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Tearing Back The Veil I: Ascension

by Lithium Dawn

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1.
I will find the sanctity of life 
I will defy what consumes me 
I would rather not go at this alone
 Will join me? In pulling back the veil

 I’ll unlock the barriers of the mind 
I will decide what defines me 
On this road I could use a friend
 Will you join me? In pulling back the veil 

I’ll gaze upon the world with my true eye 
I will deny what confines me 
Let the two halves become one 
I’m tearing back the veil

 Spiraling and twisting in the void
 I’m accepting what I see
 With eyes closed 
I’m tearing back the veil

 The lines merge as one 
I’m pulling back the veil

 Biding time until the moment arrives
Waiting for the haze to clear and open up my eyes
2.
Ascension 05:30
I feel it take over me 
I’m tethered to this place
 Bit by bit
 The fear is leaving me 
 I give in to its embrace 

I’m ready to venture out 
I’m ready to fly
 I listen to the song until I’m paralyzed 

There goes the gravity
 My weightless form ascends 
Inch by inch I feel it leaving me
 I feel my body forget

 I’m ready to go 
I can feel it within my bones
 To feel the unknown (to open the door)
 And witness the veil unfold

 "Some people will use a the symbolism of the relationship of God to the universe. Wherein, God is say ‘brilliant light’ only somehow veiled, hiding underneath all these forms that you see as you look around. But the truth is funnier than that. It is that you are looking right at the brilliant light, now. That’s the great discovery.”
 
 Break the walls that isolate your mind
 Don’t be afraid, just give in and let go 
The physical, familiar world behind 
 Guided by a thousand lines

 The temporary fear is just a lie
 Don’t hold your breath, just go with the flow
 The energy uncoiled, is unlike anything you’ve known 

I’m ready to go 
I’m ready to see 
I want to let go
I want to be free

 I’m ready to go
(higher and higher) 
I’m ready to see
(behind the veil)
 I want to let go
(and feed the desire)
 When shall I be free?
3.
I can see the lines run across your face 
The ceiling made of prismatic wire 
Is my mind in the right place?
 White lines trace the black space Sunrise
 Bring the light into my mind
 There’s no return 
Past this point it burns 
so bright

 Nervous of the heart pounding in my chest
 The beads of sweat running down my spine 
I’m not sure this was the right time 
I’m not sure this was the right amount I am waiting for the comfort of your voice
 Something to bring me back into this world
 White lines trace the blackness
 Coalesce and move in reverse Separate and let it go I don’t know
 what I’m thinking now 
I don’t understand the reason why I feel the void’s embrace
 But there's world between us
 It feels like a friend 
 But it scares me half to death I can hear it say
 “Welcome home”
 I close my eyes and I can feel it
 Taking over
 Taking hold of me 
Over me I can, feel it, coming 
Bearing down and twisting round me 
This is unfamiliar
 Gripping out and all inside me Deeper, Deeper Sunrise Bring the light into my mind 
There’s no return
 Past this point it burns 
so bright
4.
I’m the decimator I destroy what you thought was you I scrape away the shroud from your eyes And show you
 I’m, the activator Construct and mold the truth 
I strip away the shell from your mind
 And teach you

 A thousand eyes are watching As you stumble through your mind You were sleeping, you were dreaming Awaken and throw away the lie 
I’m, the annihilator And through me you will know you 
 Disintegrate the body from mind And step through
 I’m the decimator Decimate the “you” inside of you I tear away the veil from your eyes And show you
 A million eyes are watching As you stumble through your mind You were sleeping, you were dreaming Awaken and throw away the lie 
The core is opened
 The pillar is stripped awa y
Insides finally revealed 
The barrier is broken
 And now you can’t run away
 From what you need to face
 Decimate and strip away Let everything collapse Concentrate and see the way Don't let yourself be trapped
5.
Piece by piece, misalignment begins
 The illusion dissolves)
 The cracked edges separate at the seams
( Fragments fall)

 I am no longer I 
A lie lays hidden behind a lie Peel back the shell 
Innermost threads tear in two 
Decimate the self 
And collapse the “me” in you 

Line by line, the illusion evolves 
(Realignment begins) 
The veil is torn, the ego dissolved 
(Separate at the seams) 

I am no longer I 
A lie lay hidden behind a lie 
Peel back the shell 
Innermost threads tear in two 
Decimate the self 
And collapse the “me” in you

6.
“We have been educated to use our minds, in a certain way. A way that ignores or screens out fact, that every one of us is an aperture, through which the whole cosmos looks out.” 

