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Cognizance

by He Comes Later

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1.
Despondency 05:41
"I will not tell the preface, it's not significant against the pain that would come after, the mispending of the life marked my wretched odissey I feel like a secular tree, so much time to spend but with so few chances Like this tree sees everything around him change, grow up, improove While he's constrained to the perpetual chains So I gaze up at my surroundings with no chance dreaming of a deliverance so hard to find Why should it be so hard? Why give me the gift without acquaintance? Lymph no longer feeds my roots I see a flock of birds laying on that tree They are free to build their existence They are free to fly I've tried and I tried to follow them But all I have are just dry leaves It's time for me to pass away." He sees the world A place devoid of bliss Engulfed in the vortex of chaos Consuming the edges of our existence The calls of the dead sound now closer than ever He desires to plunge in the darkness Take a leap in the eye of annihilation The voices are louder than ever before He screams until he's about to suffocate The decay that's inside his tormented psyche His senses now all crave for their self-destruction Every last fragment of his rotting spirit stands on the altar of sacrifice Rejecting the so-called gift of life This worthless endeavour, a useless adventure What is it all supposed to mean? He refuses to take part in this illusion He's haunted by a future so bleak It's time to put an end to this There is no place to go No alternative He just wishes to be nowhere at all No refuge to seek No way of escaping but this last declaration of scorn for life He will break the chains that tied him to this world He will gaze in the abyss and see nothing but the deepest black There is nothing more to lose in this life Not enough strength to keep moving forward He escapes once more, but he's not coming back this time The only salvation lies in suicide
2.
Execution 03:41
Everything is set to the minimum detail Shoes lay near the shore with his white socks inside His clothes are folded on the ground An abnormal silence reigns in his room, as in his soul The place was so accurately chosen He’s standing on the last stage Surrounded by the inconsequence that inhabits reality Blindly chasing fluctuating images of unreason The all-engulfing pit of eternity Apogee of emptiness Will swallow my misery In the abyss of eternal oblivion It's in this endless instant that terror came But the bridge is crumbling right behind him No, not to be crossed anymore Rib cage, inundated by the new oxygen Lungs, made useless by the paralyzing cold Wild eyes, impatient to close Strangled in the cradle of consolation A sneer on his face He got all he craved Slowly dragged into the depths But he got all he craved for He got all he craved for A sneer on his face The all-consuming pit of eternity Will swallow us all Devoured by the maw of cataclysm No one will mourn the earth And so, no one shall mourn me Leaving behind this hypocritical blindness There is no worth to be found in existence
3.
Detachment 04:04
Absorbed in a pitch black hallucination, Manifestation of the elemental structure becomes epitomized Concentric circles define his glutted eye’s shadow Now the elements are recognizable He stares at his passed away face It belongs to a flesh with no relevance Incarcerated inside this dimension Eradicated from his past existence Into the desolation of the unbeing Atonement without dwelling Sickening curiosity consumes his mind It's crushing his meninges so quickly He realizes he can't tolerate it anymore Devoured by this insane obsession No relief Abandoned in sorrow The wreckage of his soul Is his only property Incarcerated inside this dimension Eradicated from his past existence Into the desolation of the unbeing Atonement without dwelling Inception of the path He believes to have left It is just a piece Of a much greater expedition No limbs, no chest, no head Recollection of a meaningless life Non-entity suspended in a scenery Unrecognizable at this point Misfortune Suffocated shouts inflate his sense of desperation As he feels something malignant pull him to the depths His decline is inexorable The obscure obnubilation fades and manifests the pain The worst thing is ignorance Suffocated shouts inflates The throat he has no more Loneliness is the anchor
4.
Torment 03:27
Surrounded by absolute gloom Blinded and afraid, a tormented brain inside a dormant shell Awake yet motionless, he fills the air with screams Frightened and alone inside this faceless desolation Visions of terror proliferate inside his mind Gradually venturing in the unknown He feels trapped in a cloak of agony and sickness The horrifying miracle unfolds The fetus of ruination Spawned from the bloodred stains Its eyes are hollow from the absence of hope And yet he observes He witnesses the depraved entity standing on its feet Developing through the absorbption of fear Mutated embryo of deformed fatality The incarnation of nightmare in all its majesty Announcing its repugnant birth Abhorrent and distorted cries Echoing in the bowels of this hellish place A deafening lament engulfed in the darkness that pervades This suspended moment of delirium Unintelligible utterances of desperation Contaminating his mind The symphony of sorrow reverberates endlessly amongst The walls of this cold emptiness His ears are plagued by the eldritch voice, atrocious and excruciating The agonizing melody irradiates and consumes his mind His cognition is shattered as the noise grows louder Unable to process impulses and thoughts He's torn by affliction, his mind desecrated Blinded by suffering, he starts his descent
5.
Healing 03:32
