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Mountain of Meru
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Book One – Present
Chapter 1: Mountain of Meru
Rise
Climb
Ascend
Higher than yourself
Hey you
These are the reasons they hate you
Looking for ways they can break you
Never me able to change you
So they try to blame you
These are the reasons they hate you
These are the reasons they hate you
Never be able to break you
These are the reasons they hate you now
Hey you
These are the reasons they hate you
Climbing the mountain of fate you
Ascend the living to break through
These are the reasons they hate you
Standing with nothing to say you
Ascend the living to break through
These are the reasons they hate you
I was the one who crossed through the river
And I was the one who came to begin again
All of my time seeking the relevance
With aching heart, mind of an elephant
Spending my time waiting
As these seconds of my life fade away
It was complicating, breathing extinction
I was the one who crossed through the river
And I was the one surpassing the sentient
I was the one embracing the elegance
Traverse space and time to rise
Climb
Ascend
Higher than I am no one
Break me open
Leave me hollow
Am I broken with tomorrow
Cut me open
Spill my sorrow
I'll be broken
No tomorrow
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2. |
The Mobius Continuum
03:14
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Chapter 2: The Mobius Continuum
Dark day in hell
I'm breathing, but I'm not well
I'm feeling so very broken down
None by my side, I'm lonely
Nothing left to hide, to show me
So very broken down
I was just man, was nothing
Cutting of my hand and changing
So very broken down
I'd come to see the greatness as it spoke to me
It knows me
So very broken down
What does it want?
Ancient order
The all and nothing
If this is my life where did I go?
Ancient order
The vast and never
Showing me forever in the blinking of an eye
When I should have died
Instead I'm in creation
I am space moving
When I am enlightened
With an open mind it brings me here
Sustaining by the light
Time is a doorway of many that I have access to
When i am space moving
I move in parallels with each course dictating new fates
Dark day in hell
I'm breathing, but I'm not well
So very broken down
I will travel all these places
Searching for ways to change my fate
All the faces that I've see, pictures from my dreams
Open doorways, portals through time
I move in parallels
All the places that I've seen were just pictures from my dreams
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3. |
Sue's Assisted Suicide
05:53
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Chapter 3: Sue's Assisted Suicide
We arrive at the end of this life so alone.
If we fear what we don't understand we are lost.
When the moment arrives
The night is cold, dark
The breath within your skin
Relinquishing
Wait for me on the other side
With my heart held within your hands
Bleeding in my heart, its time to let you go
I lay you down into the ground
Scream into the dark, I think I've lost my soul
I lay you down into the ground
Weeping in my heart, I think it's time to let you go
I lay you down into the ground
Screaming in the dark, I think this time I've lost my soul
I lay you down into the ground
There will come a day
We will meet again ×2
Broken, I am the weeping sorrow
Chances are there's no chances left of tomorrow
Nothing without you, what's left of me
Take me, for I am nothing
Walking through this distant land
Make me, one with the shadows
Look at what I've done with my own hands
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4. |
Synapse Disconnected
04:27
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Chapter 4: Synapse Disconnected
I cannot open the door
Every attempt I make is futile
I am not in harmony
I'm a slave to myself
Master of nothing
Watch as my burdens break me
I do not control my fate
As I watch my perceptions wither to nothing
Letting my burdens break me
What is waiting for me?
Pulling, pushing me further
What is waiting for me?
Pushing me further down on my knees
What is waiting for me?
Pushing, pulling me further
What is waiting for me?
Pulling me further down on my knees
I am not what I once was
If this is my absolution then regret becomes my crutch
I am bleeding for nothing
My life is ending
Helping my burdens break me
I am disconnected
I have become nothing
On the day that she died
That is when i lost everything
I became just a shell
A shadow of my former self
There is no hope
Do I deserve
To be alone?
Lost forever?
