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Return To The City Of Ghosts

from Revered Revenant Of Irreverence by Goblin Hovel

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(Indulging in a moment of fantasy, I continue the legacy of The Great Reversal in this song. That record never accounted for the eventual return of the soul to its origin when the wheel of incarnation was broken. This song is meant to describe the last conscious moments of the ego before it is obliterated and the spirit rejoins the identity-devoid fabric of life, known in gobbish symbolism as the Eight Moon Web (pictured on the cover of The Great Reversal and the 5 Year Chronology). )

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I had to speak my father’s words
I had to cry my mother’s tears
I had to walk my teacher’s path
Because I forgot my own
Pulse and pace forge ahead and I forget
Do I walk or fly?
In my memory pictures I recall
In my passing sigh

Is this a mirror reflecting my past?
Is this my future in a crystal ball?
Do I soar up hollow towers
Or down endless wells I fall?

I don’t recognize my voice
I don’t know whose skin I’m in
I don’t think I have a name
And I don’t think I will
I dreamt I stretched my hands and walked
Through an open door
Bells as if from a distant temple rang
As the thunder’s roar

In these strange rooms the fires whisper a name
Visions of three faces melting to one in the same

Calling my soul to the place of its birth
Ethereal origin between hell and earth
Seasons unchanged in these long mortal days
All fades behind as I depart the way

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from Revered Revenant Of Irreverence, released August 28, 2016
Lyrics: Goblin. Music: Goblin, Bouffard

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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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