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The Wizard's Crown cycle of lyrics Pt. 1 | The Wizard's Crown cycle of lyrics Pt. 2 | Further lyrics from 2022 | Lyrics from 2023

- The Wizard's Crown Pt. 1 -

Doom to Fall

Waiting for the doom to fall
I feel it’s near
Waiting for the doom to fall
I feel the fear
Waiting for the doom to fall
The Astral Master’s calling
Waiting for the doom to fall
Waiting for the doom to fall
Waiting for the doom to fall
It’s already here

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Doom Upon Us

Day breaks, crashes, falls to rain-soaked ground
Mist creeps, ether-like, all around
Spectral harbinger by standing stones
Chill of death seeping through my bones

Caught in the strands of a man-made web
It is to this point we have been led
We conjured, knowing not our fate
Realising far too late

Played with forces of arcane might
Day transformed into blackest night
Lightening strikes led us on this way
We met our match this darkest day

The spectre reaches out to me
It offers death to set me free
My silent scream, for none to hear
Death, doom, despair enhances fear

Death is among us
There’s no escape
Our time has come
It’s far too late

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The Wizard’s Crown

The tower stands, a spire of broken stone
From distance, takes the shape of shattered bone
It stands aloft but hidden from men’s eyes
By force of wizard’s will and faith alone

It’s crenelated peak now worn with age
Defences lost but needs them not, this Mage
Just home for crow, around the ruin flies
As wizard turns another arcane page

At last, the tome, its knowledge starts to yield
Elixir, meaning, reason, long years sealed
At odds with life, the world of men is lies
The wizard, ‘gainst dark forces, world be healed

But as the page, its secrets into focus play
It quickly blurs and starts to fade away
The wizard to his fate, he merely sighs
The prize will have to wait another day

Sun failing, rays strike at the aged tower
Man sees but light reflect, last sunbeams shower
Unknowing at the sky he cries
The world may fall but man knows not the hour

Dark falls, its blanket, ragged hanging down
The crows at roost, their caws have all but drowned
Quiet descends atop the broken tower
Black night hugs tight the wizard’s crown

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Doom Crow

Doom crow stands atop the weathered tower
Gloom crow sees beyond the mortal’s hour
Calls-caw-calls, his message pulled away on Winter’s wind
Once news called out, he never can rescind

Avert your eyes, see not your fate
Cover your eyes, before too late
Protect your eyes, stand not and wait
Twas yesterday the doom crow ate

The battlefield of man is never far away
The reason fought for, who can ever say?
Reprieve from death for man, ever belated
But doom crow lands, never seeming to be sated

Avert your eyes, see not your fate
Cover your eyes, before too late
Protect your eyes, stand not and wait
Twas yesterday the doom crow ate

Moon glow shimmers ‘round the funeral pyre
Sound rises, smoke-like from a plaintiff lyre
The eyeless offered, consumed by fire, to unknown fate
Doom crow caws, flies full-winged, he has just ate

Avert your eyes, see not your fate
Cover your eyes, before too late
Protect your eyes, stand not and wait
Twas yesterday the doom crow ate

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No-one Ever Knows

The seal is set about the forest dark
Once placed, it falters not and hides ‘High Home’
It’s power emanates from wizard’s work
And no-one ever knows…

Sigil crafted, skill is ever honed
He works on through the day and night
Ward is set so he is ever left alone
And no-one ever knows…

Deer and fox explore the forest floor
As high above the wizard weaves his spells
Their paths lead unaware, on to the Tor
And no-one ever knows…

Looking out from window high
Across the world he doth espy
The plight of man, beseeching cries
He turns away, back to his work, once more renewed, empowered by the scene about, to try
How time flies
And no-one ever knows…

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Blight

Blight creeps across the realm
Man forsaken, hell is at the helm
All decays, falls away
Prayers crumble on parched lips, there is nothing left to say
Only one, toiling atop a hidden tower
All hope unknown for him to arrest decay and let a new life Flower.
He works alone, the burden his to bear
Ragged clothed and unkempt whitened hair
Time runs on, falling grains of sand
Hope is failing, falling through his hand
The blight encroaches, ever nearing day and night
He ponders lore, casts spells but nothing seems to stem his fright
That he might fail.

