin flailing in the wind
Abomination of desolation standing
In the mirror of your eyes
Inside, it will arise
Like the flies on the dead
The voices in your head become a flood
As the blood trickles down
Your bright eyes shine like the sun
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No Tomorrow (Actuality)
05:47
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Oh bitter came the day
We ran away
The tide could not be turned
Oh how, oh how we learned
Oh, how broken thou art
Shattered in thine frame
The hour of trouble reached you
Now there's no escape
There's no tomorrow for this place
The rotted walls and hollow halls hang dark in their space
Blood bound together I've taken your name
But they'll cry "Oh, God save me"
Their screams will echo in vain
In this world so broken, in this world so frail
I cannot back down, I can only prevail
Mark the day and count them well
I'll not despair at the final bell
There's no tomorrow
No tomorrow
No tomorrow
No tomorrow
There's no tomorrow
No tomorrow
No tomorrow
No tomorrow
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Redemption Draweth Nigh Woodbury, Tennessee
Redemption Draweth Nigh is a solo project focused on the end-times and the nearing return of Jesus
Christ.
This music is in the service of Jesus Christ.
From Nashville, Tennessee.
The music is a blend of rock, jazz, blues, and classical that's probably best described as art rock or prog.
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