The Arcane Chamber of Sin
Miscellaneous Scribblings

Soil & Eclipse Lyrics - Purity

Track List
  1. O Magnum Mysterium
  2. Sentence Me
  3. Bridges / Human
  4. Carried Away
  5. Rust
  6. Phosphorus
  7. Pretend
  8. Chains
  9. O Magnum Mysterium (Sun God Mix)
  10. Carried Away (The Count G Dub Mix)
  11. Bridges / Human (Humanity Mix)
  12. Sentence Me (Razed in Black Mix)

O Magnum Mysterium 
O magnum mysterium et admirabile sacramentum
O magnum mysterium in praesepio
Admirabile, et admirabile, admirabile sacramentum (x2)

O magnum mysterium et admirabile sacramentum
O magnum mysterium (...)
Admirabile, et admirabile, admirabile sacramentum (x2)

Ut animalia viderent natum corpus
Ut animalia viderent natum mortiis
Ut animalia viderent natum corpus

Note: The original version of this hymn is:

O magnum mysterium et admirabile sacramentum    
Ut animalia viderent Dominum natum                
Jacentem in praesepio

Beata virgo cujus viscera                
Meruent partare Dominum Christum
Alleluia
  
Literal translation:
O great mystery and admirable [wonderful] sacrament 
That animals see the Lord born 
Lying in a manger
        
Blessed virgin whose viscera  [womb]
Were [was] worthy to bear Lord Christ
Allelujah
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Sentence Me 
Her hair was silvery and blue
All of the words she said were true
Unemotional at best
Fantasy, and I'll stumble

Sentence me, leave me locked here far behind
Sentence me, in this little place and time
Or a monument of fear, I'll be fine

Soft cover envelopes
All of the patterns spells invoked
It's not as hard as it would seem
Fantasy, my creation
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Bridges / Human 
We only have these dreams
We only have these moments
To shift the hands of fate
Reverse the flow of time
The truth is in our grasp
But destiny is only
A token in the sea of our intentions

Building bridges made of light
We will make our way to heaven
Blasphemy in vain
Borrowed time on angels' wings
Fighting futures for the lonely
And we find, we're human afterall

We're only human, human afterall (x2)

Soon the day will come
When I will look you in the eye
And I will tell you,
"The war is over"
With the veil of the sunlight
Casting faces in the sky
And I am humble
And I am sober

It only takes a moment before the heart perceives
Hearts that live and breathe in shallow water only make-believe
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Carried Away 
What is purity?
A simple guise we wear in piety
What is purity?
Another trait of God
We dream of earthly things
Lost in thought with no hope to perceive
This gives, this gives us comfort lacking truth

Carried away, carried away
Rhyme and the reason
Fall and the season
Carried away, carried away
Under a separate sky

What's this hostility?
Brothers locked in arms just can't conceive
What's this hostility?
Your failure to believe
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Rust 
Shadows that we claim
Shades of auburn shame
Fill me with decay
Until it peels away
The sediment that's shed
Hues of amber red
Embedded in the crust as it begins to

Rust
Breaking away
My love, it isn't safe
For me to be yours
Rust
Salt in the sea
End this decay
My faith is turning into shades of rust

The sediment that's shed
Hues of amber red
Embedded in the crust
As it begins to rust
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Phosphorus 
(I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered)

In sentience we place our fate
In desperation we create
Devices of ascension
The progress of redemption

And where we know the mind shall go
There we know the will shall follow
And where we know the will is weak
Here we know a heart is hollow

Your life is phosphorus
Passing through a dream
Your life is phosphorus
You're part of the machine

We view ourselves as gods
Functioning as frauds
Precious and immortal
Passing through a portal
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Pretend 
Have you ever
Have you ever
Tried to sever something true?
Are you lonely
Tell me only
Paint a picture, be removed

It hurts to hear the things you have to say
Those sullen words that make the clouds turn grey
When life and separation make no exceptions

Pretend I am lovely
Pretend the world did not end
Pretend we still have our youth

Have you ever
Have you ever
Claimed forever
When it wasn't true?
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Chains 
Oh silent soul
You traded me
I will be brave
While you go free

I'll work for years and years
I'll catch disease
I'll kiss the lips of death
It's best for me

Oh, you left me in chains (x2)

You sold my soul
For borrowed time
I will be loyal to you
Despite this crime

I'll work for years and years
Without reprieve
I'll never have a family
I will deceive

You left me in chains...
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Last Update: Dec 21, 2004