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Nehalennia

from votIVe by Ophidian Forest

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    7-track, 50-minute CD with 12-page booklet. Each song in the booklet comes with a piece of art for that track. All art by BlackInkVoid. CD pressed by Code666.

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    New to Ophidian Forest? Here's our appraised 4rth album VotIVe from 2018, together with 3 archive pieces from yesteryear from the period 2009-2012.

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lyrics

When the ship sails at night (ghosts haunt you)
When the ship sails by day (waves beat you)
When the wind sweeps by (screams loudly)
When the sails resist force (tears forming)
When the salt dries the eyes (tears leave you)
When the deck rocks the legs (false movement)
When the clouds obscure the stars (misjudgement)
When the doubts rise like tides (uncertain)
When the cold sets in (long-lasting)
I call upon aloud her name -- Nehalennia

A resqueing force in a sea of sorrow
Honour today, for the sake of tomorrow
Hardship and misery wallow off shore
The Dogs of the Sea, they will come back for more

In sight of the Tempest's Eye, it is when
The sailors scream out in despair
Invoke Nehalennia, ask her to heed
As they mutter and beg her to care

A woman she dwells at the shoreline
And the days are getting late
Could be she is newly widowed
And she dwells upon such a fate

Blistering hands still pull the ropes
As life hangs by a thread
Shipwrecked, maybe not today
Perhaps, we're fortunate

When the ship sails at night (ghosts haunt you)
When the ship sails by day (waves beat you)
I call upon aloud her name -- Nehalennia

I shall sculpt thee an altar, fair-faced goddess
Enthroned with the prow at thy feet 
And thou keepeth the Dog of the Sea in thy lap
From its rabid attacks we are freed

One day we'll be gone, and the sea swallows all
Even temples may vanish with thee
But one day time decides to unveil them again
All comes back, like the Dogs of the Sea.

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from votIVe, released October 26, 2018

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Ophidian Forest San Francisco, California

Pantheistic black metal band from the United States and The Netherlands.

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