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Nocturna EP

by Drowning Ares

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1.
The Emissary 04:55
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The Sickness Consumed Raucous vigil in an empty barroom Ain't it funny how the dead eat you alive Not the first to fall Nausea soaking through the phone call Shared vision in a bottle of bloodshot eyes Lamb of God in the courtyard She knew it from a mile away Down to the root, uncover the bone Cluster close in cacophony Our anguish sanctuary She made it pass away She knew just what to say Hard to rest with the dead Run scenarios of things left unsaid Scream silent at the veil In darkness share doom Dare to touch a familiar death bloom Once vibrant, now frail Now I see through empathetic eyes Dying's the easy part Bear the blessing of the pain in our hearts More for knowing Less for this What's left of what is left Hearing voices til the day I find rest A few words Break the day Emissary Break the day Emissary (She) made it pass away Knew just what to say
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The Crossing (A Linear Me) 05:06
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Cross the river Span the divide Implore your master Take back your life Know the hunger That never subsides Elicit your captor Relinquish your mind No! (No!) I swore that this was the last time I'm in love with my disease This is killing me Sweetness, softly Not a chain in sight Screaming to be free It's not up to me Awaken encrusted A shell of yourself Hold hands with your monster Venture through hell Excise my Heart Bear me to rest Disrupt worship Help me forget This will hurt It's going to eat you alive Going to burn up your mind And it never subsides Time will heal But you will never forget Her sickening caress Ever heralding Death And we're out of time Out of time to make this anything at all And the broken lines The broken lines will never make anything whole Now I've decided My mind divided A fatal sanctuary Poisoned are the seeds we've sown and I will reap them to survive
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Beyond the Reach of Time and Reason 04:37
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Know the toxin that consumes you Letting go despite the cost A life of blurs and consequences Closest ties encased in frost Dipsomania, your daily draw A well of ache that’s never whole Taps open up and down it pours A thousand scattered reasons, untold, unknown Can you love a broken man while your weapons are still drawn? (Blood has chained me) Is it blood that makes you weak? Is it love that makes you strong? (Love unchain me) Is this all that still defines you A legacy of ash and dust Poisoning what’s left of us Can you love a broken man while your weapons are still drawn? (Blood has chained me) Is it blood that makes you weak? Is it love that makes you strong? (Love unchain me) And I know you cannot be Any more than what you are (Can you hear me?) But I'm not my history I just needed you to know (Can you hear me?) Inside our prison walls Face to face with heavy shoulders I look into your eyes Weaker now and getting older I'm searching through the lies Knowing I won't find a reason Where does compassion lie? Beyond the reach of time and reason Time and reason cannot change this life Born afflicted with this sickness I rise I rise in ashes of a thousand cigarettes The remnants of our conversations blowing in the wind
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Of Fire & Kings 03:24
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They told us, we could not be, so, we were They said, we were less than none, so we, we begot the sun Now I’m shaking off the ashes Take the world on newborn wing Here now in our victory, unbroken, unashamed We’ve wrought, out a legacy, to rage against the pain And out of fear, the darkness screams our name Now I’m shaking off the ashes Take the world on newborn wing Blaze of glory has no master Reign of fire and of kings Cant deny the fire inside us Burn down the walls that divide us In flames we stand united One
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Drowning Ares 04:30
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This is my song of rebirth Found my worth This is my chance to be free Drowning Ares Maybe there is light in crevices Breaking through ~Won't leave, Can't be, Need me I broke my world I found a life that’s free from you ~What lies, Despise, Be mine No retreat no surrender To lesser consciousness We spill the blood of armies Defeated, laid to rest Breathe deep take water Subsume the void and don’t come back ~Won’t go, Stone Cold, My world Here are your last rites Unloved beast I cast you out ~Love me, I need, No please Clutch at the throat, the eyes, the depth, the hate, the pain, the beast, and break it. Bleed out, the old, unlock the new, stand for life, and stand for you Let go, the hate, the fear, the mind, the doubt, the loss, the self, the rage, and find, the way, to see, to be, to live, to exist and find yourself free
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Nocturna 07:47
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Why breathe Why even bother A sinister ploy for avoiding cessation I scream at the darkness but nobody’s listening There’s nobody coming I’m lost to myself This is my silence that I can’t just walk by A two room hole, I sequester myself A bastardization of life we’re pretending would matter if snuffed out, stone dead and cold I unfold myself on the rocks of my doing Memories like nails in my throat I can’t breathe I suppose that it’s best as I bathe in the blackness I’d take my own life were I only so weak It never ends (This wanting from the dark) Give me rest Nocturna It never ends (My mistress out of touch) Still my heart Nocturna I drown, a chemical baptism Burning inside a cold fire I feed I’m sick on the inside A black mass of loathing Yet physically fine in a life that won’t leave Calling out for something Nameless and unfeeling I could not see the other side Fading my self-belief Horizon far from me Crawling out from under Weight of my own being The self-destruction I denied Safe the sorrow Cold and hollow Breathe in a hateful silence Fight to rise and reach horizon Cut through a bitter sky Learn to listen Bleed for wisdom No longer truth in violence Soul and body Clarity of mind Now fight to rise and reach the horizon

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released March 29, 2019

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Drowning Ares Reston, Virginia

Drowning Ares is comprised of four veterans of the Northern Virginia metal community, Navid Rashid (Iris Divine, Eyes of the Nile), Jae Curtis (Silence the Blind), Patrick Larson (Grey Sky Eternal, Disco Muerte) and Magneto (Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, X-Men, Astonishing Avengers). ... more

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