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Guardian Of The Pale

by Autumn Tears

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de dum te nos voi deum de dum te nos voi deum A circle of hands Tearing the mist From the hollows of morning A meandering sky With no end or beginning A cold mistral rises An obsidian sky reflects Our own last words The songs on the wind Carrying tongues long dead On the air As we endlessly hold our breath These songs come on the wind From tongues long dead And we endlessly hold our breath Dulce caro mio caro es carus es A racaro sono a racaro dulce terra Tu aro se il mare De luce, de amor mio luce luce de amor Te es mio de luce dei do mare cela mortis A sigh in the wind becomes the rain Falling on the soil The beads that grow and flow downstream To the river racing with rage Cascading with furious waves de dum te nos voi deum de dum te nos voi deum A sigh in the wind Bellows with a mighty voice Then falls silent As it becomes the sea As the day widens Waves crash to the shore Washing the sand from our feet The song on the wind Roars with a mighty voice As it meets the sea Gulls serenade us Singing songs in the sky We fall with our feet in the sand While their songs soar high A sigh in the wind becomes the rain Falling on the soil The beads that grow and flow downstream To the river racing with rage Cascading with furious waves And then we are free
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Faint spark, you were part of the darkness once a flame, now a fading coal A warm uncomfortable rage quenched by the day without splendor, graceless and strange This silence telling us the world is not ours We struggle to grasp those precious years Hold them close and dear This soothing song Breathes life into my veins Night grows warmer as the melody rises And we feel like we belong Rain falls as their voices grow stronger Nourishing our broken souls Night grows warmer as the melody rises And we feel like we belong Breathing life into our veins Breathing life into my wounded veins The night falls as melodies rise from the mow of a wound. Drifting on fire, torment is your bliss. But you cry out for mercy, cry out for mercy, as I'm pulling out arrows from yesterday's wars. I just escaped happiness The songs fall quiet once more But a single seed Swells with life The promise of birth With spring’s first ebb And I know where I belong I feel it with everything in me Those delicate omens Slowly unravel And somehow, somehow My past is changed Breathing life into my veins There is life inside these veins
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The unsteady pulse of strange flutterings Swelling in the air A bed of grass and cinders beneath me Forget why I'm here Patiently waiting for the soft breath of spring Rain cutting through the billows of smoke Sunlight etching ashen silhouettes Shadowy glimmer of light shards and gray Here I can dream of another day Roaring rivers far below carve names for the nameless Their faces gleam around me as their memories are sown deep into the roots of wounded trees All has fallen silent, save my own heavy breath, and what is left of my dream beats incessantly against my lucidity Sweet and strange scents permeate the air A thousand dewdrops falling in the sand The murmur of a thousand ghosts Branches stir like nimble fingers Leaves and blossoms born anew Silken reeds in ember fields find their way into my sleep A soft caress of soothing wind warm on my cheek The naked grove opens its maw for only a day Unexpected beauty shines through Yet I fear nothing new today for I know that nature will restore it all Roaring rivers far below carve names for the nameless Their faces gleam around me Wrought with fury, she arises from the ash and gleaming stone All has fallen silent, ave my own heavy breath She of radiant blood comes to claim what she is owed And then with a calm sigh, she fades back into the ether
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Thank you yesterday's ghost For all of tomorrow's failures Who are you who dares to dance under my shadow? You who has seen my skin And resonates with the doom bells With music in your fingers And color that weeps behind your eyes Hands that traces the chaos Chasing the last stretch of life as wolf and lamb Savagely marching backwards against time Breathing in the freshness after the storm Weaving together the minutes until I awaken We can follow this path to nowhere together Calling as thin as the wind And through the darkest borders of my mind I try in vain to remember my name And why I am here From within a glass shrine, behold me I am but a husk of grief, bathing in paradise In the night time air I am a golden flute Frigid air piping tunes throughout my frigid bones Waking to the tune of tomorrow's delightful madness For then I can sleep when the birds stop singing How grand my existence could have been had I ever been born
