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Where the Grass Withers

by Path of Desolation

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1.
All alone you rule, crown yourself a fool Sever yourself from harm and confrontation In God you trust, in nothing but yourself Another lord arrives The king of an empty hall Six billion souls adrift barricade themselves Congregate, separate Alone in hollowness, they walk to different tunes Isolate, segregate All alone you rule, crown yourself a fool Sever yourself from harm and confrontation In God you trust, in nothing but yourself Another lord ascends The king of an empty hall Deaf, they tell naught but their own empty story Restlessness, shallowness Write it on every wall, for others to ignore Existence, arrogance Evolve and prosper, you grow apart Sever all bounds and crush your way into the crowd Destroy everything that makes you human Dead figures, dead vessels All alone you rule, crown yourself a fool Sever yourself from harm and confrontation In God you trust, in nothing but yourself Another lord will come The king with a broken crown
2.
Come, come let me in, invite me in, shelter this tired and weary ghost I’ll ease your fears, I’ll be your mate when all have turned their back on you Trust, I am your chance, I am your change, I am your choice I bring relief I crawl, I stain the night, paint it a dull shade of white I creep, run through your blood until your last tears run dry Invite the guest, he slips in the waking mind Welcome the ghost, he’ll bless you with another sleepless night Come, come let me play, I’ll make my home I’ll weave my web inside your veins, inside your brain Until your heart is just a den of dead faces, of dead failures I crawl, I stain the night, paint it a dull shade of white I creep, run through your blood until your last tears run dry Invite the guest, he slips in the waking mind Welcome the ghost, he’ll bless you with another sleepless night I nest in you, the distance grows, I’ll cradle you, will make you safe The worm uncoils, it gnaws and grows, the words infecting every thought You’re breathing now, I’ll help you rise, we’ll walk away My breathing fails, I spiral down, I’ll fade away Invite the guest, he slips in the waking mind Welcome the ghost, he’ll bless you with another sleepless night
3.
Isenau 04:56
Where rocks are words of wisdom Ground to sentences, patiently hewn And roots draw a map in the dirt Widely it spreads, wisely it leads When winds speak of poison Will you find a cure, heed their words Mute, with stories untold Days forgotten, ways of old Rocks and roots, my home of stone Witness of old, secrets shown I fail, so frail, a crippled child in a world of giants Cold, cynical, old as the world, wise and sad Snow will melt, the glacier and its demons will leave Yet these rocks stand still Guarding my home, remembering all When all is withered, when all bones are ground When all is said and done I’ll find my peace in their shadows tall Mute, with stories untold Days forgotten, ways of old Rock and root, my home of stone Witness of old, secrets shown I walk and walk, try to reach what’s hidden above Deaf and blind, I stumble on the rocks of their voice I fail, so frail, a crippled child in a world of giants Cold, cynical, old as the world, wise and sad Where rocks are words of wisdom… Stone upon stone, with words spoken with no one to listen Older and older I grow, older and older and deaf Trees will wither, ages will come and go, streams will spend their drops Paint the moment, give me time to contemplate
4.
Once was a clear path Now a tangle of doubts and needs A road to nowhere A way to bittersweet lies Forging with conviction Into blunt disillusion Astray, lost, bound for desolation All life is ending now I am drawn into the light Let’s leave - let’s dream until the end of time Lead me to pastures grey Where the grass withers Let me rest for a while Take me to pastures grey I’ll sleep, I’ll dream I’m in a better place Will I ever sleep again? With black as my light I wind down the wordless pat Once again, the cross I bear Is made of guilt and contrition Ghosts of the past will try to bring me back Try to hold onto my pride My lies I now deny All life is ending now I am drawn into the light Let’s leave - let’s dream until the end of time Lead me to pastures grey Where the grass withers Let me rest for a while Take me to pastures grey I’ll sleep, I’ll dream I’m in a better place Will I find peace when my breath fails? Will I find shelter when all is turned to ash? What’s left for me in the last hours of night But a thirst for guilt when dawn comes at last? Lead me to pastures grey Where the grass withers Let me rest for a while Take me to pastures grey I’ll sleep, I’ll dream I’m in a better place