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Sleepwalk

Sleepwalking into the night
Doing nothing to stop the blight
It spreads, inside our heads and we can’t get it out
Everyone marches, I scream a silent shout.

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Plea

The years had passed like clouds in a turbulent sky
Dark crows punctuated the air with calling cry
Life falls away like leaves from autumn tree
I missed the chance of all that I could be
What questions left to ask before I die?

I set in order strands that wove my fate
Time passes, yet it is, still not too late
Follow what was, to understand what is
Like bones, fate’s strands may grant me this
And maybe, chance to divinate.

Oh dark cloud stop, desist your flee
Dark crow be silent, hear my plea
Drag time to slow and maybe even halt
Give time, so I may search the ancient vault
That I may yet still be what I may be.

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Moss Bound

Entrance entrances with its chequered floor
And though the wizard passed this threshold times before
He looks with eyes anew and finds a clue behind the door
The chequer veils a portal to the evermore.

With sigil, chant and focussed mind beneath a moon
He manges an ingress down, into a tomb
Enveloped in a darkened, finds a moss-bound womb
He hopes to find an answer, long forgotten, ‘gainst the blight, a buried boon.

Slicked fern and moss provide a verdant throne
For alter housing hewn from purest stone
Within resides a precious tome
It rested here for aeons, left alone.

Once this way, an adept must have passed
And brought with him or her the tome, from ancient past
The mossy womb has held the opus fast
Until this day when knowledge is now freed at last.

Heart quickens in this wizards frail frame
What treasures written in, he cannot name
But in the sanctity of tower, ancient knowledge he has hope to tame
He hopes to beat the blighting evil at its game.

An entrance gained
Man’s fate unchained
The moon now waned
But could it be that hope was merely feigned…

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Across the pages

Across the pages letters form and fade while images resolve, then disappear
Their meanings all at once coherent and with knowledge, comes a terror, sheer
The wizard sees his fate and cannot stop a single tear
It falls onto the page, releases nemesis and with it, man’s worst fear.

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Across the Heavens

Coal dark clouds gather, blackening the sky above earth’s domain
Thunder rumbles, rises, crashes earthward with a deafening refrain
With the cacophony comes a ice cold beating rain
Earth’s creatures hide in fear ‘ccept for the clear insane.

Across the heavens shoots an arrow in a perfect ark
Black wizard tears across the sky to make his mark
Up shoots the wizard from his tower, against dark clouds, white light is stark
Hope of hopes against a deepest dark.

They battle, one to damn the other save
Onlookers gasp at whitest light so brave
But darkest dark, dominion doth he crave
Can innocence win out against usurper knave?

Twist, falling. Locked as if two falcons clashing
Wands as lances fire, fell light flashing
They tumble ever landward, to a hilltop crashing
And all around the ice cold rain is lashing.

Across the heavens there before, has never been
A battle such as this, that earthly man has seen
Scorched black, the earth, where wizards fell, on hilltop green
If both lay dead, for land, what can this mean?

Lo! Stirs the wizard white, arrayed in brilliant hue
His nemesis is gone, black cinders left, he has won through
His purpose held, heart valiant, pure and true
And now the land can heal and life burst forth anew.

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Grey

A morning drips into existence
Blanketing all with grey
World’s beauty offers its resistance
But all its efforts fade away
It hangs on life, like ragged mantle
Clothing dreams with shadow’s taint
Life dragged down to a fundamental
And reason drawn into a feint
Trudging on
When all has gone
Nothing to sign the way
Nothing left to say
Nothing but a morning, grey.

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Green Glade

At forest edge, in the green glade
Surround of trees, where flowers grow in Summer’s dappled shade
Idyllic, unspoilt verdant bower
Sun warms and heartens all who view upon this place, in this hour.

But from the East, high in sky
Nearing the haven of resplendent panoply.
Lands Cleiophane, dragon green
Nestles, makes her place amid this Arcadian scene.

It is days past, times changed
And from the glade Cleiophane has not ranged.
Those who would frequent, now, for life’s sake shun
Enter not, nor tarry near for fear their life would be undone.

