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Murdoch's Tome

by Aikia

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Mountain of Meru 05:05
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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released April 15, 2019

Aikia:

Jake Mercer - vocals and lyrics
Jon Taylor - rhythm guitars
Troy Wilson - lead guitars
Joe Pottie - drums and story
Dwayne Wright - bass guitars

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Written by Joe Pottie and Jon Taylor
Recorded and engineered by Troy Wilson, Jake Mercer and Dwayne Wright
Mixed and Mastered by Francois Dallaire at Utopix Studios
Cover Art: Camela & Sierra Kiser

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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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