5.
Rites of rumination, echoes of prayers spoken in feverish contrition Means of self-destruction, poison and filth will be the Word, scratching the scabs of adoration What difference does it make if the bullet is the guide? Let the shepherd slaughter our ways What difference will it make if all reason fails our time, as long faith and truth prevails? Let them wear their pride as a crown Rock to clay, the titan fails, the giant falls Asleep, ashamed, blind to all but to his past Build your halls, impress your enemies, repress the meek Raise a monument of shame, raise a monument of grandeur Build another wall, make it high, lock yourselves out Our time is passed, yours will be too Rock to clay, the jotun dies, the golem stumbles Afraid, numb, deaf to all but to his sins Acts of condemnation, a thousand years’ worth of lies Erase, replace for another thousand years Deeds of desperation, when history repeats itself All our books reduced to one word Pray, another dawn is coming, invite another god to rule in the temple Prey, another dusk nears, another pointless victory, until time makes it even What difference does it make if the weapon is the lie? If your blades speak a truth of their own? What difference does it make if humanity is a vision of the past? What difference does it make? Rock to clay, the titan fails, the giant falls Asleep, ashamed, blind to all but to his past Ash to flames, the phoenix rises Turn of the tide, again, again
6.
Can you see them dash your way? They hunt in pack, they're on their way They track you down, bleed you, skin you Invite you to their feast They chew you up and spit you out in their own image Driven by greed, sensing your need Slowly you turn into what you were not Predators sick, corrupt and broken Forced to endure, forced to adapt Darwinism into reverse gear Slowly but steadily you die Do I see you turn this way? Shedding your prey’s skin The hunter cloak is on Smell the blood, stalk the weaklings The taste of iron in your watering mouth The look of deceit in your greedy eyes And the claws to haul me from my lair Slowly you turn into what you were not Predators sick, corrupt and broken Forced to endure, forced to adapt Darwinism into reverse gear Slowly but steadily you die Logic in reverse gear. Regress! Lamarck, Darwin, Watson, Creek Your helix defines my personality Your helix defies my paranoia
7.
85 Miles 03:45
85 miles, a thousand years I walked Seven days without a cross, hours in exile Alone – the thoughts of a million souls The wall that barred their way has led me to soothing lands From shore to shore, years or more, seasons in the cold From birth to death, looking for you Where their past meets my peace Where the sounds of waves silence years of chaos Voices of the past Shore to shore, further from home, further from harm Shore to shore, severed no more 85 miles and a hundred tribes and legions Witness this might ruined yet alive again With so many hills and fields ahead Eastbound, the wind carries my hope To see you one last time From shore to shore, years or more, seasons in the cold World after world, brick by brick, a long way home, pacing the void From roots to leaf, finding you From shore to shore, years or more, seasons in the cold World after world, brick by brick, step by step, pacing the void From birth to death, losing you
8.
Decipher 03:12
If you had a gun would you shoot me in the face? If you had my life would you trade it for free? If you had the choice, would you blow away my past Burn the bridges, make it right again? With solid blocks I assemble a monument of smoke Born to try, doomed to fail With burning sands I shape my dreams away Born to try, dying to see you fail With every choice, a new dead-end Can you decipher this map better than I did? Can you find the exit when all the doors were locked for me? If you had the fuel, would you try to burn your wings? Escape a path drawn with a rusty blade? If you had my scars, would you help them heal? Or let the days gush like rivers red? If you could see right through me, damn sure you get blind If you had my strength Do you really think you could hold on to what’s already gone? With every choice, a new dead-end Can you decipher this map better than I did? Can you find the exit when all the doors were locked for me? With solid blocks I assemble a monument of smoke Born to try, doomed to fail and start it all again With burning sands I shape my dreams away Born to try and fail, dying to see you try again With every choice, a new dead-end Can you decipher this map better than I did? Can you find the exit when all the doors were locked for me? With every path, a million doubts Will you walk the maze longer than I have? Will you find the exit? Will you help me through?
