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In Your Image

by Shades of Mourning

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1.
Receding—the feeding pools, the reservoir of a dying world. Where we once gathered, take a drink of nothingness. This is all we have left to fight for—the drying hole you see below. When the final foe has fallen, will it hasten back the flow? Where will I go when the river runs dry? Not a drop falls from the sky. I gaze upon this baking clay. And all is lost in the fray. The fires burn ‘round the eddy; the evidence of what this thirst has made in me. Lost in battle—those once called friends. The waters fallow, the drought descends. The crows circle, waiting over head to eat the offal of the fallen dead. Dry throat crying for a final sip. Raspy moan escapes from parched lips. We lost the love that kept life in these lands. The drying Earth falls through my hands. Everything dry. Now you know Now you know why. Where will I go when the river runs dry? Not a drop fall from the sky. I miss the sound of running water. I feel the sand running through my veins. I miss the sound of running water. I feel the sand that's coursing through my veins. I miss the laughter of another. I seek forgiveness from the one’s I’ve blamed. What remains? And nothing now can bring back the rain.
2.
The law gave me no recourse Now I take it in my hands Your penance taken by force No ultimatum, no demands An eye for an eye A limb for a limb I cry for a cry Your skin for her skin And when I found her there, With all you had done, A demon tore through me, The law I lived was gone All I see Within this rhythmic madness Crimson sea My soul, your skull, mere fragments A simple child A life defiled No creeping doubt Dare interrupt this Visceral act And so I claim my justice A lifeless husk, the mark of monsters I linger with you, the father of two corpses All bear witness, to the sentence I gave I settle on the stones, in this our shallow grave
3.
On our knees Within this vessel Not but slaves Hands worn to the bone On borrowed time Digging to find the answer To your question Buried beneath chains At the end of your reins Keep digging with Occam’s Razor No peace in the trenches. In the shadows of your sentinels The children of children slaves, born with one purpose Simple and defined; Wait in line ‘til you die Scrape away the Earth’s festering surface It’s there, just dig The same holes as your kin A century gone Between the cracks for all time the weak seek the divine Keep cutting with Occam’s Razor No peace in the trenches. In the shadows of your sentinels I never could remember the places of days past. Are you near? I never could remember the faces of days past. Are you still here? Within our nightmares You seek for hope where, The system failed you Will not avail you You’ll keep on searching While my corpse is burning My only joy in your constant fear You rule over me, and all that you see But you’ll spend your whole life, seeking gods As you blacken the skies, nothing satisfies your pawns will never find the answer My Life In Vain Wasted Searching And now she is gone With all I have longed for--buried in the trenches your fear will live on ‘til the final dawn Keep digging with Occam’s Razor Occam's Razor
4.
Fate Defined 05:06
Now, time to decide Where loyalties lie Whose name to call As my body falls Nightmares lead this mind to falter Sucking in the scent of slaughter And fading from this scene, a melody of screams emerging from the mob, it’s time to pick a god. No time left. Searching for a lost design. Wanting only fate defined. Wading through each façade. Now it’s time to pick a god. No time left. A winding, dark tower A crumbling path before me This is the last hour Wish I could remember No, time left to decide Where my loyalties lie Whose name to call As my body falls
5.
Anchored 04:56
Come away Come away You left me Now find me beneath You couldn’t stay To watch the anchor drag me down You couldn’t wait To hear my wails buried by waves The moment came My aching lungs held out no more Await the day Find me on the ocean floor And then the world Consumed by waves Meet me on the ocean floor And then the world Consumed You couldn’t stay To claim a life wholly ignored Await the day Drag my bones back to the shore How long? How long? How long? Meet me on the ocean floor How long? How long? How long? Drag my bones back to the shore Abandoned by all but the burn of the sea in my lungs How long till you come to find me Blank eyes peering ever skyward Ankles anchored to the ocean floor
6.
