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Sidereal Stations
06:36
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Station I
Let the New Moon rise
As a Black Hole in the starless night
Blacker still against the blackest sky
This void, a Gate to depart the Tree of Life
Where just beyond, a terrible angel resides
With a flaming sword and with flames for eyes
It bars our way to paradise
It bars our way back to paradise
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Ashes
04:52
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Station II
Disappeared centuries ago
Inside of yourself
But we found you
The waves pummel the stone
But can you hear?
A tower within a tower
A quiet, private prison
A Russian doll
A crumbling wall
A Princess emerges
From the tunnel of a station
Out of the black
To burn it all fucking down
To bring you back to us
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Catacomb Hymnal
04:53
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Station III
Deep below the ruins, below the ancient soil
Buried so long ago by those who went before us
Are hidden tunnels
Tunnels bricked off, tunnels lost, tunnels destitute
Circling back on themselves
A maze of catacombs in the dark
Where old souls once mourned
Now forgotten
A Dead Station
Humming the ghost of a wayward hymn
Far beneath the beds
Of unknowing sleepers
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Station IV
Gaze across the ocean at night
Into fathomless Tunnels black
Where stars unseen perish
Call across the ocean at night
Moonless and yearning
To the Mother of Demons
Reach across the ocean at night
A voice on the wind
Tugs at a hobbled heart
Walk across the ocean at night
A last chance to heal
In the arms of the Vampyre
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Dead Radio Communiqué
06:49
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Station V
Dead radios speak
An SOS across time
From so many years past
Tin-like and breaking through static
A thin voice pleads
A communication from Sidereal Stations:
"Is there anyone? Is there anyone at all...?
Can you hear me...?
I think we're trapped in here..."
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Like Static In The Mist
06:05
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Station VI
In this place where Night can never end
And Wraiths live like static in the mist
I float, drift through this near-infinite Tunnel
Where only the echoes of Life exist
Passing through the world of the memories that ran astray
A Ghost facing down this unwanted Ghost's tryst
If there's a way out, it is only "through"
Or else become a Wraith, the Static In The Mist
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Monastery Salem, Massachusetts
Dreamscapes For Solitude.
Dungeon Synth For Psychonauts.
Dark New Age For A New Dark Age.
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