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Waiting in this Eden of Twilight, turn inside an Eye yet blind, burdened affront and back turned to Glaucus.
Oblivion come crashing down, suitors afar vie for my crown, the dangers of the life of the senseless.
The bloated Sphere of Destiny is growing deep inside of me...
It's high time, you deliver me from this place, I see no reason to stop and in this world abide and
It feels like treason , to swab this caul of Eden from my face, and yet I feel decided
When that Kingdom did fall,
When I survived them all and the soul redeeming ship left the port, the Sea divided:
A restful place to flee nightmares the War provided.
So Destiny incited, the God of the Seas undecided, whether to kill me, or keep me prisoner, the Tidal Nymph's desire condemned to serve.
Weary of this Eden of respite, wants and fears stand side by side, so unclearly merged just like with Janus.
Oblivion come crashing down, bitter tears surely will drown me with the lie of the Sightless
Death
And the bodies rescind to be someone
I'll bleed in the hope of Life
Washed away
This deep yet distant Sorrow
Clawing at me
Deceived and in disgrace, I yearn for tidal leavings
Disruptive heavings, my lot is cast so fleeting on these waves
The beach I leave behind me
Compensating this dreamy incarceration, sorrow scream in fear yet with no Sound
With no ears to Hear quite clear Death as it hastens near, yet I will reach home I vow
Too engrained in my pride, those loyal feelings to decide, what parts to hate? What departs me now?
Competing with desire to turn around.
Sailing on Dark Seas towards the Light, this Odyssey begins aright, and differs from the one from the pages
Heed these deeds telling of how, I cast these scars off troubled brow, and returned to the Sanctum of Bliss
Stand at the prow, facing the waves, forging ahead this most Gnostic of faiths, faced with dread enemies dragged from deep inside of me....
Facing these daimons inside...
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Blinded is this Creature of Sight, contrarian: dissipate this just and worldly delight
Burned through weathered hypocrisy
Spite my face, try and forget it all
Spite my face, denial: my instinct
A Venis Stet!
Bury my compassion, all
Hating the existence of Soul
The Enemy has deceived me, and he has taken control, he claimed it was Nobody, amidst all my arrestive thoughts
Disturbing face of the Immortal Gods, who must be laughing in the distance, reveling in their cheap unsober fashion
Deny it all welcome the flame
Hating the confusion, branded eye of all Illusion, on the path of self delusion as you break under the loss
Loss....Don't you ever...recount your lot...
Kill the pain...with loss of thought... and of vision... but all for naught
Brave in the face of my fear I will need to deny, the feelings loss wrought in my sight
Contemplating self-disfiguration to flee into Night
Fearful Cyclopean vow, the burial place under Shroud, in the Temple of Feeling
Perception lies bleeding on the Altar of Slough
A dearth of vision, in indecision, a raised unsightly cathartic incision, an inconsolable surgical curtail of that most Chaotic lone Orb in your Face
Why must the Body be seen I denied it, why must the Soul have been seized and then divided.
Then when the Folly would speak, break it and cleave this consolable feat, why must everybody be denied it?
A moot derision, curtailing vision, a false elision in controlling abscission of leaves of heartfelt woe, when still the branches grow on the trees of the Garden of Eris...
And so the Vagrant of the Seas, comes to the trees of Hesperides as Nyx embodies all the horrors he unsees as destinies of the abhorrent, yet grieves: Blinded Cyclops searching for Nobody
And in the darkness does shine my self-defeat
I'll leave the Garden, and to the Forest I'll go
in self-deceit
Wait...
Why must the Body be seen I denied it, why must the Soul have been seized and then divided.
Then when the folly would speak, break it and cleave this consolable feat, why must everybody be denied it?
Blinded is this Creature of Sight contrarian: dissipate this just and worldly delight
Burned through weathered hypocrisy
Spite my face, try and forget it all
Spite my face, denial: my instinct
A Venis Stet!
So I'm going to bury my compassion, all
Spite my face, denial: my instinct
Until the bargain made
Bury my compassion, all
Deny it all, welcome the flame
Hating the confusion, branded eye of all Illusion, on the path of self delusion as you break under the loss
Loss... Don't you ever... recount your lot
Kill the pain.... with loss of thought... and of vision... but all for naught
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Process through Wrath
In Fury I strive
Burgeoning repulsive
Unbury all distaste in my new Sight.