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As small drops of day fall cold I find myself lost in this winter white tomb My body lies like a reed in a silver flute Filled with poison songs For your lips to free Night is faintly luminous with a livid mist The candles tall like golden sentinels A great glow of burning bloom, a waxy gleam, Revealing shadows of unsightly things A blossoming chaos no longer hidden Blind reflections scattering, yet somehow shining through My glacial effigy above me Parched in empty air Yet still withholding death For me there are only your words You break them with your lips And I catch them as they fall I watch your eyes calmly cling To the slow steady rhythm Of the snowflakes in the sky
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Here there are no leaves for the wind to stir Even for winds of Spring Trying to learn what years secretly whisper And only the echoes answer “Hush” “Hush” Molting like a serpent Taking on a new form Deep vibrations as imperative as death Molting like a serpent Molting like a serpent Taking on a new form Within my lavender mist Something stirs We wake the beast to still the clamor Feathered by day Scaled by night The weary poet Withered to a husk Peeling back the hollow shell Of a thorn-crowned God All that I can remember Is that this is not a dream Is that this is not a dream “Hush” “Hush” “Hush” “Hush” Molting like a serpent Taking on a new form Deep vibrations as imperative as death Do Mi Nu Ky Ri E Schat Tus Vi Tus Cri, Te Do Mi Ne Vi Nus Schat Tus Nu Do Mi, Nu Ky Ri E Schat Tus, Vi Tus Molting like a serpent All that I can remember Is that this is not a dream
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Strange creatures chase their spirits to the sky Two cloud vessels collide and scatter, Torn by the glaring sun At first breath, our very nature is set aflame A fragile state to remind me To take this as a warning Sublimity comes only after chaos And secretly I immerse myself Into a quieter pandemonium So clairvoyant and faithful Chase their spirits to the sky And vanish in the wind As if they were never there A timeless world with no name or measure A dream with broken images Of the night’s treasures I fall asleep, gently living forever A fading fossil hiding behind a century A dry husks taper Away into sunset To vanish in the wind As if I was never there A dream with broken images of the night’s treasures I fall asleep, gently living forever A fading fossil hiding behind a century A dry husks tapers Away into sunset To vanish in the wind As if I was never there
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Why do you raise your startled eyes to me? Was it because you could hear my voice above the storm? The mighty rising winds Becoming my strength The patterns of earth and sky Woven seamlessly A Constant breath That can devour the sea A mirror that grows brighter With deaths chosen many Their hollow human shells adorned with gilded spires Like boney fingers they touch the clouds Elusive and uncanny That which cannot be unseen Drowning in the empathy From tomorrow’s children Who’ve endured their own passing Only to bring me home again What do you hear? More than wind in its familiar grief? More than the wash or rain And its culmination? A cleansing A Familiar way of dreaming which I have always known For I can foresee your past, Since life began Chorus: Quando tempus est ad cognoscendum quod non potest esse visum aperi oculos, aures praeterita prospicere est Ignotus invisibilium et ego dicam tibi sed non tamen ego semper notum aperi oculos et cor tuum Praevidere omnia et praeterita prospicere possum; aperi oculos ego semper aures.
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I have seen a pale garden Where all things Earthly reside Behind a darkening veil Reveal what comes anew, When the old has gone When the old has gone Ever changing like a joyless eye Which closes shyly with a sigh Adrift for what seems like days The great wave grows in ever flowing, chthonic tide Until finally the wind carries me above I sing as a bird before the night Sleeping beyond a pale sunrise Until the rains pour upon the earth Until the sun blazes in the sky Flooding with light... brilliant, unforgiving I have seen a pale garden Where all things Earthly reside And now I drift without words Wounded, undone Serene chaos, so quiet now The last hours fall one by one
