Starving Eyes

Derdian - Burn

So I combined both versions of "And Then There Was Silence" by Blind Guardian and everything was byootiful

And Then There Was Silence (Penultimate Version)

[Verse 1]  
You wear a smile, but it’s paper-thin,  
Royal games you’ll never win.  
Throne of lies, your kingdom breaks,  
Every step is just mistakes.  

[Pre-Chorus]  
Shiny gold, but hollow sound,  
All that’s left is falling down.  

[Chorus]  
Plastic crown upon your head,  
Empty words, the things you said.  
Kingdom fades, the truth is found,  
Can’t be saved, you wear a crown.  

[Verse 2]  
Glitter fades, the mask will crack,  
Every dagger in your back.  
Shadows creeping through the hall,  
Plastic never lasts at all.  

[Bridge]  
Tear it off, the throne is gone,  
Truth will always carry on.  

[Final Chorus]  
Plastic crown upon your head,  
Empty words, the things you said.  
Kingdom fades, the truth is found,  
Can’t be saved, you wear a crown.  

Plastic Crown

Written by - Ilana
SoundEngeneer - LaNoir
Producer - LaNoir
Performers - Fallout GroundZero
Label - FixedRecords


"Where Trust Decayed"

WHISPERS ON THE GLASS
EVERY CHOICE WILL LAST
YOU CAN’T OUTRUN THE WEIGHT YOU MADE
THE MIRROR KEEPS THE SCORE UNPAID

MEET GOOD WHEN YOUR HANDS CREATE

EVERY KINDNESS BUILDS ITS WEIGHT

BUT WHERE SHADOWS BARGAIN PRIDE

RAGE WILL SURFACE NOWHERE TO HIDE

THE MIRROR STANDS ITS VERDICT NEAR
SILENT WITNESS SHARP AND CLEAR
WHEN WE STUMBLE STORMS IGNITE
FIRE FOLLOWS EVERY SLIGHT

STEP BY STEP THE CRACKS APPEAR
ECHOED GUILT BECOMES SINCERE
BROKEN TRUST A LINE IN SAND
RETRIBUTION CLOSE AT HAND

GLASS UNBROKEN TURNS TO SAND
JUDGMENT RISING OUT OF HAND
FALSE INTENT WILL FIND ITS COST
IN THE FURY OF WHAT’S LOST

EVERY SCAR WE LEAVE BEHIND
MARKS THE EDGES OF OUR MIND
GOOD FORGOTTEN LIES REMAIN
FLOOD OF ANGER FEEDS THE VEIN

MISTAKES LINGER DEBTS UNPAID

RAGE RETURNS WHERE TRUST DECAYED

THE LOOKING GLASS BECOMES THE FLAME

MEET THE GOOD OR FACE THE TIDE

RAGE REMEMBERS WHERE WE HIDE

NOT A PROPHET NOT A THRONE
JUST THE HARVEST OF WHAT’S GROWN
NOT A SAVIOR NOT A KING

ONLY CONSEQEUNCE WE BRING

WE INHERIT WHAT WE SOW
EVERY CURRENT PULLS BELOW

HOPE IS FRAGILE THIN AS GLASS
BREAKS WHEN HATRED COMES TO PASS
KINDNESS BUILDS BUT RAGE CONSUMES
SHAPING FUTURES FOR SO ON

NOT A PROPHET NOT A THRONE
JUST THE HARVEST OF WHAT’S GROWN

NOT A SAVIOR

RAGE RETURNS WHERE TRUST DECAYED


Ruins We Still Worship

Where Trust Decayed

“Tome of Stars” is a 100 sonnet journey, equal parts art, therapy journal, and exorcism, both a celebration and an elegy, a single narrative arc tracing the birth and death of a relationship. All poetry by Stargazer. The verse and accompanying synthetic art and music are public domain, CC0, with no restrictions on use. Nothing is monetized. See below for links on how to access the print, PDF, audio, ePub, video, and music files. 
Website: https://www.tomeofstars.net/

In the classical margam of bharatanatyam, the varnam is the recital’s centerpiece, its longest and most emotionally charged performance. In “Tome of Stars“, the varnam appears as the twenty-nine-poem section “Senescence”. Following the exaltation of Anthesis, the beloved as a celestial goddess, love now descends from the stars into the gravity of human frailty. 

This sonnet continues the psychological excavation begun in Part 1 of the “Once Upon a Time” quartet, tracing the fallout of childhood abuse into adult foundational life decisions. It portrays how early trauma corrupted the poet’s capacity to recognize and act upon authentic emotional needs, training him instead to betray his inner truth in the name of obligation to others and their needs. The poem’s central event—the poet’s marriage to someone he did not love—is framed not as a singular failing but as the inevitable culmination of conditioning. Stylized in mythic, often allegorical diction, the sonnet draws a tragic throughline from psychic violation to spiritual treason.

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Lyrics

She trained him early how to bend—and break.
She deemed his heart’s extinction, virtue’s crown.
Thus truth became illusion in her wake—
A venomed swamp with meaning choked and drowned. 

A sapling warped by dark enchanter’s spell,
His spirit spread through twisted tracks untrue;
No magic could unmake her binding’s hell,
That marred his mind and rent his sight askew.

He sought a weaver of remembered chains,
Who spun his past into a bridal veil.
Their bond she sowed from duty’s cold refrain;
His passions languished in a frozen jail.

He prayed for guidance, but the gods were cold. 
So, shaped by sin, he wed and sold his soul.

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Internet Archive
Book of sonnets:
https://archive.org/details/tome-of-stars/

Music:
Item 1, Anthesis: https://archive.org/details/Anthesis/
Item 2, Senescence: https://archive.org/details/senescence_tomeofstars
Item 3, Sporogenesis: https://archive.org/details/Sporogenesis_TomeOfStars/
Item 4, Anemochory: https://archive.org/details/Anemochory_TomeOfStars
Item 5, Quixotosis: https://archive.org/details/Quixotosis_TomeOfStars
Item 6, Scripture: https://archive.org/details/Scripture_TomeOfStars

Bandcamp:

Item 1, Anthesis: https://stargazer-elentirmo.bandcamp.com/album/anthesis-item-1-of-tome-of-stars
Item 2, Senescence: https://stargazer-elentirmo.bandcamp.com/album/senescence-item-2-of-tome-of-stars
Item 3, Sporogenesis: https://stargazer-elentirmo.bandcamp.com/album/sporogenesis-item-3-of-tome-of-stars
Item 4, Anemochory: https://stargazer-elentirmo.bandcamp.com/album/anemochory-item-4-of-tome-of-stars
Item 5, Quixotosis: https://stargazer-elentirmo.bandcamp.com/album/quixotosis-item-5-of-tome-of-stars
Item 6, Scripture: https://stargazer-elentirmo.bandcamp.com/album/scripture-item-6-of-tome-of-stars

Once Upon a Time Part 2

Track: 11
Album: Tales of Ancient Prophecies
Artist: Twilight Force (Ft. Joakim Brodén [Sabaton])

* I own no properties of the audio and images uploaded for this track. This track is just promotion of the band(s).


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