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Shadow

by Red Ankh

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Walking Away 02:37
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Sacrifice your moments to a mortal god Help me help you suffer in your lonely world Awaking your disdain for your deepest darkest self I can show you just how to make this become you You survived your hate, let me help you You conquered your fear, what a joke you are You have scarred your face, I can hardly see it You have scarred your mind, now let's drag it further down Pride it comes from only power, let's make you an ugly monster Fail to see the love and honor, smirk, your sanity cracking deeper Waste away so they all fear your company, your screams they'll hear And then they'll know just what you are, a shadow, a fallen star I shall pound your demon drum and you shall know my name I shall pound your demon drum and you shall know my name I shall pound your demon drum and you shall know I shall pound your demon drum and you shall There's a way to laugh and smile To feed desire with joy A laugh of life, a smile of care Emotion can be your toy The wise of us Don't care about you Why should they Can't understand you Spite their calm We'll show them The power that they can't know Claw away your will Claw away your love Claw away your mind Take on the old kind Don't despair out there Do despair alone Fear is your true friend Trust in the static Laugh at them, their will Laugh at them, their love Laugh at them, they lie Deny their darkness What we are is true Tear apart, undo The facade of light Feed it to the shadows Why reach beyond what you know, child The simplest you is the strongest you, observe From your id comes motivation, drive The ego tries to hide, let it go Why be any thing more than your true intentions Right or wrong, what matters, get what you want Empathy is for those who can't feel for their selves What good are the feelings of others to you They can deceive, betray, so they will do both Let them be pawns, if they wish to be pawns You'll know once you've lost Once you've lost enough to see That trust in the joys Brings a much worse misery I know it is hard To let go, my friend But they won't be missed By our bitter, bitter, end Pride it comes from only power, let's make you an ugly monster Fail to see the love and honor, smirk, your sanity cracking deeper Waste away so they all fear your company, your screams they'll hear And then they'll know just what you are, a shadow, a fallen star I shall pound your demon drum and you shall know my name I shall pound your demon drum and you shall know my name I shall pound your demon drum and you shall know I shall pound your demon drum and you shall
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Black Mind 07:15
Do not suffer when the light goes out There is power in darkness, the reigns open to all From the shadows all of our fear flows Harness it to summon a symphony of black To embrace what terrifies you and claim it for adventure true Embrace the dark, embrace the black Black mind Laugh in to the madness, fuse dark to thine aura Temper thy self in black, feel the force Transform your fears in to blackness of mind Power from darkness, relinquish to find All of your doubts, some sanity don't miss Cleanliness of mind, it does not exist Not far away is your salvation Black mind We must balance the light with the dark There is evil in darkness, but evil we are not Thou hast suffered, the time comes to fight Make the evil fear your spark, don a shroud of the black To embrace what terrifies you and claim it for adventure true Embrace the dark, embrace the black Black mind
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Killer 07:13
Of all the nightmares of Universe Lies, deception, spite and disease All things can be recovered from but one Death is the end of it, no more chances Unless your god is kind enough to preserve your mind One is trapped in the past once they've died All decay, consumed or rot away But the killer voids the adventure far too soon Do not let the killer go It clashed with justice, let it burn Even when the killer is you Empathy just will not do Advantage can come with the kill But true power: persuasion If there is one not to fix The killer's value is nix Posession can be returned Per haps even a body But extinguish a mind in the present And you have killed Self defense can be forgiven Protection can be forgiven Must all sacrifice inflict guilt? Per haps, so our ethics do not wilt As has been said, we must prevent Our sevles from harboring cruelty Be wary of violence too Else malice come to consume you Of all the rights to be preserved in time The right to a life is reserved to self Suicide when one's finished I understand Death is the end of it, no more chances So you'd best be sure you are truly complete Even this kind of killer must consider falsehood Honor? Forget the glory Honor is respect of life Combat is for protection Death is not the resolution
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Cave Pools 03:04
