A Wizard's Destiny-Elephant

[ti:A Wizard's Destiny] [ar:Elephant] [al:The Extinction Paradox] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]A Wizard's Destiny - Elephant [00:11.93]Why is pain so compelling to me [00:14.57]Through the night I've crawled [00:16.13]Hateful and ashamed [00:17.48]Drowning powerless in the despair of my worst memories [00:20.21]Confronted with and tortured by my own secrets [00:23.24]I cannot choose not to believe I need to know [00:26.15]Stay close to me as this story comes to pass [00:28.95]A momentary glimpse of the ones behind the net [00:31.77]And the twinkling eye of the maker of the wands [00:34.95]Running down a slope of recollections [00:37.12] [00:37.79]The descending mist of a gaunt and silent spectre [00:40.71]The coiling of nerves and the tightened hush [00:43.75]The bowstring tension of anticipation [00:46.60]I have become the abyss that reflected me [00:49.39]Sympathy or apathy if the dead could speak [00:52.38]Holes in the heavens like the gaps in myself [00:55.27]Crying as fantasies breed frustration [00:58.27]The sunrise has not come drained of all hope [01:01.04]Absence nothing a child in the dark [01:04.00]Hearing the screams of my dying parents [01:07.05]Witnessing the killing touching the cadavers [01:09.87]A flash of sickness and the rush of speeding death [01:12.62]The shrill high laughter of a merciless voice [01:15.55]A murderer crushed by protective love [01:18.37]Seven mutilations of a single soul [01:21.42]The pure lust for inflicting hurt [01:24.42]A pitiless gaze atop a lipless mouth [01:27.21]Images of my friends weaken and fade [01:30.27]Each doubt reopening miseries long suppressed [01:32.95]As every promise abandons me [01:35.87]Excruciating loss is transmuted into iron resolve [01:38.90]I am the spark before the blaze [01:41.80]Beyond all restraint in an instant of fury [01:44.92]Beads of light vibrate to the timbre of joining wills [01:47.81]The brothers meet and the cores sing in recognition [01:49.93] [01:50.44]The synchronicity of two minds equal in strength [01:53.41]Now it is I who calls you by name [01:57.48] [02:08.06]Father and mother are gone and I can never be whole again [02:10.86]Every fibre bore the pressure contorting every wound [02:13.81]I will not die crouching hiding kneeling in supplication [02:16.68]Straight-backed and proud I am the stone of your defeat [02:19.54]For all the times I feared to speak [02:22.53]For all the days I dreaded the dawn [02:25.45]For all the years I fought alone [02:28.28]I shall give you the obliteration of the curse [02:30.62]That disappears you like the words you have spoken [02:34.13] [04:22.17]As a dream of distress fades upon awakening [04:27.09] [04:27.75]Agony is reconciled over the creeping of time [04:32.66] [04:33.48]Healing tears of vindication and wisdom [04:38.85] [04:39.38]The graceful retribution of maturity [04:44.57] [04:45.75]The boy who lived is now the man with the lightning scar [04:50.55] [04:51.47]The one who survived as the other diminished [04:56.74]Beast being and spirit shall endure to testify [05:02.65]He was a master of spells