Sleeps Cleiophane, still, in oblivion?
None are fools to think this ‘she’ is nothing but draconian
They visit not green glade
It is forever now, in man’s eyes unmade.

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Dragonscales

In reflective hue of smooth green, her hide is sealed
This diamond hard, repeated pattern will not yield
She stands alone, pre-eminent in her field
None shall pierce this dragonscale shield.

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Gather

The clouds gather in union
Coalesce, billow communion
They block out the rays of the sun
Over the earth in grey, there is dark dominion.

We cower, waiting for light relief
For in shadow, there is suffering and grief
To dispel doom, we can but pray
Whether or not the light returns, we cannot say.

Will this day ever pass?
It seems to blight the mind, forever last
We gather, as if collectively we will be saved
But in waiting, the dark has to be braved.

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Lithic

Standing stones
Skeletal remains, the earth’s bones
A ring around a space
Enclosing time and place
A monument to the unknown
With time, its mystery has grown
Carved runes pointing at power unspoken
Recite, potential awoken
Sacred scene
Evoking hope, solid grey stands in green

Monolithic.

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- The Wizard's Crown Pt. 2 -

Tower of Lies

You’ve built your tower of lies
Now reap what you have sown
You hear the plaintiff cries
On cold winds they are blown
But your foundations start to crumble
And soon your tower will fall
As stones shift, you start to stumble
But above, bereft of love, no-one hears your call.

How time flies
How man tries
How man fails
All that’s left, a crumbled tower of lies.

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Demons Rise

The day drifts away
The sun is gone and the moon comes out to play
The dark takes hold
Something starts to unfold
I try to change but no matter how many tries
The demons rise.

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Agaric

White flecked, scarlet scream from forest floor
Emerging forth, for all to adore
Shouting “all, beware! Oblivion here”
At once entranced yet forced to fear
Cap in hand, careful to entreat
Too little, naught. Too much, defeat
Fairest beauty on drab forest floor
Can I but knock on infinity’s door?
Will I be transported through the nexion
Or am I but nature’s Endymion?

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Winter in the Wood

Deep winter in the wood
Holly crown with berry blood
Ivy dark, creeping vine
Deep green against white snow, winter sign Tree skeleton, clawing sky
Abandoned leaves, left to die
Footprints in virgin white
Shunning day, embracing night
Milk berry hangs with twists of leaves
Kiss underneath as each believes
Pass from mine to your
Enhance, all that I adore
The wind bites deep
We leave the wood to sleep.

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Silent-winged things

Silent-winged things
Make the skies their own at night
Ragged black shapes of wings
Block out the moon’s glow, in flight

Shadows in my mind
There is no solace for me to find
In the darkness I am near-blind
Silent-winged things, I know their kind.

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Approach

The ice encroaches
Our doom approaches
The cold bites deep
I slow, as if to sleep

I move on
Try or all is lost and gone
My tears freeze as I cry
My scream falls upon the wind to die

Death’s sleep calls
The black veil falls
Doom arrives
It reaches to take our lives

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Atop the Tower

From atop the tower
At some unearthly hour
The wizard looks down
His mind barely sane
Through the haze of rain
Surveys his domain
From the wizard’s crown.

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Acolyte By Moonlight

The Moon’s shine, rimes this dead quiet land
Time still, dead night, cold creeps like shadow of a hand
Alone, the acolyte in this forsaken place
Advances, shivering, aware that at his heels, ruin runs apace.

First, out across the fields in aimless search, but no way finding
Lost in the forest dark, no direct route, path winding
Seeking signs by moonlight, he must find the way
And come to Raven Tower, where ere it be, before the break of day.

The moon is cast behind the scudding, night dark cloud
Its beams withheld, diffused and giving shadow to dark thoughts aloud
He stumbles wearily, as if through blackened dreams
Where nothing now appears as though it seems.

But glinting in emergent shaft of light
A slender shimmering of towered shard, into the night
The moon illuminates that which by other men, has not been seen
And acolyte’s raw senses start to keen.

Ruin runs still on coattails of the cursed and the damned
The acolyte has moments to recite the words and enter and not show his hand
The moon recedes and nothing more is there to see
Escaped with hope, from failing earth to another finity.