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I adore the way you dream with me And present this for all the world to see But if it's forgotten and bygone I will still have you Don't let those who control control you Fearless wizards press their will to view Their magic is power that deceives Per haps not wrong but per haps not for you A small matter, the focus is will Do you wish to eat their answers still? One great treasure is an other's waste Coincidence is not the answer here And in to the dream I return I will see you there I lay me down To dream a song I appal the masters, but that's all right Cause I abhor those bastards, set in flight I ignore the casters of of what is liked And write this song for you I adore the way you dream with me And present this for all the world to see But if it's forgotten and bygone I will still have you I dream of some thing more than this world Foolishness per haps but passion swirled I can tell that you have seen it too, come through I write this song for you and I Break through with me, write a verse or two Make them jealous of the notes you use Tear down walls of expectations Deliver magesty in a dream state Fetch from madness some thing quite unreveiled Paint a soundscape from the darkness of your mind You may find it quite fathomlessly true to What you seek from the world that is about you
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In Between 03:05
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Layers 06:43
Up above, superego fights the good fight Beneath the righteous, is a room to rationalize Deep, dark, hatred fueled desire No laugh, no smile, bent on self-destruction There's a frame that knows the answers There's a fraction that just wants to cry There's a split between honesty, deceit And a layer scornful of life Can one shun the monster when it's beautiful in side Must one detest the saint when it speaks to its self lies On the one hand poisons are the only relief On the other hand power comes from love and belief Aim for indepedence, fight to keep your keeper Punish your self for your feelings, lose your mind Self-describe in subtlety what you surmise to make you free What you feel and what you know can be used to spit a flow Of masquerades enveloping insecurities astonishing One eye open, other bleeding, greed is what your hands are keeping There's a slice, a philosopher There's a division, a true sadist There's a derivation claiming certainty And a layer biting its fist
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Some times a dream will come, its aesthetics set the mood Emotion fed from atmospheres and unsaid sentiments One as such, it came to me and the focus was a girl Determined to catch light at night, I meant to remember Kata, Kata Black hair brown eyes thin lips round nose Remember Kata She wore black and green heavy boots heavy jacket Remember Kata Black hair hung limp part on the left the left no right Remember remember Sad eyes thin structure delicate do not forget Remember Kata 'She wanted to be the one for a moment' Oh what does this mean, I wrote it down Feelings of importance, they fade But the eerie bonding never goes away 'She wanted to be the one for a moment' Oh what does this mean, I wrote it down Feelings of importance, they fade But the eerie bonding never goes away I felt some bond with her, and I think she was my friend I recall her standing in the dark behind an old house The house was mine or belonged to my mortal family I've forgotten who else was there, her I still remember Kata, Kata Black hair brown eyes thin lips round nose Remember Kata She wore black and green heavy boots heavy jacket Remember Kata Black hair hung limp part on the left the left no right Remember remember Sad eyes thin structure delicate do not forget Remember Kata 'She wanted to be the one for a moment' Oh what does this mean, I wrote it down Feelings of importance, they fade But the eerie bonding never goes away 'She wanted to be the one for a moment' Oh what does this mean, I wrote it down Feelings of importance, they fade But the eerie bonding never goes away
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Ugluwiktz 08:34
Do not hate your creator For that gives it power over you Only take blame for your actions The choice of a monster is still a choice true Habits of poison make a poison of you When you indulge to hide, to punish Why make a warzone of a bloody, singular feud I've seen you before Make excuse for your self at the mark of emotion What you feel is you There are not these personalities you claim split you in two Own your feelings They disgrace you and augment your thoughts because they are you too Own your feelings If they are an embarassment, you embarass your self What was before, what will become What does it mean to break cycle Don't insult me, don't insult humanity If any one has reason, there's purpose in you Identify your faults, claim your reactions Don't scorn your self for trying Do not hate your creator Rise, rise above the pain and guilt and shame Recreate your self, own your self or else Toxic you will for ever be, lost Do not hate your own beauty Cut, burn the faithless savagery from you Let go of your identity to choose Pull the good and push away the ill Let your pain go, let your pain go It is you until you let go Don't insult me, don't insult humanity If any one has reason, there's purpose in you What else is there, there is no choice The more you suffer, the greater your peace Do not hate your creator Rise, rise above the pain and guilt and shame Recreate your self, own your self or else Toxic you will for ever be, lost Do not hate your own beauty Cut, burn the faithless savagery from you Let go of your identity to choose Pull the good and push away the ill You don't love, you are poison Find your joy within you No one wants to share your pain Heal your self from within you It's not enough to trust