Conjunction Underneath The Alpha Wheel

from Era of Threnody by NARGAROTH

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Every fantasy has to face and overcome the moment of the first personal encounter. I still see myself this one night entering that little 24/7 market in Vegas, offering $100 to anyone of the lost souls who fed some one-armed bandits with quarters, for taking me posthaste to the center of town. I still feel the dusty airstream through the open car window, when the crazy old driver who accepted my offer, raced through town, ignoring all traffic rules. While his drugged wife in the backseat insulted him in the finest manner of a proud white trash wife. And I still remember the moment of truth in the glare of the ever changing light underneath the Alphawheel that marked the beginning of all the woe that cometh forth.
The graphic manifestation of the song shows in the CD booklet a symbolic illustration of the Alphawheel/High Roller, the separation of heart and mind with the centered symbol of the Whore of Babylon.

lyrics

The Race

Strangers that I paid to drive me
through town that I conjunct with thee.
Gambling on a backwoods race
throughout Vegas' asphalt maze.

One ways, driven upside down
while we crazy raced through town.
Drunk wife of the driver shout
from the backseat scolding loud.

Whispers in the desert winds
mock me and disguise my sense.
Hasten straight ahead my fate
through a town that’s crying desolate.

Driven by a dead man’s hope
balance on a hang man’s rope.
Misguided by will-o'-the-wisp
wonder why and what’s the gist.

The Conjunction

Like springs first breath of air
that gently dances with your hair.
Like a summer solstice glare
so you appeared.

Like a prelude to a kiss
that inhere eternal bliss,
it broke the seal to my abyss
where alas! I lingered.

The blossoms bloomed alive
and my heart stopped for a while,
when the heavens light beguiled
me when we met...

...underneath the Alpha Wheel
where all lies became unreal
and the maidens kiss conceal
all the woe that cometh forth.

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from Era of Threnody, released May 16, 2017
Nargaroth
Komponist: Brodträger
Textdichter: Wagner

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