The nightmare cometh

from Upon a Lake of Embers by Ashes of the Armada

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Everyone’s waiting to wake up.
Falling into the sun.
"In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground.
For out of it you were taken;
For dust you are, and to dust you shall return."
Paper minds and glass thoughts.
Darkness is all that is seen now.
Shadows can’t hold hands
Ghosts can’t embrace one another.
How could I be confused about the only thing that I’ve ever known to be true?
My hands were graveyards, if not for someone else then for me.
My eyes were petrified in what had become.
My thoughts were frozen in darkness, forever in my present moment.
Can we make it out of the kindling fire of chaos?
I don’t want to be a man who just washes away,
who fades from memory and sings sour songs
with nothing to hear but the swells.
And I take it all back.

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from Upon a Lake of Embers, released February 16, 2015

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Ashes of the Armada Wichita, Kansas

A bunch of guys making crazy tunes. Our live show is a reflection of the insanity in our heads. Our albums are a mirror to the stories escaping our overactive imaginations.

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