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A Call Beyond
05:32
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Delving into mysteries they should know to fear
Living in the darkness of their great deceit
A quest for eldritch knowledge only they revere
Unhallowed scholars pillaging the world beneath
As we pray to god defiled
We await a call beyond
Atonement for their sins so vile
A curse on every one
Barbaric pupils
Vehement creeds
Studious evil
Depraved misdeeds
Upon our people they've descended to befoul
Torturous methods to attain enlightenment
We beseech amends, yet they just disavow
Heedless violations deepen our lament
Blasphemous murderers!
Face judgment!
Blood-crazed fiends!
Death to all!
You are doomed!
We shall have our vengeance!
Weep with us!
Hear our call!
Mercy for the orphaned child
Oh, mercy please for us
Damn ye all to endless trial
By the wrath of Mother Kos
A bottomless curse
A bottomless sea
Source of all greatness
All things that be
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Sympathy's Desire
05:18
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A tower of iniquity
Where there's no solace
Her bastion of grief
Terrible secrets she must keep
Above the waking world
The curse never sleeps
A shameful lady keeping watch
Over the sinful and the lost
Captive of the nightmare
Minion of the dream
Favor a baneful reckoning
Sympathy they both share
Somewhere in-between
Maybe a distant memory
A home beyond reality
She has one purpose
Tending to graves unseen
Wretched souls she must entreat
To cleanse the waking world
A shadow of the fair lady
Oh, blessed be her love for thee
Chained to a place; designed for grace
A beckoning curiosity
Will liberate and seal your fate
Do gods care for their creations?
Why do humans fashion dolls?
Will there ever be salvation?
Can a malefactor be absolved?
Pale imitation of flesh and bone
A corpse should be left well alone
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Below the Lake
09:53
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Deep under moonlit night
Below the gentle waves
Lives the vacuous one
Whose illusion betrays
The eldritch true insight
Fearfully locked away
But the nightmare lives on
Creeping out of its cage
Study the relics and the runes
Beware the blood of old
Lest we invite impending doom
A dreadful tale retold
We do not want
What has been wrought
We seek the gods
But they do not
Grant us more eyes on the inside
Failure is our great lie
Abhorrent genocide
Draining the town
Beneath the crimson sky
They feed the child
The horror of the lecture hall
One reborn insane
Forbidden science to enthrall
Only the deranged
Renounce the flesh; project the mind
Perform the ancient rite
Leaving embodiment behind
As their souls ignite
We did not want
What they have sought
The spider hides
Their deathly rot
A frenzied torment takes us all
There is no escape
The city and the church shall fall
As the beasts awake
Please, grant us eyes on the inside
Born of the blood
We're made in blood
Undone by blood
Fear the old blood
We are beset by vermin
Our eyes are yet to open
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Ominous Prayer
06:32
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We have arisen
Blessed of the gods
The healing church
Borne by the blood
Share it with us
Spread word abroad
Our city grows
The towers climb
Only we know
What lurks inside
What slept beneath
Was brought to light
So we bequeath
Her sanguine life
Daughter of stars
Fell from the sky
Come from afar
Grant us insight
A celestial emissary
We must create
Willing subjects necessary
Shall congregate
Our frailty's omnipresent
And we are kin
This curse is unrelenting
Warped from within
Seek the old blood
Let us pray
Seek the old blood
Let us partake
Commence the feast
Upon the town
We've become beasts
Communed as one
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Vile Executioner
03:07
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You're nothing but abominations
You are all that I despise
I'll end your filthy aspirations
This holy justice is mine
Castle of greed
Spreading disease
Hear my decree
Your bloodline is evil
All now must die
Man, woman, child
None to survive
A tomb for your people
Undying queen
Noble unclean
Baptized obscene
Accursed aberrations
When god's defied
Violence is wise
Mercy denied
I crave mutilation
With joy I mangle you asunder
Pummeled you live on withal
By the wheel I claim my plunder
Your flesh is strewn on the walls
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We've gathered here to stand our ground
With custom tools designed for brutality
Until every last beast is found
We shall not rest in our duty to humanity
The scourge descends in pestilence
Our fight is lost
Must cut the cost
Burn it all down
Seal the old town
Comrades abuse the blood to heal
A stirring madness leaves little doubt
Their wretched drunkenness reveals
The enemy is within and without
I must shoulder this burden
A curse to cull my own kind
This is the path that I've chosen
A hunter of hunters maligned
By the blade of pity be purified
I slit the throats of former allies
Every assassination is justified
But with each kill I slowly die
Night after night I carry on
My friends are slain
What once was loved is dead and gone
Nevermore feel pain
A foe of treacherous repute
Returns to dominate
To the cathedral I pursue
The bloody crow of fate
We've done this dance before
Birds of a feather flock to war
It's time to settle our score
Fallen from grace I'll dream no more
Now only I can stop the monsters
Everyone's turning into beasts
No further use for any hunters
The nightmare's ending here with me
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Nightmares Reign
10:40
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We invoked the gods beyond
Knowing not how they'd respond
The sky and cosmos are one
Our evolution has come
Curse the old blood
To what did we pray?
Seeking the blood
Was a mistake
We have sown our own downfall
Now there's no escape
A frenzied madness takes us all
As beasts we awake
Baptized unclean
Violence obscene
When they arrived
Humanity died
Night after night
The hunt goes on
What once we feared
We have become
We cannot see
Do you hear our cries?
Oh, mercy please
Grant us eyes
Led astray
Gods betray
They cared not for our lives
Mere pawns for their design
Much worse the chosen few
Who helped them reproduce
We must risk life and limb
To wash away our sins
We'll tread the astral planes
'Til every god is slain
The orphan's first to fall
Beginning of it all
Return now to the sea
Be finally set free
The spider tries to hide
But we won't be denied
It's time to see the truth
Your veil has been removed
The child of the tombs
Torn from its mother's womb
Crushing your formless guard
We return to the hunter's graveyard
Foul presence of the moon
Face three third cords
Your judgment's coming soon
And we will be reborn
Captives of the nightmare
Minions of the dream
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Soulmass is a duo made up of Lux Edwards and Brett Windnagle, making death/doom about Soulsborne lore and other dark and fantastical settings.
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