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Year Of The Funeral

by The Dead See

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Karen McTavish
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Karen McTavish Year of the Funeral is one of the greatest albums I've heard this year. Dark Knight of the Soul is haunting. Favorite track: Dark Night Of The Soul.
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Everyone is running to get to the same place But how you live is how you will die Everyone is pushing to end the same way I would rather live before I expire Gone from my sight you remain forever unchanged Part of who I am and want to be Part of the All, eternally Inside this shell resides an endless sky Within the dust there shines unending light The smallest stone reveals a universe Locked within a static plane Drawn to the fire that burns forever Behold Removed but not erased Passing from life to life
2.
Sheol 02:47
These wounds that will not heal become a monument A burial stone for what we were These broken vows consume all hope for peace Fighting against the tide, awaiting lifeless dawn I am an open sore bleeding on your world I am a heartless vulture in your eyes Again I lose trying to reach out burning myself hoping for solace I am another leper outside your city walls I am another beggar outside your door I gave it all and again I lose I’ve got my hand out and you push it away I’ve got my hand out you never take it I don’t know what else I’m supposed to do I am tired of pushing, I’m tired of trying, so sick of worry, I’ll end it all I have done all I have for your love but fear has won.
3.
Staring into black, I don’t know what will come Day bleeds into night wandering what’s beyond What we do to stay alive is not the same as living The living are blind, I’d rather die than survive Wrapped in darkness, descending into the void Cold hands cradle shards of broken light Eons implode, locked in cyclical demise Eyes forever open gazing into night The air is getting thin these walls are closing in From here the sun is just a star One million light years away I am closing the door Away from this world All this time I thought I knew the answers Seeing only what they taught me to Now I see the road you laid before me Now all that I have has come undone
4.
I’m back on my knees, haunted and burdened wasted and lonely Wanting for anything but this heartless misery I’m begging for my grave, jaded but grieving, fading to nothing Wishing like anything, I could erase my memory Cursed with your misery Touching the fire makes me feel pure, but it leaves my hands black and dirty again Write these words upon my grave, ‘cause I can’t take this anymore Write these words into stone, “I never lived here anyway”
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Death is not the end it is a door Heaven is with you and hell is without The life that we held crumbles into dust Silence for the damned and nothing before ‘Cause heaven was with her, now hell is on earth Once you see the truth it could complete you And once you know the truth it could destroy you This world will spoil like a corpse buried deep within the stone The shield we carry all our lives we lay down in death Cut from the womb, burned alive Our eyes bleed fire Life crumbles into dust
6.
My heart is black, no sense of time No turning back I’ve lost it all Toward the light I lift my eyes But darkness reigns over my soul Losing hope, stuck in this, spiraling down, crushing all Doubt grips the air from my lungs, fear is taking my mind I am crawling blind through endless night Hate rips the hope from my heart, You are taking my life I am lost and waiting for a sign Chaos has birthed in me I have become my worst fear Chaos has birthed in you You have become my foe Destruction, Disorder, Disarray, Desire
7.
Still I crawl through your hell yet I come unashamed Souls of Black Hands like stone The two of us Hearts of Bone I am alone no sign of you, cold to the bone and empty Nothing inside me, means nothing left to lose
8.
Far too long each breath has brought pain All these years with no light and nothing gained Dreams become ghosts, visions fade, hearts decay Time is gone, open eyes, walk through flame Miles from the light buried inside Stretching for years of sadness and pain Miles from the light, spanning a lifetime Holding the darkness deeper inside Was this life meant for pain Born in fire to burn aflame Here lies the root of our demise Unspoken truths that give birth to lies Feeding your guilt closing your eyes Break down the walls that keep you inside Set me free I have lost the will to move on Heart like a graveyard Soul of an empty tomb I must leave this all behind Mind like a headstone Spirit of the Abyss This is the hour that love dies Feel the hate burn inside
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Ascension 08:32
I have found a room deep inside the earth Where they keep the lost ones, the dead ones Overflow of the graveyards, brave soldiers, holy saints Victims of Plagues, both rich and poor I have passed the arches, the pillars of skulls Beauty in decay, art from death Hidden from the sun, built from remains Brothers and Sisters, Mothers and Fathers I have seen the walking dead Lost like children in the heart of a graveyard I have seen the broken souls comforted only by their loss I have heard their useless cries in the night I have seen the monstrance and the cup full of blood Eternal life through eternal death Ashes to ashes and dust to dust Exonerated and anonymous Purify me that I might see All that is offered and what is to be Grant me wisdom and give me sight That I might know your paths into the light.

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released September 21, 2009

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