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A million miles from everything the emptiness is everywhere
The lone and level sands stretch as far as I can see
Nothing but the hollowed eyes of skulls and ancient bones despair
Remains of those who wandered this wasteland vast before me
Fatigue and famine render every step a tribulation
Beneath the blistering sun sabulous winds just a mockery
Lost within an infinity of dust and desolation
The vultures circling overhead await my lonely expiry
Maintaining this course to nowhere I have traveled so far
Far beyond the valley's carnage and death's silent repose
Compelled to journey onward by the calling of the morning star
Haunted by visions and voices, memories or madness providence only knows
I can't remember when or how I'd first lost my way
Thirsting even a tear of solace knowing naught will ever come
Siren celestial have mercy on me allow my flesh into dust decay
And carry my soul far beyond this damned and forsaken kingdom
I fell to my knees as the last trace of strength slowly faded away
With stone in throat I knew I'd never reach the hallowed and promised land
I conceded my carcass a vulture's feast, my soul eternal umbrae
Once a king, now nameless, forgotten, swallowed by the seas of sand
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Instrumental
"I set my heart out to sea,
hoping someday my love would return to me,
yet the years have passed like waves,
and I have fatigued with age,
in lachrymal oceans vast,
deserts of time have washed away
The passage of time implies progression,
yet I've become stone,
watching worlds dying,
negating the solace I've never known"
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These empty years, in sadness repose
What once were joys now have become sorrows
I drank them all away
Once, I held hopes, loves, and dreams…now they’ve sunken into the sea
And I’ve no one left to save me from drowning eternally
I drank them all away
I drank myself away
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Heaven weeps with my sorrow
Through the clouds’ veil of black lace
An infinity of angels
Share the tearstreams I pour away
Within the storms of sadness
I’ll eternally remain
Love is lost forever
You are mourned by this rain
Forever weeping
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Ghostwinds draw forth the clouds
That will shroud me in black forever
Once again I stare into the night
Darkness binds my life and death together
The dark clouds a portrait of her
The black-cloaked face of death
Her empty eyes a hallway to heaven
But my sanctum is beyond unfathomed depths
I will never be at rest
Until the sun forever sets
A solemn walk through this maze of paled stones
Monuments to the ending of pain
Souls cry forth from eternal sanctum
Knowing only death remains
Now I stand before the altar
They call me from ethereal gates
I raise my head in dignity
Knowing only death is the absence of pain
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Aging branches
Reach for the warmth of life
Fleeting from the cerement of ice
So brittle they’d break
‘Neath the ashes of autumn
Weak with the weight of eternal tears
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He who lives twixt pain, pain and despair
Dwelleth ‘neath the doom dark clouds forbear
Awaiting the fates’ warning
I live this life in eternal mourning
My soul was born buried alive
And waits ‘til my body ‘neath the headstone lie
Live a death in midnight for ten thousand years
Each day sinking further into a sea of tears
Open the eternal gates of sanctum with my death
Sail into sleep, never awaken again
He who in darkness dwell
Shall find eternal rest, heaven through hell
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Ghostwinds draw forth the clouds
That will shroud me in black forever
Once again I stare into the night
Darkness binds my life and death together
The dark clouds a portrait of her
The black-cloaked face of death
Her empty eyes a hallway to heaven
But my sanctum is beyond unfathomed depths
I will never be at rest
Until the sun forever sets
A solemn walk through this maze of paled stones
