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The Great Reversal

by Goblin Hovel

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Splinterskin 06:48
“Mei lehes Téniap’d Nemehs. Mei lehes Nat Dokkaebi. Ic liú siewle albe lehes Téniap’d Nemehs” Blurred and buried Have they all forgotten I was here? I walked the paths to disappear, an exile through the mist Hollow and weary Is this cursed stream to be my home? It washed away the spark that kept my memories alive I sensed you felt the same As I fell into your heart If we must fall, we fall together I swear I will not let you down *O, wounded one! I am here to share your sorrows The spears that hang from you Will be no more than splinters to me On and on, Over and over I will take your pain from you Until my skin turns to wood And neither of us can know pain again! Yellow banners Marked by crimson blood shed in our trials I plucked the needles from your hands and cast them to the sky I am your words And the wooden mace in your left hand You bear my mark and so I will not let you suffer The amethyst deceivers Fade like the years we have survived We are as ghosts exiled But still we have our history fullness fades ever away absence decays, follow the way !
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Underfoot and split wide screaming with a geyser of old blood Every dying prayer coughed to the sky All the sacrifices are rejected by the gods at last For a cause I never wanted to succeed My bones were shaped to blades My skin was tarred and armored The fiery blood I called my own Was bent to burn the loyal ones Will of wisps where bloodred lights hang like foul lanterns from the boughs Beat and trample down even the will of weeping gods I fought fire with fire and I emerged with bloody victory This earth is mine, they’ve finally lost control You hear my cries of pain O wounded one, drown in your error Every time you screamed our names We came into existence *we are the maelstrom that’s been tearing lands apart We are the eyes that have watched from the forest Everything around you goes bump in the night Close your eyes and pray, but we’ll never go away! Eoü reah mei ýréc’s fu nýep O dénuoü’d anu, nüoréd ný eoüen rura Irava amýt eoü maerécs’ed suon amen’s Suo amec utný ecnetsicse
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Mirror, Mirror, Under the ground Show me where my soul is bound light and fire, circling the void’s maw falling deeper beneath the ground headlong into future unknown born and dying without end in sight the wheel turns, the orbit of immortals summon souls from the boundless mass vision strains, luminous in darkness eyes captive of the holy glass In this state, In lukewarm transparency I can’t remember was I spirit or flesh? Down, past the steel forest Where blades scrape my sins away Through the boiling cauldron Where my doubts are burned to steam The iron web is swept aside The gates of life are open wide This will be my final chance I am falling back to life! Rurým, Rurým, Radno lehes dénuorég Üohés mei arahu Mei lous albe dénuob
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낮도깨비 02:13

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“The Great Reversal,” a harvest of the cinnabar field by Goblin Hovel, was recorded, mixed, and mastered at Vagabond Studios in January 2015 through the sweat, blood, and tears of Tom Gerwitz. All songs written and performed by Goblin ©2015, except “City of Ghosts” written by Goblin and Michelle Bouffard ©2015, and “낮도깨비” written by Goblin and Alessio Cianciosi ©2015. Album artwork by Goblin. Logo by Grot, ©2015.

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released February 2, 2015

The lineup on this record:
Goblin: guitars, percussion, cello, totem flute, erhu, dulcimer, vocals
Tom Gerwitz: voices and button-pushing
Michelle Bouffard: piano and vocals
Alexios Tha Goblvnz: chants and Mongolian Throat Singing
The Raintree Island Bash It Orc-estra (Ryan Zybert and Eric Prigl): percussion.

This album draws heavily from traditional far-eastern Asian music and philosophy. Any similarities to actual folk songs, modern or otherwise, are purely coincidental.

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A genre-defying band that entails the cooperation of several artists from several bands of several genres under the direction of a nameless Goblin. They present a view of the modern world through the lens of history, mysticism, and mischief.

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