Moonshade - As We Set The Skies Ablaze [Full Album 2022]

Lyrics to As We Set The Skies Ablaze [Full Album 2022] by Moonshade

Tracklist: 01. Epitaph All hail Homo diaboli Gorging upon the entrails of the land Sapience be damned, while we decay in glee Our hordes on their knees as the whores of greed Vomiting deranged creeds, screeching black symphonies Waltzing to the sound of collapsing ecosystems Singing anthems hysterical, spitting on your theorems Through reptilian reasoning engraved We condemned our cradle to an early grave As the air itself becomes unbreathable And the water stenches of rot May the soil shatter beneath our feet Through the fires of doom we have wrought Hurdling towards extinction's skeletal carrousel In self-obsession's cell, enthralled by our own spell And the best we can take from our collective hells? We dethroned all our gods before killing ourselves Bleed to believe through the realm of unreason In treasonous greed for structure through dogma Rapture is upon us, dialectic demons 'Tis abyssic season, stay blissfully dormant As we drown in the tears of Gaea Uncrowned by the smear in our hearts Thus while Narcissus remains shiftless Hell waits at the ramparts Torn apart through scorn innate Elysium implodes the North Star The path of redemption leads to oblivion As the pyres of doom engulf all that we are Time erases Man With History's hand 02. Valley of Dying Stars Outstanding, the artistry of Death In dire breaths of flame and brimstone Fraught be the meagre fight we fought Enthroned through dire needs of naught Beneath the fallout, the lie of "self" lies Bereft, soon to be gone The radiance of a thousand suns Burst at once into the sky The splendor of the Mighty One Towering above all gods Inhumanity has won Charon ferries in Humanity as one Suffocating beneath Erebus' shroud The failure to end all failures Buried all memoirs and saviors In the valley of dying stars The hecatomb of compassion comes Obliterating all benevolence shunned Decaying flesh and ashen bone, undone Amidst one thousand Armageddon's Oppenheimer's premise Impaled itself in Ockham's blade The wolf we fed was pitch black And by it we were enslaved 03. Blood of the Titans Born Kafkaesque, subjacent ad nauseam Subordinate subhumans, slaves of idleness Far beyond grotesque is the fear I possess To be possessed to be far less Than nothing at best Alas, chaos unlocks my essence's seal As one concedes to songs of soulless sirens Should we conquer the Universe, or kneel? Swallowing raisons d'être 'midst fading horizons? Relinquish all things superfluous Surrender to the serpent through us Seize pantheonic thrones in seditious diaspora From titan to demiurge, per aspera ad astra Through barren skies set ablaze, scream Echo throughout the mire of dreams Banish all fear and lust Fate's vassal, pray tell us Are we Sisyphus or Prometheus? Bless the winds with arias for the lost Accosting inclinations long mantled in frost Are we to court Infinity Caressing the pale lips of Time? 'Till pyrrhic hearts come to halt In stygian pantomimes? Or to hold hope in abeyance, Over the chasm of Orthodoxy? Deeming splendour delusions of grandeur And ceasing to yearn, to breathe To be? To all those of Vision unseen Enslaved in the absence of dreams Banish all fear and lust Fate's vessels, pray tell us Are we Sisyphus or Prometheus? 04. The Shadows of My Dissent 05. Artemis Love begets love, and only love remains Amidst thunderous storms of fury and blame As betrayal, loneliness and shame Forged an astounding aether of the life lust acclaimed Thus passion's avatar traverses the dark Caressing flashes of the heart's works of art Oh consort most divine, from me ten worlds apart Who are we but sorrows, which, entwined, depart? Alas, I yearn thousandfold Even if just to burn and fade once again Or to live, to have and to hold Enraptured ad aeternum, I will remain As two souls terraform an eclipse 'Till the days of the dire adieu And after, when the void caresses these lips I'll turn ice to cinder through memories of you Empress of the wild, magic and the moon Subsiding all my tempests through starlight strewn Will the weight of us turn all bliss to mire, As choirs of maelstroms devour all desire Or transfix requiems into gleaming sonatas, While drinking from hands scarred by stigmata? Alas, I yearn thousandfold Even if just to burn and fade once again Or to live, to have and to hold Enraptured ad aeternum, I will remain As two souls terraform an eclipse 'Till the day of the dire adieu And after, when the void caresses these lips I will turn ice to cinder through memories of you Through memories of you 06. The Antagonist 07. As We Set the Skies Ablaze Cadaverous pandaemonia of wraiths Kneeling proud at the tomb of redemption Corrupted through benighted faith And myths of primeval conception To those adrift in the aether of dreams Every flickering shadow a deity seems The grand scheme of things is a sham So be damned, for to be damned is to live free Heed the war drums' crescendo As heavenly bodies realign Carving fear into each single breath Of the blind who presume to lecture the blind Withering us to mere traces of echoes Capriciously humbled beneath barren shrines Confined in dread of ideals of Death Through clamorous cries speaking of grand design Conquer the coming horizons Oh Candide, blood of the titan Rise above the chasm of these dire, dying days Child of Man Set the skies ablaze In ever glimmering illuminist ways For haunting is the thought of succumbing To the lash of devotion towards divinity The horizon of reason, most conniving treason Herald of plague, slave of obscenity Three cheers! Dare they to rise from the cave Of credo quia absurdum, the irrational's reign? For such craven enclaves ever crave to enslave Haunting consciousness as Humanity's bane As humanity's bane Conquer the coming horizons Oh Candide, slayer of titans Rise above the chasm of these dire, dying days Child of Man, - set the skies ablaze Let us declare as enemy The realm of myth and falsity And swear ourselves to perpetually dare To dread untruth and hypocrisy Gods never die Gods never were Gods never die And what dies not may never live Ignite the blackened sky Alight with lies we cannot forgive Gods never lived And what dead may never die Sever, undeceived All faith impure that I decry 08. Everlasting Horizons Unfurl wings woven with Icarus' dreams As the winds lull whispers of what grief has sown Through years of sorrow enamoured with deliverance Towards the Great Unknown Ballades concerning horizons anew Beneath you bless the breath of the vagrant wild For Hope is the one true deity Flawed as it may be, we remain its child We dream to dare beyond the Misanthropocene For all answers of meaning lie far beyond the Sun As within the Mysteries of what one is and yearns to be The path to be trod, from Ape to Man, Titan to God Is the One and the All, Death or Destiny Brew all the shadows we cast With all that should be praised And breathe, my son, at last As Homo deus On the shoulders of giants long past Beholders of guidance in us engraved Rise, my son, at last As Homo deus Seek to know, To love, and to grow Cherish cognition, compassion and wisdom For somewhere between Hume and stoicism Therein lies the one true path to freedom So love most of the night, yet head South for the winter Away from that wistful valley where Man ate his bones 'Cross groves lost in candlelight, through the mouth of the River Stray 'midst the uncanny, land of the Great Unknown In Everlasting Horizons Brew all the shadows we cast With all that should be praised And breathe, my son, at last As Homo deus On the shoulders of giants long past Beholders of guidance in us engraved Rise, my son, at last As Homo deus Astride all tales of foreboding your forefathers told Ride farther into the light as exploding supernovae Know all wonders, wander far, wondering at what we are And if these words resonate, keep them to memory In Everlasting Horizons 09. A Treatise of Human Nature