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Daphne

by Ruins of Elysium

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1.
Daphne 10:21
The Gods envy us, the mortals Helios, Jesus Our people Scream, witch, we will burn your body You should know much better, Daphne Daphne, tell me I can’t see Why love is forbidden Daphne, my Queen, Wasn’t thee Whose blesses were given? My body is a vessel you can own But not my soul Born not as a human, Only a woman Under the sign of the knife Held in chains for my entire life The hammering storms of mortal judgment I raise my head above and on my enthronement I’ll bring life and end the silence In the spectacle of life To this world ruled by men Under my veil I take pride of this notion Even by knowing this word has nothing for me I lost my life in a failed abortion I’m tired of being raped continuously From the cradle to the chambers Prison bars made of oppression Wrapped Rosary, set to embers Lucifer’s sexual connection We live on a phallus shaped world Where virginity’s made of gold It’s your fault, don’t forget it Daphne, you were the one to bite the apple I am the goddess of fertility Red Queens don’t need virility The matriarch, the monarch, the empress The witch, the vixen, the temptress I am the queen of everything Mirror, mirror on the wall Who is not fair between us all? Mirror, mirror on the wall Who will save us from them all? While you dance in fluttery pirouettes The demeanor of reality you act I am the music for my performancer The violin, the piano, the cello, the soprano Whichever form you desire me to take To take part in this sadistic masquerade Because you are the Queen of a land where there’s no King Every woman in this world carries a scar Banally placed in an altar from afar But still you rise and fight, Like this melody of mine Beautiful Daphne, I am with you in your march Free me from my chains and let my dreams be boundless Let me just for once not be ashamed of my body I shall bear no more, inside my womb, repentance No cross, no judgment, my freedom is my sentence Daphne, my queen, wasn’t thee whose blesses were given for? The blesses are given to you
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This doesn’t sound nearly as poetical or comical as it should Alighieri sees me as a dishonor Cursing me from the gates of hell Requiem for the sclerotic, possessed by torpor The body in the madhouse is not of an immortal I challenged inquisition, Politi-comical commissions Protested divinity into senseless matters My tragedy has been pointless for so long But I write and poetize it in an epic song Sempiternam jubilaeum I leave this world to crumble alone And take refuge in my mind Abridgment and sentient About my devotion Wet, in my bed, around a thousand emotions It’s written on my bible The evangel of the snake The ophidian sacrament Vulgar, hedonistic, indecent Sempiternam, jubilaeum My overdose is from stars, not from crack There is no boundary I cannot wreck I’m covered with petals, Gold bravery medals And I’ll be honored by all I’m much wider than your simple eyes can see Or you fathom to believe in the greatest jubilee In your world so precious, my beauty is atrocious Reality is met only with lies Evil has many faces, many forms, In blood and pleasure I rule the destruction I adore While I inject it down with gore Freedom entwine my senses I’m the dusk flirting with dawn Cause I’m not constant with my passions Sometimes love’s just too ethereal I’m young and my time’s getting short Sempiternam jubilaeum I cry for every apostle In Hell I climb on my serpent and bid you Farwell The vipers are coiling, The opus is rolling In the palace built in my mind
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You said we’re cursed, we have no way You said is a sin to be gay We’re aberrations on the Earth That we’re immoral, bound to fade Preached millions the law of hate To innocent love you brought disgrace Said we were hated by your God That we were all condemned to rot But no, we’re not! You said for us would be no time Made us feel rejected all our lives Forced us to be ashamed and hide Said we were too weak to fight You put a note on a boy’s mouth And broke his legs, his arms, his heart Said we were nothing but a plague A plague you’re gonna exterminate But no, you’re not! Rise tonight, rise and fight Ask the judges if they don’t hold secrets Stop the violence right now I refuse to live in a hate filled world You say you’re gonna reap us and tear our lives apart But your God is on our side, so guess what? No, you’re not I was kicked out from home Leave my children alone Drop this lamp, stop hitting me You’re killing me, you are breaking my bones Another teenager is dead Raped and spanked to learn how to be a man Take the job and the hopes from this fag Abuse left scars on my body and my head But if you think you’re gonna stop us from fighting for our lives I scream and I scream high: No, you’re not!
4.
There is a spirit of a mother watching her son from afar In a place where love is meaningless And black clouds cover the stars This melancholy's so cruel Nor romantic nor saint Tell me, oh God, my lord To where have you taken my friend? Read me, trace me My abilities, disabilities Infidelities I flew with him through skies of longings and desires I’ve been but a listener to his dubious strategies There are no more lies when a friend dies But I pray so I can meet him soon I may’ve been a liar An attacker or defender Imperfect masterpiece For as long as I remember If I have a death wish In this home where I'm slender Bury me in the tower In the city of Lavender Ghosts are real, orphaned spirits We are all saints till the countdown starts Read me, trace me My abilities, disabilities Infidelities My hope was lost when the best part of me was buried There’s nothing else to lose There’s nothing left for me I walk in the wastelands of my torments Now I’m falling from grace so fast
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Crusader 06:56
Revelations running through my mind Grinding my gears, Deconstructing what I thought was right This crusade fatigates me But I can’t give up It was no divine intervention, It was no hallucination But rather illumination from a decaying social abomination Shall I resign to my old convictions? They no longer belong to me As I change myself from this prison So does the world as I see as it should be This crusade fatigates me But giving up is not an option Such hurricane of feelings My faith, my being in slavery Calls up to hold your ground and fight, with bravery Shall I alter my whole vision? It no longer resembles me As I change myself from this prison So does the world as I see as it should be Deep in abyss of soul Lie heavenly aesthetics But human ethics brought the downfall Of holymost places Hold my hand up to the crown of old Jerusalem Soldiers, sacrifice your lives And in your own demise Turn yourselves against all of the lies And now heaven shall fall Do they really fight for your own good? Do they really want the world’s good? What's hidden in their wishes? Find the truth and soon, You’ll see, heaven shall fall A real change, modification Or an obscure continuation? Clarification, now I know heaven shall fall
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This work is dedicated to all of those oppressed around the world. Women, LGBT, racial minorites and all of those who have to fight everyday against such a cruel system. We are all Crusaders against oppression. Our freedom is our sentence!