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Ruins

Left to the ravages of time
To decay and crumble
To fade away
Into ruin.

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Ravens Roost

The ravens roost atop the tower, over a dying world
Silent, now devoid of voice and with their dark wings furled
The night creeps in and eats away the day
The black birds sated, have no further mind to play
Calm descends, darkness falls
Long wait for first light and the raven calls.

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Blackened Wings (1)

Coal dark
Aloft on hope alone
The wings of this bird

This angel with blackened wings

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Incense

Slowly rising, smoke, entwining snakes
Oblivious of the senses it awakes
From earthly domain, a heavenly path to awaken
Thoughts rise, all else forsaken
Breathe in sweet breath
Forever life, no attar of death
Fear not, first dream, inchoate
Incense illuminate.

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As Mist Descends

Sat in silence by the broken bough as mist descends
Its cold embrace erases thoughts but to what ends?
The scene before me disappears, in grey it blends
And down the valley, serpentine, the indistinct, a way it wends.

In grey veil nothing is as it seems
Visions emerge from deep inside of dreams
I try to make more sense but lack the means
The grey, it billows, swirls about its schemes.

Cold infuses deep in bone and marrow
Expanse once was but field of view now narrow
Thoughts left at rest in this tomb-like barrow
Meaning drains away to leave a mind but fallow.

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Bane

In the greensward The sun beats down
But to its periphery, where trees grow
And longer leaves take filtered light
The bane grows
Away from eyes
Where no-one knows
‘Cept the wind sighs
But soon the flower shows
And passer by cries
And with delight, slows
Picks, not identifies
And then dies.

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Light and Dark

In the woodland
Light and dark merge to form the present
Under a blooded moon
The hours pass by
I wonder why.

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The Acolyte

Clothed in robe of darkest brown
Hood obscures with head bowed down
From his staff, with gem held tight, it seems
That moon-enhanced, bright white light gleams.

With ancient, weathered tome in hand
He walks, enthralled across the land
The words speak from the hidden page
To proselytize this would-be Mage.

Travelled far but far to go
Knowing much but much to know
Driven by the driving rain
Losing all for all to gain.

Step by step by step by step.

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Shadows Fall

The sun hangs low, its rays clip forest trees
Their shadows fall, the last of day to seize
Before letting go.

Black lines across my eyes are cast
The sun decays, it cannot night outlast
I see it fade.

Last glint of sun, and now light must depart
Joy fails and streaked across my heart
A shadow falls.

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Fade

Fade into the grey of day
A gaunt light pervades my every move
But every now and often then
A shimmering
Come into play.

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Silent Winged Flight

Silent winged flight
Throughout the deep of darkest night
Wan sphere, sickly pale moon light
Taking in all, the earth’s plight

Ragged wings rake
Leaving leprous wake
Viewing all the lives you take
All we can do is hope for escape.

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- Further lyrics from 2022 -

The man in the moon

The man in the moon
Sees the earth’s blue bloom
It revolves slowly over the years
Through the doom, gloom and fears
Things change apace
Spelling doom for the human race
He reaches out and all he receives is space junk
Discarded waste that lands with a thunk.

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Lining Their Pockets

Lining their pockets while I patch the holes in mine.

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A Lifetime

A Lifetime’s a long time
But it’s no time at all
We’re not going to take this
But we’re nearing the fall
Don’t answer back
Just answer the call
You miss the point that we’re
Blocked by the brick wall
You take up arms
Because you’re so small
Others take up the slack
While you take in the haul
A Lifetime’s a long time
But it’s no time at all.

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The Spectre

The spectre haunts my nights
And waking days
Into the realm of frights
The peace from my mind, it flays
In black it seeps, removes light
It finds ways
And with it, all reason takes flight
Tricks it plays.

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In the Blink of an Eye

In the blink of an eye I see the star die
And thus a black hole forming
Energy release, given this warning
The universe unstable
We have to do the best we’re able
I won’t gamble
I’ll just make my way, then die, I’ll amble…

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Lost Sight

My feet are held in syncrete
While my head is in the clouds
I reach for something concrete
But all is wrapped in shrouds
I need to find an answer, time is running out
Need to find out what this life is really all about.

