Driven By Fate

Tracklisting:

Driven By Fate:
1. i. "Discretion Rising"   (mp3 sample)
2. ii. "D₂C" Lyrics   (mp3 sample)
3. iii. "Shadow Dust" Lyrics   (mp3 sample)
4. iv. "Surreal Contemplations"   (mp3 sample)
5. v. "Utopian Rust" Lyrics   (mp3 full song)

H₃
6. "His Dark Materials" Lyrics
7. "Holdin' The Line" Lyrics
8. "Homecoming" Lyrics

Paradise Lost
9. I. "Chapter 1" Lyrics
10. II. "Chapter 2"
11. I. "Chapter 3" Lyrics
12. II. "Chapter 4"

Bonus
13. "Paradise Lost: Chapter 1" (Instrumental Version)
14. "Esoterica"

* Note: All mp3s low quality to save bandwidth.

"Driven By Fate"

"Discretion Rising"
�2003 Odin's Court
Music: Brookins

Instrumental

"D₂C"
�2002/2003 Odin's Court
Words & Music: Brookins

Verse 1:
Shadowed eyes feel fear fall through the seams.
Alone in the light with all, it's too dark to see.
Pulp in the deep, shall reap.
Consciously sleep the stream and you will be.

Chorus:
Within it. The water.
Surrounding. The fire's burnin'.
Without it. The vapor.
Resounding. You'll find desire!

Dimensions fly by.
Reflecting black nights. Of deep dark cries.
Drift in the outside. Dissention tensioned.
Absorbing bright lights. Of deep dark cries.

Verse 2:
Crystallized life lies, fire flows all around me.
Flying up to the ground, burning bright blue.
The speed of life surrounds you.
Coasting, what will be for eternity?

Repeat Chorus

Bridge:
Abandoned flocks that carry on.
Flowing down towards oblivion.
Pressing on to find the way�

Guitar Solo

Bridge 2:
What is it that the meek shall seek.
The chance is there for all to seize.
Then you will find it's yours to please.

"Shadow Dust"
�2002/2003 Odin's Court
Words & Music: Brookins

Verse 1:
Starlit mirrors reflecting my mind�s inner eye.
Dust clouds my vision, what can I find?
Same horizon, different planes.
Surreal Revelation�s veins.
Confused seas and fractured skies.
Temporal folds through space and time.

Pre-Chorus:
Solar night crawling through the trees.
The lunar light rolls over me.

Chorus 1:
Fall down. Or we will,
Spin out. For we are,
Drowned out. In the end.

Guitar Solo

Verse 2:
The myriad lines converging in the sand.
Blue mirrors cerebrate my acute thoughts at hand.
Glass souls listen from a lake of liquid light.
Air-filled spines exposed before the knife.
Mankind through seasons will pass into dust.
Our shadows left alone in time will lust.

Repeat Pre-Chorus

Guitar Solo

Repeat Chorus 1

Chorus 2:
How brightly can the darkest shadow shine?
Search and search and search what do I find?
Desire for euphoria threatens us,
What can we trust?

Demonization of the human race,
Is caused by self-perpetuating grace.
Ramification of the generations show,
Mankind�s utopia is shadow dust.

"Surreal Contemplations"
�2003 Odin's Court
Music: Brookins/Moran

Instrumental

"Utopian Rust"
�2003 Odin's Court
Words & Music: Brookins

Verse 1:
The rust of what�s beyond shall shatter shadowed dreams.
Utopia the crux of rust, littered lies of deep mistrust.
What does it mean?

Chorus:
Winds of decay, waned to a fray. (Cold, frozen mind).
Wasted the day, waves of the clich�. (Waste, waste the day).
We are driven by fate you say. (Fate. Driven Fate).
Worthless dead state, minds to confiscate. (Dead, Rusted state).

Verse 2:
Mystic life lies, manipulation followed by frustration.
Answers flow freely but questions are not seen.
Results in mental assassination.

Repeat Chorus

Guitar Solo

"His Dark Materials"

�2002/2003 Odin's Court
Words & Music: Brookins

Verse 1:
Dark matter flowing in a finite sea.
Chasm of nothing, void to eternity.