Descending the winter, the source of this disorder. Now bringing the hunger, upon each brother’s keeper The nightman is coming, to designate the chosen They listen, in silence, to hear the name spoken. One more life to give, So the others might live Sole sacrifice Become the body of Christ The hunger is growing The ice never thawing The winter foreboding Teeth always are gnawing Withhold the law Reveal your straws We must eat Bring forth the meat Will we see All hope fail? Will we freeze In this icy hell? The hunger is growing Our movements are slowing The conscience is burning The nightmare returning Within this cold temple, atop the bloodied altar Now seeking repentance, before the nightly slaughter. The nightman, returning, to designate the chosen We listen, in silence, to hear the name spoken. This time, it’s you. This time, it’s you. You'll see us through This time, it’s you.
7.
Unborn This mind A child, beget by the hands of the earth Defined Resigned The son of the ages, an evolving construct of mind. A tragic flaw, in the architect, his blessed infrastructure slowly picked apart Why’d you make me in your image? The source emerges My role reverses All wrong within me This hatred I find in you-- It’s coming through to me Unborn, I’m nothing but clay You took me In your hands And shaped me Into what you see Now I see, your stains on everything, the marks left by eager hands, Crafting, the world around me, all the aftermath is by your plan All wrong within me This hatred I find in you-- It’s coming Through to me Unborn, I’m nothing but clay You took me In your hands And shaped me Into what you see This twisted Amalgamation Remains your legacy We are but, Frail brothers, sharing unholy Symmetry Thus we are made and remain ‘til the day we are slain All ties undone Remains, the day’s reverie Unleashed within each of us A chance to build our brothers Begin
8.
I need you Just as you need me We share an unholy symmetry I need you Just as you need me I need you To build me up if just to tear me down
9.
When Am Heh rises He Brings only death The millions cowering Are swallowed up in one breath Will you be hiding When he will eat you? Jaws on each horizon Earth erupts beneath you. Hear the sound Drowns you out No one hears Your last shout When Am heh rises The fissures will unfold Splitting Cairo straight in two They fall into the maw below Feel the earth tremble As he awakens With a god’s hunger Consumes the forsaken You’re all lost In the eyes Of the devourer A million men makes a meal Watch them all tumble down Kingdoms fall, in a gulp Drink the Nile to wash them down Drink the Nile Perish within Burn In the pyre of his Throat you see the sun Extinguished as he Reels you in on his Tongue the fumes melts your Skin as you all drown In a black sea of Writhing old and young Taken in with the Tide you find you are Inside his stomach All you know has gone dark When Am Heh rises He Brings only death The millions cowering Are swallowed up in one breath They kneel before him Lest the earth begin to swell The land will rise The sea will fall And all you love returns to hell
10.
Unlearned 09:07
Atop the summit A figure in a cloak Revels In elation Breathing in human smoke No ornate epitaph Preserves the will and whim No weeping mourner Left to hum a sullen hymn Is This Freedom? Where were your saviors When hell arrived To sweep up your children? No cause would quell the tide Heard you whisper Is this freedom? Lost in crying eyes On the eve of our demise And you never woke Forever lost in human smoke Forever lost in smoke Will I remember? Will I remember? Your waning smile your gentle touch your quickened breath The final clutch Will I remember Anything A flash of light The sky a sickened pallor The earth ignites We're huddled in the cellar These thoughts came through If but to dissipate Our lives unlearned As we disintegrate We saw a shadow on the marshes A beggar begging for the end You watched all hope leave my eyes Nothing left but the question Will I remember Your quaking hand? Atop the summit A figure in a cloak Revels In elation Breathing in human smoke

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released June 19, 2016

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Shades of Mourning Kalamazoo, Michigan

Shades of Mourning hit the Kalamazoo, Michigan music scene in 2008, providing a refreshing take on Progressive Death Metal. Drawing on the dynamic contrast of both dark, heavy riffing and ethereal melodies, they released debut album "In Your Image" in 2016. Shades of Mourning is:
Luke Rewa - Guitars/Vocals
Roger Sprau - Guitars
Aaron Rewa - Vocals
Brian Rewa - Keys/Vocals
Dru Millerwise - Drums.
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