Image drawn in golden sands
Reason, meaning: gift from sacred hand
I can’t see what comes into play
The woes of this world take my sight away

A meaning seems so close
Maybe just a breath away
It could be here or there, who knows
I lack the means to say
My head is filled with images, in disarray and splintered
Left still wondering at what is merely hinted.

Image drawn in golden sands
Reason, meaning: gift from sacred hand
I can’t see what comes into play
The woes of this world take my sight away

Guides are left and signs are posted
All throughout the kingdom
meaning in flora hosted
Encapsulated within them
We all have a path but mine is made of broken stones
At least I do not have to make this journey all alone.

Image drawn in golden sands
Reason, meaning: gift from sacred hand
I can’t see what comes into play
The woes of this world take my sight away

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The Crucible

Melt the ego in the crucible of time
Only then will the stars align
Only then will our lives have meaning
Of our glory, will we have weaning
I am, becomes we are
When I wish upon a star
We are better than the I
We should abandon the my
I becomes we
Blind becomes see
Dissolve hate
Attenuate
We should embrace
There is no human race
We are at the finish line
We just need to heed the sign
Embrace, love all
Before we irrevocably fall.

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Mind control

The battle for your soul
It began at birth
You must strive to remain whole
Don’t let life diminish your worth
Question every minute
Don’t lose track of your days
Don’t let them diminish
Don’t let them make you change your ways
You are fully greater than you know
Stepping out without a care
Every day you grow
Give away and share.

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In the blink of an Eye

In the blink of an eye
From here to there and back again…

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In the Green

In dreams I went
In dreams you came
We met upon ether’al plain

Entranced by floral scene
In the green
To live in such a sight unseen

There’s more to life than meets the eye
Must, harder try
As time passes by.

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Dimensions

Dimensions
In place, space and time
Intentions
Purposeful, but blind
Extensions
Beyond, extend the mind
Redemptions
Search and find.

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The Dark Side of the Brain

There has to be more
Than this
We cannot live
Without bliss
If I think it through, will I make it
To you?
In the orange fire of thought
Still blue
Turn away from
Bad deeds
Letting go of
My needs.

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Unconsciousness

Unconsciousness
Expand your mind
Do not leave your third eye blind
Life must have meaning
Inner dreaming

In the blink of an eye
From here to there and back again

A journey to travel
A reasoning to unravel

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For the fallen

For the fallen
For the broken down
Those who’re crawling
Those without a crown
I thought the days would brighten and the clouds drift away
But sun eludes me, nothing I can say
I am falling
I have broken down
You can see me crawling
You can’t see a crown.

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- A Wizard's Crown Lyric -
Crow

The plaintiff crow caw
Midnight black against Midnight
The still night’s only flaw
Until the crow takes flight

A ruffle of feathers, a rustle of wings
Circling the castle’s crown
His ancestor has tasted the eyes of kings
He now descends down

Harbinger of the fall
Black winged sign
Herald with a caw call
Shine.

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Mist Hangs

Mist hangs
Obscuring the morning
Nagging pain
Makes life but warning
Cold bites
Holds on with sharp teeth
Time lingers
Like the opportunist thief
This day
Feel like I’m set upon
It drags
On and on and on and on and on…

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DRONE

Repetition
Calls again
The drip of time
Pools, to lay claim
The hum of days
The Whirr of dreams
Lost in translation
Nothing seems
Desaturate
Monotone
Reverberate
Drone.

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Sign

Sign
Burning into these thoughts of mine
Thinking
Reasons start to align
Meaning
Can be too much or too little
Wanting
But the word can be brittle.

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- A Wizard's Crown Lyric -
Nature's Night

Ivy twine and holly crowns
Moss-lingering strands
Mistletoe, high hung in boughs
Adorn these ancient lands

Winter creeps through dead places
Water freezes, light fades
Leaves carpet empty spaces
The other seasons are betrayed

Footfall hard on iron ground
Fog hangs mournfully in the air
Crack of ice the only sound
Snow blanket deepens everywhere

On into Nature’s night
Day can only dream
The solitary black-winged bird sets flight
A solitary scream.