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Like a stone untarnished, It is made of the world And the world is made Of the body and mind A utopia undone, by a self-made god A tainted eden where the serpent is king Little grows here, only a single tree It's branches claw and tear Through the skin of the air For what is beauty without despair? Taking one's heart for a moment Filling it with light, Before returning it to a world Which has grown darker and fading fast Chorus: Re mi do ah sir to ma to mi Do semi-do vas the Do vas scoprir thus the Hic do va ser, do oh Aprir do ser, ii do Assecor co so ti thus
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A young girl grieves As she peels back her own shadow from the ground A dark hand reaches for a comfortless touch 'I died' she cries. 'And I was stolen' 'My Body rose to the sun, and I burned away The air grows cold as she slips away, Behind the clouds Ascending with no tether The impure gluttony Of blood, air and bone "Perhaps I am sleepwalking Just below the curling Earth's skin My bare feet floating On the quiet evening tide." She sleeps like wax in nectar Petrified in fallow soil She knows the piercing name In her silence, the birth-cry comes At the end of the story, When the torment arrives, The performance can begin Now she moves past her dreams And speaks before she sleeps "The unborn rejoice, For now... forever reaching For the root of all things, beckoning wisdom (Bereaved, become the quiet air) And last words die in your throat Yet none can steal your... None can steal your might"
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Snow Stars Sea Sights Sky Earth Moon Child On the last day we are showered With an eternal snow of stars From an ancient sky Under a sea of sights Toward the weeping moon A child ascends A child ascends Snow Stars Sea Sights We can hear singing From within the pyre a wondrous sound From an astral murmur We can hear singing From within the pyre A Goddess rises Toward the weeping moon A wing laced with lavender tears We can see behind our own faces A wing laced with lavender tears A child ascends A child ascends Snow Stars We can hear singing Fom within the pyre A wondrous sound From an astra murmur We can hear singing From within the pyre A Godess rises Snow Sstars Sea Child
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The Grass has grown over me Becoming a second skin Pores spilling green With each curving blade Without a sound A face behind a face A smile beneath a grin As we wait for the night Watch us grow smaller A vivid and vulgar, desperate epiphany That shakes the ground beneath us The watcher hides among immortals To help gather and feed us back to the earth Secured by nature's touch And re shaped by the eyes of birth We shed our blood upon dust Chorus: Lo vedo qui Luci, qui senza buio Do.. Dominus, Kyrie Lo Vedo qui luci bianche Lo vedo qui luci, ripensa: Luci qui, senza buio qui
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PaleThis memory tightens like an unquenchable thirst A tether that binds me to yesterday... and tomorrow And In turn rewrites my own history Remember me now, if only for a day Ere you go... I go with thee The young Earth still innocent and free of scars She who bled radiance and arose from the ashes The foaming water is a gown around her feet The rays of the sun fall golden on her shoulders Always watching, always waiting We listen intently As she says nothing As feels feels nothing She of radiant blood Unfettered from her mortal flesh and bones She endures She is free I am she, born of the stars Sister to the moon, and daughter of the sky "Dominus qui con me, tu che qui sei" "Dominus, Dominus che qui sei" "Domine, Domine che qui sei" "Dominus, che qui con me tu vivrai, sol tu quaggiù" Forger of light, bringer of darkness I am that which frees you to follow Behold me... the unmaker of worlds Guardian of the pale, protector of the fallen Let me scrape away the rust from your dreams Let me eat away the fear that binds you We take our steps slowly as we shape our fragile utopia Share with me this never ending moment "Dominus qui con me, tu che qui sei" "Dominus, Dominus che qui sei" "Domine, Domine che qui sei" "Dominus, che qui con me tu vivrai, sol tu quaggiù"

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All songs ©℗ Ted Tringo / Autumn Tears/ The Circle Music 2023

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released March 22, 2023

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Autumn Tears

Autumn Tears was formed in September 1995 by Erika Swinnich, the former vocalist, and Ted Tringo, keyboardist and pianist.

New album "Guardian Of The Pale" – the first that will be under The Circle Music banner- is out now!

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