Saturnian, by Obsidian Skies

Saturnian

by Obsidian Skies

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1.	Celestial Age 06:58	lyrics
A great expanse Of blackened ground, pestilence, and decay Has conquered all we ever knew As tendrils of ice Grip our burning hearts The aether opens now to us We have been thrust To a celestial age For we beheld death And its eyes showed reflections of our home As we breathe in The wonders of stars we’ve always seen The void before us is now gone Replaced by the beauty of Saturn We are approaching What has been our dream for centuries Titan brings us promise Though what have we left behind? Hope! A remnant of our past Now returned to us at last. Light! From a more distant sun, Though it remains one we have always known O, witness the sky Unseen by mortal eyes A giant on the horizon And grandeur above Can we truly hope for a life as we’ve known it? Or have we been cursed to live on in insanity? From Huygens to apocalypse, the torches now lit. 11 AU from all we held as reality. Everything we are is gathered here On a cold and distant moon I fear that chaos beckons I see the shadow of despair Time is slipping swiftly 15 days of cold, 15 of frost We must endure We cannot fall, there is already too much lost The aether opens now to us We have been thrust To a celestial age For we beheld death And its eyes showed reflections of our home The aether opens now to us We have been thrust To a celestial age For we beheld death And its eyes showed reflections of our home
2.	Rebirth in the Stars 11:20	lyrics
I stand here Among the dreams of a thousand men Why have I been chosen to ascend While the masses writhe in fire The torment of this loss is not quelled By our grand rebirth in the stars Men of the Earth now lost Have our wounds been healed by time? Though the years have passed I still see the faces of those we left And as we pretend to thrive One billion miles from our pain I feel my rage arise And I fear the walls are closing in I know this - Our chance at peace is dead And this facade of great virtue Begins to sicken me So burn it What fresh hell is this? We are trapped in a cage Beleaguered on all sides By vicious murderers and thieves I would see no more of this We’ve all suffered enough Let us bring this chaos down Order begins now Raze it to the ground It cannot grow darker than it is now Bleed, you callous carrion We bring justice to the murderer’s crown I know this - Your treachery has brought Discord upon that which Saved us all Now we will end this The light returns The fires die Now join me and hail the dawn I live yet, and still breathe There is no darkness But all the color is gone I see naught but Endless waves of grey Trust in us, you shall not die Perform your duty, you shall not want Everything is under control We have paired you with another To ensure idyllic life Everything is under control Do not stray We have made perfection real Now trust in us Men of the Earth now lost How bleak have your lives now grown? All risk and reward has gone We simply comply and carry on Where does emotion hide In this poor rendition of a life? I suspect I will be silenced soon But ideas are not so easily quelled I know this - Breath does not make a life I have felt nothing so long Yet now I fill with rage So burn it.
3.	Home 05:52	lyrics
Home was never so strange a thought All I long to return to is now bleak, dark, dead Here we have peace, we have life, we have comfort and purpose So why do I still feel so far from where I’m meant? Here we begin again The lands that shaped us Left behind We come from a great and bright world Colored by stories and songs And I fear we may be lost I yearn for the forests of my youth As I watched them grow before me My heart did not sing as once it had Would that I grow fond of fire That I may find my hope in the burning of our past Here we begin again The lands that shaped us Left behind Yet we have a chance We come from a great and bright world Colored by stories and songs And we bring them with us So! What are we now? But a collection of wayward doomed souls? No! Apocalypse took from us all we held dear But spared us our being, our knowledge, our lore Dark may be the tales made where we stand Yet they shall be made nonetheless Done is the age that we knew for all our lives Yet we live on to the next Here we begin again The lands that shaped us Left behind Though in our eyes they dance Though the ground we walk is yet unnamed We bring life to it Though it shall never replace what we lost We may shape it We come from a great and bright world Colored by stories and songs And we are the first to color this one Now we shall sing songs And now we shall write songs of home

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released October 14, 2022

Guitars, Basses, Vocals - Tim Watervoort
Guitars, Piano, Orchestration - Logan Dougherty

Mixed and Mastered by Tom MacLean at Twelve-Tone Studio
www.twelve-tone.studio

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Obsidian Skies Boulder, Colorado

Symphonic Progressive Metal from Colorado
Logan Dougherty - Guitars, Piano, Orchestration
Tim Watervoort - Guitars, Basses, Vocals

All music Mixed and Mastered by Tom MacLean at Twelve-Tone Studio
www.twelve-tone.studio ... more