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Spirits Of The Witchwood
06:36
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In the court of a magician
In a tower on a hill
Wrought of dark stone mined in cygnus
With a fable to fulfil
This tower loomed above all others
Casting shadows far and wide
And with the spirits of the witchwood
We’re fighting all the falsehood
The elders left behind
Then a horseman came to see us
Underneath a crimson sun
In delivering his portent
The unthinkable was done
The parchment, falling slowly to the ground
Caused a panic like no other
And with the spirits of the witchwood
We’re fighting all the falsehood
The elders left behind
We’re at one with the witchwood
Fighting the falsehood
Transmuting spells
By the day
Pitch black darkness surrounds us
It dares to confound us
Placing a wedge
In the way
Blue sky memories are keeping
Slowly creeping doubts well away
We’re at one with the witchwood
Our hope for the future
Is savouring the fruit of golden bows
From trees we’ve known since the dawn of time
And can’t let down
It’s so profound
Visions of a never ending stream of solemn days
Breathing for the rest of time
This is all we know and care to enshrine
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Funeral Of The Forest
06:32
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Here I stand in grief before you
As the rain strikes fiercely down
I am homeless, cold and desperate
And the fatal stars still frown
In the dark of night
There is a glow beyond the river
Where the embers dance and burn
Blood red skies
As we fall
To the force controlling us
Keep crusading through the chasmed ways
Scale the mountains through the solar haze
Rest in clover at the end of days
Bear the trial
Of the black blood swollen mire
At the funeral of the forest
There is a glow beyond the river
Where the embers dance and burn
Come to me
Oh distant dream of victory
Absolve me of this misery
Antares bring the light
For the gods are waiting
Come to me
Oh moon white nymphs of mystery
Avail me of your witchery
To the purpose of the fight
At the funeral of the forest
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King Of Kings
05:56
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Sanctus
Imperium
Idoneous
Rex Regum
Sanctus
Imperium
Idoneous
Ex Nihilo
Sanctus
Sanctus
Imperium
Idoneous
Rex Regum
Night falls gently
Like a mantle
Wrapping around the land
And sleep falls slowly
Like a phantom
In the doubtful twilight’s interval
With a whisper on the wind
When the sanguine blade is shown
From the clearing of the way
To the forces from below
Shadows reveal the king of kings
Lead now always
Tread the blazing
Trail of stars that light the way
Whispering
On the wind
Like a sanguine blade
Stealing time away
Shadows reveal the king of kings
The king of kings
The king of kings
Arise from nowhere
Of your own pure making
Whispering
On the wind
Like a sanguine blade
Steal time away
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In cypress glades we cower
Complicit in the night
The tarnished force of Memnon
Hindering the fight
The hostile fields stand in our way
Death and decay
Are all around us
A broken sword brings light to the day
Scything away
This endless nightmare
This is the time to give thanks to the fallen
This is the time to put everything right
There is a place in our dreams we are calling
On this fateful midsummer night
A wanton celebration
A furnace of desire
Drops of rain are falling
Extinguishing the fire
A flower garland rests on the ground
Stand in the round
It serves to remind us
A broken sword brings light to the day
Scything away
This endless nightmare
This is the time to give thanks to the fallen
This is the time to put everything right
There is the place in our dreams we are calling
On this fateful midsummer night
Now we repent in the heart of the witchwood
Facing the pressures of venerable life
Under the spell of the moon and the spirits
On this fateful midsummer night
Midsummer night
Farewell
Farewell
Tears and unforgetting
Farewell
Farewell
To the cypress and rose sun setting
Farewell
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Standing on the mountain
Quaking from the height
Far below are the trees that grow
In ashen light
Clouds that gather
Overhead
Devastation that we fear and dread
One more
Outrage
One more fallen friend
Brought to earth with a fatal curse
It never ends
One more
Failing
One more fall from grace
Mesmerised by cerulean skies
So far away and
Blinded by the light
On and on
We forge beyond
The sacrifice of lustrous life
Embarked upon
In a dream
By a sable stream
When a bittern storm brings darkness like a death machine
Visions unforeseen
One last
Embrace
One last night with friends
Swept away by the light of day
Longing for
The new found freedom of the end
On and on
We forge beyond
The sacrifice of lustrous life
Embarked upon
In a dream
By a sable stream
When a bittern storm brings darkness like a death machine
Visions unforeseen
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Flower Demons
04:06
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When the night has fallen on the outside
Flower demons haunt the flickering flames
Dancing around in the cold of the cave
Autumn colours painting troubling pictures in the haze
In the splendour of decay
As the weaving flowers play
Back and forth
And we fear for the light of day
As the flowers fall away
And the demons still remain
Rejoicing in
The plague of the darkest day
This is the season
This is a sign
Unending silence calls
And now we sleep ’til the end of time
When the night has fallen on the outside
Flower demons haunt the flickering flames
Dancing around in the cold cave
Autumn colours painting troubling pictures in the haze
In the splendour of decay
As the weaving flowers play
Back and forth
And we fear for the light of day
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Return Of The King
04:16
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Trudging through the rain and snow
In the grip of a winter’s day
Looking for a warm safe place
To hide away
When a poor lost mother came to me
With the news of her new born son
Trying to find out if he is
The chosen one
Riding on the wings
Of a wyvern on a solar wind
In a place that lies above
The wasteland we are living on
Could this be the day
When the darkness falls away
The king of kings returns
To end the disarray
Wearing down, the elements
Of a world in deep decay
Sermonise and realise
The only way
To bring about the clearing out
Of the sins that went before
Simplify, say goodbye
And close the door
Riding on the wings
Of a wyvern on a solar wind
In a place that lies above
The wasteland we are living on
Could this be the day
When the darkness falls away
The king of kings returns
To end the disarray
Riding on the wings
Of a wyvern on a solar wind
In a place that lies above
The wasteland we are living on
Could this be the day
When the darkness falls away
The king of kings returns
To end the disarray
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Win or lose the final quest
All pervading emptiness
On the point of no return
Wisdom that we had to learn
Along the way
In the days
Of sanctuary
Walking the riven worlds at sunset
Glades of majesty
Ruined in a travesty
Fighting hard will set you free
This is where we need to be
Along the way
In the days
Of sanctuary
Walking the riven worlds at sunset
Here we go again
In the darkest depths of winter
Here we go again
To the strains of ancient thunder
Time and time again
With the grace of falling flowers
Sit me down again
And now…
Making sense
Of the stolen years
We flow
With tears of mist and fire
Time and time again
We fail to breathe the air above
Until now…
Stay with me
’til the golden starlight shines across the sky
Come with me
To a resting place that only we can find
In all its splendour
Here we go again
In the darkest depths of winter
Here we go again
To the strains of ancient thunder
Time and time again
With the grace of falling flowers
Sit me down again
And now…
Stay with me
’til the golden starlight shines across the sky
Come with me
To a resting place that only we can find
In all its splendour
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Amanda Kim Sanderson Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
Amanda, Outstation's lead vocalist, has produced four solo albums in collaboration with the Verulium project.
outstation.bandcamp.com/music
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