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ELEPHANT LYRICS
"The Ivory Heavenscape" (2007)
1. Conjunction of the Suns
2. Age of the Visionaries
3. The Sawing Psychosis
4. Toward the Silver Seas of Tormenthastrum
5. Blazing the Wild Stars
6. Pinnacle of the Vanished Dawn
7. Legends and Innocence
8. Ruins of the Eternian Castle
9. The Ivory Heavenscape
1. Conjunction of the Suns
A thousand years on Thra since the conjunction of the suns
When the brothers were divided into order and chaos
Together eternal in polarized incarnations
Observing the cosmos through a severed millennium
The gentle Mystics driven from the castle into exodus
Toward a stone valley where lush melodies resonate
The cruel vulture beings create crustacean terrors
Victims warped by the wrath of the deranged Skeksis
Into the black oak under the void
An inflamed eclipse against the peaks of silver hills
See the mountain bathing beneath the rose fire
Converging as a sole eye, the three flames shall burn
Each orb as a unique imagination
In the solitude of the orrery
Physics, alchemy and existence
Harmonizing to the pitch of the flute
Taking wing to the skies or striding on land
Consumed at the teeth of the vile Skreesh
Charismatic drive tempered with a quiet calm
Good and evil interlaced in an enchanting craft
The parallels die in unison
Insubstantial as ghosts in the mist
The scroll of promised restoration in the ancient city
The vivid flight of an everlasting essence
Leap onto the crystal and plunge in the dark shard
Rebuild our shattered planet by the light of its truth
The living waters of dazzling stars
Pouring forth opaque might as the arch of a bow
Emboldened by the power of a forthcoming era
As the celestial bodies realign
Those who were exiled shall return to the palace
And the pure urSkeks will leave this healed plane
Perched atop a vital time
When the foes again unite
A great conscience is now sworn
To usher forth the age divine
When single shines the triple sun
What was sundered and undone
Shall be whole, the two made one
By Gelfling hand, or else by none
2. Age of the Visionaries
In the madness of the tower of the seven orichalcum gates
Glittering quintessence, realignment of the triple suns
A planet returns from confusion, phantoms of annihilation
A realm of destruction in chaotic rebirth
Spectral knights in starlit plains chant the rhyme of the staves
Darkling lords in swamplands drear cling to neon brilliance
The benevolent and the miscreants in truce for another beginning
We, the primitives, the dreamers seek the ways of creation
Plowing through the soil of night in a sacred quest
An apocalypse of thought, renaissance of imagining
Revolting against thrones of order and stagnation
From the rubble and silence we rise in a blaze
We're still alive, our time has come
The brave the strong and the foolish are one
Control the magic, control destiny
We are the leaders of the visionaries' age
Survivors wear the crest of great ability and strength
Wishes on the horizon and wonders in our hands
Hear our laughter amongst the thunder
We are the gods of myth, revelling in the storm
Arete is forged in fires of the hermit's spells
Pursue the virtuous traits of man and beast
The knowledge is rampant, wisdom enacted
Empowered by ability we become more than the heart
Traverse the grim perils of the ancient wizard's castle
Resisting the morbid that settle upon the hearth
We leave the rites of fear at the offer of a new hope
A divine opportunity to chase the sunrise
Riding out on the wind of the aggressor
At laser speed and through glowing mists unphased
Sounding the horn from the wings of the rainbow
A hypnotic chorus from angelic pantheons
Once the navigator dares and steps toward the void
From the highest window to the unfathomed Heavenscape
Open my eyes and bless the dawn of utter zero
The palace disappears forever
To the open unknown we fly
On the breath of the burning stars
Following a whim of Icarian audacity
Awakening as our will is wrought
From the mountain of iron shadows
Restoring the obscured truth from decay
We understand and meet the challenge of our time
This generation will set it right
3. The Sawing Psychosis
In a hostile world devoid of light, we are shaping dawn
Obsessive apophenia, psychosis of creation
Without haven free to journey through chaos
We are the renegades compelled to rip the sword from stone
Past and future polarized by belief and wrath
Gone is the proselyte wisdom of a nihilistic age
Surging wraiths on parabolic radiation waves
The leviathan floating in ocular aurora
Shining as hawks with a scorpion's sting
Slashing with blazing talons of energy
Piercing rage of poignant radiance
Asylum in the luminous oceans of the far unknown
Phosphenes like bursting words expelled from my gaze
Poneglyph labyrinths floating in deep space
Adroit architecture, angles of time equate
The wingless dragonfly, juggernaut of the seven universes
Powered by crystals toward shadows and stars