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- Lyrics from 2023 -

- A Wizard's Crown Lyric -
Bramble and Briar

Bramble and briar entwine
Earth and moon align
Lovers walk hand in hand, sublime

Bramble and briar entwine
Moonshine glints, reflected on a Rhyne
Lovers kiss in green dark bower, made shrine

Bramble and briar entwine
Night infused with scent of pine
Lovers, love to each other consign

Bramble and briar entwine
In time the heart of each, wither and is made malign
But lover’s hearts, in love, will not decline.

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- A Wizard's Crown Lyric -
Guardian

Wings unfurled
My breath is taken away
I have no care in this world
There is nothing I can say

Around me, your wings you curl
As night follows day
Autumn leaves in motion, swirl
As protected, I lay.

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- A Wizard's Crown Lyric -
Moss Carpet

Moss carpet of most vibrant green
Soft lush abundance seen
Barefoot enticed to tread
Into a realm to be led.

On forest floor by winding stream
Green moss pervades, evokes a dream
The senses revel, care is shed
Lay down to rest in verdant bed.

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- A Wizard's Crown Lyric -
The Dragon's Skull

I came upon a dragon skull
Embedded in the moss
Bone white against the bold green Mull
Reminder of a loss

Many years must since have passed
When laid it down to sleep
Though it would want all mourn the last
No vigil any keep

In fear must people then have cowered
But it would not have known
The fire upon the peoples showered
Remembered, no love shown

I touch the bone white crest, with tears
The beast, tho’ cunning knew
Knew naught of any people’s fears
And they, of virtues, few

Gone, never to return this kind
And none will miss its like
Yet stumble I, upon this find
And cannot take dislike.

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Good Night

The sky’s glow just before night
Entranced by alien light
Fade of infinitesimal motion
Clouds pass in celestial ocean
Just before fall, a final gleam
I close my eyes to dream.

Grey Solstice

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Blink

In the blink of a liar’s eye Some may fly
Some may die
There is no rhyme or reason
It’s just the season
For treason.

And in the blink
You can miss more than you miss
You realise and start to sink
I walk wide-eyed
I’ve always been on the other side
With those who’ve died

Grey Solstice

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- A Wizard's Crown Lyric -
Portal

The entrance to another realm
Move from this earth’s domain
This place, the senses overwhelm
And over time, doth reign

By the Swirling door, the lights
Entice and all must bow
Never before been seen, these sights
Droll earth cannot suffice now

Once entered over threshold
The trav’ler is consumed
The realm all now doth enfold
And trav’ler is entombed

Pity the fool entranced by light
That sage would not be fooled
Entrapped in world of ever night
Forever to be ruled.

Grey Solstice

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Autumn

Leaves of russet, brown and gold
Have fallen from trees arms
Autumn, it was, made them unfold
Beguiled by low sun’s charms.

Lay gently down on wooded ground
Interred in Autumn’s cape
Dead still, to make but not a sound
Until in Spring I wake.

Grey Solstice

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Lychgate Liaisons

In the dead of a forgotten night
When hard rain fell in staves
We sheltered from the starlight
Alongside fallen graves
The moon had risen in the sky
But hid behind dark clouds
Still night was pierced by plaintiff cry
I heard you gasp aloud
We sheltered from the night and rain
Under a lychgate fair
We kissed and yes, we kissed again
As the moon fell on your hair
I knew our love would stand the test
Of time and thus decay
Our life’s resolve had been addressed
All fears, that night, allay.

Grey Solstice

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- A Wizard's Crown Lyric -
The Dream

The land is bleak and blackened
All hope is laid to rest
I know not how this happened
Why I am put to test
All green is black and wilted
Clouds roil and block the light
Life’s love is ever jilted
The day lost to the night
I thought to make a difference
But all has come to naught
I flounder now in ignorance
Bereft of even thought.

But mist now seems to rise from my sight
Day dawns out of the black maw of night
Not hopeless now as it did most seem
Was all this but a night time of dream?

Reprieve from doubt and hope is renewed
To strive evermore against age old feud.

Grey Solstice

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Lyrics by Russell McDonald-Bell (RP)
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