Ashen Arms and Open Wings

from Savage Garden (EP) by Mortanius

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Mortanius is:
Lucas Flocco - Guitar/Vocals
Jesse Shaw - Bass/Backing Vocals
Victor S. Cardone - Drums

lyrics

Verse 1

The horizon split in twain, over blackened seas

Crimson rays pierce an endless roof, smoke and fog entwined.

Unveiling, broken, and burned,

Lands of shattered bone.

Tomb and stone, broken.

Bridge

And from the shore,

A sight of seas and skies,

Ascending, falling, bend to meet

Together.

And from the depths,

As black as any night, an

Inmost rising force to cleave the welkin

Chorus

Clouds unfurl and lightless beam,

A thousand, million angels scream.

Faces twist and turn in agony, as they look to the sea.

Ashen arms and wings unfold,

Reaching up, start to take hold.

Cherubs crushed and thrown into the sea, groping hands stop their plea

Chorus end

And lined along the shore, they twirl and dance,

The children, laughing, playing.

Flesh fading, blown away, taken by wind,

Porcelain faces shattered.

Verse 2

Hills that bend and mountains fall, turned within themselves.

Earth Covers Earth in endless waves, corpse upturned in time.

Remains smashed upon the shore, up from depths return,

Outstretched arms, wings wide

Chorus

Ave verum corpus

Stop start part

Miserere nobis, Miserere nobis

Dona nobis pacem, Dona nobis pacem

Miserere nobis, Miserere nobis

Dona nobis pacem, Dona nobis pacem domine!

Slow part

Those, long forgotten now,

Leave behind, their tombs, and bones, and stones,

Beckoned to, blackened depths

Of yonder, oceans.

Bridge

Chorus x2

Chorus end