Forsaken soul,
How have you wandered so far from your home?
And what of this gray road?
Shall it, dissolving, be abandoned to roam free at last?
Oft do odysseys astray lead to untold fates,
And do feet tread upon virgin terrain as fresh ink to paper,
Where will you go?
Where will you go now?
Into the cold?
Will you burst forth onto the pages left untold?
To illuminate the skies and rain fire down below,
Or cover this world in snow?
When you behold their eyes through the ice,
Will you endure the cold and face impending demise?
Succumb to the night,
The day slips slowly away,
Such is the way the seasons change,
And if the pale night begins to show,
You will know that winter has come,
Where will you go now?
Into the cold?
Will you burst forth onto the pages left untold?
To illuminate the skies and rain fire down below,
Or cover this world in snow?
As the long night tears on,
Be strong and afraid not of the dark,
For the fire within your heart shall burn forever on...
Quite possibly the most full-on album I've ever listened to. Intense, and then some. 'Digital Tarpit' could describe both the track and the whole album: high-pitched guitar squeals that make your fillings itch coupled with merciless, suffocating heaviness. The Avenell-esque vocals top it off perfectly.
Brilliant - punishing, but brilliant. jim_fuego