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The Blackest Mantra is the first single from A Cloud of Ravens' new album ' LOST HYMNS ', out 2.24.23 on Nexilis / Schubert Music Europe.
lyrics
This sojourn fleeting offers repose
these moments dreaming foster your ghost
Offered up to thee, to find no sacrifice
Some zealots stealing grace
They’ll feel this bleak, this cold
No respite, no rest for The Blackest Mantra sung
No half-truths, no quarter, our vigil moves as one
No prostrate, surrender, as order comes undone
A silent strike may shudder the earth
Wake to these urges unto your soul
wake to a calling offered you now
find your birthright near, held as the ace of swords
Ascend and lift your voice
grasp at the light you’ve wrought
No respite, no rest for The Blackest Mantra sung
No half-truths, no quarter, our vigil moves as one
No prostrate, surrender, as order comes undone
A silent strike may shudder the earth
Sung to wake your heart
sung to wake your mind
sung to wake your soul
sung to wake your kind
(from this cold, protracted slumber here)
No respite, no rest for The Blackest Mantra sung
No half-truths, no quarter, our vigil moves as one
No prostrate, surrender, as order comes undone
A silent strike may shudder the earth
credits
released September 2, 2022
Written and recorded by A Cloud of Ravens
Mastered by Jason Corbett at Jacknife Sound
Pre-order: orcd.co/acloudofravens
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