In the end, you always remembered
That first moment so clearly
When you knew by the cold in your bones
That time was running short
Some subtle scent burning on the wind
Blown in from flayed continents
Echoes in ash of abandoned souls
Singing: “you too will join us”
The beasts and birds fled, but you stayed
Conceited child, you prayed
The bonds are all broken
The spirits are loosed
To ravage the failing land
And alight in the parched trees
No bargains to broker with flame
No laws to forfend against flame
No mercy to plead for from flame
Just the heat, then the dark
Then the dark
There, in your scorched grave
You learned at last to change
A foreboding black-doom metal dirge, meditating on a dark world caked in ash, resulting from all the Earth’s nuclear arsenal detonating at once. Bandcamp Album of the Day Jun 14, 2018