Beyond time I travelled
No space has bound me
Followed the will to know
The eternal order revealed
Past my dreams, all doubt disappeared, my vision became clear
Treachery is the poison and the union is in our blood
The king, with beak and talons
The king, in the form of man
Nothing escapes those eyes
He sees everything


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    Epic

    daveysaon March 09, 2009   Link
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    i dont have a fucking clue how to interpet this or make it relevant to anything in my own life but this song just gives me fucking chills, here is the kind of image it gives to me when i listen to it: it sounds like a nightmare of walking deep in a forest away from a beach and being hunted down by some dark presence (but rather than it chasing you, you are actually moving towards it) not knowing the way out but only merging with the forest and the shadows... getting in thicker and thicker and slow in the undergrowth, seeing shapes in the dark. then the guitar solo comes on and its like the presence of god appears and the light makes you go blind for a second, then open your eyes and everything is covered in holy fire and you have been saved from whatever has been hiding its true form, as everything is now bathed in light. everything calms down for a moment and you breathe easy and feel that there is no one following anymore and hear the sound of rushing water, you go down a slope of dry ground to a clearing as night settles again... but then the end bit comes on and a big fucking owl demon made out of fire and ancient ruins starts tearing through the forest, then you start running as it rampages behind... you make it back to the clearing of the beach and you turn around and there is nothing there, you might have imagined the whole thing but you think that you see a cloud of dust just settling back into the ground. FUCK this song scares me but i love it...

    Manxbasson February 14, 2010   Link
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    So fucking epic. God damn.

    SteelRiverSavioron May 18, 2012   Link

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