Forever alone
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5. |
Mud Fontaine
04:31
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Respite One
Chapter 5: Mud Fontaine
Mother says to save yourself, forget your feelings
I am frightened every time mother speaks
Mother says she hates herself
She is so guilty for the years of life that she took from me
She went away
Saved herself
Left me to burn alone
Darkness fell and I was rotting
I could not feed my hunger
Ever so insatiating
Lost to my infestations
They run from me
Can't they see that I'm starving
They don't want to stay
Why won't they come play with me
They all ran away from me
Nobody loves me
She don't wanna stay
Why won't she come play with me
Mother ran away from me
She doesn't love me
Mother, mother
Why have you forsaken me
There is elation waiting, waiting
With mastication
Piece by piece
Stripping the skin, filleting
Pushing the suture
As I begin to hunger violently
Wait in my position
I feel it in my system
It's my condition
I need their skin
Peel at these incisions
I need to cleanse my system
Of my affliction
I need their skin
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6. |
Nials and Dobbs
05:46
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Part Two – Past
Chapter 6: Nials and Dobbs
Where the fuck did he go?
I'm starting to lose my patience
Last time I saw Dobbs he was lying in a basement
Complacent, arrangement without justification
If I see that fuck again I'll tie a noose around his neck
Escape into regret
One day you're gonna face me
This is what you get
I can make a mother fucker bleed from his fucking teeth
Where the fuck did he go?
Behind a picket fence
Last time I saw nials he was lying in offense
Making all his money at another man's expense
If I see that fuck again I'll tie a noose around his neck
Where the fuck did they go?
They think that they can get away
I swear to fucking God that Nials and Dobbs are gonna pay
Them mother fuckers really think that they're gonna get away
If I see those fucks again I'll tie a noose around their necks
Escape into regret
One day you're gonna face me
This is what you get
I can make a mother fucker bleed from his fucking teeth
Sometimes, all the impatience of mine spills from the center
And I find a feeling of letting you down
Over and over.
Sometimes, I find my life succumbs to frustration
And my mind is screaming that I've let you go
Over a lifetime ago
I let you down
I let you go
Savior of Sue
When they killed Laika that's where I drew the line
As she protected my Sue from the heinous crime
I couldn't stop the weeping as sue stared in disbelief
There's nothing I could speak that would take away the woman's grief
Nials and Dobbs I swear to God you're gonna pay
The day I fucking catch you is the day I take your life away
Nials and Dobbs, you fucked up for the last time
Your lives are fucking over
Your souls will be mine
Sometimes my life passes by
Sometimes my life passes by
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7. |
Sheriff Don Skiff
03:12
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Chapter 7: Sheriff Don Skiff
I am the law of the land
With my gun I hold the order
You'd better listen
To what they tell you
Respect the order
Or you will realize
Long before you came
And after you will go
I was always here
Find your body hanging from my gallows
If you break my laws
Murder, murder, murder
In my fucking district
Get the badge, get the gun
Get my fucking cigarettes
Light one now
Enjoy it for the car ride
Thinking in my head
Keep calm when the bullets fly
Perception was grim
As I gazed at the murder scene
Lost inside my head
I was thinking only four things
I'm gonna find you
I'm gonna catch you
I'm gonna cage you
I'm gonna kill you
I will find you this I swear
You will pay for all your crimes
I'll find you if it's the last thing I do
Many men have been locked away
And many more men have dug their graves
There's been a few who've challenged me
But there's never been a man who's bested me
Liars, killers, crooks and thieves
These are a few that run from me
End up dying on their knees
There's never been a man who's got away from me
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8. |
No Named Greatness
06:40
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Respite Two
Chapter 8: No Named Greatness
I am the end of all life
I am the baby born
I am the edge of tomorrow
I am yesterday scorned
I am the changing of seasons
As they turn from future to past I
am the voice of reason
To the questions they no longer ask
All encompassing
Collective of completion
Interminable
Void of extinction
There is nothing without me (×3)
Nothing can be without me
There is nothing without me (×3)
Nothing without me
What was will be because of me
Answers to the questions they don't even ask
All encompassing, breathing , alive
A scratch at the surface
All days that were
All of the nights
And all that there will be
I am the ending of reason
I am the ancient storm
I am the pulling of skin
Enshrined in a garden of thorns
I am the breath of the future
As it takes life from the past
I am the source of delusion
When they think their life is 'gonna last
You'll never get our alive
What comes when it's over?