Monuments to the ending of pain
Souls cry forth from eternal sanctum
Knowing only death remains
Now I stand before the altar
They call me from ethereal gates
I raise my head in dignity
Knowing only death is the absence of pain
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A call to the sea to cleanse my soul of ill
Of hate and depression be freed, my fate, thus fulfilled
Summon me forth, the susurration of the blackest tides
No longer the shores of emptiness shall I tread infinitely inside
Frigid mournful winds traverse the black chasms of my soul
Awaiting sweet death, I will again be whole
Tumultuous waters extract me from this mortality to which I’m bound
Evolved from the body, useless time, expired, futile life, drowned
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released February 14, 2011
All songs Composed and Arranged by: Tom Phillips
“To Wander The Void” (Live, 2010) was:
Performed By: Jim Hunter - Bass
Rain Irving - Lead and Harmony Vocals
Scott Loose - Guitars
Tom Phillips - Guitars
Michelle Schrotz – Keyboards and Harmony Vocals
Trevor Schrotz - Drums
Recorded At: The Hammer Of Doom 3 Festival, Posthalle, Würzburg, Germany, February 6th, 2010
24-track audio recording: Nicolas Reichert for STRIKE!, the metal-tv-show on
www.streetclip.tv
Produced By: Tom Phillips and Chris Salamone at Salamone's Recording Studio in Fredericksburg, Virginia between June 2010 and August 2010
“Vast Oceans Lachrymose” (Demo, 2004) was:
Performed By: Jason Gray – Drums
Scott Loose – Guitars
Tom Phillips – Guitars, Bass, and Keyboards
Recorded At: JP’s Place, March 22nd, 2004
Recorded By: JP Maheu
Produced By: Tom Phillips and JP Maheu in March 2004
“The Drowning Years” (7” A Side) and “Sorrow Of The Angels” (7” B Side) were:
Performed By: Jason Gray – Drums
Jim Hunter – Bass
Scott Loose – Guitars
Tom Phillips – Vocals, Guitars, Keyboards
with contributions from:
Jake Bodnar – Additional Keyboards
Kevin “131” Gutierrez – Samples, Editing, and Effects
Michelle Loose – Additional Keyboards
Recorded By: Kevin 131 at Assembly Line Studios in Vienna, Virginia between February 2002 and June 2002
Produced By: Kevin 131, Tom Phillips, and Jim Hunter in June 2002
“Into The Wells Of Sorrow” (Compilation Mix) and “Unplenitude” were:
Performed By: Danny Ingerson – Bass, Keyboards
Jon Paquin – Drums
Tom Phillips – Guitars, Vocals, Keyboards
Recorded At: Neptune Recording Studios in August 1997, and January-June 1998
Recorded By: Max Henkel and JP Maheu
Produced By: Tom Phillips, Jon Paquin, and JP Maheu in June 1998
“The Mourning” (7” version) was:
Performed By: Gabe Funston – Bass
Jon Paquin – Drums
Tom Phillips – Vocals, Guitars, Keyboards
Recorded At: Neptune Recording Studios, January – August 1994, with additional recording January 1995
Recorded By: Max Henkel
Produced By: Tom Phillips, Jon Paquin, and Max Henkel in August 1996
“Into The Wells Of Sorrow: (7” A Side) and “Shores Of Desolation” (7” B Side) were:
Performed By: Gabe Funston – Bass
Jon Paquin – Drums
Tom Phillips – Vocals, Guitars, Keyboards
Recorded At: Neptune Recording Studios, January – May 1994
Recorded By: Max Henkel
Produced By: Tom Phillips, Jon Paquin, and Max Henkel in May 1994
Executive Producers For The High Roller Records Pressing: Tom Phillips and Steffen Boehm
Cover Artwork By: Frank Fiedler represented by Rainer Kalwitz (
www.myspace.com/rainerkalwitz)
Photography By: Hans-Martin Issler, Michael Rivera, Dave Tyler, Melissa LeBlanc, Jenny Shrader, Emilie Raguso, Jason Gray, Jesse Hunter, Tom Phillips, Ben Kelly, Angie Campbell (amongst others)
Art Concept And Designs By: Tom Phillips, Jim Hunter, and Estelle Motsiou
Band Logo By: Tamara Abarzua
Graphics, Digital Treatments, and Layout By: Estelle Motsiou
Website Design and Maintenance: Estelle Motsiou
All songs newly remastered by Bill Wolf for Wolf Productions in January 2011
All songs published by: Vast Music Lachrymose, LLC
All songs copyright 1994, 1998, 2002, 2010, 2011, 2015 Vast Music Lachrymose
While Heaven Wept logo and insignia are trademarks of While Heaven Wept, LLC
Band Websites:
www.whileheavenwept.com,
www.facebook.com/whileheavenwept
