The Second Kingdom

from Paracusia by Shabti

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The Second Kingdom

Through the epochs, listless ages
Fools selling keys to utopia,
I’ve smelled sulpher, felt inferno,
I want to see your utopia,

A kingdom built on a hill,
The tribes on the mountain range are heedless,
The heathen disappear in the night,
Conflagration dims the points of light wandering below

Through the epochs, endless ages,
Fools selling keys to utopia,
I’ve smelled sulpher, felt inferno,
I want to see your utopia

A kingdom built on a hill,
The tribes on the mountain range are heedless,
The heathen disappear in the night,
Conflagration dims the points of light wandering below.

Banishing fear, banishing pain, banishing death,
So that you may live forever,
Banishing lust, banishing will, banishing strength,
You think that you will live forever,

In times of trouble turn to worm eaten prophets,
Their strength has faded and their laws apply to a dead world,
Deny the universe and its moving bodies,
Or struggle in vain to make them conform to your delusion

Stoke a fire to blot out the sun, your fingers burn
Conjure a void to rival the new moon, you disappear
This is your life, watch as it rots on the vine
This is your life, chaos amidst the paradise.

Copyright Shabti 2013

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from Paracusia, released December 13, 2013

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Spawned in 2008, Shabti are Maine’s premiere technical black/death metal formation, featuring members of Falls of Rauros, Obsidian Tongue, Panopticon (live) & Feral.

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