See the beast in the forest of interchanging mirrors
Feel the stinging breath of the hounds upon your neck
Pouring ravenous from sky-cathedrals riddled with chthonic pulse
Beyo

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[Note: not all of these featured in the final song]

I, wide asleep at 00:13 or so it seems
As my eyes roll back to inspect the optic nerves
The walls breathe with my exha

reflections_of_the_underdark

Join me here where the stark trees whirl their shadows in the nuclear winds
Under bloated, acid-stained clouds collapsing in upon themselves
I have clambered through the chains that

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a_ruined_nation_awakes

They sit alone on the edge of reason
Maleficent in their glory
Walking barren wastelands
The 13 desolate and cold
Leering from the black abyss
Ever tearing to their

my_time,_my_reign,_my_tyranny


to_walk_the_corridors_of_hell

[Intro speech:]
Cygnus X-1 was discovered as an X-ray source 30 years ago This binary system, distant of 2.5 kpc, consists of the O9.7 Iab type
supergiant HDE 22 and a compact object

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I wear the crown of razor-thorns above tangled, twitching cables
Protruding from a bloodstained mouth wide in soundless agony
I, wreathed in tortured wires in the displaced gulf