Time Is Lost

from Memory by Ivan

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Deafening silence grows stronger
I must fill the void
The gentle glowing hands
Guide my inner journey
It speaks in riddles
Forked tongues twist
Telling me things
I wish not to hear

Like the coming of time
The birth of a cosmos
The roots of a tree
and the end of suffering
Particles spiral in my vision
morphing from shape to shape
In it I met myself
and lost all others

Waning threnodies echo
A storm begins to brew
The pulse of the heart
Will thunder internally
An epoch of rhythm
Confined by flesh
A beat made by one
Is felt by many

Its tendrils wrap
And constrict the pain
The Ever Gods of time
Thrust the spear of light
Into all minds
Into all existence
The ringing is pure
It summons the silence

A burgeoning pitter
begins falling on ears
A witch's bones
A phantasm's dance
A demon's gurgle
An elder's sigh
A snake rests coiled
eating away its tail

In its scales I tread
Through all the years
In the past and future
In the living and dead
I shed my skin
And drink the air
I reach for the stars
while holding the earth

Towards an ageing resistance
I forget my stories
As a warm day
And a cold night
Blankets over my soul
Covering the misshapen
The obscure and familiar
The time is lost

For once colour emanates
Fractal patterns explode
The shadow of the sun dial
Is spinning violently
A celestial choir
Roars with my fury
It will begin again
And sweetly I slumber

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from Memory, released October 12, 2018

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Ivan VIC, Australia

We are a Melbourne-based duo of musicians who play a unique blend of doom metal that draws influence from sludge, funeral doom, drone and numerous genres outside of metal.

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