Coheed and Cambria - The Dark Sentencer (Official Audio)

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Years ago, chaos cut through this atmosphere. The fractured worlds that inhabit this space were once locked in a force of uncontrollable destruction. Gravity was lost. Their planetary trajectories conjoined in one catastrophic collision, choking to remain viable even as the dying glow of their cores peek through the cracks and scars of those impactful moments. Yet a gasp is a sign of life and the planets that many might have cast off as annihilated space continued to show a pulse across the hopelessness. This discarded earth is still very much alive…and made profitable by the 5 Houses of the Star Supremacy, an elite society who looked to the sky and saw potential in the wasted planets. The opportunistic approach could hardly be considered an act of empathy for the human condition, as the decision to convert the dying planets into private prisons meant another type of life sentence awaited those shipped off to their remote reaches. Here, the desolate and derelict would burn away slowly, trapped in a race to death with the very ground they stand on. In this space, between the Well and unknowing.

Our Story Starts there. Into our future, yet far beyond our past. In a romance between a pair of Unheavenly Creatures.

Weaving through the blacked out space toward the freckling of cracked planets, The Gavel moved like a funeral procession. In many ways, it was the end of life for the two prisoners being transported within its unmitigable walls, to the most deplorable and prized of the doomed prisons, known simply as The Dark Sentencer.

Lyrics:

Here
Emotions behold
You’ve entered a hell
Where the devil is made of gold

Please
Don’t run your mouth
The questions before
Have no place in his haunted house

Reveal your selfish pleasure
One more time round for good measure

In the answer you hold
Time would be better off
If our souls had been sold

Here where the light only dies to remember
In the place where the blind truly can see

Hear my voice
Dearly Departed
I beg on my knees
It's been my pleasure
To serve your disease

Welcome Home
Shed your skin
And expose your bones
Take my hand
And follow us into the black
So far that we can’t get back

Here
Dig me a grave
And toss in the lives
That you can’t be bothered to save

With their blood on your hands
You enjoy the sun while you shit in the purest sand
Kiss your lover with that filthy mouth
You fucking monster

Here
As evil now gropes
It’s caught us off guard
With its hands reaching for our throats

There’s no telling when the truth is clear
Pay it no mind
Lines were drawn for us, for all sides

In the afterglow
Echoes of time unfold
Give me your word my dear
And promise you wont let go

It’s a shame, I fear
From end to start
We walked their lines
Born to play the fucking part

I fear we got all we had wanted
Close your eyes and believe it didn’t happen
Now shut your mouth beyond your lies
A world knows to stay away from you
The blood you let run
They march as you lead
We laugh in the sun
Maybe that’s all we need

I’m sorry you can’t escape

Here where the light only dies to remember
In the place where the blind truly can see…