This living spacecraft a furnace of viral youth
We are the sweetness and the strength in a zone of dark
Hunters of the divine secret, warriors of discovery
Off we go to seas of blood grappling for truth
Passionate we are assassins of all doubts
Elite in the acceptance of reality as illusion
Advancing toward the crux of our frantic existence
Hymns for the fortune of glorious life
The sun chair of the ancients not a throne of glass
Traumatic hypnosis by the prince of ivory
Through the monstrosity of immense galaxies
Devouring bombarded planets of skeletal flames
Howling paranoia with the ghosts of deprivation
As cosmic moths destroyed by the solar rays
Reaping the lividity of swollen moons
Ride the gale of night away from unlit realms
Chase the black trial to experience pangs of birth
Coming from the span in victory arrayed
With the faith of a revolutionary force
4. Toward the Silver Seas of Tormenthastrum
Out of the proud sun toward the shores of another world
Cormorant musings, silent visions ravening
Hear the calling rhythm from wells of consciousness
On ivory mares we voyage through arcades of legendary
Architect of spheres and obelisks, intellect and madness
The axis of creation and its glorious similitude
Ocean caves at the feet of cyclopean might
You cannot find the universe? You are within its core!
The moon wears a bleak face, laughs at peerless beauty
An inscrutable and captivating smile
Weaving infinite shadows about itself
A wonder cloaked in a mystery
Navigate the blazing haze of the deep heavens
Hollow cliffs seared by time closer now than eye has seen
Strength in the nucleus of the perfect void
Shatter every illusion at the leyline of truth
Ancient creatures surfacing from every silver sea
Surrendering of memories to the infinitesimal flame
The eternal child passing through the mind like a whim
Winged giants dancing at planetary speeds
Promethean ideals, a symptom of being
The myth of microcosm is just a fool's wisdom
The cryptic spores of music are to stay forever
The solitary chemistry of the plasmic waters
Renewed from age to age, consolation of sorrows
Breeding regularity from dissociated knowledge
Arcana uphold me as the night wakes
If life is the answer, the question must be
Remember me when all bid farewell and leave you alone
Remember me as new emotions sprout into new thoughts
Remember me astonished as the fierce charge is made
Remember me in songs of defiance as the wild rumpus starts
Remember me when fires burst asunder over birthing skies
Remember me when autumn winds move upon the ageing fields
Remember me when miracles are lost beyond all agony
Remember me as my raft proceeds into the darkness
A terrace of sinking islands
Sloping downward to the black oak
In a caldera of smouldering waste
Where the latent doom now stirs
5. Blazing the Wild Stars
A flight into distant space to pursue the call of seductive fate
Adventure be our only guide, the tempting siren accelerates
Seeds of exploration bloom to flowers of discovery
Brighter than the beams of a thousand wave motion guns
Destined to be renegades running at death's pace
Gallant spirits bound to none, adorned in leather, steel and fire
Outlaws with a warrior's eye, children of the summer forge
A cadre of chariots driven by the lawless band
Burning white comets and ancient planets
The promised worlds we have seen
The thrill endures, we dare to hope
Entering miracles and confident dreams
Hurled like a javelin from a mighty hand
Leaving slipstreams of magnetic flames
Intrepid and vigilant, we are lightning unleashed
Surrender we won't, we are prime
Amazed by a deluge of falling silver
Novas of magma keening as crystal
Glittering rain in the Magellanic clouds
Even into hell we go with blessing upon us
The fantasy must die only to become real
This day is better than the illusion of tomorrows
In love and young, our energy is infinite
The spire of the unicorn musting toward the Heavenscape
Hurtling, ascending at great mindless speed
After all that we've survived, loosed and faster than light
Coming to believe that all we see answers why we're alive
We blaze the wild stars
Move with us now, each frontier a new home, a treasure trove
Gleaming as Gamilon and Iscandar in unity
A maelstrom of bursting metal harnessed into primal force
The lord of despair is silent darkened by his own cruelty
Strife of questing is better than the comfort of depressive temples
Against the solar gale with a heart of rushing passion
Experience is better than the chill of brooding obsessions
Mysteries will linger and the journey we will seek
Higher rises the inferno masturbating with desire
A choir of suspiring freedom, the lion hailing the day
Before us no sword avails nor arrow pierce our souls
Invulnerable, we are the rebels of the glowing fields
They may be gods, but they aren't me
Unlimited by any arbitrary prophecy
Leave the meek to attend the little earth
We shall inherit the universe!!!
