Opia
I Welcome Thee, Eternal Sleep

Tracklist

• 1. These Pristine Memories (01:00)
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  Instrumental
• 2. On Death's Door Part I (05:26)
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  Accursed sickness
  Wasting my body away
  Encased in decay
  
  Terminal
  Begging for the end
  For my spirit to be freed
  
  Please stay by my side
  I know it hurts to see me this way
  Please take my hand
  Reassure me that my peace draws near
  
  Will you remember me?
  Not as I am
  But that which I once was
  Will you recall the vibrance
  I held in my prime?
  When you recall my face
  Will it be full of laughter?
  Promise you won't forget
  The vibrance of my life
  
  A pale,
  waxen, morbid shell
  A hideous shade of myself
  
  My greatest fear
  Is this deathly state
  Becomes your memory of me
  
  Please calm my fears
  Soothe me with tales of better days
  So I may drift into the night
  A memory of when I felt alive
  
  Will you remember me?
  Not as I am
  But that which I once was
  Will you recall the vibrance
  I held in my prime?
  When you recall my face
  Will it be full of laughter?
  Promise you won't forget
  The vibrance of my life.
• 3. Man Proposes, God Disposes (06:59)
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  Beneath the pale, firmament
  Becalmed, upon a frozen shore
  Within this earthly, Tartarus
  Their souls, forever lost.
  Endless rains of snow, descend
  Unending, emptiness
  The cold, gnaws upon their bones
  And winter, claims them all
  
  A field of stone beneath them
  Without feature or form
  A march to false horizons
  Before the midnight sun
  One by one they die
  Frozen and starving, they succumb
  Their stories lost to time
  The passage never found
  
  The silence once more returns
  The shroud of death
  What use are crowns or gold to,
  Nature's wrath
  His own imperial designs
  As man proposes
  But nature won't be denied
  As god disposes
  
  As they waste and weaken
  Hunger scours their resolve
  Nothing left to be consumed
  Nothing but the flesh of man
  One by one they die
  Frozen and starving, they succumb
  Their stories lost to time
  The passage never found
• 4. The Fade (05:19)
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  Pristine utopia of mind
  Amorphous yet fragile of form
  All you were and shall ever be
  Endless possibilities
  
  Where does that man go?
  When still more fades away?
  As utopia burns
  All deforms...and decays...
  
  As a stillness descends
  The finality of the grave
  The last of what was, no longer
  Lost forevermore
  
  As a stillness descends
  A serenity in oblivion
  As you succumb to the fade
  ...succumb to the fade
  
  What now lies behind those eyes?
  A stranger's gaze from your face.
  What memories are with you now?
  Which chapters are not seared?
  
  Your last breath is drawn
  The last vestige of you, done
  What use is there for sorrow?
  When we've made friends with grief?
  
  As a stillness descends
  The finality of the grave
  The last of what was, no longer
  Lost forevermore
  
  As a stillness descends
  A serenity in oblivion
  As you succumb to the fade
  ...succumb to the fade
• 5. The Eye (05:25)
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  It slumbers dreamlessly
  lidless and unblinking
  Evermore it hungers
  in darkness
  
  Esoteric and eternal
  primordial, yet arcane
  Still lurking, revenants
  Suffer the darkness
  
  The eye now focused
  
  A gathering beneath the void and stars
  Evocation for divination calls
  The confluence of ascending aethers
  What wisdom from those long departed?
  
  Necromantic spells
  Now borne forth
  Covenant of death
  Peers from the dark
  
  Darkness falls
  As entities stir
  The veil rips
  the spirits rise
  
  The eye unblinking, focused
  The void piercing the light
  Of those who came before
  Unto those who call it forth
  
  Necromantic spells
  Now borne forth
  
  Covenant of death
  Peers from the dark
• 6. Days Gone By (04:51)
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  Inexorably
  All dreams wither
  The world transformed
  A deathknell sounds
  
  Still waters hide dismay
  Of a tale indelibly set
  As we dwell on reverie
  Of days long gone by
  
  Metamorphosis
  Of time's savage glare
  The future now declined
  Lost dreams we once held
  
  Interminably
  We march to the grave
  To the sweet release
  Of death's cold embrace
  
  Inexorably
  All dreams wither
  The world transformed
  A deathknell sounds
  
  Days gone by
  Days gone by
  Days
  Gone
  By.
• 7. Silence (05:09)
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  A clock chiming
  The mournful peal
  Scores of hours
  Bleed ever away
  Frozen with fear
  Hope's toxic sting
  Faith's dying light
  And sanity betrayed
  
  Time's weary rot
  Corroding resolve
  Hope infests the calm
  Of purgatorial silence
  
  Uncertainty grows
  Eternities in moments
  Cancer to the soul
  The helpless in lament
  
  Time's weary rot
  Corroding resolve
  Hope infests the calm
  Of purgatorial silence
  Paralysis of inaction
  Eternity of a moment
  
  Abyssal majesty
  The obsidian tide
  Consumes him whole
  Consigned to the depths
  Cast unto eternity
  A watcher waits
  Upon tortured shore
  
  A reunion denied
  
  Never to return
• 8. On Death's Door Part II (07:11)
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  Desolation
  By candle's flame
  Raised in effigy
  Unto the catafalque
  In mourning's light
  The shroud displaced
  A mirror's gaze
  A soul unbound
  
  Sorrow wrought
  His yearning
  His life's love departed
  As grief descends
  Woe rains down
  Upon him
  The nightmare unending
  Just phantoms now remain
  
  Cursed apparition
  Forsake me now
  Vanquish thine self
  Leave me to despair
  Forsake thy quest
  Let anguish abound
  And in solitude fester
  Until death takes me
  
  Sorrow wrought
  His yearning
  His life's love departed
  As grief descends
  Woe rains down
  Upon him
  The nightmare unending
  Just phantoms now remain
  
  Love's caustic touch
  Spectres of the past
  Into finality's embace
  Return to the departed
  Terminus Est
  Unto thee, Eternal sleep
Duration: 41:20