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(Withovt) Time

from WITHOVT by BURDEN

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lyrics

Without Time

In the long months that follow the escape, since I scaled the wall and swam through that black hell, I heal.
In between the deep, pained breaths, I scheme.
My thoughts flicker back and forth like a flame in a storm wind, between you and the ones who did this to me.

While I know the outside world has moved on since I’ve been imprisoned, I care not for the importance of time, I lust only for vengeance and your warm embrace. So I proclaim...

I... will find my way home, to see us whole again.
I... will cross whatever lands that lay before me.
I... am prepared to do what I know must be done.
I... will return to see their heads roll when I am through.

So I march forth into this world that I have not seen for so long.
The colors seem less inspired than I remember.
Time feels different, as if it’s slipping.
I only hope my sanity maintains.

I... can’t make sense of how long I’ve been away.
I... sense chaos and fear trembling beneath my feet.
I... can feel people watching, every eye on me.
I... am a stranger here, wherever here may be.

I approach a crumbling city, what lies within these walls?

It’s like nothing I’ve ever seen before. Corpses and rubble litter every corner I see. I don’t understand.
What has happened to this world?
I am attacked by an unseen force, throwing me to the ground. I regain my footing, and turn to see his disfigured face. Scabs and puss, sores and lesions populate his flesh.
What has happened to this world?
Am I losing my fucking mind?

I do not wait for a second attack, instead I lunge for him. Grabbing a piece of stone from the street, I cave his mutated head in. Then I turn and see an army of his kind stepping from the shadows, anger and hunger in their eyes.

I turn to flee, blood pounding in my heart like war drums. Behind me, I hear their deranged cries for flesh and death. I run as if the flames of Hell were licking at my heels. This strange city is like a labyrinth, and I am scared and alone. But then I hear his voice again, like a beacon guiding me home. He tells me where to go, where to hide. I take refuge in an empty building, and collapse into the dark. My pursuers run past. For now I am safe...

As my eyes adjust to the dark, I see I am in an old, decrepit church.
It has been ages since anyone has set foot in this place.
I call out into the dark, asking for guidance from the voice that led me here.
Yet I hear nothing. No response, but I know that he’s still watching.
Just then I see a faint pink glow, coming from deep within the church.
I follow the light, and as it grows stronger, so does the sound it emits.
Like a swarm of locusts, it begins to permeate my being.
I am now in the depths, going deeper and deeper underground.
Then I see it...
A brilliant orb, a perfect sphere sitting on the altar.
The sound grows louder and louder still, yet I cannot stop myself. I reach out and grab it, and in an instant I am worlds away.
Then I see her. The one I long for. The one I swore to protect. But where? Time has no place here. Nothing makes sense, nothing except for her. I must get back to her and end this madness. This is the only truth I know.
I see a tower, surrounded by a black sea.
It is the prison where all this madness began. I must free her.

I collect the sphere and begin my journey back to the tower.

I... vowed I would return to kill them, and that is what I’ll do.
I... know not how, or by what means.
I... swear on my father’s face and by my mother’s name.
I... will save you from that hell.

I... am going to the tower.
I... will sail across the black sea.
I... will stop the destruction of our world.
I... will see us home once more.

This world. Reality is slipping, if she dies then everything dies.
Time and space. Merging, weaving, diverging.
Each breath may be her last, rippling outwards. Spiral into nothing.
She is the lynchpin, the nexus.
If she dies, then everything dies.
To the tower. There is no time.
If she dies. Then everything dies.

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from WITHOVT, released October 2, 2014

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