Albanian Forest

from One-Eyed Witch by Gyantess

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Ripped from my body
Less than the meanest ghost
Green light rebounding, impossible mortal demise

Something has broken
I am a disembodied mind
Smothering veil between me and my enemy's cries

Ah, pain beyond pain my friends
My once-distant Boggart is clutching at my hand
Seeping and slithering into waking sense
As my body blows away like sand

Fled from the sleeping town
No longer a man, nor even a snake
Uncanny beast in a sapphire crown
Leaving rats lying dead in my wake

All the hidden fragments of myself
Can't save me from this living hell
All my servants will not seek me here
What good are followers without fear?

I, the greatest of all
Just a name fading into the dark
Like all who've come before
Nothing sets me apart
My future is gone
This is the first time I've ever felt
Like forever is too long

Clinging on to what I always said
There's no extremity worse than death
But I'm chained to a ruined life
Burned and blasted 'til I haven't the strength to die

One more moment, and now the next
Time means nothing, an endless stretch
One more second, and now the next
No direction, just one second less

I force myself on sleeplessly
Surely the faithful will come for me?
Day bleeds into night, and night dissolves in day
And in the shadows my hope is fading away

To an Albanian forest
Where I'll look for a place to hide what's left of me
Albanian Forest
Where I'll drift on the wind and contemplate revenge
Albanian Forest
Where I'll curse my faithless slaves' apostasy
Albanian forest
Where I'll wait for the tide of fate to rise again

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from One-Eyed Witch, released September 21, 2015
Lines from Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by JK Rowling. "Hedwig's Theme" quotes by John Williams

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Gyantess London, UK

Originally called One-Eyed Witch, Gyantess started in autumn 2014, combining long-time Harry Potter fan-ness with a love of grunge and stoner rock, and heavy recreational Wrackspurt use. It was meant to be an exercise in not taking music so seriously all the time. It failed. ... more

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