The Beauty of Mankind

from A Nightmare Lit by a Dying Star by Somnus Aeternus

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So many days
In so many years
In baseline despair
We dwell, collectively insane

We were brought into this world as spectators
Naive and unaware, we are being lied to
In time we learn to lie to ourselves
What stays sincere is left unspoken

I… I am cold and I am afraid…
Of the emotional nuclear winter
we build for ourselves, a prison of fear.

For I have seen the beauty in mankind
Step away from grace, step away from obliteration
as the birds fall from the scorching skies
Searing air fills my lungs

As I choke on dust
I watch my beloved ones
toil to fix what they didn’t break
Lifelong struggle spent in shame

Cast by those unwilling to act
yet eager to suffer under the
collective guilt searing our skin

I… I am cold and I am afraid…
That my life is just a dead weight,
a burden to a dying world

NO ONE WILL MOURN

No one will be left to mourn the carcass of this world
Its bones bare and broken
Even the tallest monument of concrete will turn to a desert
our legacy forfeit

Until that happens
We’re eager to suffer
In guilt we‘re indebted
and so will be our children

I’ve seen mankind’s beauty
and wanted to follow it
it led me to insanity
I now see all around me

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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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