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Embrace of the Sea

by The Bitter Season

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1.
The Haunted 05:20
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Come to me Release all your burdens I've seen what's inside of you I know your pain, I know your fear I too have felt the burning Love lost and love betrayed We don't need to suffer anymore Just let me in I don't know what to believe This can't be real I'll keep searching for answers But I'm scared of what I'll find This prison that binds us Is made from the pain we feel This is greater than all of us The sum of all our sins Now that that you're inside me We will bleed together You will burn as she did As I do They hunger endlessly Come now and feed them This plague of haunted souls That has come to take you all Embrace the dark The mind decides what we will see Anything to rid ourselves of The harsh light of reality Strip the flesh Melt it down You will suffer All will drown I don't know what to believe This can't be real I'll keep searching for answers But I'm scared of what I'll find This prison that binds us Is made from the pain we feel This is greater than all of us The sum of all our sins Watch as they tear us apart Devoured piece by piece They smile and reassure us Tongues dripping with blood and deceit The evil lives inside ourselves Or so they'd have you believe Torn between this world and the other Begging for release
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The Siren 04:13
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Hours pass like a dying heartbeat Time slows in this haze of grey Stumbling in the dark you wander And pray that you will see the light of day Dreams of a better future Only serve to agonize Until you can't remember The last time that you closed your eyes Formless space Adrift without a course Indifferently obey Returning to the source Then a sound breaks the silence And penetrates your very soul It flows over mind and body Until it swallows you whole This is my escape Please say the words and set me free Wash it all away With the only thing that makes me feel Hear them speak Of selfless consecration While they feed On the sick and the weak This can't be The only way to live We're empty, we're broken There's nothing left to give This is my escape Please say the words and set me free Wash it all away With the only thing that makes me feel This is our escape Please say the words and set us free Wash it all away With the only thing that makes us feel This is our escape Please say the words and set us free
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The Swarm 04:07
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A lamentation for the end of days The will is absolute Submission overdue Silent pillar of black Reaching endlessly Into the sky They purify This end is all that you know Stare at the edge of the abyss Just one push and it's over Ill intention they hide behind their smiles While they beckon you closer Unquestioning you march toward them As those who came before But none are left to mourn Devoid of aspiration Mindless savage drones They join as one in purpose Devouring flesh and bone The slaughter foretold Offer yourself and set alight Ashes will spread into the night We watch and we wait For something to change The burden unspoken We shoulder the strain All of the fear and the sorrow Erased by the swarm The hatred picked clean from the bone The future no more Stare at the edge of the abyss Just one push and it's over Ill intention they hide behind their smiles While they beckon you closer
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Eclipse 05:20
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I lie awake watching you Running in circles As I dissolve from the inside out Though you can't ease my pain I smile when I see your face Let's fly away from this Our lives below No moon to our eclipse Except our own My memories Salvaging what we can Relive the days A debt I cannot repay Now I can't see her face Still I can hear her say Let's fly away from this Our lives below No moon to our eclipse Except our own Our memories Salvaging all I can I can't watch you waste away But I can't find the words to say Take my hand and we'll escape As one again Let's fly No moon Let's fly away from this Our lives below No moon to our eclipse Except our own
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Benthos: The Void Below 05:59
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They know not the embrace of the sea Let them be consoled For I have seen what lies beyond They take solace knowing they are free Let them be controlled Surrender yourselves And join us underneath the waves Cast aside your own apprehension And look toward the rising sun This is not the end of your life But the start of a new one We offer ourselves up to the sea And we're crushed by The terrible waves Won't someone please save me And everything that you wanted to know Rendered meaningless once you are free Rid of this prison that you call the self But you can be saved This is the point to which everything flows The singularity awaits below Beneath the veil of the body and the soul Cast aside your own apprehension And look toward the rising sun This is not the end of your life But the start of a new one We ask how deep can the ocean be As we drift away from the shore We found our place inside the sea And we will remain here forevermore We offer ourselves up to the sea And we're crushed by The terrible waves Won't someone please save me Immerse yourself in dread This is what you crave To find relief in pandemonium Turning emptiness into euphoria Immerse yourself in death Escape of the weak For those who cannot face The beautiful agony of immortality Cast aside your own apprehension And look toward the rising sun This is not the end of your life But the start of a new one We ask how deep can the ocean be As we drift away from the shore We found our place inside the sea And we will remain here forevermore
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Mockingbird 03:37