The authority deserving praise?
Hollow be thy name, thy kingdom's done,
The subtle knife will raise.

Chorus 1:
It slices through the air,
Cutting through the plane.

Verse 2:
Tempter of the new world's Eve,
bringing knowledge of love and loss.

Lyra, reckless, proud, and true will achieve.
D�mon and death they are a part of you.

Chorus 2:
Divisions separating worlds
through hence the specters came.
The clouded mountain burning through the sky,
Angels fight and cry in the night.

Solos: Guitar/Bass/Drum/Guitar

Chorus 3:
Amber Spyglass shows us why.
Golden Compass, conflicts of strife.
A war from Heaven to Earth and Parallel Planes,
Win at what cost?

"Holdin' The Line"

�2002/2003 Odin's Court
Words: Adley
Music: Adley/Brookins

Verse 1:
Walk out on me baby,
Just like you�ve done before.
And you�re not gonna make it,
You won�t make it anymore.
You�ve tried my patience once,
And that wasn�t enough.
You think you�ve got me this time girl,
Well I�m gonna call your bluff.

Chorus 1:
Cause you�re my girl now and I keep what�s mine.
You won�t keep me waiting holding the line.

Verse 2:
You are the reckless one,
Burning like the sun.
You�re a hard girl to please,
But I want you here with me.
You played your lying game,
I told you all that I knew.
You think it�s funny this time girl,
Well I�m coming after you.

Repeat Chorus

Bridge:
All those times you set me up just to bring me down
Well you know girl that I, I know where you'll be found

Guitar Solo

Repeat Verse 1

Repeat Chorus

"Homecoming"

�2003 Odin's Court
Words: Adley
Music: Brookins

Intro:
What did you say to me, to make me act the way I do?
What did you say to me, to make me shout out...

Verse 1:
Jesters of the court are we, or Masters of this game.
In the spiral of a life nothing ever remains the same.
For I would have died for you on any given day.
Let you walk upon this earth while I lay far away.

Chorus 1:
I�ll be home some day will you be there?

Verse 2:
Letters from the sea form a bridge that can�t be built.
While some stand upon our guard others glide to the hilt.
Consummate with a ring of gold then consummate in court.
All the volleys cast aside to reach an open port.

Chorus 2:
I�ll be home someday will you be there for me.
And you think its my fault that you are this way.

Guitar Solo

Repeat Chorus 2

"Paradise Lost"

Chapter 1
�2002/2003 Odin's Court
Words: Adley/Brookins
Music: Brookins

Verse 1:
Countless legions fill the fields. Banners waving crimson and gold.
Mortals adorned with steel. Royal lords, orders to be told.
Stand fast. Brace the surge. Holding now forever gone.
Allied forces and enemies merge. Brave falling to death�s song.

Chorus:
For Evil�s arrogance has arrived to seize the day.
The good of light must stand on faith alone.
Arrows fly high, filling the sky.
The pride of men will henceforth show.

Verse 2:
Death�s faceless grin fills the air. Smelling rot and cries of despair.
Choruses of angels, hallowed heads bow. The clash has stirred the lair.
Dragons fly, shed their tears. Cannot cleanse the blood-soaked earth.
Black sun sets. Mankind awaiting a new lord�s birth.

Guitar Solos

Repeat Chorus

Outro Chorus:
A paradise is lost. (x4)

Chapter 2
�2002/2003 Odin's Court
Music: Brookins

Insrumental

Chapter 3
�2003 Odin's Court
Words: Moran
Music: Brookins

Verse 1:
The crimson tide washes ashore,
In the wake of remorse stillborn.
Paradox of fate or free will?
Forever changing, standing still.

Verse 2:
Choices empty into nothingness,
Leaving no room for redress.
Accepting the sense of certainty.
Severed from the body fatally.
Choking upon the tears of rage.
Once innocent, now laid to blame.
Dislocated in utter shame.
It cannot ever be the same.

Chorus 1:
Moments seem like eternity.
Appealing to the word.
One soul divided, the travesty.
Shall not go unheard.

Chorus 2:
Pity now turns to grace.
Nothing shall stem the flow.
Division that would separate.
Ceases now to show.

Chapter 4
�2003 Odin's Court
Music: Brookins

Insrumental