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Shokai

by Garden Of Darkness

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1.
Pride 05:38
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Talons in my neck The horrors I face The weight of all my dreams Pressures me to quicken up my pace Conjuring the lengths The lengths I take to find my tact But they push me in line Try to step on my pride Don’t you cast me aside As I test my strength I count the fights The sleepless nights All in vain to prove that I am right Shadows swarm our world I can’t let them take away All that we know So please let me know Just how far we can go if we test our strength But she won’t take my hand I’m so tired of it all How can I trust in them If they won’t trust me What can I do I count the fights The sleepless nights All in vain to prove that I am right I count the fights The sleepless nights All in vain to prove that I am right Pride is just a mask that veils my despair Truly I’m alone Pride is just a mask that veils my despair Truly I’m alone I count the... I count the fights The sleepless nights All in vain to prove that I am right I count the fights The sleepless nights All in vain to prove that I am right
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Silence 05:07
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Clouds swirl around the mountain Darkening the sky An eerie chill fills the air Going down my spine Breaking the silence with fists How did it come down to this Backs against the wall Trying so hard not to fall My best friend betrays Betrays me in Everlasting silence I’m afraid to feel the cold Going numb from Everlasting silence I’m afraid to feel the cold Silence Bloodstains on the mountain Reddening the ground My shattering screams fill the air A listener not found I am faced with an impossible impasse I can’t strike him back The weight of this betrayal’s unfathomable I’m tumbling down I’m tumbling down Breaking the silence with screams A friendship that’s torn at the seams Backs against the wall Trying so hard not to fall My best friend betrays Betrays me in Everlasting silence I’m afraid to feel the cold Going numb from Everlasting silence I’m afraid to feel the cold Afraid of losing it all Everlasting silence I’m afraid to feel the cold Going numb from Everlasting silence I’m afraid to feel the cold Going numb from Everlasting silence I’m afraid to feel the cold Going numb from Everlasting silence I’m afraid to feel the cold Afraid of losing it all
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Marching Fishes 03:41
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Everyone is a victim of circumstance Everyone is trying to find themselves I feel the cool water wash away my shame I could swim forever but time shares blame Everyone is a victim of struggling Everyone is trying to find their way But if we don’t make sense out of this We’ll never find a way I feel the cool water wash away my shame I could swim forever but time shares blame I feel the cool water wash away my shame I could swim forever but time shares blame And if I have hope and find ways to train Maybe life won’t be the same
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White Fire 06:54
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Caught within in sight In his territory A ferocious beast Twenty times the size of me It is foolish to out-serpentine a serpent Losing options in this current I lead him through my path Trying to escape his wrath His time has come His devilry shall be no more His arrogance is clear And its end is near With a lot of careful thought Through his weaknesses I caught I shall vanquish my foe And deliver him to Hell Caught within my pride In my hubris Something I can’t hide It is my weakness It is foolish to out-serpentine a serpent Losing options in this current I lead him through my path Trying to escape his wrath His time has come His devilry shall be no more His arrogance is clear And its end is near With a lot of careful thought Through his weaknesses I caught I shall vanquish my foe And deliver him to White fire White fire White fire White fire White fire White fire White fire White fire White fire White fire White fire White fire Second chances shouldn’t matter Because people never change But looking at him in a lesser form Makes me think he’s not quite so deranged Maybe it is true afterall What is said That one’s greatest ally is an enemy Turned friend
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Evil 06:03
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He strikes the ground again and again Fearing his demise An evil manifested within Forces his hand to carry out a plan maniacally devised If only I could imagine What’s going through his mind If only I could’ve seen it before If only I wasn’t so blind I wear a mask to veil All the anguish from Their disbelief And I’m not wrong to Feel so tired of it all How can I trust them If they don’t trust me What can I do The earth shakes again and again Each punch landing hard The shadow standing next to him Tells him the world is only meant to kill desire in his heart If only I could imagine What they’re turning him into If only I could’ve seen it before If only I knew what to do I wear a mask to veil All the anguish from Their disbelief And I’m not wrong to Feel so tired of it all How can I trust them If they don’t trust me What can I do I watch his hands bleed Tearing a hole Fission into Hell below The earth is cries A symphony to the skies Kore wa owari desu ka The world is Hell It deserves to end And its evil Deserves to die
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The Void 02:10
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Peering into its black heart Into the singularity Frozen in time Its light cannot escape The void
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Frozen Wings 06:43
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Liquid shadows crawling through my head Venom from the subsequent words that I said Memories I wish would go away It’s nothing new it’s something everyone goes through everyday Everyone to whom I’d like to confide I can’t depend on them because they’re much too weak The rivers run with sorrow pain and blood I’ll be damned if my own tears drown more in the flood In my vain attempt to be the light I will shine on the wrong and they won’t see me right Everyone to whom I’d like to confide I can’t depend on them because they’re much too weak When a strong light was shone upon me I couldn’t let it go because I was weak So many times I lay Underneath your frozen wings Too many times I sought To burden you while I was burning Self aware but not willing to change Spinning webs of hopelessness with my truths rearranged Everyone to whom I’d like to confide I can’t depend on them because they’re much too weak When a strong light was shone upon me I couldn’t let it go because I was weak So many times I lay Underneath your frozen wings Too many times I sought To burden you while I was burning You’re all convinced that I’m good enough But I can’t convince myself I bleed myself white to open up But I never give it all I’m grateful you gave me a chance to be in your life I’m thankful to have you in my own I know I’m difficult My schisms they twist me so I know it’s hard every time But you pull me out and help me see So many times I lay Underneath your frozen wings Too many times I sought To burden you while I was burning So many times I lay Underneath your frozen wings Too many times I lay Underneath your frozen wings Underneath your frozen wings Underneath your frozen wings
