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The Sun and The Mirror - The Relinquishment of Hope

from The Eerie and Radiant Doorless Rooms Of Pain by The Sun and The Mirror, Pseudodoxia

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No hope.
Though clinging can hold on a little while,
attachment never gives the strength you need to persevere.
Ever pining for return to a golden age,
on bended knee in prayer for release to the great beyond.

Push away reality.
Deny your fleshly life and reject,
the blood and bone that gives you grace in god.
Mountains rise and they dissolve.
Just as breath goes out, granite turns to soil.

Holding on and begging to be saved.
Supplicating in rejection of a wasted sky,
or jubilant with the rise of a golden dawn.
All things decay and all things yield.
In resolution and acceptance, we will find a way to carry on.

Turn your eyes from a wasted sky,
holding on for release in heaven.
In your last breath, you will find the kingdom of heaven lies within you.
Don’t hold on for the great beyond.
Illusions of the past, and a future build on torture.
If we’re released from this cycle of looking for the great beyond.
You will find in the end, the kingdom of heaven lies within you,
and paradise is for the damned.

Hope is for the lost, and self deceived.
Ever reaching for heaven, the great beyond,
always denying our fleshly life, forcing false illusions upon our lot.

Struck in terror by the dark voice of reason,
from which you’ve relied,
to be rescued by a savior, who waits with open arms,
in the starry void.

Do your best to outwit the absurd,
imbibing in the sparkling and mundane,
making meaning for the life you lead, in the kingdom of the profane,
beauty lives and dies in the day to day.

Supplicating to dead illusions.
Caught in a cycle torn between ecstasy and dismay.
You’ll not ever reach your heaven, looking outside.

All things decay, and all things yield;
a box of shells that crumbled into sand
reborn as pearly bone, a burst of gold catching the light,
that burst across the fertile plain.

Just as an orchid exudes perfume, as its petals dissolve in the mud,
a prairie never longs for release in heaven,
or escape from the infinite course of time.

Stories of utopia never fulfilled.
Until we accept beauty and pain, all sides of the real,
we will deny our life.

You’ll never reach heaven, looking outside.
We’re enamoured with this cycle, under a wasted sky.

We seem caught in this trap, but one way out
is relinquishment of hope.

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from The Eerie and Radiant Doorless Rooms Of Pain, released December 3, 2021
Sarah Townley- Cello
Reggie Townley-Vocals, Guitar, Bass, Drum Programming
Additional Drum programming by Z. V. House
Music and Lyrics by The Sun and the Mirror
Recorded by Reggie Townley and Sarah Townley
Mixed and Mastered by Z.V. House at Rabbitbrush Audio

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