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Waning Light
03:55
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Smell decay on the wind
There’s something gone from within
Both far away and on your breath
The waning light fades in the west
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Sun Chariot Intro
00:44
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Sun Chariot
06:11
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Sun chariot gives me life
Brings the day and wards off night
Feeds our crops and marks our time
Sun chariot, blazing fire
All-consuming celestial pyre
Lights this world and marks our time
Ancient wheel makes its climb
Ride across the open sky
The crushing darkness close behind
Each day the race begins again
Until the day the cycle ends
Extinguish light, the cycle ends
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Bog Bodies
04:30
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Cross the threshold
Submerged in silent waters
Portal to another world
Layers on layers
Get older and deeper
The primordial soil
Keeps me in its realm
The day they drowned me
And let me sink deep under
Slowly swallowed by this acrid pool
Four thousand years I’ve been smothered in this prison
Moving downward through the Earth’s bowels
Back to the earthen womb
Galaxies of black and green
Preserve me through the centuries
The decaying matter that surrounds me
A hollow tomb devoid of sound
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I was the rightful son of the Eastern plains
Formed from the earth and stone and shaped by the wind and rain
I laid a chiefdom down a thousand long days wide
To the farthest outpost where the earth and sky collide
And the spirits whispered to me in the deepest night
Until I crossed the dividing line between the dark and light
Now my tomb is in the hill, it lies in plain sight
As the wanderers and worker drones tread on this land of mine
All will change and all will stay the same
My human face and form have long decayed
My name is lost to time, the story has been sealed away
And for this second time I’ll die, the night has gotten late
Thought and memory are gone, we all disintegrate
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Cuneiform
04:29
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The shapes of sounds are cryptic
Floating in your mind
Your words will lose all meaning
In the grinding wheels of time
Cuneiform
The stone is worn
Once your words have faded they can never be reborn
You fix your thoughts to paper
You float them in a cloud
These failed attempts are futile
These things don’t stay around
Cuneiform
The letters worn
Once your words have faded they can never be reborn
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Copper Axe
05:42
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Rests atop the highest peak
Lost track of the many years
Still attached at the drifter’s side
The copper axe remains intact
Made his way through mountains steep
To sacred sites, he traveled far
Met violent bands along the path
Attacked the stranger in their lands
What remains of a life now gone
Lies still in the quiet dawn
There comes a time when you just can’t carry on
At day’s end they found him weak
Made fatal wound through flesh and bone
The drifter and the copper axe
Still in the ice remain intact
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Dawn Goddess
05:46
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Look toward the east after all this death
The golden wheel will warm your face again
Hewes, burn again in the eastern sky
Hewes, morning will come when the old world dies
Look toward the east what you thought was gone
Will come around again in a different form
It’s not the same world that we knew before
Hewes, burn again in the eastern sky
Hewes, morning will come when the old ways die
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Formation Ritual Los Angeles, California
Formation Ritual was created by guitarist and vocalist Jason Tapia in 2021. The band’s mix of fuzzed-out guitar, melodic vocals and occasional use of overdriven organ and analog synths distinguishes them in the heavy scene. With lyrics touching on unsettling folklore, prehistoric cultures, strange dreams and dead languages, Formation Ritual transports listeners to other worlds. ... more
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