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[00:13.94]"The Last Hour of Ancient Sunlight"
[00:20.75]Album: A Rose for the Apocalypse
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[00:28.60]Black is the sunlight shimmering below;
[00:35.37]it flows through life and the guilt we share
[00:42.18]Our sorrow, it cuts through the undergrowth,
[00:48.98]as we abandon this ravenous Earth alone
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[00:56.74]The zeitgeist dimmed the surface and seized the soul
[01:01.90]Our Mother wept behind the fence,
[01:10.26]and we drained her blood, then forgetting her face,
[01:17.14]and hide from everyone…
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[01:20.41]to breathe, to conquer,
[01:27.20]to linger, to utilize the ignorant herd
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[01:34.04]In rapture from nature we divorce,
[01:40.96]like orphans by desire,
[01:44.74]from this closing light
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[01:51.49]The bewildered sleep -
[01:54.81]the shadowy voyager is lurking;
[01:58.32]he’s in the flesh of landscapes vaporous
[02:04.90]The vacant, untiring Sovran of old…
[02:12.19]He’s the machinery; igniting the paralyzed soil
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[02:42.74]We took the blood of the earth
[02:59.94]and fell in love with death
[03:09.79]with life itself as an excuse
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[03:56.19]Black is the sunlight shimmering below;
[04:02.76]it flows through life and the guilt we share
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[04:10.09]We’re hiding in chorus as starry eyes close,
[04:15.58]and seasons part in farewell;
[04:23.83]‘cause we drained her blood, then forgetting her face
[04:30.77]to hide from everyone
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[04:37.72]The bewildered sleep -
[04:41.02]the shadowy voyager is lurking;
[04:44.73]he’s in the flesh of landscapes vaporous
[04:51.35]The vacant, untiring Sovran of old…
[04:58.48]He’s the machinery; igniting the paralyzed soil
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