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Chrysalis

by Seraphic

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Take a step through waking dreams Sense the magic deep within Secret spirits and ancient words Speaking in sweet tongues of sin In this reverie you can now be free You have the key Heaven’s symphonies linger in the breeze Surrender to it Surrender to me Your temptations follow you You cannot outrun the truth The hidden path leads to the garden Where your demons dance with you Ghostly footsteps leave a mark Hear the whispers in the dark Down the rabbit hole you’re falling Wondrous wastelands call to you You’re afraid it’s just illusion Deluded fantasies of peace But take a step now, into the garden You can escape their judgement and your fears Let me take you there, to a world so fair It’s beyond compare You don’t have to care, just lay your soul bare Surrender to it Surrender to me Your temptations follow you You cannot outrun the truth The hidden path leads to the garden Where your demons dance with you Ghostly footsteps leave a mark Hear the whispers in the dark Down the rabbit hole you’re falling Wondrous wastelands call to you Open the door to a new world Enter the kingdom in your mind And leave it all behind How can they say that it’s so wrong If it makes you feel complete? I think that you’ve known all along The other side is where you belong Your temptations follow you You cannot outrun the truth The hidden path leads to the garden Where your demons dance with you Ghostly footsteps leave a mark Hear the whispers in the dark Down the rabbit hole you’re falling Wondrous wastelands call to you The divine mystery that only you can see Transcend reality beyond the powers that be Break the tranquillity, the paradox of peace Become the deity, the garden is your masterpiece In the garden In the garden Sleep forever, In the garden…
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Shapeshifter 06:26
Each day she wakes and asks the same thing: Who will I be today? Who does the world wish to see? She wears a mask of beauty like a radiant queen And one by one, she fools them all It’s second nature to her as she crawls Through the depths of hell in her soul Mercurial perversions take hold Before your eyes she morphs into the mould The shapeshifter dances as she takes new form Carefully constructing her deceit The pretty lies for greedy eyes that feast upon the fake Entertain us and enchant us, they all cry Naked as ambition calls A demon of desire as she falls Through the depths of hell in her soul Mercurial perversions take hold Before your eyes she morphs into the mould The shapeshifter dances as she takes new form Scratch the surface just to find decay The remnants of a dream fading away She’s just ashes and dust From the bonfire of the vain Beneath the cloak of night Like a snake, she sheds her skin Revealing all her scars The duality of who we really are Shapeshifter A demon in disguise Shapeshifter With fire in her eyes Shapeshifter Saint or sinner? You’ll never catch her as she flies into the night Looking for the heaven in her soul The endless search for peace consumes her whole Hopeful hearts that harden and grow cold The shapeshifter dances and dances and dances In the depths of hell in her soul Mercurial perversions take hold Before your eyes she morphs into the mould The shapeshifter dances as she takes new form
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Fixated on the black The path to self-destruction You administer the drug that keeps the demons at bay Small comfort is the remedy that courses through your veins Self-medicated, heart rate elevated You are ready to face the abyss Desensitised and hypnotised Seduced by dreamers and their lies The chemical solution to the fears and wasted years Poison is pleasure, and death is the saviour The permanent escape is your release And vice is a virtue Making sense of the chaos we’re all in But your pain is your gain You embrace the darkness No longer afraid, all doubt is allayed And you can face the monster within Looking through the cracks You see the world beyond In this violent haze, your clouded gaze finds what you’re searching for The injection is the stream of consciousness that now sustains you A moment’s relief, a fatal deceit The end is now guaranteed Desensitised and hypnotised Seduced by dreamers and their lies The chemical solution to the fears and wasted years Poison is pleasure, and death is the saviour The permanent escape is your release And vice is a virtue Making sense of the chaos we’re all in But your pain is your gain You embrace the darkness No longer afraid, all doubt is allayed And you can face the monster within Face your demons Dare to free them Face your demons Dare to free them Addiction prevails when life fails us So eager to succumb Another day ends the same way Forever enslaved Desensitised and hypnotised Seduced by dreamers and their lies The chemical solution to the fears and wasted years Poison is pleasure, and death is the saviour The permanent escape is your release And vice is a virtue Making sense of the chaos we’re all in But your pain is your gain You embrace the darkness No longer afraid, all doubt is allayed And you can face the monster within
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Midnight 07:04
Tick tock, goes the clock It’s getting closer now The moment’s drawing near Time’s racing faster now Can you feel the change? It’s creeping up on you Can you feel the waves? They’re crashing down on you Say goodbye to the safe and familiar The clock strikes twelve, metamorphosis has begun Midnight, the hour my soul comes to life (As the darkness inside comes to light) Midnight the world on the edge of the knife (You’re transformed by the chaos you fight) On the precipice of the abyss, you stand alone And as time stands still, in solitude you find your home Time to face your fears You can’t avoid them now Life is starting here You cannot stop it now Build a funeral pyre To burn your doubts away Look into the fire And walk right through the flames Say goodbye to the safe and familiar The clock strikes twelve, metamorphosis has begun Midnight, the hour my soul comes to life (As the darkness inside comes to light) Midnight the world on the edge of the knife (You’re transformed by the chaos you fight) On the precipice of the abyss, you stand alone And as time stands still, in solitude you find your home Brick by brick, you build your haven To shield you from the storm The past has been forsaken And new life has been formed From the battlements you rise Your sword raised to the skies And at midnight, you set your world alight Midnight, life and death unite Midnight, you are one with the night Midnight, life and death unite Midnight, you are one with the night Don’t you give up the fight
