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Wings of a Dying Crow

by Fourth Dominion

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1.
In the sands Winds are blowing Through strange lands Far away A man treads Through the desert Binding heads Follow him On his own Serpents attack Cut the bone As the flesh turns black But he stands Winds take him on By his hands The coils have gone from light Divine bliss Apathetic Gods' auspice Is extinct Straight ahead Sands burn through skin Dreams fall dead Wounds persist Man is born With just two gifts The valor And strength to resist Serpents' coils Stop and stagnate And we toil With will to negate and fight
2.
Behelit 05:10
I was born From a corpse on a dying tree I don't know Why I'm disposed to tragedy The Hawks condemn I'm one of them, they protect me I must leave To conceive the dream I see The demons storm my nights They cloud any hope of paradise I cut down the horrors in my sight I will make my own sun rise I do not cling But still I sing with compassion I do not heed When behelits bleed of ambition The demons storm my nights They cloud any hope of paradise I cut down the horrors in my sight I will make my own sun rise Now here I stand With sword in hand to protect her The only ray I will slay what may inter The demons storm my nights They cloud any hope of paradise I cut down the horrors in my sight I will make my own sun rise Writhing creatures form and subdivide The external dark is not inside
3.
Now my fire Will fade away Leaving ashes My flesh will decay I have nothing But an empty grave And I will never See light of day A dying crow's wings are torn The bloodied snow is all that mourns Where is my joy? Is it in life? I've only seen it At the edge of a knife My paradise Lies in the blade Euphoria Bleeds away pain A dying crow's wings are torn The bloodied snow is all that mourns The gates of heaven Are made of flesh And are opened By steel dreaming death Once you enter The rivers will flow And total bliss Will watch them go
4.
Something is in my mind Calls from the complex Another's thoughts inside scare me All these images perplex Visions from the inside, calling me Consciousness is no longer mine, hurting me Visions from the inside, controlling me Authority dances on my spine, killing me Telepathize with me Wired through my neurons A self-contained system Our silent mental songs The master breaks inside, swarming me All of my thoughts now die, taking me Now their conquest shall rise, over me Power is theirs to mine, from me Visions from the inside, calling me Consciousness is no longer mine, hurting me Visions from the inside, controlling me Authority dances on my spine, killing me
5.
Wounded 04:32
The fight is done And I have lost My sword is now A rusty ruin of dust Now the time is here to go To let my failure show Now the time is here to go further down The wounded only cry Because they're scared to die And my eyes are drier than the sun Despair seeps Into my veins And hope is but A moronic charade Now the time is here to go To let my courage show Now the time is here to go in the ground The wounded only cry Because they're scared to die And my eyes are drier than the sun The time is here to go To let my failure show I never had a chance So with death I shall dance I'll take the sword to see My insides become free And end my pitiful work of tragedy
6.
Tower Falls 03:51
The table has been cleared For bathroom surgery I will alleviate The swelling that took me The fever wages war On my decayed body And like a magnet pulls Further agony A cure it promises an end My castle walls no more defend The tower falls There's silence in the halls My dream of peace was just pretend I take the medicine And choke as it goes down Ferment the liquids As I attempt to drown A cure it promises an end My castle walls no more defend The tower falls There's silence in the halls My dream of peace was just pretend A cure it promises an end My castle walls no more defend The tower falls There's silence in the halls My dream of peace was just pretend
7.
Man's enslaved With no hope to be saved Hunted down The old species will drown They serve our needs We will douse their light Spectres born from the night Fattening To feed the ones with wings Live in fear They will shed blood and tears They serve our needs We will douse their light Spectres born from the night They serve our needs We will douse their light Spectres born from the night
8.
I don't know if you can hear If my waves will cut through But there is a cleft in me That has been shaped for you You burn through my lungs Like a dove reflecting rays I breathe you in as deep as I can And fly on wings ablaze My old roots Hunger for grafting I need you For my chimeric dream Your flames ignite the cells Laid dormant in me So leaves blossom over me and My branches now can see I yearn for the fire That burns in your bark eyes So we can catch like a forest dead dry And smoke into the skies My old roots Hunger for grafting I need you For my chimeric dream
9.
A slab of marble It stood before you as you Set out to make your masterpiece Sculpted my body With such precision and care And then you taught me how to breathe Then you were finished What then stood before you? A monster so hideous and vile Abomination The most worthless form of life I am incurable inside The ruins of me Have fallen down I am just debris I will wither here I'm waiting for Your final blow The dust will be no more I will dissipate You had to break me You took a hammer to my Alabaster bones you despise You are an artist But still just an amateur Just look in my flesh and in my eyes The ruins of me Have fallen down I am just debris I will wither here I'm waiting for Your final blow The dust will be no more I will dissipate A slab of marble It stood before you as you Set out to make your masterpiece You are an artist But still just an amateur So lay me down and bring release The ruins of me Have fallen down I am just debris I will wither here I'm waiting for Your final blow The dust will be no more I will dissipate
10.
I am drowning And crying to be saved All my hopes and dreams Were taken by the waves I am lost In an endless sea of death Looking forward to Drawing my final breath A dead man speaks with hollow voices Mine no longer rings Damning laughs of life still haunt me As all living men sing I am dying And choking on my tongue But the surface nears And my death in sung I have heard the tales Of the men who loved and lost Their ship still sails Above my shattered bones A dead man speaks with hollow voices Mine no longer rings Damning laughs of life still haunt me As all living men sing I knelt down to eat a flower And tasted hints of honey But its poison quickly consumed me And plunged me into the sea I am drowning And crying to be saved All my hopes and dreams Were taken by the waves I have heard the tales Of the men who loved and lost Their ship still sails Above my shattered bones A dead man speaks with hollow voices Mine no longer rings Damning laughs of life still haunt me As all living men sing I knelt down to eat a flower And tasted hints of honey But its poison quickly consumed me And plunged me into the sea

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released January 13, 2017

Meadow Wyand: Vocals, Bass, Guitar
Dave Milburn: Guitar
Collin Ramirez: Drums

All Lyrics by Meadow Wyand

Recorded by Andrew Greacen
Mixed and Mastered by Andrew Greacen and Jason Randall
Recorded, Mixed and Mastered at More Sound Studios in Syracuse, NY

Cover Illustration by Nate Burns
Colors and Layout/Design by Matt Martinez
Logo by Aldi Priyanto
Photography by Peter Manktelow

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