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You And Me 05:21
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All this time I felt lonely inside This fading flame within my pride Despite what fails My tears will trail Clouding my sight Obscuring light Took me a while to find what it means to me What’s truly there what’s meant to be This way I feel It is revealed This way I feel It can’t be real With open hearts With lives apart Will we finally Be able to see Through darkened skies With open eyes Sincerity Is the path for you and me The way I feel passionately is unlike anything With the way disaster spreads it will corrupt oneself Despite what they say Give in what may And on this day I will proclaim Her place right here is irreplaceable It might be difficult But we will find Find light inside Inside this fight Fight for the right The righteous sight This way I feel It is revealed This was I feel It can’t be real I think I’ve repressed my feelings for far too long I think it’s time to express how I really feel This way I feel This way I feel This way I feel just can’t be real With open hearts With lives apart Will we finally Be able to see Through darkened skies With open eyes Sincerity Is the path for you and me With open hearts With lives apart Will we finally Be able to see Through darkened skies With open eyes Sincerity Is the path for you and me
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Heart Over Mind 04:17
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ake a look at this man and see Tapping keys and strings meaninglessly And never satisfied with himself And too prideful to ask for help When smoke from the flaming heart Suffocates the mind In the mirror stares a shadow And only darkness lay behind He knows right from wrong But he’s suffered for so long Now he’s deafened to all rational thought And scarred by all the fights he fought When smoke from the flaming heart Suffocates the mind In the mirror stares a shadow And only darkness lay behind He’ll shake his head in shame Never realizing That his heart is so cold That tears freeze upon his cheeks Everything he knows Everything he believes in Every tear he cries And everyday he dies When smoke from the flaming heart Suffocates the mind In the mirror stares a shadow And only darkness lay behind When songs from an eclipsed heart Show him what he’s faced He will plant a prideful garden Where darkness will be embraced
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Requiem 20:27
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We all find ourselves spiralling at times When we’re faced with the surreal and the sublime Pushing it away to overcome the day Trying to keep is all inside Hiding all our scars to better who we are Self-inflicted suicide I had hoped that one day She’d wise up and find her way I was foolish to have believed To see light inside of her And I was deceived We all find ourselves embracing who we are When we’re face-to-face with the fear and the horror We have embraced it together Walking side by side Our hearts kept us tethered Through all the tears that clouded our sight We have embraced it together Walking side by side Our hearts kept us tethered Through all the tears that clouded our sight How does it feel to be on the precipice of evil Where right and wrong are abstract concepts Abstract concepts determined by perspective Black and white Day and night Wrong and right Dark and light Crying Trying to find a shred of fucking common sense But I’m Dying Killing myself trying to do the right thing But it never pays off I’m so tired of it all How can I trust in myself If I don’t have the strength To hang onto what I love And the only way out of this Is to reach within ourselves And lay a grave Within our hearts We all find ourselves spiralling again When we’re faced with the dilemmas that we’re in Purging from within to wash away the sin But it never goes away Showing our concern while our worlds burn Penance that we choose to pay If we don’t squander life We won’t have to struggle to survive Flame for strength Ice for protection Garden for knowledge Darkness for light Kindle a flame for strength Veil oneself in ice for protection Grow a garden of thought to carry knowledge Hold onto darkness to create light We have embraced it together Walking side by side Our hearts kept us tethered Through all the tears that clouded our sight We have embraced it together Walking side by side Our hearts kept us tethered Through all the tears that cloud our sight
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Flames Will Burn 10:48
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When day comes to end And dusk begins to rise I feel the words flowing in I feel myself transcend Through fake empty lies I hear the sounds ring within As beauty finds its place A place within my mind I feel my soul light a fuse My heart starts to race In fear of what I’d find And what I feel I might just lose As fire burns and sparks within us alight The flames climb high and my wings sear in flight As I look down at all I regret There’s one thing left that I have not lost yet As fire burns and sparks within us alight The flames climb high and my wings sear in flight As I look down at all I regret There’s one thing left that I have not lost yet There was a time I was wrong to be right I was sick my grip on others tight If I see myself become this I still have my right My right to believe If I stay And face myself I’ll fade away Within my shell The flames will burn And carry me And I’ll return And you will see Incandescently I will come to life And life will come to me And I’ll bare light As fire burns and sparks within us alight The flames climb high and my wings sear in flight As I look down at all I regret There’s one thing left that I have not lost yet When day comes to end And dusk begins to rise I feel the words flowing in I feel myself transcend Through fake empty lies I hear the sounds ring within And flames will burn Flames will burn Flames will burn Flames will burn Flames will burn Flames will burn Flames will burn Flames will burn

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The first full-length album from Jeremiah Koser.

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released October 29, 2021

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