Special thanks to Patrica Petruzella, Natan Caetano, Alexandra Revontulet, Guilherme Magalhães, Annelise Dias, Voa Voxyd, Elijah Strauss-Broooks, Débora Camargos, Georgia Damigou, Lucas Negrisolli, Vithor Moraes, to Nithwishes Group and all our Sentinels of the Starry Skies around the world!

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released May 17, 2016

Ruins of Elysium is

Drake Chrisdensen - Tenor
Vincenzo Avallone - Guitars
Marcelo França - Drums
Tamar Van Der List - Guitars
Filipe Câmara - Bass

Mix and Master by Vincenzo Avallone
Artwork by Patricia Petruzzella

1 - Daphne
Music by Drake Chrisdensen, Marcelo França and Natan Caetano
Lyrics by Drake Chrisdensen
Orchestral Arrangements by Drake Chrisdensen, Voa Voxyd and Vithor Moraes
Soprano vocals by Annelise Dias
Simone de Beauvoir's narrative by Débora Camargos

2 - The Greatest Jubilee
Music and lyrics by Drake Chrisdensen
Orchestral arrangements by Drake Chrisdensen and Alexandra Revontulet

3 - No You're Not
Music and lyrics by Drake Chrisdensen
Orchestral arrangements by Drake Chrisdensen

4 - Lavender
Music and lyrics by Drake Chrisdensen
Orchestral arrangements by Drake Chrisdensen and Alexandra Revontulet

5 - Largo Al Factotum
Music and lyrics by Gioachino Rossini
Arrangements by Vincenzo Avallone and Vithor Moraes

6 - Crusader
Music and lyrics by Marcelo França and Drake Chrisdensen
Orchestral arrangements by Drake Chrisdensen
Soprano vocals by Annelise Dias

7 - Epilogue: Meadows of Elysium
Music by Natan Caetano
Orchestral Arrangements by Drake Chrisdensen

The Elysian Choir: Annelise Dias, Guilherme Magalhães, Alexandra Revontulet, Elijah Straus-Brooks and Drake Chrisdensen.
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Ruins of Elysium Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Epic Symphonic Metal with operatic Tenor vocals

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