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Break 06:06
Twist the knife, sink it deeper and deeper In all your life, nothing’s ever been clearer A slippery slope, and it only gets steeper Thus swings the rope, and your fate edges nearer Do you feel the rage? Do you feel afraid? Locked inside your cage It’s all sticks and stones In the end, you are alone I know you’re alone Break, spitting words of hate It’s more than I can take And now it’s all too late Break, feel the earth shake It’s more than you can take Rising like a hurricane, and we break It’s a lonely road, the path of the righteous Lost your way, you find faith in your blindness Out for blood, you’re a slave to your violence But the time will come when you know I will fight this Do you feel afraid? Locked inside your cage It’s all sticks and stones In the end, you are alone I know you’re alone Break, spitting words of hate It’s more than I can take And now it’s all too late Break, feel the earth shake It’s more than you can take Rising like a hurricane, and we break Break me down Won’t let you break me down I’ll break you down Watch me rise Knock me down and scream my name You know I feel the same Blood red gaze that leaves a stain I won’t drown in your pain Your misery eclipses me, a dying light The fire burns inside of me, but you are endless night (Twist the knife) Sinking deeper and deeper (All your life) Fate has edged ever nearer (Twist the knife) Your descent growing steeper (All your life) You’ve been chasing the reaper Break, spitting words of hate It’s more than I can take And now it’s all too late Break, feel the earth shake It’s more than you can take Rising like a hurricane, and we Break, scream our words of hate It’s more than we can take And now it’s all too late Break, we’re finally awake But too little and too late Lost within our hurricane, and we break
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The Phoenix 04:12
Caught in your hurricane of lies I nearly lost myself Scorched by the flames and I was scarred But I won’t lose my pride You played the game to bend the rules And now you’ve lost yourself You’re in a hell of your own making Played us both for fools But watch me as I rise And I will rise like the phoenix From the ashes I’ll be reborn ‘Cause the more you try to break me I will fight, and you will fall There is a choice we all must make About which path to take If you keep lying to yourself It’s your own heart you’ll break I may be battered and bruised At least I’m not like you I hold my head up high And you can’t look me in the eye Watch now as I take flight And I will rise like the phoenix From the ashes I’ll be reborn ‘Cause the more you try to break me I will fight, and you will fall You can’t hide What’s inside I won’t hide I will fight I will break free Just you wait and see There is a power in me You think you’re free But you’re incomplete You have no power over me And I will rise like the phoenix (I will rise) From the ashes I’ll be reborn (I’ll be reborn) ‘Cause the more you try to break me (I won’t break) I will fight, and you will fall
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Transformed 05:45
Listen to me plead Do you see me bleed? Broken on the inside Finding solace in the cracks Sometimes scars don’t heal And it hurts too much to feel So I raise my porcelain shield Because perfection is skin deep I hide, I fight, and I try I hide behind the lie Pristine and pure, yet so unsure A timid child behind your eyes Mistakes are made, and dreams betrayed Can you let the past just die? I’ll walk with you ‘til the bitter end We’ll watch as the world burns The once deformed will be transformed We are transformed We are the lonely ones We are the broken ones The beautiful and the damned Hearts in each other’s hands Two halves but not a whole Eyes blacker than our souls Deep within our entropy We’ll love with wasted hearts I hide, I fight, and I try I hide behind the lie Pristine and pure, yet so unsure A timid child behind your eyes Mistakes are made, and dreams betrayed Can you let the past just die? I’ll walk with you ‘til the bitter end We’ll watch as the world burns The once deformed will be transformed We are transformed Porcelain dreams Crystal clear Crimson gleams Now you’ve nothing, nothing to fear I hide, I fight, and I try I hide behind the lie I hide, I fight and I try I hide behind the lie Pristine and pure, yet so unsure A timid child behind your eyes Mistakes are made, and dreams betrayed Can you let the past just die? I’ll walk with you ‘til the bitter end We’ll watch as the world burns The once deformed will be transformed We are transformed
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Chrysalis 08:10
Hidden away in the chrysalis Concealed from the eyes of the world And as the night falls, I hear the call Of sirens who signal my fate Alone yet transformed Alone and reborn And like the flower buds in the spring I open and breathe anew This prison of flesh can no longer hold My soul as it rises above Free as the dove Released with my love Welcome the change Time to rearrange You can’t fight the change Nothing is prearranged A new phase begins It’s a brand new day Don’t be afraid It’s a brand new day Don’t be afraid And as your heart breaks one last time You know it’s time to say goodbye Life has no reason and it has no rhyme Find your own way through the maze The failure to move on is its own cage Stained by the sins of the past You wear your black heart on your sleeve with pride Haunted by dreams fading fast Out of your shell there is nowhere to hide But all that is broken can heal in time Walk away from the past now with me In the chrysalis, I’ll become who I’m meant to be In the chrysalis, you’ll be you and I’ll be me In the chrysalis, I’ll become who I’m meant to be In the chrysalis, you’ll be you and I’ll be me One day I’ll fly again I will be free again One day I’ll fly again I will be free again

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"Chrysalis" is the second full-length studio album by Seraphic.

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released October 30, 2020

“Chrysalis”
Tracks 1-9 written by Seraphic, with added input by Erwin Febrianto on Track 4 “The Monster Within”
Recorded, engineered and mixed by Legacy Studios – Kalen Austin Productions
Mastered by Monolith Studios
Album artwork by Sarah Louise Allen
Band photography by Nisipix

Seraphic is:
Sam Wolstenholme – lead vocals/piano/orchestrations
Patrick Feagan – guitars
Raouf Al-Araji – guitars
Michael Bates – harsh vocals/bass
Daniel Langdon – drums/orchestrations

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Seraphic are a five-piece female-fronted, epic melodic piano metal band hailing from beautiful Brisbane, Australia.

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