logic For emotion can twist it too Empathize with what you want to be Powerful people, put you in to their shoes Habits of poison make a poison of you When you indulge to hide, to punish Why make a warzone of a bloody, singular feud You are already suffering Why add insult to injury Why wrack your body for what you have done Why hide the answers you know Do not dwell on how you suffer Do dwell on your hopes, your dreams Do not dwell on how to hurt less Do dwell on how to laugh more Oh, the beauty you're capable of Do not hate your creator Rise, rise above the pain and guilt and shame Recreate your self, own your self or else Toxic you will for ever be, lost Do not hate your own beauty Cut, burn the faithless savagery from you Let go of your identity to choose Pull the good and push away the ill You don't love, you are poison Find your joy within you No one wants to share your pain Heal your self from within you Pain is not important
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You survived your hate You conquered your fear You have scarred your face You have scarred your mind, now let's drag it further down From your id comes motivation, drive The ego tries to hide, let it go Why be any thing thing more than your true intentions Right or wrong, what matters, get what you want Pride it comes from only power, let's make you an ugly monster Fail to see the love and honor, smirk, your sanity cracking deeper Waste away so they all fear your company, your screams they'll hear And then they'll know just what you are, a shadow, a fallen star There's a way to laugh and smile To feed desire with joy A laugh of life, a smile of care Emotion can be your toy The wise of us Don't care about you Why should they? Can't understand you Spite their calm We'll show them The power that they can't know Claw away your will Claw away your love Claw away your mind Take on the old kind Don't despair out there Do despair alone Fear is your true friend Trust in the static Laugh at them, their will Laugh at them, their love Laugh at them, they lie Deny their darkness What we are is true Tear apart, undo The facade of light Feed it to the shadows Empathy is for those who can't feel for their selves What good are the feelings of others to you They can deceive, betray, so they will do both Let them be pawns, if they wish to be pawns You'll know once you've lost Once you've lost enough to see That trust in the joys Brings a much worse misery I know it is hard To let go, my friend But they won't be missed By our bitter, bitter, end Now let's drag it further down Pride it comes from only power, let's make you an ugly monster Fail to see the love and honor, smirk, your sanity cracking deeper Waste away so they all fear your company, your screams they'll hear And then they'll know just what you are, a shadow, a fallen star I shall pound your demon drum and you shall know my name I shall pound your demon drum and you shall know my name I shall pound your demon drum and you shall know I shall pound your demon drum and you shall
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They invade your home They kill what you've grown They take all you own Infiltrate, decimate, confiscate! Curse the hounds who hunt you In disguise they prey on us I live a lonely life, but I see it too Sound the drums of war, boy But intimidation's theirs I feel their grip around all of our tools Mesh with titans, they'll become us to claim us Come, kill, take In our hearts our blood boils to burst Our ideals, in this world they're cursed Take my home, I've got my sanity You can't take that from me Not this time, I see the light and it is Intention, honor Destroy what I have created but you won't quite yet have me Do you hear, I say do you hear my words I don't care if you Infiltrate, decimate, confiscate! Gained a second wind, but I fear good it does us not You see these tears of mine, I shed them for you I remain to fight, boy But is there fight left in you I see their grip has nearly taken your breath In our hearts our blood boils to burst Our ideals, in this world they're cursed
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Broken 09:45
A suffering, was once mine A suffering that has gone It pains me still some times Am I a broken being Permanent A wasted life, without loss A wasted life, no balance But it brings one down low Often no return from fall Free me, fix A trillion miles away My doubts are kept at bay I can see this faintly Is now not the time Words of wisdom come Life lessons, they go 'Fear me, my deception' I must say, I know A challenge, to overcome A challenge, to conquer fear I am broken, not lost Joy to counter this waste land Free me, bliss
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Reflections 03:39
