Absentia from AIRA by The Anhedonians

Her knells
The veil she wore over her blighting skin
The white she painted
On a rotting grin
The wands that kept the withering at bay
The words it took so many years to say
Now the ones who lived must cower underground
To the wars they’re born and to the wars they’re bound
Now our eyes they look more readily away
From a world we learned was never there to stay

But can’t we be freed of our weight in the dark
And be found in Absentia?
Can’t we return to the throes of the heart
In the fathomless oblivion?
Oh, captain, take us to the stars
Oh, carry us beyond this dying sun and all its plagues

Can’t we reach out in her deepening arms
To look for bitter meaning?
Haven’t we always been ready to leave
At a call, at a feeling?
Are we not the light earth sent
The pride of times remote
The glory of our shattered world?

Can’t we be all that we know that we are
And live on, live forever?
Spirits reborn in a radiant dawn
Bright and pure, full in numbers
Are we not the revenants—
The mighty ark of old—
The Vogel?

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