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Vestige

by Seas of Conflict

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1.
Pulled back to life, another drifter in the sea Stuck in the new wave of history Pulled to the surface from the depths of my defeat Stuck in the new wave, these tides won’t let me free Daylight inundates my mind with everything I left behind Cast me aside and drown me with these memories These tides won’t let me free Pulled back from sleep, stuck in the new wave High tide on the temporal sea Night time lets me live a lie where everything can be forgotten I just throw it away, throw it away, throw it away Surrendered to the deep Pulled back from sleep, stuck in the new wave Release your hold and let me sink Lower me back into the night I belong where the cold and the dark is Lower me back into the night I’m not the moon, not the tide, just a drifter in the sea I’m not the wind in the sky, just a victim of history I’m not the flame in the darkness you wanted me to be I’m just a failure, send me back to sleep I’ve made my home down here in the lightless deep What makes you think I want to be saved? I’m not afraid of the night, I’m afraid what I’ll find by the light of day I’m tired of the tiredness, so sick of the sickness, this temporal ocean is leaving me swept away I’m tired of the tiredness, so sick of the sickness, this temporal ocean is leaving me swept away Please just forget my face I’m not the moon, not the tide, not the soul of the sea I’m not the wind in the sky, shaping history I’m not the flame in the darkness you want me to be I’m not afraid of the dark, I’m afraid of me
2.
Ashfall 03:54
Suspended, encapsulated in time At odds with my mind Cause I don't wanna believe I’ll never have the means to make amends with everything that I let die And it scares me to think I could have all the right intentions But still make all the wrong decisions And every time I dragged you forward, it took you back to the hell you fled And every time I warmed your frozen heart, it burnt you to bones I'm standing on the precipice And the only way is down Choking on the embers of the flames that took you Every tortured prophecy of my darkest dreams has echoed true This land rejects me And these stars won't guide my way The ash clouds obscure the path to redemption In endless grey The smoke coalesces and takes on form A phoenix of ashes, my fears reborn Suspended in time, my doubts run free Gripped by the fear that you'll always hate me My time is ending, my back against the grave This land won't miss me, these stars won't know my name Scattered in the wind, I've lost myself, I've lost my way Just remember me, for what I was, not what I became I've drowned in my shame In the end I've got only myself to blame Remember me but for not what I became
3.
Lightless 04:40
Chained down by defeat The cyclic torment of life in repeat And every thought became a burden on me It dragged me down to a world I never dared to believe Fallen into an abyss of misery Buried inside myself, no room to breathe A subterranean tomb I watched in horror as you dug this hole for me You cast me into the deep And left me there When all I wanted to room to breathe I dared to look upon your sky I bared myself to the light, and lost my soul to the shadows You fucking cast me down I bared myself to the light, but the shadows pulled me down into the ground I'm stranded beneath the earth It's lightless, I can't get out And for a time I was your spectre A false reflection of the hate you shone on me I just want to make you see You could've been my light You let me die in a crevasse of earth and stone But I found glimmers in the darkness And it was in the black of night that I found the fire to find my own way to the surface I never needed your light All I needed was some time The sun has set on your horizon In the night sky, the moon will rise again And in the absence of your withering gaze My light will grace the earth, my light will set the stars ablaze Silver strands eclipse the gold Effulgence lights an empty heart I'm no longer your ghost Living off stolen glimmers in the dark Unearthed radiance fills the night The ending marks the start I have found new life I wasted all my golden years Trapped inside these catacombs of your imagination And though you only gave me hatred I won't give you mine I never needed your light All I needed was some time
4.
All things are transient around me Nothing is ever true for long The sandstorm rages on The gods of wind reinvent the dawn horizon Beneath my feet the sands are shifting Nothing familiar remains And as the chaos reigns I find the peace of mind to live again All the land is dark and strange Torn apart and reborn, locked in endless change I’m lost in a cycle Lost in a never-ending clash of wills All the land is dark and strange Though all I loved has died, still I won’t meet my end This is my time to live again Mirrored in the motions of the sun I cast my fears into the dust The dust of ages dead and lost to the world Lost in the desert of time I cast my fears into the dust, I cast my chains aside Every dawn a lifetime is begun I pulled my dreams back from the void, reclaimed them all Just take each passing moment at a time I cast my fears into the dust, I left my chains behind Don’t look back, the past is nothing but the shift of sands