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They speak of a burning passion But not how it burns out When the fire isn't fed The hearth, it can grow quite cold Pass the time, calm your mind Escape from life, your hobby Feel the need, question: greed Postpone is strife, your passion One is love, one is justice One is purpose, your reason Do the deed to feel freed To the knife, the fashion Frustrate, dominate, failure To make us feel fulfilled Wrong choice, or clash of wills, within Short term, long term, impulses There is always a way To balance our drives Jaded to love, hardened from dishonor Yet purpose must still be fulfilled To love one, inspire Love another, sacrifice Suffer not for your love And she, your muse, thrive purpose To feel shame, of your purpose Be manipulated How can one be that one When love stands in the way Struggle to give cause What are we without love No, what are we without purpose Amplify to drown it out A will weakened from the fall A purpose stands quite confused See your passion burned They may love you They may die They may feed your cause Don't feed it to them To share your life with one Can be beautiful To share a purpose too Then it's not yours, your own, own When you know what is this 'we' You may not know your own self When you know 'we fulfilled' You may not be fulfilled Amplify to drown it out A will weakened from the fall A purpose stands quite confused See your passion burned Amplify to drown it out A will weakened from the fall A purpose stands quite confused See your passion burned They may love you They may die They may feed your cause Don't feed it to them
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The Darkness destined Alizia Perdue Dergahn To be born of the spark of the Stars Forcing away her guilty thoughts to a mind cage Grew a prisoner called VizilV After the escape of the blue personality Alizia was merged with her past The VizilV thought it a proper experiment To make the minds of Sharon whole In a whir of candid perception A dark and insidious plight Comes running, claiming conception Of a wholly divine right A truly doomed redeemer Smiles under lithe light For truly honest endeavor Lies in the dark and insidious plight Whether for torture or out of curiosity VizilV left her encaged with her mesh Things novel tend to be proginy of intent Chinic may have been no diffrent When VizilV cast me deep in to the mesh of this mind Chinic was of course waiting for me Twisting corridors and commanding minions To keep me far from the garden She- confronted me in a great tree which did conceal With- its branches light from Down Below That is when she recited her poem to me and said, 'You do not belong to here' Our battle was resolute When our minds are wildly clear and focused A terrible problem becomes obvious and undeniable One who seeks an answer to this problem is doomed to fail though satisfied while made ignorant by freedom of interpretation The terrible problem can only be solved when subjective form is removed I believe that the doomed redeemer was meant to be a god and the plight is the all-encompassing use of the question 'why?' In a whir of candid perception A dark and insidious plight Comes running, claiming conception Of a wholly divine right A truly doomed redeemer Smiles under lithe light For truly honest endeavor Lies in the dark and insidious plight I cast her flanged mace down in to the wood And there is still stands at fifty-two degrees
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Firelight 06:45
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You're just one beat off track for us Submit to time, the system true Waste not your mind on splitting hairs Five, seven, nine Take hold of snare between the toms Raise your glass to propanium Undo your belt, fill up on notes Down, up, up, down Typical, catches the ear some how Atypical, fields of novelty Bring it back, ebb and flow Attention, distraction, bang the drum, fascination Perfections are weird wide worlds away Humanize while we still can Switch to threes, bend your knees, get down in the dirt Divide by three, then by four, or five or seven Building blocks can be cracked, fuzed back back together Do not fear a structure unknown Take the time to write a rhythm's life Feed it odd foods, see how it grows Typical, catches the ear some how Atypical, fields of novelty Bring it back, ebb and flow Attention, distraction, bang the drum, fascination Bow in kind to traditional minds They keep alive go-to molds But if they cry when you break their mold They are not your best friends Check the minute, don't let it check you Every second extra is a gem Alien, per haps, but welcome strangers in These ones, they can not hurt you Five Seven Nine Why stay where you are when great things are on the way Take the time to criticize and find time in the day To experiment with timbres out side of your home Work within a frame of mind that will soon be your own Rhythmus Tempore Thythmus Tempore March in time, be obliged to the even beat Break the spell, forge a hell of a construct not easily decodable
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Bittersweet 23:19
Once upon a lost moment A pattern challenged possibility No flaw inherent to find Pushing thoughts of destiny Once upon a lost moment A child became anomoly Mortality was left behind Illusion of systems free These two, they just had to meet Heroes of the old gods Represent focus and growth The first anomolies? Then a mindless monster came to one of them A driven faceless lady concealed in dream It's purpose obscured, origin unknown An animate object built to test What do these three have in common? They were connected, but what does it mean? Can some thing in them be used to identify To discern other gods from anomolies Is there any hope there in the past? Can we at last find new secrets? Is there any use asking at all? Very soon now, he will be here I hear those blasted cogs spitting their steam Voiding moments in my mind, in my dreams, can't shake it We let go of our past the first time Is this the same? If this is what the Darkness wants Can Universe really be to blame? I faced my enemy, I faced my fear And then I faced my self To grasp glory, a love