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Satan and the Hallow Oaks: the Pilgrims Road

Satan and the Hallow Oaks: The Pilgrims Road
Waking in the world of men
Cast down 
Like the trash of low life peasants
On these mountains you woke
Now facing your challenge
Your travel 
Your quest 
Will leave you to find forgiveness 
You mortal body is weak
Like everything it now grows old
It withers like these forests 
Covered in ash
The ash of their brothers
The ash of their own body’s
The Hallow Oaks have been burned
And your father
He is lost
You’re all that is left from this war
You must go forward 
Finding your path
On this road of redemption
This is where you will atone for your sins
Your sins against your brothers
Your sins against you kingdom
 Your job was to fight and win
Your results were failure
But we will offer redemption 
We are kind
We are the leaders of this place
We are your council
Now that your mind is clear and your body awake
You must go travel once again
Go fourth
This is the pilgrims road

Copyright © Alex Ball | Year Posted 2011


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Denoument

Denouement You’re running home all alone and you’re cold
 I’ll pick you up I’m new and unknown
 And I know, that you’re young 
But I can’t help, how I love the taste of your tongue
 My restraints hold you down on the floor
 Your eyes wander from the ground to the door

 I will curse my name
 And shy away from fate 
For the way I hurt you 
While I burn your life so quick and carelessly

 It’s not cruel its unjustified
 How I can ruin your life by the end of the night
 You could have fought But you’re weak
 And no sound will seep
Cause were far from town 
and you’re locked up tight

 I will curse my name
 And shy away from fate 
For the way I hurt you 
While I burn your life so quick and carelessly 

You’re cry’s are loud 
And wrist start to burse
this is a fight that you know that youll loose
 You’re trying hard to doubt 
That you will be the next murder on the news 

I will curse my name
 And shy away from fate 
For the way I hurt you 
While I burn your life so quick and carelessly 

You’re eye stayed still for a while 
Your memory still fit for denial 
Not the stone
 nor the tree 
Could admit to what the ground has to see 

I will curse my name 
And shy away from fate 
For the way I hurt you 
While I burn your life so quick and carelessly

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Satan and the Hallow Oaks

Satan and the Hallow Oaks

Alone lost for not only does time fade
In only these lives will you feel our eyes 
Beating…Beating
Like the heart of the lost
Like the blood seeping through you wounds
He knows pain
He is known as pain
Wishing only harm
Upon you and upon himself
Cast down from paradise 
For the simple sin of wanting more
Wanting more than was given but there was nothing to give
An escape given to the sinners
It confines only the saints
Paradise was only the image they painted 
With words that make it sound perfect
But with all places war 
War will follow the cold winter
And end the summer
In the forest of the hallow oaks
Satan waits praising the forgiveness 
Forgiveness he won’t receive 
For the faith he denied 
All these ties fade to find a new reason to fail
A new reason I am nothing
Nothing… Nothing
Nothing more than a shallow memory in the fog
In the fog of war on the frontlines
Fighting but I don’t know why
What purpose do I serve 
Ending these lives that could fade with peace
I wish I could fade in peace
But instead I die in a haze of fire
They call it glory 
They call it fate
I call it pointless
When you wake be sure to be humble
Satan and the hallow oaks will be waiting

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Forthright

know not what the world is know not how to move it Only can man accept this world for her shape Accept her for her gifts But we fight over her We fight on her my mind was made once we were lost she is now imprisoned in our war we are the polution we are the sin End not the wars End not the sinner Clense the filth this is the last chance Flee from this scean escape to the skys all worlds share the same sky our mother will not be forgotten

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Satan and the Hallow Oaks: the Soldiers Bane

Satan and the Hallow Oaks: A soldier’s bane

Now gone away from the world you once knew
Finding only that  
You’re a faithful liar 
But this is the cross you bare 
The sin you follow
Fighting this curse
You only obtain burden
You learned that heaven is lost 
The Hallow Oaks burned
You know you must stand 
But alas you are weak
You’re broken
Your travels have left you weary
It’s funny
It never rained
Hot like a desert
But now you’ve fallen
Fallen from your kingdom
Here you do not rule 
Here it snows 
You’re far from the fire
But his reach is growing 
And the world…
The world is only temporary 
You know this 
But your compassion has got the better of you
You feel as though you must fight for them
Them!
They who defiled your name
Ignored your wisdom
A common solder you are not 
For now you have become the last hope
Following the wind you’re past fades future is realized
This is the solders bane

Copyright © Alex Ball | Year Posted 2011


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We Are: We Were

"You are young 
and I... I am old
i have began to wither 
and you are not just growing
leave this world and find a new one
they are not the only ones who need a hero"

"No one will miss me will they?
will they even realize im gone?
FATHER WHO ARE WE... What are we?"

"My son we are no longer needed here
our ansestors were the best
we... WE ARE THE BEST
they abandon us for power to scorch the earth
Then we shall leave"

"But What of Heavan father?"

"WHAT OF THEM THEY LEFT US!"

"So we leave to the stars 
embrace the kiss of reluctancy
ignorance is not my path father i stay"

"I know Son 
I knew you would you have grown
I have withered 
you are strong
I am weak
we are not gods 
we are not immortal
we are mearly a legacy
with this memory's will fade young 
and with this i die"

"I know father"

Copyright © Alex Ball | Year Posted 2011

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Off the Top To the Bottem

Watch closely as life is clear to you mind
hold on tightly as you so encouraged to be kind
but what poupose will it serve
when we will all fade into the clouds
when mind,body,and spirit will curve
CHARGE they yelled steping over the mounds
taking count of the bloodshed
like pigs to the slaughter
We know were going to die 
but why do we wish to
To meet your god, Your saint, Your creator
Run to dusk though we all know we fade at dawn
When you reach high and make it just know what goes up must come down
Off the top to the bottem 
It's only a metaphore

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Dream Eater's Escape

Dream Eater’s Escape

I’m listing to the wind
but I still don’t understand
where we will go
when someday we all fade away
I'll watch the shores
and maybe I'll find where I am
Or maybe I’ll find where I’ve been
Everything sounds the same
So I don’t say anything
Risk my neck to see out the window
At the back with the mother and the widow
Were all alone at one point or another
We all wish to lead but first we all must follow
Follow the signs left behind
Only I know my path
Only you know your path
Why we fight this war 
War against everyone
War against yourself
Do you even know your dreaming
We all are
Enter a nightmare
Exit a fantasy
Trapped under a frozen lake
Caved in a lone canyon
I’m at the bottom of my own prison
Leave me 
I’d rather you didn’t see
all i've done
or everything im about to do

Copyright © Alex Ball | Year Posted 2011

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