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What only the power of god's fists and the devil's heart can do

from Upon a Lake of Embers by Ashes of the Armada

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The heavy sleep within my head was smashed by an enormous thunderclap, so that I started as one whom force awakens.
The veins of the ship are quaking to their core,
fear strikes with the empathy of a cannon.
What deception has led us into these waters?
These troubled waters!
Hold your tongue from these winds before they bring you to your knees.
"I reached a place where every light is muted, which bellows like the sea beneath a tempest, which is battered by opposing winds."
As if from a dream, a single beam of light shone through the heavens,
cutting into this menacing beast, careless to the entropy of the world around it.
Hope gains a new course.
I feel it in my soul, believing more than ever in this salvation.
Heartbeat racing, increasing in time with the broken grace of this deceiving blanket.
I would crawl up to the sun but the sky won't let me leave.
And like a lifeline, the tide guides us in to a safer place.
As if since lost, the warm sunshine brings forth memories of happiness long gone.
I could not paint a picture of what then stopped my heart cold.
Lining the beach, from end to end, the broken remains and fragments of brethren ship, battered against the the rocks and sand, lifeless for years past unaccountable.
One's eyes could not break from the travesty beheld here.
Either by the hand of man, or the hand of god, it still leaves fingerprints in time.
This is the first time I had dug my nails into disaster, upon that black and red shore, time standing still.
I yearn passionately to head back,
even if only to lose everything to the ill giving current.
I assure you, though not soon enough, death rapidly approaches.

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

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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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