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A View From the End

by Highest Falls

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We realized that the path to the ruins was much shorter than we thought it would be We have to bow and repent for our sins For we have become unholy Every night, a new flesh in the burial grounds While these lands have been begging for mercy The birds of steel were soaring upon the towers of glass So pray for forgiveness
2.
Lying beneath the dead tree, singing a desperate melody, playing some deep chords As thunder turns to words The last leaf falls on the ground covered with ashes and dust Broken bridges, burning corpses, a landscape laid to rust This is our homeland, this is what we made of it Are you proud of yourself ? We turned this eden to a wasteland What did we sacrifice to create such an awful waste ? What did we leave behind ? This is a view from the end I face the desolation, and take a look back to my existence Was it all preordained this way ? What a beautiful price we pay As the angel statues start praying on their knees We know that all hope is gone As the angel's eye begins to cry We know the world is wounded, and rotten to the bone As the wind remains silent, there's nowhere left to run Just an empty desert to confess my sins As the wax drips from the portrait, and the shadows swallow the sun I stand on the edge of what once was and never ever will be As the blood drips from the branches, and the roots are bathed in fire I stand on the ashes of a world that screams for help.
3.
I watch all the world die, I see the life fading in a swing of a hand No one will be left alive, the human race has come to an end Begging for salvation, to avoid extermination The sun will never shine again and the wounds shall remain Suffer the violence of the tidal wave The lords are taking back what they gave The clouds are burning red, the ravens sing the dirge Can't you hear the echoes of voices ? Million years to build up a cradle And a lifetime to destroy it all We are the children of a promised land drowned in fuel and sand The clouds are burning red, the ravens sing the dirge Can't you hear the echoes of voices ? They blessed us, created our home We came to conquer now we crush it on our own The story's written on bloody pages An Eden fucked up through the ages Suffer the violence of the tidal wave You want a burden to bear ? The lords are taking back what they gave Suffer the violence of the tidal wave The lords are taking back what they gave The fallout is here, the bridges are broken The candles are out, we're lost in the dark It's damnation day, or payback, I can't say The truth is we're all condemned to be cast astray
4.
Listen to the walls These writings bear the truth, showing me the unsaid but done The marks of our stupidity forever carved in stone I the writer, I the messenger, I will carry these pages until the very end These shadows are devouring my thoughts, fading in an ocean of complaints I hear them sing, the dead lives in these ruins Their voice resides inside my head Their voice gets louder and reclaims their own chapter Listen to the walls, they have seen it all Like witnesses of our decline, holding back a grin at every line Written in the blood of innocents On their graves, the skeletons dance Time flies but the memory remains in this hall of shame I the writer, I the messenger, I will carry these pages 'til the very end [Romain] Is this my only role ? The ink has dried The words escape me But I write, I always write, to bury this legacy under the roots of the dead tree I the writer, I the messenger, I will carry these pages til the very end These shadows are devouring my thoughts, fading in an ocean of complaints I hear them sing, hear them sing The dead lives in these ruins.
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Legacy 05:28
This is the end of the road It's time to elevate my soul, and shed my body Atlas set me free I've walked too many miles, written too many lines My legacy to a non-existing future The wreckage I've seen, and the places I've been The tombs of the martyrs who look down in shame Spectators above the sphere standing for an ovation Watching such a pathetic race leading itself to eradication This is the end of the road, I'm caught in the eye of the storm My soul is elevating, I shed my body Atlas set me free Rather than building the bridge, the man pierces the border Rather than building the bridge, the man pierces and smashes the border The greatest dream of man, to reach for the clouds and the upper What is the point of all of this ? Cause to the highest you climb, from the highest you fall I see the end of the tunnel, death is just a beginning The eye of the storm awaits me Ready to dive, the reaper opens his arms wide I fall into the embrace of the deadly bride Put the ring on my broken finger As my breath ignites, I'm sinking deeper And ascending faster The limits of the clouds are meant for explorers, and not destroyers. The greatest dream of man, to reach for the skies and to conquer the upper What is the point of all of this ? Cause to the highest you climb From the highest you fall.

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released February 28, 2016

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Yoann Jouve - Vocals
Stéphane Assier - Guitars
Quinn Logan - Guitars
John Kitzinger - Bass
Julien Assier - Drums

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