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As on the crest of a wave
I rise and fall
As a golden leaf, heeding winter's call
I'll come to rest
To sink into the ground
The great sleep
At last
To be unbound
"Certainty, not faith, while in life, upon death"
All the hurt
Finally laid to rest
Though it's had its way with me
I've reveled in its breath
For life - for life
For life
Life is brief as it is long
Between this ripening flesh
And going beyond
Life is brief as it is long
I'm as content in going now
As carrying on
Turning with the unseen
Patience with the mysteries
Dreary eyes lifting with the veil of time
I pause in the silence
Gaze into the embers
And feel that no death has ever been in vain
Life is brief as it is long
Between this ripening flesh
And going beyond
Life is brief as it is long
I'm as content in going now
As carrying on
Lyrics © Isaac Aubrey 2005-2017
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I was born on an emerald day
All the dead wood was cut away
The Most High Above - The Most Deep Within
Took up a sword and made me whole again
Through the storm
Deafening thunder
This Fool's path worn
With hunger
With a love
Balanced out in the clear and bright
A day against a night
Something greater than my own hands
A timeless glass from ancient sand
Faithful and sure
The blade goes deep
A greater plan
Bittersweet
Nails in hands
Nails in feet
For the heavens
Oh Daughter of the Lords of Truth
We're Weighed Against a Feather
Oh Daughter of the Lords of Truth
We're Weighed Against a Feather
Though many colored
Many wiled
Purified and defiled
We - we're Weighed Against a Feather
Lyrics © Isaac Aubrey 2005-2017
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Mercy Killing
03:42
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The trenches are everywhere
With each burning thought
Brighter years too long ago
There's a bitterness with time
A persuasion and often
A form in itself
Towering in the sky
Do you believe
This old flesh
This pained breath?
It's just a flood anymore
Drowning in memory
A disgrace in the light
The bane of youth...
Of you
Living on - living on - living on hate
Please, come close
Come close to me
Could you believe
In mercy killing?
Lyrics © Isaac Aubrey 2005-2017
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Ringing
04:06
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Another year further out
I strain my heart to think of you
Your tired words in the autumn wind
Resigned and bound and broken
In a black light
One last sigh
A frightful sound
Rolling under
Calling down
And ringing
From the shadows
Through the years
Ringing
From the shadows
Through the years
A Judas kiss
A solemn cross
You knew you'd never trust again
Drunk and mute beneath the sky
I'll always wonder
If I'd had the words...
If I'd been brave...
In a black light
One last sigh
A frightful sound
Rolling under
Calling down
And ringing
From the shadows
Through the years
Ringing
From the shadows
Through the years
Lyrics © Isaac Aubrey 2005-2017
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Passage
04:12
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Another step - another sigh
In the cold night
Cursed the last star from the sky
Thought long of an ending
Stumbled on in the howling wind
As it spoke to me
Snow melting skin
I fell into an ocean
Drifting on the graves
Tracing letters in the stone
It's all like some other life
Far away
Color for a time
A contented gray
But for my nakedness
A veil slipped away
And i had become...
...
No way to know
Where to begin
When left alone
To shed that old skin
No way to know
Emotions clouding eyes
To be so young
And see no point in life
A lost ritual
A locked door
Left to find another way
Wait out the storm
Bloody time
A Little Death haunting youth
To ring out the false
To ring in the truth
Lyrics © Isaac Aubrey 2005-2017
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The Moon Follows Mercury
04:44
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From the floods, from the fires of the past
A gale implying a foundation, a path
Learned to cry, learned to laugh
To know, to feel, to grasp
Lyrics © Isaac Aubrey 2005-2017
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Hanging
04:36
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A year submersed
Of living lost
Crushed beneath the waves
Neither here nor there
Bleeding everywhere
A stranger in the mirror to come undone
By a single thread
Or so I'd come to learn
After burning, spinning in madness
Who was I to know
In careless hellish throes
Of these secret trials of Judgement?
Little self crucifixion
Or so it came to be
With my heart revealed
Oh who was I to know?
I'd only ever been below
These uncertain paths
To Justice
Oh how the waves roll in
On the folly of youth
They crush and drag out
To the sorrow and truth
Oh how the waves roll in
A baptism in loss
Mute and ascending
My own hidden cross
Lyrics © Isaac Aubrey 2005-2017
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An Image in the Flames
03:50
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From the blistering sun
To the shadowy stairs
I followed you here like I followed you
To a cleansing
To a vision of the essence of life
To a vision of a brilliant light
It begins it ends it begins again
Quickening to exhaustion
Where I drift awhile
Where I dream awhile
Where my eyes stay fixed
On an image in the flames
And you call and you call and you call
And I answer
As I regain my strength
We share some wine we talk at length
Of the tides of the stairs of the gates of the burning
Of being born again
As the wheel ascends
Of the tides of the stairs of the gates of the burning
Of being born again
As the wheel ascends
Lyrics © Isaac Aubrey 2005-2017
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Closing In
05:00
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Fierce lion, wounded prey
Scorched Earth chokes light from the day
Injustice fractures the ground
So that it shudders
With the most frightening sound
Pounding hooves
Like the heart of all life
Singing as its sorrows envelope and strike down
All the meek and the mighty
Black sun on the works of the proud
Idols collapse, vultures surround
Carrying vanity to the belly of the Beast
To wash the Bloody Moon
Wash the Bloody Moon
Lift your head
Time is taught and reeling in
From the corners
From the corners
Closing in
Black sun on the works of the proud
Idols collapse, vultures surround
Carrying vanity to the belly of the Beast
To wash the Bloody Moon
Wash the Bloody Moon
Lyrics © Isaac Aubrey 2005-2017
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The Arid Sea existed in Seattle from the mid 90's until 2009. It was a sound that evolved through the years, but the mood and lyrical themes remained the same. The released material stops in 2005, but a full length recorded in 2009 is set for release in 2022.. ... more
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