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As The Shadows Grow Long
07:13
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As evening approaches
And shadows grow long
My thoughts drift to times past
Of family and friends
Youth that never ends
In a memory no one ever grows old
How I miss that childhood bliss
To be young, naive and sinless
Realities cost is innocence lost
When nightmares are no longer dreams
Just as summer’s shade
Becomes autumnal shadows
A place that once gave comfort
Now renders me so cold
And just as the only constant
is change
I gain solace knowing the one
Who transcends every age
As evening has passed
And the shadows are gone
My thoughts drift to tomorrow
Of family and friends
A new day will begin
Full of joy and sorrow
How I miss that childhood bliss
To be young, naive and sinless
Realities cost is innocence lost
When nightmares are no longer dreams
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Hands To The Plow
07:47
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We all have acquired
What seem to us dreams
Of joyous occasions
And needful things
Our hearts desire
A quest to gather so much more
Never content with the present
But what life has in store
Or old lang syne’s our passion
Nostalgic adoration
Our lives were better yesteryears
Looking into the past
Mourning a half empty glass
Yet I have found treasure
Living in the now
Knowing a divine purpose
With my hands to the plow
For we aren’t promised tomorrow
And there’s no reliving days of yore
To be constantly in the holy presence
‘Tis what this life is truly for
Yet I have found treasure
Living in the now
Knowing a divine purpose
With my hands to the plow
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The Eternal Call
09:28
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I am addicted
To the drug of nostalgia
Constantly wanting
that which
I’ll never have enough of again
I am afflicted
By euphoric remembrances
Bittersweet events
Bygone, there is a longing
Recalled with both joy
And pain
Time… once a friend
You are a thief betraying all
Always fleeting, yet deathless
Time… no beginning nor end
Ephemeral in your eternal call
Each day feels destined
To be a coffin nail
Each breath drawing closer
To dust, and with wisdom
Knowledge of the coming pale
What does tomorrow hold?
Uncertainty you certainly bring
For I at least know the words
Of yesterday’s songs to sing
But what of today?
Is it no more than yesterday’s morrow?
Let me not dwell on these things
For today is sufficient in its own sorrows
Would that I not lay waste
To this precious gift
This present
What more could I do?
Who could I become?
Time, like tides, cleanses
May I embrace the waves
May I embrace the waves
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Would That I Remained
07:26
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Would that I remain
Before my days are gone
By a river flowing benevolent
Ever pure, ever long
And would that I remain there
Planted like the trees
Who in due season are
altruistic beings
Would that I remain true to all my past, to my heritage, my lineage
Leaving things that last
And would that I remain
With roots that grow so vast
Like the oaks innumerable
Weathering storms steadfast
Chorus:
Silence, Peace, Solace
Eludes me
Unless I remain
Within a sacred wood
Would that I remain
In natural boundary confined
At peace with the pace
of progress
As I’m grafted to the vine
And would that I remain
Ever growing still,
Always moving forward,
According to His will
Would that I remain
Content with all that I’m given
Despite this world’s philosophy
Despite all the attrition
And would that I remain
Blessed by Jehova Jireh
Ne’er in need of anything
Sabbath my only desire
(Chorus)
I feel my soul’s erosion
Unexposed to the sun
Overwhelmed by the darkness
Unspeakable horror of dying cold and alone
Cast me not away
Into barren and cursed land
I pray my life fruitful
That I delay the scythe in
your hand
(Chorus)
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Vials of Wrath Maryville, Tennessee
Nature-inspired metal intent on evoking solitude with an affinity for the divine.
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