Corrupted mien
Though never in vain, I feed my might
With anger and pain
Tainted Wine
Of they who fall
In battle
In inane war
I learned it in Lamos
Of Wrath and Me
Sentencing my Sailors
To Rocks and the Sea
Waiting till the Hull breach; in the face of never
Hidden in this sole beach; in the Cove of Furor
In the wake of my fleet facing Wrath of Laestrognians
I'll partake of their Meat, this tasteless endeavour
I try my teeth, on ruptured Oar
Wrought Dentition ripping at the bodies of my Heart
Indignation, raiding in their graves
Acrimoniously I will reach out
And taste their sorrowed Veins
Drunk on Blood and anger's Wine
Dragging out the body from the grave
And spitting in his Eyes wide open
Taste of the Furibund
Wrought Dentition, taken from the body, ripped his Heart out
A tasteless Meal devoured, of choler bewailing, of grief and sour sorrow left unscreaming
The Might of The Furibund
With their bodies broth feeding me the kiss of Lyssa
This Quest to uncomplicate
The Warriors close to me, twisted Melissa
Feeding me the Honey of Rage
This Rotten Meat
All Lies
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Wait, 'fore acquiescence is decided, now hear this Siren's Name
No destiny derided, on this day
Hold on deathly threshold fierce: finally not ready to go
Fated or destined lifting the shroud waiting fearless for this avowal
Of promise of Death's hand belayed Bargain for mercy, for help, to evade
Fierce this destiny - ripping the shroud - a contract for the recently devoured
Bodies of the Dead, waiting, their souls in the Psychopomp's cell
Bleeding and festering, unhear their fear in silent screams, the Siren's hail
Uncorporeal disdain, detested and derided will I pray
"Please let them all return in an holistic state, I'll pay what you've demanded"
Written in the Hall of Gods, in this red, bosom's-ink, in my folly unrealised, I have yet time to think
Pleading, and crying, in vain. I haggle with non-corporeal disdain
Last chance, to give it all a Name, to cast off this beach of moral gray
Bodies of the Dead waiting, 'til now in the Psychopomp's cell
Bleeding and festering, hear your fear in silent screams , the Siren's hail
Waiting till completion of this bloody superstition of a Guide of Souls
Hands crossed with gold in desperate vein, a seeking to see if Gods would uphold
A Bargain to make Death's folly vain, to seek in the sea of knowledge a dole
Of meaning
My body yearning for solace, a returning to innocence
So I can't hear the Sirens, obstruct my Ears
When Body strives to unhear the screams, a little part of me dies
Obstructed hearing, my grief stricken inside, and entreat an order to life
Frivolous, blustering, I seek meaning inside of me
A trade to abate this hurt
And in confusion, of loose ends to tie, I'll attempt to prolong his life
Deaf to the Psychopomp and her Epochal Lips
Her Song of Grief and Pain I am wont to resist
With bloody drive, I immure all my pain, a little part of me dies
Yet with disheartening Caresses, she breaches the Walls, forcing me to confess this
This Bargain's void, no release from the pain, and no way to avoid
This impotent distress, as I refuse to acknowledge my lack of influence
Fierce the Fire of Pain. I haggle with non-corporeal disdain
Last chance, to give it all a Name, cast off this beach of moral gray
Bodies of the Dead waiting, their souls in the Psychopomp's cell
Bleeding and festering, unhear their fear in silent screams, the Siren's Hail
Uncorporeal disdain, detested and derided, I pray
"Please let them all return in an holistic state, I'll pay what you've demanded"
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Waiting in a laborious, soul sucking scent of defeat
My sole evinced control, I void myself of all that
Once was to be Oizys' drudge, dark dulling of self deceit
Your sole evinced control, avoid yourself in voids extolled
Buried in this sated state of Slumber
To never know the Agony again
Fill my breath, take leave of myself on the dragon's tail
Prophesied: undecided, scent of this trail divided
Lose myself, in dreams and in phantasmagorical tales
Lotophago, can you smell this scission
Lotophago, can you smell this diversion, this spurious odor of shame
Frightened insight:
Wakened to this Odyssey, I seek to flee, to smother
My fear for Penelope, my fear to see my scion
Thoughts reeling, I seal them inside me, thoughts reeling, in agonies waves
Thoughts reeling, my Fear is deciding what's needed is a dulling of pain
I'm breathing in the cloud of this soul sucking retreat,
My fear is disavowed, in opium's deceit
I'll bear this Crown, of Lotus I will eat
Forgetting the slaughter
A resting place, a Forest with no leaves,
Unfeeling, Bathed in Oizys' Night, and Crowned on the Throne of Loti
Yearning to rip Achos' face asunder
Never know the Agony again
Fill my breath, take leave of myself on the dragon's tail
Prophesied: undecided, scent of this trail divided
Lose yourself, in dreams and in phantasmagorical tales
Burning: wane! Never to spear me again, wailing and fearing, enclosing inside
Waiting in Oizys' Abyss, waiting there for all time
When will the body recede, dampening this perfume of Strife
When will the memories subside...
