Elephant - Dungeons Of Soaring Oblivion lyrics

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Nighted, mystical, soaring dungeons - demesne of the gallant dead<br />

Frozen shrines and blazing palaces, undulating opaline towers<br />

Above the coruscating majesty the stone sky casts a pall<br />

In the grim and gelid dawn of winter's foul despite<br />

Sorcerous winds and turbulent seas<br />

Rise and fall like a dirge<br />

Monstrous suns and fiendish storms<br />

An armada of cruelty and horror<br />

The new universe - a strange thrill - a five-sided equation<br />

Divergent paroxysm of Anaak Gigas, atavistic pestilence<br />

Bone and blood - obdurate permanence - spawn of the nemesis star<br />

A towering sphere of glowing ichor, the forest far beneath<br />

The lilies have turned to asphodel<br />

Panacea which was once liberation<br />

Anodyne into living death<br />

Your womb shall become your grave<br />

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Sycophants of the hybrid dictator<br />

Sentinels of the island empire<br />

The creator needs an author to justify his land<br />

Occulted in the lore that dragons keep<br />

As some lamed master bereft of theurgy<br />

An equinox of mordant fear<br />

A malignant ferocity in the ebon lake<br />

Beneath the revenant of the dolorous moon<br />

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Inverted abysms within the mind's lair<br />

A riot of raving madness and paramnesia<br />

Falling upward through invisible gates<br />

Vertigo of mirrored portals<br />

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This baffling prescence<br />

A suspended void of cosmic hate<br />

I saw the gleam of my ambition<br />

And I saw the machinery behind it