The Baneful Choir

from A Nightmare Lit by a Dying Star by Somnus Aeternus

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Same as generations pass
Nature goes by and wisdom dies

The ancient ties are
severed by technology and lies
Disoriented kind swarms in denial
Cowering from the passing time

Look at them penitents
Staying tranquil in the eyes of storms
Look at them, expectants
with hopes beyond this world
The only ones
honest to themselves
outcast by men and themselves
Look at them, apologists
Offering to return their flesh

Grazing on the fields belonging to our progenies
The baneful choir of imbeciles
We abhor the weakness of animal instincts
We are the apex destroyers

Pestilence and war, brother,
are our gifts to the world
for as long as it bleeds

We are a locust-inspired horde
Devoted to pleasures of flesh
as long as it bleeds

Together we stand alienated,
a nightmare lit by a dying star

Neglected, raised for hatred.
Neurotic, self-centered
Self-destructive, we are the loudest evolutionary error
Pinnacle life form, no irony is lost
- for as long as the earth bleeds -
overfed and collapsing
Easy times produce the worst kind of any.

And nothing is as easy
as to rant about the guilt of mankind
as if we are excluded
The real choice is whether to join the baneful choir
or to take your life

For as long as the Earth bleeds

Pestilence and war, brother,
are our gifts to the world
for as long as it bleeds

We are a locust-inspired horde
Devoted to pleasures of flesh
as long as it bleeds

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from A Nightmare Lit by a Dying Star, released October 15, 2023

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Doom metal from Czechia. New album 'A Nightmare Lit by a Dying Star' released on Oct 15 2023.

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