When will the body recede, pain and my fear set aside
When will the memories subside...
Wading into Other Seas, I seek to flee, to smother
My fear for Penelope, my fear to see my scion
Thoughts reeling, I seal them inside me, thoughts reeling, in agonies waves
Thoughts revealing my fear has decided what's needed is a dulling of pain
Billowing, draining Shroud, of Soul sucking poppy
I breath this cloud, of Scent dulling deceit
I flee from the slaughter
A resting place, a Forest with no Leaves
Body forgot, never to spear me again, wailing and fearing, enclosed on the inside
Waiting in Oizys' Abyss, waiting there for all time
When will the body recede, dampening this perfume of Strife
When will the memories subside...
When will the body recede, dampening this feeling of Strife
When will the memory subside...
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Waking from this sleep, my body washed through deep, ready and willing to satisfy my
Yearning to retake, what once I had forsaken in willing to set aside my
Strife
Half drowned and desperate, olive branch as cloth
Can't even touch the knee of Nausicaa
Her compassion derided, obliviate the Cloud
Completely and undecided that heaving Crown
Sailing Home to beat Chimeras preying on my Son,
Promise of solace, new journeys begun
Embracing Pain, no fearing Death in Silent Waves
Freed from my shame by Alcinous' Daughter
Compassion my absolution
Hear now:
Robe in tattered state, beggar in my façade
Loath to be seen and identified by
Suitors that would prey'n, my love Penelope
Willing to seize and to Mortify my Life
Widowed to Wars and now to Crown, as my fury abates
Why see the King that Drowned,
When all of the suitors are balking and dragging you under
Felt by Euryclia knelt down washing my feet never failed to recognize
My scars and me inside the beggar's face recognized behind this rap of cloth
Known only by touch she sent for my favourite hound, I am relieved at last
Athena's courage fills me, waiting till completion of
This Journey needed by my grief and loss
Taking this Bow I will prove to that rabble now, and to my Queen I live and I stand devout, by the Axe-Head's Feel, and my Arrow's Clasp , a King that lives and seeks to reclaim at last
I cast off the Robe of Fearing that I Feel upon the Sight,
Of this Queen of Royal bearing as I Reach towards what might
Just be solace from the Pain
In Dark Morals I feel the Power of the Knowledge
Of this Quest that I retain
Wakened from this sleep, through Gnosis cleansed in deep
And enduring acknowledgment of,
Metastasis, a mourning incomplete
The Odyssey of the survivor
Went forth successfully, to Ithaca
I learned to bend the knee to Nausicaa
Innocence in me a Power
My Insight level
Release the Feast Devoured
That Guilt bedeviled
Facing on the Sea what I fought fleeing from the Sun
Of Knowledge and Purity: a Journey begun
Across the waves to seek and search what awful graves
Where left in the wake of Tyrants' slaughter
Widowed to War and now to Crown, as my journey abates
Now see the King that Drowned,
And all of the Daimons that're balking and dragging me under
And in the silence they will rise
The Path of Apathy, a twisted road
Leading me back to what I despise
And these feelings of self-hatred that
Will come and will tear me asunder
On Dark nights of Fullest Moon,
Through the dark Windows of my chamber
The journey I resume,
Until naught's left but callousness,
The true mantle of Tyrants
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I've formed an opinion, and so hear my entreaty:
I met a man, he had a plan, of wrath and acrimony
When I met him it was strange, in the way my feet did walk
On the path of hypocrisy
For a minute I was stayed, then came to me my secret fall
On the path to enlighten me
Leaning close his head to me, he said clearly
"Just bend the knee!
