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Nepenthe

by Titan Arum

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Recorded at Okzygen Studios

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I smell your misery
You have been marked

Death weaves his black thread
Into your fraying tapestry

I fly towards thee
Over moonlit waves

The mindless sky sings to me
A soughing, ancient melody

When the love inside of you
Has starved and died
In this Stygian darkness
I’ll come to be your guide

Before you I appear
At midnight’s peak
An oily word you hear
Seductively exuding from my bladed beak

When the warmth has been replaced
With cloying hate
As grief becomes your drug
I open the gate

From the vast Plutonian shore
Into your room
Bringing to you more
Of that which you have chosen to consume

So I
Teach the name of my skeletal emperor
Blot the light with shadow wings
Stab from your mind all trace of hope
Leaving only rotting things

Breathe in nepenthe, flowing out under you
Drain divinity from your skull
Forget not your torturous suffering
But forget you ever were happy at all

I am commanded by death himself
To stay and hasten your cold demise
Relentlessly
Black-feathered angel of Acheron
Ceaselessly gliding through your dreams
On icy winds

Dependent on your grief
And drunk on guilt
Your sickness like a dagger
Buried to the hilt

In me your secrets
You can confide
Craving the punishment
Which with a word I will provide

Inside this avian form
A cruel will
Unblinking eyes of death
Transfix you still

Each sickly tear you shed
Upon the floor
Will bring your body
Closer to my master’s dark, abysmal door

So I
Teach the name of my skeletal emperor
Blot the light with shadow wings
Stab from your mind all trace of hope
Leave in your mind only rotting things

Breathe in nepenthe, flowing out under you
Drain divinity from your skull
Forget not your torturous suffering
But forget you ever were happy at all

Death reaches out
Behold his face
Your misery draws you ever nearer to his embrace

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released November 3, 2020

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Titan Arum Peterborough, Ontario

We're a Peterborough On-based melodic metal band that makes songs about animals, nature, and dark fantasy tales

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