I stare beyond my tempered cries 
And thoughts of you and I
 Peering through the haze I see 
Synchronicity 

Ebb and flow 
Among separate waves 
Come and go 
Apart, and together

 Peer beyond the flesh and bone
 Rest your mind, you’re going home 
Look behind the pain, the dark 
It won’t matter in the end 
You’re on your way

 Feel the space it’s all around
 Twisting, turning inside out 
Feel yourself becoming one 
Mind and body
 Earth and sun

7.
Tidal 04:37
Let the currents flow
 Visions come and go 
Let me dream up high 
Give in to the sky below

 The tide takes me out and in 
The tide takes me far and near 

Again,
the waves wash over me Color me in memories Of everything I've never seen Of everywhere I've never been 
Moments feel like eternity 
I’ve given in entirely 
Surrender to the waves 
swallowing me whole

 The tide takes me out and in The tide takes me far and near
 Tidal, I am without the within Tidal, I appear and disappear
8.
Spires 05:39
I can never remember to forget you
 The driving force, the urge to 
I know myself, to merge into 
The black, void and formless I can never forget to remember you 
No matter how hard I try to
 Control myself, snap back to
 Reality, momentarily I shed myself,
 Layer by layer 
I forget myself,
 Thought by thought 
I construct myself
 Little by little 
I ascend the machine,
 Spire by spire

 Do I cast a shadow, 
Or am I drowning? 
I become the light,
 I embrace nothing I remember to forget
 all the somethings
 That leave me bitter
 Leave me wanting Do I cast a shadow Or am I drowning? 
I become the light, 
I embrace nothing I remember
 to remember 
That the sun 
Glows upon me Day by day
9.
Labyrinthian 07:24
Travelling alone 
I’m guided to a place that I have never seen The sum of all is none (or am I someone?)
 Climb the spire; look into the eyes of another

 Staring into the searing sea 
I’ve never seen so many eyes staring back at me Burning like the sun
 Guide me to a place that I have never been 
Labyrinthian (many ways to one)
 Does it ever make sense anymore? 
Nothing ever makes sense anymore 

So if you know what to believe
 And if you cannot see the sea 
I can feel you in my brain 
I can feel you in everything

 Gazing out into the sea 
I’ve never seen so many eyes observing me 
Their movement like a symphony 
They’re twisting and swerving and absorbing all of me 

And I embrace my
 Desire to reach for the sky 
Feel it burn inside 
As I’m taken by the tide 

A voice behind the corner 
Beckons me to follow (come with me)
 Ripples beneath the water 
Smear into the burning sand (blow away)

 Elements colliding
 The senses cannot speak (cannot see) 
I am becoming nothing 
And I am everything, everything 

I’ve stared into the sea A billion piercing eyes I feel them carry me way beyond the tide Caught in this maze of mirrors 
Smiling back at me Labyrinthine consciousness Devouring me
10.
Incantation 01:33
(instrumental)
11.
B'ak'tun 06:35
Iridescent lines connected to the structure’s eye 
Monuments assembled by the serpent in the sky 
Lights align against the columns grafted to the dirt
 Shapes connect obsidian transistors to the earth

 Wait, I’m dreaming in reverse
 The sky begins to burst 
Falling through these eyes
 Lights collide 

Serpent coil around me
 Feathers black like drowning 
In the sky above the crater
 Of your mind’s voices sounding 

I can feel the weight of 
everything collapsing and bending 
 distorting and rending 
the nothingness of everything Is ending

 The stars begin to dance 
Like water through the sand 
Ascend this weathered skin 
Awakening Serpent coil around me 
Feathers black like drowning 
In the sky above the crater
 Of your mind’s voices sounding (

I can feel the weight of 
everything collapsing and bending 
distorting and rending 
the nothingness of everything is ending)
12.
Horizon 04:26
I can see it now
 The light is coming 
I can feel it all around me
 And I am becoming
 One Horizon 
I cannot find you 
Am I still really here?
 Cannot find my way
 My world has disappeared

 Home,
 Here is where you are
 Among
, The deepest parts
 Home, 
Here is where you are 
Among
, The farthest parts 
of you

 When the waves stop, so do I 
I never move myself, now do I?
 When the wind stops, so do I 
I never move my own body, do I?

 One I am
 One with all

 Horizon 
I cannot find you
 Am I still really here? 
Cannot find my way 
My world has disappeared

 Home,
 Here is where you are
 Among
, The deepest parts 
Home,
 Here is where you are
 Among
, The farthest parts 
of you

 Home.
13.
(instumental)

credits

released December 5, 2015

Lithium Dawn is:
Ondrej Tvarozek - Vocals, Guitars, Synths/Programming
Matt Benoit - Drums/Percussion, Guitars, Synths/Programming
Jens Marcelis - Bass, Guitars
Aaron Gage - Orchestration, Backing Vocals

Additional Contributions:
Sithu Aye - Guitar solo on 'Point of No Return'
Plini - Guitar solo on 'Decimator'
Mike Odabashian - Hand Percussion
Igor Stolarsky - Synths/Programming

Recorded at Monolith Studios
Engineered and Mixed by Ondrej Tvarozek
Additional mixing by Matt Benoit and Jens Marcelis
Drums engineered by Taylor Larson at Oceanic Recording
Drum tracking/editing by Ernie Slenkovich
Guitars re-amplified at Oceanic Recording/Monolith Studios
Percussion engineered by Nik Gudmundsson at Predation Audio
Mastered by Taylor Larson
Artwork and layout: Daniel McBride
www.danielmcbridedesign.com

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Progressive metal with ambient and dub influences.

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Ondrej Tvarozek
Matt Benoit
Jens Marcelis
Aaron Gage

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