Concede your fated succour.
Warrior:
Ne'er will you reclaim, what you lost if you delay
So bend the knee!"
Buried desire spews forth, to be a man again
Released from shackles that the Gods in their ire wish I retain
In this mire of conceit that aspires naught
Capitulate, never to sate this hunger
For life without pain nor the scent of the shame
That rears its head in Loti's stead.
The secret, the folly of wishfully thinking
That horrors are worth linking
To what in deed abides.
These feelings are infringing
On what is needed by
The people of my Kingdom,
My scion and my wife
An Odyssey completed
But a king sacrificed
"Revealed unto thee, thy destiny rife
With doubts, appearing uncertain
All the people you'd sacrifice
To not to lift the curtain
And to thy son's disgrace
Disparaged by thy peasants"
This is what I've become
A face of Momos' aspersions
"So bend the knee, only then will you be free
Free to take, and compensate for capture by
Building a pyre to
Burn up your morals who'd
Obfuscate your freedom to make
Adjustments to deal with reparations unless
You kill these agents of stress
These Vultures of your strife
These pleas of devolution
What you know deep inside
So clear and yet just pretense
The folly of a life
Lived in just restitution
In the shadow of the Knife
Now heed these words of warning:
If thou would continue on this path towards Phoebe
You'll meet a man who has a plan of sloth and apathy
When you meet him he will claim: 'Stay with me my little one
On this path of delusion'"
Leaning close my head to him, I said clearly
"I'll bend the knee"
"Fierce the fire, the pain, unraveled in just corporeal distrain
Reach up to me in just complaint, I'll cut off these beseeching arms with a Myth's blade
Kneel now in submission to this bloody-eared cognition
Of this path of self remission wrought devoid a Guide of Souls
Avoiding this corporeal crime"
Never know of the despotic claim, of the tyranny
The decrying claimant sought
Thus falls a King of mind so just
To folly bequeathed amidst the scenes of my mind's sour choleric feast
Disruption claims my heart
Corruption enters through my art
With that capacity
To turn my voyage into hearsay
Abased I claim my crown
Weighted in folly the crown
Wading 'ward solace you lucidly drown
Fate decreed that my reign be devoid of this
Spurious and fallacious thing that we've destroyed to dismiss
Weighted is the crown
In fear I live that my greatest part did drown
The Cyclops' Eye
"Whatever you want, I will give it to thee, and I will submit to the
Overriding Tyrants call"
It's been calling since immemorial time
Ready or not I must be willing to see the blood-faced Warrior-King
That these islands' people sought
And now conceding that the time
Has come for grief and mourning to be cast-off in sanguine hued seas
Wearing me down
Atrocious waves
Eroding my crown
Of Gnostic faith
Deep in the pyre of remorse lies a flame
Curled in an ember of memory's halls that one day
Will unfurl and blaze with the knowledge:
In past pain can be found sanctuary
Discarded morals
End conceit
Fury is wont to take leave of oneself
Shift the blame
Curing empathy's vain chimeric woes
With past pain, a solace 'neath Acheron's waves
These dark morals
Sought in vain
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GNOSIS - A Sorrower's Odyssey is a retelling of Homer's Odyssey through the lens of gnostic ideologies, PTSD, survivor's guilt, and mourning...
released October 29, 2021
Robin Claude - Guitares
Romain Larregain - Guitares
Jon Erviti - Batteries
Thibault Claude - Basses
Josh Smith - Chants & Lyrics
Musiques et paroles composées entièrement par PROPHETIC SCOURGE
Batteries enregistrées @RESEDA STUDIO par Jérémie Garat
Guitares, basses et chants enregistrés @CORNAL STUDIO par Prophetic Scourge
Mix & Mastering @STEELMIND STUDIO par Xavier Collard
Artwork par Sébastien Labrunie