so dear But now I need your help Look how far we have come Observe what we have become Two gods from the Darkness Does that mean we are so different? What were Feynd and Vizilv? Were they necessary, gods? Why do I think on them? Universe knows not a word Why should a puppet such as I feel so alive Is this cruelty or compassion or just what is Is it not ironic? After Fade, Feynd, The Harpist Only Universe can Only anomoly can erase Is that his true purpose? What is ours, is- is there more? Are we two the puppets? Are we all, which do have free will? Do we follow a plan Are my thoughts preprogrammed Are we pushed then watched Is that really wretched? I faced my enemy, I faced my fear And then I faced my self To grasp glory, a love so dear But now I need your help I look upon my past Such great memory I recall a thousand worlds Do I deserve more than them? I toil with my intentions Oh, how I've changed The paradox of not knowing What may become, had I died Do we remain because we must? Do we mourn their destiny? If this is one last great Adventure I am prepared I feel an other sequence Fade away, was it but clutter? Fantasies, fractioned dreams, ideas Is the King cleaning house? It once was acceptable to forget Have we forgotten the beauty of absense? When all things are known, there is no thing left Does this mean that we have won? They who have seen The Frame, and they live Must she forget it? May they step beyond? Is the Frame contained If there is chance of rebirth? Once upon what was mistaken for time, Ha! I observed a magic previously unknown but to one They, four friends of consequence, per haps Fulfilled the true dying wish of VizilV By accident, with no knowledge of it They confirmed a magnificent truth They who have seen The Frame, and they live Must she forget it? May they step beyond? Is the Frame contained If there is chance of rebirth? If not a life does have the right to program an other Is Universe still exempt from our rules? Must The Darkness be stopped this time to prevent genocide Or may we now finally make the call to nature? Though it may be the worst travesty to ever occur I am inclined to feel inspired As if adventure is underfoot Oh, my predecessors Can you forgive me? I swear I should have known Oh, my predecessors None of you knew Not even the last, VizilV Oh how clever, that she was Cared not the question: Are we not but puppets? Through the clearest eyes I see Back to no evidence Are we not gods at all? Hearken! We may remain in an other sequence Matters not, is it worse? Matters not Duality, matters not, follow your purpose Is it too late to ask questions of choice? Is it vain to see a test of will? When it comes to the final moment Inquiry goes unfulfilled Oh, my predecessors Why can't I forget you? It seems easy for her Her darkness, it wants you gone Are we truly a product Of madness, what's the difference? Oh, my predecessors What have we become? Reduced to items of dream Until we are forgotten Through the clearest eyes I see Dear friends, the majesty Oh, I wish you could see it Imp King, he expects to win None can know Truly we are even Imp King, you have inspired us Gave us too many events Wipe that smirk off your face We are the gods here Honestly, I'd hate to wake up To see a realer world I know I am not the only one Who is satisfied with what we've learned We can take it as a sign There is no thing left to learn We shall take it as a sign There is no thing left to learn Sentimental thoughts, they come to mind Though love is not a force I feel, we do feel empowered What happens next is of great concern But without fear We six, each other are all we need I bid you all good bye, my friends, while I can A salute, the last honor to ever be given Tears, I shall shed a few for love and purpose We did right, we were heroes, what more can one ask for?
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Going Home 03:07

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Officially released in 2013, this is a dark symphonic metal double album by Red Ankh. Unlike previous releases from recent years, this album is composed of entirely new material written over the past year, except for the two tracks 'Remember Kata' and 'Ugluwiktz' which were pulled from discontinued instrumental albums that decidedly did not belong there. Across the double album there are four instrumental interludes featuring unconventional organic instruments. The first 'disk' ends with a cross breed remix of 'Let's Drag You Down'.

Lyrics shed light on the core story from Shyft's writing, the refrain from 'Down Below' being a poem from the third book of the Shyfted Dreaming Trilogy. Otherwise, the lyrical focus ranges from ethics to self-doubt and madness, to more whimsical, lighthearted themes.

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released December 19, 2013

Drums, Guitars, Viola, Keyboard, Vox, Vox Programming, Programming, Composition, Mastering, Crappy Shop Art, the whole shebang - Shyft Trakia-Vorga VahtiDahl

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Red Ankh is highly experimental, including (but not in every song) elements of black metal, chiptune, dance, death metal, folk, gabber, gothic, industrial, power metal, progressive, symphonic metal, groove metal, and trance.

Early works were mostly instrumental. That changed with Bronze. The goal of the project is to break down genre boundaries, keep music inventive, and inspire.
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