9.
Outside my haven, the land is dead My light waned ere half my days are spent The wall’s breached, my last refuge crushed to dust, my hope to cinder and rock Dies irae - A day of wrath, this day, will turn the world to ash Terror crawls, my judge appears Will I be safe inside my hell, will I be left to crawl my head Saeclum in favilla Let the horns ring, tear down the walls This inner sanctum soiled so many nights ago Weary, I lay myself to rest on broken tombstones Prophet to my own end Infinite emptiness is all around me now All the resurrected dead will not fill it Sitting here, blind, a speck in the void The case, I hear, is not unusual Dies irae - A day of wrath, this day, will turn the world to ash Terror crawls, my judge appears Will I be safe inside my hell, will I be left to crawl my head Razors red, red with guilt Will all my lies be revealed, will all my sins be undone Burden’s gone, the day has come My judge appears, all sins to dust Saeclum in favilla Moments for nothing Time was never, my time is never Reckoning closed, story ended The end’s in the beginning Dies irae - A day of wrath, this day, will turn the world to ash Terror crawls, my judge appears Will I be safe inside my hell, will I be left to crawl my head Dies irae solvet saeclum in favilla
10.
Colourblind 05:53
The picture fades, everything looks the same It tastes like ash, the smell of death, and the curtain falls I count the hours, where have they gone? The passion's done, only left this useless flesh The days are dull and colourless The frame distorts and night crawls in In shades of red, in blinding whites I build a temple you tear it down A still-life born inside the womb This life you paint, where does it lead ? Why do the lines keep blurring on the way Abstract impression so void of sense Demented perspective Night crawls in - The tones melt into one Why can't I see anymore the colours of life ? Why can't I feel the need for pain? Grey's the hour, grey's the prospect, grey the picture The future looked rosy until I went colourblind Paint it now, give me life, deal your death Pour your colours, assemble stories, make them whole Burn the frame! Why can't I see anymore the colours of life ? Why can't I feel the need for pain? Grey's the hour, grey's the prospect, grey the picture The future looked rosy until I went colourblind The picture fades, everything looks the same It tastes like ash, the smell of death, and the curtain falls I count the hours, where have they gone? The passion's done, only left this useless flesh The days are dull and colourless
11.
Sweet as these waters are cold Unto islands of untold hopes I sail In icy waters I look for an answer Coast and dear costs I depart A sea of salty dreams I swim Drown in forgetfulness – drown in rivers, drown in peace Exeunt dramatis personae Recede the doubts, recoil the fears Enter demons in my head On and on I wade, I stumble, I swim Boats mere wrecks on desert sands may rest Lethean lakes and seas and oceans I swallow, taste and spit Tears and years, sneers and jeers Accept demons in my heart Repress the will to float Enter waters in my lungs Enter demons in my veins Sweet as the poison is spent To live is to remember

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David : vocals.
Philippe : guitars, bass.
Loïc : drums.
Steven : guitars.
Nipo : synths, piano.

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released November 1, 2016

Recorded and mixed by Anna Murphy at SoundFarm Studios, Kriens, Switzerland. Mastered at SoundFarm Studios. Coverart by Travis Smith.

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Path of Desolation Lausanne, Switzerland

Long is the path to desolation and enlightnement. And lo! How much distance was covered by Swiss metallers PATH OF DESOLATION since their 2014 EP. Sharp riffs, melancholic melodies
and powerful vocals are the trademark behind these
gems of melodic death metal, evoking at times Dark Tranquility, In Flames or Insomnium.
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