6. Pinnacle of the Vanished Dawn
Witness the ecstasy of a celebrating soul
Reave the halls of kings, cleanse the filth of centuries
In the zealous flames of summer's raging creation
Shattering the silent earth by the monstrous abyss
Architects and visionaries counted in the game
Innovators singing the worlds into existence
Revealing the light of planets under seas
Wielding a mesmerising storm amongst the mountains vast
Active wonders shaped and sown by shining hand
Invigorating anthems of an eager mind
We shall not mourn nor step into wrath
Pain is conquered by the endless dawn
Comprehend the mathematics of the gods
A canvas of immaculate simplicity
Unholy reverence without illusion
Mute with awe at the loss of pretence
Elven sorcerers in dark obscurity
In wilful eyes gather the night of theogeny
Shifting shadows, a divine afterthought
Traces in the scarlet sands - lines on the palm of the one
A spear of passion in the leader's mighty grasp
To battle the fell captain - the drear and the wicked
Out into the middle of the conflict
As the treasure remains our strength
The blazing children won't cry for long
Born without favour yet beyond tyranny
No trap shall impede the heights we will reach
We are the heroes upon the pulsing hill
From a corner of dusk thunders the moon
Immortal chanting from the wells of epochs
The dynamic splendour of guardian beings
All and none atop the sole colonnade
We see where hell cannot gain, to where the dream begins
Arcane contours in the fabric of the myriad planes
Swift as the flowing wind and rivers unseen
Reaping the first majestic breath of the waxing morning
As the window opens onto a pinnacle of inherent power
7. Legends and Innocence
Once, long ago
Before the splendour of light
When unicorn and serpent were beautiful
With the first blazing innocence
Sylvan purity harboured
In eternal precious souls
The balance of the universe
In the chiming harmony of dawn
Exiled upon the ancient paths
Of the brothers Order and Chaos
As the souvenirs of youth
Become the silent laments of maturity
Yet forgiveness lives in dreams
Beneath the black oak
For the sun was given to all
And even Darkness himself should be loved
8. Ruins of the Eternian Castle
An enormous stair, a grey cold castle stands
The ravens fly at dawn, baptised by ice and wind
The strengths of dark and light are one by the great moon
Skeletor the tyrant upon his fearsome throne
The thundering lord rules the world now slain
The infernal unknown and the hurricane hordes
Warriors divine and the ritual of steel
Storming the evil rage of the iron one
A prelude to the voice of the nemesis
A curse of vitriol and disharmony
Antagonistic night in a barren land
The little magician dreaming of a time to come
I am the last of the Eternian bloodline
Aria of suffering in the halls of The Sorceress
A despondent soul, an impaling silence
A murderous day of shattered illusions
By the dual halves of the sword, they will live
The victorious heritage of the ashen skull
I, the wandering prince of lorn valour
A master and guardian of the universe
Sheets of fire aflame my heart
Blasting force of a hellish tide
Bold at the point of glory
I have the power and I will change it all
We of the waves unbound by lament
Arms of chaos in dimensional upheaval
Livid scars upon the sorrowful sky
No wreckage but emptiness is before me
A mass of serpents upon the writhing mount
In the fractured eye of the villainous staff
The horn resounds in the dim wilderness
Fierce hunger for the elder secrets
Will I find what I'm looking for?
Lightning falls alone over silver seas
A mighty breath stirs in the rifts of the earth
The gods have never forgotten me
9. The Ivory Heavenscape
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