1. |
The Machine
03:06
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The Machine
Time divides my mind
Between the ebb and flow
Of my desire to be
More than a ghost in the machine
Most than a crutch for your disease
I am the truth that’s unfolding
You are the Machine
You are the Machine
And I don’t wanna play with you
Fire burns inside, no understanding
Only vacant eyes
I’ve seen the way it’s always been
No witness, no enlightening
Asleep in our own apathy
You are the Machine
You are the Machine
And I don’t wanna play with you
I don’t wanna play with you
I don’t wanna play with you
I don’t wanna play with you
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2. |
For you
03:18
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For You
Captured in ethereality
in the Ambrosium
unfolding lifelessly in me
A self-concocting dream
delicately surreal it seems
It waits for me to breathe
The light that burns
Burns
Burns
It burns
Burns
Burns
But I’ll wait here for you
Till the dawn breaks anew
In shade the shadow takes my sheen
Am I confused inside?
It laughs and takes away my view
Blood rushes from within
en masse we are an entity
Caress the porous skin
I thought I saw you
In my Place
But I was Dreaming
And now I’ll never be open again
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3. |
Dining on Ashes
04:18
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Dining on Ashes
Dusk
walking down a street to nowhere
Just like a dream
where everything is nothing
Inside it feels
as though a change is coming
Reality
is just a cold wet blanket
Tonight
we dine
on ashes
Mist
crawling through the trees and bushes
The houses watch
but feel so cold and lifeless
The sirens wail
awake me from my slumber
Darkness like snowflakes falls
in suburbia
Tonight
we dine
on ashes
They wait
in silence pacing forward
What savage games
a god must play in wonder
These corridors
are filled with children’s laughter
The shadows crawl
in suburbia
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4. |
Illuminate
03:55
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Illuminate
When I was young,
I was afraid to be alone
So I wandered through the valleys
of the darkest depths
I called home
And as the time drew near
And light became a fragile friend
The leaves would wilt and wither as the autumn breeze
Called me
And then I’d Illuminate
And then I walked alone
A child raised from a violent tome
I clutched the winter solstice
like a warming meal
It’s so cold
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5. |
Berated
02:54
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Berated
When passengers meet passengers
They’re on a ride they thought was free
And what was once a game is now an ordeal
Where I was blind I now can see
the view contorts and becomes real
and all the time the walls move inch by inch
And now I see
now I see
now I see
This is the fear you created
This is the sphere
When our eyes meet the laws will change
as silk on skin ignites the flames
Intertwining till we become one
Then as the darkness closes in
our moving forward will begin
till red and blue become a fantasy
And now I see
now I see
now I see
This is the fear you created
The delicate flower you berated
Every day devastated
This is the sphere
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6. |
Wept
03:41
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I’ve been waiting here for you
Feeling the love that isn’t true
Think of all the things you've said
They’re burnt and broken in your head
And underneath it all you've wept
You’ve wept
You’ve wept
Time is ticking can’t you see
And the jokers hand won’t set you free
And all lies that you have said
Burn with the tears of innocence
And underneath it all you've wept
You've wept
You've wept
It's waiting here for you
It's waiting here for you
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7. |
Ebony
04:56
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Ebony
You wake up one day and you can’t see
The things that you’ve done are just not real
And then the questions why
the teardrops and the lies
Am I falling
or am I free
And it’s so plain
We can’t explain it to you
To you
You wanted to be all you could be
The days in the dust a memory
They took you by surprise
and never told you why
We all live inside a dream
And it’s so plain
We can’t explain
it to you
To you
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8. |
The Lost
04:52
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The Lost
I can feel the change
The iridescent face
Comes crawling from despair
To captivate my dreams
The water ripples too
Such a black and bitter pool
What can I do but look away
But then I see it in your face
The highway shifts and moves
The darkness breaking through
Each suicide a dream
Of the broken and deceived
And on and on and on
And on and on and on
The end has come and gone
And it goes on and on and on
I stare into a face
It’s strange and out of shape
The clock is twisting into view
The numbers coil into a noose
And as the lines begin to fade
The lost come out to play
And the daylight never comes
As we melt into the sun
Nothings going to take me from this place
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9. |
Winters Dream
04:40
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Winters dream
Drain me, sacred energy
Coiled like a serpents tail
Injected in my vein
Now I see through
The shrouded paper face
It reveals a vast landscape
Verdant and perfumed
Crawling through the excess
until I see what has made me blind
Echoing the past in the present
before a thousand eyes
You know you want to watch
but you know you really don’t want to see
You know you want to watch
but you don’t want to
Reveal yourself
Awake in a winters dream
In the cleft of your beauty
Reveal yourself
Watching the black sunset
This all will end in tears
Touch me
mould my empathy
Inscribed upon this place
The sound of a million screams
I’ll be renewed
In fragments of a mirror maze
Lost in the twilight haze
Perpetually in tune
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10. |
Until the End
06:33
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Until the End
I sat alone
enveloped in the skies of the velvet helm
on a line outside of time
I caught soft dreams
like tears of dragons fire in the ebon tide
cascading memories
I grasped the seams
aching for the feel of the energy
the draining of my needs
Come back and taste
the milky-way consistency of dreams
and now I truly see
Tonight I take a life away
And it will come to me this way
And everything will ebb away
on the breeze
To drain the self in sad refrain
And watch it slowly dissipate
It gradually congeals
until I am at one with everything
I’m sorry
I’m waiting for the wine to rinse me clean
Such a delicate bouquet
Please forgive me
Filter out the thoughts that bring you down
The feelings that I bring
I want you to see
Want you to see this
Want you to hear
Want you to hear this
Want you to feel
Want you to feel this
Want you to be
Want you to be this
Tonight I take a life away
And it will come to me this way
And everything will ebb away, on the breeze
To drain the self in sad refrain
And watch it slowly dissipate
It gradually congeals until I am at one with everything
Until the End
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Illuminus Auckland, New Zealand
Illuminus is a rock band from Auckland, New Zealand. Their debut album 'Until the End' was released in 2012 and received
rave reviews.
Their new album is called 'Fading by Degrees' and is now available through the website. To celebrate this the band remastered and re-released the first album 'Until the End'.
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