Desert dreams no longer desecrate my mind Though dark mirages beckon me Free from my eyes, at last I see I am the wind upon the marches The dunes are sculpted by my hand No more am I a slave of fortune I’ve found a way to cast my fears aside into the dust Pulled from the whirl of shifting sands Deliverance, deliverance I’ve found a way to cast my fears aside into the dust Like the hopes and fears in our hearts, empires of sand will rise and fall Feel the dawning of dusk on the wind, feel the pulse of life that walks inside us all There’s something moving through the wind This fatal ending draws me to begin Feel the dawning of dusk, there’s a pulse in all of us Turn your fears into dust, there’s a pulse in all of us There’s a pulse in us Rise, fall, feel the pulse inside of us all Rise, fall, take your fears and cast them all into the dust
5.
Witness, the end is in sight Put up your walls and leave the remainder to die We numbed our hearts and called it freedom Closed our eyes behind stone walls We prayed our hate would save us Hate has betrayed us Cut out our eyes and enslaved us Strain your senses to the cipher of tantalus There’s a rift in us, the division is killing us Mind separates from heart and in time, the heart won’t pulse As the mind conceives what it’s relinquished I’m standing at the end of this collapse Waiting for the chance to pull back from the embers What can we do to remember all we’ve lost in apathy? I’m standing at the edge of this collapse Waiting for the chance to pull back from the embers What can we do to remember all we’ve lost in apathy? What does it mean to truly be free, free to wander this ancient valley? Each twisting path bears a legacy We did not carve on our own Each step you’ll never walk alone So tell yourself you’re more deserving than them Wallow in hatred to distract from the hate of self, see what you want to see Do anything to believe you’re free despite the noose around your neck At the seeping core of this paralysis There’s a wound in us, indecision is killing us Mind separates from heart I’m standing at the end of this collapse Waiting for the chance to pull back from the embers What can we do to remember all we’ve lost in apathy? I’m standing at the edge of this collapse Waiting for the chance to pull back from the embers What will it take to remind us of our lost humanity? And to think the bliss we had was never enough Will we ever forget about our pride and start again? We’re still so guarded at the end Will we ever forget about our pride and start again? And to think we never dared to take a stand Shame on us, shame on you By now we know we won’t pull back from the embers All we can do is lament how cheap we sold humanity I’m stranded in the depths of defeat No way out this time This fragile state of mind rewinds and in the end there’s nothing left to say There’s no release from this, the truth can’t be forgotten I’m stranded in the depths of defeat This fragile state of mind rewinds and in the end there’s nothing left to say There’s no release from this, the truth can’t be forgotten, the world is stained I’m drowning in the depths of defeat
6.
Water's Edge 05:05
In the midst of a dream It's hard to see the sense in sanity We're living like our end is preordained Surrendered our will to open flame In search of warmth We'll set the world ablaze If we can't face ourselves We'll roam the vestige of a dying world Locked in circadian silence Blind to the sight of all that's wrong With our will to slumber on If we can't face ourselves We'll roam the vestige of a dying world The clouds will rumble, the wind will call The earth will crumble and fall And I can't face myself I need to find a way to end this hedonistic dream Or we will lose it all We will lose it all Locked in circadian silence Deaf to whispers that something is hopelessly wrong With our will to slumber on Now we must face ourselves in time While there's something left to save I'll defy this caustic dreamscape And I will fight it to my grave We look out in fear At the tide of change But nothing scares me more than the notion That things might stay the fucking same In the cold reflection We will face ourselves And find new direction At the water's edge In the cold reflection We will face ourselves And find new direction With every hollow breath, I grow closer to the truth That simply living means nothing when we're living off borrowed happiness So I will leave all warmth behind and give myself unto the waves

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released March 9, 2017

SEAS OF CONFLICT IS:
Kody Naidoo - Vocals
Declan Storrie - Guitar
Michael Thomson - Guitar
Kayne McVeigh - Bass
Nic Martin - Drums

Jared Ipsen - Guest Vocals on 'Tantalus'

All songs written and arranged by Seas Of Conflict
Produced + Engineered + Mixed by Zorran Mendonsa Productions
Additional Synth by Zorran Mendonsa
Mastered by Ermin Hamidovic (Systematic Productions)

Artwork + Logo Design by Barny Bewick (Indium Design)

Thanks to our incredible families + loved ones for their endless support, Liz + Bruce Storrie, Lisa + Paul Martin, Josiah F, Tyler M, William K, Trajan S, Steve B, Corey F, Todd T, Matt H, The Axe Attack, Thy Assassin, Barracks, Devilskin, and everyone who has supported Seas at any point in our journey so far.

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