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Breath torn from my lungs Mirrored flesh in circuitry Body broken but I can't let go Bound to walk the earth in misery Blood drained, obsolete Acid flush the vein, relive the pain Distorted humanity Forever trapped in this corrupted brain Can anybody even hear me This is not where I'm supposed to be Thoughts racing but I try to stem the flow Sinking further now into the depths below I never meant to push you away They have taken everything And I've got nothing left but time Fragments of memories The only thing that keeps me sane Hollow eternity I stopped asking for a reason why All that was Liquified Impersonal The force that's controlling me Incurable The disease that brought me here Irreversible The choice that I made Eternal soul Can anybody even hear me This is not where I'm supposed to be Thoughts racing but I try to stem the flow Sinking further now into the depths below I never meant to push you away They have taken everything And I've got nothing left but time
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My Prison 04:01
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Echoes of a past life Spent in a rusted cage You're longing for something Displaced by guilt and rage Every fear manifested This place was made for you Festering mind consumed by thoughts Of penance overdue You know just what it is that I offer Why do you still approach I learn to scream without a sound The hands that lift me up Are the ones that hold me under until I drown Your road to redemption Beneath the fog obscured Meaningless contrition They can't hear you anymore Wallow in this hell of your creation Believing you can save yourself I learn to scream without a sound The hands that lift me up Are the ones that hold me under until I drown Together we shed the temporal In this place of unreality Beauty rendered obscene Perfect in its depravity Indifferent The static that devours Binding you down Carrying out Your innermost desire Annihilation And I, the arbiter of your discontent Reveal myself at last The ghost of your past Stare back from behind the glass Behind your eyes I learn to scream without a sound The hands that lift me up Are the ones that hold me under until I drown
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Lament 03:48
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Blood corrupted Control, connect I hold my breath for the searing of the flesh My pulse quickens as the final piece falls into place Instill my being into this offering Please accept My soul What can you do for me Take me beyond my former self Control Eternal ecstasy The pleasures of this world Have lost their hold on me Behold as I awake Through malice I take form In pain I am reborn New life regenerates Must find a way Before the shackles come again Promise kept Experience beyond this life We collect That which is owed to us Jesus wept This is your cross to bear I reject O brother won't you save My soul What have they done to me I'm just a shell of my former self The toll Infernal suffering The pleasures of this world Now just a memory My god What hell have I unleashed And with your life I will almost be complete Take a little more No doubt and no remorse No longer fear what's above and what's beneath I feel the heart that beats within her The only master I obey The everlasting trial of a sinner And now it's time to seal it away Before they tear apart Your soul Now it belongs to me Join us as we return to hell Untold Experience awaits The pleasure and the pain You'll never be the same
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Blood Moon 05:13
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Staring out of the blackness that you left me in Set adrift again Your words still echo in my head A warning unheeded Reaching out across the void between us To hold you once again I'm standing on the edge Until I fall out of myself By then it may be too late You live in fear of what's below Darkening, abyssal While grasping for meaning you cannot comprehend Our purpose deceiving We bring about the end Hold closed my eyes I can't bear witness to this The slow demise The need is growing deeper She's there Visions of a love forgotten A comfort bittersweet Reveal the agony I can't accept what stands before me But now I'm sure that it must be returned Back to where it all began Time to atone for what we've done How I long for her embrace But I know that none awaits me Hold closed my eyes I can't bear witness to this The slow demise The need is growing deeper In death we are united One body, one mind Embrace the evolution The end of humankind This flesh we forsake Our paradise awaits Forever Hold closed my eyes I can't bear witness to this The slow demise The need is growing deeper And as the veil is lifted I find that I can see The darkness closing in again All around me
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Exos: The Void Above 06:58
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Beyond these walls I hear them whisper Silent we lie in wait Another one of us is summoned Another life to desecrate From haunted sleep awakened We're forced to answer the call Humanity forsaken We're paralyzed as we fall Into the deepening cold Can't see what lies ahead Can't you save me Won't you try I tremble at the sound of my name Called upon to witness the creations of the insane Derived From the crystalized remains They seem alive A construct of man and machine Entwined They arrive From haunted sleep awakened We're forced to answer the call Humanity forsaken We're paralyzed as we fall Into the deepening cold Can't see what lies ahead Can't you save me Won't you try Your callous silence the rope That hangs around my neck They will take me And drag me away This sweet separation Hearkens back to the days Before the grey made way For a bitter shade of blue Tranquility Mind's eye staring open wide My consciousness sails across the sky No fear of falling into The black unforgiving sea If I never come back down Then what has become of me

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released February 23, 2024

Sam Rafuse - vocals, guitars, production
Simon McDonald - vocals, drums

Mastering by Acle Kahney at 4D Sounds

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