A vorticose descent drags his consciousness Towards the uncharted He feels himself become increasingly lighter Until he reaches complete emptiness The alteration of the nearest past into the actual condition Into the actual status His inner projections oscillate between the anodyne and toxin Sanity and sickness The shadow of deviltry acts this way Placing a blindfold on your eyes It forbids to perceive the enclosing vastity of the light A solace blent into the peerless strenght of a thousand blinding suns Unable to understand what's happening Lazing in the pleasure that reinvigorates him The never-ending succession of the unpredictable events Goes with his brain to an unidentified place In this solitude the answers are so distant Longing for guidance through the overwhelming vastness Suddenly he fills up with a new sensation The complete consciousness floods inside his soul The aim is clear, he's supported by instinct All the suffering, every pain is being erased and the bliss is out of proportion He has never been so close before He's never been so conciliated A solace blent into the peerless strenght of a thousand blinding suns Unable to understand what's happening Lazing in the pleasure that reinvigorates him The realization of the main objective has occurred He knows that's the place Constrained in a coil of golden chains that doesn't permit him to move, Nevertheless the decayed is finally in peace
6.
Guidance 03:13
Slowly strangled with no pain In an indistinguishable jumble Of darkness and light The silence bursts his tympanums The relief is indescribable He can perceive it without a body It tastes like anxiety He knows something could happen suddenly Here comes the impotence His eyes forced to close But who’s acting like this? Blindness feeds the fear Monstrosity increases inside his mind A sensation he had forgotten How can he scream without senses? Only memories eradicated “Listen to me now, you will never hear this voice again” “I’m completely lost. Who are you?” “I’m the son of consequences. You created me. You're paying for your fatal gesture” “I don’t want this anymore, this was supposed to be my escape from the torment Searching for solace” “Your action has no logic. you lost your existence with no reason” “Please help me” “Now you’re totally alone in your own dejection” “Please forgive me, “Please forgive me”
7.
Atonement 04:44
That’s him again, alone in the void Drowned in these worries that he deserved No balance between reality and insanity With no certainty, without his mentor The only foothold in this bloodcurdling sphere Trapped in a cage of torment Horribly plagued by the echoes of the past He still feels the empty embrace of this eldritch light As he proceeds towards the path of his own destiny The darkness has dimmed Revealing a new expectation Two choices manifested in front of him, But his hollow instinct had already chosen “This is the right way” said the old whisper in his head So he did it One step closer to the final curtain Thousand voices start to shout in unison muddle They’re following well their screenplay As flawless bit players of this spoken drama He is the main character "What's wrong with your existence?" "It's easier to abandon the ship than saving it" "Are you proud, you fucking cunt?" He can't play this part anymore Between his hands his head A burden he can sustain no longer Two choices manifested in front of him, But his hollow instinct had already chosen “This is the right way” says the new whisper in his head And he did it One step closer to the happy ending A yelling lament tears up the surroundings Now he knows Now he’s awake
8.
Quiescence 02:08
9.
Resurgence 03:45
The light breaks in Clearer thoughts patterns lead him to consciousness His breath resonates between these four walls And the air fills his lungs, aware of his materiality Feelings gather and disperse in his memory Feels like recollecting signs from an old past Forgotten, swerving away from reason, dreamlike visions He sees again the fall The coldness around him He feels it all as if it were still happening He remembers the place He knows the pain and relief He's seen the darkness and light He remembers the face of his own destiny His mind cannot yet visualize but he can still feel the pain inside his soul, The hellish agony he witnessed resurfaces but it can't threaten him anymore It's like a landscape becoming real from the vastness of the ocean Familiarity within his flesh now needs to be rediscovered Firstly comes the head, never been so heavy The room is engulfed in an apparent vortex of lights and colours Then the arms, filled with the ancient strenght, are like the walking stick Feet touch the ground, an anchor that devours the persistence of the vacuum He remembers the place He knows the pain and relief He's seen the darkness and light He remembers the face of his own destiny Still standing up, walking tall Always moving on with no fear There are no obstacles Nothing is unobtainable Be the one who creates the fate Be the one who creates your fate
10.
Cognizance 03:49
Who knows when it started? A doorway open to the world The time has passed in its imperceptible way The journey has an ending The clearness of his failure is so bright Passing away like an unaware Waking like a wise man, conscious of the importance of breathing He’s never been so satisfied The perfection of the surroundings consumes the eyesight Being wrong is a condition of human existence All he has seen in the depths Can never be forgotten Eradicated faces were stuck on his brain Now seem to be far away Butchered ears able to listen again the sound of wind, the flowing of water Virtual bars where he was imprisoned Disintegrated by the magnificence of a blinding sun An instant that lasts forever He has another chance The choice is to live until the end It’s hard to believe The experience has shaped him Tears make his cheeks wet Like when he started to drown Nevermore despising the gift of life Being wrong is a condition of human existence Lips prepared to smile Enjoying the life after life Here comes down the curtain It can be a fragment But no one can explain The pleasure of opening up the eyes again

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This album is a journey inside the near death experience and the importance of the gift of life.

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released October 14, 2018

Recorded by He Comes Later
Reamped, Mixed and Mastered by Wavemotion Recordings
Graphics by Intuitive Designs

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