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Deep siren
Lash me to the mast
Sing of your abyss profound
Of glories in your past
Deep siren
Beneath ice, you beckon me
Promise with your solstice song
The harvest of the sea
One passage
Beyond all ports of call
Will carry me beneath the waves
And to your hollow hall
As frost fades
And Sirius sets
To thee, I come
To thee
No further
May mortal engines pass
I, from the bow, alone descend
Into your grace at last
Where, in coral chambers deep
We are becoming one and wise
Where your arms are not so strange
And where you will embrace me
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Far Passage
01:03
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We rise with Spring, and rose-fingered Dawn
To number the days our brethren have been gone
Into the swelling sea
Unto the sunken earth
Heed the waves
As they come to break
From winter’s rage the seasons change
And still we heed the sun
When red we find its waking eye
Shall our vigil be undone
Mark the tide
Kneel before its wake
Heed the waves
As they come to break
Mourn the tide
For those it came to take
This keening wind has stopped our song
The dead tide brought us low
Upon the hill a cairn we’ll raise
So that our sons will know
So--by the grace of Dawn
Lay me upon this shore
As the season turns to fall
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Further, None
01:06
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Crush Depth
10:09
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Sheathed in iron sleeve
Sheltered from the salt and sea
Bent to fateful oars
Broken at the spine
Sundered by the singing shrine
Shelter is no more
Strong wind ‘neath the waves
Monolith upon the plain
Anno Rex Æquor
Here—
On this darkest horizon
Below the mortal sun
The water’s heart beats
Out—
Mine, the cold and ancient way
Where sunlight ne’er is shed
Where terrene gods are held at bay,
Where reign the driftwood dead.
Bend to fateful oars
Shelter is no more
Anno Rex Æquor
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Cairn Chicago, Illinois
Cairn began as the solo project of The Living Fields guitarist Samu Rahn and released its debut EP ‘Raise the Cairn’ in 2011. Its successor, ‘As for Dragons’, follows in 2013 with a full recording lineup of veteran musicians from Austaras, Vukari, and Vit. Combining elements of European folk, progressive music, and doom, Cairn is elegiac metal neither restrained nor defined by a single genre. ... more
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