Ashlands
Ashlands III

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• 1. Opal (instrumental) (01:12)
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  Instrumental
• 2. At the Shifting of the Tide (09:42)
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  (Chapter I: "ODISSEY BECKONS")
  
  A strange sun emerges
  Over the mists clouding Evertide
  
  It irks down my soul
  And compels me to rise
  
  Out the inn, through the docks,
  Morning shines like a battlehorn
  
  A merchant of stones
  Offers us passage beyond…
  
  I recall his red eyes, gleaming maliciously
  Like darkened rubies under the turban
  He asked us, in an almost alien tone,
  how far have we come, and how far dare we go…
  
  Scattered, despondent, like a grain of sand
  Lost in the throes of the storm
  
  We reach outwards into the Sea
  For the memory of who we were
  
  Fractured, disembodied
  Left with nothing but Oblivion to take us
  Over the waves
  
  
  (Chapter II: "SKYWARDS")
  
  Kuranes, the first Dreamer King,
  Ruling over Dreamland and the Opal Sea
  We follow in your footsteps,
  like milestones on the trail,
  Of Puzzling signs and beckoning galaxies
  
  And though our sails seems still
  We drag further away, violently
  Shaken by the winds of change
  
  As if they feared what lies in wait
  Beyond watery stars, a city
  Bright above the towering waves
  
  Our white ship drifts, I feel it ascending
  The horizon ever bleeding out your name
  Skywards
  Skywards
  Skywards
  
  
  (Chapter III: "THE BREACH")
  
  And wasn't it better to let go
  Than to start a new life?
  Forever feeling the vision die away
  And somehow… somehow survive
  
  Year after year
  To tell a broken tale
  No one cares to remember
  Any martyrdom but their own
  Pain…
  
  Pain I cannot curb,
  Will you finally turn to joy,
  When we reach the other side
  Of the Opal Sea?
  
  We can almost taste it
  The Wheel realigns
  The last portal slides open
  At the shifting of the tide
• 3. Celephaïs (12:33)
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  (Chapter I: "BEACONS")
  
  There is a voice in our sleep
  It repeats the same words all through the night
  Not unlike a guiding beacon
  Showing us the way to the dreamers' domes
  We do not know the language it speaks
  But we understand it
  As if it was our own
  
  "Hün Ayuserïs"
  At the turning…
  
  "Do Reis'moran"
  …of the tides
  
  "Lüs Aena"
  The bronzen light…
  
  "Drome Uy'n"
  …will guide you to…
  
  "Celephaïs"
  …Celephaïs
  
  “Hün Ayuserïs Do Reis'moran
  Lüs Aena Drome Uy'n Celephaïs”
  
  
  (Chapter II: "THE SPELL")
  
  Tempest Divinity,
  Ocean Tyrant!
  
  From moss-covered temples
  In lurking ageless slumber
  Bruised and torn
  The Voice growls a warning
  A Toll must be payed
  By the dreamers
  Who dare approach
  the infinite shallows of Fate
  
  Harvester
  From the Depths!
  
  Chanting
  Evocating
  Giving shape
  Giving
  Birth
  
  Extoll
  Breathe in
  Submerge
  
  
  (Chapter III: "THE AUGURS' PROMISE")
  
  Down beneath halls of darkness
  There's a light that cannot be named
  And those who lay their eyes upon it
  They are never the same
  And like the turning of a tide
  They are doomed to quest
  
  The furthest reaches of the Ashlands
  Fearing not pain nor death
  For the promise of the Augurs
  In black lava engraved:
  
  “Hün Ayuserïs Do Reis'moran
  Lüs Aena Drome Uy'n Celephaïs”
  
  
  (Chapter IV: "REACHING CELEPHAÏS")
  
  Then finally
  As if in a dream
  An opening appears
  In the misty horizon
  
  As the clouds part sideways
  Revealing the shape
  Of a giant city
  High above the waves
  
  Our ultimate Sanctuary
  I can see it now
  The land that was promised
  A new beginning
  
  Diamond domes
  And ivory towers
  The sapphire roads
  The Street of Pillars
  
  Gives us back
  What we have lost
  Crystal is my heart
  
  Forever reaching
  Celephaïs
Duration: 23:27