What does it feel like to die?
Succumbs to the moment
Are you breathing?
Weeping sorrow
Is there meaning
Without tomorrow?
Who is coming to me?
What do you seek?
Who is this coming to me
Coming from down on his knees
Who is coming to me?
What do you need
Who is coming to me?
I'm not gonna set you free
I am coming to thee
Down on my knees
I am coming to thee
Begging for me
I am coming to thee
Pleading you please
I am coming to thee
Begging to set me free
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9. |
Phantom Limb
04:26
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Part Three – Pivot
Chapter 9: Phantom Limb
I cut it off
The pain was great
It was like suffocating
I tried to breathe
There was no air
None for me
Are there pieces of me that I left behind
On the day I failed
To take my life
To dig my own grave
To seal my own fate
The pieces of me
The ones I left behind
What do they say about me?
Do I take my own life?
Do I dig my own grave?
Do I seal my own fate?
I suppose I couldn't save my life
I knew that I was a failure
I couldn't even save me from myself
I was a failure
Do you want to see the pieces of me?
The one that has no feeling?
Do you want to take another piece of me?
Wanna see how far you can take this?
Now there's nothing left of me, left of me
Come and take the rest of me
Come and try
Now there's nothing left of me, left of me
Come and take the rest of me
Come and try
Now there's nothing left of me, left of me
You won't get the best of me
You'll pay for this
You will see
I suppose I could take your life
But I'll never put all this behind me
It's a sacrifice I've made to be the man that's before you
Do you want to see the pieces of me?
The one that has no feeling
Do you want to take another piece from me?
Wanna see how far you can take this?
Look to the heavens and scream to the sky
Divine intervention why am I before you?
Why did you save me?
I just want to die
Look to the heavens and scream to the sky
Why did you stop me from ending my story?
What did you save me?
I just want to die
Look to the heavens and scream to the sky
In keeping my life I have lost a piece of me?
Why did you save me?
I just want to die
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10. |
Recidivist
05:22
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Chapter 10: Recidivist
Change couldn't save me from hatred that made me
Frustrated with the sense of oblivion
My mind is aching escape from the blatant
Past tense thoughts of life once forsaken
What was a shell, the terror that drives me
Chastised with lies, no hope of repentance
Brought me from hell, no heaven will find me
Blindly I see there is fate to this sentence
They tried to change me
They'll never make me see life through their eyes
They tried to save me
Make me believe there was hope in their promise
My disease, acknowledging, room to grow
My disease becoming me the clarity, I could not see
My disease, begging me, needs to sow
Visions are enthralled in me, appalled by those who can not see
I can't feel anything
When I breathe
I can't feel anything
When I breathe
Wide awake in circles
Fictitious parables
Metaphors of life strive
To distract me from everything
Calming in my eyes find
Blinding of the malanine
Inside it's all the same
Fearing at the last breath
What do I see, what do I feel?
Blinded by the bliss of this
What do you see, what do you feel?
Terror strikes your heart
What do I see, what do I feel?
Colours swirl, contagious mist
What do you see, what do you feel?
End of life Recidivist will claim you
Purge and maim you
I will take you home
But only in pieces
Now you're wide awake
Staring up into the sky
Loud, but silently
Screaming out before you die
Change, couldn't
Blame, wouldn't
Now this sacrifice
Resurrects the rage inside
Pain is nothing now
Screaming out before you die
Change, couldn't
Blame, wouldn't
Hate, shouldn't
Nothing can change me
Change, couldn't
Blame, wouldn't
Hate, shouldn't
They tried to change me
I'll never change
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Hailing from the far east coast of Canada, Aikia blends many flavours of metal with off time and unconventional riffage topped with intense, dynamic vocals.
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